Ed Morland
@edmorland.bsky.social
Mostly lurking but enjoy the sudden bursts of sport, SFF, board games or far more likely reposted content. (he/him)
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You know that feeling of a game making you want to immediately design something? THAT.
The curious, playful, and intentionally unfinished Oddfolk left @newmadras.bsky.social completely charmed.
Oddfolk is the most fun you can have with four lines
Warning: can cause game design.
www.rascal.news
November 26, 2025 at 3:15 PM
You know that feeling of a game making you want to immediately design something? THAT.
Well sucks to hear from an enjoying watching the Red Roses pov but what a way to go out.
As John Mitchell puts it: “I personally believe that we are losing arguably the best right winger in world rugby at the peak of her powers, but we fully respect her decision to move on to a new chapter.”
As John Mitchell puts it: “I personally believe that we are losing arguably the best right winger in world rugby at the peak of her powers, but we fully respect her decision to move on to a new chapter.”
Abby Dow retires from professional Rugby | Rugby Football Union
Red Roses World Cup winner Abby Dow has announced her retirement from professional rugby.
www.englandrugby.com
November 26, 2025 at 12:10 PM
Well sucks to hear from an enjoying watching the Red Roses pov but what a way to go out.
As John Mitchell puts it: “I personally believe that we are losing arguably the best right winger in world rugby at the peak of her powers, but we fully respect her decision to move on to a new chapter.”
As John Mitchell puts it: “I personally believe that we are losing arguably the best right winger in world rugby at the peak of her powers, but we fully respect her decision to move on to a new chapter.”
The idea of publishing a book of collected blog posts and including some of the comments is kind of amazing if weird.
Including only a selection of the comments from an argument of which all the comments are on, presumably, your side but we get none of the disagreement heads into bizarre.
Including only a selection of the comments from an argument of which all the comments are on, presumably, your side but we get none of the disagreement heads into bizarre.
November 25, 2025 at 11:36 PM
The idea of publishing a book of collected blog posts and including some of the comments is kind of amazing if weird.
Including only a selection of the comments from an argument of which all the comments are on, presumably, your side but we get none of the disagreement heads into bizarre.
Including only a selection of the comments from an argument of which all the comments are on, presumably, your side but we get none of the disagreement heads into bizarre.
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We Choose Every Day: Hebe Stanton reviews Claire North's SLOW GODS (@orbitbooks.bsky.social)
We Choose Every Day: Review of Slow Gods by Claire North
Hebe Stanton Under Review:Slow Gods. Claire North. Orbit, November 2025. What does it mean? This oldest of questions is the one Claire North sets out to answer in their newest novel Slow Gods. Our …
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November 24, 2025 at 2:15 PM
We Choose Every Day: Hebe Stanton reviews Claire North's SLOW GODS (@orbitbooks.bsky.social)
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The Two Towers: Trick-Taking Game follows up on last year's Fellowship trick-taker, and like that inaugural release it's an innovative and excellent adaptation of Tolkien's fantasy novel. My review: spacebiff.com/2025/11/20/t...
Trick-Taking’s Back on the Menu, Boys!
The problem with sequels, especially in board games where sequels are mechanical artifacts first and narrative artifacts a distant second if at all, is that there isn’t necessarily more to sa…
spacebiff.com
November 20, 2025 at 7:46 PM
The Two Towers: Trick-Taking Game follows up on last year's Fellowship trick-taker, and like that inaugural release it's an innovative and excellent adaptation of Tolkien's fantasy novel. My review: spacebiff.com/2025/11/20/t...
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New Contributors
We are excited to announce that Nerds of a Feather is growing. Today we welcome five new writers to the flock. You’ll be seeing much more from them in the coming weeks and months, \here is a quick introduction to who they are:
www.nerds-feather.com/2025/11/new-...
We are excited to announce that Nerds of a Feather is growing. Today we welcome five new writers to the flock. You’ll be seeing much more from them in the coming weeks and months, \here is a quick introduction to who they are:
www.nerds-feather.com/2025/11/new-...
