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Anndra @anndra.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Having a great time with the Lords of the End Times update for Total War Warhammer. This stupid rodent megalomaniac is my favourite. Yeah Thanquol, that's right! Blow up the moon!

A rat wizard stands atop a monstrous rat ogre with cybernetic arms, firing green lighting everywhere. "BEHOLD GREY SEER THANQUOL!" he says

A gigantic rickety claw-cannon points at a sickly-looking green moon. "Gaze-gawk upon the warp-moon, you dismal rat-filth, for it leers at its demise!" says Thanquol, off-screen.

Thanquol, the rat wizard, stands in front of the machinery, ranting with green lightning arcing from his horns. "The very Council will grovel before MY genius! For I was the one to see their weapon-engine finished atop a corpse-mound of rivals and pawns!" he raves.

Another view of the huge cannon-engine pointing skywards. Thanquol, off-screen, says: "Come-come, fool-meat! Flock closer together - make an easier target the HAIL OF FIERY DOOM!"

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Anndra @anndra.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Extremely funny article, Lammy probably doesn't even realise how revealing statements like this are about the taken-for-granted born-to-rule attitude of the Labour Party towards their constituents www.standard.co.uk/news/politic...

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Anndra @anndra.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Choisich sinn cuideachd a-mach gu Dùn Bharabhat thairis air a' mhòinteach. Mo chasan gu math gort an-diugh às a dhèidh, chan eil mi cleachdte ri "ceum an fhraoich" anns na làithean seo!

View of the sea broch Dùn Bharabhat, a ruined fort 33m off the coastline. A causeway just below the surface leads out to it.

Close up view of the broch, showing the remaining wall.

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Anndra @anndra.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Beàrnaraigh an-dè. Traigh Bhòstadh agus an taigh bho linn an iarainn. 'S ann à Beàrnaraigh a thàinig mo shinnsirean mus deach am fuadadh ann an 1823 agus dh'fhaodadh gu robh sinnsirean fad-às agam a bha a' fuireach ann an taighean gu math coltach ri seo.

View of Bosta beach. There are rocks by the waterline of a sandy beach, a boat at anchor offshore and some cliffs and islands in the distance.

Replica Iron Age house at Bosta, partly underground with a turf covered roof.

Interior of the replica Iron Age house. A peat fire and candles are in the middle of the packed-dirt floor and sheepskins and wool hang from beams. A ladder to an upper platform is on the right and a foor at the rear leads to a storage room.

Bosta beach seen from the hill above. The same boat and island can be seen here from a different angle. Some people can be seen far off on the beach.

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Anndra @anndra.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Several years after the Wayback Expedition, Tekko'Beo Phosa will have a podcast where he says people join the TCR marines due to financial pressure and shouldn't be held accountable for war crimes committed on Mock

Screenshot of Menace showing the beginning of a mission on a desert planet. A dropship takes off and several squads of infantry, an armoured vehicle, and a walker are lined up. A dialogue box at the top shows Tech saying: "Some rich motherfucka is bumping coke off a hooker's ass and we're down here in the shit? *tsk* Man..."

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Anndra @anndra.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

lol Philippe Petain over here

We proved those people wrong because we changed our party, ripping out the poison of antisemitism, restoring trust on the economy, defence and national security, and becoming a party that once again stood proudly with God against our national flag.

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Anndra @anndra.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

I actually got the email minus the symbols but I noticed that in the email the game logo looks like the one on the left but on the game's own page it looks like the right-hand one so... was that also a dogwhistle that nobody has picked on

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There is a swastika-derived kolovrat symbol in the middle of the O

THE END OF THE SUN

There is a flower-like sun symbol in the middle of the O.

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Anndra @anndra.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Jess went to sleep at 1.30pm. She was 17 years old. Here are some photos of how we want to remember her - a gentle, inquisitive little beast and one of the most beautiful cats I'd ever seen

Jess, a dilute calico cat, stands on a patterned blanket on a sofa. Her tail is curled upwards and her fur pattern is clear to see.

