It is entirely Pixar's fault that I find myself unable to throw away lamps.

People always talk about how popsicles barely look like the characters, but they don't even taste like them at all

There's something ironic about me choosing to reward myself for releasing @wefixspacejunk.bsky.social Season Four, which was written during a horrendous period of writers block, by playing Alan Wake.

I'm DELIGHTED to announce that I'm in Season 4 of We Fix Space Junk! You can hear me RIGHT NOW on the Battlebird Productions Patreon, or wait until next week for the general release. I'm living my dinosaur dream. 🚀❤️🦖

We Fix Space Junk@wefixspacejunk.bsky.social · 6mo ago

We're back!! Just in time for our eighth anniversary, the next season of We Fix Space Junk is finally ready for release! Episode One of Season Four will be released on our Patreon feed on the 16th March, and on our general feed a week later, starting on the 23rd of March!

Stop callinge them "data centers" and starte callinge them "slop peripherals"

For anyone who can't make it all the way to Leighton Buzzard to check out my #dnd paintings, I've made a gallery on my website! bethkcrane.com/virtual-gall...

Virtual Gallery – The Leighton Buzzard Library Theatre

Virtual Leighton Buzzard Library Theatre Gallery Tour Click on the paintings to find out more!

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If it's sometimes hard to tell the difference between fossil-fuel lobbyists and the billionaire press, that's because there isn’t one. My column on the politicians, journalists and junktanks using the Iran crisis as an excuse to extract our remaining gas and oil. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

UK energy prices are soaring – and propagandists want to sell you a false reason why | George Monbiot

The war on Iran has put fossil-fuel prices centre stage, but don’t believe those who tout ‘maximising the North Sea’ as our salvation, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

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“Why do you want to shit on entire swathes of human endeavor and wreck the planet while you’re doing it? Why are you so determined to be awful and amoral? Everything about your priorities is messed up, and you should all be heartily ashamed, abashed and embarrassed.”

Mo Ryan@moryan.bsky.social · 5mo ago

I finally lost my shit about so-called AIs, LLMs, enshittification & everything fucking evil that @officialgrammarly.bsky.social is doing. I'm fucking furious, and not just about what 1 company has done. An open letter to Grammarly & the rest of the LLM hype machine www.moryan.com/an-open-lett...

There are pieces of writing that stand on their own without any external information, but there's a reason when we read poetry, for example, we want to know when it was written and by whom? Where was it written? What were the circumstances of their life at time? And their country or city?

Luke O'Neil@lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 5mo ago

I'm sure it's plausible that an "AI" could write something that would trick me. The answer to this going forward is to immediately blacklist any writer who admits to using "AI" upon first mention of it. Like a plagiarist. They will of course admit this because people who use "AI" cannot do otherwise

Episode 3 of Tales of the Cog ⚙️ is releasing on Thursday the 12th of March and features the lovelies from @wefixspacejunk.bsky.social in leading roles. Get hyped ⚙️ ⚙️ ⚙️ ⚙️ ⚙️ ⚙️ ⚙️ ⚙️ ⚙️

Season 4 is finally here! Episode One of Season Four will be released on our Patreon feed on the 16th March and to our general feed a week later, starting on the 23rd of March! Episodes will go out biweekly, and they'll be a week earlier on our ad-free Patreon feed.

It's GREAT that because I've finally hit a minimum threshold for self-employed earnings I've got to pay next year's taxes too. Just dandy. It's not like my money is tight because I'm self-employed or anything.

Gonna get ahead of things now and optimistically schedule in "burnout" for March onwards.

Treating myself to a replay of Control in this trying time.

I had the pleasure to run a game for @noshortrests.bsky.social to help promote their #OneRoomOneShots Kickstarter! You can now catch me running Tomb of Grief for @iamloufryer.bsky.social, @ralphstickley.bsky.social, @bethkcrane.bsky.social & @masquewren.bsky.social! tinyurl.com/ytsd9ay2

