"What did you do this afternoon, Tam?"

Oh, just wrote and recorded an instrumental Metal track for a fictional band.

🤘😎

#Nerdlings

Nightwing by Tom Taylor and Bruno Redondo has two bangers

87 is a single continuous image.
105 is entirely first person POV

Describe your wargaming energy in 3 words?!

“Fails to achieve objectives.”

Meta AI screen from WhatsApp

Creeping into everything like black mould. Meta AI now in WhatsApp

So: all 25 of my novels, 30+ short stories, a bunch of reviews (?), essays and academic articles & books. More than 70 items all told. Bloody hell.

The Battle of Alexander at Issus - Wikipedia

It’s a section of The Battle of Alexander at Issus by Albrecht Altdorfer. I’m almost certain John Blanche has talked about it being an inspiration.

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bat...

Converted vehicle in Warhammer World

It’s in White Dwarf 510; already out for subscribers. Some articles seem to be split over two months now.

Converted vehicles on display in Warhammer World

Converted vehicles on display in Warhammer World

Not the best photography, but Warhammer World had the cars in the Exhibition in Feb. Might still be there.

I remember watching this when it was a kids cartoon…

No one told me that the German editions of the Dark Future books have some of the most bodacious covers ever made!

Wyrd Science - Store the magazine for people who should roll better...

Could this be the weekend that you start a new life of adventure as a magazine reader?

Reject pixels, embrace paper and, maybe, discover your new favourite tabletop game

shop.wyrd.science

The story of the fake bomb detectors The sentencing of a British couple for making fake bomb detectors marks the end of a series of trials after a global scam which saw the devices end up in conflict zones and used by governments around ...

Not only in movies, but still bleakly comedic.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-2945...

www.flophousepodcast.com/2019/04/epis...

Should you need to relive the watching experience.

*282 episodes in and with Castle Freak already being a bit on the show may not be the ideal place to start with a bad movie podcast.

OF THE EMPIRE We will be known as a culture that feared death and adored power, that tried to vanquish insecurity for the few and cared little for the penury of the many. We will be known as a culture that taught and rewarded the amassing of things, that spoke little if at all about the quality of life for people (other people), for dogs, for rivers. All the world, in our eyes, they will say, was a commodity. And they will say that this structure was held together politically, which it was, and they will say also that our politics was no more than an apparatus to accommodate the feelings of the heart, and that the heart, in those days, was small, and hard, and full of meanness.

From a poetry collection by Mary Oliver, where after a hundred poems showcasing gentle observations on nature and animals, she hits you with this

Farmers and the Treasury: a new dialogue of the deaf Across the country, the storm continues over whether the government’s inheritance tax will reshape the farming landscape forever

Farming isn’t just business – it’s heritage, food security, and survival. So why is the government treating farmers like just another tax target? J.J. Jackson reports 🚜

eastangliabylines.co.uk/farming/farm...

Microplastics hinder plant photosynthesis, study finds, threatening millions with starvation Researchers say problem could increase number of people at risk of starvation by 400m in next two decades The pollution of the planet by microplastics is significantly cutting food supplies by damaging the ability of plants to photosynthesise, according…

Microplastics hinder plant photosynthesis, study finds, threatening millions with starvation

Ack! I am remiss in failing to mention @sadiehartmann.bsky.social and @raforall.bsky.social who are both female horror writers (non-fiction) and cornerstones of the genre.

Want to read a book but can’t afford to buy it?

❌ don’t pirate/steal it

✅ join your local library and borrow the book for FREE.

If the library doesn’t have the book you want, ask if they can buy it.

You get to read.
Authors get paid.
Libraries stay open.

✨ Triple win ✨

#BookSky #Library

A mobile web page advertising Ecosia Chat / AI

Poorly

Artemisia Gentileschi, "Judith Beheading Holofernes" circa 1620, Uffizi Gallery.

On this International Women's Day, may all your fondest dreams and cleverest plans be realized.

DuckDuckGo just gave me an “AI” assisted search results summary for the first time, so into the bin with that. Over to Ecosia I guess?

Cover of The Folly of the World by Jesse Bullington

Description of The Folly of the World

For World Book Day a perennial recommendation from me; The Folly of the World by Jesse Bullington.

The Metal Show – The Embrace of Fire Nina Saeidi and Shem Lucas from the UK band Lowen join the show to discuss their new album and recommend some horror films.

First gig of the year tonight, out seeing Lowen and Zakk Sabbath. #metal

bandcamp.com?show=788

Year Of The Cobra, by Year of the Cobra 8 track album

Start the week with some metal.
Year of the Cobra’s self titled third album wrings every bit of heaviness from the duo’s bass and drums to produce some excellent doom metal.
#metalmonday #doommetal
yearofthecobra.bandcamp.com/album/year-o...

Hey! Don't forget *NOT* to use the iOS Patreon app to buy things or subscribe to memberships because the app store now has a 30% fee which either the creator is covering themselves or is increasing the price on whatever you're buying (patreon emailed me today to tell me I could choose which)

A Chaos Space Marine Possessed model undercoated with Leadbelcher on a Citadel Painting Handle standing in front of a box of other Chaos Space Marines and Chaos Cultists

A tester model for the Word Bearers colour scheme

This month I’ll mostly be painting Word Bearers #marchonmacragge

And one Ultramarine

Painting desk set up with models in front, and an iPad playing WarhammerTV behind.

Black Library Book Club to watch and Word Bearers to paint

Newspaper stand with newspapers all carrying the front page Campaign 'make it fAIr'

Every major UK newspaper - left, right, broadsheet, tabloid - is running a front page campaign against copyright carveouts for AI training.

I can't remember the last time any political cause had such broad support, let alone one so anti-big tech and so economically consequential.

Last day!

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