Reposted by Dan AlexanderStephen Collins @stephencollins.bsky.social · 10/08/2026[Comic ] From a couple of weeks back #comic #tech #sciencefiction #comedy #sketch 10481113 481
Dan Alexander @danalexander42.bsky.social · 21/05/2026Introduce yourself with 10 bands you've seen live: Anthrax Ian Dury and the Blockheads Gil Scott Heron Gojira Iron Maiden Mastodon Opeth The Prodigy Spoon They Might Be Giants 030 3
Dan Alexander @danalexander42.bsky.social · 15/05/2026I'll never forget the kid who stumped him with "Which tree has the most leaves?" 010 1
Dan Alexander @danalexander42.bsky.social · 14/05/2026I had exactly the same reaction. I was daunted until Leviathan by Mastodon made me want to read it. The biggest gap between my expectations and reading experience is The Satanic Verses which turned out to be readable, very funny, and a terrific satire of the 80s. 010 1
Dan Alexander @danalexander42.bsky.social · 13/05/2026Classics: Solaris by Stanisław Lem, The Forever War by Joe Haldeman. A retro-delight: What Mad Universe by Fredric Brown (out of print - cheap on Abebooks etc) 010 1
Dan Alexander @danalexander42.bsky.social · 11/05/2026Goodly morning gents. Since Raya and Rice joined we've conceded a third fewer goals. How do you share the credit? (Goals against: 21/22 48, 22/23 43, 23/24 29, 24/25 34, 25/26 26) @gunnerblog.bsky.social #arsecastextra 010 1
Dan Alexander @danalexander42.bsky.social · 29/04/2026Grim. Chaotic Good misunderstand the Dungeons and Dragons alignment system (yes, that is where the name comes from): they are Neutral Evil 030 3
Dan Alexander @danalexander42.bsky.social · 24/04/2026Michael Moorcock invented everything #483 020 2
Dan Alexander @danalexander42.bsky.social · 17/03/2026Love it! Somewhere On Tour was my first gig - came home with a 5ftx3ft robot Eddie poster 🤟 101 1
Dan Alexander @danalexander42.bsky.social · 06/03/2026It was great fun. I even bought the sweatshirt! 030 3
Dan Alexander @danalexander42.bsky.social · 22/02/2026Michael Moorcock Ursula K Le Guin Evelyn Waugh Martin Amis Jack Vance 030 3
Dan Alexander @danalexander42.bsky.social · 13/02/2026This may be true in general, but I've bought your book, Helen's, Dorian Lynskey X2. Brian Merchant and several others thanks to podcasts. 000 0
Dan Alexander @danalexander42.bsky.social · 06/02/2026I quit my membership over that speech and told my MP they should sack McSweeney, ditch the nativism and improve public services. It's even worse now and I agree, Starmer has failed and must go. 120 2
Dan Alexander @danalexander42.bsky.social · 13/01/2026That's such a great interview. Congratulations Judge Robert! 020 2
Dan Alexander @danalexander42.bsky.social · 11/01/2026In the early 1980s RQ2 said Heroquest was "coming soon". 40 years on it was great to experience QuestWorlds in Glorantha. Thank you Ian 140 4
Dan Alexander @danalexander42.bsky.social · 10/12/2025Fascinating thread. I lived in Camden Town for years and this is new to me. There is so much to London 120 2
Dan Alexander @danalexander42.bsky.social · 30/09/2025P&V's Master and Margarita is full of annoyances, especially Ivan Bezdomny being translated as Ivan Homeless. Maxim Bitter (Gorky) and Boris Parsnip (Pasternak) want a word. 010 1
Dan Alexander @danalexander42.bsky.social · 27/07/2025What perfect album came out the year you turned 16? 080 8
Dan Alexander @danalexander42.bsky.social · 13/07/2025Share the last 4 games you played and expose your gaming habits (TTRPG only version) DragonBane Call of Cthulhu Traveller BRP 060 6
Dan Alexander @danalexander42.bsky.social · 26/06/2025Movie you've watched more than six times using GIFS (hard mode: no Star Wars, Star Trek or LOTR)media.tenor.coma man with a mustache says hello my name is inigo montoya you killed my father prepare to dieAlt: A man with a moustache says "Hello my name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die" (The Princess Bride) 070 7
Dan Alexander @danalexander42.bsky.social · 22/03/2025A water vole in Cambridge. The first I've ever seen. 070 7
Reposted by Dan AlexanderAlasdair Beckett-King @misterabk.bsky.social · 01/03/2025You didn't like my tabletop gaming anecdote? Huh. I guess you had to be pretending to be there. 866086 660
Reposted by Dan AlexanderBryan’s Gunn @bryansgunn.bsky.social · 15/02/2025They can’t park the bus 381013290 1K
Reposted by Dan AlexanderDr Emma Salisbury @salisbot.bsky.social · 26/01/2025I was writing about deterrence today and remembered my favourite way of explaining it 241778328 1.8K
Dan Alexander @danalexander42.bsky.social · 24/01/2025Microsoft 365 renewals are auto-enshittified with AI and 30% more expensive. The classic version of 365 is on display in the bottom of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying "Beware of the Leopard". This is good advice that works. 150 5
Reposted by Dan AlexanderJeremy Lion @jeremylion.bsky.social · 10/12/2024He’s beaten me to it. I declare Christmas OPEN! 34315 43
Dan Alexander @danalexander42.bsky.social · 21/11/2024Good discussion here - there are surprising limitations pca.st/episode/4c78...pca.stOpenAI's Video Generating AI Is Dead On Arrival - Better OfflineBetter Offline is a weekly show exploring the tech industry’s influence and manipulation of society - and interrogating the growth-at-all-costs future that tech’s elite wants to build. Combining narr... 010 1
