My first sourdough loaf! Turned out shockingly well, all things considered.

So I had a meltdown recently for reasons that I won't go into. Suffice to say it was a rough one, and I hurt myself quite badly, badly enough that I was told to go to A&E by the non-emergency number. I went there as instructed, and was triaged by a couple of nurses. Standard. (1/16)

Keep getting followed by obviously AI authors. God. I want to get off Mr. Bones' Wild Ride.

Beyond the Woods for Legend in the Mist is Now Live! We’re incredibly excited to bring the world of Tír Nascath to Legend in the Mist. Back within the first 48 hours to get the exclusive early bird discount on the gorgeous slipcase. www.kickstarter.com/projects/old...

Just a reminder, Beyond the Woods is currently up on Kickstarter. I am proud to count myself as a member of the writing team on this beautifully realised TTRPG that is based on Irish Mythology. Some fantastic stretch goals we would love to hit on this one.

"Populist" is a term used mostly to further the fiction that we have two choices - pragmatism or ideology, and that people like @zackpolanski.bsky.social are idealists in a way the Labour right are not. But the status quo is an ideology. It's the ideology of Thatcherite corporatism and inequality.

The choice is stark. Reform are the party of foreign wars and high bills. The Greens want de-escalation and energy security through renewables. Solar and wind prices don't fluctuate when rogue US presidents launch illegal bombing campaigns.

If you’re part of any creative groups, unions or other organisations in the uk you should be passing news like this along and spreading the world. News like this gets has the chance to be overlooked but if enough organisations kick up a fuss things can change.

Ah. Joy. Just found out the place where we ordered our wedding rings is a scam shop that doesn't send out products or answer communications. No rings for ceremony at end of the month I guess. Everything is so shit, cheap, and dishonest. I can't handle it.

Saw a post that was saying "don't feel guilty for wanting escapism", and I agree with it. Replies were filled with people saying "thank you, I close myself off, don't read news, and can't do anything about the world so I don't try, and people try to make me feel bad". Look. There's a balance.

Fun, healthy exercise: defend some artist or celebrity who you do not like at all. I'll start: Rob Liefeld gets too much shit. There's a whole swath of artists and writers in comics in the '90s who had the same flaws or worse. He had little art training and managed to do a lot regardless.

*Goober from Pennsylvania presses a button to kill 40 schoolgirls in another country* Lib, saluting and crying: "Thank you for your service sir. Thank you."

www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZmRK... "Hannah Spencer barely mentioned Green issues..." Yes you complete idiot, that's because the Green party has other policy positions, and has had other policy positions for decades. Aaaaalso - anti-tech oligharchy *is* an environmental position. Stop siloing.

Soon there will be few humans who do not speak solely in these phrases spawned by technocapitalism: "circle back", "deep dive", "content", "creator", "physical media", "brand", "hop on a call". They are the incipient signs en route to our unique magical brains being replaced by polypropylene & wire.

Anyone on the left who wasn’t actively involved from 2015-19 needs to know what’s coming. 1, they’re going to throw multiple, often contradictory lies at the wall to see what sticks. Polanski will be simultaneously weak and strong, timid and aggressive, passive and dictatorial, old fashioned and

Christ, it's truly amazing how absolutely awful the lighting is in modern mainstream TV and cinema. Completely even world lighting to make sure the VFX is as cheap and quick as possible, that also happens to be extremely boring and make everything look fake.

The first woman in Parliament to appear in the Guardian's 'best-dressed at Glastonbury' feature. You'll never sing that, etc...

It won't happen (I don't believe Labour's policies are Labour's policies because they think they will be popular, I think it's because they like them) but I would love for one day somebody to ask Polanski what his greatest achievement is and for his answer to be "Keir Starmer".

I'm rather glad that the press seem to mostly be attacking the BAFTAs and the BBC for leaving in John Davidson's tic, rather than Davidson himself. But the fact that there's a fair amount of ire towards him around social media and such is interesting, and it makes me think about something else.

It's so frustrating when an extensive article is posted or a research paper is done that confirms an existing belief in a community, and the community's response is "uh, you're surprised?" or "lol we knew that, but thanks I guess". Proving things is good! Knowing things is good!

the more i read the AEG coo fall out the more amazed I am at the lack of self awareness that the COO wrote "People then apply risk capital against those ideas to see if there’s a product market fit." and never once suggesed maybe a LLM could replace his job and his roles and obligations.

Lula becomes Chinla.

Playing around in Blender to try out some techniques that might serve me in a future project. Enjoy my hairy balls (and other shapes).

Streaming now, hoora.

