"Britain will need brilliant engineers, electricians and cybersecurity experts more than ever before." Burnham surely means electrical engineers, not electricians, but we're in the District 9 future now. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Schools to offer technical subjects to pupils from age 14, Burnham says

The government wants pupils to take courses like AI and manufacturing which are linked to local jobs.

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Want a free few million quid at the expense of rich twits? Just pitch a cold fusion project. It's the apple cider vinegar of tech startups. www.youtube.com/watch?v=vifp...

I Looked at the New Cold Fusion Breakthroughs. It's Complicated.

YouTube video by Sabine Hossenfelder

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I fixed that headline for the Pope: "5 ways AI could warp humanity *more than it already is*" www.axios.com/2026/05/25/p...

5 ways Pope Leo says AI could warp humanity

Why the Pope wants to slow down AI development.

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Direction of movement in comics/movies -- like most things on the internet, not as cut-&-dried as you've been led to believe. (TL;DR the viewer may come with prior assumptions, but those are quickly reset by the director's chosen image system.) mirabilis-yearofwonders.blogspot.com/2026/05/a-li...

A little learning

It's good to have learning at our fingertips, and all the better now we can converse with it, but the internet does mean that a lot of half-...

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In my headcanon version of The Boroughs, "Sam Cooper" is a pseudonym and we're actually watching how Otto Octavius spends his retirement years.

Maybe the solution is to change the exams, then, if they're that easy to beat. "How do we dragon-proof our fortress?" "Well, we could ban dragons..."

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An Oxford academic has warned that students using AI can obtain a degree without reading any books. Katherine Rundell warns that reliance on AI is creating a ‘vast counterfeiting of knowledge’ in universities. www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/05...

Oliver Johnson and I worked on Questworld (a non-Glorantha #RuneQuest book) for Games Workshop at the start of the '80s. Here's one scenario and some of the world background, converted to #DragonWarriors #TTRPG, and less than half a century late. amzn.to/4nKJ8wR

One Night in Deliverance: a classic adventure by the creators of Dragon Warriors (Fabled Lands Chapbooks)

Amazon.com: One Night in Deliverance: a classic adventure by the creators of Dragon Warriors (Fabled Lands Chapbooks) eBook : Morris, Dave, Johnson, Oliver: Kindle Store

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All the ways into the underworld in Fabled Lands. Unless I missed one. fabledlands.blogspot.com/2026/05/pit-...

Pit stop

In the library you find the first volume of How to Enter the Underworld . This book is the work of a man called Agrash the Explorer. You lea...

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Heads up! The Ludonarrative Dissidents monthly livestream is in a few hours (22:00 UK, 5pm Eastern, 4pm Central), where we'll be discussing all manner of RPG malarky, and we'd be delighted if you can join us. It's on Twitch, so only a click away. www.twitch.tv/rosspaytonrppr

A complete #TTRPG conceived, written and illustrated by Codex #AI -- and even the bits it misjudges are misjudged in interesting ways. (The brainwave was Ethan Mollick's.) drive.google.com/file/d/10QKn...

In fifty years, will anybody remember that the term "trumped-up charges" long predated POTUS's spurious lawsuits against all the people he dislikes?

The most interesting characters in fiction aren't the ones with the combat skills. fabledlands.blogspot.com/2026/04/punc...

Punch drunk

"Fifteen years since I had to take out a Green Beret..." Oh, just fuck right off, Frank Miller. Why stop there? How about: "It's been fiftee...

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Come, friendly bombs... www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Heated Rivalry, The Housemaid and Fourth Wing: TikTok launches BookTok bestseller list

The inaugural top 20 is entirely made up of female authors, with Chloe Walsh appearing most frequently.

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I wonder if @anthropic.com's Claude Mythos could suggest ways to defend human minds from the kind of exploit being used here. www.economist.com/culture/2026...

How Vladimir Putin’s propaganda works

Russia has been driven mad. Could other countries suffer the same fate?

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Before #AI art, most indie creators of #gamebooks & #ttrpgs had to use public domain illustrations or else their own drawings. Tiny, self-funded projects don't have the money to hire any of these pro artists who are supposedly being put out of work by AI. fabledlands.blogspot.com/2024/07/here...

"Horse riding must be great for creative work," people say. "Like staring through a train window." Not if you’re riding a prey animal who hears every rustle. Here I’m reflecting on Planet Val, the physics of bell towers, and the mindsets for writing memoir and fiction. mailchi.mp/0d2fab1da872...

