Coreworlder
@coreworlder.bsky.social
UK software engineer, tabletop gamer, painter of miniatures, LARPer, and hacker of things. he/him. 🔸
Primary social media: https://dice.camp/@coreworlder
Long form blogging: https://thecoreworlds.xyz/
Primary social media: https://dice.camp/@coreworlder
Long form blogging: https://thecoreworlds.xyz/
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Coreworlder
@coreworlder.bsky.social
· Oct 19
My primary social media is at mastodon.social/@dorward and I write longer form thoughts over at thecoreworlds.xyz
I'm here because there are a lot of #warhammer folk and I'd like to read and respond.
I encourage folk to join me on a more open network: stefanbohacek.com/blog/how-to-...
I'm here because there are a lot of #warhammer folk and I'd like to read and respond.
I encourage folk to join me on a more open network: stefanbohacek.com/blog/how-to-...
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Head canon:
Pingu is clearly seen interacting with a polar bear. Pingu therefore can only be a northern hemisphere penguin - aka the great auk, aka the OG penguin.
Pingu is amongst the last survivors of a species thought to be extinct.
Pingu is clearly seen interacting with a polar bear. Pingu therefore can only be a northern hemisphere penguin - aka the great auk, aka the OG penguin.
Pingu is amongst the last survivors of a species thought to be extinct.
January 21, 2026 at 10:37 AM
Head canon:
Pingu is clearly seen interacting with a polar bear. Pingu therefore can only be a northern hemisphere penguin - aka the great auk, aka the OG penguin.
Pingu is amongst the last survivors of a species thought to be extinct.
Pingu is clearly seen interacting with a polar bear. Pingu therefore can only be a northern hemisphere penguin - aka the great auk, aka the OG penguin.
Pingu is amongst the last survivors of a species thought to be extinct.
There's been too much politics on my timeline lately so… fun stuff. GW had one of their preview shows and everything in it was lovely and I now want to start two new armies. I am, however, going to resist as I have a backlog to work through some of first.
January 20, 2026 at 9:19 AM
There's been too much politics on my timeline lately so… fun stuff. GW had one of their preview shows and everything in it was lovely and I now want to start two new armies. I am, however, going to resist as I have a backlog to work through some of first.
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Don't really have a dog in the ban-social-media-for-under-16s fight, but seems utterly irrational to demand it now. A country which is comparable to Britain has just done so. Surely, if you were remotely committed to evidence, you would take a year to see how it goes before proposing we copy them.
January 20, 2026 at 7:35 AM
Don't really have a dog in the ban-social-media-for-under-16s fight, but seems utterly irrational to demand it now. A country which is comparable to Britain has just done so. Surely, if you were remotely committed to evidence, you would take a year to see how it goes before proposing we copy them.
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In any other context, requiring a high-productivity sector to offshore the production of its highest value-added exports would be seen as the economic illiteracy it so obviously is...
www.ft.com/content/a23c...
www.ft.com/content/a23c...
UK drops target for international student recruitment
Government to encourage education providers to open campuses overseas as it focuses on reducing migration
www.ft.com
January 20, 2026 at 8:01 AM
In any other context, requiring a high-productivity sector to offshore the production of its highest value-added exports would be seen as the economic illiteracy it so obviously is...
www.ft.com/content/a23c...
www.ft.com/content/a23c...
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NOT HELPFUL, CROSSWORD AUTHOR!
January 17, 2026 at 3:36 AM
NOT HELPFUL, CROSSWORD AUTHOR!
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And invests no money in content or creators or any infrastructure of programme making, does no training, cannot support collaborative projects efficiently, and has an opaque payment system that mitigates against what the public would understand as “making television”.
January 15, 2026 at 9:11 AM
And invests no money in content or creators or any infrastructure of programme making, does no training, cannot support collaborative projects efficiently, and has an opaque payment system that mitigates against what the public would understand as “making television”.