We Played D&D on a Boat! Adventures Ahoy! Part 1: Tomb of Grief

Set sail for something truly special! No Short Rests! is taking Dungeons & Dragons off the table and onto the water with Adventures Ahoy! - an actual play of Tomb of Grief, our level 1 adventure from One Room One Shots, whilst cruising along the River Lee. Back the collection on Kickstarter now! https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/one-room-one-shots/one-room-one-shots Featuring an all-star cast from across the UK’s TTRPG community, discover just how easy it is to run a full adventure right from the book, using our free pre-made characters included with the One Room One Shots collection. See for yourself how much story, strategy and atmosphere can unfold in a single location - and all in just one session. Climb aboard, roll initiative and join us for an adventure like no other! The land has become cursed and all signs point to the tomb of an evil king as the source of this dark taint. The players must find a way to break the curse, and learn the truth behind the King's violent acts inside his desecrated tomb! Starring: Dungeon Master - Jordan Carmichael, @ModifiedRoll @alwaysreadytorollgm Torjor Meanfist - Lou Fryer, @OfDiceAndThemPod @iamloufryer Phyrra Stormborn - Ralph Stickley, @OfDiceAndThemPod Dra'osh Moonblessed - Beth Crane, @battlebirdproductions Myeldretharran Parakas - Wren, @StoryWeaveProductions @MasqueWren Crew: Director - Alex Powell Producer - Matt Potter Executive Producer - Matthew Lloyd Location provided by Gareth Wrigglesworth and Lee Valley Boatyard Music: Seven Seas Composer: Alexander Nakarada Website: https://creatorchords.com/ License: Free To Use YouTube license youtube-free Music powered by BreakingCopyright: https://breakingcopyright.com Shadows and Echoes Composer: Jeremy Soule © 2011 Bethesda Softworks LLC, a ZeniMax Media company. The Elder Scrolls, Skyrim, Bethesda, Bethesda Game Studios, Bethesda Softworks, ZeniMax and related logos are registered trademarks or trademarks of ZeniMax Media Inc. in the U.S. and/or other countries. All Rights Reserved. The Lord Of Frenzied Flame Composer: Shoi Miyazawa Song of Despair Composer: Shoi Miyazawa ELDEN RING™ & ©BANDAI NAMCO Entertainment Inc. / ©2022 FromSoftware, Inc. The Airship Armada Composer: Filip Melvan ©Michael Ghelfi Studios

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Did a portrait painting session yesterday. Think I've hit my stride with it! I'm really proud of this one.

How Hookland Works – you all own it, fill you boots. Now updated to reflect how AI means Arseholes Involved. #Hookland

To the establishment the tragedy seems to be that a mother lost her child far far more than a trans girl lost her life and everything that’s followed has been about suring up the ownership and control parents have over their children

Rose Schmits@roseschmits.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Yknow thinking more about MPs championing the no phones in schools thing in Brianna Ghey’s name just how arrogant you gotta be as a cis person not to wonder where all the trans people endorsing your project are at named after a girl murdered for being trans

The biggest “block” writers face is time and money and gatekeeping (by the people who can offer money to give you that time.) I would welcome a day that I didn’t wake up with fourteen great ideas that I simply don’t have the time or money to do properly. AI directly threatens that. It doesn’t help.

Jill Murray@jillmurray.bsky.social · 10mo ago

People who aren’t writers think writer’s block is at least as big and real a problem as I thought quicksand would be, as a child.

Why is Piers Morgan always given so much time and space? Because our media is a relentless circle jerk where people whose main experience is dinner bang on and on about the world they can barely see above their goose pate and Stilton foam

YOUR ENEMIES LAMENT YOUR VERY EXISTENCE. HAVE YOU TAKEN YOUR MEDICATIONS?

There aren't enough giant inflatables at gigs any more.

Just realised the reason I couldn't play Horizon Zero Dawn (I tried!) was that I watched Batteries Not Included about a hundred times as a kid. The majority of non-humanoid robots are friend-shaped to me. (I also didn't see ET until adulthood)

One day I will have one of these in my actual home, but for now I'm going to have to content myself with telling people that they're incredible and that you should treat yourself.

Rose Schmits@roseschmits.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Get one of these beauties

Falkner writing a pissy letter to the minister going “its been six months and trannies are still legal what gives“ is quite funny tho

The Repair Shop with Werner Herzog: Guest: "Stunning work, thank you" WH: "How do you feel seeing this object, a symbol of your dead wife? Though constructed of crude, worthless materials, it has been resurrected like some cheap miracle, mocking your grief and dead wife, now condemned to oblivion."

we fucked up a perfectly good planet is what we did. look at it. it's got billionaires

I have never heard praise for generative AI from someone I respect creatively

babe what if we kissed outside the temporary hospital for scurvy-ridden whalemen who had been trapped in the ice for months