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A screenshot from an Amazon email saying that they are cancelling my order due to lack of availability, though it had been pre-ordered three months ago.

Dear Amazon, this is not how pre-orders work!

engineer: does engineering

hedgeineer: does hedges

hengineer: builds stone monuments

Does the replacement come flat packed and you install it yourself, or do you have to get a hedge engineer (or hedgineer) round?

PEPOLE WILL GET ADDICTED TO ANY OLD SHIT NOW , TRY SOMETHING THAT ACTUALALY INTERACTS WITH YOUR RECEPTORS DUMMASS , "IM ADDICTED TO GOONING" GROW UP AND TURN OFF SOME OF YOUR MONITORS!!! SORRY BUT GROW UP!!!! "IM ADDICTED TO CHAT GPT" OK WELL IM ADDICTED TO TALKING TO A LIBRARY BOOK THAT I CHECKED OUT , BECUASE IM FUCKIN STUPID,,, SOME TIME'S IN LIFE YA JUST GOTTA ACCEPT YOUR NOT THE CREAM OF THE CREAM, YOUR JUST A REGULAR PERSON WHO EAT'S FOOD THAT COMES IN A CARDBOARD BOX , ME TOO, BUT I DONT TALK TO MY COMPUTER , AND IM DUMB AS SHIT, ANYWAY THE TEXT "YHOUR ADDICTED TO CHATING WITH GPT, EVER HEARD OF DRINKING BEER" - DASHARE.ZONE ADMIN

COME ON - dashare.zone ADMIN

I miss people using Photoshop to make batshit crazy images. It was funnier. There is also something special about being able to do something lots of people cannot do. Makes the final product worth looking at. You can see the work

A sazerac cocktail.

First sazerac. First time tasting Peychaud’s. Really nice!
#saturdaycocktails

The new releases page appears to be back!

Please - no AI images.

Every now and then the Earth's magnetic field completely switches poles, and all the polar bears and penguins have to change ends too.

BBC Sounds - A History of Ghosts - Available Episodes Listen to the latest episodes of A History of Ghosts on BBC Sounds.

A wonderfully gloomy day in Norfolk. Not too breezy, and just light drizzle. Perfect for a walk listening to Kirsty Logan’s History of Ghosts.

www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/serie...

Chris Murphy: "There's a lot of history that has taken place in the East Wing & it was just destroyed without any conversation in the public, without any consent of Congress. It's absolutely illegal. That visual is powerful b/c you're watching destruction of the rule of law as those walls come down"

Doesn’t appear to. Thanks - that’s really useful.

But when I think about what ComiXology used to be… sigh.

For info, I did get through to a human to chat to, and they seemed to be taking some time to find out what was wrong, but I gave up on them when they came back and told me to sign out and restart my device, even after I'd said I was accessing their website through a browser (on various devices).

A bottle of 19 Crimes red wine, with a green, Boris Karloff Frankenstein’s monster on the label.

The back of the wine label: “Frankenstein wasn’t a monster, he was just upset people didn’t want to hang out”. Fuck off. Frankenstein, the scientist, WAS a monster. The creature was an overpowered innocent.

Ok, 19 Crimes. I won’t be buying you again based on this literary incompetence.

Just posted this (I barely post, so it properly affected me).

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Riot Women - episode 3, Beth and Kitty in the restaurant… holy shit, what a scene.

Same problem - seems to be broken as no calendar option where you can select particular days.

No idea how to report that to Amazon - went round in circles with their bot.

1 Nurse: It’s become a real problem in this area 2 Nurse: We’ve seen the whole community lost to addiction 3 Show a building sign posted: Westminster ‘X’ Addiction Clinic With various Westminster people or looking at their phones outside it Nurse: Ministers, Spads, Researchers… 4 Nurse: Most mornings we’ll get a call about someone acting strangely [Nurse on phone taking a call] Ok - we’ll be right over 5 Nurse: We just have a gentle chat [Nurses approach a minister –Robert Jenrick? - standing in the Palace of Westminster Minister: I understand your concerns… 6 Nurse: Are you OK love? Minister: Yes I’m just hearing legitimate concerns from real voters 7 Nurse: That’s a robot, a Nazi and a poorly-disguised Russian [Show that the people he is talking to are precisely these characters] Nurse 2: Give us your phone, love 8 Nurse: At the clinic we put them in a Grass-Touching Pod, with a real voter to talk to [We see them back at the clinic, holding the minister's head and pushing him into a glass isolation booth with a grass floor. And it is a baffled looking woman, on a chair, ready to talk to him.] 9 Minister: YOU MUST BE WORRIED ABOUT THE COMING CIVIL WAR [woman looks baffled] 10 woman: I just want a bus service Minister: LOOK AT MY FLAG [produces a St George's flag] [ends]

3. It’s destroying the planet to make slop primarily used for porn, scams to prey on vulnerable, and to justify brutal authoritarian crackdowns whose consequences will be papered over by more slop. In the end, it will degrade all our skills while human progress gets stuck in an ourubos of stale air.

