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Sarah Cole

@irny.bsky.social

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Pale. Curious. Game-maker. Writer. (de-)Archivist. Goon. Goblinesque. Demi. ADHD. She/Her. Current things: - Darkened Hill & Dale 🎲💀🏞️ - TERMINUS 🎲💀🚇 - Trick or Retreat 🎃🎲☕☺️ links.patchworkfez.co.uk

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Sarah Cole @irny.bsky.social · Apr 8

Interested in a TTRPG of mine?

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Sarah Cole @irny.bsky.social · 6h

My lovely sister, loudly, without thinking about her phrasing:
'Oh! What lovely knockers!'

An ornate brass door knocker on a red door. An owl appears to emerge from a circular base decorated with a Greek 'key' motif. Its talons hold the metal ring which is the moveable part of the knocker.

A door knocker in the shape of a bumblebee sits on a white and glass door.

Sarah Cole @irny.bsky.social · 7h

Richmond is also Not Bad.

Through the rounded top section of an old window, the keep of Richmond Castle looms between the rooftops of two closer houses.

High above, atop the castle walls, the late afternoon sunlight illuminates the autumn leaves particularly beautifully. The orange and yellow leaves of one tree look almost like flames.

Angular rocks and stones eventually come together in layers to form the tall and looming walls of Richmond Castle.

In the foreground below, a garden allotment is filled with vegetables including pumpkins. Behind that is the chunky but ancient remains of a gate from the 14th century city walls. Beyond that is a clutter of old houses, eventually giving way to trees. In the distant trees, we can just see the top of a folly tower.

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Sarah Cole @irny.bsky.social · 7h

Aside from being lightly spooky, Swaledale is – of course – still a delight to behold. A mental balm, delivered via the eyeballs.

The view from the moor above Grinton, looking down towards the village, on a sunny autumn day.

Beyond a slightly blurry fence, sheep graze in a green field. Beyond them, a church, farm buildings, and stone walls sit below a hillside covered in trees, ferns, and gorse.

A fairly bare hillside above Reeth is criss-crossed by drystone walls. A lone stone building can be made out amongst the green, yellow, orange, and grey, of the terrain and vegetation.

Past the neat top edge of a stone wall, we look across the valley of Swaledale to see grazing sheep, trees, the river, farmland, and the far hillside.

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Sarah Cole @irny.bsky.social · 7h

Pretty much every trip I take in this country turns into research or inspiration for a new weird horror project.
What's not to like?

A shot taken looking up a stairwell. The angles of a 1930s staircase turn around a dangling chandelier.

An old stone wall is painted white. In the middle of the wall, without explanation, is the carved face of a screaming bearded man.

On a cobbled market square, two buildings adjoin. One is a pub; its sign reads 'The Black Bull', but the words are written upside down. The date on the sign -'Est. 1680' – is the right way up.

In the Yorkshire village of Reeth, people sit at picnic benches on the cobbled market place, enjoying a pint outside a pub. The sky is filled with very textured clouds and the brown haze from a distant moorland fire; the sun shines a sickly yellow tone through the smoke haze.

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Sarah Cole @irny.bsky.social · 8h

You rotten swine, you! You've deaded me again!

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Matt Whetherly @mwheth.bsky.social · 10h

I become this more and more every day...

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Marguerite Kenner @margueritekenner.bsky.social · 2d

This is EXACTLY why we've been protesting age verification!

404 Media @404media.co · 2d

BREAKING: A catastrophic breach has impacted Discord user data including selfies and identity documents uploaded as part of the app’s verification process, email addresses, phone numbers, approximately where the user lives, and much more.

🔗 www.404media.co/the-discord-...

The Discord Hack is Every Users’ Worst Nightmare

A hack impacting Discord’s age verification process shows in stark terms the risk of tech companies collecting users’ ID documents. Now the hackers are posting peoples’ IDs and other sensitive informa...

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Eryk ☭ (but make it Red Scare for Halloween) @peregrinecoast.press · 2d

Rites of Renewal: a neo-pagan folk horror sandbox for Mothership RPG - crowdfunding next week!

Featuring words by @jlcable.bsky.social and hand-made lino art from @pickledpennies.bsky.social. Will you join in the revelries?

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 12h

What you're getting from an LLM is a statistical approximation of what the answer would be to a statistical approximation of the question.

This is why prompt engineering is fake. The prompt (and any input data) is just a suggestion - and helps fool you into thinking that your question was answered.

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Maria J Pérez Cuervo @mjpcuervo.bsky.social · 1d

Benjamin Franklin’s 1761 invention, the glass harmonica, produced a sound so ethereal and otherworldly that some claimed it “excessively stimulates the nerves, plunges the player into a nagging depression and hence into a dark and melancholy mood” leading to “slow self-annihilation”.