frymaster (Phil)

Now Bluesky has pinned posts I guess I should re-create this. Proud to be the operator of the first webserver on the internet to send "GNU Terry Pratchett" in the overhead. Instructions for doing so are at www.reddit.com/r/discworld/...

- I think I just saw a ghostly horse spirit rising from amongst the seaweed - Kelpie? - Covered in the stuff, aye

Doing A Culture

If someone dropped DeNiro's team in Ronin (1998) into a place where buildings grow and your neighbours are other species, and made them fight over a delightfully grouchy old man instead of a shiny suitcase, it might read like WICKHILLS. (Apologies for the Ronin spoilers)

It all started on this day. Thank you for a wonderful twenty years.

@alice.averlong.com obligatory mention

I’ve worn a grubby RNLI cap for decades. I sound London, but I was born in Truro and I was a basically feral (Gen X) kid wandering the coast path with a dog until sunset for a lot of my early life. The lifeboats are in the fabric like trawlers and farms and pasties and fish and chips.

“People who weren't certain they were right argued much louder than other people, as if the main person they were trying to convince were themselves.” @BillBailey and @MaisieAdam narrate Truckers, Diggers & Wings in new audiobooks coming 12th November: linktr.ee/Bromeliad

Last day for it! :D Do we have any Magnus Archives fans in the audience tonight? *holds out mic* *waits for someone to yell "Wooooo!" from the back*

If six more people play this, my first ever game will have had *ten thousand* browser plays in less than a year. That feels pretty good for a purely text-based thing made by a man who has never touched the software before. If you haven't, please do give it a try. brainmage.itch.io/i-will-stran...

102 plays away from 10k plays! Good god! It's my first ever game! Please do share/tell people/give it a try <3

Inside Of Light Fixture Everything Moth Dreamed And More https://theonion.com/inside-of-light-fixture-everything-moth-dreamed-and-more/

Our friends in Glasgow have this anthology due out very soon. Read all about it here, and go buy it in October!

FRINGE GOERS! I decided to record my show this Thursday despite it being the day with incredibly low sales so if you DID want to come, Thursday would be a great day!

Absolutely amazing story in today's Ask a Manager. www.askamanager.org/2026/08/the-...

Because I am TERRIBLE at timing, I'm selling my boxed #Transformers Predaking mere DAYS after everyone is all knackered from #TFN! Boxed, complete (haven't even applied stickers!). Selling Due To Broke. Also, enjoy the description. I am once again Back On My Bullshit www.ebay.co.uk/itm/11734011...

Omg. i will strangle a horse has been played over 9000 times! If you've not played it yet, do give it a go! It's free, funny, and can be played on your phone! Reaching 10,000 plays would be absolutely lovely <3 Comedy! 13.5k words! Real silly ways to die! brainmage.itch.io/i-will-stran...

Ratatouille is a film about the difficulties of being a head chef

i will strangle a horse has had 9,345 browser plays. That is AMAZING! If every person who played it had bought it for a quid it would have changed my life! I mean, I didn't expect people to - I set it as free to play with the option to pay - but man! Imagine! brainmage.itch.io/i-will-stran...

Guys guys guys I just found out @scottishbooktrust.bsky.social has a shop and if you buy things from it, it helps fund their amazing work. And they have those wee room thingies you can put on your bookshelf. I have no bookshelf space and yet I am tempted! shop.scottishbooktrust.com/collections/...

The subscription drive (to increase staff and contributor pay) is running until the anniversary of the magazine. We're about halfway to the goal. Thank you to everyone that has subscribed so far! clarkesworldmagazine.com/subscribe/

Went to the museum but there was just a big scroll of explosions. It was the Michael Bayeux Tapestry. Goodnight.

Repost this if you need me to come and stand over your shoulder staring until you do the thing you are meant to be doing.

