John Power Jr.
@johnpower.bsky.social
Void Wizard
Large Stone Enjoyer
Wyrd Science Editor
Freelance Writer
God’s Own Idiot
https://linktr.ee/wyrdscience
Large Stone Enjoyer
Wyrd Science Editor
Freelance Writer
God’s Own Idiot
https://linktr.ee/wyrdscience
Starting to develop a theory that the day after the general election whilst everyone was recovering from the night before, Zack Polanski broke into Starmer’s flat and stole his by then well used genie’s lamp
Would certainly explain a lot
Would certainly explain a lot
Zarah Sultana boycotts first day of Your Party conference over 'witch hunt' expulsions
Zarah Sultana boycotts first day of Your Party conference over 'witch hunt' expulsions
Zarah Sultana has boycotted day one of the Your Party Conference over the expulsion of members of left-wing groups.
news.sky.com
November 29, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Starting to develop a theory that the day after the general election whilst everyone was recovering from the night before, Zack Polanski broke into Starmer’s flat and stole his by then well used genie’s lamp
Would certainly explain a lot
Would certainly explain a lot
Turning off paid subs on my newsletter like…
Chic - At Last I Am Free
YouTube video by koollatter
youtu.be
November 29, 2025 at 8:05 AM
Turning off paid subs on my newsletter like…
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Do you need more heavily discounted tat in your life that’ll break after a few days or instead a hand crafted magazine that’s already priced far too low but is full of incredible writing & great art & that treats people into games like proper grown ups imbued with taste, discretion & curiosity?
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the magazine for people who should roll better...
shop.wyrd.science
November 28, 2025 at 12:10 PM
Do you need more heavily discounted tat in your life that’ll break after a few days or instead a hand crafted magazine that’s already priced far too low but is full of incredible writing & great art & that treats people into games like proper grown ups imbued with taste, discretion & curiosity?
Millions Now Living Will Never Experience Political Competence
November 28, 2025 at 11:38 AM
Millions Now Living Will Never Experience Political Competence
I know she’s too irrelevant to be on the episcopal radar but still I feel like this is worth a little papal slap down
Kemi Badenoch says welfare spending is unchristian
Kemi Badenoch says welfare spending is unchristian
Kemi Badenoch says welfare spending is unchristian
www.thetimes.com
November 28, 2025 at 11:33 AM
I know she’s too irrelevant to be on the episcopal radar but still I feel like this is worth a little papal slap down
I know a large, perhaps majority of Americans, even those opposed to Trump, don't really seem to give a shit about this but alongside the attacks on science & gleeful embrace of climate change you have to suspect it's these egregious actions that will have the greatest long term impact on the world
The Change From Biden To Trump Has Been Devastating For Ukraine
And Why it is Important for the Direction of US Foreign Policy
phillipspobrien.substack.com
November 28, 2025 at 10:37 AM
I know a large, perhaps majority of Americans, even those opposed to Trump, don't really seem to give a shit about this but alongside the attacks on science & gleeful embrace of climate change you have to suspect it's these egregious actions that will have the greatest long term impact on the world
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Ok, so the Traveller 5e news is… well it’s whatever. Not really worth getting too exercised about I’d say about BUT thanks to looking up previous d20 iterations of Traveller my life has been #blessed to discover what may be hands down the single greatest piece of RPG art I’ve ever seen.
November 27, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Ok, so the Traveller 5e news is… well it’s whatever. Not really worth getting too exercised about I’d say about BUT thanks to looking up previous d20 iterations of Traveller my life has been #blessed to discover what may be hands down the single greatest piece of RPG art I’ve ever seen.
Your daily reminder that there’s no amount of accommodating these people that will magically turn them into reasonable, happy members of society, we can give up every bit of progress we’ve achieved in the last however many years & they’ll always find, or truthfully invent, something to be mad about
Social media posts have claimed that Tesco is not celebrating Christmas, because it has described one of its trees as an “evergreen” tree.
This is misleading—the retailer sells other artificial trees labelled as Christmas trees.
This is misleading—the retailer sells other artificial trees labelled as Christmas trees.
