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FriendlyFiend @friendlyfiendish.bsky.social · 10h

I 100% love this idea!

FriendlyFiend @friendlyfiendish.bsky.social · 11h

Absolutely this! I’ve got an idea for a mythos infused UK scenario and I’m absolutely torn between doing it as a Slow Horses-PISCES or The Laundry Files.

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Kieron Gillen @kierongillen.bsky.social · 11h

October 20th is the order cut off for DIE: LOADED, sequel to the three-time Hugo-nominated DIE. I've pulled together a short primer it with all the info you need on it - what it is, previews, full cover details (check out our sketch variant!) and more. Go nose! Join our party. It's an experience.

DIE: Loaded

The sequel to the three-times Hugo-nominated, award winning dark fantasy comic, DIE.

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Dirk the Dice @thegrognardfiles.bsky.social · 11h

A lovely tribute to Bud from Chaosium. Vale Greg. Vale Bud.

Chaosium @chaosium.bsky.social · 17h

Today, on the seventh anniversary of Greg Stafford's passing, Chaosium is pleased to announce William "Bud" Baird as the 2025 Greg Stafford Memorial Award for Gloranthan Fandom winner.

Bud Baird is the 2025 recipient of the Greg Stafford Memorial Award for Gloranthan Fandom

This month marks the seventh anniversary of Greg Stafford's passing, and we are pleased to present the 2025 award to William "Bud" Baird.

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FriendlyFiend @friendlyfiendish.bsky.social · 14h

"This game is based upon the film Star Wars and the novel 'Splinter of the Mind's Eye'." - that'll show 'em.

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Jon at Handiwork Games @handiworkgames.bsky.social · 20h

Cold City Second Edition is out now in PDF. Trust and Betrayal in 1950s Berlin.
buff.ly/kBagyaa
#coldcity #ttrpg

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Martin Nutbeem @martinnutbeem.bsky.social · 22h

Nothing could possibly go wrong with this. Creating a lifelike digital avatar on a third party platform will definitely not open teaching staff up to career destroying issues in the event of that platform being hacked.

Schools Week @schoolsweek.bsky.social · 1d

Exclusive: Teachers will use 'deepfake' technology to create an AI avatar of themselves to deliver catch-up lessons for pupils who have missed school

Watch one of the school’s ‘deepfake’ teachers in our story below

schoolsweek.co.uk/schools-trus...

'Deepfake' teacher avatars to help pupils catch up

Academy trust staff to use AI generator to introduce resources for pupils returning to school

schoolsweek.co.uk

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Nick Harkaway @nickharkaway.com · 1d

I am dealing with a “thorny problem” right now, today. It is hard and scary because IT IS ALWAYS HARD AND SCARY. But it is also where you do your best work. It is where stories go from “meh” to “WOW”. When I fix it - because that is the job - I will be that much closer to something worth reading.

Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 2d

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

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FriendlyFiend @friendlyfiendish.bsky.social · 22h

A perfect match of great game and great cover.

Jon at Handiwork Games @handiworkgames.bsky.social · 1d

Some freelance work from a little while back - revisiting the Beyond the Wall cover for Flatland Games. I have a bit soft spot for this client and their game. Always a treat.

A painting of a horned figure with a a spear and a wide decorated belt stood between two carved stones that form gate posts in a wall. In front of the figure are three adventurers looking like they’re getting ready to fight. Behind the figure is a tangled forest.

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Kaye Elling @k000.bsky.social · 1d

**shudder**

A job lot of cassette tapes by 70s crooner James Last.

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FriendlyFiend @friendlyfiendish.bsky.social · 1d

10 Horror films to get to know me

🗄️The Cabinet of Dr Caligari
⚰️Vampyr
🧛‍♀️A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night
🎤Berberian Sound Studio
👹Night of the Demon
🧛‍♂️Nosferatu (1922)
🫳The Hands of Orlac (1924)
🚀Quatermass and the Pit
🩸The Masque of the Red Death
⚫Under the Skin

jwmuk @jwmuk.bsky.social · 2d

10 Horror Movies to get to know me

♾️ The Endless
👣 It Follows
🧛 The Satanic Rites of Dracula
🎹 The Beast with Five Fingers
⏺️ REC
🚀 Quatermass and the Pit
⚰️ Phantasm
🧟 28 Days Later
🪜 Jacob's Ladder
🔩 Frankenstein (1931)