Jess, a dilute calico cat, stands facing the camera on a blanket on a sofa. Her face has a judgemental look to it.

Jess, a dilute calico cat, stands on the back of a sofa against a wall, in the middle of walking along the back of it. She looks past the camera at something in front of her.

Jess, a dilute calico cat, lies on her side on a ruffled blanket on a sofa. She has her eyes half closed and one leg on top of a human hand reaching in to rub her belly, clearly blissed out.

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Anndra @anndra.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

date is set, 9th of June. in the meantime she's getting as many rubs and treats as we can provide m'eudail bheag, tha e duilich innse cho mòr 's a tha ar gaol ort

Jess, an elderly dilute calico cat, sits on a blanket. Her fur is quite ruffled and messy.

Jess, an elderly dilute calico cat, sits on a blanket with her head down now. Her fur is quite ruffled and messy. One leg is extended oddly for comfortable positioning.

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Anndra @anndra.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

see below. also note that I've got electrified rails there in the bottom-left but upgrading the existing wooden/concrete non-electrified rails will cause huge disruption so I've been putting it off lol

Screenshots of Workers & Resources: Soviet Republic showing a rail junction, passenger station and coaling station as well as coal unloading point and depot with different sections marked in different colours plus signal arrows.

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Anndra @anndra.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

really satisfying to finally set up proper medium-scale sea exports rather than have to rely on tiny barges

Screenshot of Workers & Resource: Soviet Republic. A night-time shot of a cargo ship leaving an aggregates dock. A factory complex is lit up on the hill in the distance.

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Anndra @anndra.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

it's been Workers & Resources time again for the last week for me. started in 1920 (it's now 1956) so I've been enjoying all the steam trains and stuff

Screenshots from Workers & Resources: Soviet Republic. A wide overhead shot of a complex developed area - urban, rural, lots of farms, railways, dock infrastructure, etc

Screenshot of Workers & Resources: Soviet Republic. A close view of a steam train pulling a series of dumper wagons loaded with coal.

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Anndra @anndra.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

not a fan of this sort of weather in the middle of spring

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Anndra @anndra.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

Chaidh sinn gu Pàirc Phollaig an-diugh agus chunnaic sinn laoighean a' chrodh Gàidhealach, agus barrachd air an slighe bho choltas a' bhò seo

A Highland cow calf lies down in a field.

A heavily pregnant Highland cow passes in front of the two calves.

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Anndra @anndra.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

just been reminded of Ryoko Kui's drawing of CRPG elves and the lowest-effort corner Astarion will never fail to make me laugh, especially contrasted with the unlabelled Adoring Fan from Oblivion who gets so much more effort in his sketch

Page of elves drawn by Ryoko Kui, mangaka of Dungeon Meshi, with overlaid translation of the Japanese text. It's labelled "Thrills! Romance! Violence! Elves from foreign RPGs" with Marcille the elf saying "So many different kinds of people!"

Left to right:

1. Ancano (The Elder Scrolls) - Thalmor clothes are cool
2. Adoring Fan from Oblivion (unlabelled)
3. Zevran (Dragon Age) - A purely hedonistic assassin.
4. Fenris (Dragon Age) - He's a beautiful elf who would look at home in a JRPG.
5. Sebille (Divinity: Original Sin) - I'm sorry that I made you eat so much human flesh.
6. Camellia (Pathfinder) - It was love at first sight...
7. Solas (Dragon Age) - A man who has charmed many players.
8. Aloth (Pillars of Eternity) - A lot of complex internal feelings.
9. Ember (Pathfinder) - I'm waiting for the Japanese version.
10. Octavia (Pathfinder) - She has a half orc boyfriend.
11. Jaethal (Pathfinder) - My undead elf wife.
12. Sera (Dragon Age) - Her clothes are cute.
13. Shadowheart (Baldur's Gate), saying 'Hey you' - The way you call me 'you' makes me happy.
14. The very popular Astarion (Baldur's Gate) (line trace of cover art)

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Anndra @anndra.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

It's this girl's official birthday today. We have had her for 7 years and she is now 17 (based on estimate). She's got aches and pains and kidney issues and has lost a fair bit of weight as she gets older but she's happy and we love her

Jess, a skinny but fluffy dilute calico cat, stands on a coffee table in a living room in the midday light.