This post is good for both memoir and fiction: how to understand your main character. @JessicaHandler at @dintywmoore.bsky.social brevity.wordpress.com/2026/04/09/m... #writingcommunity #writingtips #authorlife #memoir

Main Character Energy: How Desire Makes Memorable Memoir

By Jessica Handler Photo by Royce Soble “We all like ourselves pretty well,” I say when I’m leading a writing workshop (hoping that everyone in the workshop does indeed like themselves pretty well)…

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For investigators who don't want to use the #DragonWarriors rules, I've included #CallofCthulhu stats for this Depression-era #Cthulhu adventure. fabledlands.blogspot.com/2026/03/abno...

"Abnormal Growth" (a Cthulhu Mythos investigative scenario)

Almost exactly 89 years ago, on March 15, H P Lovecraft died. That's my pretext for posting this scenario, which ties in with the rules for...

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A traveller's guide to the #Vulcanverse, one companion at a time. fabledlands.blogspot.com/2026/04/fell...

Fellow travellers in the Vulcanverse

As you explore the Vulcanverse you can acquire various companions to accompany you on your quests. The companion you travel with can make a ...

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What Gene Colan had that other comics artists lacked: they’d dress a scene wonderfully, like a movie set, but Colan clothed it in reality. mirabilis-yearofwonders.blogspot.com/2011/06/fare...

Farewell to Genial Gene

The first new comic I bought had a classic Gene Colan cover: a dramatic up angle with just enough architectural detail to establish a sense ...

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My first title is now live on DriveThruRPG! Last Dance in Shoreditch is a modern-day Call of Cthulhu scenario set in London, where a missing friend, the city’s nightlife, and something far worse collide after dark. Very excited to finally put this out there. www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/5...

Last Dance in Shoreditch - Chaosium | Miskatonic Repository | DriveThruRPG

A night out. A missing friend. A city that won’t look the same by morning.Last Dance in Shoreditch is a modern-day Call of Cthulhu scenario set in London’s after-hours underworld, where investigators ...

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Giant honeybees (Apis dorsata) synchronize thousands of abdomens in a wave to repel hornets from their nest

I forgot to include the link to the German review! Here it is maricopa1.wordpress.com/2026/03/30/m...

Mein Buchtipp – Roz Morris: Turn Right at the Rainbow

Foto meines Exemplares. Von der englischen Autorin Roz Morris habe ich in meinem Blog vor etwas mehr als sieben Jahren ihr Buch „Not Quite Lost: Travels Without a Sense of Direction; a Diary&…

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Roz Morris@rozmorris.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Does English humour travel? What they're reading in Germany this weekend. Turn Right At The Rainbow: A Diary of Househunting, Happenstance & Home. books2read.com/rightrainbow #househunting #housetour #HouseHuntingFun #Relocation #relocating #humour #memoir

Humans are going to enjoy the jobs they can hold onto in the era of AI. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

PowerWash Simulator: How a UK cleaning game became a huge hit

It's been nominated for two Bafta Games Awards - but why have mundane job games like PowerWash Simulator 2 become so popular?

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The Scholar -- a new profession for the #Cthulhu variant of #DragonWarriors #TTRPG. fabledlands.blogspot.com/2026/04/thin...

Things Man Was Not Meant To Know

After the unveiling of the Dagon Warriors rules and the recent investigative scenario , Teófilo Hurtado asked me how we would represent char...

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London's Mysterious Hellraiser Bus Stop Monument

For years, someone has been leaving increasingly elaborate Hellraiser-themed installations on top of a bus stop on the Old Kent Road in London.

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NBC: Under intl law, hitting civilian infrastructure is prohibited. Why is POTUS threatening war crimes? LEAVITT: POTUS has made it quite clear to the Iranian regime their best move is to make a deal or else N: Which objectives would destroying a desalination plant help? LEAVITT: Haley, go ahead

Victor Frankenstein crée la vie – avec votre aide. #ldvelh (Mais... le héros? Peut-être pas.) dogsandmunsters.github.io/Moi-Frankens...

Recently came across the very first planning map I drew 34 years ago for the Virtual Reality #gamebook series (now Critical IF). Nothing's forgotten. fabledlands.blogspot.com/2026/03/x-ma...

The Beauty of David Lean (all DoP: Ernest Day, Freddie Young, Jack Hildyard, Guy Green, Robert Krasker & Ronald Neame)

The Beauty Of David Lean

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