Ed Fortune
@edfortune.com
Journalist/Columnist for Starburst Magazine, print & online.
Popculture media type, covering books, games,TV, films,theatre & tech.
Podcaster, D&D person, that sort of thing.
He/Him. Edinburgh.
Popculture media type, covering books, games,TV, films,theatre & tech.
Podcaster, D&D person, that sort of thing.
He/Him. Edinburgh.
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another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls
December 27, 2025 at 5:27 PM
another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls
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If you can't find something on the TV this #boxingday , might we suggest catching up on our Solaris Presents online events? FREE, available anywhere in the world, ft. @premeemohamed.com @mattfnwallace.bsky.social @isabelcanas.bsky.social @mkhardywrites.com @voidcricket.bsky.social & more!
Solaris Presents
Free online events with your favourite authors on Crowdcast!
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December 26, 2025 at 9:23 PM
If you can't find something on the TV this #boxingday , might we suggest catching up on our Solaris Presents online events? FREE, available anywhere in the world, ft. @premeemohamed.com @mattfnwallace.bsky.social @isabelcanas.bsky.social @mkhardywrites.com @voidcricket.bsky.social & more!
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So, just to confirm, the BBC can’t keep Robin Ince on the air because his trans allyship brings the organisation into disrepute, but they can keep David Walliams, who performed Nazi salutes at the recording of this very show, on the air despite him being predatory towards women. Cool. Very normal.
December 21, 2025 at 10:59 AM
So, just to confirm, the BBC can’t keep Robin Ince on the air because his trans allyship brings the organisation into disrepute, but they can keep David Walliams, who performed Nazi salutes at the recording of this very show, on the air despite him being predatory towards women. Cool. Very normal.
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Oh, they absolutely do. We're all just here to be bit players in the glorious story of their meteoric success, and they don't understand why we won't turn the page.
December 26, 2025 at 9:47 PM
Oh, they absolutely do. We're all just here to be bit players in the glorious story of their meteoric success, and they don't understand why we won't turn the page.
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We are having a lovely time watching films we haven't watched in a while.
But can we just revisit what a good film 'The Mitchells vs the Machines' is?
But can we just revisit what a good film 'The Mitchells vs the Machines' is?
December 26, 2025 at 9:50 PM
We are having a lovely time watching films we haven't watched in a while.
But can we just revisit what a good film 'The Mitchells vs the Machines' is?
But can we just revisit what a good film 'The Mitchells vs the Machines' is?
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Dear AI bros, it's not AI itself we have a problem with, the kind that can detect cancers early or help people walk. May that continue. It's the content generation slop you foam at the mouth defending that we hate. It's theft and will never, EVER replace actual human creativity.
December 22, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Dear AI bros, it's not AI itself we have a problem with, the kind that can detect cancers early or help people walk. May that continue. It's the content generation slop you foam at the mouth defending that we hate. It's theft and will never, EVER replace actual human creativity.
Merry Christmas Everyone. Pippin Christmas for hobbit lovers also.
December 25, 2025 at 12:47 AM
Merry Christmas Everyone. Pippin Christmas for hobbit lovers also.
The reason Die Hard is a Christmas Movie is because Santa also takes his shoes off after a flight and makes fists with his toes on your rug, just before he puts presents under the tree.
December 24, 2025 at 12:14 AM
The reason Die Hard is a Christmas Movie is because Santa also takes his shoes off after a flight and makes fists with his toes on your rug, just before he puts presents under the tree.
Happy Christmas Adam everyone!
December 23, 2025 at 11:12 AM
Happy Christmas Adam everyone!
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Updated my phobia list thanks to this AP:
- Very big men
- Tunnels
- Pig Mascots
- Arcade Games
- self storage lockers
- The New Years Eve Ball
- Ice cream. Motherfucking ice cream.
- Very big men
- Tunnels
- Pig Mascots
- Arcade Games
- self storage lockers
- The New Years Eve Ball
- Ice cream. Motherfucking ice cream.
And with that, our Public Access campaign is over. So, so proud of this AP and the brilliant people behind it.
@jessjewell.bsky.social @masquewren.bsky.social @jasoncordova.bsky.social
youtu.be/KMhVKTUSuDs
@jessjewell.bsky.social @masquewren.bsky.social @jasoncordova.bsky.social
youtu.be/KMhVKTUSuDs
New Year's Eve, 1979 | Public Access: Part 12 | RPG Actual Play
YouTube video by The Bad Spot
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December 19, 2025 at 10:26 PM
Updated my phobia list thanks to this AP:
- Very big men
- Tunnels
- Pig Mascots
- Arcade Games
- self storage lockers
- The New Years Eve Ball
- Ice cream. Motherfucking ice cream.
- Very big men
- Tunnels
- Pig Mascots
- Arcade Games
- self storage lockers
- The New Years Eve Ball
- Ice cream. Motherfucking ice cream.
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Does anyone in or around London have a live chicken I can hire for one day in January? It’s for an episode of Philosophy Tube 🐓
December 22, 2025 at 12:44 PM
Does anyone in or around London have a live chicken I can hire for one day in January? It’s for an episode of Philosophy Tube 🐓
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@gailsimone.bsky.social Not in Canada, just in SPACE
December 22, 2025 at 8:41 AM
@gailsimone.bsky.social Not in Canada, just in SPACE
Where did it come from? Where did it go? No wait that's the 1994 club hit, Cotton Eye Joe. Sorry.
"has feminism gone too far" why where did it go, can it find its way back, does it have a map
December 22, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Where did it come from? Where did it go? No wait that's the 1994 club hit, Cotton Eye Joe. Sorry.
