@mikeyb137
What happens when a very logical approach to problem solving meets poor impulse control Guitars, synthesisers, Doctor Who, role playing games, model making, taijiquan, history. Software developer by trade. Pseudoparent to two cats.
4pm today on BBC Radio 4 Extra it’s the repeat of my adaptation of Iain M. Banks’ The State of the Art, with Sir Antony Sher as the ship. So proud of this amazing production by @nadiamolinari.bsky.social
... a bank of Radiophonic Workshop synths he's largely built himself, incorporating bits of eviscerated Furbies, ....
Download advice on feeding newborns to teens
Reminds me of Swift’s Modest Proposal.
1 Me: He froze like a deer in the headlights. 2 Deer: Okay tough guy, what would you do? Me: It’s just an expression. 3 Deer: No, no, no. You’re standing there, suddenly all you see is a blinding light. What’s your plan? I want to hear it. 4 Me, frowning: I would freeze. Deer: I fucking thought so.
This is one of my favorite comics we've made.
Welcome to the Church Of The KLF
Greg: And the task was...?
Alex: Conquer the city.
Greg: And you?
Odysseus: Built a giant wooden horse.
Greg: And it's impressive. Completely fails the task.
Odysseus (suddenly looking very like Jason Mantzoukas): But does it, Greg? Does it?
Alex: There was a camera inside the horse.
Omelas already exists: no need to build it or choose it. We already live here –in the narrow, foul, dark prison we let our ignorance, fear, and hatred build for us and keep us in, here in the splendid, beautiful city of life...
If you know someone who is really great at running an RPG, you have got to hold on to them, you know?
Carpe DM, friends!
I love the way the architecture in the base could so easily come from a branch of the same history as Moonbase Alpha.
For Arabic readers, London’s palaeography school has a course on Islamic literary heritage. In person, 8-12 June. Places are limited, so book now 👇 📚☀️
palaeography.uk/study/short-...
along with "it stays there, because it's artistically correct".
On average, you're very good at it. Just one of those days. Be kind to yourself.
Remember:
Respect yourself.
Respect others.
Respect the spectral moss ghouls of the misty woods, unless you wish to join their number.
Gawain the green knight opening a letter sealed with wax
Little Alex Horne in his studio chair with the caption "so a simple task: land a fair blow anywhere on the green knight. One year later meet him at the green chapel, receive the same blow yourself."
A cut to a wider shot showing Greg Davies in his throne turning to Little Alex Horne subtitled "Well surely no one just ran up and whanged his head clean off."
Cut back to Little Alex Horne subtitled "Let's see Gawain first."
Looks like the original has been swept away by the sands of time.
Castillo, in the dark, sword in hand ❤️
Happy birthday to Edward James Olmos!
So this is the day I've been waiting for to share the Adama Maneuver for the first time this year. 😁
Tech Company: At long last, we have created the Torment Nexus from classic sci-fi novel Don't Create The Torment Nexus.
FOSS nerds: the Torment Nexus cannot be ethical until it is Open Source
With those Digbeth arches, I keep thinking "is that where Musical Exchanges used to be" and drowning in nostalgia.
I've been getting a lot of that, with a layer of That's Been Massively Rebuilt.
Aerial satellite photo labelled in bright yellow letters: 1. Crumbling Palm Pilot Area 2. Source of Salamanders 3. Unnameable Shipwrecks
Dispatch #24651 from FalconSAT-8 (USAP)
1. Crumbling Palm Pilot Area
2. Source of Salamanders
3. Unnameable Shipwrecks
So NJ lawmakers wrote a bill to rein in ICE.
And this is what they called it.
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/21/n...
Written English has barely changed in 300 years. If you can read Harry Potter, you can read Robinson Crusoe (1719).
#WutheringHeights Sweepcliff.
One of the things I find frustrating about sci-fi is that because of the American influence of it, all of the planets are called things like Zexion 5 and Danshassia 7. I’d call them things like ‘Nether Roundthorpe’ and ‘Spheresbury’. Gravity Bywell. Chalfont St Globeby. Bishop’s Goitre.
The singer out of Slipknot went to Rome to see the Pope.
Oh, the grand old duke of york
He ██████████████████
He ██████████████████
And he ██████████████████
Okay, this is quite outstanding from Bedford Council.
There’s always a place for Big Dumb Fun.
dumplings are a side effect of Mongols
Cover of "Inventing the Renaissance: Myths of a Golden Age" by Ada Palmer, which is bright orange with white text, and has a greyscale image of the statue of Perseus holding Medusa's head aloft, his sword passing through the letters of the word "the"
So lemme tell you about @adapalmer.bsky.social's Inventing the Renaissance, which came out last year and absolutely blew me away.
I'd replace half the 1st-year curriculum with this book.
Reading it made me a better historian, and also the kind of person who underlines books.
Plus, it's hilarious.
