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Pls note: we do not have an advertising regulator. We have an industry body which they hold out as an effective self-regulator.

Okay, this is quite outstanding from Bedford Council.

Now there is a terrifying thought!

This is lovely but my brain insists on reminding myself that the new cat who owns some good friends of mine has hunted in excess of 50 pine cones and delivered them to my friends’ bed.

i'm guessing it's about Fighting Fantasy books?

How do the results compare when accessibility aids like VoiceOver or NVDA are used with the output?

The funnier thing is that this is their second attempt. The first one crossed the Spear of Longinus with a sword.

They took the sword out to try to tone it down to get approval.

It is still exceptionally full of Thule Society vibes.

I finished mine a few days ago but I do have one box of mince pies left.

Plasticine penguiny nobhead Pingu toot-tooting at a passing polar bear in the manner of a young Horatio Nelson.

Head canon:

Pingu is clearly seen interacting with a polar bear. Pingu therefore can only be a northern hemisphere penguin - aka the great auk, aka the OG penguin.

Pingu is amongst the last survivors of a species thought to be extinct.

Seems that they have the IP and a desire to do it, but no funding, script, or cast and are trying to hype it up in the press to attract some funding. I'm not going to get my hopes up.

If it does happen, it is going to take several years before it arrives on screens.

This puts me a step closer to writing a scenario I've been planning for Silver Bayonet: Turkey Man Ruins Thanksgiving.

He's fleshy. He's bald. He has skin flams between his lower and upper arms. He's Turkey Man!

That said, I did break down and buy my first model of 2026 the other day. I was putting in a preview for Warriors of Athena and my hand slipped and now I have Turkey Man by @badsquiddogames.bsky.social waiting to be dispatched.

A golden Custodes model with a long red plume and sword & shield

There's been too much politics on my timeline lately so… fun stuff. GW had one of their preview shows and everything in it was lovely and I now want to start two new armies. I am, however, going to resist as I have a backlog to work through some of first.

Don't really have a dog in the ban-social-media-for-under-16s fight, but seems utterly irrational to demand it now. A country which is comparable to Britain has just done so. Surely, if you were remotely committed to evidence, you would take a year to see how it goes before proposing we copy them.

UK drops target for international student recruitment Government to encourage education providers to open campuses overseas as it focuses on reducing migration

In any other context, requiring a high-productivity sector to offshore the production of its highest value-added exports would be seen as the economic illiteracy it so obviously is...

www.ft.com/content/a23c...

Crossword clue that says “Board Game with resources”

NOT HELPFUL, CROSSWORD AUTHOR!

Usually that sort of comment leads to me indulging my morbid curiosity but Instagram’s UI is so awful that I deleted my account a couple of years ago. Meta is so hostile to people who they can’t get personal data from that comments are basically inaccessible to me now and my brain is safe today!

I think there's a tendency in modern media to put its politics in the text (sometimes to the point where its a lecture given by a character) and the people who complain about the politics existing are the ones too media illiterate to notice the massively unsubtle metaphors that THP was making

And invests no money in content or creators or any infrastructure of programme making, does no training, cannot support collaborative projects efficiently, and has an opaque payment system that mitigates against what the public would understand as “making television”.

Anywhere other than Warhammer stores sells their products at a hefty discount. I think GW want to minimise their retail business to focus on miniature production and keep their retail business going almost entirely to get people into the hobby funnel.

What's the original source for that?

MwwwwwAH~!

Oh, it absolutely is semantics but those people demand to be taken seriously which is much harder with a catchphrase of “but the fluff” 😁

I find my myself wondering how much better things might be if the collection of pulp fiction designed to sell toy soldiers was called “fluff” instead of having the pretentious weight of the word “lore” which encourages people to treat it as holy.

There are MANY issues with Starmer’s messaging. But I always thought this govts best and easiest bet was to become THE government of the rules and fair play. Led by a former lawyer, lean into fairness, equality, law and order, justice for workers, respect for international law.

Playmobil Roman fort outside in the snow, manned by two cloaked sentries and an officer. Hiding beneath the watchtower are Asterix and Obelix.

“All quiet, sentry?”
“All quiet sir; perhaps…too quiet…”
#PlaymobilInfestation

All it takes for evil to thrive is for mediocre world leaders to say “I’d rather not say”

The Lt. Tutus model released last year. It is close to having a completed paint job heavily based on the box art. Ultramarine armour, gold trim, white cloth, light brown leatherwork, and dark plum weapons and undersuit

My current work-in-progress is shiny because it got hit with varnish to allow the wash of marine juice I applied afterwards to flow properly.

Lt. Titus is the first Ultramarine I have painted this century.

This isn’t new.

During the 1960s you didn’t have hardcore anti-war hippie folks dating hawkish DoD staffers either.

This is true and I was the only one on set excited about it (and playing the song on my phone to blank stares)