Julian Simpson
@juliansimpson.bsky.social
Writer-director. Aldrich Kemp, Lovecraft Investigations etc.
Married to @maybeitwasutah.bsky.social
Main site: https://www.cartoongravity.com/
Substack: https://developmenthell.substack.com/
Married to @maybeitwasutah.bsky.social
Main site: https://www.cartoongravity.com/
Substack: https://developmenthell.substack.com/
Wednesday Wonders 6
IA Writer, Last Dance, Kowloon's Walled City, Yoshitoshi Kanemaki.
www.cartoongravity.com
September 10, 2025 at 6:56 AM
This was really fun.
Tomorrow I’ll be talking to @juliansimpson.bsky.social at 4pm BST, which is a bit earlier than usual. Come along and ask all things Crowley, TLI, audio drama or whatever else your heart desires!
In case you haven’t already seen where to go, we’re streaming here: twitch.tv/blackabbeyproductions
In case you haven’t already seen where to go, we’re streaming here: twitch.tv/blackabbeyproductions
September 9, 2025 at 5:02 PM
This was really fun.
If you like audio, or fantasy, or fantasy audio, you need to be across Max Blair's Last Dance. The Kickstarter launches in a week, so PLEASE sign up for notifications. It costs you nothing to show some support to an indy creator and help him get the ball rolling. www.kickstarter.com/projects/las...
Coming soon: Last Dance: A Dark Fantasy Audio Drama
Last Dance is an Award nominated, Epic, Celtic fantasy raising funds for its second series. For fans of folklore, mystery, horror
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September 9, 2025 at 5:01 PM
If you like audio, or fantasy, or fantasy audio, you need to be across Max Blair's Last Dance. The Kickstarter launches in a week, so PLEASE sign up for notifications. It costs you nothing to show some support to an indy creator and help him get the ball rolling. www.kickstarter.com/projects/las...
Annoying “today’s office” post.
September 4, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Annoying “today’s office” post.
The new Audi concept car looks very nice. Still no indicators, presumably. www.wired.com/story/aud…
The Concept C Is the All-Electric Sports Car Kick-Starting Audi’s Design Future
The TT-inspired roadster debuts Audi’s new strategy for “radical simplicity”—and it looks terrific.
www.wired.com
September 3, 2025 at 8:06 AM
The new Audi concept car looks very nice. Still no indicators, presumably. www.wired.com/story/aud…
September 3, 2025 at 7:41 AM
I might have to stop collecting pocket notebooks soon.
September 1, 2025 at 4:35 PM
I might have to stop collecting pocket notebooks soon.
Reposted by Julian Simpson
General reminder that our month-and-a-bit of streams starts next week, with a slightly revised time for @juliansimpson.bsky.social
Be there and/or be square!
Be there and/or be square!
August 30, 2025 at 2:40 PM
General reminder that our month-and-a-bit of streams starts next week, with a slightly revised time for @juliansimpson.bsky.social
Be there and/or be square!
Be there and/or be square!
Today’s “Wednesday Wonders” is now up on the site.
August 27, 2025 at 6:08 AM
Today’s “Wednesday Wonders” is now up on the site.
Went to see Weapons last night. So refreshing to see someone thinking outside the box and doing something different. Unusually, I hadn’t seen any trailers and, if it’s not too late, I recommend you do the same.
August 26, 2025 at 8:43 AM
Went to see Weapons last night. So refreshing to see someone thinking outside the box and doing something different. Unusually, I hadn’t seen any trailers and, if it’s not too late, I recommend you do the same.
Honestly, if someone is getting AI to write their wedding speech, you SHOULD NOT MARRY THEM. Get a ChatGPT subscription and a vibrator, it's going to be cheaper and a lot less disappointing in the long run.
Looking at how much AI has affected my wedding speech business. This time last year, the previous four weeks I’d earned £2000 through speeches. This year it’s £225.
Food’s overrated, anyway.
Food’s overrated, anyway.
August 25, 2025 at 10:41 AM
Honestly, if someone is getting AI to write their wedding speech, you SHOULD NOT MARRY THEM. Get a ChatGPT subscription and a vibrator, it's going to be cheaper and a lot less disappointing in the long run.
Reposted by Julian Simpson
This is outstanding. God knows what Labour is doing: legitimising the racism that'll be its undoing, losing the coalition which put it in office, trying to secure voters who will never support it, digging its own moral grave.
observer.co.uk/news/opinion...
observer.co.uk/news/opinion...