Tesco hasn’t rebranded all its Christmas trees to ‘evergreen trees’ – Full Fact
Claims that Tesco is not celebrating Christmas because it is selling an “evergreen” tree are missing context.
fullfact.org
November 27, 2025 at 8:23 PM
Your daily reminder that there’s no amount of accommodating these people that will magically turn them into reasonable, happy members of society, we can give up every bit of progress we’ve achieved in the last however many years & they’ll always find, or truthfully invent, something to be mad about
I'm sorry to report that I have now become slightly addicted to lurking on LinkedIn and seeing people, in positions of respect and seniority in all kinds of industries I've worked in, just logging on every day to post proper kicked in the head by a mule stuff and then be patted on the back for it
Fuck me, after a decade + of ignoring it I’ve had to log into LinkedIn a bit recently for a work thing and I can’t believe how many people I’ve at some point crossed paths with are publicly beclowning themselves on there talking about gen AI
November 27, 2025 at 3:12 PM
I'm sorry to report that I have now become slightly addicted to lurking on LinkedIn and seeing people, in positions of respect and seniority in all kinds of industries I've worked in, just logging on every day to post proper kicked in the head by a mule stuff and then be patted on the back for it
crunching the numbers after six months off substack and running everything off our own site and wow, no bueno
still it's only money
still it's only money
November 27, 2025 at 9:56 AM
crunching the numbers after six months off substack and running everything off our own site and wow, no bueno
still it's only money
still it's only money
Hall of famer
Horrified Man Looks On Powerlessly As He Ruins Date https://theonion.com/horrified-man-looks-on-powerlessly-as-he-ruins-date-1819571910/
November 26, 2025 at 10:09 PM
Hall of famer
Have to say with more decades than I’d like to think about of going to gigs, Johnny Jewel tonight was one of the best, absolutely most incredible, life affirming shows I’ve seen
Guess he must be doing other European dates so if not too late you have to catch this show
Guess he must be doing other European dates so if not too late you have to catch this show
November 26, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Have to say with more decades than I’d like to think about of going to gigs, Johnny Jewel tonight was one of the best, absolutely most incredible, life affirming shows I’ve seen
Guess he must be doing other European dates so if not too late you have to catch this show
Guess he must be doing other European dates so if not too late you have to catch this show
Really interesting dive into an AI generated track ‘we are Charlie Kirk’ that is apparently number 1 on 19 different Spotify charts at the moment
🔵 Analysing the "We Are Charlie Kirk" situation
A dive into the AI-made song currently sitting at No.1 on 19 Spotify Viral charts worldwide
networknotes.motiveunknown.com
November 26, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Really interesting dive into an AI generated track ‘we are Charlie Kirk’ that is apparently number 1 on 19 different Spotify charts at the moment
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Just noticed I must have ticked a box as our new issue is currently discounted on DriveThruRPG & only around £2 there
RPGs vs the Cold War!
Rick Priestley talks esoteric christianity & Warhammer!
Triangle Agency gets weird!
Castle Rat unleash the beasts!
Undaunted's war stories!
& lots more!
RPGs vs the Cold War!
Rick Priestley talks esoteric christianity & Warhammer!
Triangle Agency gets weird!
Castle Rat unleash the beasts!
Undaunted's war stories!
& lots more!
Wyrd Science (Vol.1, Issue 7) - Wyrd Science | DriveThruRPG
The award winning Wyrd Science returns for another exploration of the strange worlds and new horizons of tabletop games...
In this issue...
Roleplaying Games & the Cold War! What can they tell us ...
www.drivethrurpg.com
November 26, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Just noticed I must have ticked a box as our new issue is currently discounted on DriveThruRPG & only around £2 there
RPGs vs the Cold War!
Rick Priestley talks esoteric christianity & Warhammer!
Triangle Agency gets weird!
Castle Rat unleash the beasts!
Undaunted's war stories!
& lots more!
RPGs vs the Cold War!
Rick Priestley talks esoteric christianity & Warhammer!
Triangle Agency gets weird!
Castle Rat unleash the beasts!
Undaunted's war stories!
& lots more!
Excellent, the BBC have managed to find someone in a cafe who thinks ‘people are coming over here and living in the lap of luxury’ to analyse the budget, incredibly worthwhile
November 26, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Excellent, the BBC have managed to find someone in a cafe who thinks ‘people are coming over here and living in the lap of luxury’ to analyse the budget, incredibly worthwhile
Who… who told Kemi Badenoch to do funny voices?
November 26, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Who… who told Kemi Badenoch to do funny voices?
