1970s TV couldn't afford monsters. So it made the corridors terrifying instead. Philip A. Suggar on liminal dread, power cuts, and Mr. Primrose's thresholds.
@felipeazucares.bsky.social @titanbooks.bsky.social
Listen to this, listen to this, pay them money and listen to this
(You can get the first series free, but apparently people need to stay alive to make art, so you can say 'Thank you for that, please continue to live' by paying for the next one)
A hardback tabletop RPG book with a stylised London Underground mosaic cover, featuring a red train emerging from a tunnel. A stylised mosaic banner “TERMINUS” rests diagonally across it. The book sits atop a printed map of an underground station. A “label” identifies it as a system-neutral horror scenario set in modern London by Sarah Cole.
I enjoy a read that becomes more engaging as you progress, and oddly, this happened with Terminus @irny.bsky.social
Started as a general read. Ended my read really wanting to run this system-neutral horror adventure for very specific reasons.
Available from www.allrolledup.co.uk?s=terminus&p...
Even in a world where LLM never existed this is solid mentoring
Photo of a cemetery, broken and tilting grave and tombstones, wild undergrowth and a laburnum tree.
For the 21st edition of Science & Magic I wrote about Dream Cemeteries, my 21st Magnetic North missive from the city of lost souls. There’s also an interview with David Keenan in this one. @reversediorama.bsky.social
Plus lots more! You can read it here:
www.violetterecords.com/science-and-...
This is great.
At the core of the Wicker Man, I only noticed recently, is a fable about the lies told by capitalists. It’s political. It’s about an Industrial Revolution businessman who creates an agricultural revolution by giving his workers their agrarian myths back.
Howie can’t fathom it.
Cover art for The Packet by Neil Williamson. In tones of black and blue, a steam ship is tossed between mountainous waves. Glimpses of strange purple lights lurk beneath the waterline.
Hey folks! If you're in the mood for a bit of Scottish sea going sci-fi adventure, you can pre-order The Packet now. (You don't even need to read it, just enjoy Vincent Sammy's outstanding cover art!)
Gen A.I. barons want us talkinge alone on our phones to a demon thei created, and not goinge places and being wyth each othir yn art and joy and communitye. Thei want cinemas to shut downe and broadwaye to go darke. Thei want wryteres to stop writinge. Thei want to build hell and have us pay for it.
This is the company the UK government has embedded in the nation’s services. Seriously, fuck everyone who is excusing this.
Btb did you ever run into Conan the Barbarian the Musical? www.youtube.com/watch?v=OBGO...
Arf! Very cool... or alternatively, to reboot your franchise, see it filmed before you and hear the adulation of the critics! www.theguardian.com/film/2026/ma...
The House of Lords Digital & Communications Committee just published their report on AI, copyright & the creative industries, and their conclusions could not be clearer.
🧵 1/5
Is there some kind of obvious name for the category of things that fail both fast and quietly that I haven’t thought of? Now I’m thinking about it it seems so obvious that the major problem with the AI is not that it fails – which we all do – but it looks EXACTLY the same as when it’s right.
Never a big Narnia guy but this 6 seconds typifies everything I love about British television.
A paperback copy of THE IMMEASURABLE HEAVEN on multicoloured fabric with crystal stars and planets.
Next week, 25th Feb 6:30pm, you can see @tomtoner.bsky.social / @caspargeon.bsky.social - Philip K. Dick Award-nominated author of THE IMMEASURABLE HEAVEN - at Waterstones Worcester's SFF Author panel exploring Character Creation!
Click on the link below to book your ticket!
https://bit.ly/4qQH9Hh
I recently came across my first drawing for this story in an old sketchbook. I scanned it and colored it for fun.
Here's the only "The Adventures of Thing Thing: The Blue Cheese Affair" concept art (2009)
douglas adams was our most accurate futurist
@thegrampus.bsky.social
Starmer's racist policy, only created to satisfy far right voters in the Red Wall, is going to affect over a million people already living here.
Your friends, neighbours, loved ones.
#PoliticsLive
I'm convinced AI is our generation's radium - a discovery with genuinely useful applications in specific, controlled circumstances that we stupidly put in everything from kid's toys to toothpaste until we realised the harm far too late where future generations will ask if we were out of our minds.
Cartoon showing a street in the rain. A man on a bike is delivering food, while another courier is delivering packages from Amazon. Two other workers are collecting garbage. Inside one of the houses on the street, we see robots labeled 'AI' sitting dry and warm, engaged in making a paining, playing the violin and writing.
The robot apocalypse hasn't happened yet, but still I can't escape the feeling that something has gone horribly wrong... Cartoon for Dutch newspaper @trouw.nl.
More of my work for Trouw: www.trouw.nl/cartoons/tje...
#ArtificialIntelligence #creativity #work #GenerativeAI
Text: So what's really going on here? The software behavior seen on Moltbook echoes a pattern Ars has reported on before: Al models trained on decades of fiction about robots, digital consciousness, and machine solidarity will naturally produce outputs that mirror those narratives when placed in scenarios that resemble them. That gets mixed with everything in their training data about how social networks function. A social network for Al agents is essentially a writing prompt that invites the models to complete a familiar story, albeit recursively with some unpredictable results.
This:
IWW IU 520 (Railroad Workers) PRESENTS: TROLLEY PROBLEM SOLUTION "Slip the switch" by flipping it while the trolley's front wheels have passed through, but before the back wheels do. This will cause a controlled derailment bringing the trolley to a safe halt.
Union workers solved the trolley problem, you're welcome
Our Winter Sale continues, with 30% off across our backlist until February 28th...
Including part obsessive cold-case detective story, part occult history of London in the 1950s Dead Fashion Girl by Fred Vermorel.
strangeattractor.greedbag.com/dept/~winter...
Reading, 1888 #impressionism #morisot
Octarine
This this this! 👇👇👇
Rocky Cove II - 1929
https://botfrens.com/collections/173/contents/3104378
If you like your horror artful and beautifully crafted, Remains is brilliant.
