Ryan Vamps

I was pro UBI before 2026 but hoO boy has this year in particular not helped change my mind.

I'm participating in the Oct 28th I'm Not Buying It Protests, not because groceries are too expensive, but because someone thought it would be a good idea to, at the outset of the rainy season, completely tear down and rebuild the one (1) supermarket in easy walking distance of my flat.

Oh, supermarket groceries are too expensive, are they? Tell that to the all the cornershops within spitting distance of me whose prices suddenly and mysteriously jumped the second the the one place that sold frozen pizzas fell on its arse and won't be back on its feet until March.

Thinking on stockpiling… I can’t imagine a scenario where I’m looking in the fridge or cupboard for ingredients to make dinner with and even though there’s pasta and tuna in there, I’m gonna say to myself, no, that’s the stockpile, I must go and buy more. My friend, it’s tuna pasta for dinner.

The cloud of carbon monoxide that hangs over Ibrox during match days from gridlock and idling coaches probably goes some way to explaining why Rangers fans are the way they are.

Not sure why they named the film after a completely different game, but I loved the adaptation

Also: Personal stockpiles are targets for targeted violence. The government has access to security forces that regular people do not. The advice to build personal stockpiles is therefore a dereliction of duty in the part of the government to protect its people.

Today, while redesigning my website to draw in more editing and design work, I've discovered I can talk til the cows come home about what I've *done*, and it's actually quite a lot, but ask me to describe what I *do* and I crumple under the heaviest cringe imaginable.

Tidying junk that's accumulated in my abandoned Squarespace site, came across a story coda I bashed together a few years ago while I was, presumably, losing the plot. Might be useful if you're bored of being jumpscared by The Hero's Journey forever popping up in everything you write.

Pretend I didn't include the word "gestalt" at the top, like I have any fucking clue what that means.

Yes yes, the reported 80bn net loss of Anthropic is actually good for Anthropic because shares business convertible notes WHATEVER, but have you considered I *want* to point and laugh at these dweebs?

You know the drill, if I see nuclear semiotics on my timeline, I have to plug An Honourable Place, my storytelling game about apocalypses, cults, myths and symbols across deep time. ryanvance.itch.io/an-honourabl...

Never mind playing music on your phone on the bus, what is Burnham doing to stop this one maniac on the back seat of the 90 from cutting his nails?

Vagueposting is insufferable, I know, but the year I've had professionally, if I don't nurture optimism, it isn't going to find me, so, suffice to say, absolutely wild shenanigans afoot chez Vance, and any good vibes you can send, I will appreciate them.

It is difficult to understate the harm I wish to befall whoever put on my gym’s playlist the longest, loudest remix of Eric Prydz’s Call on Me. It goes like this: CALL ON MEEEEEEE CALL ON ME CALL ON MEEEEEEE CALL ON ME CALL ON MEEEEEEE CALL ON ME CALL ON MEEEEEEE CALL ON ME CALL ON MEEEEEEE CALL ON