Star Trek story: The Pakleds were fooled by two Ferengi in a trenchcoat. Their attempts to fool the Ferengi by doing the same thing in reverse did not end well...

I won Rob Wilkins’ Good Omens 2 crew gear. I never used the rucksack (tho all the other items have pride of place in my Terry Pratchett bookcase) so I would like to pass the rucksack on, with the proceeds going again to Alzheimer’s Research. It being auctioned on EBay www.ebay.co.uk/itm/14694216...

Please could you spread this?

I've never done this on social media before but... ...my brilliant assistant is moving on to pastures new after three years. I am looking for someone to help me out. They need to be able to *get to North London easily, regularly*, energetic (it's often a dashing-around/carrying stuff job)...

Someone made a post. I thought it was funny. I responded with something I thought was funny. They responded saying they didn't need to be corrected. I blocked them to avoid any conflict. Was this the correct approach? My morning is not having the best start 😐

@benaaronovitch.bsky.social Do let me know if you need any star-maps, like the ones I did for the B7 project 😉

Government has published one of those quiet but important documents that might get overlooked as it is not 'newsy'. The headline finding is that £1 of public R&D investment generates £8 in net economic benefits for the UK over the long term www.gov.uk/government/p...

Apart from the no-post, no profile randos, I do wonder sometimes why certain people follow me 🤔

Bit much?

Oh goody - another 'Night of the Random Followers'... Block block block blockety blockety block...

@thebrainofchris.bsky.social @mrjalco.bsky.social Time to resurrect a project that has been on hold for a while:

I am planning a new 3D model/print project - any additional material in high or medium resolution greatly appreciated (I have a Top/Side view (1000 x 800 pxl):

Adventures in Texturing part 1:

Today is my birthday AND our wedding anniversary - find below proof that my dear lady wife knows me very well:

Just in case anyone might be considering upgrading to a PS5 in the foreseeable, EE have got a Game Day sale on at the moment which knocks 45 quid off the price of a slim disc version. And you don't even need to have an account with them!

Uk peeps - worth checking this out

Can folks do me a favor? I was on Bluesky early & it was great. Mostly. I hit the eject button in January. I came back, many colleagues are here, but still don’t know I am. I co-created Halt and Catch Fire. I write TV & comics. Here’s two favorite set photos. Repost? I am in the wilderness.

Just polled my very small D&D group about continuing our campaign in October, and sadly we've had a drop-out (oddly, the person who suggested we play in the first place) - she even said her character should die rather than be put on hiatus. I made light of it but this sucks a bit...

To which I add this wonderful Bruce Sterling passage, which for many years I kept beside my keyboard.

"They were normally shapeless entities composed of a viscous jelly. They had, however, a constantly shifting shape - throwing out temporary developments or forming apparent organs of sight, hearing, and speech.” H.P. Lovecraft, At the Mountains Of Madness

You can't beat the classics (Conny is my model, other two are Captain Mojo on Cults 3D, split for printing by me):

UK/US LITERARY AGENTS: Are you willing to look at submissions from former Unbound authors on the, uh, rebound? If so, please drop a line in my DMs with your contact and #MSWL or area of expertise. Especially looking for people who rep nonfiction. Some TRULY excellent books looking for homes.

I am going to be creating a prototype of a new (secret for now) narrative game this year. I need to find two people, both UK-BASED (sorry): a freelance dev and a freelance illustrator. If interested in working with me (and if you have a clearly REAL profile to screen for AI), do DM me.

My D&D Campaign is on hiatus until Autumn, so I am now able to indulge in something I put off because it might muddy the waters; playing Baldur's Gate 3! However, I then realised I have Baldur's Gate 1 & 2 already, so I'm playing them first 😁

Season one of my D&D campaign is completed - big thank you to my players, and to @owlbear.rodeo @watabou.bsky.social and @heroforgeminis.bsky.social for the tech that allowed me to run it remotely! Season two starts in September 😁

Lettori italiani! 🇮🇹 Il mio romanzo #HorusHeresy Il Volo Della Eisenstein è pubblicato oggi da Panini! www.panini.it/shp_ita_it/t...

‼️ Please re-post. This is really important.

If anyone can help make little Rebecca’s wish come true, please get in touch. Thank you friends! ❤️

Having some very silly fun with @heroforgeminis.bsky.social - 'Portrait of the 'Artist' as a middle-aged Dungeon Master':

Sometimes it pays to test print stuff:

Brits affected by the Meta book theft ⬇️

Given the latest shocking revelations regarding the assassination of JFK, I think it's only fair to point out that I posted this *ten years ago*! #PenelopeKeith www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=...

Feels like a longshot but: If you know any Monolith level designers who still haven't landed let them know that I have an opening on my team please.

My wife is currently watching 'The Three Musketeers' (which one I couldn't tell you), but something has occurred to me. In every one of the myriad film and TV appearances of these iconic characters, I have never seen one of them use a musket.

No Man's Sky is currently 60% off on GOG and Steam!

Weird thing: I am so irritated by AI-generated imagery that I will instantly block any YT videos that use it to create their thumbnail, regardless of the potentially interesting or useful information contained therein...

My modelling hiatus is over (had a guest last week, and other bits to deal with) - assembling questions for more work on @thebrainofchris.bsky.social 's Fermi 🙂

From Martin Griffiths, No Man's Sky Engine Programmer 13 hours ago: This was an interesting PCVR bug - in the video below a couple of particle effects are only rendering in the right eye correctly - but after reproducing the same location it looked fine on PSVR1 and 2. Hmmm: (1/5)

'Wow,' said Blake. 'These guys are a LOT nicer than OUR Federation...'

Still not managed to pick up any new projects, and March onwards is looking extremely empty for me, so editors and creators, please keep me in mind when staffing new projects! This will be my 22nd year as a full-time comic pro and I don't want to stop just yet!

In the light of next layoffs in the industry please share the openings of @CDPROJEKTRED with your chooms -- we are recruiting for few teams: #TheWitcherIV, sequel to #Cyberpunk2077 (codename Orion), our new IP (codename Hadar), and more! Join us ❤️ www.cdprojektred.com/en/jobs

#JobAd Das Naturkundemuseum Stuttgart besetzt zum nächstmöglichen Zeitpunkt folgende Stelle: Content Creator (m/w/d) E 11 TV-L, mind. 80%, unbefristet Bewerbungsfrist: 16.03.2025. Alle weiteren Infos findet ihr auf unserer Website: www.naturkundemuseum-bw.de/stellen/deta...

@spanj.bsky.social and his crew did THIS!: www.youtube.com/watch?v=F5_7... (And congrats on the Spanjlet)

While I consider next steps on the Fermi, a custom dice tower as a palate-cleanser - segmented to allow felt on the base so your dice stay nice:

UK creative friends: the government's on-line AI consultation closes at midnight, so don't forget to make your thoughts known & give Skynet the🖕; the ALCS have a good crib-sheet at the link below to help you respond. You can finish it in the time for 1 playthrough of "The Terminator" soundtrack.

With all the Amazon stuff (don't forget to download your ebooks folks) I should point out the Fermi stories are all available at @scarletferret.com. You don't need to set up an account. The books are DRM free, you properly own them. And I get a higher royalty share. scarletferret.com/authors/chri...

The Fermi slowly takes form...