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You have to admit, Trump seems to have a certain knack for picking these....

Now there was a semi-viral tweet from Olivia Munn where she found her Psylocke sword at home and was practicing with it and went wrong... Someone decided to turn it into a lightsaber.

Been idly doodling around with some of Fantasy Flights Rogue Trader RPG, and amused to realise that they've done a fan shout-out by including a "Reaver" alternate career path, a character that has lived too long on the edge of space, loses connection with humanity and now lives just for slaughter and pillage. A picture of which includes a character wearing a rather familiar browncoat. Of course, what actually amused me most about it.. is that how often does something get translated into Warhammer 40k and become lighter and softer? Also, realising it's pretty much Star Trek The Mirror Universe the RPG when you get down to it...

Way back in February I'd booked tickets and time off to fly over to the US (Georgia in fact) to visit friends and attend DragonCon at the end of August. Now DragonCon is cancelled, and I'm definitely not looking optimistically to being able to land in the US, let alone Georgia. Methinks I'll be having to cancel those tickets in a week or two....

Just because it's being put to one use now, doesn't mean it can't be used for other things at later dates...

Besides being the social media construct for the latest young generation and a way to get their potential 5 minutes of world fame, its a device for China to suck all your personal data and get access to everything you do on your phone. Supposedly.

I was feeling slightly depressive, so I pulled out the whimsy to battle it. Which resulted in ordering a batch of fairy light leds, some cotton rope, and clamps. Now I plan to build an adult blanket fort to hide in and read for the weekend....

Doesn't quite fit in either film or literature.. That sort of crossover of both. PasteMagazine - Conant the Barbarian took what worked and abandoned what didn't (the racism)

One that could be interesting...

NBC News - GOP tuck 8 billion military weapons package into the Coronovirus relief bill

BBC - One of the mysteries around Stonehenge's origin has been solved

To be absolutely fair, one of the key reasons for Jordan's increasing time between books , was that he was suffering a slow terminal disease for the last 4 or 5 he actually wrote himself.

I remember John Ringo doing a blog about how the past few years he has been engaging with his fans, enjoying the interaction, having a steady income..and as such, he hasn't been retreating to his basement to write. He made the point of "I'm in a happier place now then I've ever been, so I'm not escaping from the world..and my writing is suffering." He half joked that he'd have to stop talking to fans, and figure out what makes him unhappy so he could go back to actually working.

BBC - Portland protests: Federal forces ready for phased pull-out