I am once again begging you to boycott Tesla

In the pew-lined interior of a dim medieval church lit by rows of candles on tall staffs and pale sunlight coming through a window, a tall humanoid crow figure with flowing black robes and a glowing yellow eye stands beneath an ornately carved semicircular arch in Norman Romanesque style. On the wall surrounding the arch are many colourful murals depicting more humanoid crow figures with halos, carrying various items including swords, spears, harps, and chalices.

A painting set in a cosy shady woodland clearing on a sunny summer's day. In the centre of the frame, two figures sit on a fallen log mostly hidden by vegetation. The figure on the right has wavy blonde hair down past her shoulders, and wears a flowing white floor-length dress with long sleeves, with delicate lacework around the cuffs and neckline. She looks into the distance with a contemplative, sad expression. On her lap rests a small green book, covered by both of her hands. The figure on the left sits leaning with her head against shoulder of the other figure. She wears a similar dress but simpler, and in a dark slate grey. Her hair is dark and straight, and flows down her tilted face, and she looks off towards a nightingale bird perched on a nearby branch. She raises a hand towards the other figure as if to get her attention. Both figures are surrounded by various flowers. On the left of the frame are many spires of foxglove flowers in vivid pink and white, interspersed among green stinging nettles. On the right are the purple flowers of monkshood/wolfsbane. Wrapping around the figures is a clear stream flowing from a distant pond that descends in a series of steps. Around the stream are many small mossy rocks, and shoots of dark green dog's mercury. Above and behind the figures and flowers are two trees; on the left is a weeping willow with dangling dark green leaves. On the right are the branches of an old ash tree.

A snowy scene in which a humanoid figure in long black robes with the head of a rook stands in a churchyard holding a long spear. By its feet is a red fox. Both are flecked with fallen snow. Around them are many weathered snow-covered graves. In the background is a medieval church of warm coloured stone with large rectangular windows and a battlemented parapet topped with pinnacles. Behind the main body of the church is the tower with clock face and belfry. Behind the church are tall but bare trees dusted with snow. More snow falls in the air.

A snowy scene in which a humanoid figure in long black robes with the head of a rook stands in a churchyard holding a long spear. By its feet is a red fox. Both are flecked with fallen snow. Around them are many weathered snow-covered graves. In the background is a medieval church of warm coloured stone with large rectangular windows and a battlemented parapet topped with pinnacles. Behind the main body of the church is the tower with clock face and belfry. Behind the church are tall but bare trees dusted with snow. More snow falls in the air.

🎂 It's my special cake and candles day you all have to be nice to me because it's been QUITE the year 🎂

So share some of my paintings??

For Sale: Ducketts Mead II, Roydon, Essex | The Modern House Ducketts Mead is one of five astonishing stilted houses built in the late 1960’s, positioned in a peaceful location on the edge of the River Stort in the pretty village of Roydon. Whilst offering easy...

There are five ‘stilt’ houses in Roydon, Essex. They back on to the river and you can see them from the train.

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Peter Davison, a fair-skinned blond man, as the fifth Doctor, circa 1982.

It occurs to me that the Doctor's polyethnic identity in recent times recontextualises Peter Davison's casting in quite an interesting way.
(For context, although you'd be unlikely to guess it by looking at him, Davison's paternal family is Guyanese. He has close relatives who are visibly Black.)

7th edition is one I don’t yet have, but it’s always on the list (and as you say, things are adaptable for earlier versions).

Ah, got it. I think I saw “Classic CoC” in the FAQs and assumed that meant first edition rather than ‘not Pulp’ :)

But thank you for all the answers, I really appreciate your kindness.

Illustration by Abigail Larson depicting a scene from Edgar Allan Poe's poem "Annabel Lee". Two lovers embrace at the edge of the sea, water splashes around them and the surrounding rocks. A full moon shines over them, and storm clouds loom. Published in "Sticker Jigsaw: The Edgar Allan Poe Collection" 2024 Macmillan

illustration by Abigail Larson of a raven perched on a skull with a teal curtain backdrop

illustration by Abigail Larson depicting a scene from Poe's "The Pit and the Pendulum" showing a man restrained as a pendulum blade swings close to him. Rats have swarmed around him, chewing the ropes that hold him down. This illustration is featured in "Sticker Jigsaw: The Edgar Allan Poe Collection" for Macmillan Books.

Illustration by Abigail Larson for Macmillan's "Edgar Allan Poe Sticker Jigsaw" book. The illustration is a scene from Edgar Allan Poe's poem, "The Raven". The narrator is at the center of the image looking up at at raven perched above an open doorway. Behind the narrator is a tall window with red curtains, and the ghost of Lenore lurks nearby. A black cat is watching the scene from the lower right corner.

In honor of Edgar Allan Poe's 176th deathday, here are a few of my recent pieces inspired by Poe's works 🫀

Thank you!

@hplhs.bsky.social Hi! Quick questions about The Spark Devil. It’s for first edition CoC, right? It should work with the original box set that was Kickstarted a couple of years ago (or my GW hardback)?

Secondly, could be be run with a keeper and one player (plus NPCs)? Don’t have a local group :(

I agree with every word Zelda Williams says. And this at the end from OpenAI makes me want to go full Ned Ludd. Creators can’t have a blanket opt-out on copyright infringement of their work and have to fill out a form appealing to OpenAI’s mercy every time? Fuck off into the sun