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There are MANY issues with Starmer’s messaging. But I always thought this govts best and easiest bet was to become THE government of the rules and fair play. Led by a former lawyer, lean into fairness, equality, law and order, justice for workers, respect for international law.
January 5, 2026 at 9:01 AM
There are MANY issues with Starmer’s messaging. But I always thought this govts best and easiest bet was to become THE government of the rules and fair play. Led by a former lawyer, lean into fairness, equality, law and order, justice for workers, respect for international law.
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January 5, 2026 at 12:25 PM
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All it takes for evil to thrive is for mediocre world leaders to say “I’d rather not say”
January 4, 2026 at 11:39 AM
All it takes for evil to thrive is for mediocre world leaders to say “I’d rather not say”
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This isn’t new.
During the 1960s you didn’t have hardcore anti-war hippie folks dating hawkish DoD staffers either.
During the 1960s you didn’t have hardcore anti-war hippie folks dating hawkish DoD staffers either.
Everyone has a list of so-called "red flags" when they're dating. And for some, especially younger Americans, different political views is a relationship deal breaker.
Majority of Gen Z swipe left on dating people with opposite political views
Everyone has a list of so-called "red flags" when they're dating. And for some, especially younger Americans, different political views is a relationship deal breaker.
n.pr
December 31, 2025 at 3:41 PM
This isn’t new.
During the 1960s you didn’t have hardcore anti-war hippie folks dating hawkish DoD staffers either.
During the 1960s you didn’t have hardcore anti-war hippie folks dating hawkish DoD staffers either.
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This is true and I was the only one on set excited about it (and playing the song on my phone to blank stares)
Just watched the new Knives Out and I think it's really important you know that the scene in the Seminary's Gym is filmed in the same place Rick Astley filmed the music video for Never Gonna Give You Up.
I saw the window tracery and immediately made my friends pause the film so I could tell them.
I saw the window tracery and immediately made my friends pause the film so I could tell them.
December 30, 2025 at 4:21 AM
This is true and I was the only one on set excited about it (and playing the song on my phone to blank stares)
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ProTEct truSTed LocAL nEWS
This isn't even designed to wind people up and hope they share it. It's just an exploitation of Birmingham Live's privileged position on Google Discover/Apple News. The whole point is to deceive people into clicking. An industry built on total contempt for its audience.
This isn't even designed to wind people up and hope they share it. It's just an exploitation of Birmingham Live's privileged position on Google Discover/Apple News. The whole point is to deceive people into clicking. An industry built on total contempt for its audience.
Another datapoint for @jim.londoncentric.media's list of misleading Reach headlines:
"Alert for UK households buying Cathedral City cheese at M&S or Tesco"
The "alert" is that... other cheeses came out ahead in an independent taste test.
www.birminghammail.co.uk/whats-on/sho...
"Alert for UK households buying Cathedral City cheese at M&S or Tesco"
The "alert" is that... other cheeses came out ahead in an independent taste test.
www.birminghammail.co.uk/whats-on/sho...
Alert for UK households buying Cathedral City cheese at M&S or Tesco
A taste test has revealed Cathedral City is actually outscored by other varieties
www.birminghammail.co.uk
December 19, 2025 at 1:26 PM
ProTEct truSTed LocAL nEWS
This isn't even designed to wind people up and hope they share it. It's just an exploitation of Birmingham Live's privileged position on Google Discover/Apple News. The whole point is to deceive people into clicking. An industry built on total contempt for its audience.
This isn't even designed to wind people up and hope they share it. It's just an exploitation of Birmingham Live's privileged position on Google Discover/Apple News. The whole point is to deceive people into clicking. An industry built on total contempt for its audience.
Oh, a new follower. Hooray.
