Pete Smith
@reddite.bsky.social
Research support librarian. PhD in public engagement in universities. TTRPGs, boardgames, SFF, paper and ink making.
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Pete Smith
@reddite.bsky.social
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NEW | The Public Understanding of Law: The University and Public Engagement
Peter Smith @reddite.bsky.social Sheffield Hallam University, UK
More information ➡️ www.e-elgar.com/shop/isbn/97...
The Introduction is free to read on Elgaronline ➡️ doi.org/10.4337/9781...
Peter Smith @reddite.bsky.social Sheffield Hallam University, UK
More information ➡️ www.e-elgar.com/shop/isbn/97...
The Introduction is free to read on Elgaronline ➡️ doi.org/10.4337/9781...
Details of my book, including link to first chapter.
99% of Premee's books
"Not *vaguely* unsettling. Straight up will fuck you up unsettling. BUT there may be an cool monster or two, or perhaps a moving building to enchant? Will cause you to question."
"Not *vaguely* unsettling. Straight up will fuck you up unsettling. BUT there may be an cool monster or two, or perhaps a moving building to enchant? Will cause you to question."
Book: A tale of family, memory, and friendship
Me: This describes 80% of all books everywhere
Book: *firmly* AND THE PAST
Me: *lying down on floor, dying*
Me: This describes 80% of all books everywhere
Book: *firmly* AND THE PAST
Me: *lying down on floor, dying*
January 13, 2026 at 8:43 PM
99% of Premee's books
"Not *vaguely* unsettling. Straight up will fuck you up unsettling. BUT there may be an cool monster or two, or perhaps a moving building to enchant? Will cause you to question."
"Not *vaguely* unsettling. Straight up will fuck you up unsettling. BUT there may be an cool monster or two, or perhaps a moving building to enchant? Will cause you to question."
An unsettling little guy for @ewacat.bsky.social
Went to the John Le Carre exhibition today and was pleased to learn that the greatest spy novelist of all time in addition to bleak epics of gnawing doubt and tragic moral compromise liked to doodle little animals getting fucked up.
January 13, 2026 at 3:35 PM
An unsettling little guy for @ewacat.bsky.social
slightly diminish a game:
Boston Effect
Boston Effect
Church Service Effect
slightly diminish a game:
expedition 32
expedition 32
January 13, 2026 at 12:55 PM
slightly diminish a game:
Boston Effect
Boston Effect
At long last someone has made the meme game Flavourless Hexagons.
While I love my niche stupid hobby of historical board gaming, sometimes it does just make me want to scream. Take the latest example, a board game about the Irish Potato Famine where you get to compete with friends to see who survives best (?)
www.kickstarter.com/projects/com...
www.kickstarter.com/projects/com...
The Great Hunger
Easy-to-learn, card-driven game, rich with historical detail; explores 19th-century Irish expansion, blight, famine, & emigration. 2-5P
www.kickstarter.com
January 13, 2026 at 10:07 AM
At long last someone has made the meme game Flavourless Hexagons.
"We've linked up fire control to Grok, but fed it prompts for a rolling barrage... starting right here! Next up on Schwerpunk'd."
NO YOU DO NOT LET THEM NEAR THE GUNS
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said Monday that Elon Musk's artificial intelligence chatbot Grok will join Google's generative AI engine in operating inside the Pentagon network, as part of a broader push to feed as much of the military's data as possible into the developing technology. n.pr/4jE0qJW
January 13, 2026 at 10:00 AM
"We've linked up fire control to Grok, but fed it prompts for a rolling barrage... starting right here! Next up on Schwerpunk'd."