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Anndra @anndra.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

She doesn't like all these changes made to the room without consulting her first

Jess, a dilute calico cat, sits on a patterned blue and white throw blanket on a couch, looking towards the camera

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Anndra @anndra.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

It's hoovering day so Jess is hiding in her wee canteen while she eats, for safety

Jess, a dilute calico cat, eats dry cat food from a bowl while underneath some nesting tables, rather than eating from in front of them as normal. The image has some light glare from the windows.

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Anndra @anndra.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

I absolutely love the Midtown Madness pull here when discussing frame of reference for someone playing the game lol

80.lv: The first Pathologic was released 20 years ago, and those who are familiar know all the secrets and endings. Did it limit you when making Pathologic 3? Does it have a different ending from what we know from the first two games? How do you make sure the same game stays fresh after so many years?

Overall, we didn’t really center everything around the experience of those who completed or even just played the first game. People who played the original Pathologic in the 2000s don’t actually remember their feelings anymore. What remains is an aftertaste, a memory of those feelings. Those who played the remaster couldn’t experience the game directly either – it was already framed as a cultural artifact. If you’ve watched video essays about a game on YouTube, your reaction will be completely different from someone who just played Midtown Madness 2 and then thought, “Oh, here’s another game about life in a town, I like that.”

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Anndra @anndra.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

Tha an nighean seo gu math feumach air suidhe air casan plaidichte agus èighidh riut mur a h-urrainn dhi sin a dhèanamh

Jess, a dilut calico cat, looks at the camera while standing on blanket-covered legs on a sofa. She looks slightly displeased.

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Anndra @anndra.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

what a journey to get to this point

Pathologic 3 screenshot. In the centre it says "Day One Is Now Available: Now I can tell more about the past"

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Anndra @anndra.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

this is my favourite character in Pathologic 3

Pathologic 3 screenshot of an odongh/worm - a strange lumpy man in ragged robes - wearing a train engineer's cap, in front of steppe village yurts.

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Anndra @anndra.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

Jess loves film night - she gets to sleep on a lap for two hours

Jess, a dilute calico cat, is curled up very tightly on a blanketed lap

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Anndra @anndra.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

can't just get pointlessly angry all day so here's a view out of my window at the moment. these pictures were five minutes apart and five minutes later the break in the weather was over and the snow and wind resumed

A snow-covered view out of a window which itself has snow and water droplets on it. Several spread out buildings are along a road and in the middle distance a garden with rough drystone walls can be seen.

The same snowy view as before, but now the snow has cleared and the picture is taken with the window open. A blue sky is overhead and the air is temporarily clear.

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Anndra @anndra.bsky.social · 29/12/2025

Chaidh mi air cuairt ann an Aiginis an-diugh

The Aiginis Land Raid monument - two halves of a stone cairn with protruding stones in the middle - on a small hill against a cloudy sky with approaching sunset.

A view across Broad Bay from Aignis. A small headland protrudes into the sea. Sun can be seen on the cliffs at Tolsta Head. The sky is patchily cloudy and has a contrail across it.

The ruined medieval Eaglais na h-Aoidhe and its churchyard. The grass is a lush green. A rough concrete wall with pebbles and shells in it runs along a path towards the church.

A single-track road near the sea in Aiginis. The road is wet from recent rain. The sky is mostly clear with clouds yellowed by sunset colours. A slightly gibbous moon is visible high in the sky.

