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If you're at Spiel Essen and are fans of @benaaronovitch.bsky.social, pop by the @chaosium.bsky.social booth where you'll find the RPG based on his Rivers of London novels! (Core rules, standalone scenarios, and the new US sourcebook)
#SpielEssen2025

Black Library's communication skillz strike again.

I dragged my feet a bit, finishing this. It really is The End of An Era.
19 years and 64 books. #HorusHeresy
(Where will I put them all?)
And like ouroboros we end where we began, with Dan Abnett.

Rain in the fens

10% and we'll call it quits

I have been what they were pleased to call "marketing" in EF Benson's Mapp & Lucia books this morning.

It’s Not Enough to Read Orwell A new film argues that, in an era of rising authoritarianism, audiences have become too numb to the speculative force of “1984.”

Surveillance and propaganda reign supreme in the fictional world of “1984”—for which generations have found real-life parallels, again and again. The new film “Orwell: 2+2=5” argues that noting such similarities isn’t enough, writes Shirley Li:

Compiling A Collection | The Nerd Daily Guest post written by Who Will You Save? author Gareth L. Powell Gareth L. Powell is the author of 20+ books, including novels, novellas, short fiction collections, and a non-fiction guide for aspirin...

A guest post I wrote for The Nerd Daily about the dilemmas I faced when compiling my short story collection WHO WILL YOU SAVE? for @titanbooks.bsky.social

thenerddaily.com/gareth-l-pow...

I'll have to take your word for that.

Popped down to the canteen to be lightly mugged when purchasing a sandwich

YouTube video by Steve's Comedy & Vlogs Alexei Sayle - Juliet Bravo Cold Open - Funny Comedy Sketch Spoof Satire - Stuff S02E05

In one episode of the second series of Stuff, the first five minutes consisted of what appeared to be an episode of Juliet Bravo, and really the only initial clue is that Juliet Bravo was never on BBC2. www.youtube.com/watch?v=fHmX...

Job update time! Today was my first day as Larian Studios' new Storytelling Lead! It's wild to be back in an office fulltime for the first time in more than a decade -- and in another country to boot -- but it's wonderful to find community so far from home.

I've got that somewhere

huge respect for this

JOHN CARPENTER PRESENTS: Horror Master To Executive Produce Supernatural Anthology Series Horror master John Carpenter will executive produce JOHN CARPENTER PRESENTS, an upcoming anthology series set in the remote wilderness of Alaska.

FYI: Horror master John Carpenter will executive produce JOHN CARPENTER PRESENTS, an upcoming anthology series set in the remote wilderness of Alaska.

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I Watched Stand-Up in Saudi Arabia What the surreal Riyadh Comedy Festival foretold about the kingdom’s future

At the Riyadh Comedy Festival, @helenlewis.bsky.social saw what stand-up looks like in theocracy. The greatest irony was that, given its “newfound interest in comedy, Saudi Arabia is becoming more American—just as America is becoming more Saudi.”

Tales of the Weird: An Autumnal Festival | British Library Tales of the Weird: An Autumnal Festival is back for a full weekend at the British Library. Inspired by the Library’s cult Tales of the Weird series of got

@willmac23.bsky.social and I are going to be representing Broken Veil at the British Library TALES OF THE WEIRD FESTIVAL (1st-2nd Nov). Some great panels and events… Look at these beauties! Come along!

events.bl.uk/events/tales...

The 70s were a wild time.

I have a different problem: most vintage stuff doesn't fit me because I'm tall.

I think they had something equally unnatural at Brent Cross

Floor length?

Hardware store chain to shut down all Suffolk branches Coopers Direct, a hardware store, has announced it will be closing all of its Suffolk branches.

Hardware stores invariably delight me. Seeing more close is disheartening.
www.eadt.co.uk/news/2554695...

hello consider this a reminder, in case people missed it last week, that I've launched a new quarterly night in London called the Outsiders Arts Club where people will be able to buy great affordable art and ask dumb questions to an art professional: outsidersartsclub.com

thanks, bye

The cheese sauce needed less milk and mustard powder. The #marmite new potatoes needed more glaze.
Onwards!

Terry Pratchett books will make you feel better through anything, for the duration of your life. Every reread brings a joke or pun or reference you didn't get before. Decades of joy, hilarity and genius.

I'll take this as proof you're still amongst us

Design Room Video game oral histories

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We are live! Welcome to Design Room, a new independent games media site.

• We specialize in oral histories like the Final Fantasy 7 and Street Fighter 2 ones I (@mattleone.bsky.social) did at Polygon
• Our first big story is on Shadow of the Colossus: bit.ly/4hjwz8n
• See more: designroom.site

Quite crazy and proud to say I’ve spent the last few months working on writing this. It’s very cool.