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archivetvmusings @archivetvmusings.bsky.social · 2h

The first episode of The Return of Shelley was broadcast on this day in 1988. Hywel Bennett reprised his role as James Shelley, joined by new regulars Caroline Langrishe and Andrew Castell.

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Monday @mondave.bsky.social · 1d

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Pilgrim's Passages by Monday Cox

A rule set for playing adventure games about pilgrims, the items they carry, and the places they travel.

dastardlydave.itch.io

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Monday @mondave.bsky.social · 1d

The open beta release for Pilgrim's Passages, my house rule set, is here! It attempts to tackle travel, item crafting, and spell programing. If you would like to check it out please click the link in the next post. It's "Pay What You Want", so feel free to take it for a spin.

#osr #ttrpg

Two risograph printed and bound zines. One is called "Pilgrim's Passages", the other is called "Pilgrim's Prayerbook".

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🎃Scary Vampire Austin🧛🏿‍♀️🔜PAXU @sailorsctaustin.bsky.social · 2h

The story of how we even got the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles is an inspiration for me to keep making my own ideas and not worry what people think because those two literally were just doing whatever they wanted when they made those funky brothers

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Dennis Detwiller @drgonzo123.bsky.social · 2h

Last night on #DeltaGreen.

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Thomas S Brown @tomsbrown.bsky.social · 3h

Thread-
Mudlark
11th of the #Emberlings of Oct.
Originals £35 (plus post) each, in UK because people should be able to afford human art.
Message or reply to claim. First come, First served. She is A5. All will be collected in a book with words by @taliskimberley.bsky.social. #witchsky

Pencil drawing with chalk on toned paper. A witch mudlarking by moonlight with her finds in the foreground.

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Patrick Lynch @patrlynch1.bsky.social · 3h

Great Horned Owl study.
🧪🌿🌎🪶 #sciart #wildlife #scicomm #sciviz #wildlifeart #illustration #scientificillustration #natureart #visualscicomm #sciviz #scicomm #birds #birdart #owls

Head study drawing of a Great Horned Owl. Done in Photoshop with a Wacom drawing tablet.

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ScarEd Of Fannyside @edoffannyside.bsky.social · 3h

Interesting question.

Is it acceptable to scatter a loved one's ashes in the countryside?

Some hillwalkers are concerned they are coming across piles of ashes during treks in wild areas of Scotland.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Dennis Detwiller @drgonzo123.bsky.social · 2h

Every fucking day in #TTRPGs

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Artologica aka Michele Banks @artologica.net · 17h

Really happy with this shot #sqrlpix
Wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

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Fred Hicks @deadlyfredly.bsky.social · 2h

Man when I was setting up this game of Illuminati I totally failed to place Cosplayers in conflict with ICE.

My bad.

Dr. Geoffrey M, Queer and Spooky @drgeoffreym.bsky.social · 1d

Bless you all, Portland. And curse you for making me work out the alt text for this specific image.

People dressed up as a shark, some kind of white dog, and... maybe a peacock? Or colourful turkey?

Text overlay: After our interview, the frogs were joined by a couple of unicorns, a polar bear, an axolotl, a raccoon, and several more characters.

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Angie Rasmussen @angierasmussen.bsky.social · 13h

I don’t know who needs to hear this but the CDC is being eviscerated right now. America is not going to have any kind of outbreak response capacity after tonight. Americans’ health data is no longer secure. Say goodbye to federal public health in any capacity. It’s a disaster. We won’t recover.

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Jeremy Ghost Shipp @jeremycshipp.bsky.social · 13h

Fall snacks are so fun. I love unhinging my jaw to swallow whole pumpkins and dry leaves.

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ian.fenrisgames @fenrisgames.com · 2h

just imagine this miniature homage to 1e AD&D is finished and not just a rushed dry mockup in a spare hour between hospital runs and food prep

Styrofoam packing very loosely cut into a cavern setting of stalagmites and stalactites, with a hungry-looking purple worm resting there.

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Rob Turpin 🇺🇦🇵🇸🏳️‍⚧️ @thisnorthernboy.bsky.social · 2h

A quick post to say, while I'm currently booked up, I am looking to schedule projects for the end of the year and early next year. So if you're looking for spaceships / sci-fi illustrations for a ttrpg, card game, or rule book… give me a shout.

Rob Turpin 🇺🇦🇵🇸🏳️‍⚧️ @thisnorthernboy.bsky.social · Jan 17

I'm Rob, an illustrator, designer, and writer from the UK. With a background in graphic design, I now spend my time drawing spaceships, robots, and other strange stuff - either for myself or for indie games and publishers.

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A poster, built in Blender, showing the industrial Funicular from the Manga, Akira.

My illustration, Elk Island Light. An orange lighthouse floats on the ocean, at its base, tentacles extend in to the deep.

My illustration, Deep Space Fleet. A page of brightly coloured spaceship sketches.

My illustration, ISO Grid. 16 isometric illustrations of various little buildings. From a sci-fi noodle bar, to a Venetian palazzo.

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Dr. James H. Gundlach @pecanjim.bsky.social · 2h

In trying to see what the effects of religious beliefs are on death rates, I have found indications that religious fundamentalism, especially Southern Baptist, are a major driver of high death rates. The problem is quality of data. See ALT for more. 🧪💡☠️ #Sociology #Demography #Think #News

Looking for measures of state percent Southern Baptist I found measures for the years 1980, 1990, 2020, 2010 and 2020 in:

https://www.usreligioncensus.org/index.php/reports_analyses

Given that in working with hard to get data I regularly look for data problems and when I found all these ten year apart measures correlated at .99 or higher, I concluded that this was a problem. I kept coming back to the problem and around 4:00 one morning I had time on my hand and decided to search the on line Yellow Pages. I ran a search for "Southern Baptist church" for each state and at the bottom of the first page of listing was the total number for the state search. One problem was that Texas, Florida and Georgia turned up with the number 3,000 which looks like the system's maxim number it will report. Alabama only hit 2,946.

