Cool! Someone has made a movie about the 'Fray Bentos', aka tank F41, which got stranded in the mud with its crew during Passchendaele.

When my day job forces me to sit at my desk and play games. It's a tough life!

Clemmo reviews Horton's new book on Taiwan.

Philip Goldstein of the 49th Fighter Squadron next to his P-38, named 'Jewboy', showing the one and only way to correctly display swastikas.

Full disclosure: I'm working on board games for Compass Games, who is the publisher here. So take my words with whatever pinch of salt you want. 1/3

After Greenland, Trump has further territorial demands on Denmark.

Christer Bergstrom's 'Black Cross Red Star' Volume 6 just arrived. The first chapter covers the death of Lidiya Litvyak. Reminds me of a comic I drew about her over twenty years ago, part-inspired by Spain Rodriguez's comic about her. There will be a movie released about her later this year.

Oh dear, I bought too much madeira cake, what ARE we to do? <reaches for cake slice>

It's January, and the missus is already working on the next volume of the footie comic 'Aoashi' for Titan. The first volume will be out in May.

'Sentenced to be a Hero: The Prison Records of Penal Hero Unit 9004'. It's a bit good, isn't it?

I present to you the winner of the FIFA Peace Prize.

So, I had a meeting today for a new board game project. (I'm NDA'd, so can't talk specifics.) But now I'm fired up and want to start designing. I'm going to be working over Christmas on this, aren't I?

I appreciate that the new Great British Railway uniforms protect staff from the threat of U-boat attack.

Many men feel the stripper really likes them. Scientists say it's time to consider whether they're onto something

Clemmo on how a Chinese hack, the Communist equivalent of Lunchtime O'Booze, picked a fight with a writer that he could not win.

Oof!

'Nuremberg' is a curate's egg. Russell Crowe will get award noms. Michael Shannon & Richard E. Grant deliver top courtroom drama. Leo Woodall steals the film. BUT... Rami Malek is a gurning cartoon, and the death camp footage is powerful enough that we don't need to see the cast's reactions to it.

Just heard re: some ICE agents who raided a Chicago taqueria, then went back to the same taqueria for lunch the following week and got confused when the owner kicked them out, and I realized "jesus these doofuses really do believe we're all living in a video game where the NPCs have no memory"

Another failed US counterinsurgency.

A Heron is playing my last game, on SoE in France in 1944.

So, the game I'm currently working on will be featured in Secret Mode's 'Cozy Quest 2025' event for chill and cozy games. You can already play the demo for free on Steam. More info here:

Enjoying 'Death by Lightning' on Netters. Michael Shannon at his most restrained. Matthew Macfadyen as his most unhinged. Bradley Whitford snarks like no-one's business while Nick Offerman chews the scenery. Shines a spotlight on the corruption and violence of that previous gilded age. Recommended.

Zohran Mamdani resembles the ex-London leader Ken Livingstone in many ways. It means he'll likely do great things for NYC and be re-elected. However, local gains might not necessarily translate into national success, and indeed at a national level portions of his party might run against him.

Diabetes review on Monday, which usually means there will be blood!

Okay, I'm biased because my wife is translating the comic for Titan Books, but 'Sanda' (boy turns into Santa Claus in a Japan in the midst of demographic collapse) is the wildest, horniest, most messed-up show of the season. Studio Science Saru are knocking it out the park.

Just a reminder.

It’s papist plot night!

My friend Darryl drew a graphic novel titled 'Elon Musk: American Oligarch' and YouTube are ratfucking ads for it by designating it 'election advertising'.

Just arrived!

What a joy! Topping & Co., our top class local bookstore in Ely is expanding into the neighbouring space where the opticians lived.

Very much worth a read, @jsbuckley.bsky.social

The last few days I've been bingeing episodes of 'Sutherland's Law', a middlebrow '70s BBC Scotland drama about a highland procurator fiscal who solves crimes. With the excellent Iain Cuthbertson, supported by Gareth Thomas, it's just solid throughout and stands up 50 years on.

So far I have found two useful and practical demi-legal applications of AI: (a) Summarising TTRPG game sessions. (The totally legal one.) (b) Creating pitch decks with images and graphics for internal use from company design documentation. (The quasi-legal one.)

<Puts on an 'I Told You So' T-shirt and does a sad dance>

Fetterman II: Electric Boogaloo

Why does everyone keep calling it “The Epstein Ballroom?” Please stop repeating “The Epstein Ballroom” because it is not called “The Epstein Ballroom!” Don’t tell the news that it’s called “The Epstein Ballroom” and please don’t repost this!!!!!

In the Louvre robbery case the police have published photos of subjects wanted for questioning.

How to Join ICE theonion.com/how-to-join-...

This photo accompanying a news story about the heist at the Louvre is perfection.

There was a time when Disney and Warners were probably making as many cartoons for the military as commercially. Here's a Chuck Jones from the mid-'50s encouraging Air Force men to re-up.

I’d pay brisk money to watch all these flagshaggers burn down Prince Andrew to ‘protect our kids’.

THIS is how you deal with drug trafficking at sea. Kudos to the Booties who pulled off this feat.

I saw the dot coms crash from a front row seat. AI is running out of money way faster. The evangelism is insecurity from people who made the wrong bet. I’ve seen it before. futurism.com/future-socie...

He's down t'pit!

Posting this for no reason. No reason at all.

Added to the list of Japanese tourist anime, is 'Touring After the Apocalypse', in which teens Youko and Airi ride a motorcycle across a deserted Japan that's gradually returning to nature. It's surprisingly cheery and upbeat, with a world that's verdant, bright, and only occasionally melancholic.

The new movie about Manchu Detachment 731 looks like torture porn.

Jesus, they're doing it! They are actually fucking doing it!

Very interested in watching MOTD tonight. The Palace/L’pool match sounds like one for the ages.

I am agog.