I get it. I’m sad about it, but I understand
Can’t sing, can’t dance, can handle a sword a little. LARPer, Warhams, Lardy fan, amateur luvvie, general history, enjoyer of rugby despite everything. He / him.
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I get it. I’m sad about it, but I understand
It’s the thing in the heresy books that Russ is putting on the air of savagery as a mask - the whole legion / chapter is the same
As a huge fan of English rugby, I hate it when they do this. It’s massively disrespectful to the teams they’ve still to face; the roses themselves almost certainly would hate it; it’s going to change the atmosphere of the women’s game to more tribal.
Bridge Simulator was loads of fun! Was running the engineering for a shuttle and it was a perfect Star Trek / BSG game. Must have done okay cos I got promoted…
Bridge Simulator was loads of fun! Was running the engineering for a shuttle and it was a perfect Star Trek / BSG game. Must have done okay cos I got promoted…
Sistersong.
This is what counts for camo in the 31st Millennium…
Okay. Everything is horrid. Here’s some good things… @badsquiddogames.bsky.social kickstarter is funded and looks awesome. Looking forward to those minis! I played Heresy at the weekend. It’s loads of fun. Had some great food over the weekend at the Old Spot & by cooking homemade pies. Phots!
Today Bluesky is full of stuff affirming that power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Not even necessarily personal power, but contact with and exposure to…
Good at cards and brave / stupid enough to beat the king…
So… Bears can’t show more value to a shirt sponsor than Lansdown thinks he can get for his safari company. That’s not a great sign for Bris or English rugby…
Perfect 90s metalhead type thing, not grunge…
@rhigarthjones.bsky.social just got to listen to your last stint as our blood and mud leader, really enjoyed the past few pods, thank you! And thank you to @patriciavieira.bsky.social and @alicesoapbox.bsky.social for being equally engaging Co-hosts
There’s a World Cup going on in the country right now, in which the English are the favourites to win. Not one in a hundred of these idiots knows, because it’s women’s rugby
Just rewatching Eng v Aus - at the end of the 1st half Kildunne does a brilliant piece of sweeping up in the 22, kicks off the side of her boot and finds grass, then grabs the Aussie flanker - really good fullback play that will never hit the highlights
The last couple of weeks have been brain heavy (Prit Buttar’s Bagration 44) so am rereading Graham MacNeill’s Thousand Sons. Gotta decide on holiday reading for a week away doing nothing - one of the best bits!
Team, heresy 3.0 is hella fun!
Wow indeed!
Household soldiers of the House de Rainault! Lovely stuff
The second trilogy is better than the first - and if you’ve read the first you know how high praise that is
Sorry! I was sure it was the Mail but that’s time and memory isn’t it!
It was the Mail.
This guy really hates British people (no, really, see his timeline) - and yet is using a character name from a book so British that it’s a useful frame for Alan Allport’s history of Britain in the Second World War.
Mini of the month - Are you joking? Entry 1 by @grumpykiltpin.bsky.social Knock, Knock, MF'er. #Nerdlings #MiniOfTheMonth
Mini of the month - Are you joking? Entry 2 by @sheroqueer.com "Who's the fruitiest warrior ? THE BANAKNIGHT” #Nerdlings #MiniOfTheMonth
Mini of the month - Are you joking? Entry 3 by @schneety.bsky.social the 3rd arm was the first sign for Greg that he may have misheard the name of the cult he had just joined. #Nerdlings #MiniOfTheMonth
Mini of the month - Are you joking? Entry 4 by @chrisabernethy.bsky.social The Golden Throne #Nerdlings #MiniOfTheMonth
Mini of the month - Are you joking? Entry 7 by @owolf.bsky.social Why is the Quar worried about his Nan? Because he couldn’t reach her over his Grandma-Phone. #Nerdlings #MiniOfTheMonth
The GFA is no obstacle to leaving the ECHR because those who wish to do so don’t care about peace or justice or international agreements, they just want to be able to be more horrible to minorities. Wanting to leave the ECHR should be a belief that gets you ostracised
Apparently “leading” lawyers and “experts” say that the Good Friday Agreement is no obstacle to UK leaving ECHR. Me, being neither, merely sets out what the Good Friday Agreement expressly says. davidallengreen.com/2023/07/why-...
Malcolm Crook at Keele was my history dissertation supervisor, a really great teacher who was very patient as I tried to understand how the Royal Navy thought about their opponents
Okay. Why shouldn’t asylum seekers be able to work? What’s the benefit in keeping them in an enforced sedentary life? Is it just performative cruelty in the interest of seeming tough and so “dissuading” people coming here?
Ummm… I’m pretty sure missile based air defence is a proven concept at sea…
You’re not a bottleneck, you’ve carved open a great big hole for people to run through and are keeping it open. It’s a great thing you’re doing!