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Anndra @anndra.bsky.social · 25/12/2025

Rostit (amb pollastre fals)

A pan of "rostit" - a Catalan dish literally meaning roasted. Quorn fillets are mixed in a pan with carrot, onion, garlic, various herbs and a tomato-y, herby sauce. It looks delicious

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Anndra @anndra.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

I got a response from Hooded Horse's community manager on my review saying that they will be replacing all the AI art and making sure this doesn't happen again. I'm still not happy about this happening at all in the first place but this is probably the best outcome we could hope for

Several users flagged this issue and after investigating further, we found that gen-AI art did slip into the latest patch. I can't tell you how angry we are to discover this.
When we began work on replacing certain art, we were explicit with everyone involved that AI was not to be used at all, not even as a reference.
This was the most critical element of the art refresh. Despite clearly outlining these requirements, and writing them into the contract, an artist at the third-party company that we partnered with used gen-AI. We were racing to get the patch out, and unfortunately their work slipped past our scrutiny in the process.
We can't express how frustrated we are about this. Our goal was to eliminate gen-AI art in any form, as we think gen-AI art has no place in gaming. We didn't meet our own standards in this case, and we're sorry that this slipped through. We are working to fix this as quickly as possible and push out an updated patch.
After looking through all the new art, we can confirm that only a limited number of pieces have this issue, and the rest were made entirely by human artists. The community has noted that some other pieces look "incomplete", but we've verified that they were not created using gen-AI. With these pieces, the art was rendered fully within a circular crop to match the game's UI, with the cropped portions left partially incomplete because they never show in-game. We'll be completing these in full as well for the sake of due diligence.
But for the time being, our priority is to remove and replace the art that used AI in the production process. We completely understand that when AI art shows up in one place, suddenly everything looks suspect. We feel the same way, so we're going to be watching this like hawks to ensure it doesn't happen again.
Please know that we consider the use of real human artists to be of the utmost importance, and are strongly opposed to the inclusion of generative AI art assets in any game.

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Anndra @anndra.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

No em parlis a mi ni al meu fill mai més

A larger cagatió stands next to a small cagatió on the floor of a living room. A yellow plate with orange peel is in front of them.

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Anndra @anndra.bsky.social · 30/11/2025

this girl isn't that far off the big One Seven now (and cares not for my milestones)

Jess, a dilute calico cat, stands face-on to the camera on top of a blanketed human (me) on a couch.

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Anndra @anndra.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

bad enough when People Make Games raised money for fascists but now they're working with Bastani? come on lads

Youtube video screenshot. The video is titled Rockstar Games' MASS Firing Of Unionised Workers and is a joint upload from Novara Media and People Make Games. Aaron Bastani is speaking in the video preview.

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Anndra @anndra.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

I enjoyed this little vignette of visiting a minor Soviet court, where Hooper is fascinated by the informality and how the judge is elected by the workers and can be recalled at any time if they want it

April 21st. Went this morning to the local police court, the people's court they call it here. Anything more casual and informal you could not imagine. We at last found a judge with a crowd of people round him in his room. He was a young man of about thirty, small with bright quick eyes. He asked if we wanted to see a criminal case or the ordinary minor ones. As I had seen a criminal case during my previous visit I chose the people's court.

The room, not very big, was fairly crowded and we waited for the judge to come. One old peasant woman got impatient and said "Why don't they hurry instead of keeping me waiting?" The others laughed and chatted away. When the judge, the same little man we had found, came in he was followed by two workers, a bald-headed man of about fifty-five and a neat woman of forty. We all rose and then sat again as did the judge, with his two helpers, at their table with a red cloth. These two workers are elected by the factories to help to judge the cases. They are changed each Soviet week and get paid their pay by the factory while doing the job. Lenin said, "Every cook must learn to govern the State," and this is one of their methods. The judge conducts the case and the three decide on guilt and punishment. The judge is elected by the workers, and can be recalled, if not satisfactory, at any time.

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Anndra @anndra.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

The pamphlet ends with a succession of 'final thoughts' from different editions. I think this is a really interesting look at (a section of) public opinion in Britain at the time - that the Soviet offer of alliance against Hitler was known, and at least some people disdained the government's refusal

No, if Germany must expand, it will be against France and Great Britain. Hitler's Mein Kampf explains this clearly as regards France and he expects his friends inside France to help him. The same applies to us. It will need more than Chamberlain's Mein Gamp to stop it.
But if we join with Soviet Russia, we would have the support of France and America. This combination of peace-loving nations could save us and the world from war.
WIll we do it? That is for the reader to answer. Bernard Shaw said: "You do not need to be a Communist to see we must join with Soviet Russia."

