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Ivan Richardson
@amonsteronthehill.bsky.social
Sci-fi and Horror writer (anything with monsters in it) while also trying to balance being a parent and functional human being
Democracy and capitalism are no longer compatible.

The new rise of fascism is being powered by billionaires who feel threatened by progressive social movements, climate action and voters wanting better living standards away from the poverty which unchecked capitalism has created.
December 13, 2025 at 9:48 AM
Poor you. My understanding is that the power/water requirements of each data centre is equal that of a city, and not a small city either
December 12, 2025 at 2:03 PM
As an engineer I've been thinking about this. Things in space lose heat through radiation, which is very slow. And heat loss would only be from the outside. Data centres generate HUGE amounts of heat in the centre. I don't know if heat pumps can carry that much heat to the outside.
December 11, 2025 at 1:54 PM
These look really good
December 11, 2025 at 11:41 AM
A 5 mile long space ship materialises in the sky. Drop pods rain down on westeros as hundreds of space marine poor into Kings Landing. Finally a primarch arrives, obliterates the iron throne, kills the Lannisters, Starks and Daenerys then declares the 7 kingdoms now belong to the Empire of mankind
December 10, 2025 at 5:33 PM
That game has been on my list for a long time
December 10, 2025 at 2:33 PM
I'm currently trying to work out how I can make the space marines I painted last year look good. I think most of them look ok, but given how much I've learnt in the last year I think I should be able to do a lot better now
December 10, 2025 at 1:48 PM
It's actually set millennia in our future. Westeros was an abandoned terraforming project. The dragons and white-walkers are failed genetic experiments. The gods are AI systems who were supposed to bring everything under control. It all ends with giant space ships coming down
December 10, 2025 at 1:45 PM
It was all a dream
December 10, 2025 at 1:39 PM
Amen.
December 10, 2025 at 9:59 AM
Media reform is essential to protect the UK from the rise of far right populism/authoritarianism which is spreading across the west. Also we need electoral reform.
December 10, 2025 at 9:11 AM
It's a lot better than first ever Tyranid which I did at the start of this year
December 8, 2025 at 11:38 AM
They managed to take out Angela Rayner (for a genuine mistake that doesn't compare to what most Tories have done) so now they are going after the next most powerful woman in Labour
December 3, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Let's see how widespread this gets reported in the media
December 2, 2025 at 3:55 PM
That green is beautiful. Which paints did you use?
December 1, 2025 at 10:39 AM
As my old instructor used to say "pain is just weakness leaving the body." They were also a psychopath.
November 23, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Farage is but one tentacle in a well organised and very well founded machine which is spreading social division and subverting democracy across the west just to prop up an unsustainable socio-economic system which focuses on continually increasing the wealth and power of the top 0.01%
November 19, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Let's pretend Brexit turned us from "servants" to "masters," find someone who is actually in poverty (there's a lot more of them since Brexit) and ask them if they'd rather be rich a servant or a poor master.
November 17, 2025 at 5:03 PM