A letterpress card in cream with all caps writing: R.E.M. GAVE ME UNREALISTIC EXPECTATIONS FOR HOW I'D FEEL AT THE END OF THE WORLD AS WE KNOW IT.
A greeting card for my Bluesky friends
Oh dear. I have discovered GDK. If I want already fat, I would be soon.
these three ghosts could've been an email
A telegraph news article about how Dungeons and Dragons has gone woke. Along with a bright picture of a happy woke fantasy realm
I don't see a marching order or a caller anywhere in this picture. These kids today are too woke for encumbrance rules. And what about the mind bondage spells they're meant to be casting on their parents? Bring back THAC0 and the d6 bell graph.
Medieval artist draws a UK plug
Medieval artists were an early form of generative AI
A glass containing my house me made Bailey's and ice
My home-made dairy free Baileys has now ruined all other Bailey's for me (I think mine has more sugar and chocolate)
Last night I dreamt about wandering lost for ages, not being able to find the way to my destination. But also that I had clocked up surprisingly few steps in the process.
This is missing busses, swimming pools and Wales.
Then I got a phone call from an entirely different number that I didn't recognise and ignored... But which when googled turned out to be the AA.
Got a text from the AA telling me to expect a call from them from a particular phone number (and including my membership number). So far, by the standards of this kind of thing, fairly reasonable. (would have been better if the message came from their app)
Be the person your AI thinks you are. (Posting because apparently this was an extraordinary insight)
Tim Davie has been banished, but was he a traitor?
When I make coffee, I sing "coffee coffee coffee goes the coffee machine" to the tune of a Canon photocopier advert from the 80s.
So... Maybe Quest Worlds?
Or given the word vibe, perhaps Over The Edge
I think, given it's post technology, I would want a system that worked well for fantasy. (Also, there is something about the setting which gives me an Arthurian vibe). However, I would want the PCs to be displaced 21st century 'normals', so I wouldn't want a strict class system.
This is a reminder that societal collapse is only really a collapse of the elites.
It's also a pitch for the setting of the next roleplaying game I run.
I've begun exploring my thoughts about Bluesky and AT Proto. Hopefully more to come as I look into this further.
In this world of vibe coded software written by AI, I'm rebranding as an artisanal software engineer.
My code is no longer ugly and buggy, it is rustic.
And I get to charge a premium for my creations
Thought I'm pondering:
In order to find the others, the first (and highest leverage) step is to make it easy for the others to find you.
They say the cause of the Aws issue is DNS.
Can we just assume all problems everywhere, up to and including the problem of evil are caused by DNS?
I blame Eddie Murphy. Sellers would have stopped the Louvre robbery. (Martin? Might have eventually solved it if it happened in his building)
A fake sounding British accent never stopped Spike being a real character.
Also Putin said he attacked Ukraine because of all the Nazis there. Putin is Antifa!
Wait! Hear me out! Was Trump intending to send the army in to help Poland?
In other news there is a company called "Fivetran"
Imagine the naming discussion:
"We've gotta be, what, 25% better than Fortran"
Ben standing outside of what the sign above his head says is the Coffee M eum
There was only one place I had to visit in Dubai. Though apparently there is no 'us' in Museum
(Also apparently there are lots of coffee museums around the world - 3 in Germany alone - but none in the UK. Why don't we have a coffee museum? Maybe I should start a coffee museum... )
Glad I met Liz Truss