I went ahead and recorded the number of each state and after running several years of data I kept finding the Yellow Pages count was more strongly related to the state age 20-64 death rates, the average r for the survey data was 0.60 and the average r for the Yellow Pages number was 0.77. The values of all 112 r's are displayed on the graph.

Given how well this graph of age 20-64 showed things, I went ahead and repeated it for ages 65-84.

Here I show the same 112 possible correlations for the same independent variables, the decade percent Southern Baptist and the 2025 Yellow Pages listing for Southern Baptist Churches. The relative distance between the two lines of dots are very similar in the degree of running together and relative distance and position between them. But this line of dots shows much more of an increase over time than the middle age graph.

Here the r's for the survey data increase from a -0.07 to 0.71 from 1966 to 2023 with an average of 0.38. The same numbers for the Yellow Pages data are an increase from 0.16 to 0.82 with an average of 0.57.

This tells me a few things. First, that the Southern Baptist churches have more substantially increased their elder's relying on prayer for health care than their middle aged. Second, the Yellow Pages measure is consistently a better measure, and cheaper, than the survey data. Third, I need to see how these relationships hold up controlling for other variables, especially the only other variable that I have found is stronger than percent Southern Baptist, percent who smoke cigarettes.

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John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 1d

A billion dollars is the socio-political equivalent of a loose nuke, and we should work as ruthlessly and diligently to prevent the acquisition of the former as we do the latter.

Liberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com · 1d

“The problem with billionaires isn’t that they’re hoarding money that would otherwise pay for a Scandinavian social utopia. It’s that their money has become a source of wildly distorted political power that allows a few men with extremist views to wreak havoc on the rest of us.”

Billionaires Are Hoarding Power, Not Money

Billionaire money has become a source of wildly distorted political power that allows a few men with extremist views to wreak havoc on the rest of us.

www.liberalcurrents.com

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🪼Jellyfishlines is Haunting You🪼 @jellyfishlines.itch.io · 2d

Share Absurdia with that friend that is still listening to WTNV, the two that like Gravity Falls and The Twilight Zone, and that one that is totally normal about Alice in Wonderland!

At 25k I (and other really cool folks!) get to write for the game!
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Absurdia: The (Meta)Physical Edition

An absurdist tabletop roleplaying game about the inane hilarity and mundane horror of everyday life, inspired by Welcome to Night Vale, Alice in Wonderland, and Gravity Falls.

www.backerkit.com

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Seth Skorkowsky @sskorkowsky.bsky.social · 1d

Hunting through RPG Moral Panic materiel online and found my new favorite Anti-D&D pamphlet.

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Dennis Detwiller @drgonzo123.bsky.social · 2h

Me, after going through emails from fucking fash-losers.

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Ed Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 2h

Remember, this is how much it has cooked people’s brains after like one year. Think of what 10 years of this will do. Think of the brains of kids who will grow up not only unable to spot AI but unable to understand “real” and “AI generated” as two different concepts.

Cohen is a Ghost @skullmandible.bsky.social · 4h

"even if it's AI, it's at least true" hard to overstate the damage this stuff is doing to people's brains. we're gonna be cleaning the slop out of archives for decades

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 21h

Great point from @mjtoma.bsky.social: Millions of us absolutely do see what's happening to the USA.

"We are horrified, shocked, enraged, and ashamed. We are acting, in a thousand ways, to oppose it. This cannot, and will not, be how the United States ends."

newrepublic.com/post/201625/...

Memo to Future Historians: This Is Fascism, and Millions of Us See It

From Chicago to Portland, James Comey to Letitia James, and so much else—this is no longer America.

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Aram ➡️ PaxU @aramvartian.com · 2h

The bronze piece "Galloping Papillon" was my favorite.

A medium, horizontal shot of a dark, abstract metal sculpture on a large, white square pedestal in an art gallery. The sculpture is composed of sharp, angular, interlocking pieces of bronze or dark-toned metal, suggesting a dynamic, reclining or moving form.

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Aram ➡️ PaxU @aramvartian.com · 2h

I was recently asked to photograph a new exhibit at the Krasl Arts Center, Andrew Light's "The Shadow Caster Variations"

A large, angular abstract metal sculpture dominates the foreground of a bright art gallery. The silver sculpture has a broad, wing-like top and a geometric base. In the background, people are gathered, talking and viewing artwork. Colorful paintings hang on the wall to the left, and an open doorway leads to another room where a group is assembled around a table.

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Fill Diesmekhanik @thedicemechanic.bsky.social · 5h

Interesting read.

My honest view is that, no, gaming history isn't important in the slightest. It's a niche of a niche.

But for some of us, it's interesting and enjoyable. And that makes it as worthwhile as any form of leisure activity.

Rascal News @rascal.news · 7h

Reshare: Even as TSR and D&D’s early periods receive the gold-standard treatment, there’s much more to the hobby than one game and one company. But are those histories actually important? What is at stake if we forget them?

www.rascal.news/we-cant-let-...

We can’t let the market decide what we remember and forget

Emily Friedman and Evan Torner on why gaming histories matter.

www.rascal.news

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