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Proof that Stranger Things isn't very D&D - no one brings 30ft of rope to every encounter...

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Happy New Year! We hope you have a brilliant 2026 and we cannot wait to see you in April!

If you have never watched The Big Knights, drop everything and go to YouTube to correct this oversight.

The best new science fiction books of 2026 @newscientist.com www.newscientist.com/article/mg26... Includes @garethlpowell.bsky.social @aptshadow.bsky.social @annleckie.com @johnchu.bsky.social @slhuang.com @marthawells.com @richardswanauthor.bsky.social @mikechenwriter.bsky.social and more!

Cancelling the Sky Diving plans due to weather...

Kings of Leon did predict this tbf 😬

Now we all know about The Death Note, a supernatural black notebook that can end anyone's life in seconds if their name is written in it, and also curses the user. May I present The Shit List, a mysterious brown notebook that can make anyone shit themselves if their name is written in it.

Why yes, those are my monkeys. And that is my circus. Why do you ask?

another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls

If you can't find something on the TV this #boxingday , might we suggest catching up on our Solaris Presents online events? FREE, available anywhere in the world, ft. @premeemohamed.com @mattfnwallace.bsky.social @isabelcanas.bsky.social @mkhardywrites.com @voidcricket.bsky.social#boxingday& more!

So, just to confirm, the BBC can’t keep Robin Ince on the air because his trans allyship brings the organisation into disrepute, but they can keep David Walliams, who performed Nazi salutes at the recording of this very show, on the air despite him being predatory towards women. Cool. Very normal.

Oh, they absolutely do. We're all just here to be bit players in the glorious story of their meteoric success, and they don't understand why we won't turn the page.

We are having a lovely time watching films we haven't watched in a while. But can we just revisit what a good film 'The Mitchells vs the Machines' is?

Dear AI bros, it's not AI itself we have a problem with, the kind that can detect cancers early or help people walk. May that continue. It's the content generation slop you foam at the mouth defending that we hate. It's theft and will never, EVER replace actual human creativity.

Merry Christmas Everyone. Pippin Christmas for hobbit lovers also.

The reason Die Hard is a Christmas Movie is because Santa also takes his shoes off after a flight and makes fists with his toes on your rug, just before he puts presents under the tree.

Happy Christmas Adam everyone!

Updated my phobia list thanks to this AP: - Very big men - Tunnels - Pig Mascots - Arcade Games - self storage lockers - The New Years Eve Ball - Ice cream. Motherfucking ice cream.

Does anyone in or around London have a live chicken I can hire for one day in January? It’s for an episode of Philosophy Tube 🐓

@gailsimone.bsky.social Not in Canada, just in SPACE

Where did it come from? Where did it go? No wait that's the 1994 club hit, Cotton Eye Joe. Sorry.

Issue 492 of @starburst.bsky.social has many great features, including my interview with the legendary George Takei, who is 88 years-old. (He was lovely, we had a right old natter.)

Wishing a cool Yule to everyone who wants it and an "ooh isn't it dark" to those who don't.

There's Discourse about using genAI for writing research, and I want to add that every time I've done research (reading books, emailing the library, talking directly to experts, etc) I always stumble across something that inspires a new direction or adds depth that wouldn't have been there before.

Possibly the most British moment on British television. And now here's FIVE! (Who all now almost fifty). #Strictly

Apparently in Manchester's Northern Quarter, a new 'Carnivores' restaurant has opened. It's ran exclusively by T-Rex. I hear the food is great but the service is terrible due to staff issues. They're always short-handed.

Shameless self promotion, my "red Gobbo" got show cased on the Warhammer community page today! Feeling very good. #warhammercommunity #wh40k #nerdlings @starburst.bsky.social

It's worse than that. If you try to fix it by changing the fluff / back-story, it actively resists. Or to put it another way; I fought the lore, and the lore won.

Mad Max Goes Upbeat in the latest Dimension Twenty show. #Dropout #Dimension20 #BrennanLeeMulligan #GladLands Link below.

I went and wrote it. Here are some things you can do as a ttrpg project manager to make freelancing fun and easy: barilleon.com/managing-ttr...

we can kill them all if we just work together and ✨believe💫

A lovely @crunchyroll.com care parcel has arrived! Thank you to the team and the amazing #Demonslayer creators. Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Infinity castle is the highest grossing Japanese movie of all time and the 5th highest across the globe in 2025, earning $738M worldwide.

The person of the year is just outside of the frame, sawing through the girder.

It's hard to believe that it's only been ten years since UCLA English Lit grad Lee Gold launched her influential zine Alarums & Excursions (named after Elizabethan drama). Its hard to believe, as it's actually 50 years, as it launched in 1975, and she only wrapped it this year.

Today would be a great day to sign up to become a Cosmic Shambles Patreon. No reason… patreon.com/cosmicshambles @robinince.bsky.social

Not easy to get to sleep tonight - have burnt the bridge of whatever career I had left and really don’t feel that my opinions are so extreme that that should have been necessary

Talked a bunch on the pod about the five (six?) different games I am playing that are all shaping up to be some of the most memorable experiences of the year for me, many of which came out in the last few weeks.

YOU ARE A DEMON MADE OF GLASS AND PAIN AND YET, YOU MUST SKATE SKATE STORY OUT NOW PC, PS5, SWITCH 2

If the BBC boycott, drink everything in your house.

"I'm being paid the same now, when I make 500 shirts a day, as I did when I made 50 shirts a day. Where the fuck is the money going?" The popular idea of luddites is entirely due to generations of capitalists trying their damnedest to obscure what is a very simple issue.

NEW GAME ALERT! I made a thing! My new silly little game #Frostholme is out now! Play an adorable festive horror game, where you're cute little guys - trapped in an endless, wintery forest full of dangers! With art by Ben Hollands (benhollands.com) Lookit - misterspidergod.itch.io/frostholme

Exactly

Portland residents in possession of a goose or duck should be aware that it is an infraction not to dress them in plaid with a little cap in the winter months. Penalty for noncompliance is in-person viewing of an entire city council meeting.

Book Today. eastercon2026.org

Oh yeah, saw the new HitchHikers Guide To The Galaxy Show. It's very much a 'take' on the source material, and very much a homage in the spirit of Douglas Adams. You have to actually engage with it to enjoy it, however. www.starburstmagazine.com/reviews/the-...

OH. COME. ON.

Journalist challenge: Use “Machine Learning” when you mean machine learning and “LLM” when you mean LLM. Ditch “AI” as a catch-all term, it’s not useful for readers and it helps companies trying to confuse the public by obscuring the roles played by different technologies. 🧪

International Woman's Day is the 8th of March