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"The notification on the edge of the screen was mine. I was Mr Messages. I will not be again."

From now on, the emails generated by Fallen London will be from 'Fallen London'. The enigmatic Mr 'messages' has met its end. Who was Mr messages? Shhhh.

I've eaten all I can, it's not enough ♫

I don't think I actually had one of my own but I swear there was a Lego set based loosely on this thing when I was a kid that I saw in a catalog and coveted.

Here are several Sally lightfoot crabs (Grapsus grapsus). The baby crabs are dark in color for camouflage. The adults have colorful patterns. The atmosphere is bright and happy.

🦀 Sally lightfoot crab

screenshot of a Fallen London item tooltip: "A Firm Conviction of the Absence of the Supernatural There's always a rational explanation — if your system of logic is expansive enough. The Firm Conviction is a Hat. Watchful +1; Persuasive +8; Reduces Nightmares build up."

crop of the previous image: "The Firm Conviction is a Hat."

"Is this a pigeon?" meme except it's Failbetter Games gesturing to various Fallen London items — Sebastian the Nocturnal Smotherer (a cat), Song Stuck in Your Head (music), and A Disquieting Suspicion That You Might Be Spiders and A Firm Conviction of the Absence of the Supernatural (abstract beliefs) — and saying "Is this a Hat?"

was looking over some of my @failbettergames.com Fallen London gear and this image appeared fully formed in my mind

Black silhouettes of several Among Us crewmates drawn on an orange background. There's several regular crewmates, and some themed such as a witch, a dead body, a ghost, an x-ray with a single bone, one with a jack-o-lantern face, one with a toothy smile based on the usual imposter, and one with stitches.

spooky amongis #amongus

Text on screen says "Viper Role - Old Concepts" Below are: Exhibit A) A Crewmate's body dissolving through interdimensional means Exhibit B) An Impostor spewing a horde of tiny Impostors Exhibit C) The Impostor commanding an army of ants to kill a Crewmate Exhibit D) Killing a Crewmate through dehydration Exhibit E) Killing a Crewmate by creating a black hole where they stand

Viper had many cursed iterations before becoming the Impostor they are today! which rejected concept is ur fave? 🤔

Halal Ramen in Tokyo: A Look at the Expanding Scene - Unseen Japan Wanna enjoy one of Japan's signature dishes but still stay halal? These five shops in Tokyo serve noodles without the pork and booze.

Wanna enjoy one of Japan's signature dishes but still stay halal? Most ramen contains pork, as well as alcohol to preserve the noodles. These five ramen shops in Tokyo, though, go above and beyond to create a bowl that any Muslim can eat.

buff.ly/g1hpyKZ

A pen and ink drawing of a crab. Below it are two Faber-Castell PITT artist pens.

A pen and ink crab from this day in 2016. Still a favourite of mine. 🦀

Drew Struzan's poster for John Carpenter's 1982 movie The Thing, which depicts a weird unearthly light emanating from the unseen face of a man wearing a parka in a wintry setting. Tagline: "The ultimate in alien terror."

The man who made movie poster art, well, *an art* has passed: the great Drew Struzan.

Loved his work.

Let's not forget how he was tasked to make a poster for The Thing in hours knowing only the premise of the original 1951 film. The paint was STILL WET when he handed it in.

May he rest in peace.

Sad news about the maestro, Drew Struzan. Back in the early '90s when I was new to the business, I had a very lucky experience visiting him in his studio in Pasadena with a group of other artists. To this day, I am amazed at the originals I got to look at that day.

RIP, sir.

Its almost like anti-porn laws are never actually about porn. 🤔

Friends, some advice if you plan on spending time outside in an animal costume, sharing for no particular reason:

-You will sweat a lot more than you think. Have water/snacks

-You cannot move well (the Left Shark guy is a trained experienced professional dancer). Don’t run or you’ll trip and fall.

what if there were one car company that did every shitty thing imaginable

Fondstew

Be the sort of person where even the rumor of your demise sparks a global depressive spiral and not the Ewok celebration from Return of the Jedi

the human brain: i will develop extremely good pattern recognition to avoid harmful encounters where they may spring up

also the human brain: what if every stupid thought i create out of anxiety was treated like it was real and i give my meat gundam so many problems

A disturbingly colourful Lego diorama featuring a rocky outcrop from which some kind of industrial effluent discharges into a river. Whatever is flowing out of that pipe is virulently green and most definitely hazardous to any kind of environment. All the fish in the river are dead and most of the plant life has succumbed. There are also a number of chemical drums that have clearly been dumped, bearing radiological and other hazard warnings. Several of the drums are leaking. Fortunately, there is a four person Hazmat team on the case, all properly suited up and toting various detectors and other equipment. From the other side of the river, a reporter is giving a piece to camera. Bricksanto are probably in for some serious fines once news of this gets out.