New Contributors
We are excited to announce that Nerds of a Feather is growing. Today we welcome five new writers to the flock. You’ll be seeing much more fr...
www.nerds-feather.com
November 21, 2025 at 10:21 AM
New Contributors
We are excited to announce that Nerds of a Feather is growing. Today we welcome five new writers to the flock. You’ll be seeing much more from them in the coming weeks and months, \here is a quick introduction to who they are:
www.nerds-feather.com/2025/11/new-...
We are excited to announce that Nerds of a Feather is growing. Today we welcome five new writers to the flock. You’ll be seeing much more from them in the coming weeks and months, \here is a quick introduction to who they are:
www.nerds-feather.com/2025/11/new-...
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Intergalactic Mixtape is live! I read some fab essays this week. Bring on ~reflection season~
Intergalactic Mixtape #29
Hey! There’s lots of article recs this week, some film trailers I’m excited about, plus the usual collection of recent reviews. Also, CRITICAL NEWS: one of...
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November 21, 2025 at 6:51 AM
Intergalactic Mixtape is live! I read some fab essays this week. Bring on ~reflection season~
From the absolute mess that was Mike Brown leaving Quins, thanks for nothing Paul Gustard, the shiniest of silver linings has been Tyrone Green making our 15 jersey his own.
I hope he's with us for a good while longer.
I hope he's with us for a good while longer.
November 20, 2025 at 12:09 PM
From the absolute mess that was Mike Brown leaving Quins, thanks for nothing Paul Gustard, the shiniest of silver linings has been Tyrone Green making our 15 jersey his own.
I hope he's with us for a good while longer.
I hope he's with us for a good while longer.
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Surprise, we're getting pretty close to the final version of REALIS!
ICYMI: I've been making a TTRPG about mystical moons and living spaceships and sentences that can kill you. A preview is available now (see my pinned post), but the full version draws near!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/cru...
ICYMI: I've been making a TTRPG about mystical moons and living spaceships and sentences that can kill you. A preview is available now (see my pinned post), but the full version draws near!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/cru...
Coming soon: Realis
A new tabletop roleplaying game by Austin Walker
www.kickstarter.com
November 19, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Surprise, we're getting pretty close to the final version of REALIS!
ICYMI: I've been making a TTRPG about mystical moons and living spaceships and sentences that can kill you. A preview is available now (see my pinned post), but the full version draws near!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/cru...
ICYMI: I've been making a TTRPG about mystical moons and living spaceships and sentences that can kill you. A preview is available now (see my pinned post), but the full version draws near!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/cru...
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OK but this card series by Mahdieh Farhadkiaei is -- ♦️♣️♠️❤️🔥
www.blackdragonpress.co.uk/collections/...
www.blackdragonpress.co.uk/collections/...
November 19, 2025 at 12:07 AM
OK but this card series by Mahdieh Farhadkiaei is -- ♦️♣️♠️❤️🔥
www.blackdragonpress.co.uk/collections/...
www.blackdragonpress.co.uk/collections/...
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Becoming convinced that continental qualifiers is the way to go to make this sport sustainable and deeper, because how else will a Belgium be able to sustain this momentum from the last 3 weeks?
Belgium were great. Utterly heartbreaking. That should’ve been their game. Only one point away. Most are Top 14 players who mind haven’t a way into the 6 Nations or Nations cup. If these guys were allowed to play top level tournaments imagine how good they would be & how exciting rugby cld be
November 18, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Becoming convinced that continental qualifiers is the way to go to make this sport sustainable and deeper, because how else will a Belgium be able to sustain this momentum from the last 3 weeks?
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Today I investigate three more indie games, all of which are ambitious and explorative of what games can accomplish. These are good'uns. spacebiff.com/2025/11/18/h...
Nebulae, Medusae… Crownae?
Yesterday on BlueSky, Marceline Leiman asked a great question. Using only one or two extremely vague words, how would I describe the titles on offer at this year’s Indie Games Night Market? N…
spacebiff.com
November 18, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Today I investigate three more indie games, all of which are ambitious and explorative of what games can accomplish. These are good'uns. spacebiff.com/2025/11/18/h...
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The scale of the damage at the British Library is difficult to fathom from the outside. Working in the wreckage of the hack has made me even less sanguine about the digital age into which we have leapt feet first.
I’ve written a piece on the curious lack of media and political interest in the issues faced by our national @britishlibrary.bsky.social. This is strange given we live in a world where ideas, knowledge and research are a long-term source of innovation and insight
www.cityam.com/the-british-...
www.cityam.com/the-british-...