Politically acceptable UK racism is rising, even under La...
As I wrote these words last autumn: “We have made progress... even though that progress remains fragile and insufficient”, little did I realise just how ...
observer.co.uk
August 25, 2025 at 7:54 AM
This is outstanding. God knows what Labour is doing: legitimising the racism that'll be its undoing, losing the coalition which put it in office, trying to secure voters who will never support it, digging its own moral grave.
observer.co.uk/news/opinion...
observer.co.uk/news/opinion...
August 25, 2025 at 7:43 AM
The latest newsletter is winging its way to subscribers. Pens, a Prairie-style house in Cornwall, talking to whales, missing Orient Express trains - your Sunday rabbit-hole is opening up:
Cartoon Gravity 37
Cartoon Gravity 37
Cartoon Gravity 37
Hello and welcome to another Sunday. I find myself emerging from another period of digital indecision, as I mess around trying to figure what apps I need to do what (and then inevitably end up writing whatever-it-is down on a piece of paper). I won't bore you with the ups
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August 24, 2025 at 10:13 AM
The latest newsletter is winging its way to subscribers. Pens, a Prairie-style house in Cornwall, talking to whales, missing Orient Express trains - your Sunday rabbit-hole is opening up:
Cartoon Gravity 37
Cartoon Gravity 37
Current listening: Miles Davis, “55”. I don’t need to tell you how good this is.
August 23, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Current listening: Miles Davis, “55”. I don’t need to tell you how good this is.
Recently finished reading: Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell 📚, which is stupendously good. I still prefer Bone Clocks, but that may be because it was the first of his that I ahd read. I think if I had read Cloud Atlas when it came out, and known nothing about it, I would still be in recovery.
August 23, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Recently finished reading: Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell 📚, which is stupendously good. I still prefer Bone Clocks, but that may be because it was the first of his that I ahd read. I think if I had read Cloud Atlas when it came out, and known nothing about it, I would still be in recovery.
Fellow micro.bloggers, please make yourselves known.
August 23, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Fellow micro.bloggers, please make yourselves known.
This works in IA Writer: https://cartoongravity.micro.blog/2025/08/23/this-works-in-ia-writer.html
August 23, 2025 at 2:27 PM
This works in IA Writer: https://cartoongravity.micro.blog/2025/08/23/this-works-in-ia-writer.html
OK. So micro.blog seems to be a way to post and interact on Bluesky etc without being subjected to everyone else’s bastard opinions?! Essentially it allow me to scream out the window, which is what I would have been doing anyway.
August 23, 2025 at 1:36 PM
OK. So micro.blog seems to be a way to post and interact on Bluesky etc without being subjected to everyone else’s bastard opinions?! Essentially it allow me to scream out the window, which is what I would have been doing anyway.
Trying out the micro.blog service. Things might get a little weird for a while.
August 23, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Trying out the micro.blog service. Things might get a little weird for a while.
Out to Pro subscribers now: www.cartoongravity.com/on-world-bui...
On World-Building apps
The best tools for building worlds.
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August 23, 2025 at 11:41 AM
Out to Pro subscribers now: www.cartoongravity.com/on-world-bui...
Reviews don't get better than "Forgot where I was while at the dentist"!
Regular reminder that The Lovecraft Investigations by @juliansimpson.bsky.social is just about one of the finest podcasts/audio dramas that there is.
Was at the dentist on Friday and listening to it in the chair (for third time) and actually forgot where I was for periods. It's just *that* good.
Was at the dentist on Friday and listening to it in the chair (for third time) and actually forgot where I was for periods. It's just *that* good.
August 18, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Reviews don't get better than "Forgot where I was while at the dentist"!
For future reference, this is the thing that finally made me delete the BBC News app. Despite the picture of Dover, this happened in France. And he didn’t see anyone pull a knife, he heard about it afterwards. From an Express hack. This is not journalism.
August 13, 2025 at 1:46 PM
For future reference, this is the thing that finally made me delete the BBC News app. Despite the picture of Dover, this happened in France. And he didn’t see anyone pull a knife, he heard about it afterwards. From an Express hack. This is not journalism.
5 Things worth your time today: www.cartoongravity.com/wednesday-wo...
Wednesday Wonders 1
5 Things worth your time.
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August 6, 2025 at 8:09 AM
5 Things worth your time today: www.cartoongravity.com/wednesday-wo...