“You ain’t got the fire power to take me!” Look at this art. The detail that Flint Henry puts into everything is crazy good, and we still get the feeling of motion in the figures. How colorist Martin Thomas keeps it all straight, page after page, actually enhancing the impact even more, amazes me.

GUYS IM FROM 2026 AND IT'S REALLY IMPORTANT. I HAVE TO WARN YOU. YOU HAVE TO LISTEN TO ME TO SAVE YOUR FUTURE. THE YEARS BEYOND WILL BE AWFUL IF YOU DON'T HEED MY WARNING you should draw more, write more, or make more games. If you don't, consider picking up a craft!

The final Calvin and Hobbes, which appeared in papers 30 years ago today.

Eldest son is back from uni. He left his bag of weed on the kitchen counter. Was going to bollock him for leaving it where his sister could find it but instead rolled a fat one and have just eaten 10 mince pies.

pay attention

He had been originally nurtured among the crazy society

In 2023 I became obsessed with videos of dads in cargo shortswaiting in parking lots during Taylor Swift's Eras Tour. So when she came to town, I grabbed a camera and headed down to talk to them. I thought it'd be funny. It turned out to be something else entirely.

So, first time in _years_ I take back my watercolors and do a traditional painting. Maybe I still got it. 🥹 I want to make at least one such thing a month as a much needed break from digital, and to have something to show beyond pixels on a screen.

Tree silhouette last #trees #woodland #treeclub

Hot War update is up! www.kickstarter.com/projects/han... New Paul Bourne art! An update to the Cold City PDF! All your favourite things! #coldcity

Excited for this one! ✨ with keynotes by John O’Neill and @abenanav.bsky.social For the first days we will read classic texts by Otto Neurath and Friedrich Hayek. Sign-up ist not required - the texts can be accessed following the link below ⬇️

Going through the things what I’ve done which I’m proud of this year and one really had to be when Warhammer Community let me get up on a stand and yell about why I love using Contrast Paints for a few thousand words. Contrast Expert went right on the CV www.warhammer-community.com/en-gb/articl...

When the Epstein files are released without enforcement, compliance becomes theater, redactions are weapons, and the truth depends entirely on who controls the scissors and what transparency means. Subscribe. READ. Comment. Share! therealmichaelcohen.substack.com/p/the-art-of...

@rory-stewart.bsky.social About your debate with Gary Stewart and Zack Polanski: Welcome to the age of zero-sum politics - www.ft.com/content/30a4... via @FT

everyone's like "how do we solve the male loneliness epidemic" but they're unwilling to entertain the most obvious answer: 30 Plague Marines

I tell you, the sperm whale will stand no nonsense.

As you'd expect, the Drone Photo Awards 2026 are pretty spectacular. This is a personal favourite, but it's hard to choose ... droneawards.photo/ga...

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Yay! Naturally I’m biased, but I didn’t write it, so I think it’s fair to say I think that FiveEvil is very good.

The world is fucking awful right now. Which means that sometimes? For some people, that thing you made and nervously shared is the only good thing, with a human scale, on the timeline. So you know. Keep going, creative friends. This really matters. Anyway thought I’d lost this image but I hadn’t.

I think about this Norman Jaffe (1932-1993) interview a lot.

Random #LEGO set of the day: Prisoner Transporter

JD Vance's courting of tech billionaires (esp. as he plans for the '28 Republican nomination contest) provides a compelling explanation for the language on Europe in the new National Security Strategy. icds.ee/en/trump_sil... @armida.bsky.social

Dan Houser on Victorian novels, Red Dead Redemption and redefining open-world games

"Rockstar co-founder Dan Houser compares AI to 'mad cow disease' and says execs pushing it aren't very creative."

I’m in a tinwork cycle so no new paintings for awhile.

Oh look. They’ve actually drawn a diagram for all the people stupid enough to need a bloody diagram.

A *huge* vaccine victory. I've been writing on this for years; Australia has seen remarkable progress in cervical cancer prevention with the HPV vaccine. I love seeing science triumph like this.

Maskwitches of Forgotten Doggerland where they goin handiwork.games/home/the-sil... #maskwitches

The OG Simon's Cat film!

You know, I'm not sure I ever really read the Pond Rules at our local nature preserve all that closely before

Shadow Walk Another photo taken at one of my favourite locations on the London Underground tube map. If the sun is out, and in the correct position at Nine Elms station, it can project beautiful shadows of the London Underground roundel on to the station floor.

Some images from Pine Pitch Black, the fancy monochrome edition of Maskwitches. I really like how these came out. Totally different feel to the colour version.

New job alert! Today I started as the new managing editor of @votebeat.org, a nonprofit news site that covers election administration and voting rights issues.

Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer. He is a computer safety researcher. And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine. In under 1600 words. aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...

Good morning #jokesters! Getting ready for holiday themed jokes🤣 Mrs. Claus ran into the kitchen where Santa was reading the paper and said, "Honey, there are moose falling from the sky!" He looks out the windows and says to her, "That's reindeer."

“Sudan's Death Toll Could Exceed Gaza’s. Here’s Everything You Need to Know” Important convo on the genocide there from me/Zeteo, with 2 Sudan experts who offer actual solutions to stop the fighting & put pressure on outside actors like the UAE & Saudi:

I mean... I kinda think it looks... not exactly "home made", but I don't think it actually looks like "a big team" made it, and I think anyone wanting to make games should think very carefully about what they can do, how they can get the tools they need, and how to learn new skills as needed.

Personally, I cannot abide ten thousand year old spirits released from the ice, and I'll do whatever it takes to protect the community from them. Find out more about Maskwitches of Forgotten Doggerland here: handiwork.games/home/the-sil...

The Night Epstein Died

i know it's not caturday but… i took this with the spiratone portragon 100m f4, a bizarre and totally underrated little (as in very little) lens. it's so compact bc it's a single-element lens. basically a metal tube with 1 piece of glass at the end.

British.

It was messing about with this one image that spawned the vintage-cinema/Brothers Quay informed, monochrome Pine Pitch Black version of Maskwitches we made. I found it to be a quite startling transformation, and the whole idea was right there. I get easily bored, but images interest me always.

The Planets and Nebulae Backdrops Book works really well for fantastical night skies as well as spaceships and robots. A couple of our very own BEOWULF miniatures, and a @fenrisgames.com standing stone. #jhbackdrops handiwork.games/product-cate...