Adam

Welcome to Northfield, home of flags

A while ago I mentioned that Bruce Boxleitner and I were helping Warners with the launch of their Babylon 5 YouTube channel. As part of that, the first of three brand new half-hour-plus interviews/discussions between me and Bruce will go online on Monday. www.youtube.com/@Babylon5

1/ Starting today, with #Babylon5 "Sleeping in Light," I will be uploading a metric ton of my TV, film and comics scripts to create a digital archive for fans, followers, academics and folks with too much time on their hands. Information here: jmichaelstraczynski.substack.com/p/introducin...

I've been running Follow the Crypto since 2024. Today I'm relaunching it as Tech Influence Watch, expanded to cover AI political spending alongside crypto. They’ve spent more than $400 million this election cycle, and now you can follow it in close to real time. influence.citationneeded.news

GOLD TEETH has launched! It's a piratical TTRPG set in a cursed version of the Age of Sail, with 350 pages of briny phantasmagoria, colonial terror and nauseating seafood. It's part Master & Commander, part Blackadder, left to ripen in the sun like a beached porpoise. teethrpg.itch.io/gold-teeth

Rootlessless https://www.spad.uk/posts/rootlessless/

For the love of god stop trying to ban kids from social media and actually regulate social media. It's such a pathetic cop-out that fails to address the myriad problems sites like X and Facebook are causing while cloaking it in "but we're protecting the children". Bollocks you are.

Multiple people turned away from my polling station for not having ID in the ~5 minutes I was there. Really great for democracy.

This BBC News Online piece will be the most effective publicity my new documentary about Flight into Danger gets. So if you have enjoyed the programme, think you may enjoy it, or are just a kind soul, if you could please share this anywhere you think it may be worth sharing, I'd be very grateful!

CENTCOM told me Iran keeps hitting their high-value assets so I asked how many they have and they said they just go to the Pentagon and get new ones afterwards so I said it sounds like they're just feeding high-value assets to the Iranians and then INDOPACOM started crying

I complain a lot, so I wanted to call out something positive for a change. I had a genuinely great customer service interaction with @sirencraftbrew.bsky.social this week after a screwup by DPD Local with my order, with their staff going above & beyond to sort everything out. So cheers 🍻

It's that time of year where I post this one

No stream today, but you can still donate to our @jinglejam.co.uk fundraiser for @autistica.org.uk We’ve got some great goals we’d love to reach, including our big one… If we raise £1000 by Friday, we’re going to match that and donate a further £1000! tiltify.com/@secret-mode/sec...

With Microsoft hiking the price of Gamepass I've decided to cancel my sub and split the £10/month between two very different bastions of independent journalism, @molly.wiki and Popbitch.

Classic Evri moment: "Hey, we dumped your delivery next to the bins in the pouring rain, here's a photo, let us know how we did."

Feedback culture has to stop, this is just absurd

"The artwork has already been concealed by large sheets of black plastic and two metal barriers". Of course it has. That is how the British state deals with problems, just cover them up and don't let anyone get close. Not to mention the uniformed guards.

Powerful new Banksy mural on the Royal Courts of Justice building shows a judge hitting a protester lying on the ground with his gavel, with blood splattering the placard.

Reform UK, which has a grand total of four MPs, was just given an uninterrupted platform for an hour and a half on the BBC and Sky News channels, in order to talk about its plans for mass deportations When was the last time the Greens (with four MPs) or the Lib Dems (with 72) were given the same?

Far right groups are threatening to burn down hotels full of refugees at events attended by senior politicians, while people of colour live in fear after being falsely labelled as paedophiles How mainstream politicians and media organisations are allowing a violent far right movement to spread

Just discovered that Ebuyer went tits up a couple of weeks ago and I'm sad. It and Dabs (also RIP) were my primary sources for overspending on PC upgrades when I was at uni. Now we're down to a small handful of Not Amazon sites for components and it's not healthy.

Getting ID'd by my search engine, living the dream

"So, what radicalised you?" "Having to upload a copy of my driving license to listen to a song on Spotify with swearing in it"

I continue to be disappointed that Bluesky doesn't offer any real MFA options. Running a major platform and not offering *at least* TOTP, but ideally hardware keys and (despite my misgivings) passkeys, is really inexcusable.

Labour deserve to lose to Reform. It's going to be disastrous for the country, but the way they've acted in the last 9 months has veered between pathetic and hateful with very little to be positive about. Whoever is running their policy team needs to be taken out and publicly shot.

The latest vscode release notes are literally just pages of "we jammed more AI into everything, will you please use some of it, our developers are so miserable."

@iwriteok.bsky.social I've tracked down a copy of the Factor 8 docu if you're still looking for it?

"did you make that logo signifying Europe's grim duty to rearm in the face of a hostile United States and expanding Russia?" "Sure did boss, made it real goatse just like you asked,"

I'm getting up to off

The Modmanager image has now been updated to support multiple docker hosts.

Decided to treat myself to a little festive eye infection. 🎄

I put a lot of work into a bunch of these this year, so I hope you all appreciate it.

A Message Of Hope From Global Tetrahedron @globaltetrahedron.bsky.social: theonion.com/a-message-of...

People SERIOUSLY need to stop using neurodivergence as an excuse for being a cunt. It's grotesque.

📰 PSA: Breaking Changes to Porkbun DNS Plugin for SWAG https://info.linuxserver.io/issues/2024-11-25-swag-porkbun/