Anthrax at the Keller in Bristol with a friend of the family supporting them. Or Bloodywood in a bowling alley (again, Briz) on their first UK tour.
"Helluva lotta work building a motte and bailey castle" "Keep on top of it?" "That's the standard design, yes"
You are entirely right! But then I think most of the characters are top of the charts My favourite tv series ever.
Exactly this 😀
For the victims, right? … Right?
There’s a thread going with explicitly outlandish statements (eg all medieval people were filthy, unless you had cheekbones which means you were the king) & I thought this was one of those for a second. But no, he’s serious! Oh dear
Specifically Nailsea accents because of the Live at the Royal Oak album, which is the source of all medieval accents
Ziff Davis and IGN routinely decide that work done by our laid off colleagues is not important. But inevitably, that crucial work falls onto those who remain. Not this time. Not anymore.
Amazing how such small numbers have been identified as the voice of the nation when, for comparison, 100,000 turned out for trans pride last month in London.
Just for perspective, a few weeks ago roughly 100,000 turned up for the London Trans+ Pride march. By contrast fewer than 3,000 ACROSS THE WHOLE COUNTRY, have turned up to anti-asylum "protests". Yet we are meant to take the latter as "the voice of the people" and the former as "the minority".
Small community service announcement to the #Warhammer40k #40k peeps: The "Imperial Iterator" channel on YouTube, the one with the bad David Attenborough voice over, is AI slop, garbage, and is also issuing copyright strikes to actual, human creators of other lore channels. Give them a miss.
Look, all that fancy back nonsense is fine (and that Kildunne juggle… oof). But there is nothing better than a scrum going forward at a rate of knots. #RedRosesvsUSA
Interestingly, you get less interest in some games if you organise a tournament rather than a day playing games - Horus Heresy for example, where Heresy Hammer events sell out in minutes unless it’s a tournament where it takes much longer
Friday it is! That’s today! Wooooohooo!
Women’s world cups are brilliant because they give all the teams the opportunity to stay in camp together which means the gap between the teams is generally smaller here than at any other time - exciting!
Anyone who fancies getting into Women’s rugby, this is a belter. Squidge does the best analysis bar none and will prepare you for what’s gonna be a cracking World Cup starting Saturday
Entirely with you on this one @dannykellywords.bsky.social the idea that poor little Daniel Levy had no way to affect the outcome on Eze or others stretches credibility
For those wondering- I got a role! Not the role I went for, but I’m really looking forward to being involved in the show, it’s a really wonderful cast..
If people haven’t, this from @bretdevereaux.bsky.social is really good on setting out the awfulness of Sparta and that it wasn’t actually successful on our or their own terms… acoup.blog/2019/08/16/c...
God bless and keep the Women's Institute.
This graphic gets worse and worse… they’ve included male and female players but excluded the PWR’s nine professional clubs… WRU graphical data presentation and analysis in #SHIT for blood and mud next week
This shows a laughably childish misunderstanding of our duty to impartiality. “carry out your responsibilities in a way that is fair, just and equitable and reflects the Civil Service commitment to equality and diversity”
Right on time for the American playbook in the UK, here comes the "Christian" right coming for gay rights and Pride www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...
Every river has it tutelary deity. Ever river sings a unique song telling of the land it has passed through. The witch learns the deity's name, quietens herself till she can hear its song. For the conversation with rivers is an immersion into liquid wisdom. – #EmilyCBanting, 1982 #WitchSky
Shadowrun suggests not, but right now I’m willing to give anything a try
The Games Workshop house style (‘Eavy Metal) isn’t the easiest to start with - have a look at some other methods on YouTube and try some out. Mostly though, enjoy!
There’s got to be at least one in Hookland @hookland.bsky.social, where spirits cluster around
That’s not to say Ukraine should attempt to hold an election in the middle of this war given the infrastructural challenges though
They had one in 1864 at the height of the civil war which essentially was a referendum on continuing the war. Lincoln expected to lose and had his cabinet sign pledges to support the incoming president, but Sherman’s capture of Atlanta boosted support to continue to the end
Nope!
Stupid Lore Sunday Despite early attempts at egalitarianism after ten millennia the imperium of man is a deeply stratified society. While there is a degree of difference in terminology across a million worlds, as is expected, for the most part the ancient four tier system remains. 1/
Morning Womble, hope alls well! I read Ben Aaronovitch’s Stone and Sky in the last week, and now have started on Prit Buttar’s Bagration 44, about the Soviet offensive of 1944
To whom it may concern at @bsky.app @jessiegender has received more hatred and vitriol in her career simply for being a trans person daring to exist in a public space. People like J.K.Rowling and her cronies have organised dog piles to ruin her life - please dont be part of that Reinstate her.
