It is entirely Pixar's fault that I find myself unable to throw away lamps.

People always talk about how popsicles barely look like the characters, but they don't even taste like them at all

There's something ironic about me choosing to reward myself for releasing @wefixspacejunk.bsky.social Season Four, which was written during a horrendous period of writers block, by playing Alan Wake.

I'm DELIGHTED to announce that I'm in Season 4 of We Fix Space Junk! You can hear me RIGHT NOW on the Battlebird Productions Patreon, or wait until next week for the general release.

I'm living my dinosaur dream. 🚀❤️🦖

Stop callinge them "data centers" and starte callinge them "slop peripherals"

Virtual Gallery – The Leighton Buzzard Library Theatre Virtual Leighton Buzzard Library Theatre Gallery Tour Click on the paintings to find out more!

For anyone who can't make it all the way to Leighton Buzzard to check out my #dnd paintings, I've made a gallery on my website!
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UK energy prices are soaring – and propagandists want to sell you a false reason why | George Monbiot The war on Iran has put fossil-fuel prices centre stage, but don’t believe those who tout ‘maximising the North Sea’ as our salvation, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

If it's sometimes hard to tell the difference between fossil-fuel lobbyists and the billionaire press, that's because there isn’t one.
My column on the politicians, journalists and junktanks using the Iran crisis as an excuse to extract our remaining gas and oil.
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“Why do you want to shit on entire swathes of human endeavor and wreck the planet while you’re doing it? Why are you so determined to be awful and amoral? Everything about your priorities is messed up, and you should all be heartily ashamed, abashed and embarrassed.”

Yeah but then they'd have to go near Linehan and I wouldn't wish that on anyone.

There are pieces of writing that stand on their own without any external information, but there's a reason when we read poetry, for example, we want to know when it was written and by whom? Where was it written? What were the circumstances of their life at time? And their country or city?

Tales of the Cog Tale 3: The roots beneath us draw up strength from the Cog Featuring Headley Knights As Arkett Klist, Apprentice Chef

Tales of the Cog Tale 3: The roots beneath us draw up strength from the Cog Featuring Beth Crane As Hjinkka Grudjellra, Fishmonger

Episode 3 of Tales of the Cog ⚙️ is releasing on Thursday the 12th of March and features the lovelies from @wefixspacejunk.bsky.social in leading roles.
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Season 4 is finally here!

Episode One of Season Four will be released on our Patreon feed on the 16th March and to our general feed a week later, starting on the 23rd of March! Episodes will go out biweekly, and they'll be a week earlier on our ad-free Patreon feed.

It's GREAT that because I've finally hit a minimum threshold for self-employed earnings I've got to pay next year's taxes too. Just dandy. It's not like my money is tight because I'm self-employed or anything.

Mine is 90% my one friend sharing screenshots of BBC news updates. She is my filter and I am more grateful than she could ever know.

Relistens of Three Men in a Boat are keeping me sane at the moment.

Gonna get ahead of things now and optimistically schedule in "burnout" for March onwards.

I definitely will!

Treating myself to a replay of Control in this trying time.

We Played D&D on a Boat! Adventures Ahoy! Part 1: Tomb of Grief Set sail for something truly special! No Short Rests! is taking Dungeons & Dragons off the table and onto the water with Adventures Ahoy! - an actual play of Tomb of Grief, our level 1 adventure from One Room One Shots, whilst cruising along the River Lee. Back the collection on Kickstarter now! https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/one-room-one-shots/one-room-one-shots Featuring an all-star cast from across the UK’s TTRPG community, discover just how easy it is to run a full adventure right from the book, using our free pre-made characters included with the One Room One Shots collection. See for yourself how much story, strategy and atmosphere can unfold in a single location - and all in just one session. Climb aboard, roll initiative and join us for an adventure like no other! The land has become cursed and all signs point to the tomb of an evil king as the source of this dark taint. The players must find a way to break the curse, and learn the truth behind the King's violent acts inside his desecrated tomb! Starring: Dungeon Master - Jordan Carmichael, @ModifiedRoll @alwaysreadytorollgm Torjor Meanfist - Lou Fryer, @OfDiceAndThemPod @iamloufryer Phyrra Stormborn - Ralph Stickley, @OfDiceAndThemPod Dra'osh Moonblessed - Beth Crane, @battlebirdproductions Myeldretharran Parakas - Wren, @StoryWeaveProductions @MasqueWren Crew: Director - Alex Powell Producer - Matt Potter Executive Producer - Matthew Lloyd Location provided by Gareth Wrigglesworth and Lee Valley Boatyard Music: Seven Seas Composer: Alexander Nakarada Website: https://creatorchords.com/ License: Free To Use YouTube license youtube-free Music powered by BreakingCopyright: https://breakingcopyright.com Shadows and Echoes Composer: Jeremy Soule © 2011 Bethesda Softworks LLC, a ZeniMax Media company. The Elder Scrolls, Skyrim, Bethesda, Bethesda Game Studios, Bethesda Softworks, ZeniMax and related logos are registered trademarks or trademarks of ZeniMax Media Inc. in the U.S. and/or other countries. All Rights Reserved. The Lord Of Frenzied Flame Composer: Shoi Miyazawa Song of Despair Composer: Shoi Miyazawa ELDEN RING™ & ©BANDAI NAMCO Entertainment Inc. / ©2022 FromSoftware, Inc. The Airship Armada Composer: Filip Melvan ©Michael Ghelfi Studios

