Charles Hildebrandt

Sheffield, March 5, before the Soviet ICBM arrives.

Happy Threads Day to those who celebrate it.

#b5 #babylon5 #delenn #minbari

70 years of Forbidden Planet!

The soundtrack by Louis and Bebe Barron is amazing - the first time that electronic music was used in a mainstream Hollywood film, and it still sounds totally out there…

#vinyl #NowPlaying

Open Source TTRPG Resources Here's a collection of forever open licensed tabletop roleplaying games and resources. Borrowed from and inspired by the Forever Open Source RPG game jam series. Example Open Licenses Creative Commons Zero ("CC0"). Release your work into the public domain. The most open license. Creative Com

Come explore a large random selection of forever open source #TTRPG resources, from games to SRDs to art and more!

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#OpenSource #TabletopGames #IndieGames

No, it’s worse.

It’s a war without a political objective.

Plenty of wars have opened without a clear plan to reconcile desired ends with available means, we may be the first country to go to war without even a basic concept of victory.

War for the memes. War for the vibes. War for the Warriors.

Painting of two cloak wearing men with horses approaching a timber gate, with observation tower above, being opened by two shield carrying men whilst two men, a boy and a dog watch from the ramparts above

The late 5th c AD SW gate of Cadbury Castle hillfort #Somerset

Based on Leslie Alcock's 1968 excavation

Splendidly recreated with elevated platform in a painting © Peter Dennis for *British Forts in the Age of Arthur* by Angus Konstam @ospreypublishing.bsky.social 2008 🤩

#HillfortsWednesday

Was Lyonel Right About Baelor Being a 'Fraud' on A KNIGHT OF THE SEVEN KINGDOMS?

Was Baelor Targaryen a fraud? Let’s take a closer look.

The sitdown version of the Sega Star Trek arcade game from the early 1980s

If you had this at your local arcade you had a good childhood

Inside Project Hail Mary - NASA NASA astronaut and deputy director of the Flight Operations Directorate Kjell Lindgren takes a selfie with panelists and the audience at the agency's Jet

"NASA supported the creative team behind the movie with subject matter experts who answered questions from the crew, and Lindgren met with Gosling during filming to share insights on human spaceflight and being an astronaut."

What Is Iranian Air Power Strategy? What is Iran directly targeting, indirectly targeting, and can it succeed?

HI All, Just sent out this piece on Iranian air power strategy. It attempts to say what their strategy might be, based on what they are targeting and what systems they are using. As a strategy it is interesting, but is more likely to fail than succeed.

open.substack.com/pub/phillips...

FT comments section this morning - saying what everyone else is thinking, right?

Thank you to our friends at Rally the Troops (www.rally-the-troops.com) for this superb implementation of Imperial Struggle. I think this will give many of us, myself included, the opportunity to get many, many more plays in.

* takes long drag on cigarette, stares into middle distance *

Happy GM's Day to all the Game Masters out there! In honor of you, we're celebrating with up to 25% off select titles from GURPS, In Nomine, The Fantasy Trip, Dungeon Fantasy, and more. Dice and accessories are included, so get ready for your best campaign ever!

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#playsjgames

Bombing Because You Can: Iran Part VI: “True Regime Change (but Not Regime Change) from the Air Has Never Been Tried Before”

My general reaction to the last 96 hours of nonsense: My latest⬇️

U.S. sub sinks Iranian warship off Sri Lanka, killing 87 and expanding war zone A U.S. submarine sank an Iranian warship off the southern coast of Sri Lanka, killing dozens of sailors and dramatically widening Washington's pursuit of the Iranian navy.

A US submarine sinking a lonely, dinky Iranian surface ship an ocean away from the theater of the main conflict—and 9000
miles from North America—makes it pretty clear the US is fighting a general war, without the declaration required by the Constitution. www.reuters.com/world/asia-p...

Nancy Youssef, ..guil @ X.com @nancyayoussef The preliminary Pentagon cost estimate of the war in Iran is $1 billion a day, a congressional official told me. 12:20 PM • 3/4/26 • 44K Views

Preliminary Pentagon cost estimate of the war in Iran is $1 BILLION a day. So far.

Robust State Constitutionalism Can Protect Rights and Resist Authoritarianism We need a movement to fully unlock the potential for resistance by states

The future of our rights may depend on how state courts and the lawyers before them meet this moment.

Woman in the Moon: Climb Aboard a Rocket and Launch Sci Fi Cinema into Space! - Reactor How Fritz Lang and real-life rocket scientists helped define a century of cinematic space travel...

In 1929's "Woman in the Moon," Fritz Lang hired rocket scientists to make his film look as realistic as possible, creating the blueprint for all future cinematic space travel stories; let's discuss Lang, the Moon, and the history of SF!

Phase II version of V'ger

Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror premiered at the Berlin Zoological Garden on this date 104 years ago.

#filmsky #horrorsky #nosferatu

So, in launching a huge bombing campaign on Iran they apparently didn't plan for:

- Who takes over;
- Interceptor shortages from sustained drone retaliation;
- How to defend US bases in the region;
- Threats to ships in the Strait of Hormuz; and
- How to evacuate Americans with airspace closed.

MASQUERADE Review: Immersive PHANTOM OF THE OPERA Is a Quintessential NYC Experience

Masquerade is a new immersive theater reimagining of The Phantom of the Opera.

The Shadow War heats up, Londo faces a devastating loss and Sheridan brings Kosh into the conflict, with devastating consequences.

@ohtheprofanity.com joins @bazgreenland.bsky.social & @lukewinch.bsky.social to chat Interludes and Examinations!

#Babylon5 #Podcast

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Call of Cthulhu: The Sutra of Pale Leaves - Twin Suns Rising - Hardcover The home of Call of Cthulhu, RuneQuest, Pendragon, 7th Sea, and Questworlds. Your gateway to mythic adventure.

Congratulations to Damon Lang, Andrew Logan Montgomery, Jason Sheets, Yukihiro Terada, The Sons of the Singularity, and everyone else involved in bringing The Sutra of Pale Leaves to publication!

Nominated for Best Roleplaying Supplement

YouTube video by NJM Productions Alternate TOS Mutara Nebula Battle - Fan Re-Imagined w/ Physical Model Kits

One has got to love the enthusiasm of fans.

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Latest photos of the sanctioned Russian LNG tanker Arctic Metagaz in Mediterranean, after being hit by USVs (surface drones). Still floating but a complete loss for Russia.

Seems like the media should at least express some curiosity about this.

open.substack.com/pub/jonathan...

Guess we found the conflict we needed to save all that ordinance for lol

Maybe just maybe the Ukrainian policy of reducing the number of their troops on the front line was the right one and the Russian one of slaughtering their own population the wrong one.
Thankfully the Ukrainians did not listen to the terrible western analytic community on this.