We have just had proper rain here for the first time since June - and I have just come to realise that the purpose of Test cricket as a ritual in England is TO MAKE IT RAIN IN THE SUMMER. We have angered the gods with The Hundred and we must return to the old ways.
Here’s the thing about Y2K, the ozone layer, etc. The most leftist—in the sense of *valuing labor*—thing you can do is reject the brainwashing that tells you that heroism is running into a burning building and not the slow, patient, boring, unglamorous work of *preventing* disaster.
Jessica Price@delafina777.bsky.social · 4w agoI think a lot of people would have died without the work of people like you. The power grid could have gone down, air traffic control, supply chains, medical equipment, water infrastructure… You prevented a disaster. That is heroism. Heroism doesn’t always have to be running into a burning building
Without saying your age, what is your favourite movie from the year you turned 18?
Laurence Bianchi-Phillips - Hardy Roach Games@hardyroachgames.bsky.social · last mo.Without saying your age, what is your favorite movie from the year you turned 18?
The EHRC guidance slipped its way into law by default overnight. Do not self-police and do not let toilet weirdos and changing room weirdos dictate how you go about your life.
Your email finds me three weeks out of Portsmouth. The Sighthound is light at only eighteen guns, but quick in the water, even laden as she is. The Atlantic lapping against her hull she is making steady progress westward to the Caribbean, the men restless to do their duty for King and country.
*standing up on plane* "It is the 41st Millennium. For more than a hundred centuries The Emperor has sat immobile on the Golden Throne of Earth. He is the Master of Mankind by the will of the gods, and master of a million worlds by the might of his inexhaustible armies. He is a rotting carcass…
Christopher Bird@mightygodking.com · last mo.*standing up on the plane* Call me Ishmael. Some years ago--never mind how long precisely--having little or no money in my purse, and nothing particular to interest me on shore, I thought I would sail about a little and see the watery part of the world. It is a way I have of driving off the spleen
I accidentally made the Light of Eltharion look slightly more like the Green Power Ranger than I meant to 😂 But I’m pretty happy with the attempt at doing cloth of gold for the cape.
Sonic Sledgehammer@sonicsledgehammer.bsky.social · last mo.It isn't yet the end of the week, but who doesn't want some more good vibes around the place? Do me a little favour! Quote this post with something you've painted that you're proud of, or you just really like. Doesn't have to be your best, just something that makes you smile when you see it!
I once asked a priest to bless a printer that I was in the middle of fighting with and he went "I only bless things when there's a chance it'll take" and then turned and walked out of the room.
✨hauntedtoasters✨@hauntedtoasters.bsky.social · 2mo agoI am tech support to the bone and do not like to mystify computer stuff but I genuinely believe in my heart of hearts that printers have demons in them. There is literally no other explanation.
i find it very funny that, canonically, the last character in this comic strip would be required by his belief system to murder you the instant you admitted to having used any kind of AI for any purpose
You can tell that this game will destroy at least one nation's psyche and that's what sports are all about baby
The cooling system was installed by the village AC technician, Thermodynamix 😊
Standplaats Kraków could really use some cash!@standplaatskrk.pl · 3mo ago
GREG DAVIES: seems like a kind of a shit task. Everyone just seems like they're going home normally. ALEX HORNE: well before you say that let's have a look at how Odysseus did. cut to panel of AJAX, MENELAUS, AGAMEMNON, and DIOMEDES who are all staring at ODYSSEUS with his head in his hands
Discworld QOTD, from Night Watch
Micah@rincewind.run · 4mo agoDiscworld QOTD, from The Light Fantastic
and a very happy Glorious Twenty-Fifth of May to you all
Matthew R Francis@bowlerhatscience.org · 4mo agoTruth! Justice! Freedom! Reasonably-Priced Love! And a Hard-Boiled Egg! Long Live the People's Republic of Treacle Mine Road!
It is the glorious 25th of May. How do they rise up?
Once again, ladies and gentlemen and everyone inbetween... Don't give up the ship.
Dreadnought Holiday@dreadships.bsky.social · 2y agoAnyway, it's bad form to fight without running up your colours, so have at it...
I’ll say it once more. Warhammer is fucking funny. This is the hill I will die on. Torn apart by horrifying aliens in service to an uncaring empire ruled by a corpse.
Painted my first Battlefleet Gothic ships this month. Two Imperial Navy cruisers from the old box that I got a year or so before the game ended and some corvettes from Battlefleet Galaxy. Now I just need GW to bring the game back! #BattlefleetGothic
D&D 5e Avatar Legends Fantasy Flight Star Wars Star Trek Adventures (1st ed) I enjoyed all of them but I don’t think I *got* Avatar
Anica Cihla@anicacihla.com · 4mo agoShare the last 4 TTRPGs you played and expose your gaming habits (Or don't. I'm not a cop) Brindlewood Bay Wildsea D&D Dread
Inspired by @anniegg62.bsky.social here is everything GW I’ve painted so far this year! I’m already well passed my total for last year, turns out moving house slows your painting down! #paintingwarhammer
Here is everything I painted for the GW Million Miniatures challenge this year. Ultras, Votann, Gloomspite, Gondor and a Chaos Knight Super proud of everything I made, my return to the hobby after ages! #paintingwarhammer
Due to popular demand, here's every Space Marine legion from Warhammer 40,000 as a document in our collection. I: Dark Angels Obviously, they're this photograph of a tree in Burnham. Why this photograph? The tree has Fallen.
"If you trust in yourself... and believe in your dreams... and follow your star... you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy." - Terry Pratchett, The Wee Free Men GNU #TerryPratchett Mind how you go.
AI is going to make it nearly impossible for anyone to afford a new PC, phone, or gaming console -- all in the name of a future that will never come to pass and a present that will just make a few dudes rich. This is unacceptable
Once more it is paint and football time! If I’d planned this properly I’d have a Skycutter* so I could paint a real #Seahawks figure, but a Seaguard will have to do. *or possibly an owl
The NHS saved my life. I spent 4 1/2 months in hospital and it didn't bankrupt me. Britain cannot believe so little in itself that it would accept the loss of the NHS. There's so many lines being crossed but surely it has to wake people up. Right?
Adam Bienkov@adambienkov.bsky.social · 8mo agoReform MP Andrew Rosindell tells the BBC that he "would not object" to scrapping the NHS and replacing it with private insurance