Issue 492 of @starburst.bsky.social has many great features, including my interview with the legendary George Takei, who is 88 years-old. (He was lovely, we had a right old natter.)
December 22, 2025 at 8:58 AM
Issue 492 of @starburst.bsky.social has many great features, including my interview with the legendary George Takei, who is 88 years-old. (He was lovely, we had a right old natter.)
Wishing a cool Yule to everyone who wants it and an "ooh isn't it dark" to those who don't.
December 21, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Wishing a cool Yule to everyone who wants it and an "ooh isn't it dark" to those who don't.
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There's Discourse about using genAI for writing research, and I want to add that every time I've done research (reading books, emailing the library, talking directly to experts, etc) I always stumble across something that inspires a new direction or adds depth that wouldn't have been there before.
December 20, 2025 at 11:23 PM
There's Discourse about using genAI for writing research, and I want to add that every time I've done research (reading books, emailing the library, talking directly to experts, etc) I always stumble across something that inspires a new direction or adds depth that wouldn't have been there before.
Possibly the most British moment on British television. And now here's FIVE! (Who all now almost fifty).
#Strictly
#Strictly
What a special touch! When Craig began I thought - it’s probably Queen Camilla - knew she was a fan - lovely #strictly
December 20, 2025 at 9:03 PM
Possibly the most British moment on British television. And now here's FIVE! (Who all now almost fifty).
#Strictly
#Strictly
Apparently in Manchester's Northern Quarter, a new 'Carnivores' restaurant has opened. It's ran exclusively by T-Rex.
I hear the food is great but the service is terrible due to staff issues.
They're always short-handed.
I hear the food is great but the service is terrible due to staff issues.
They're always short-handed.
December 20, 2025 at 10:26 AM
Apparently in Manchester's Northern Quarter, a new 'Carnivores' restaurant has opened. It's ran exclusively by T-Rex.
I hear the food is great but the service is terrible due to staff issues.
They're always short-handed.
I hear the food is great but the service is terrible due to staff issues.
They're always short-handed.
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Shameless self promotion, my "red Gobbo" got show cased on the Warhammer community page today!
Feeling very good.
#warhammercommunity
#wh40k
#nerdlings
@starburst.bsky.social
Feeling very good.
#warhammercommunity
#wh40k
#nerdlings
@starburst.bsky.social
December 18, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Shameless self promotion, my "red Gobbo" got show cased on the Warhammer community page today!
Feeling very good.
#warhammercommunity
#wh40k
#nerdlings
@starburst.bsky.social
Feeling very good.
#warhammercommunity
#wh40k
#nerdlings
@starburst.bsky.social
It's worse than that. If you try to fix it by changing the fluff / back-story, it actively resists.
Or to put it another way; I fought the lore, and the lore won.
Or to put it another way; I fought the lore, and the lore won.
I'm a little disturbed by the lack of balance in the licenced the Clash TTRPG. I've been looking at the pre-generated characters, and if my math is correct, one of them incapable of not succeeding in ANY skill check. Rudie can't fail.
December 18, 2025 at 8:22 PM
It's worse than that. If you try to fix it by changing the fluff / back-story, it actively resists.
Or to put it another way; I fought the lore, and the lore won.
Or to put it another way; I fought the lore, and the lore won.
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Mad Max Goes Upbeat in the latest Dimension Twenty show.
#Dropout #Dimension20 #BrennanLeeMulligan #GladLands
Link below.
#Dropout #Dimension20 #BrennanLeeMulligan #GladLands
Link below.
www.starburstmagazine.com
December 17, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Mad Max Goes Upbeat in the latest Dimension Twenty show.
#Dropout #Dimension20 #BrennanLeeMulligan #GladLands
Link below.
#Dropout #Dimension20 #BrennanLeeMulligan #GladLands
Link below.
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I went and wrote it. Here are some things you can do as a ttrpg project manager to make freelancing fun and easy:
barilleon.com/managing-ttr...
barilleon.com/managing-ttr...
December 15, 2025 at 11:31 PM
I went and wrote it. Here are some things you can do as a ttrpg project manager to make freelancing fun and easy:
barilleon.com/managing-ttr...
barilleon.com/managing-ttr...
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we can kill them all if we just work together and ✨believe💫
December 15, 2025 at 5:11 PM
we can kill them all if we just work together and ✨believe💫
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A lovely @crunchyroll.com care parcel has arrived!
Thank you to the team and the amazing #Demonslayer creators.
Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Infinity castle is the highest grossing Japanese movie of all time and the 5th highest across the globe in 2025, earning $738M worldwide.
Thank you to the team and the amazing #Demonslayer creators.
Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Infinity castle is the highest grossing Japanese movie of all time and the 5th highest across the globe in 2025, earning $738M worldwide.
December 15, 2025 at 2:28 PM
A lovely @crunchyroll.com care parcel has arrived!
Thank you to the team and the amazing #Demonslayer creators.
Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Infinity castle is the highest grossing Japanese movie of all time and the 5th highest across the globe in 2025, earning $738M worldwide.
Thank you to the team and the amazing #Demonslayer creators.
Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Infinity castle is the highest grossing Japanese movie of all time and the 5th highest across the globe in 2025, earning $738M worldwide.
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The person of the year is just outside of the frame, sawing through the girder.
I guess it's fitting that it's a reimagined, worse version of someone else's artwork
December 14, 2025 at 10:44 AM
The person of the year is just outside of the frame, sawing through the girder.