Ben from Crudely Drawn Swords

I mean come on, people. Give those braincells something modern to play!

I saw that on New & Notable - my one concession to keeping up with things is listening to that most days, which is about 20% unlistenable, 70% unremarkable, and has introduced me to some of my favourite music of the last few years.

I imagine Zeno would be very relaxed about the Trolley Problem.

What did you find?

Americans can go to a gas station and get a decent baguette now???

all together now

IS
THIS
GOOD

Then one day you'd be watching 3,2,1 and wondering if that was your dad on the telly.

If there aren't threats both above and below ground can your players even be said to be wombling free?

I will spend so long staring at the board and three clues trying to work out what the hell I'm supposed to do with this, while ignoring a fourth clue I have totally forgotten about.

I was staging a tribute to The Fall in the back garden but it's a tribute to the film using concrete sculpture - currently we're setting the Pace.

I will immediately sign up to whatever streaming service brings me Miles Vorkosigan. Even Apple.

There's nothing like them - utterly unique and self-confident.

Yes! One of those fake tapes that connects to a headphone jack.

Impeccable jianghu vibes.

One day (probably already tbh) this too will be a comedy bit.

In a way the corporate video networks are creating a kind of Internet Polari - whether or not it endures will tie into the censorship in question but it's an interesting example of the unexpected things that can drive linguistic shifts.

Cover of Dunnett’s The Game of Kings

Have to have Dorothy Dunnett here. She was so extraordinarily good. This begins her Lymond Chronicles. She was someone I knew, later, was so gracious to someone so much younger, before I’d written anything. Plus her husband Alastair taught me to put a little water in my whisky. #worldbookday

Covers of books by Patrick Samphire. The Mennik Thorn series (Epic fantasy mystery). The Secrets of the Dragon Tomb series (Middle Grade adventures). The Casebook of Harriet George series (Murder mysteries on Mars). And my short story collection, At the Gates and Other Stories.

It's World Book Day, and I do have books in the world, so, you know, I think you're legally required to buy them. I think that's how it works.

patricksamphire.com/books

You start googling the Meldrew Threshold with increasing concern.

If anything you were the opposite of littering! The streets rendered tidy despite the challenges that presented.

Got to hit that page count somehow!

I guess it jumped a generation.

Also all kids are weird. No point pretending otherwise.

FAO @alihancock.bsky.social

I always go back to the bash console.

Quite the opposite, it is a blessing and a guide. Do not find yourself in the situation I'm in. Nine bloody frames of that damn crown.

In particular I recommend this thread of Cockney Hacker slang: bsky.app/profile/brai...

every day I see the latest plan for how racists are going to have my wife patriotically repatriated, and yet if I were to suggest anything along the same level of senseless life-ruining violence toward them, I would probably be in trouble. this imbalance in fairness doesn't seem just tbh

It's so good! An all-time show for me. We're pretty bad at TV here, too, but we've watched it at least three times by this point.

Paddy - biometric security, from Saint Patrick/biometric.

Farm - multi factor authentication, from farm and tractor.

Going nomad - using a burner phone via mobile home -> caravan.

Coasting - using peer to peer networking instead of corporate networks, a play on "pier".

Have you ever watched Nirvana In Fire?