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I wrapped up my first brief Classic Traveller campaign this week. I had a huge amount of fun running it and am extremely grateful to everyone who showed up to play. Though short, playing Traveller really captured my imagination and left...
weather: 🌥️ i wish you'd rain critters: crows i just didn't like outline very much and i DNF'd parade. i'm annoyed by cusk's avowed distaste for the devices of fiction while continuing, for reasons i might be too philistine/unlettered to...
Love Island USA season 9 will be on Peacock next summer—no surprise there. But I was surprised at how many viewers were new.
Arnold Rimmer was the hologram in the legendary British Red Dwarf science fiction show in the 1990s. I found myself reading his Wikipedia page for fun today, and got a chuckle from this: The creators of the series acknowledge that...
The next addition to my 1/144 scale air force is this Fokker D-VII, which I've been putting off because I wasn't looking forward to painting the lozenge camouflage.As it turned out, it was easier than I'd expected, mainly because in this...
Not every formula movie can be counted a failure. Consider The Marching Band, an amiable French offering that tells the story of two men who learn they are brothers when it becomes necessary for one of them to locate the other for...
Another father-daughter Thorpe Park trip with the Aveys. Feels like ages since the last time we did this but it's less than 1.5 years.304 words · 8 images
Installation view of “Untitled” (Portrait of Austrian Airlines), 1993, the green painted text frieze along the wall, and other Felix Gonzalez-Torres work at Museo Reina Sofia, photo: Roberto Ruiz There’s a lot to consider in Dulce...
In January 2013 I posted a note on the BillBlog to say that I had decided that I’d no longer sit on men-only panels at conferences. Because I was working at the BBC I acknowledged that there might be occasions where I had to do so but...
Was busy most of the day helping with my mother-in-law's move. (Pretty much the same move across the street we did at the beginning of the year, so we are in practice.) I only was able to get out to take some photos pretty late. Saw...
Ethereum lending protocol Term Finance lost around $8.5 million when an attacker purchased the majority of the project's governance token — which was not widely held — and then voted themselves to be the controller of the project's...
“Former Pussy Riot member escapes Russia after 3 years of forced work for FSB” by Kate Tsurkan, The Kyiv Independent, Aug. 24, 2026. See also my response. #RussiaIsATerroristState
Just a quick post to note new enrollment data: specifically, there’s new research concerning international students attending American colleges and universities. It’s not good. The Department of State posted new numbers about student...
Wally doesn’t just save the day anymore. No, he makes sure nothing bad ever happens in the first place! It’s worked in Central City, so why not expand? That brings Wally to Metropolis, home of Superman! Does Superman (Jon, before...
Zehn Uhr morgens in Frankfurt – das klingt von Dortmund aus zunächst machbar. Wenn zu dieser Uhrzeit allerdings bereits ein Programm beginnt, wird die Anreise, vor allem dank der Deutschen Bahn, am selben Morgen schnell unnötig stressig....