You've just died. The 6th pic in your gallery is what killed you.

Re-watching Children of Men. Didn't realize it was a documentary. 2027 Britain full of litter and graffiti, broken streets, illegal immigrants in cages, tuktuks cluttering up London, and of course moribund birth rate. Will Clive Owen be along to save is tho?

Yeah, but its also non-slate candidates who are nothing to do the the RT that have no chance of getting in. As the 'threat' from RT fades, perhaps the @nationaltrust.org.uk should look to end its North Korean election system

Delighted to do a little thing on Manchester and Sheffield...and thanks to @danhayesjourno.bsky.social and co for knocking into shape...

New profile pic

Paris. Le Worhammah!

Idly wondering if Vigee-Lebruns portrait of Mme Grand (Mrs Talleyrand) was effectively the first ahegao shot

Right Paris travel, thats what a train ticket is...

Siege of Yorktown. Yes, yes, you beat us for once...but at what cost?

Not very specific...

This is typically excellent. Once upon a time iD (or was it Muzik?) magazine asked me to do a top ten of industrial dance. Test Dept's Fuckhead was top of course, albeit the editorial assistant wasn't happy saying the word when she fact-checked

Agh! Also agh! #runningwfrp

Like Simon, I cant do accents as a GM. Most of my games are set London because my family are either posh English or east end so I can do those (I'm okay at Devonian too). can do Irish & Welsh, but I get trapped in them and my beloved once had to ban me from the house until I child stop the oirish

So it turns out the evil baddie imperial leader on Andor is played by an evil baddie in real life. Wonder if thats why she was cast

Paris in a week, so better starting re-reading Citizens. All 800 pages of it

Okay, go on then, an afternoon in front of 49th Parallel it is @warmovietheatre.bsky.social . Not a Blimp, Death or Going, but top of the second division (old style) of PnP. And Leslie Howard going full English (even as a Hutterite)

Couple of pipes left on the master's grave

Lovely first run into @grahamwalmsley.bsky.social 's Cosmic Dark...thanks to @goatmajor.bsky.social , @jonac.bsky.social and Josh for being my rock-mining guinea pigs

And Detwiler immediately blocked me. Not sure if you're THAT thin-skinned you're going to survive anything, and calling for civil war isn't really a great move :)

When you've spent WAY too long writing scenarios about conspiracies and underground government (with associated bouts of extreme violence) Not altogether sure ttrpg designers would fair that well in a civil war tbh...

Still need one more to play Cosmic Dark, Thursday evening fortnightly for 2 or so hours, 6pm BST...if anyone's interested!?

The ravens* are waiting for me *rooks

Never organising another conference. Being a control freak AND having to pander to speakers' insane requests does not mix.

I mean the Thule Society was *dominated* by women. Its not ahistorical at all.

Friday night family meal and film was The Incredibles last night. We're trying to re-watch things we loved when the kids were much younger. It really is the perfect supers film; tight plotting, lots of humour, stunning soundtrack. Not sure theres a better film in the genre

For politics on both sides of the spectrum, you just need the 'are we the baddies?' gif and the 'are we racists now then Father?' one, and you're all set.

On Yom Kippur many Jewish people in Britain have their phones off to mark the holy day. As it ends at 723pm, some will hear the tragic Manchester news for the first time. At that time, please join many of us to send a message of solidarity to British Jews.Thanks Together coalition for proposing.

From the latest opinion polls it looks like, if you want an MPs pension, Reform will be looking for a LOT of good candidates

The new Sophie Powers is epic, as no kids say... open.spotify.com/track/4fbFEr...

Sunrise Wharfedale

Excellent final scenario session of Five Rings with @asako-soh.bsky.social fending off my constant negotiation and whining... And then a few hours in the Old World investigating Ubersreik and some disappearing peasants... (Two mad complex systems, lots of fun)

Watched Butch and Sundance for the first time in 30 or so years. Still great, but hadn't realised its basically a travelogue. The music choices were *really* odd though. #redfordrip

I've told my kids I want a viking funeral. Pushing a rowboat with my body on into the middle of the village pond and then throwing molotovs at it probably the best way

Gradually coming out of my post-con gloom. After #OBaWS I was pretty convinced Mon and Tues that I wasn't going to be gaming again. Indeed, Tuesday was the bleakest I've been about *everything* for a long time. But now am planning again and talking to people without wanting to punch them...

Luckily a radio-recordong of the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, recorded over Roberta Flack-- so it goes from the end of season one straight into 'Killing Me Softly'. I still have the tapes. And I still love both HHGTTG and Ms Flack.

Belated bday pressie from firstborn Space tigers!

The lefts sudden defence of the rights of comedians to tell unpleasant jokes will ensure a full few nights at the world-famous Embassy Club, Harpurhey, I'm sure

I mean...Heydrich and another seven of the 15 attendees at Wansee had doctorates. This is trite nonsense.

Why dont they do book covers like that anymore? More Soho tales from the 30s and 40s

Lovely Irish guy on the HMRC helpline sympathising with me for having a Celtic name full of unneeded extra letters. 'Probably an insecurity thing for Welsh and Irish, making sure the English cant spell our names'

Seriously, if you've been booked into someone's con game for months, at least email to apologise when you drop out with less than a day to go... (Sub-skeet)

That's very funny. The idea the omnicause hasn't pushed Gaza to be ever-present in EVERY discussion is hilarious. But sure, the Kirk killing has no more relevance to the UK than, say, BLM. But partisans can't recognize both is true.

Wandering around Leamington Soa (derive-ing) pre Owlbear listening to the KPop Demon Hunters soundtrack. This remains awesome open.spotify.com/track/36FlVe...

I mean...this is still commenting . Its just pass-agg wagging of fingers at everyone else (And also admitting you actually have nothing to say yourself)

Weirdly didn't get an email to say the Cosmic Dark pdf was ready, just one from @grahamwalmsley.bsky.social to say 'you should have it'. So I DO have it. Which is VERY exciting.

I take black coffee; almost every coffee store (including the chains) will double-cup so I dont burn my hands. But the Costa coffee at Peterborough services on the A1 can't do this cos their boss has told then its an HnS issue (the extra cup will slip or something). The ONLY store with that story.

I mean Rand (and his Dad) have been utterly consistent in their beliefs. In their own way, they're extremely admirable. I'm Britain I can only really think of Rees-Mogg and Corbyn that are anywhere near this consistent.

Oops... the 'first film' from Louis LePrince (before the Cathars got him). Think that house is still there--Princes Lane area? Important that they just loop round and round, trapped in their dreamlands world

Lauren Bacall's last acting job was as a voice on Family Guy. That's a proper work-ethic

@warmovietheatre.bsky.social I'm sure thousands of people have told you, but the 81 Gallipoli is on youtube--a good quality transfer too