Bots are getting fucking annoying. Before we had to deal with bots probing for vulnerabilities, now we also have to deal with genAI bots aggressively harvesting data. I have to do a little sysadmin work to kick them out…

I’m on holiday in Brittany, visiting old stuff. Here, have a menhir with some obviously devil-and-angel-possessed pair of magic sheep guarding it. One tells you about your death, one tells you about your deeds.

The KARTAS podcast recently talked about the fictive countries that the US military used for operational training… here are some maps of the “Republic of Zendia”, used by code-breakers in the Cold War!

The August dark chocolate drop has arrived! Yay!

While packing all the stuff for the upcoming renovation, I found these maps from when I started my RuneQuest campaign a few years ago… good times!

The last week has been about packing everything on the ground floor away into storage to make way for a renovation… behold, half of my TTRPG, comics, and board games collection, shamefully hidden in boxes! 😓

The teenager and I finished Split Fiction yesterday (on PS5) and it was such a great run! I was legit laughing-out-loud in some of the side-plots. Highly recommended, with a good friend or family member sitting on the couch next to you. Thanks and congrats to Hazelight & the whole dev team.

The fluffy good boy got a piece of wood stuck in its mouth again… the removal operation was a success but he needs to keep his emotional support ball for a bit longer. Recovery is important!

Since we came out of the cinema I’ve been singing “FANTASTIC FOUUUUU-UUUUR!!!” over and over at random intervals and I think my kids are now fed up with it so yeah it was a fun outing.

The funny thing to me about the new South Park is that the series always made fun of everyone, but its audience skews conservative because right-wing assholes are so oblivious to it, only seeing the jokes about woke people or whatever. To me, the new episode just seems par for the course.