*looks at profile*
"3.1K followers 47.6K following 22 posts"
*glances at the content of those posts*
*counts the number of hashtags on those posts*
*sighs*
*digs out the report spam button*
*looks at profile*
"3.1K followers 47.6K following 22 posts"
*glances at the content of those posts*
*counts the number of hashtags on those posts*
*sighs*
*digs out the report spam button*
December 19, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Oh, a new follower. Hooray.
*looks at profile*
"3.1K followers 47.6K following 22 posts"
*glances at the content of those posts*
*counts the number of hashtags on those posts*
*sighs*
*digs out the report spam button*
*looks at profile*
"3.1K followers 47.6K following 22 posts"
*glances at the content of those posts*
*counts the number of hashtags on those posts*
*sighs*
*digs out the report spam button*
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Very sad that I felt I had no choice but to resign from The Infinite Monkey Cage - a victory for the transphobes and other bigots - I did it because so much of the media has chosen to believe the kind and empathetic people are a fiction - they are real and so often unrepresented.
December 13, 2025 at 12:02 AM
Very sad that I felt I had no choice but to resign from The Infinite Monkey Cage - a victory for the transphobes and other bigots - I did it because so much of the media has chosen to believe the kind and empathetic people are a fiction - they are real and so often unrepresented.
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Okay, time I come clean after four years.
The introduction to the SS painting guide I did which contained what is apparently a trigger phrase, 'The Nazis were the bad guys,' was bait.
It worked exactly as planned; this is *the* most disliked of any of my videos.
Let me at last elaborate.
The introduction to the SS painting guide I did which contained what is apparently a trigger phrase, 'The Nazis were the bad guys,' was bait.
It worked exactly as planned; this is *the* most disliked of any of my videos.
Let me at last elaborate.
It's probably about time I revisited this, maybe did Erbsenmuster as well. Make sure to include a brief introduction that makes everybody mad as hell because they hear half of it and their brains stop working and proceed to yell at me, essentially quoting me back. XD
December 11, 2025 at 1:29 PM
Okay, time I come clean after four years.
The introduction to the SS painting guide I did which contained what is apparently a trigger phrase, 'The Nazis were the bad guys,' was bait.
It worked exactly as planned; this is *the* most disliked of any of my videos.
Let me at last elaborate.
The introduction to the SS painting guide I did which contained what is apparently a trigger phrase, 'The Nazis were the bad guys,' was bait.
It worked exactly as planned; this is *the* most disliked of any of my videos.
Let me at last elaborate.
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You want there to be a legal challenge to this? Support the one that's already in progress that, if successful, will remove the risk of legal action against Guides and WI, or other organisations, for being trans inclusive goodlawproject.org/crowdfunder/...
Help us challenge the Supreme Court’s judgment on trans rights | Good Law Project
goodlawproject.org
December 3, 2025 at 12:00 PM
You want there to be a legal challenge to this? Support the one that's already in progress that, if successful, will remove the risk of legal action against Guides and WI, or other organisations, for being trans inclusive goodlawproject.org/crowdfunder/...
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There's no point in getting angry at the Guides or the WI for no longer being trans inclusive, and while there are people saying "but they have loads of money; they can fight this in court", that money isn't intended for legal costs; it's for running the orgranisations
December 3, 2025 at 11:17 AM
There's no point in getting angry at the Guides or the WI for no longer being trans inclusive, and while there are people saying "but they have loads of money; they can fight this in court", that money isn't intended for legal costs; it's for running the orgranisations
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Here is a list of reasons why some of my hearings and trials this year have been delayed and kicked off into the long grass, stuck in our record court backlog. Serious allegations which will now be tried *years* after the event. 🧵👇
November 27, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Here is a list of reasons why some of my hearings and trials this year have been delayed and kicked off into the long grass, stuck in our record court backlog. Serious allegations which will now be tried *years* after the event. 🧵👇
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I once knew a Federal bank examiner, and one time someone asked him why we had to KEEP inspecting banks over and over. He basically said every new batch of business school grads invents bank fraud from first principles.
