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Ace chaos goblin. DM. Gamer. Entirely made of nerd. (see @ceebee514 for my gamer-goblin behaviour.)
I am now having to go back to "only one new episode a week" TV. I do not like it. Especially not when cliffhangers are involved. I may be slightly spoiled.
November 26, 2025 at 7:54 PM
I am now having to go back to "only one new episode a week" TV. I do not like it. Especially not when cliffhangers are involved. I may be slightly spoiled.
If I had to see this - if it had to exist - I'm glad I found it via a post from a lawyer offering help. The world scares me. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Reform’s ‘Trumpian’ legal threats hint at more aggressive approach to media
Ultimatums sent to publications appear to intensify as Nigel Farage’s party rises in polls
www.theguardian.com
November 25, 2025 at 10:15 AM
If I had to see this - if it had to exist - I'm glad I found it via a post from a lawyer offering help. The world scares me. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
No, seriously, this was a good one.
Today we streamed the demo for No More Work For Ito by @poeticasoft.bsky.social - and the verdict is that I would like it to be out immediately if not sooner please. Full review (no paywall) here. ko-fi.com/post/Demo-Di...
Demo Dive - NO MORE WORK FOR ITO
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November 25, 2025 at 12:58 AM
No, seriously, this was a good one.
A lot of indie movies, many filmed there but not set there, and The Whole Nine Yards.
November 23, 2025 at 7:37 PM
A lot of indie movies, many filmed there but not set there, and The Whole Nine Yards.
A few words about the VGAs, people who complain, and various bits of the industry, courtesy my inner ring-tailed trash gremlin.
Here's me, from the depths of my trash can, commenting about the Video Game Awards and how they influence the conversation by bringing other, less friendly trash goblins out of the woodwork: ko-fi.com/post/CeeBee-...
CeeBee News Dives - THE VIDEO GAME AWARDS
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November 22, 2025 at 4:51 PM
A few words about the VGAs, people who complain, and various bits of the industry, courtesy my inner ring-tailed trash gremlin.
I just can't even with today. (I know this happened months ago but I am learning it today on top of that whole "The US Condemns Socialsm" thing so...)
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Arnaud Bertrand @RnaudBertrand
In a normal world, this should be an immense scandal in Europe.
Le Monde has a long article describing the hellish life of Nicolas Guillou, a French judge at the ICC in The Hague, due to U.S. sanctions punishing him for authorizing arrest warrants against Netanyahu and Gallant for war crimes in Gaza.
Guillou's daily existence has been transformed into a Kafkaesque nightmare. He cannot: open or maintain accounts with Google, Amazon, Apple, or any US company; make hotel reservations (Expedia canceled his booking in France hours after he made it); conduct online commerce, since he can't know if the packaging is American; use any major credit card (Visa, Mastercard, Amex are all American); access normal banking services, even with non-American banks, as banks worldwide close sanctioned accounts; conduct virtually any financial transaction.
He describes it as being "economically banned across most of the planet," including in his own country, France, and where he works, the Netherlands.
That's the real shocking aspect of this: the Americans are:
- punishing a European citizen
- for doing his job in Europe
- applying laws Europe officially supports
- at an institution based in Europe
- that Europe helped create and fund
and Europe is not only doing essentially nothing to protect him, they're actively enforcing America's sanctions against their own citizen - European banks closing his accounts, European companies refusing him service, European institutions standing by while Washington destroys a European judge's life on European soil.
Again, in a normal world, European leaders and citizens should be absolutely outraged about this. But we've so normalized the hollowing out of European sovereignty that the sight of a European citizen being economically executed on European soil for upholding European law is treated, at best, as an unfortunate technical complication in transatlantic
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November 21, 2025 at 7:38 PM
I just can't even with today. (I know this happened months ago but I am learning it today on top of that whole "The US Condemns Socialsm" thing so...)
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You *promise*?
AI advocates have warned that if every author in the class action filed a claim, it would "financially ruin" the entire industry.
Authors celebrate “historic” settlement coming soon in Anthropic class action
Advocates fear such settlements will “financially ruin” the AI industry.
arstechnica.com
November 18, 2025 at 10:16 AM
You *promise*?
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Ponied up for a month of newspapers.com, went right to the New York Daily News and quickly found this gem from Feb 16, 1936.
November 18, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Ponied up for a month of newspapers.com, went right to the New York Daily News and quickly found this gem from Feb 16, 1936.
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1)I agree completely.
2)Brilliantly, the comments so far basically all agree with her
deadline.com/2025/11/the-...
2)Brilliantly, the comments so far basically all agree with her
deadline.com/2025/11/the-...
‘The Owl House’ Creator Dana Terrace Urges Fans To “Unsubscribe” From Disney+ Over AI User-Generated Content: “I Don’t Care”
As Disney+ flirts with a new feature allowing subscribers to create their own AI-generated content, Dana Terrace is drawing a line.
deadline.com
November 17, 2025 at 9:21 AM
1)I agree completely.