Reposted by Dan AlexanderUrsula K. Le Guin @ursulakleguin.com · 18/11/2024For the next few weeks, you can pick up a pretty incredible ebook bundle of Ursula's work—up to 30 books!—and support Portland's Literary Arts in the processhumblebundle.comHumble Book Bundle: A Wizard of Earthsea and More by Ursula K. Le GuinExplore the worlds and stories of Ursula K. Le Guin with this ebook library, featuring <em>A Wizard of Earthsea</em> and more. Pay what you want & support charity! 16635321 635
Dan Alexander @danalexander42.bsky.social · 14/11/2024Welcome John! Glad you're here. You'll find many folks are fond of the durulz 010 1
Dan Alexander @danalexander42.bsky.social · 12/11/2024Bought by Waterstones in 2022 unfortunately. Before 2022 totally agree 100 1
Dan Alexander @danalexander42.bsky.social · 20/10/2024Jack and Kate also heaped praise on Johannes Cabal the Necromancer in their best of 2023 episode. A superb recommendation - such an enjoyable book. 010 1
Reposted by Dan AlexanderMarie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 05/10/2024well I'm in floods of tears www.thetimes.com/article/5ecd...thetimes.comWe only learnt of our son’s secret online life after he died at 20When Mats Steen died from a muscle-wasting disorder, his parents believed that his life had been a tragically lonely one — until hundreds of emails from strangers arrived. It turns out that he’d found... 981742642 1.7K
Reposted by Dan AlexanderBest for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 04/10/2024This is so charming and lovely. Perfect Friday content and a good thing to share with those who may have been led, by cynical demagogues, to believe that multiculturalism has made London some sort of dystopian hell. ~AA 281302407 1.3K
Dan Alexander @danalexander42.bsky.social · 22/09/2024Morning Tom. Spellburn (my fave DCC podcast) looked into AP - links in the show notes spellburn.net/2020/03/23/e...spellburn.netEpisode 93: On the Hunt for Actual Play! | Spellburn 120 2
Dan Alexander @danalexander42.bsky.social · 07/09/2024open.spotify.com/episode/16zy...open.spotify.comEnzittification with Cory Doctorow & Brian MerchantEpisode · Better Offline · In the third live-to-tape episode of Better Offlive, Ed Zitron is joined in-studio in Los Angeles by Cory Doctorow and Brian Merchant to talk about the forces that have turn... 030 3
Dan Alexander @danalexander42.bsky.social · 07/09/2024open.spotify.com/episode/5RJV...open.spotify.comThe Secret Diary Of Adrian Mole - with Beth MorreyEpisode · Comfort Blanket · Sunday Times bestselling author Beth Morrey (Saving Missy, Lucky Day) talks about Sue Townsend's definitive comic coming-of-age novel The Secret Diary Of Adrian Mole Aged 1... 030 3
Dan Alexander @danalexander42.bsky.social · 27/08/2024First: Iron Maiden, Cardiff 1986 Last: Korn Worst: The War on Drugs, Auckland 2023 Loudest: Slayer Best: Gojira, Gdansk 2023 Seen most: Anthrax x10 Surprising: The Prodigy, Moscow 1995 Happy I got to see: Gil Scott Heron Wish: System of a Down Next: They Might Be Giants 070 7
Dan Alexander @danalexander42.bsky.social · 07/12/2023Leviathan by Mastodon is an entire album based on Moby Dick. Blood and Thunder is irresistible "White Whale! Holy Grail!" 020 2
Dan Alexander @danalexander42.bsky.social · 22/11/2023As another oldster recently reacquainted with the metal genre, I'd recommend Mastodon, Opeth and Kvelertak. A little more extreme yet brilliant: Gojira and Behemoth. All are worth seeing live. For something leftfield try Igorrr 020 2
Dan Alexander @danalexander42.bsky.social · 17/10/2023It's a terrific book and I'll be forever grateful to MM for introducing me to Fritz Leiber and Gene Wolfe 040 4
![[scene is SATURDAY KITCHEN, with the normal set of Saturday Kitchen, except it’s in a cave, and the guest chef is a kind of semi-human creature called MORLOCK, and the host is H G Wells]
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H G WELLS:
Hello I’m HG Wells and welcome to Saturday Kitchen.
So with me today is Morlock!
MORLOCK
Helloo
H G WELLS:
Now tell me a bit about yourself, Morlock
MORLOCK:
Well I’m an future sub-branch of humanity that lives underground in the year 802,701.
HG WELLS:
Wonderful!
[Close up on what Morlock is cooking - a pale, veal-like steak in the frying pan]
MORLOCK:
And today I'm cooking Eloi, which is the my rival species of human, from above the ground.
[Wells makes a frozen face of realisation]
MORLOCK
Eloi are beautifully soft and easy to hunt
Because they’ve gone weak with over-reliance on technology!
HG WELLS:
Oh god. Did - did you -
MORLOCK:
It’s super local meat too - I bagged this one last night, just outside my lair.
[Cut to a scene above ground at night - Morlock emerges from his hole in the ground]
[He approaches an Eloi - a pale, weak-looking human - sat at a desk with a computer on it]
ELOI [talking to his computer]:
Hey Chat -
Write me an email to Jess in accounts about -
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[Morlock grabs the Eloi]
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[Cut back to HG Wells and Morlock at the Saturday Kitchen tasting table, tucking into the Eloi meat]
HG WELLS:
It’s kind of like veal!
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