This is so true and can pinpoint a couple of specific occasions when someone with a decent following shared a Wyrd Science link & we had our best day’s sales ever
Also very funny that the last time I checked something like 40% of the people/publishers we’ve featured in the mag have never publicly…
Also very funny that the last time I checked something like 40% of the people/publishers we’ve featured in the mag have never publicly…
The fact that itch posted this and not even an hour later I got a bunch of new sales proves how big it is when other people talk about your games.
It can literally be a life changing events.
When John Harper made a nice quote tweet about Breathless, hundreds of people looked at the game.
Wild
It can literally be a life changing events.
When John Harper made a nice quote tweet about Breathless, hundreds of people looked at the game.
Wild
Voidlight: A rules-bright sci-fi horror dungeon crawl where your only safety is a beam of light that shrinks every ten minutes.
farirpgs.itch.io/voidlight
farirpgs.itch.io/voidlight
November 26, 2025 at 1:02 PM
This is so true and can pinpoint a couple of specific occasions when someone with a decent following shared a Wyrd Science link & we had our best day’s sales ever
Also very funny that the last time I checked something like 40% of the people/publishers we’ve featured in the mag have never publicly…
Also very funny that the last time I checked something like 40% of the people/publishers we’ve featured in the mag have never publicly…
shout out to the 3 people this meme is understandable to
November 26, 2025 at 12:43 PM
shout out to the 3 people this meme is understandable to
I swear to god there’s a few people in this gym whose minds are going to blown when they discover those chairs they sit on to check their emails have weights attached to them
November 26, 2025 at 9:43 AM
I swear to god there’s a few people in this gym whose minds are going to blown when they discover those chairs they sit on to check their emails have weights attached to them
Repeat of the show Katya Adler did on the Balkans on 2 right now, v hard watch. Bleak seeing people totally unrepentant about what happened in places like Srebenica when you know bored people with comfortable lives in the west are actively trying to foster that kind of hate in our societies today
November 25, 2025 at 8:32 PM
Repeat of the show Katya Adler did on the Balkans on 2 right now, v hard watch. Bleak seeing people totally unrepentant about what happened in places like Srebenica when you know bored people with comfortable lives in the west are actively trying to foster that kind of hate in our societies today
Fuck me, after a decade + of ignoring it I’ve had to log into LinkedIn a bit recently for a work thing and I can’t believe how many people I’ve at some point crossed paths with are publicly beclowning themselves on there talking about gen AI
November 24, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Fuck me, after a decade + of ignoring it I’ve had to log into LinkedIn a bit recently for a work thing and I can’t believe how many people I’ve at some point crossed paths with are publicly beclowning themselves on there talking about gen AI
"say forbidden words" it's bleak how much of, well, everything is driven by these people's urge to use slurs
like ultimately beyond all the horsehit about creating AI gods & all that they just want a machine that can be racist or homophonic or sexist on their behalf because they're such pussies
like ultimately beyond all the horsehit about creating AI gods & all that they just want a machine that can be racist or homophonic or sexist on their behalf because they're such pussies
Everything about this might be the saddest thing I’ve ever seen
November 24, 2025 at 1:43 PM
"say forbidden words" it's bleak how much of, well, everything is driven by these people's urge to use slurs
like ultimately beyond all the horsehit about creating AI gods & all that they just want a machine that can be racist or homophonic or sexist on their behalf because they're such pussies
like ultimately beyond all the horsehit about creating AI gods & all that they just want a machine that can be racist or homophonic or sexist on their behalf because they're such pussies
Hearing the new Warhammer Quest Darkwater is going to retail for £160 and ho boy, that is wild
just out of interest looking at what Advanced Heroquest would have set me back in today's money according to the BoE inflation calculator
just out of interest looking at what Advanced Heroquest would have set me back in today's money according to the BoE inflation calculator
November 24, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Hearing the new Warhammer Quest Darkwater is going to retail for £160 and ho boy, that is wild
just out of interest looking at what Advanced Heroquest would have set me back in today's money according to the BoE inflation calculator
just out of interest looking at what Advanced Heroquest would have set me back in today's money according to the BoE inflation calculator
we're clearly never going to do anything to threaten billionaires' wealth until it's far too late (assuming it's not already) so instead maybe when your wealth hits a certain figure you're assigned your own court jester to follow you around ruthlessly mocking your stupid ideas in terrible verse?
November 24, 2025 at 10:41 AM
we're clearly never going to do anything to threaten billionaires' wealth until it's far too late (assuming it's not already) so instead maybe when your wealth hits a certain figure you're assigned your own court jester to follow you around ruthlessly mocking your stupid ideas in terrible verse?