Today is my birthday! Could you, please, share my art, it is the best gift an artist can get 💖
Reading that book from the library at a very young age is one of the reasons I am currently surrounded by hundreds of little warriors from early medieval England to the 31st Millenium…
Hey fellow humans, my flintlock fantasy debut PROMISE OF BLOOD is just $2.99 today. Get it. Read it. Fill your mind hole with the epic goodness of magic and black powder. amzn.to/45S1CE7
We need to big this up, a V important legal judgement; if it had gone against us it would have been all over the oligarch/transphobic media as a "Landmark" case. I suspect it may be very useful in preventing Universities from silencing trans people under the pretext of pandering to the OfS.
You won’t regret watching this.
The respect and kindness he’s showing, and people In his community are enabling are just perfect embodiment of how we should live. Beautiful. And also making me tear up
Utterly stupid idea this morning. Imperator titan with a parish church on top rather than the cathedral. Also there’s a village fete going on in the grounds. It’s too hot today. #Nerdlings
Absolutely! I’ve been chasing the high of seeing my brothers wall collapse and all his Vikings fall over since I played that
I fee you - I remember watching rugby with that NZ team, and it was a bit dull however much you could appreciate the skill and dedication. As an England fan, mind, I’m loving understanding how the Kiwis must have felt then…
Tom Clancy. Brilliant thriller writer, but blimey is his conservative nonsense running through it like a word through a stick of rock
Daguerreotype image of the hand of fishing boat captain and slavery abolitionist Jonathan Walker showing the “SS” (for “Slave Stealer”) that the US Govt branded on his palm after he tried in 1844 to help runaway slaves in Florida find freedom in the West Indies (Massachusetts Historical Society) 🗃
Discrimination against a helpless minority, practised and affirmed under a Labour government, like it’s just some normal thing to do to people, to invent new ways to make their lives difficult, because you’re irrationally terrified of their existence.
Great news! Carter Ruck even intimidated the (spineless?) FCA, resulting in the FCA withdrawing its notice which had warned those thinking of investing in this Ponzi scheme. Victims, worldwide, have lost $4 billion.
Am in that terrible zone between callback audition and finding out whether I got a part I really would love to play. Every now and then it just pops into my head and I get a flash of adrenaline - and this is for amdram How professionals cope when it’s also their livelihood on the line I don’t know
Can I recommend @davidandress.bsky.social books - especially “The Terror”; also Ruth Scurr “Fatal Purity” which is focused on Robespierre but talks about life in Paris
That’s amazing. I can totally relate, though, I spent most of the 2003 final standing in my mates kitchen watching through the door…
Meanwhile, your extremely successful expansionist polities - Persians, Macedonians, Romans, Mongols etc. - became successful because they incorporate outsiders. The biggest winners (Rome, Mongols) do so the most intensely. Diversity *is* strength, it turns out.
L’etat, c’est moi, not l’etat c’est nous
And was one of the best series - close, attritional, hugely skilled (especially batting), no side on top for more than a day at a time - and usually much less. Magnificent sport
Lord knows what he’d think of the success of Paradox grand strategy games…
Amazing series, one of the best. A draw is the right result, you couldn’t separate the teams. Loved it
We, the Revolution sets you as a judge in the Revolutionary Tribunal of the French Revolution- it’s got some interesting ideas
“The ‘grown women’ of Ireland remember very well what erasure and control and lack of bodily autonomy feel like and it’s for this very reason that we stand so passionately with the trans community today” #TransRightsAreHumanRights @independent.ie
Morning Womble hope alls well! I am reading King of the North Wind by Claudia Gold, a history of Henry II of England. It’s good but falls into some poor history practices (eg calling a source “unimpeachable”)
Statement: Effective immediately, we will no longer cooperate with the EHRC. We no longer recognise the EHRC as a human rights body. It is no longer independent, and we will not engage with them. We urge other orgs to do the same.
Lions playing like people who’ve been on a bender 4 of the last 7 days…
What a player he’s been for us! Perversely slightly glad because all the talk last season of if he’s still any good has felt almost sacrilegious. Gonna miss him.
If you didn’t go through a phase of it being “community theatre” before running back to Amdram you weren’t a long-time theatre kiddy.
If you want a weird but true fact to talk about: Dexter Holland, lead singer of The Offspring, was instrumental in this. His doctorial thesis in molecular biology was sequencing mRNA in HIV. The paper was also heavily cited in creating the COVID-19 vaccine.
It feels like we should be making a bigger deal of “we actually did in fact find a cure for AIDS”
Hellcat!
Mini of the month - Hot Stuff Entry 1 by @owolf.bsky.social “Why are you so hot?” “Magic! Motherfucker!” #Nerdling #MiniOfTheMonth
