Kat Steiner🔸

The video tutorial about painting freehand on the cloak of my Wolf Guard Battle Leader is now available on my patreon! I had to split this tutorial into two 1h long videos because recording it took me over 8h, what makes it the longest video I ever made #warhammercommunity #warhammer #warhammer40000

It confused me, I need my big red button!

Gosh, that just conjured exactly that smell from my grandparents' kitchen for me, probably about 25 years ago!

So we're less than two weeks away from the Oxford temporary congestion charge, and although it's unlikely to come up for me, I am intrigued that there still doesn't seem to be any concrete information on how you pay £5 for a day's access if you want to do that: www.oxfordshire.gov.uk/transport-an...

Omg BRADLEY WHITFORD AND ALLISON JANNEY together again! It's a West Wing reunion 🥰 #TheDiplomat

Catching up with #TheDiplomat before the new series, and Rufus Sewell should not be allowed to be so handsome while playing such an amoral sleazebag.

We had a cat on the mostly residential road where I worked, who was a proper Six Dinner Sid - lots of elderly neighbourhood ladies as well as staff and students at my workplace feeding her. One took her to the vet and they rang the owners who were like "she's...not missing?"

Me, choosing between lunch at 11 or lunch at 2...ARGH.

Oh wow, absolutely not doing that! Would take approximately 5 hours.

Screenshot of train times all saying "No tickets available" for Sat 1 Nov.

LOVE to find out that there's a Cross Country train strike the day I need to get to Birmingham.

I love an omelette as a quick lunch (particularly if I have leftover roast veg or sausages or something that need eating). My OH things eggs are icky though so it's just for me.

Oh wow, that's a blast from the past. And definitely a name I've never heard or said out loud.

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Weirdly, in my head everything in Gormenghast is greyscale/sepia, even though I know the sculptures are described as colourful.

Woah!

I'm a massive Pratchett fan but I hated Monstrous Regiment.

I mean, for "classics", you basically have to if you don't want to know how it ends!

My friendly neighbourhood electrician who happily does small jobs agreed to replace my thermostat that's not broken, per se, but also not in full health. And all by email, no phone calls required!

Interestingly, the castle and general setting feels quite European to me, like a Gothic German Schloss or something, but the characters (particularly now there is Public School) are very English.

Yes. Like, Flay is a manservant whose knees make horrifying clicking noises every time he moves, but also we get to see him wrestling with being exiled from the only life he knew and the death of his master.

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I love how unrepentantly WEIRD all of Gormenghast is. The plot (so far) is basically "a woman is planning a society party; the young earl is yearning for a freedom he can't have", but it's constantly sidetracked by things lkme "all the schoolteachers hate each other" and "Barquentine is repulsive".

A street map of Oxford. Woodstock Road, Banbury Road and the streets in their immediate vicinity are coloured pink. Botley Road and streets off it are coloured green. Cowley Road, Iffley Road and Abingdon Road and streets off them are coloured blue. Streets in Marston and Headington are coloured orange. The ring road matches the colours at each junction and fades between colours as it goes around. A small area in the middle is coloured yellow, and labelled "Central Permit Area". THe Congestion Charge traffic filters are indicated by black circles circles with white segments, those white segments correspond on a 24 hour clock face with when the filter isn't operational (and the remaining black, when the filters are operational). Crosses mark other filters in the city that are enforced by ANPR but are not part of the Congestion Charge scheme. Text at the top of the image reads "Temporary Congestion Charge for Cars in Oxford 2025-2026. Any road outside the Central Permit Area can be accessed without passing any traffic filers by using the Ring Road and selecting an approporiate exit junction (matching colours on this map)." A key at the bottom matches the filter types, with text "Traffic Filters. Hollow Way & Marston Ferry Road 7-9am and 3-6pm. St Cross Road, Hythe Bridge Street, Thames Street and St Clements, 7am-7pm. £5 daily permit covers all Congestion Charge filters. Free Permits available. For example for residents, business use, health and car, SEND and disabilty. Congestion Charge permits do not apply for other filters, such as High Street or in East Oxford/Cowley." Small print reads "Full details at https://www.oxfordshire.gov.uk/transport-and-travel" and "©@sjgower Contains OpenStreetMap data © OpenStreetMap contributors. Locations of highway filters are approximate and for overview purposes only. v1.3"

I made an infographic map. Oxford's Congestion Charge scheme (from 29th Oct) is not like most congestion charge schemes, because you can get to most streets in the city without being charged. My impression is a lot of people haven't realised this.

Large open atrium with three floors, light and airy with lots of people sitting at white tables on red seats.

Impressive architectural ceiling of wooden slats in a sunburst or flower shape, over several mezzanine floors.

Bright red carpet of a sunken level with a closed bar.

Philosophy textbooks on shelves.

Had an excursion to @bodhumslib.bsky.social and the Schwarzman Centre - very impressive space and nice to see some familiar books I borrowed 15+ years ago in their new environments.

Thanks, I'm trying to figure out if it's from somewhere else, because the verbatim quote from Song of Achilles isn't what I remember, and I don't *think* it can have been from there.

I think it was quoted in something else I've read recently, although I can't trace what. And pretty much everything I've read recently is older than Song of Achilles, which is why I'm confused.

Can anyone help with a quote? Somewhere recently I came across a quote about Achilles and Patroclus, but I *don't* think it was from the Song of Achilles. It was something like "I would know you in the dark, were I blind and you dumb..." - is that from the Iliad? Or must it be from Song of Achilles?

An unexpected platform upgrade.

Frustrating! Mine is a combination of that and people wanting to miss out a little bit of the ring road by cutting through Hollow Way and nearby side streets, and then the Slade. Looking forward to seeing what happens!

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