How Vladimir Putin’s propaganda works Russia has been driven mad. Could other countries suffer the same fate?

I wonder if @anthropic.com's Claude Mythos could suggest ways to defend human minds from the kind of exploit being used here.

www.economist.com/culture/2026...

Before #AI art, most indie creators of #gamebooks & #ttrpgs had to use public domain illustrations or else their own drawings. Tiny, self-funded projects don't have the money to hire any of these pro artists who are supposedly being put out of work by AI.

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"Horse riding must be great for creative work," people say. "Like staring through a train window."
Not if you’re riding a prey animal who hears every rustle. Here I’m reflecting on Planet Val, the physics of bell towers, and the mindsets for writing memoir and fiction. mailchi.mp/0d2fab1da872...

Main Character Energy: How Desire Makes Memorable Memoir By Jessica Handler Photo by Royce Soble “We all like ourselves pretty well,” I say when I’m leading a writing workshop (hoping that everyone in the workshop does indeed like themselves pretty well)…

This post is good for both memoir and fiction: how to understand your main character. @JessicaHandler at @dintywmoore.bsky.social brevity.wordpress.com/2026/04/09/m... #writingcommunity #writingtips #authorlife #memoir

"Abnormal Growth" (a Cthulhu Mythos investigative scenario) Almost exactly 89 years ago, on March 15, H P Lovecraft died. That's my pretext for posting this scenario, which ties in with the rules for...

For investigators who don't want to use the #DragonWarriors rules, I've included #CallofCthulhu stats for this Depression-era #Cthulhu adventure.

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Fellow travellers in the Vulcanverse As you explore the Vulcanverse you can acquire various companions to accompany you on your quests. The companion you travel with can make a ...

A traveller's guide to the #Vulcanverse, one companion at a time.

fabledlands.blogspot.com/2026/04/fell...

Farewell to Genial Gene The first new comic I bought had a classic Gene Colan cover: a dramatic up angle with just enough architectural detail to establish a sense ...

What Gene Colan had that other comics artists lacked: they’d dress a scene wonderfully, like a movie set, but Colan clothed it in reality.

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Last Dance in Shoreditch - Chaosium | Miskatonic Repository | DriveThruRPG A night out. A missing friend. A city that won’t look the same by morning.Last Dance in Shoreditch is a modern-day Call of Cthulhu scenario set in London’s after-hours underworld, where investigators ...

My first title is now live on DriveThruRPG!

Last Dance in Shoreditch is a modern-day Call of Cthulhu scenario set in London, where a missing friend, the city’s nightlife, and something far worse collide after dark. Very excited to finally put this out there.

www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/5...

Giant honeybees (Apis dorsata) synchronize thousands of abdomens in a wave to repel hornets from their nest

I forgot to include the link to the German review! Here it is maricopa1.wordpress.com/2026/03/30/m...

PowerWash Simulator: How a UK cleaning game became a huge hit It's been nominated for two Bafta Games Awards - but why have mundane job games like PowerWash Simulator 2 become so popular?

Humans are going to enjoy the jobs they can hold onto in the era of AI.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Things Man Was Not Meant To Know After the unveiling of the Dagon Warriors rules and the recent investigative scenario , Teófilo Hurtado asked me how we would represent char...

The Scholar -- a new profession for the #Cthulhu variant of #DragonWarriors #TTRPG.

fabledlands.blogspot.com/2026/04/thin...

By weird coincidence, I had just typed a TTRPG tag and was pondering that point -- and lo! the universe (via you) provided the answer :)

London's Mysterious Hellraiser Bus Stop Monument For years, someone has been leaving increasingly elaborate Hellraiser-themed installations on top of a bus stop on the Old Kent Road in London.

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NBC: Under intl law, hitting civilian infrastructure is prohibited. Why is POTUS threatening war crimes?

LEAVITT: POTUS has made it quite clear to the Iranian regime their best move is to make a deal or else

N: Which objectives would destroying a desalination plant help?

LEAVITT: Haley, go ahead

Victor Frankenstein crée la vie – avec votre aide.
#ldvelh (Mais... le héros? Peut-être pas.)

dogsandmunsters.github.io/Moi-Frankens...

Planning map for the gamebook DOWN AMONG THE DEAD MEN.

Recently came across the very first planning map I drew 34 years ago for the Virtual Reality #gamebook series (now Critical IF). Nothing's forgotten.
fabledlands.blogspot.com/2026/03/x-ma...

The Beauty Of David Lean YouTube video by The Beauty Of

The Beauty of David Lean (all DoP: Ernest Day, Freddie Young, Jack Hildyard, Guy Green, Robert Krasker & Ronald Neame)

David Lean’s ‘Nostromo’: The Old Man and the Untold Tale of the Seaboard • Cinephilia & Beyond By Tim Pelan David Lean, two-time Oscar-winning director of Lawrence Of Arabia and The Bridge On the River Kwai, had something of a renaissance in the 1980s after a spell in the wilderness (see the th...

Dive into David Lean’s unrealized epic Nostromo, a haunting final chapter in the master director’s legacy.

Archival insights, storyboards, screenplay, TCM-produced documentary, and more.

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FWIW absolutely no one I know who has expertise in spaceflight or planetary exploration thinks this is either remotely plausible or a good idea to attempt on such a timeline. The dominant reaction is somewhere on the spectrum between mockery and dismay. Real, important science was cancelled for this

Fairy servants | Dave Morris Get more from Dave Morris on Patreon

New Jewelspider post on faerie servants. This one is free to view, as long as you ask the fays properly.

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A digital image showing the cover to the Cold City Hot War Digital Pack, which features several layers of imagery - maps, reel to reel tape machines, a weird sphere made of spikes...

A digital image showing the Cold City Starting Situation pages from the Cold City Hot War Digital Pack

A digital image showing the Hot War Starting Situation pages from the Cold City Hot War Digital Pack

A digital image showing the cover of The Bunker Game

Cold City Hot War backers check your email - there's a new campaign update live AND you should have a coupon for the Cold City Hot War Digital Pack, containing The Bunker Game and a load of new Starting Situations. We'll be adding more to this Digital Pack as we go! #coldcity

From Page to Screen: Exploring Digital Gamebooks - Dave Morris and Pawel Dziemski YouTube video by Paweł Dziemski

#Gamebook readers prefer physical books to ebooks by a ration of around 9:1. So we wondered why that is.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=7pKA...

Kinks guitarist Dave Davies hits back at Moby for calling 1970 single Lola ‘gross and transphobic’ The band’s co-founder responded to the US musician’s comments, defending the song and saying they are ‘not transphobic’

Oh, Moby. Disappointed in you, lad. That's just Kink-shaming.

www.theguardian.com/music/2026/m...

True -- although Trump's gang don't need any help from AI to murder people.

First paragraphs of Barnaby Rudge, by Charles Dickens.

Textual analysis suggests Dickens may have written Barnaby Rudge with the help of the Analytic Engine.

Sad to see the Ides of March becoming commercialised like this. I really feel like we're losing track of the true spirit of the holiday. It's not about how many knives you can stick in a tyrant all at once, it's about the whole community coming together to stab the tyrant as many times as possible.

Flowchart of the gamebook Down Among The Dead Men.

Here's the flowchart for Down Among The Dead Men. Not the original (it was 35 years ago, I hand-wrote it on A3 sheets of paper) but a reconstruction whipped up by Claude Code so that we humans could focus on the fun task of converting the book into an app.
#gamebook
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No -- but I shall go looking for it!

I feel like a lemming that's just caught sight of the cliff edge.