As the Dean of Canterbury says in his kind foreword: "Her friendship and aid is of the utmost importance for the democratic nations."
There lies our road to Peace.
December 1938

Since writing the above a change has come over public thought, and the revulsion of feeling at the reluctance of the Government to join with Soviet Russia has grown enormously. What I foresaw last December has come true. The Anti-Comintern pact is now a definite military alliance and has invaded and captured Spain, Czechoslovakia and Albania. Yet Soviet Russia is as immune from attack as ever. It is the Western Democracies that are in danger. Soviet Russia has no intention of pulling our chestnuts out of the fire, but has offered a full defensive military alliance. They can give more than they receive. Yet we have haggled with them for 2 months, and at the time of writing are still haggling.
To accept her help is our only hope to ease continual tension.
It is our only road to Peace and salvation.
May 18 1939

LAST POSTSCRIPT
Great Britain and the Soviet Union are now Allies. Where diplomacy failed Hitler succeeded when he attacked and invaded Soviet Russia on June 22nd. In the face of the common danger the peoples of the two countries are being drawn together, and will learn to understand each other. This understanding should form a firm foundation on which to build the future Peace of Europe, and of the world.
July 16 1941

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Anndra @anndra.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

It's a fascinating bit of writing - as far as I know Hooper was no communist but it's hard to find any information about him online, besides this in Hansard which states he had some 'public allegations' about him in 1943 hansard.parliament.uk/%E2%80%8CCom...

Mr. W. J. Brown
asked the Secretary of State for War if he can make any statement as to the circumstances in which Major A. S. Hooper has been banned from lecturing to the British Army.

Sir J. Grigg
Lecturers to the Forces are required to hold a certificate of employment issued by one of the Regional Committees of the Central Advisory Council for Adult Education in H.M. Forces and countersigned by the appropriate military authorities. The latter are invariably the military Command in which the particular Regional Committee is situated. All certificates are reviewed each year, and in a certain number of cases the military authorities give notice to the Regional Committees that they do not propose to renew the certificates. If the Regional Committee thinks this decision unjustified Toggle showing location ofColumn 1144in any particular case it may submit to the Army Commander evidence of the lecturer's suitability, and ask that the case may be reconsidered. The decision of the Army Commander on this request is final. In accordance with this practice all certificates of employment automatically expired on 31st August, 1943. As a result of the subsequent review, the London Regional Committee were informed on 10th September, 1943, that Major Hooper's certificate would not be renewed. I understand that the Committee informed Major Hooper of this decision on 2nd December. Presumably in the interval they were considering whether they would ask for reconsideration. No such request was in fact received. Perhaps, in view of the allegations which have been publicly made, I may add that no search of Major Hooper's rooms and belongings was made by any military authority.

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Anndra @anndra.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

Nearly ten years ago now on a visit to London I picked up a pamphlet in a radical bookshop called Through Soviet Russia, by Major AS Hooper, published in 1941 (though the original edition had been published in 1937). It's a travelogue by a British army officer who visited the USSR in 1936

Front cover of the book/pamphlet Through Soviet Russia by Major A. S. Hooper, 6th edition. The price is listed as sixpence.

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Anndra @anndra.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

Jess loves to sit on some legs of an afternoon

Jess, a dilute calico cat, is curler and sleepy but looks a bit suspicious on blanketed legs on a couch. The living room in the background is slightly cluttered.

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Anndra @anndra.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

advice for life from Crusader Kings 3 (with bonus "Capitalists have builded a factroy" style grammatical errors for old times' sake)

Studying

Once you decide to join an Civil Service Examinations, it helps if you are well prepared.

You can prepare for Examinations by studying the Confucian Classics.

To continue:
Open the 'Decisions & Great Projects' Panel

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