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I write novels & games. Johannes Cabal, Carter & Lovecraft, THE SHADOW ON THE GLASS for "Call of Cthulhu," Russalka, Kyth the Taker, Goon Squad, co-wrote BROKEN SWORD I-III, principal writer on ATOMFALL. All my fault. Sorry. UK. Portrait: Small Robot
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“Just been kicked out of Hawksmoor for no reason.”

He's only a paedophile if he comes from the sovereign state of Paedophilia, otherwise he's just a sparkling nonce.

The raids aren't sustainable *in their current form.* The goal is to escalate to a form in which they can maintain crowd control with minimum numbers. We're looking at a future with ICE/affiliates using live fire.

White flight ☠️😂

ONE WEEK UNTIL NO KINGS DAY! At this time next Saturday, we will be taking to the streets across the country. While Trump wastes millions on a birthday parade in DC, we’re showing up everywhere else to say NO KINGS. There are nearly 2,000 events planned. Join us: www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=i...

A genius like Musk wouldn't post something carrying the obvious subtext of "I covered up for a paedophile until he hurt my fee-fees," thereby incriminating himself as an accessory, so it's obviously a brilliant 27 dimensional chess move that we're all too mundane to comprehend. Yeah, that'll be it.

This starts as a review of Nintendo Welcome Tour and then quickly becomes a kind of treatise on effort and craft and commitment and seriousness and play. It's a delight. www.eurogamer.net/nintendo-swi...

Y'know, I could swear I'd seen that troubled tyrannosaurus somewhere before. Wondering if it's the same one that was in Belle Vue in Manchester for a while in the '70s.

Been thinking about the Right's weird attempts to redefine empathy as a bad thing. Here it's "suicidal empathy," and there's the Christian Right's "untethered empathy" i.e. empathy for unapproved demographics is evil. These are the same people who claim charity begins at home, and then give nothing.

another hidden/externalized cost and form of theft in AI is the bots for Meta etc are blowing up site hosting charges of pages they're looting for information to take credit for. profits go to meta and others, made possible by costs spread to all the operators of sites they're crawling to steal from

"Don't murder Greta Thunberg and half a dozen other people in cold blood with US made weapons" gets a whopping 11 signatures in the House

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Whoever was responsible for designing the Historic Scotland information board at Wideford Hill Cairn deserves a medal for it.

I was really uncomfortable with this as well. And not just because the math doesn’t math. One dev plus nine friends working with him is 10 people… not one. Expedition 33 is a triumph, but it wasn’t made by 30 people. Contractors provided vital labor. This is a dangerous path we’re walking.

An entertaining Substack that does what it says on the tin, by @jonnelledge.bsky.social.

FAO @premeemohamed.com

It's a small irony that it was likely the best of the statues in Bristol centre, but I wasn't sorry when it ended up in the harbour. That said, it's not as if it's not still on display, just now in a rather more historical context.

Guy going on stage in 1933 wearing a bowler hat bearing the slogan "Ein Volk, ein Reich, ein Resource Management Board Game" to a chorus of boos: WHAT? It's not political.

Maesteg, Wales - 'Yma/Here' (42) An ambiguous and extensive examination of the urban topography of South Wales and the West of England from 2016 to 2018. If you'd like a copy of 'Yma/Here' there are 3 copies currently in stock here (£17.99 delivered UK) - www.workersgallery.co.uk/product-page...

hey remember in the distant past of 2008 when comics weren't political

Wandering Droid.

Yes a lot of crazy things happened today but don't let all that bury the awesomeness that is the Talking Heads releasing a new music video for Psycho Killer, starring Saoirse Ronan and directed by Mike Mills. It's pretty fantastic. https://youtu.be/CJ54eImz88w

Even by Trump's risibly low standards of credibility, this is a corker. He is thinking of Musk in his every waking second.

I can't believe any Democrat would THINK of allying with Elon Musk. I won't take money from the guy who does a Hitler salute. It's really that simple.

I know I've shared this before, but it is so absurdly enjoyable that I'm sharing it again. "Shimi" by Maximum the Hormone featuring Atarashii Gakko No Leaders: youtu.be/teRgh01Xb1U?...

‘Artisan’. These disgusting fucking vampires

Exciting news from the splendidly named Wendelstein 7-X stellarator in Germany, a fusion test rig, which managed a run of six minutes, generating 1.8 gigajoules in the process. It's all still a long way from providing the key to steady clean, cheap energy, but it's a whole bunch closer than it was.

lmfao here come the 6D-Chess Guys

No, no, he's right. I certainly can't handle two high agency males going at it. That time I clicked the wrong tab on Pornhub demonstrated that.

Wait... is this the best meme ever made?

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MERZ: Tomorrow is the D Day anniversary, when the Americans ended a war in Europe TRUMP: That was not a pleasant day for you? This is not a great day MERZ: This was the liberation of my country from Nazi dictatorship

Couple of years ago I tried to get a project for an illustrated version of one of my short stories off the ground via Unbound. It proved frustratingly difficult to get anything approaching a straight answer out of them and the project foundered to my great irritation. Seems we dodged a bullet there.

today's delight from the archive: a list of 16th century yorkshire cows' names, compiled by JS Purvis. these are some of my favourites.