Phil

Hostile architecture too. I don't care if people sleep on them, I just want to sit on a bench that doesn't hate me

Same for car headlights—they've got well out of hand. It's a car not a lighthouse

I'd vote for any party that promised to switch all the white led street lights to yellow/orange

Spending tens, or even hundreds of thousands of pounds on a digital marketing ad campaign, and then using AI generated slop for the actual ads themselves, is a very expensive way of telling people you like to cut corners.

I always knew you were a closet theatre kid

Can we stop it with characters communicating in lines from Shakespeare?

Panel from Watchmen by Alan Moore, Dave Gibbons, and John Higgins. A blue circulatory system haunts a kitchen. Caption: IT'S NOVEMBER 10TH NOW. THERE IS A CIRCULATORY SYSTEM WALKING THROUGH THE KITCHEN ...

Happy Walking Circulatory System In The Kitchen Day to those who celebrate.

Cover for Daniel H. Wilson's Robopocalypse

Btw this is really fucking good

100%

I think that was the end of social media as I knew it. Death by dickhead

On to the last two episodes of Station Eleven. I think this show's lost me tbh. It's 10 episodes and I only have 2 left, otherwise I would have bailed.

It's fine, but trying to flesh out a huge cast in a limited series is hard, and it feels like lots of building, but nothing is actually happening.

Sat here complaining about picture quality while not wearing my glasses

The biggest problem is that the old group are now scattered across multiple platforms after that dipshit messed up the old site

Rereading Saga has me missing comics-twitter around 2010-15ish. Nostalgia is a bastard

That sounds incredible. Have you uploaded it to champman0102.net or anything?

I saw Saga at the library and figured why not do a reread? I only read up to the hiatus originally. I got 1-6 from the library, and can get the rest digitally, and I put in a suggestion for the library to get 7-12. Anyway, lots of options

That's some serious commitment! Where do you even get the data for that?

Cover for House of the Unholy, a graphic novel by Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips

I finished reading this the other day. I can't get enough of Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips. Beautiful and gritty as always. So many of their works read like a series of True Detective

Cover for Robopocalypse by Daniel H. Wilson

About to start reading this

We need to bring back niche message boards. Social media worked for a while, but it's impossible to tame the beast

Miniseries

Back on my Station Eleven bullshit. Weird show. Lots of questions, but I'm past halfway now so hopefully it starts answering some of them

1x06 Survival is Insufficient www.themoviedb.org/tv/90972/sea...

Oh, I only just realised you're playing with the original database. I downloaded an updated one, so am playing with current players

The cover for Philip K Dick's Radio Free Albemuth

I finished reading Radio Free Albemuth last night. From what I can gather, this is a novelisation of the film that is a backdrop to another of his novels, VALIS. And like most PKD books, it reads like a paranoid schizophrenic's fever dream.

Aside from the rambling monologues, it was a good read

Can't wait to visit the in-laws next week. I wonder what daddy-dearest has got his tinfoil hat in a twist over this time

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If you aren't seeing skeets from some of your fave people, they might have been labeled "Rude" by bsky mods. Idk what they are thinking, I don't need a mommy to tell me who to be buddies with. Anyway, go into Settings > moderation > bluesky moderation (advanced) and turn Rude off.

X won't show it to me, but I love reviving sleeping giants. Leeds would be a good one too, but no one wants to be Leeds

Oldham, Huddersfield, and Fulham. That last one is going to keep me up at night 😂

Prey is still a damn fine film & second best Predator film.

I did a quiz earlier and managed to name 48/51 Premier League clubs. Surprised myself

Nice. That does sound fun. How far did you take them?

I ended up picking Blackburn and won the Championship in the second season, avoided relegation from the Prem, and now I'm aiming for a top-half finish