The British library is in crisis: why does nobody care?
The widespread indifference to the British Library's crippling cyberattack demonstrates a perilous failure to value the knowledge infrastructure vital for national prosperity
www.cityam.com
November 18, 2025 at 2:26 PM
The scale of the damage at the British Library is difficult to fathom from the outside. Working in the wreckage of the hack has made me even less sanguine about the digital age into which we have leapt feet first.
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OTD in 680 CE Hild of Whitby died. Ever year I celebrate. This year by a) showing off my fabulous, specially commissioned snakestone cast in silver to wear as a lapel pin, silver jacket pin cast in silver, and her death
b) my imagined version of her grave marker
b) my imagined version of her grave marker
Celebrating Hild
On this day in 680 CE Hild of Whitby, patron saint of learning and culture (including poetry) died. I mark her feast day because she marked my life, and my writing, indelibly.
nicolagriffith.com
November 17, 2025 at 5:00 PM
OTD in 680 CE Hild of Whitby died. Ever year I celebrate. This year by a) showing off my fabulous, specially commissioned snakestone cast in silver to wear as a lapel pin, silver jacket pin cast in silver, and her death
b) my imagined version of her grave marker
b) my imagined version of her grave marker
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And before someone inevitably says 'this is why Rugby is better than football'
nah. sport is sport. some people in it are right shits. Some people are absolute gems.
I saw plenty of the former as well, and I have mates who worked at football clubs who had players do the same as Carling did for us.
nah. sport is sport. some people in it are right shits. Some people are absolute gems.
I saw plenty of the former as well, and I have mates who worked at football clubs who had players do the same as Carling did for us.
November 18, 2025 at 12:49 PM
And before someone inevitably says 'this is why Rugby is better than football'
nah. sport is sport. some people in it are right shits. Some people are absolute gems.
I saw plenty of the former as well, and I have mates who worked at football clubs who had players do the same as Carling did for us.
nah. sport is sport. some people in it are right shits. Some people are absolute gems.
I saw plenty of the former as well, and I have mates who worked at football clubs who had players do the same as Carling did for us.
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I used to work the bar at Harlequins RFC.
Will Carling (then the club captain) would often walk into the posh bit with free booze, grab a few champagne bottles and say:
"For the lads!"
All the rich peeps would cheer...
...then he'd walk out and stash them beneath the bar for us, with a wink.
Will Carling (then the club captain) would often walk into the posh bit with free booze, grab a few champagne bottles and say:
"For the lads!"
All the rich peeps would cheer...
...then he'd walk out and stash them beneath the bar for us, with a wink.
November 18, 2025 at 12:47 PM
I used to work the bar at Harlequins RFC.
Will Carling (then the club captain) would often walk into the posh bit with free booze, grab a few champagne bottles and say:
"For the lads!"
All the rich peeps would cheer...
...then he'd walk out and stash them beneath the bar for us, with a wink.
Will Carling (then the club captain) would often walk into the posh bit with free booze, grab a few champagne bottles and say:
"For the lads!"
All the rich peeps would cheer...
...then he'd walk out and stash them beneath the bar for us, with a wink.
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Hannah Botterman saying “I can’t go to the toilet by myself in public” is some of the most rancid fucked up shit, man.
www.dazeddigital.com/life-culture...
www.dazeddigital.com/life-culture...
Hannah Botterman and Georgia Evans are championing queerness in rugby
The rugby stars – and couple – share about the 2025 World Cup, expressing their lesbian identities, and getting online hate for being too masc and too femme
www.dazeddigital.com
November 17, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Hannah Botterman saying “I can’t go to the toilet by myself in public” is some of the most rancid fucked up shit, man.
www.dazeddigital.com/life-culture...
www.dazeddigital.com/life-culture...
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Deep breath, once more for those at the back, seeking asylum is not illegal. No matter route used, which considering Labour has closed pretty much all the last remaining alternatives means irregular ones.
Anti-immigration sentiments are stoked by politicians like Mahmood, not people seeking safety.
Anti-immigration sentiments are stoked by politicians like Mahmood, not people seeking safety.
