Martian leader shortly before the events of War Of The Worlds:

If you stepped into a ballad, who would you be?
The doomed lover, the wandering knight, the clever survivor… or something darker?
Tell us your role and post it with #BalladHunters

Index of Poems I Shall Never Write (Don’t Tell Me About) Your Brand New Podcast p. 42 At the Alphabetti Spaghetti World Championship Final p. 32 Bad Hare Day p. 40 Easy Peelers are Not the Only Fruit p. 52 I’m in Love with the Woman in the Green Cardigan in the BBC Question Time Audience p. 58 Kim Kardiganashian p. 45 Life Hacked p. 60 Linked In, Dropped Out p. 27 Mister Krankie Meets the Clambake King p. 14 Nocturnal Blossoms: Petals of the Moon p. 18 On Sleeping in a Dudley Travelodge p. 68 On Waking in a Dudley Travelodge p. 3 Poem for Silt Awareness Day p. 6 She Never Did Care for Hollyhocks p. 23 Shit! It’s Jeremy Clarkson! p. 1 Sixty-Four Failed Attempts to Guess a Wi-Fi Password p. 64 Taking Cocaine with Wendy Cope p. 9 Ten Unexpected Items to Find in a Bagging Area p. 50 The Last But One Will and Testament of Brian Horatio Bilston p. 55 Third Wordle War p. 47 Untitled p. 21 What We Currently Know and Don’t Know about Gnomes p. 31 Whither the linnet? p. 10 Yes, I Know It’s Called ‘Petrichor’ p. 34 Your Spatula p. 37 Brian Bilston

Today’s poem is called ‘Index of Poems I Shall Never Write’.

Jonathan Keir
Harker Starmer
🤝
Not having enough questions about
their good friend, the Prince of Darkness

Gareth Hanrahan on the DIE RPG: Metadungeon - Old Men Running The World The DIE RPG: The Metadungeon is presently crowdfunding as part of the Mega Dungeon Month. It's a frankly ludicrous endeavour, born of Gareth Hanrahan going

Declarations of conflict of interest are for lesser bloggers. Here's my interview with @mytholder.bsky.social about the the process behind the currently crowdfunding DIE RPG: The Metadungeon. oldmenrunningtheworld.com/gareth-hanra...

Just finished "The Lands of the Firstborn" trilogy by Gareth Hanrahan and yeah this one's going to be in my "define yourself with x number of book series" lists from now on. At least to me, the very essence of honoring the very same tropes it's all about subverting. Incredible fantasy

I’m glad you liked it!

No worries! I may have a pdf somewhere, but there are infinitely more qualified people to actually answer rules questions.

I’m not involved in the new edition - I haven’t even seen a copy!

What I Learned About Billionaires at Jeff Bezos’s Private Retreat For the richest men on Earth, everything is free and nothing matters.

“Bezos and the world’s richest men have left the world of consequences behind,” Noah Hawley writes. “Their actions are only ever judged by themselves.” Here’s what Hawley learned about the ultra-wealthy at Jeff Bezos’s Campfire retreat:

www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...

Somewhere Bismarck is looking down in confusion as Germany projects power by sending 4,000 pensioners, 12 buffet stations and a TUI loyalty program through the Strait of Hormuz

"Dude. You're blocking my shot!"

DIE: Metadungeon The real dungeon was the hobby we made along the way. Dungeon crawl your way through half a century of RPG history in this full-scale megadungeon for the DIE RPG by Gareth Hanrahan.

We're within sight of 135k and the Stephanie Hans chapter art. 11 days to go too. I'll be posting an interview with Gar later as well.

two images of the human body's circulatory system. One of them with good cable management

The human circulatory system, before and after proper cable management.

GSV Technically I'm A Penthouse
GSV Dear Penthouse, I Never Thought This Would Happen, But....
ROU Far In Excess

Warning: not GOOD advice.

Oh, that I never heard. But I think half the cafes in Edinburgh claim she wrote there.

Paint house.
Tidy house.
Read and research; come up with a few long-term projects as opposed to doing lots of bitty ones.
Play a computer game or two.

Getting a submarine up to 88 miles per hour, though...

Extinct Animals You Should Learn About 3 YouTube video by ETG Animations and drawings

One of the twins has spent “eleven months with a lot of procrastination” working on this video about extinct animals.

youtu.be/gVwIS-UD6v8?...

A gigantic billboard beside a road shows (at life-size) an enormous, grand building. Text beside it reads: "Foundation For Astonishingly Extravagant Gestures" a sticker below adds "Coming Soon" Dwarfed by the billboard is a shabby little building with a sign reading "Institute of Pragmatic Solutions"

My latest cartoon for @newscientist.com

“I never thought wizards would eat my face,” said Crowley.

Tweet from Adrian Bott (@Cavalorn): Hush! Hush! Whisper who dares; / Aleister Crowley is falling down stairs.

...or just this, which is shorter, and surely unimprovable

THE PRISONER, junior edition

we must consider that most of the 'a wizard did it' monsters in traditional D&D universes were some wizard's fetish.

The Power of a Homophone   “Sometimes the power of a homophone
will just come out of nowhere and hit you – like being struck by a ten ton truck,”
articulated Laurie. Brian Bilston

Today’s poem is called ‘The Power of a Homophone’.

There's a reason one of the saints is called Aleena...

CARRIE BRADSHAW VOICE: But did _everyone_ really love Magical Trevor?

Get Ready for Lovecraft Investigations: The Call of Cthulhu From Julian Simpson - Get Ready for Lovecraft Investigations: The Call of Cthulhu

www.backerkit.com/call_to_acti...

Fully documented source code for Elite on the 6502 (BBC Micro, Acorn Electron, Commodore 64, Apple II, NES) Fully documented source code for Elite on the 6502 (BBC Micro, Acorn Electron, Commodore 64, Apple II, NES), with more than 100 deep dive articles explaining how every aspect of this iconic game works...

Someone has documented the entire source code for Elite and explained how every line works, plus included deep dives into various functionality. Covers all main versions like BBC Micro, Commodore 64 and NES. You can also play online in browser. elite.bbcelite.com