'When authoritarians seize power, it is crucial to recognize courageous defenders of freedom who rise and resist,' the Norwegian Nobel Committee said as it announced Maria Corina Machado as the winner of the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize

Great thread! There are at least three successful invasions between 1066 and 1688 (Isabella & Roger Mortimer; Edward during the War of the Roses; Henry Tudor). All part of civil wars, but still armed people crossing the seas uninvited onto these shores

I just saw someone use the abbreviation “AI;DR” and I’ll be laughing for a while.

I suggest she rereads Thud. And Night Watch. And Snuff. And really tries to understand the underlying themes on those books via a vid difference, and tolerance and building a diverse community

I finished and signed The Beatles. I just have to varnish them, then package them up for shipping to @quirkyfox.bsky.social gallery in N.Z. Details on this quadriptych, and the exhibition in which it will appear, to follow in due course. Re-posts appreciated! #caricature #art

In 1945, the Allies faced a tricky question: where to hold Nazi war criminals until the trials. A run-down hotel in Luxembourg was quickly converted to a prison ("Camp Ashcan"). The hope was to keep the nature of the prisoners secret. In May 1945, this failed, and almost turned into a disaster. /1

I had a really interesting (in hindsight) argument online where a guy accused me of a minor hobby faux pas, so I started my response with “Fuck off” - which in my context is punctuation but because in his it was a really horrible statement he then used the r-slur which got me really angry.

All the #nerdlings minis of the month this month are amazing. I couldn’t even start to work out how to do this - Chapeau to you all!

Mini of the month - Why so negative? Entry 4 by @lupusamicus.bsky.social Devourer of Sanity and it's negative version. #Nerdlings #MiniOfTheMonth

Mini of the month - Why so negative? Entry 3 by @cozmicaztaway.bsky.social Here's Annah and Hannah. #Nerdlings #MiniOfTheMonth

Mini of the month - Why so negative? Entry 2 by @owolf.bsky.social Space Scarabs from the Negative Zone #Nerdlings #MiniOfTheMonth

Mini of the month - Why so negative? Entry 1 by @prideonparade.bsky.social #Nerdlings #MiniOfTheMonth

The Devils is (unsurprisingly) amazingly good fun. Fantasy dirty dozen in a really interesting alternate earth with all of Joe Abercrombie’s amazing characters and plotting - a pound is a steal

Red Roses visiting Downing Street when?

Woooooooo! Red Roses!!!!🌹 🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹

My heresy gaming pal has just started up a FLGS down Weston way - he’s a good chap, has good discounts and is really responsive so if you need grey plastic get on it! Triplemgames.com

Am I right in thinking that because ID cards aren’t in the manifesto the Lords could happily block it forever? C’mon second house!

Morally reprehensible, scientifically and economically illiterate, workshy fascist twatbadger

I’m sure this is a serious game, but I’ve watched too much Bill… Three assassins, one with a seafood allergy, one with a penchant for the iron pear, a mistress of disguise and King Phillip the Second of Spain (Spain!) It’s the Cockerney Players of Bow, mayte!

Freedom of expression doesn’t make it alright Trampled underfoot by the rise of the right Ich bin run Ausländer PWEI - Ich bin win Ausländer

Whatever you do, please don’t stop reading. Read for joy. Read for education. Read for resistance. Read banned books. Read books by marginalized authors. Read about experiences that differ from your own. Just. Keep. Reading.

Where’s all my “Terrorist” friends today?

My latest tank - a land raider explorator for the Alpha Legion

And here's my assistant, Little Parker Booowles!

Bridge Simulator was loads of fun! Was running the engineering for a shuttle and it was a perfect Star Trek / BSG game. Must have done okay cos I got promoted…

Bridge Simulator was loads of fun! Was running the engineering for a shuttle and it was a perfect Star Trek / BSG game. Must have done okay cos I got promoted…

Okay. Everything is horrid. Here’s some good things… @badsquiddogames.bsky.social kickstarter is funded and looks awesome. Looking forward to those minis! I played Heresy at the weekend. It’s loads of fun. Had some great food over the weekend at the Old Spot & by cooking homemade pies. Phots!