I had the pleasure to run a game for @noshortrests.bsky.social to help promote their #OneRoomOneShots Kickstarter!

You can now catch me running Tomb of Grief for @iamloufryer.bsky.social, @ralphstickley.bsky.social, @bethkcrane.bsky.social & @masquewren.bsky.social!

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An acrylic paint portrait of an older woman with grey, neck-length hair, seen in 9/10ths profile. She has a slight smile and a friendly demeanor.

The same portrait, earlier version

The same portrait, even earlier

Did a portrait painting session yesterday. Think I've hit my stride with it! I'm really proud of this one.

How Hookland Works … Almost everything online and detailed in the Hookland Writer’s Bible and the Hookland Guide publications is available for your free use. You want to use a picture for an album cover, a C.L. Nolan quote for an epigraph or even borrow a village or town for a story – fill your boots. As long as you give due credit to Hookland and in cases where the Hookland material is not created by me, the original creator, the copyright police will never pursue you. Not even if your story is a huge commercial success or your album sells more copies than you can dream about. There’s no charge. You own whatever you do with Hookland. It is a creative playground, a pre-enchanted landscape for anyone to use. You will only ever come a cropper with the copyright police if you use elements of Hookland and don’t give due credit. Everyone who loves and uses Hookland owns everything in the county canon. By not crediting that fact, you are extracting the urine and disregarding a whole community of people. There are two other things to note: Firstly, none of the above applies if you are creating work promoting racism, vile misogyny or homophobia of any sort. You can whimper about creative censorship, but I come from a long line that stands against the promulgation of hatred. You’ll find nothing but bitter curses and refusal in Hookland. Nastiness and nascent-Nazism has consequences, even in fictional realms. Secondly, Hookland is not for the use in works using AI. When it comes to Hookland, AI as it currently stands usually means Arseholes Involved. It’s a thieving, hollowing and unethical beast of a thing. It has no place in a principled, decent society outside medical and scientific research. It has no place in Hookland and never will. Try to mix AI slop and Hookland and I promise you will be haunted. I will always support and try to help/answer any questions for anyone wanting to use Hookland creatively. It is there to be explored, it is there to be played with.

How Hookland Works – you all own it, fill you boots. Now updated to reflect how AI means Arseholes Involved. #Hookland

To the establishment the tragedy seems to be that a mother lost her child far far more than a trans girl lost her life and everything that’s followed has been about suring up the ownership and control parents have over their children

The biggest “block” writers face is time and money and gatekeeping (by the people who can offer money to give you that time.)

I would welcome a day that I didn’t wake up with fourteen great ideas that I simply don’t have the time or money to do properly. AI directly threatens that. It doesn’t help.

Yeah, I don't think I've watched it in a good twenty years but I made so many k'nex robot babies as a kid.

(I don't think it makes the game bad, just not suitable for me in particular!)

YOUR ENEMIES LAMENT YOUR VERY EXISTENCE. HAVE YOU TAKEN YOUR MEDICATIONS?

Onstage at the Brixton O2 - Coheed and Cambria play in front of a gigantic inflatable skeleton biker (head and shoulders). He's wearing LED goggles, a spiked leather jacket and a spiked, open-faced bike helmet. I'd guess he's about the height of a double decker bus.

There aren't enough giant inflatables at gigs any more.

Just realised the reason I couldn't play Horizon Zero Dawn (I tried!) was that I watched Batteries Not Included about a hundred times as a kid. The majority of non-humanoid robots are friend-shaped to me.

(I also didn't see ET until adulthood)

One day I will have one of these in my actual home, but for now I'm going to have to content myself with telling people that they're incredible and that you should treat yourself.

Falkner writing a pissy letter to the minister going “its been six months and trannies are still legal what gives“ is quite funny tho