2)Brilliantly, the comments so far basically all agree with her
deadline.com/2025/11/the-...
2)Brilliantly, the comments so far basically all agree with her
deadline.com/2025/11/the-...
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The Pope after he rewatches Alien.
Some inspiring words on cinema in the streaming era from the Pope.
Yes, THAT Pope.
Yes, THAT Pope.
November 15, 2025 at 6:28 PM
The Pope after he rewatches Alien.
Don't mind me; gonna just sit, listen to a professional violinist cry over the Clair Obscur Expedition 33 OST and *side-eye* the Grammy nominations committeee. Not conspiracy-theory or anything, just ... my siblings in Christ, really?!?
November 14, 2025 at 10:29 PM
Don't mind me; gonna just sit, listen to a professional violinist cry over the Clair Obscur Expedition 33 OST and *side-eye* the Grammy nominations committeee. Not conspiracy-theory or anything, just ... my siblings in Christ, really?!?
For the music-lovers (specifically tagging @amalelmohtar.com here) - one of the best tracks on the Clair Obscur Expedition 33 OST. The album made the Billboard Classical Chart, no game tie-in required, and it's the composer's first professional album: www.youtube.com/watch?v=gwAL...
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 (Original Soundtrack) 130 - We Lost
YouTube video by Sandfall Interactive
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November 13, 2025 at 7:19 PM
For the music-lovers (specifically tagging @amalelmohtar.com here) - one of the best tracks on the Clair Obscur Expedition 33 OST. The album made the Billboard Classical Chart, no game tie-in required, and it's the composer's first professional album: www.youtube.com/watch?v=gwAL...
Not to be glib, but every book I've read has changed me in some way. That's why I read. But the biggest change came from the first books. I learned that books were a way of seeing worlds through the eyes of others, and how worthwhile that is, and ultimately, that's how I learned empathy.
performative reading, lack of reading skills, nobody's reading anymore -- NO!
tell me about a book that changed you
for me? the *extremely* ahistorical novel, THE AGONY AND THE ECSTASY which I read at 13 and was like, "Oh, art can be *everything* to a maker, for good and bad"
tell me about a book that changed you
for me? the *extremely* ahistorical novel, THE AGONY AND THE ECSTASY which I read at 13 and was like, "Oh, art can be *everything* to a maker, for good and bad"
November 12, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Not to be glib, but every book I've read has changed me in some way. That's why I read. But the biggest change came from the first books. I learned that books were a way of seeing worlds through the eyes of others, and how worthwhile that is, and ultimately, that's how I learned empathy.
This feels like a truly ugly and unfortunate precedent being set here. Traitorous wankers.
Matthew McConaughey and Michael Caine sign voice deal with AI company
Matthew McConaughey and Michael Caine sign voice deal with AI company
The voices of the Oscar-winning actors can now be used to create AI-generated versions in a new deal with ElevenLabs
Oscar-winning actors Matthew McConaughey and Michael Caine have both signed a deal with the AI audio company ElevenLabs.
The New York-based company can now create AI-generated versions of their voices as part of a bid to solve a “key ethical challenge” in the artificial intelligence industry’s alliance with Hollywood. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
November 11, 2025 at 7:21 PM
This feels like a truly ugly and unfortunate precedent being set here. Traitorous wankers.
I just spent fifteen minutes beating *one particularly annoying thing* in Clair Obscur. How can I enjoy a game *this much* when I spend FIFTEEN FUCKING MINUTES beating on ONE CREATURE? (Okay, granted a lot of it was spite because that thing destroyed me like three times, but STILL.)
November 10, 2025 at 7:10 PM
I just spent fifteen minutes beating *one particularly annoying thing* in Clair Obscur. How can I enjoy a game *this much* when I spend FIFTEEN FUCKING MINUTES beating on ONE CREATURE? (Okay, granted a lot of it was spite because that thing destroyed me like three times, but STILL.)
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 - not the *only* game where I rant interchangeably about "that fight is SUCH BULLSHIT" and "I am deconstructing the nature of life and humanity through various plot elements like I'm in some beatnik cafe", but it's the one I've been most vehement about both.
November 9, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 - not the *only* game where I rant interchangeably about "that fight is SUCH BULLSHIT" and "I am deconstructing the nature of life and humanity through various plot elements like I'm in some beatnik cafe", but it's the one I've been most vehement about both.
The front doors to our flats are thin and let in every noise in the corridor. Often there is crying, and this gets annoying, though I try to be patient. Today, they are trying to stave off the crying by singing Frere Jacques - which I haven't heard since I was a kid. In French, even.