A front-on view of a Lego environmental disaster. The various abandoned drums of who-knows-what horrors are rather brightly-coloured but anything but cheerful. Whatever is flowing out of the discharge pipe is obnoxiously green and looks to have killed every last fish in the river. One of the hazmat team has retrieved a dead fish. In her other hand she holds a Geiger counter. She looks horrified. Behind her is an assortment of electronic equipment, hastily set up on the crates it arrived in. Another member of the team is standing atop the outlet, where a blackened and nearly dead tree stands. It's branches hold a last few leaves, desperately clinging onto life. Another team member is balanced on some rocks in the middle of the stream, scanning the outflow with his Geiger counter, while the fourth member looks to be studying the main heap of leaky drums. On the opposite bank of the river, a reporter stands, microphone in hand, facing her cameraman.

A view upstream shows the true level of devastation this illegal chemical dump has caused. Most of the plants in and around the river are dead, and those that aren't look decidedly sickly. A number of dead fish float down the river. On the right-hand bank, the rocky ground rises over the effluent outlet, crowned by a black and almost leafless tree. A heap of various different chemical drums has been left at the foot of the outcrop. Some carry radiological hazard warnings while others simple display a skull and crossbones and "Danger." The four hazmat-suited scientists are busy examining the scene and collecting evidence, while a journalist on the other bank is giving a live report of the situation.

An elevated view of the rocky outcrop and the effluent discharge pipe that passes through it. One of the scientists is stood beside the nearly-dead tree, studying the remaining plant-life, a radiation detector held in one hand. At the base of the small, rocky hill, at least a dozen chemical drums lie in a disorganised heap. Some are red, others yellow, orange, green and black. Some are obviously damaged and are leaking who-knows-what. The plants around them are brown and lifeless. Another hazmat-suited scientist is passing a radiation detector over one of the drums. He looks worryingly excited, given that the gauge on his detector looks to be pinned at full scale. A dead fish is visible, floating on the stream.

It's #MinifigMonday (again!?) and this time there's more than just autumn leaves in the air. In fact the air probably contains a number of things no sensible minifig would want any part of. I'm not sure this team is entirely sensible, though. #Lego #AFOL #MOC #MyOwnCreation #Hazmat #ToxicWaste

Indigenous Nations Plan Tariff-Free Trade Corridor Across US-Canada border “We’re not begging for crumbs anymore. We’re demanding what’s rightly ours."

Indigenous Nations Plan Tariff-Free Trade Corridor Across US-Canada border ino.to/agDxSX2

Take it from a longtime editor/author/musician: no legitimate publisher/agent/book club/record label will ask you for money to work with you. Anyone who does is scamming and won’t do anything for you.

This is why we fund scientists to study things like oyster slobber even if you don’t think it sounds important

I love how people are acting like this is Bluesky's idea when once again, every website on the internet is going to either be doing this or geoblocking the state by next month because THE STATE PASSED A FUCKING LAW SAYING THEY HAVE TO

“40 cloves of garlic pasta sauce but with 40 bulbs instead”

Final clove count: 417!
Was it edible? Yes!
The verdict? The garlic is not the problem here, would make again but with some other adaptations.
Our house? Reeks.

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Illustration of RGB and Hero from the webcomic The Property of Hate, depicted as a devil and a ghost.

Kicking of the Monster Mashing season with @modmad.bsky.social 's RGB and Hero! Crossroads in a graveyard, what could be spookier?
#tpoh #commissionsopen

Went to ihop drunk at 4am and asked them to make the pancakes
Evil. Maybe one of the best escapades I’ve Ever been on LMFAOOOOO