James Hoare

In the Corbyn years that would have merited a triumphalist tweet and arch aside about the mainstream media not covering it. Genuine nostalgia.

Which fictional characters do you think were having the nastiest sex off-screen?

Purest, undiluted Bluesky

Godzilla: The Roleplaying Game IDW, publishers of the Godzilla comics, are creating the official Godzilla tabletop roleplaying game! Fight Kaiju and save the day!

If you haven’t seen it yet, I’ve co-designed the official Godzilla RPG alongside @markalatham.bsky.social and the legendary Jervis Johnson.

www.kickstarter.com/projects/idw...

I’m so envious of your efficiency

So excited to dig into this @floaker.bsky.social 👻

Do we have the final numbers on whether decapitating a repressive regime but letting the remnants have at it in a brutal civil war made Libya a better place to live?

The talking down of Super League aside, yes, please - hook it to my veins

obviously today is a huge embarrassment for Matt Goodwin and for Reform, which is something that we absolutely ought to celebrate, but we must also remember it's a huge embarrassment for Morgan McSweeney and Maurice Glasman and all the Blue Labour weirdos, and that's important to celebrate too :)

Tatjana Wood has apparently passed away at age 99. Her father was Jewish so during WW2 her parents sent her to the Netherlands, then NY. She studied as a dressmaker, met/married Wallace Wood and began assisting him, then pivoted to becoming one of the best colorists in comics.

I would love it if Starmer is now engaged in meaningful succession planning with key stakeholders to avoid a messy leadership race post-locals.

(This is definitely wishful thinking)

(The ‘us’ in that scenario is the left)

Although I would caution people against too instinctively dismissing “left split” as fearmongering. Not all constituencies have such large left bloc voter base and cleave in such interesting ways. What we got away with in G&D might kill us elsewhere.

As a Labour member I’m DELIGHTED the Greens won, hopefully the message gets through to the leadership now. And more varied left voices is healthy.

Vital thread. Proper on-the-ground reporting beats tidy narratives any day. Voters are complicated!

One of my favourite questions to ask designers is “What surprised you about the way players used this game/book/setting?” You get some amazing insights from that. A lot of people forget these are living media and their meaning is reinterpreted the second the book hits the gaming table.

I've launched 4 (very) successful TTRPG crowdfunding campaigns in as many years. One like = one no-nonsense take on indie TTRPG crowdfunding.

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"John Prescott would be loving this"

I don’t have a compulsion to say or do the worst possible thing in any scenario, but I do hear it. It’s an ever present chorus. I really felt for JD.

My intrusive thoughts aren’t at risk of taking the wheel in the same way, but I really felt this too. It’s heartbreaking how little empathy or willingness to understand people are capable of - to them neurodivergence/mental health will only ever be a ribbon.

Had a much better time with House of the Dragon Season 2. Matt Smith’s Susan Hill subplot enlivened what is effectively a reskinned anime about horny gundam pilots.

Yesterday was my birthday so I took today off to do pretty much nothing except sleep in and reply to some emails. Would recommend.

House of the Dragon is hard work. I especially like how every three episodes they introduce another half dozen charmless blonde perverts for you to try and identify.

I feel attacked

The talk to your friends app and the witness the horrors app being the same app is not great for the mental health is it

An important note from @meduza.io that all the other reports really should include before the cranks pile in with “it must be the South American nation of Russia 🤣🤣🤣”

Babylon 5 Is Now Free to Watch On YouTube | Cord Cutters News In a move that has delighted fans of classic science fiction, Warner Bros. Discovery has begun uploading full episodes of the iconic series Babylon 5 to YouTube, providing free access to the show just...

If y'all want to get your sci-fi groove on without having to buy into a streaming service...

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