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Hypothetical question: how many times can a columnist or commentator blatantly lie in public before they should expect to be punched on the face?
Basically, take the amount of money you think your favorite author gets, halve it, and then halve it again, and you have a number that's probably a lot closer to their actual earnings from writing.
"But I don't think they make that much!"
Halve that. Halve it again.
Holy wow
No no, this one is very, very American.
There’s no handbook or program for how to talk to a friend or family member who is falling into AI psychosis. So after many people contacted us clearly suffering from these delusions, we spoke to mental health experts. Here’s what they suggest: www.404media.co/ai-psychosis...
Not for board games. Also I promised photos.
Phil, a warning. I did this a few months ago for my board-game collection, and the post got 236 likes, and I was able to find 236 games that I owned but had never played, and the shame has still not left me. (And my collection has grown since then.)
It's 2026.
Puberty blockers have been banned on the basis of a fake study conducted by a generalist paeditrician.
Hormones for under 18s have been banned on the basis of a fake review conducted by a head injury specialist.
Both remain available for cis kids because that's 'different' somehow
Gets increasingly rah-rah-USArmy as it goes on too. Wants to be Predator meets Terminator, ends up not as good as Robot Jox.
War Machine (Netflix). Honestly, don't bother. Spends half an hour setting up a squad as the best of the best, then puts them in front of an enemy and they react like wide-eyed kindergarteners. The enemy design is pretty dumb too.
Based on the cracking Young Sherlock novels by @andylaneauthor.bsky.social though not as good as his early 1990s novel All Consuming Fire (Doctor Who teams up with a grown-up Sherlock Holmes to battle Azathoth).
It's easy to miss the artistry when you're listening on the radio but up close, watching her work, was a revelation about just how amateurish my efforts were in comparison.
(I tell this story too often.)
In so many arts the skill is in looking natural, hiding how much work lies under the surface.
It's an extraordinary skill, made harder because it must appear effortless.
Similarly I've interviewed people since my teens, for print, audio and video, and thought I was good, but a couple of years ago I was on Radio 4 and was stunned by the sublime technique of @samiraahmeduk.bsky.social (cont.)
We are long overdue a catch-up and chinwag.
The Five Stages of Groove:
1. Denial Rogers
2. Herbie Mannger
3. BeeGeening
4. Deee-pression
5. Acceptrance
simonoxfphys on insta
Wind turbines kill birds, yes but...
"Behold, I bring you the Uber vehicle!"
George Plimpton. Co-founded the Paris Review, boxed Sugar Ray Leonard, drank with Hemingway, Fireworks Commissioner of New York, wrote Paper Lion, wrestled Sirhan Sirhan to the ground after he shot RFK, cameos in over 30 movies, often as himself, and much more.
A suggestion for a new group term for services like Deliveroo, Just Eat, Uber Eats and the rest: let's just call them 'Tepid Food'.
Flatland arachnid
Photo from the early 1970s of a man on horseback negotiating the Birmingham inner ring road at Holloway Head
I’m searching for the original and/or rights owner of this fabulous picture of Birmingham in the early 1970s. It popped up on my Instagram feed, but I’ve been unable to track it down.
Any leads? I’m really hoping to use it in a book.
(And would much appreciate a RT please)
I've been running gdcparties.com for a few years now. Some shitty company BlueberryAI decided they'd just take all the source code for the work I've done and reskin it, advertising it as their own. Jokes on them...it was still linked to my events spreadsheet, and now their website looks like this 😉
The transition from the AD&D pages and pages of lookup combat tables to THAC0, a single number, is one of the great leaps forward in mainstream RPG design.
To my Canadian friends, an acquaintance started a petition to allow US transgender citizens to claim refugee status here.
www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...
If you’re Canadian please sign it.
If you’re not, please share ❤️
Me interacting with what is definitely an "aye eye" and it drew me a wonderful birb
I love this site so much youraislopbores.me
Are there any 1978 Argos catalogues online? Was it actually stocking D&D in 1978?
Irrelevant
Didn't something similar happen in Anchor Man?