I turned 40 this year. For my birthday, my spouse got me tickets to the famous 24hr endurance race in France. It's not something I'm interested in, but I want to make the best of it. You know what they say - if wife gives you Le Ma-

I saw this at @cymerafestival.co.uk and instantly thought of @premeemohamed.com and @tkingfisher.com By @pondi.bsky.social

Shoreline of Infinity and SF Caledonia are ready and waiting for you in the Creatives Hall @cymerafestival.co.uk New issue Available now!

"what was your biggest impact on the internet" Suggesting (and providing the config for) putting "GNU Terry Pratchett" in web server headers www.reddit.com/r/discworld/... www.theguardian.com/books/shortc...

It is the glorious 25th of May. How do they rise up?

The University of Edinburgh's Meiko T800 Computing Surface system was a forerunner of the services provided by EPCC today. As this articles describes, the first entry in the Meiko logbook was made 40 years ago this month. edin.ac/4upW7Gw

Got a notification from a medieval copyright lawyer

Our Charity stream begins NOW! 🔴 Streaming for 5 hours 💰 Fundraising for Hope For The Day 🎡 Donate to spin the Wheel of Chaos 🌟 Earn HoF stickers & limited merch @loadscreen.bsky.social #HFTD #Ad

**SATURDAY STREAM BIG NEWS** Join me on Saturday evening for a mega important night! PoshSharks long awaited VTUBER DEBUT STREAM THALASSAPHOBIC PLAYS SUBNAUTICA 2! Co-stream news! Time tbc but will be aiming for earlier than usual. 10 reposts + 50 likes to reveal model before stream! #Vtuber

It feels great to type that it's now less than a month until the Cymera Festival... See follow-up post for just a few of the writers from the ESFF community who have events. The full Cymera programme can be found here: www.cymerafestival.co.uk/programme-26 @cymerafestival.co.uk #Cymera2026

TV: And if you follow the cold front through the weekend, you'll see we have a 30% chance of upset. Me: ...What's upset? The Egyptian God Set: NOT MUCH DAWG, WHATS UP WITH YOU

Another moth eclosed, so we took graduation pictures

Bitwarden command line integration compromised -- this DOES NOT affect individual users, but if you've hooked Bitwarden up to anything via the CLI tool, read this blog post

Apparently people are saying authors talk about their books too much? Do you think we have anything *else* going on in our heads most of the time? Anyways, I have a new one out just a week or so ago, check it out!

The Muppet Christmas Carol is the most faithful adaptation of Dickens' original work send skeet

Ahahaha haahhahaha ahahah OH MY GIDDY AUNT 'i will strangle a horse' is *multiple award-nominated* at Yet Another Game Awards. Please do sling me a vote or two - winning an award for my very first game would knock my actual socks off. yetanothergameawards.com

Promotion feels so uncomfortable right now because...the world...but there's bills to pay so.... There's still pottery in my shop. You, too, could eat your breakfast cereal while a frog stares up at you over the edge of your bowl! www.sarahdungan.com/shop/peaking...

YAY I CAN FINALLY SAY IT ahahahaha I namedropped @alasdairstuart.com in the announcement too like "IT WAS ESPECIALLY HARD NOT TO TELL ALASDAIR OH MY GOD"

Early Bird Weekend Passes are now on sale for Cymera Festival 2026! Grab your pass and find out more about 2026 ticket offers on our website: www.cymerafestival.co.uk/weekend-pass

Ahh, the one day of the year i can drive around with my "how's my shriving?" bumper sticker

I'm pretty good at operating tiny buttons in response to predetermined environmental stimuli, in case any scientists out there are looking to hand out small cheese rewards for that

The recording of my "How to Make Package Managers Scream" talk at FOSDEM'26 is now available, enjoy! youtu.be/PBlDHlFnzGo

(Reminder that I wrote, and EP recorded (!) a 'Great British Bake-Off But Science' story with an adorable underdog weird physics heroine a while back LOL) escapepod.org/2021/07/22/e...