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D&D GM TIP: In combat, give inspiration to any player who takes a turn quickly. Suddenly they all discover how to be decisive! If you're badass you can threaten people with disadvantage when they take too long, or automatically defer their turn. Put the fear of god in them, keep up momentum!

Estelle Hargraves on No. 73, Gabby Hutchinson Crouch on Press Gang, Jonny Morris on Crackerjack!, Mic Wright on Around The World With Willy Fog and Garreth Hirons on Trap Door. timworthington.org/2024/10/24/t...

The Ball Is Rolling Up in 2027! The Gunner Channel returns -- A Starstruck Odyssey season 2 coming soon! 🚀🪐💫 #dimension20

Five years later, the pin-up brainworms have returned! 🪱 My 2027 Babes with Blades calendar opens for pre-orders on November 1! Sign up at ginnydi.com/calendar and I'll send you an email when it's available.

OOOOOH Starstruck Odyssey was SO fun! Excited for season 2, and excited for YOU all that if somehow you haven't seen season 1 yet you can now watch all of it whether you have a Dropout membership or not!

Sure, but was this ultimately all that much sillier than Bojo Bongs For Great British Brexit or Virtuous Sir Keir Gets The Good Vibes Flowing, or whatever. Were any of these things notably more or less actively malicious than another one was?

Imagine having a working majority of 167 in the House of Commons and the best you can do is a marginal reduction in the cost of marmalade and gherkins. They're laughing at us.

'AI/LLMs are the perfect tool for the capitalist because it doesn’t matter if it works; it threatens the workforce either way.' That's the heart of the matter isn't it, and the reason the executive class is slavering to adopt AI.

Fucking loved Meltdown Man. As a kid I thought Pole-axe was the coolest motherfucker, and it is only now I am realising his name might be a pun on polar bear...

Solar has overtaken nuclear. A decade ago it supplied 1% of the world's power. In 2025 it met three quarters of global demand growth. Almost nobody saw it coming. I spoke to Jocelyn Timperley at BBC Future about why. www.bbc.co.uk/future/artic...

Art by • Fred Fields

Listening to a report about Google chopping down a quarter of a million trees in Finland to build a data centre while washing out yoghurt pots for the recycling

I still have the outline for this, it was awesome.

Only if the Byzantine schemes of the serpent-folk succeed

Between this and the Serbian result just so happy. All the stupid neofeudalists who bet on some machismo Vibe Shift sweeping away democratic power learning they were wrong, they have not won yet and may never do so. Praise be to God and the people!

That's 100 metres from my house!

The UAE has so much blood on its hands in Sudan. For its nominee to lead the UN would be an outrage | Nesrine Malik

“Wildwood” is an absolute tour-de-force. Best film of the year, for me, just edging out “Rogue Trooper “ ( with whom it shares some vocal talent including @robdelaney.bsky.social ). Wildwood should be seen on the big screen. It is dense with details.

Thus began The Great Fuckoffening ™️

Tonight in 1962, as the Cuban Missile Crisis escalated toward direct confrontation, a sentry on patrol at Duluth Air Force Base in Minnesota thought he saw someone climbing the perimeter fence. He shot at the intruder and activated the base sabotage alarm, which by design automatically triggered ...

I'm hitting new heights of Halloween cheer with my next email newsletter, all about Skull Architecture. Sign up today, get it tomorrow! 70s-sci-fi-art.ghost.io Artists here: Philippe Caza, David A Hardy, and two uncredited covers.

Happy 1st anniversary to the comeback of the Bored Ape Yacht Club as a metaverse !

The perfect band for Eurovision has been staring us in the face for 40 years. Why had nobody asked Half Man Half Biscuit to do it?

A distinctly British approach to A.I. NB - still my favourite panel I’ve ever written.

Fixed it

a fun short story would a protagonist sympathetic alien race with 21st century level tech fighting a losing battle against this horrifying seemingly insectoid enemy that lands & starts pumping out disposable drone soldiers that overwhelm brave defenders. Reveal is that’s how humans do war in 2146

Art by • John Kelly Pevahouse

The prime minister’s new, remote-controlled Jackdaw gasfield will generate less new employment than nine standup comedians going on tour – and is considerably more likely to be hacked This week’s column by Stewart Lee

In *theory*, burning historical structures is bad, objectively, sure. But if you'd told the Allies in 1945 that Hitler's mountain retreat was going to remain intact and become a *popular restaurant* I think they would've used enough high explosive to turn the mountain into a sea-level parking lot.

What?!?!? www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQnQ...

BLACKTHORNE: Tell him while that it may be common to hide behind half-truths and innuendos HERE, seeking TRUTH over convenience will always be the mark of TRUE bravery. Tell him he could stand to do a little more READING! MARIKO: The Anjin prefers subs over dubs.

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“I feel that as long as the Shire lies behind, safe and comfortable, I shall find wandering more bearable: I shall know that somewhere there is a firm foothold, even if my feet cannot stand there again.” More later, but my love for LOTR directly led to a Middle Earth invitation & I’m emotional.