November 16, 2025 at 9:46 AM
Deep breath, once more for those at the back, seeking asylum is not illegal. No matter route used, which considering Labour has closed pretty much all the last remaining alternatives means irregular ones.
Anti-immigration sentiments are stoked by politicians like Mahmood, not people seeking safety.
Anti-immigration sentiments are stoked by politicians like Mahmood, not people seeking safety.
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New post up! This one on why publication days are both lovely and strange.
Please share, I'm still struggling to find my readers after shifting platforms 😬
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Please share, I'm still struggling to find my readers after shifting platforms 😬
www.patreon.com/posts/143052...
Book launches - survival, celebration and chocolate | Lorraine Wilson
Get more from Lorraine Wilson on Patreon
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November 15, 2025 at 11:12 AM
New post up! This one on why publication days are both lovely and strange.
Please share, I'm still struggling to find my readers after shifting platforms 😬
www.patreon.com/posts/143052...
Please share, I'm still struggling to find my readers after shifting platforms 😬
www.patreon.com/posts/143052...
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she’s a 10 but Excel thinks she’s October
November 13, 2025 at 8:08 AM
she’s a 10 but Excel thinks she’s October
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Intergalactic Mixtape is live. :)
Intergalactic Mixtape #28
Hey! It was a pretty quiet week as the year winds down, but I’ve slowly started making both my 2026 reading list and my 2019 reading list, which is part of...
buttondown.com
November 14, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Intergalactic Mixtape is live. :)
Is it Christmas yet?
No, people please stop.
Is it however a perfectly reasonable time to start sweatrng about your inability to solve book name puzzles?
Absolutely
No, people please stop.
Is it however a perfectly reasonable time to start sweatrng about your inability to solve book name puzzles?
Absolutely
Booklovers, your favourite game is back! 📚🔎
Guess all 20 books in the #HiddenBooksGame and you could win a £500/€500 National Book Token to spend in your local bookshop (the best gift ever, in our opinion).
Play now: buff.ly/460M0aR
Guess all 20 books in the #HiddenBooksGame and you could win a £500/€500 National Book Token to spend in your local bookshop (the best gift ever, in our opinion).
Play now: buff.ly/460M0aR
November 13, 2025 at 11:32 AM
Is it Christmas yet?
No, people please stop.
Is it however a perfectly reasonable time to start sweatrng about your inability to solve book name puzzles?
Absolutely
No, people please stop.
Is it however a perfectly reasonable time to start sweatrng about your inability to solve book name puzzles?
Absolutely
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As we approach the end of the year, it's a great time to record things you love! Not just for the Hugo Awards, but in general. The rec sheet is a handy resource for nomination, but also at its heart a rec resource in a loud, busy media environment.
The Hugo Awards (2026)
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November 12, 2025 at 7:54 PM
As we approach the end of the year, it's a great time to record things you love! Not just for the Hugo Awards, but in general. The rec sheet is a handy resource for nomination, but also at its heart a rec resource in a loud, busy media environment.
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Episode 6 of our close reading of Lord of the Rings! This one has a very restrained dearth of verse chat, but a return to a lot of the themes of previous sections, as we head down into the dwarf-dolven* halls of Khazad-dûm.
*this is just extremely funny to me
*this is just extremely funny to me
A Close Reading of LotR – Episode 5 – The Limits of Foresight
Episode six of our close reading takes us through chapters III – The Ring Goes South, IV – A Journey in the Dark and V – The Bridge of Khazad-dûm. In contrast to the last section,…
readerofelse.wordpress.com
November 12, 2025 at 12:11 PM
Episode 6 of our close reading of Lord of the Rings! This one has a very restrained dearth of verse chat, but a return to a lot of the themes of previous sections, as we head down into the dwarf-dolven* halls of Khazad-dûm.
*this is just extremely funny to me
*this is just extremely funny to me
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I have a new interview about RAKESFALL up at Reactor! In which I am quite verbose reactormag.com/author-inter...
A Conversation With Vajra Chandrasekera, Author of Rakesfall - Reactor
"I think writers, like all artists, have a responsibility to act as human cultural workers in an actual society"
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November 11, 2025 at 3:17 AM
I have a new interview about RAKESFALL up at Reactor! In which I am quite verbose reactormag.com/author-inter...