Today Bluesky is full of stuff affirming that power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Not even necessarily personal power, but contact with and exposure to…

Perfect 90s metalhead type thing, not grunge…

@rhigarthjones.bsky.social just got to listen to your last stint as our blood and mud leader, really enjoyed the past few pods, thank you! And thank you to @patriciavieira.bsky.social and @alicesoapbox.bsky.social for being equally engaging Co-hosts

Just rewatching Eng v Aus - at the end of the 1st half Kildunne does a brilliant piece of sweeping up in the 22, kicks off the side of her boot and finds grass, then grabs the Aussie flanker - really good fullback play that will never hit the highlights

Team, heresy 3.0 is hella fun!

The second trilogy is better than the first - and if you’ve read the first you know how high praise that is

This guy really hates British people (no, really, see his timeline) - and yet is using a character name from a book so British that it’s a useful frame for Alan Allport’s history of Britain in the Second World War.

Mini of the month - Are you joking? Entry 1 by @grumpykiltpin.bsky.social Knock, Knock, MF'er. #Nerdlings #MiniOfTheMonth

Mini of the month - Are you joking? Entry 2 by @sheroqueer.com "Who's the fruitiest warrior ? THE BANAKNIGHT” #Nerdlings #MiniOfTheMonth

Mini of the month - Are you joking? Entry 3 by @schneety.bsky.social‬ the 3rd arm was the first sign for Greg that he may have misheard the name of the cult he had just joined. #Nerdlings #MiniOfTheMonth

Mini of the month - Are you joking? Entry 4 by @chrisabernethy.bsky.social The Golden Throne #Nerdlings #MiniOfTheMonth

Mini of the month - Are you joking? Entry 7 by @owolf.bsky.social Why is the Quar worried about his Nan? Because he couldn’t reach her over his Grandma-Phone. #Nerdlings #MiniOfTheMonth

The GFA is no obstacle to leaving the ECHR because those who wish to do so don’t care about peace or justice or international agreements, they just want to be able to be more horrible to minorities. Wanting to leave the ECHR should be a belief that gets you ostracised

Apparently “leading” lawyers and “experts” say that the Good Friday Agreement is no obstacle to UK leaving ECHR. Me, being neither, merely sets out what the Good Friday Agreement expressly says. davidallengreen.com/2023/07/why-...

Okay. Why shouldn’t asylum seekers be able to work? What’s the benefit in keeping them in an enforced sedentary life? Is it just performative cruelty in the interest of seeming tough and so “dissuading” people coming here?

Ummm… I’m pretty sure missile based air defence is a proven concept at sea…

Anthrax at the Keller in Bristol with a friend of the family supporting them. Or Bloodywood in a bowling alley (again, Briz) on their first UK tour.

"Helluva lotta work building a motte and bailey castle" "Keep on top of it?" "That's the standard design, yes"

Ziff Davis and IGN routinely decide that work done by our laid off colleagues is not important. But inevitably, that crucial work falls onto those who remain. Not this time. Not anymore.

Amazing how such small numbers have been identified as the voice of the nation when, for comparison, 100,000 turned out for trans pride last month in London.

Just for perspective, a few weeks ago roughly 100,000 turned up for the London Trans+ Pride march. By contrast fewer than 3,000 ACROSS THE WHOLE COUNTRY, have turned up to anti-asylum "protests". Yet we are meant to take the latter as "the voice of the people" and the former as "the minority".

Small community service announcement to the #Warhammer40k #40k peeps: The "Imperial Iterator" channel on YouTube, the one with the bad David Attenborough voice over, is AI slop, garbage, and is also issuing copyright strikes to actual, human creators of other lore channels. Give them a miss.