AirBnB CEO calling it “vibe revenue” just 👨🍳 😘
The underlying cause of every bubble - debt masquerading as financial innovation - depends on not just short financial memory & speculative neophytism, but reinventing jargon of finance, like how each generation of kids has new ways to say same things.
The underlying cause of every bubble - debt masquerading as financial innovation - depends on not just short financial memory & speculative neophytism, but reinventing jargon of finance, like how each generation of kids has new ways to say same things.
November 22, 2025 at 6:02 PM
I once knew a Federal bank examiner, and one time someone asked him why we had to KEEP inspecting banks over and over. He basically said every new batch of business school grads invents bank fraud from first principles.
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STRIKE RESUMES ON MONDAY!!!
On November 10th, we will commence with another 4 weeks of strikes. And we're kicking things off with a picket at the West Entrance of University Park. (Photo by @tregenza.bsky.social).
On November 10th, we will commence with another 4 weeks of strikes. And we're kicking things off with a picket at the West Entrance of University Park. (Photo by @tregenza.bsky.social).
November 5, 2025 at 6:21 PM
STRIKE RESUMES ON MONDAY!!!
On November 10th, we will commence with another 4 weeks of strikes. And we're kicking things off with a picket at the West Entrance of University Park. (Photo by @tregenza.bsky.social).
On November 10th, we will commence with another 4 weeks of strikes. And we're kicking things off with a picket at the West Entrance of University Park. (Photo by @tregenza.bsky.social).
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Saved up Slow Horses to binge. Halfway through, and IMHO it's the most consistently excellent show in years. Roddy Ho is the *worst*, but in terms of writing is also the best.
October 30, 2025 at 10:33 PM
Saved up Slow Horses to binge. Halfway through, and IMHO it's the most consistently excellent show in years. Roddy Ho is the *worst*, but in terms of writing is also the best.
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Exactly.
Without going full infra nerd, the big problem has always been Treasury maths.
They consistently require a cost/benefit ratio for investment/loans on projects that downplays social or growth impact in favour of raw financial return.
Creating a pass/fail score only London can really hit.
Without going full infra nerd, the big problem has always been Treasury maths.
They consistently require a cost/benefit ratio for investment/loans on projects that downplays social or growth impact in favour of raw financial return.
Creating a pass/fail score only London can really hit.
October 28, 2025 at 8:59 AM
Exactly.
Without going full infra nerd, the big problem has always been Treasury maths.
They consistently require a cost/benefit ratio for investment/loans on projects that downplays social or growth impact in favour of raw financial return.
Creating a pass/fail score only London can really hit.
Without going full infra nerd, the big problem has always been Treasury maths.
They consistently require a cost/benefit ratio for investment/loans on projects that downplays social or growth impact in favour of raw financial return.
Creating a pass/fail score only London can really hit.
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I also want to re-iterate, this is not "the lib dems". It is a tiny minority of very noisy transphobes with bottomless pockets SLAPP*ing the party into doing this.
The expressed will of conference /a month ago/ was that this was so awful it wasn't even worth debating.
The expressed will of conference /a month ago/ was that this was so awful it wasn't even worth debating.
Strategic lawsuit against public participation - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
October 27, 2025 at 5:18 PM
I also want to re-iterate, this is not "the lib dems". It is a tiny minority of very noisy transphobes with bottomless pockets SLAPP*ing the party into doing this.
The expressed will of conference /a month ago/ was that this was so awful it wasn't even worth debating.
The expressed will of conference /a month ago/ was that this was so awful it wasn't even worth debating.
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It’s no wonder MPs’ staff are often still paid the same as I was almost a decade ago in spite of ever increasing expectations and workload when any office expenses are met with this sort of hysteria
October 27, 2025 at 11:16 AM
It’s no wonder MPs’ staff are often still paid the same as I was almost a decade ago in spite of ever increasing expectations and workload when any office expenses are met with this sort of hysteria