November 9, 2025 at 3:04 PM
The front doors to our flats are thin and let in every noise in the corridor. Often there is crying, and this gets annoying, though I try to be patient. Today, they are trying to stave off the crying by singing Frere Jacques - which I haven't heard since I was a kid. In French, even.
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There is an old joke about a teacher asking, "What did Watson & Crick discover?" & a voice from the back of class muttering, "Rosalind Franklin's notes."
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This is the seminal paper written by Watson & Crick outlining the structure of DNA.
Rosalind Franklin should have been co-author on this publication.
She was just given a meager acknowledgement.
This is the seminal paper written by Watson & Crick outlining the structure of DNA.
Rosalind Franklin should have been co-author on this publication.
She was just given a meager acknowledgement.
November 9, 2025 at 5:27 AM
There is an old joke about a teacher asking, "What did Watson & Crick discover?" & a voice from the back of class muttering, "Rosalind Franklin's notes."
The only time I did 9 was at summer camp, and I was carrying our boom box into the dining cabin when it started to rain. Summer camp also got me really *good* at 17 - orienteering was one of my favourite morning activities.
November 8, 2025 at 11:20 PM
The only time I did 9 was at summer camp, and I was carrying our boom box into the dining cabin when it started to rain. Summer camp also got me really *good* at 17 - orienteering was one of my favourite morning activities.
...This is second only to the Millennium Falcon as LEGO SETS I REQUIRE IN MY LIFE.
November 6, 2025 at 8:14 PM
...This is second only to the Millennium Falcon as LEGO SETS I REQUIRE IN MY LIFE.
The UK government (successive ones, actually) are like, "We can't possibly have had this many people become disabled since 2019!" and I'm like, "Are you so determined to pretend Covid isn't a problem anymore that you forgot it even EXISTED?"
November 6, 2025 at 7:20 PM
The UK government (successive ones, actually) are like, "We can't possibly have had this many people become disabled since 2019!" and I'm like, "Are you so determined to pretend Covid isn't a problem anymore that you forgot it even EXISTED?"
I think this is one I'm going to nudge in the direction of @alasdairstuart.bsky.social - feels like his kind of vibe. Seriously - roaring 20s art deco aetherpunk noir. Gritty detectives, sweet ingenues, and hovercars (in playable chase / combat scenes, no less).
Review for Aether and Iron is now up! Basically, the vibe is "Roaring 20s Art Deco Aetherpunk Noir" and I'm vibing with it. ko-fi.com/post/Demo-Di...
Demo Dive: AETHER AND IRON
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November 6, 2025 at 1:11 AM
I think this is one I'm going to nudge in the direction of @alasdairstuart.bsky.social - feels like his kind of vibe. Seriously - roaring 20s art deco aetherpunk noir. Gritty detectives, sweet ingenues, and hovercars (in playable chase / combat scenes, no less).
First I thought @mxlabradorite.bsky.social. Then I thought @sfwarlock.bsky.social. Then ... well, then I thought EVERYONE ELSE I KNOW. Because apparently Austin hosts an International Pun World Championship. www.punoffatx.brushsquaremuseums.org
O. Henry Museum Pun-Off World Championships | Austin, TX
The Grand Daddy of all pun competitions is in Texas, in Austin, naturally. Is it the best? Yes. Is it the oldest? Definitely. Is it the funniest? Easily. The O. Henry Museum Pun-Off World Championship...
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November 5, 2025 at 8:46 PM
First I thought @mxlabradorite.bsky.social. Then I thought @sfwarlock.bsky.social. Then ... well, then I thought EVERYONE ELSE I KNOW. Because apparently Austin hosts an International Pun World Championship. www.punoffatx.brushsquaremuseums.org
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Good dick outlasts bad dick
Dick Van Dyke has OUTLIVED Dick Cheney
November 4, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Good dick outlasts bad dick
Went on annual leave with the typing queue halfway reasonable, ish.
Came back to nearly SEVEN HUNDRED REPORTS in the queue and a three-day backlog, partly because 'unexpected absences'.
Clearly I am no longer allowed to go on annual leave. I see a LOT of overtime in my future. AAAAAA.
Came back to nearly SEVEN HUNDRED REPORTS in the queue and a three-day backlog, partly because 'unexpected absences'.
Clearly I am no longer allowed to go on annual leave. I see a LOT of overtime in my future. AAAAAA.
November 4, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Went on annual leave with the typing queue halfway reasonable, ish.
Came back to nearly SEVEN HUNDRED REPORTS in the queue and a three-day backlog, partly because 'unexpected absences'.
Clearly I am no longer allowed to go on annual leave. I see a LOT of overtime in my future. AAAAAA.
Came back to nearly SEVEN HUNDRED REPORTS in the queue and a three-day backlog, partly because 'unexpected absences'.
Clearly I am no longer allowed to go on annual leave. I see a LOT of overtime in my future. AAAAAA.