First day on Crete today, and a walk along the dramatic Agia Irini Gorge

Advert for kitchen staff at a local soft play centre. It’s horrible AI, and says “Banter all round, good sense of humour, cry laughing emoji” WE DON'T TAKE LIFE TOO SERIOUSLY... IT'S BANTS ALL ROUND! BUT WE STILL GET THE JOB DONE! CAN YOU HANDLE THE HEAT & THE JOKES? They also say they are having trouble with interview no-shows. Perhaps people are applying for the bants.

Found this cursed job advert

I knew I could count on you 🥂

I would rather vigorously sandpaper my misters than work for a company who thought "bants" was a selling point

I'm due to give a big presentation next Thursday so Wednesday would be great, explosions wise

The morning #bee 🐝
The news is terrible so it’s time to deploy the dangle leggies. A sustained campaign of dangle leggies and some horse blinkers 👀

“The Editor Is Present” — Otto Penzler will be signing any of the 80+ anthologies he has edited (that we have in stock) this Saturday for Indie Bookstore Day from 2-3 PM! Spend $100 and get a super limited edition Mysterious Bookshop pin!! See you then!!!

Just another video from the clog-cam:

You've misspelled "in latest massive racism" there

Your ideas are intriguing to me and I wish to subscribe to your newsletter

Enjoy!

It was a lovely California trip. We saw bears!

"Stupid sexy jerky"

Straight out of the seasoning oven, into the car and back home to go into our own oven. This is the new 12” version of our square roasting and baking tray. Let’s face it, if you are going to the trouble of creating “content”, it may as well be edible.

Ecotone by Nightwell Games Build your own tide pool in this relaxing deckbuilder

It's Earth Day. Would you like to explore some peaceful tide pools?

nightwellgames.itch.io/ecotone

And with that, DUNGEON GALS has been officially released!

Play as gaming's cutest throuple as you work together to save a floating island from certain doom!

Explore vast areas, solve cryptic puzzles, fight huge bosses, get rich, take hormones, and SMOOCH!

store.steampowered.com/app/2864880/...

In-person seminar by my old colleague and top bloke, Dr Carl Savage. This will be a fascinating talk if you're in the Perth, Scotland area on the 20th May.

Hello! I still badly need work in narrative design or game writing etc. I’ve been in games for 20 years and I’m responsible for the mobile smash hit Lily’s Garden. I will take on full-time or contract work but I really need to pick something up soon. Please get in touch if you have/know of something

Oh neat, really? My brain works, so I find don't need to ask the computer to think for me when it comes to basic life tasks like "eating food".

Happy #EarthDay

(photos from Sequoia national park, Sept 2019. Sadly I'm not stood there right now)

Record-breaking year for Skomer Puffins as population tops 50,000 It has been another record breaking year for the Skomer Island Puffins, with 52,019 recorded in the 2026 count, beating the previous record of 43,626 set in 2025. Skomer Island, located of the coast o...

It has been another record breaking year for the Skomer Island Puffins, with 52,019 recorded in the 2026 count, beating the previous record of 43,626 set in 2025

Yikes

If they're varifocals then approximately £817,349

A photo of a tropical rainforest in Borneo at dawn, with mountains in the background. The sky is dappled with clouds, the valleys are lined with mist/fog, and the foreground vegetation is barely lit out of silhouette.

A sunrise photo of a tropical rainforest in the Peruvian Amazon. The forest is still mostly dark and covers the bottom two-thirds of the frame. The sky is pale orange, and one cloud peeking over the tree canopy is outlined in brilliant orange from the sun behind it.

A landscape photo of Carrizo Plain National Monument in California, in a "super bloom" year. The landscape is covered in carpets of wildflowers in purple, orange, and yellow. The slopes of the distant mountains are also covered in large swaths of yellow flowers. The sliver of sky above is clear blue.

A photo of a river and pine covered hills in Montana, on a post-snowstorm morning. There is snow covering the ground and dusting all the trees. In the center of the frame, across the river, there is a grove of aspen trees with yellow fall color, and they are reflected in the river. There is a patch of blue sky above with clearing storm clouds.

Happy #EarthDay. Here's some Earth. There's a lot more, if you go look.

📷🌿🌎

Fuck. Me

More TITE goodies! Movies on USB drives! The People’s Joker! Valencia! Heightened Scrutiny!

Still logging, forever logging!
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In honor of Earth Day: a thread of environmental wins

Wooden A-Board with Shop written and an arrow pointing left. A very cute puppy is next to the sign.

Close up of dog Bramble. DogsofBluesky

Bramble wants you to visit our shop.

Some tips on getting solar panels installed Get the funding in place. If upfront cash is an issue, check out the alternatives I’ve covered previously. Do some research. The SolarUK subreddit is excellent, as well as people like Gary Does Solar on YouTube. Search local solar installers near you. Make sure they are MCS registered (they will say so if they are and will be on the MCS database) Make a note of your energy usage over the year (in kwh). This will help with getting the right battery size. The advice is often to ‘max out’ the number of panels you can fit. Since labour and scaffolding is a big part of the cost, additional panels often add little to the overall cost. Get an in-person quote from a well-reviewed firm. They will tell you how many panels you can fit on your roof (there are also tools online where to help you approximate this) Go to 2-3 other well-reviewed firms to get more quotes Haggle, if you are so inclined Pick one. Book it in. Get on the right tariff in advance – one which offers cheap overnight rates. This will let you charge your battery cheaply for the next day’s usage, whether it’s sunny or not. Several offer nighttime rates of around 7p per kwh. Pick somewhere for the battery and inverter to go, either in a large cupboard or outside (keeping them in lofts is strongly discouraged now) Sort out energy exporting – as soon as you have a G99 export certificate your installer has (hopefully) got hold of, plus the MCS certificate, you can sign up for an export tariff, e.g. EDF, Octopus, Good Energy, Eon. For renters: start exploring plug-in solar. It’s coming soon (and is already possible with sign off from an electrician). Failing that, pester your landlord. It will boost their EPC and make your home a far nicer place to live.

I've written up some tips on installing solar panels in the UK if you're lucky enough to own your own home (and roof).

These are just tips that worked for me - I'm sure others will have more.

If it helps anyone at all I'll be delighted.

"Absolute heartless bastards" made me laugh in a very indecorous manner