Zine month is going strong - have YOU thought about layout yet? If you're not going DIY, I'm happy to help with my zine layout special! 🔥 $300 for up to 48 pages 🤝 includes cover setup and print troubleshooting 🚫 no AI, no nazis 📣 get in touch: [email protected] or www.ndpdesign.com/contact

Reminder that at 7pm GMT I'll be streaming some art process, games, whatever else I fancy, to celebrate hitting 200 followers on the Il Fantasma del Giallo prelaunch. www.twitch.tv/hardyroach

I am very annoyed that people think 'rich' means 'that guy has a mercedes and takes a vacation to italy once a year' and not 'that guy has more money than 40% of the world combined and can decide to start or stop wars based on his personal prejudices' the sums involved are incomprehensible

Americans really have to give up this idea that they are, or ever have been, superior in all ethical and political considerations than all other nations. Especially when your perceptions of other cultures seem to all come from how they were in 1945.

As Ryan Dancey discourse is crossing the timeline, a reminder of what the OGL was *actually* supposed to achieve. It wasn't some benevolent gift to the community; Dancey was trying to drive system competitors out of the market.

Some important Fantasma stuff! I'm thrilled to see that we've passed the 200 follower mark. I was anxious about whether we'd manage to break three digits, so to see us go way beyond that is exciting as hell.

Writers if you could trade your glass jewellery and firstborn child to a little goblin man so he comes to weave gold for you until you guess his stupid name, would you do it? #writers #WritingCommunity

what if i told you, through the power of forensic analysis, we are closer than ever to knowing the exact Far Side cartoon that is making Sting smile in this iconic photo. 🧵 👇

New Quinns Quest video!! 📺👻🌵 Public Access by the Gauntlet is razor sharp, powerfully strange and enormously thought-provoking. My players are still daydreaming about our campaign, even though it finished six months ago. I think your players will too. www.youtube.com/watch?v=bLrr...

I find it quite funny when someone argues that farenheit is better because you can instantly tell if it's cold or warm. Friend, that's just being used to a scale. You're just used to the scale. I can't instantly tell because I never used farenheit, I have to look it up everytime it comes up.

Serving Up Disaster Update Physical Copies Printed Chef Toques Arrived Fulfilment beginning very soon More info 👇 www.kickstarter.com/projects/mol...

Incredible aura on my my most recent roll of film. Kodak Ultramax 400, Olympus XA. feat. @mairispaceship.com and @edsibley.bsky.social

Campaign preview page is live! Devil Town is a storytelling game based on the lyrics and music of The Builders and The Butchers - for fans of Poker, Fiasco, and southern gothica 💀 www.kickstarter.com/projects/lon...

4e annoys because it doesn't pretend that it's fighting-adventure rules are anything else and expects you to use rules as written. By not lying about itself, it fucks up the normal D&D process of pretending that it's good for other things, which pretence is *self-fulfilling* via quiet rulings.

Absolutely correct. And missing this incredibly obvious fact is the end point of decades of "games aren't political" (replace games with any given thing) - a bizarre tunnel vision in which an industry's success or failure is rhetorically disconnected from the events and ideologies of the wider world

If I ever meet a guy who says stuff like this irl I'm probably going to get at the very least yelled at for not being able to contain my laughter.

Y'know, its pretty hard to promote a project while simultaneously trying to uh, make it.

A reunion decades in the making! Back in December, Kevin, Bill, Beez and Patrick got together to adjust and calibrate the bots we used for the Kickstarter video. Support all future bot repairs on our Kickstarter: rifftraxmakesmst3k.com

My Zinequest project is live! In Small Folk in Big Coats you each play as a little guy in a stack masquerading a single big guy. You're unlikely to get caught, but you’re even less likely to work together. It’s very silly and easy to get playing. Go Check it out! tinyurl.com/sfibc

Abel Ferrara’s DRILLER KILLER is screening next Friday 20th Feb, 6pm at the PCC! Shot on the streets of late-70s New York, Ferrara’s ferocious debut was infamous in the UK for landing on the “video nasties” list in the early 80s. 🎟️: buff.ly/Pfm708C

Creative Quest, purveyors of incredibly sexy rebound books, are going to be doing some fancy editions for Il Fantasma del Giallo! kickstarter.com/projects/hardyroachgames/il-fantasma-del-giallo-an-rpg-of-violence-and-identity Pictured: the wonderful fancy books they did for @soulmuppet.co.uk

I was thinking of doing a follow-up sculpt of Judge Anderson, but it's really telling how despite Dredd having a distinct set of features for almost all of his existence, Judge Anderson has basically never had a consistent appearance ever. Hot blonde lady, that's about it.

How is this cat so pretty, seriously.

One of the recurring problems in modern political discourse is essentialism. Rather than identify the ideological tenants we enact - the things we *do* - we talk about who we *are*. As if you can do fascist things liberally. Everything is ideology, and your ideology is the things you do!