10 years? Cumbles into dust, inserts Titanic gif Far future grimdark space opera, setting is a mashup of WH40K, Battletech, Legend of the Five Rings (yes, really) and Korean history Yoon once said on DW something like 'I write for a niche audience' which got me just waving back—try it, it's great

If you don’t know this series it’s some of the best (and weirdest) big picture SF around.

The same people who "not all men!" get really mad if survivors of sexual assault assumed that maybe not all men.

The first Target book my Gran bought me was Robot by Terrance Dicks. Pretty sure that, initially, it was reading the books that got me into the show rather than the other way around And Alex is right, that opening is right up there with Neuromancer and Tale of Two Cities

I know you don't want to leave it if you make money there; you should leave it anyway

In April 1998, Macromedia released the Macromedia Fireworks 1.0 graphics program. The program was able to work with both vector and bitmap graphics and was designed specially for web designers. #WebDesignHistory

Objection! Cerberus should be spotty! Etymologists might still be arguing about it but given a LOT of them thinks it means "spotted dog" you can acknowledge it without being wrong because if they are wrong it doesn't mean he wasn't (for the avoidance of doubt, I love this and Dave's art generally)

This *almost* makes me want to watch Phantom Menace again. Maybe I'll just watch the pod race scene.

In 1987 Danny Glover was "gettin' too old for this shit" in Lethal Weapon. But in 1990s Predator 2 he was able to make a Yautja run the hell away, and then hunt it down and kill it with a sharpened frisbee. This is a testament to what can be accomplished by not working with Mel Gibson.

Hello #PortfolioDay I’m Andy and I draw dinosaurs for money (and because I love them). I work in both traditional and digital media, and will never use AI for any of my art. Ever. #aSciArt

On a more serious note, this argument is always put forward by people who 'want to see some decorum in public debate'. By that they mean 'Tax some fucking billionaires' is rude, but 'Deport those not of Anglo Saxon origin' isn't. It's a way of keeping people In Their Place. Fuck that.

The other day I was in my favourite pub and asked if I could try one of the new beers, and was given it in this adorably tiny tankard

Again, if you have a Substack, the best time to switch away was months ago -- but today's the second best time.

I have a buttondown, and it’s great. If you wanna make the switch and have questions, ping me!

Oh man. 82 Only read his GW books, they were all REALLY good and I always meant to grab some of his other stuff Space Marine was the first fiction I read that properly inhabited just how creepy weird the setting is and how totally fucked up Marines actually are

The porn bans are nothing but the construction of infrastructure to ban other content they find "objectionable". Like trans resources. They're using things they think most people will agree with to get it in place. Then they can go after whatever they want. www.threads.com/@mattnavarra...

I mean, if the cast's OK it might even tempt me back to a theatre

in other words: bsky.app/profile/tran...

Serious answer: in modern British, “Right.” British men are incapable of getting up to go somewhere without saying it. “Right” is an ignition spark. It signals a transition to a new state of being. Intention. Action. Resolution. I believe it is the closest modern British equivalent to “Hwaet”.

one of many reasons i will never accept abandoning my trans siblings or the broader queer community for the purposes of "a bigger tent"

Tiny #borb with attitude. #BirdSky

this is the first good one of these anyone has ever done

Some bits of Bsky have been compromised by attackers but only for people using Dev stuff, if you've ever set an app password you need to follow instructions on this thread. I haven't but it's worth checking bsky.app/settings/app...

They built 29 golf courses in Yorkshire in 5 years from 1890 There are 6 within walking distance of here, I take the dog thru a few of them regularly, godawful wastes of land and fuckall biodiversity (I leant all my Hobsbawm's to a friend at uni and never got them back, need to rebuy some)

Or, y'know, just Unicums for Orban and supporters? There's "acquired taste" and then there's "fuck no I'm not having that again"

TOMORROW YOU WILL GRAB THE SUN WITH BOTH HANDS AND DEVOUR IT. FOR NOW HAVE YOU TAKEN YOUR MEDICATIONS?

I unreservedly loved Ivor when I was a kid—it possibly helped I lived next to a heritage steam railway line—it was great But look at how simple the animation is? You don't need uber expensive stuff, a good story well done entertains kids easily

There is no correlation between BMI and health outcomes in fat patients! Links provided in this email: * pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC... * hsph.harvard.edu/news/bmi-a-p...

Both the language Urdu—from Pakistan and India—& the English word Horde (as in Warcraft) derive from the Mongolian word 'ordo' meaning 'chieftain's tent' and then 'palace' Urdu is the language of the palace markets, the Mongol Golden Horde was where you went to pay respects/taxes to the over-ruler

Of course literally the day after that, in a world-class attempt at boredom-prevention, "Rock Around the Clock" was recorded.

by fuck it’s a beautiful world

It's giving tunnocks teacakes!!!

Splashdown! Vehicle is stable and upright. “A perfect bulls-eye splash for Integrity and its four astronauts!” #Artemis

China only, for now, and only the super fast charge on their new models but the Flash Charge tech is impressive

We should bring back these lost pronouns, partly because they are cool, and partly to annoy the TERFs (bonus point to the article for mentioning Chaucer’s use of the singular ‘they’). www.bbc.co.uk/future/artic...

All you need is for Bugs Bunny to take a wrong turn and you've got the set

Been for a walk, saw a dragon.

We all know who the well-behaved one is, the one who let me style her.

Madeline I am wheezing

The Holy Roman Empire was Holy Roman and an Empire

Holy shit en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Velocir... I had no idea. Nice they've confirmed the feathers tho

Oh, I could scream about this for HOURS. But suffice to say: This is what happens when large studios don't want to fund original projects, anymore. They make Scooby-Doo for the 16th time, and the hot young talents goes off, runs a Kickstarter/gets backed by Glitch, and succeeds without them.

McDo McDo hast

Outtakes from the cover of This Is How We Lose The TIme War.

I’m going to write a 10,000 page reflection on life in this strange new world in which Google is no longer useful. To be entitled In Time of Lost Search.

OTD 2005 #DoctorWho The Unquiet Dead The second coming of Doctor Who and first of St Russell of Davies opened in an ideal spirit to change our lives: Nightly visitations of Past, Present and Future (if not in that order) Gifting us a Christmas in Spring How long will it last? Forever.

"If I was bad" is pretty peak as well