I didn't get much sleep last night for some reason so today I shall sit and grumble like the old man I am.

You asked for it so...

A little more severe looking than my usual evil technocrat look.

Got the same effect from my new specs.

Classic Iain McCaig illustration for Games Workshop, showing a fantasy barbarian gaming with a spaceman.

Hope everyone has a great Virtual #Grogmeet this weekend!

Oh God, yeah. Happy Virtual #Grogmeet to those who are celebrating this weekend.

Andy Kershaw: Former Radio 1 DJ and Live Aid presenter dies aged 66 The broadcaster was known for his eclectic taste and for helping champion world music on BBC Radio 1.

Aww! Sad news. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

This is a dance off. If you see this repost a dance, or you are eliminated.

I'm not a confident mover.

I've pulled a muscle in my right arm somehow so I'm sore and grumpy.

Fucking hell!;

Welfare helps people participate in society. It also moves money around the economy, keeping it healthy. They call it a “cost”.

AI cuts jobs, makes useless un-copyrightable content, raises the energy bills of anyone living near them, and makes no money. They call it an “investment”.

🙃

What I did while Bluesky was down:

What’s your favourite Bible verse? (Wrong answers only)

"How much wood could a woodchuck chuck
If a woodchuck could chuck wood?
As much wood as a woodchuck could chuck,
If a woodchuck could chuck wood."

A verse that brings me so much solace in the dark times.

Why are you showing me dirty pictures?

The problem nowadays is that CEOs don't want to work. They just want money for laying people off and blathering about AI, not for producing any positive or concrete improvement to the business. They expect hundreds of millions for thousands of job loses and it's weak sauce, snowflake behaviour.

Downdetector is saying there are problems with Bluesky at the moment.

NUMBER CRUNCHING **£7.4m** Fine Ben Delo agreed to pay in 2022 after pleading guilty in the US to anti-money-laundering failures at BitMEX, the crypto exchange he founded **£4m** Donation Delo, since pardoned by Donald Trump, has made to Reform UK

I hear neither Reform nor donor Delo want this news getting round. Via Private Eye

Canada water library. A brutaliist building that looks like an upside down wedge made out of concrete. But attractive.

They've got one of those where I used to live and we have one where I live now

To self: "Don't look it up. Don't look it up. Don't look it up."

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Wow! Missed that there was anything wrong. Give her my best.

Somewhere in the afterlife Nigel Neale is smiling.

Share a gif from a sci-fi film that you love.

You say that like it'll make a difference to him.

Trump deletes post depicting him as Jesus-like figure after backlash Christian allies of the president call the AI-generated image offensive as Trump says he thought it showed him as a doctor.

It won't be long before he and his cultists start denying he ever posted it.

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

Japanese sci-fi: two robots in space, yearning

American sci-fi: man gets the author's beliefs on polygamy confirmed by the aliens of ramalama IV

french sci-fi: two horny bounty hunters visit the Galaxy of Breasts

British sci-fi: nuclear war. Everyone dead. America's fault

I can't see the eyes on minis so I don't bother painting them.

Sad news.

Owwww!

Bonkers good! Yeah, there's a bit of a break right now because two of the players have to concentrate on real life for a bit, but we will be going back to finish it.

We're doing the Secrets Of The Ancients campaign and that is really fulfilling my need for something that's a bit more SF than Alistair MacLean style adventures. #ILikeABitOfSFInMySF