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@chompmancobra.bsky.social

Winner: Scotland's Most Best Face (23/24 season) Icon: a smiling bearded man in a blue vest and white cap, a Mediterranean hillside behind Banner: a frosty winter scene from up a hill, a low sun shining between low cloud and a layer of mist

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You'd think that for this country in particular they might have had a teeny tiny clue

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04.03.2026 08:35 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

At least you never got The Haircut

04.03.2026 08:29 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

You're saying it's diverged

04.03.2026 08:28 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Paul Weller may be a self absorbed prick, but, sorry I forgot where I was going with this

04.03.2026 08:26 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

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I bet they spent a lot less wrecking these than they cost to build. And they've got a lot more janky but effective $20,000 drones than America has 4 million dollar interceptors

04.03.2026 08:21 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Can it really be crime when it's carried out by such a lovable oaf?

04.03.2026 08:09 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

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04.03.2026 08:05 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Greg: That Minotaur is definitely slain, and that was the only part of the task

Alex: well, there was that part about the sails on the other side of the paper

Theseus: the what on the other side of the what?

Theseus's Dad: bobs, deadly

03.03.2026 20:54 — 👍 4    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

This is my favourite thread of these because jack's icon includes "I gave you all the clues"

04.03.2026 07:54 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I couldn't vote for her either. Even knowing what I know now I simply could not vote for Kamala Harris

04.03.2026 07:53 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

It sounds great, "subscription cost for advanced AI features" which is great because I'll just not pay, but "copilot will be a core feature" yeah no

Increasingly clear my next PC is going to run Linux, and this old windows 11 one can struggle on for another year or two

04.03.2026 07:52 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Microsoft requiring people to buy new hardware to run the compulsory AI features of their new OS isn't going to work out well for them when the AI sector using the world's supply of storage and memory has caused hardware costs to go through the roof. You don't need a NPU to run Linux

04.03.2026 06:52 — 👍 18    🔁 8    💬 2    📌 0
A screenshot of my timeline, featuring a sunrise shot from "sea window Craster" that looks very like the Big Boat Kaboom, and Dread's post with the Big Boat Kaboom which looks very like a sunrise

A screenshot of my timeline, featuring a sunrise shot from "sea window Craster" that looks very like the Big Boat Kaboom, and Dread's post with the Big Boat Kaboom which looks very like a sunrise

Little bit of timeline serendipity this morning

04.03.2026 07:42 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I made sure to point out how annoying that was, as is my duty as the GM

03.03.2026 23:43 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

He's a tough crowd (but a good egg). He was forced to make some pictures with his mind (the horror) but also I could tell he enjoyed getting some synergy going with the armour: he had a thing where he could spend resolve to remove threat but then get resolve back at the end of the turn.

03.03.2026 23:42 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
A league table excerpt showing Wolves have 8 games to play and only 16 points, but also that they've won 2 in a row, whereas Spurs have 10 games still to play and 29 points but have lost four games in a row. 

8 wins would take Wolves to 40 points, while 10 more straight losses for Spurs might be the funniest thing I ever will or could see

A league table excerpt showing Wolves have 8 games to play and only 16 points, but also that they've won 2 in a row, whereas Spurs have 10 games still to play and 29 points but have lost four games in a row. 8 wins would take Wolves to 40 points, while 10 more straight losses for Spurs might be the funniest thing I ever will or could see

That's what it was! I was hearing "pillow" or "mirror"

I think it's great to celebrate because 1) might as well celebrate the occasional high point in a doomed season, and 2) they're no longer going to get the unwanted "even worse than Derby's legendarily bad season" award

Plus 3) they couldn't...

03.03.2026 23:14 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

In all honesty I'm having trouble with that accent

03.03.2026 23:05 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

You're being unnecessarily harsh Cole. Wolves are a decent side. They beat Aston Villa only a few days ago and (unlike Liverpool) Aston Villa are a top-four side.

In the Champions League places, they are. A proper football team.

03.03.2026 22:58 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

This man has been in power, with one minor spelling change and two changes of his face through some weird Mullah powers, for seventy years!

03.03.2026 22:33 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

There's been a Big Boat Kaboom today but I'm unsure if that counts

03.03.2026 22:24 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
A screenshot (a phone camera snap of my computer screen) with the Hollows combat map and some various tokens

A screenshot (a phone camera snap of my computer screen) with the Hollows combat map and some various tokens

Unrequested Hollows playtest feedback for @gshowitt.bsky.social :

We liked it a lot! (except Martin, who said there was too much role-playing, by which he means "any"; that's just what he's like). I'm running it again next week and will probably do a proper campaign later.

03.03.2026 22:07 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Which is probably better than Cormac McCarthy ass-posting

03.03.2026 21:43 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

(Run on sentence there without a single comma)

03.03.2026 21:32 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

My barber yesterday turned out to be an Iranian Kurd (or Kurdish Iranian) and he said he was glad Khamenei was dead because he was a bastard but that Pahlavi was just as bad and also he couldn't even control his wife and children let alone a country so on my sample of 1 person it's not looking good

03.03.2026 21:28 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Greg: That Minotaur is definitely slain, and that was the only part of the task

Alex: well, there was that part about the sails on the other side of the paper

Theseus: the what on the other side of the what?

Theseus's Dad: bobs, deadly

03.03.2026 20:54 — 👍 4    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

Get out of here Stalker!

I can't, I'm stranded on a desert island

03.03.2026 19:11 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

And yes Indy has its bigots but never forgot the most powerful one of all "you're sounding a bit English about this, we're better than that"

03.03.2026 19:08 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

We've still got the yellow one with the... is it a lion? on it

03.03.2026 19:07 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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How Trump's loathing for wind turbines started with a Scottish court battle The US president is a vocal critic of wind energy - and it's a loathing which began in Aberdeenshire.

Hi, Scotland correspondent here. It's because of his shitty golf course

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

03.03.2026 19:06 — 👍 39    🔁 1    💬 2    📌 0

The haters already have the union flag though, why can't we have the Saltire

03.03.2026 18:54 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0