Scott Murderhouse @voxparlour.bsky.social · 2d

10 horror movies to get to know me

⛪ The Borderlands
🐕‍🦺 The Thing
🐟 The Wicker Man (1973)
🖕Evil Dead 2
👹 Noroi
👐 Incantation
👶 Impetigore
🧛‍♂️ Dracula (1931)
🎎 The Medium
🍄 A Field in England

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Sathnam Sanghera @sathnam.bsky.social · 1d

In @thetimes.com letters page today

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Nick Harkaway @nickharkaway.com · 1d

These movements globally are at root a refusal to hear the word “no”. There can be no external restrictions. No planetary chemistry may interfere with profit, no law may block executive power. Thus the platform.

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Lux "Nightmare" Alptraum @luxalptraum.com · 2d

TFW you paid $1400 to see Beckett’s most famous work without knowing anything about it

One Star Review of Waiting for Godot on Broadway
I recently attended Waiting for Godot on Broadway and spent over $1,400 for two Row C seats (103 and 104). I'm a longtime admirer of Broadway productions and even hold a season pass for Shea's Performing Arts Theatre, so I came in with genuine enthusiasm and high expectations. Unfortunately, this show was unlike anything ! have ever experienced —and not in a good way.
What I encountered was not the artistry, music, or emotional storytelling I usually associate with Broadway, but instead what felt like an endless cycle of nonsensical conversation between characters who seemed trapped in their own madness. I tried-truly tried-to find meaning, symbolism, or even a thread of emotional resonance. I stayed through the first half hoping the second would offer clarity. But by intermission, it was clear: this was a waste of both time and money.
Keanu Reeves is an actor I respect greatly, but I cannot fathom why he would agree to participate in such a disjointed, inaccessible production. His talent was lost in a performance that defied reason rather than provoked insight.
To anyone considering attending: unless you are drawn to highly abstract, nearly incomprehensible theater, I strongly caution you against this show. For the average, educated, thoughtful theatergoer, it is far more frustrating than fulfilling. In my opinion, this was the single most disappointing Broadway experience I've ever had - an unfortunate waste of money and, more importantly, of time.

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javier grillo-marxuach @okbjgm.bsky.social · 2d

art - even the lumpen popular arts in which i proudly make my living - exist to give us what we need, not what we want. even if what we want is comfort, it is the job of people like myself to make it novel, new, and reflective of an evolving consciousness.

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Jon at Handiwork Games @handiworkgames.bsky.social · 2d

You could be forgiven for thinking we're all about those miniature backdrop books. But RPGs remain very much something we're *heavily* engaged in. We have two titles in pre-order right now. FiveEvil is printed and starts heading out next week. Cold City is newly out in PDF. WHAT A PAIR. Links in 🧵

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Rose Ruane @regretteruane.bsky.social · 2d

Imagine a 1970s Alan Partridge on a mind bending trip through long lost London, so breakneck & fragmentary, full of incredible characters & handbrake turns that it feels like a dream where the cast & context keeps mutating & it still won’t be as wild as the actuality of this
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1975: BERNARD FALK's Tour of HIDDEN LONDON | Nationwide | Weird and Wonderful | BBC Archive

YouTube video by BBC Archive

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Fernando Salvaterra @salvaterra.bsky.social · 2d

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Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 2d

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

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Three Sails Studios @threesailsstudios.bsky.social · 2d

On Monday, I went over a little bit about the setting of GALLOWS CORNER: one England, many Englands. A post-plague rotten isle, with crown, church, and nobility standing on the necks of the commons.

But what about the game itself? How does it play? What are its core mechanics? Let's find out!

Three Sails Studios @threesailsstudios.bsky.social · 4d

Gallows Corner is the next game from Three Sails Studios after the success of Mappa Mundi, our debut release.

But what IS Gallows Corner? What is a Peasants' Revolt RPG? This week, you'll find out. Today, we're talking setting!

The front cover of Gallows Corner - A Peasants' Revolt RPG.

A gallows and noose are silhouetted against a full moon. An ornate border of thorns and brambles extends around the edge of the cover.

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Gaz @evilgaz.bsky.social · 3d

Cold City is and if you want a try before you buy flavour of this excellent gem, head on over to UGMs for a punchy two hour Actual Play.

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