Roderick Leeuwenhart

David Byrne - "My Apartment Is My Friend" (Official Video) YouTube video by David Byrne

Loving this recent banger by David Byrne, who continues his career-long streak of singing about the buildings he lives in.

“Is there a technology the left is excited about?”

High-speed rail! MRNA vaccines! New cancer treatments! Solar and wind energy collection! Better and longer-range EVs! That wood that's harder than steel! New apples! Fibermaxxing! Buldak Swicy ramen! Muppets! Muppets are too a technology, shut up!

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"Peter! You've lost the news!"

The cover of AGENCY, a Tor Original, by George Sandison. The image shows a key, with the fob in the shape of a skull. Artwork by Jaime Keenan. Amazon UK - www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0GBYKFTV8 Amazon US - https://www.amazon.com/Agency-Tor-Original-George-Sandison-ebook/dp/B0GBYKFTV8/ref=sr_1_1 Apple Books - https://books.apple.com/gb/book/agency/id6757708278 Kobo - https://www.kobo.com/gb/en/ebook/agency-30?sId=8b6397cb-de04-4620-9faf-449414f4f789&ssId=BoNmIji2XjUP7L_Rvy0y1&cPos=1 eBooks.com - https://www.ebooks.com/en-gb/book/347223698/agency/george-sandison/

AGENCY: A Tor Original - out today!

TFW your landlord might be an eldritch demon god…?

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Ten years! It feels, strangely, like something from an earlier internet age. (The Idle Thumbs forums!)

Franse econoom pleit voor 2 procent belasting op vermogen van de extreem rijken | VRT NWS: nieuws Altijd op de hoogte van het laatste nieuws uit binnen- en buitenland dankzij de betrouwbare en diepgaande berichtgeving van VRT NWS.

Franse econoom Gabriel Zucman pleit voor 2 procent belasting op vermogen van de extreem rijken. Hoe dat moet, legt hij uit in 'Miljardairs betalen geen inkomstenbelasting en daar gaan we een einde aan maken.' @vrtnws.be @deafspraak.bsky.social

I suspect I will replay Silksong in a few years, but that time with mods to actually finish it. Despite prematurely quitting the game, I still found myself thinking about its setting and themes a lot. So much care was put into it!

Silksong and Difficult Games: A Typology of Game Fandom Difficult games, such as Dark Souls, Elden Ring, or Silksong, do not always have a good reputation. For a long time, I dared not touch these games myself. They simply seemed to challenging. By the …

Do you ever wonder about game fandom and different types of fans? I was reflecting a lot on gatekeeping and different play styles lately, thanks to Silksong. I thought I'd bundle my ideas in a blog, and made a typology to go along with it! (Shaw!) #gamestudies nicollelamerichs.com/2026/01/28/s...

The Coral Bones is currently down to £2.99 on Kindle (not sure for how long)

Three women, three centuries, the Great Barrier Reef, sharks, corals, mantas, leafy seadragons, bonus numbats (the best marsupial) 🌊 🪸🦈🐠🐉

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Hoe gaat het met Anton Dingeman?
Tekenaar Pieter Geenen vertelt.
Een gesprek over het verdwijnende dialect. En twee strips! ❤️
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Frodo: I wish so much unbelievably stupid shit had not happened in my time Gandalf: So do all who live to see such times. This is all exceptionally stupid, though

Schipperke Orbit, playing hide and seek or possibly just tired

Orbit for reference

Wat cool!

The latest issue of Haven Spec has a cover that seems to feature a bunch of Orbits sleeping on an only slightly bloodied human, and it's adorable.

Teaser PV||Armored Trooper VOTOMS: Die Graue Hexe||anime YouTube video by Itsukanime

VOTOMS: Die Graue Hexe is the latest Mamoru Oshii joint and I couldn't be more excited for its release later this year. Let's go!

Stop scrolling and post two characters that bring you happiness.

HEY HEY it's NEWS 'O CLOCK.

'EARTH MUST DIE' is coming out on the 27th of Jan, which is alarmingly soon!

Please pop over here and wishlist it, and do share if you're able. Thank you.

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Amid all our booing at techbros hawking LLMs, let's not forget to celebrate the previous horrible grift that predictably collapsed. Tech is NOT an irreversible destiny, keep pushing.

11 thin pink books in a stack. The title on the spine is OBSTETRIX and the author name is Naomi Kritzer.

So it feels very weird to be talking about anything other than the ICE occupation right now, but the ARCs of my new book arrived on Saturday. I'm going to do a giveaway.

Haha good one

A year later, The Return is still living rent-free in my head.

If you see this, post an archer.

*July, of course

This Juy, I will be attending EUROCON / METROPOLCON 2026 in Berlin! Just applied for membership and booked the train tickets. Looking forward to meeting the SFF community there!

I Am AI by Ai Jiang, the Murderbot Diaries by Martha Wells; I'm assuming you already know those ^_^ No obsure ones to recommend at this point, I'm afraid!

One of my fav SF novella reads 👇

Wait, is Starfleet Academy actually going to be good? "Turning Discovery's lemons into sweet lemonade", don't you dare get my hopes up.

Snow snow snowy snow storm with snow on top

This landscape is brought to you by the belief that no country should invade or annex another country, nor kidnap their leaders, nor seek to influence their politics, nor oppress minorities, nor exterminate neighbors. The snow's convinced there's a clear line between good and evil right there.

Pictured: Tom Paris stealing a printer during the Bell Riots (2024)