And plausibly deniable, because I've messed up submission records a couple of times!

I want to think about the word "innovative" there, not because I disagree but how it emerges from what I plan to do and how I go about it.

The EPA (Edible Phallus Administration)

Surely someone has created a 2 column d100 Space Marine chapter name table that would generate these

Telling people about the good, useful use cases for AI is kinda like telling people about the 30-50 feral hogs you need your AR-15 for

It is entirely true and yet so completely divorced from the lived experience of your audience that you sound ridiculous

A convoy carrying needed materials to fufill treaty requirements has been held up by adverse space storms. You and your ship have been sent to monitor conditions in the untracked middle section with orders to return when conditions are favourable, yet after several weeks they are only marginal.

Long, elegant, possibly French

A mascot costume of the D&D meme "Three Kobolds in a Trench Coat"- in a long khaki beige trench coat. The top kobold is red in colour, wearing a hat, sunglasses, and a blue and green scarf. The middle head is blue, with two hands underneath it, and the bottom head is orange, with a grimace on his face. The orange feet support everything! This is a real costume being worn by a model.

A mascot costume of the D&D meme "Three Kobolds in a Trench Coat"- in a long khaki beige trench coat. The top kobold is red in colour, wearing a hat, sunglasses, and a blue and green scarf. The middle head is blue, with two hands underneath it, and the bottom head is orange, with a grimace on his face. The orange feet support everything! This is a real costume being worn by a model.

A mascot costume of the D&D meme "Three Kobolds in a Trench Coat"- in a long khaki beige trench coat. The top kobold is red in colour, wearing a hat, sunglasses, and a blue and green scarf. The middle head is blue, with two hands underneath it, and the bottom head is orange, with a grimace on his face. The orange feet support everything! This is a real costume being worn by a model.

A mascot costume of the D&D meme "Three Kobolds in a Trench Coat"- in a long khaki beige trench coat. The top kobold is red in colour, wearing a hat, sunglasses, and a blue and green scarf. The middle head is blue, with two hands underneath it, and the bottom head is orange, with a grimace on his face. The orange feet support everything! This is a real costume being worn by a model.

I am delighted to show off the final photos of this behemoth of a project I've been working on since last year: the Three Kobolds in a Trench Coat mascot costume, for the new boardgame of the same name. You can see this in action at UKGE in May!

All handmade by me! ✂️🧵🪡

Why can't he not write a fantasy novel like me (opens manuscript, stares at it for a while)

Ditto SFF writers. I know IPA is intimidating but it's nice to know whether your names are pronounced with a trilled R or a flapped R!

It's a new story day! "The Metamorphosis" is my heart story, about how turning into an invisible sloth is a Kafkaesque metaphor for getting ME/CFS or Long Covid, but you can still find a path to a happy ending.

Read it for free in @gavagai.com

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The existence of Windlifter, a native American helicopter in Planes: Fire And Rescue, raises a lot of questions that frankly the Cars franchise is not equipped to handle.

Hippo hippo
Burning bright
In the bayou of the night
What immortal eye and hand
Made king of river and of land?

HUNGRY Official Trailer (2026) Killer Hippo YouTube video by ONE Media

It's happening, IT'S HAPPENING @sarahgailey.bsky.social (although I know I must be the 100th to tag them for this)

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Crossing our Day Of The Jackal, writing in all caps DAY OF THE HIPPO

Monster Of The Week 318: DonKey Monster Of The Week 318 is DonKey, his name can open every door in the country, bit of a braying voice, in his younger days he was part of...

Links etc nightofthehats.blogspot.com/2026/04/mons...

A key with a donkey's head at one end and a square but jagged looking bit at the other

Monster Of The Week 318 is DonKey, his name can open every door in the country, bit of a braying voice, in his younger days he was part of the fast set but now takes his time.

There were a bunch of groups up on the stage at the front, including a Japanese choir, who burst into song every time they got mentioned and you could see him go, "not this again" the third time. The Anglican group were perched on the edge of the stage further than the Catholics!

I did! His regular Wednesday Audience in St Peter's Square! He drove down the cleared space in the middle!

An underrated 21st century skill is knowing what level of digital friendship you should have with somebody. Getting that Instagram request and being able to say, "no, LinkedIn mutuals is right for us." Tough when you realize belatedly that you don't actually want to know what your gym trainer thinks

Post a banger that isn't in English www.youtube.com/watch?v=cEPm...

Sold out in hardcover but you can get our sweet little pocket-sized paperback of Mongol-inspired Sword & Sorcery, Dariel & I back to back.

OH NO swordsandsorcerymagazine.com/eliza-sky-an...

[Gazing at the ceiling, eyes unfocused, a strange haze in the air] Maybe none of the Popes existed at all ever think of that?

My Friend: Neil, you saw John Paul II in 2004 when we were in Rome

TasavVur, I'm sorry @tasavvurnama.bsky.social I should know better!

This is why the BBC was right to ban George Formby www.youtube.com/watch?v=UxDe...

I Watch Films: Lawrence Of Arabia Lawrence Of Arabia In England in 1932 T E Lawrence (Peter O’Toole) crashes his motorcycle and dies. At a memorial service at St Paul’s...

I watched Lawrence Of Arabia, an historical epic about war, duty, and being tortured nightofthehats.blogspot.com/2026/04/i-wa...

The Shape of Snowflakes, by Kehkashan Khalid It was Needle who first suggested robbing the Orangutan’s treasury. We were huddled under the tin-sheet roof of a roadside dhaba, stained china cups of chaisteaming between cupped palms, safe from …

Issue 4 had The Shape Of Snowflakes, in which friends touched by an alien snow plot to make an escape; I think this was Kehkashan Khalid's first publication! translunartravelerslounge.com/2021/02/15/t...

Wolfmothers, by Rukman Ragas The calls come from the caves underground and even you could follow it, slithering slowly as the heat scalds your scales. In there, your progenitor hangs, mouth forever forced open, venom falling i…

And in issue 13, Wolfmothers in which Rukman Ragas gave voices to some minor characters from Norse mythology - their importance in stopping the end of the world previously assumed, now interrogated. translunartravelerslounge.com/2025/08/15/w...

Fairy Tales for Grown-Ups | British Library Fairy Tales have an older and darker past as stories for adults as well as the young. They were often sensual, bawdy, unflinchingly violent, sophisticated

This amazing online event is happening tomorrow, Tuesday, April 21st. Susanna Clarke, @amalelmohtar.com, Gregory Maguire and I will be talking about fairy tales, fairy lore, and fairy tale literature for the @britishlibrary.bsky.social. Please join us!

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