scowly green frog sprouting pink flowers
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scowly green frog sprouting pink flowers
It's March! New icon by the splendid @benfleuter.bsky.social.
Runescape. 25 years and counting.
Me testing and organising all my pens into jars: Ha Ha! I Have Defeated Entropy
Me a second later kicking one of the jars over accidentally: MOTHER F
@bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social Lads I'm really trying to do the right thing by buying @badancient.bsky.social's book off you direct instead of through the (cheaper) Bezos misery engine but how, exactly, are you 'out of stock' of an ebook that you are the publisher of? How does this happen?
I have been watching sumo since the late 1990s when American Pacific Islanders dominated the sport, then through the Mongolian era and of course Hakuho the GOAT.
This was one of the coolest, most exciting bashos I've ever seen. What a guy!
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five colours of gloomy frog pin badge
Note that thanks to Trump's idiot tariff nonsense I can't honour sales to the US (which is a big part of the problem.) Green, red and blue are still available in decent numbers.
gloomy frog badge
This sounds like one of those lame fake "we are selling our business ;_;" posts but I promise it actually isn't: last chance to buy one of the black Matsumoto Hoji frog pin badges, I've got ten left and I almost certainly won't be making any more. www.etsy.com/uk/listing/7...
I feel like the “effort to anyone-giving-a-shit ratio” of blogging has not been helped by feeling anything posted publicly is going to be copied and fed without my consent into the slop engines. But creating is still fun and recording it still feels worthwhile. brosencrantz.com/2025/11/16/b...
A drawing I made while writing Bridge of Storms, showing a small mobile city sheltering inside an earthwork.
The next Mortal Engines novel, Bridge of Storms, will be published early next year: philipreeveblog.blogspot.com/2025/08/brid...
Now on the blog: Taipei's tallest building, oldest street, and largest ball. brosencrantz.com/2025/04/03/m...
Let me counter by suggesting that every one of these should in fact say "you are a nerd and also wrong" except for Carolingian, which should say "you are a nerd and also correct."
@thisnorthernboy.bsky.social Ayyy
I was struck, during a lecture on the WW2 Eastern Front, by a distinguished British academic insisting on using loads of German terms (correctly pronounced, too) but absolutely none of their Russian equivalents. Did rather smell of cultural wehrabooism that time...
This week on the blog: some hot (OK, pretty tepid in 2025, but hopefully entertainingly scornful) takes on Chiang Kai-Shek at his memorial in Taipei, and some lovely tea plantations. brosencrantz.com/2025/04/02/g...
A sand castle in the shape of a Roman fort.
You, a peasant, go to the beach and make sand castles.
Me, a man with humanitas, makes a sand Roman playing-card fort, with fossa et agger.
The game's mechanics actually encourage Soviet urbanism and microdistricts: because you are responsible for providing all services, it's cheaper to build walkable districts than transport people to shops, and cheaper too to build denser and higher rise (so need fewer schools/shops/kindergartens).
I’m actually building a horrible industrial city with cheap workers’ barracks right now because I want to save resources for a big glam Stalinist skyscraper across the river to attract western tourists.
Workers & Resources: Soviet Republic does this well! All resources are simulated and better buildings cost more, so you are materially incentivised to build "just good enough" cities and services (steel is a particular bottleneck and there are always loads of other things competing for it).
This year has been so mad I've been to two more countries before having a chance to get out any more Taiwan blogs. But I'm going to do the thing properly! This time: Lungshan Temple and the National Palace Museum. brosencrantz.com/2025/04/01/a...
This week on the blog: Taroko Gorge! brosencrantz.com/2025/05/05/t...
Taiwan travelogue #2, mostly featuring RAIN and MUSEUMS with DELIGHTFUL ART and HIDEOUS REPRESSION. brosencrantz.com/2025/03/30/p...
gate of raohe st night market
I went to Taiwan! Back in the travelblogging saddle after many years (fear it's a bit rambly; I'm out of practice.) First entry: night markets, very damp atmospheric old town, a cat village, abandoned coal mines.
More soon.
brosencrantz.com/2025/03/29/o...
Spotted in south London chilling on a POANG.
very occasional blogpost: I bought a wicked new shoulder bag brosencrantz.com/2025/03/09/a...
Karst Vinegar. Hmm. That actually sounds pretty good.
brosencrantz.com/2025/02/19/o... I've been making my webcomic for a year now; here are some thoughts on what I've learned.
Here’s a trailer for my next home-made blockbuster, the Cream Tea Western PRAIRIE RASCALS.
youtu.be/CtolT7CHQRQ?...
City living
Two more pages of OUBLIETTE! That's it for the January update - but more coming next month. oubliettecomic.com?webcomic1=3-09
Case 2. 2017-18.