Listening Again to Habda-Geddon www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/... @govindajeggy.bsky.social
www.bbc.co.uk
January 13, 2026 at 9:42 AM
Listening Again to Habda-Geddon www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/... @govindajeggy.bsky.social
Ah, the old BlueSky folk song
🎶the alf hog on the timeline is all mine all mine
the alf hog on the timeline is all mine🎶
🎶the alf hog on the timeline is all mine all mine
the alf hog on the timeline is all mine🎶
welcome to all new bsky users, everything on here will make sense once you've looked up "alf hog"
January 11, 2026 at 5:37 PM
Ah, the old BlueSky folk song
🎶the alf hog on the timeline is all mine all mine
the alf hog on the timeline is all mine🎶
🎶the alf hog on the timeline is all mine all mine
the alf hog on the timeline is all mine🎶
Reading books on occult history reminds me of the line from The Casebook of Max and Ivan:
"he is clearly... I can't say that on radio 4...oh, *occult.*"
"he is clearly... I can't say that on radio 4...oh, *occult.*"
January 11, 2026 at 5:31 PM
Reading books on occult history reminds me of the line from The Casebook of Max and Ivan:
"he is clearly... I can't say that on radio 4...oh, *occult.*"
"he is clearly... I can't say that on radio 4...oh, *occult.*"
On the blue sex horses
Confessions of a door to door sex horse
Blue sex horse about the house
January 11, 2026 at 3:54 PM
On the blue sex horses
Blue sex horse about the house
2point4 Sex Horses
Some Mothers do have Sex Horses.
January 11, 2026 at 3:52 PM
Blue sex horse about the house
Popped to @junobooks.bsky.social to check out their sale tables. Picked up The Book of Records by Madeleine Thien half price. Had a quick browse of the rest of the shop and bought @goingmedieval.bsky.social's The Once and Future Sex.
January 10, 2026 at 3:59 PM
Popped to @junobooks.bsky.social to check out their sale tables. Picked up The Book of Records by Madeleine Thien half price. Had a quick browse of the rest of the shop and bought @goingmedieval.bsky.social's The Once and Future Sex.
Started "A history of the occult tarot" and it seems a lot could be condensed into "Person A used preceding person's ideas, which they didnt fully understand, working with Person B and Person C . Later Person C said that Person A was a fraud. Person B set up their own order."
January 9, 2026 at 7:08 PM
Started "A history of the occult tarot" and it seems a lot could be condensed into "Person A used preceding person's ideas, which they didnt fully understand, working with Person B and Person C . Later Person C said that Person A was a fraud. Person B set up their own order."
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If you've got 15min to spare you can listen to the comedy history show i co-wrote/co-produced/am in a little bit. It's kiddie friendly, available worldwide, there's 15 episodes, here's one about the brontes! www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
You're Dead to Me - Dead Funny History - The Brontës - BBC Sounds
Tragedy and triumph in the Brontë story.
www.bbc.co.uk
January 9, 2026 at 2:26 PM
If you've got 15min to spare you can listen to the comedy history show i co-wrote/co-produced/am in a little bit. It's kiddie friendly, available worldwide, there's 15 episodes, here's one about the brontes! www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
White Dwarf had RuneQuest articles
Without revealing your actual age,what's something you remember that if you told a younger person they wouldn't understand?
January 9, 2026 at 9:57 AM
White Dwarf had RuneQuest articles
Friday be promoting education... public legal education!
Details of my book, including link to first chapter.
NEW | The Public Understanding of Law: The University and Public Engagement
Peter Smith @reddite.bsky.social Sheffield Hallam University, UK
More information ➡️ www.e-elgar.com/shop/isbn/97...
The Introduction is free to read on Elgaronline ➡️ doi.org/10.4337/9781...
Peter Smith @reddite.bsky.social Sheffield Hallam University, UK
More information ➡️ www.e-elgar.com/shop/isbn/97...
The Introduction is free to read on Elgaronline ➡️ doi.org/10.4337/9781...
January 9, 2026 at 9:05 AM
Friday be promoting education... public legal education!
Great episode, sad Ria didn't revisit her 'whaaaale vomit' song :D www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/... @gregjenner.bsky.social
You're Dead to Me - Renaissance Medicine: healthcare and disease in early modern England - BBC Sounds
Join Greg and his guests to learn all about medicine in Tudor and Stuart England.
www.bbc.co.uk
January 9, 2026 at 8:59 AM
Great episode, sad Ria didn't revisit her 'whaaaale vomit' song :D www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/... @gregjenner.bsky.social
The snow is settling here in Sheffield S2
January 8, 2026 at 9:02 PM
The snow is settling here in Sheffield S2
Going to pitch a numismatics quiz with a university challenge vibe, call it Stater for Ten
January 7, 2026 at 8:13 PM
Going to pitch a numismatics quiz with a university challenge vibe, call it Stater for Ten
Westfailure System more like @kjsanders.bsky.social
January 3, 2026 at 4:05 PM
Westfailure System more like @kjsanders.bsky.social
I went through a long novella / single book phase (ongoing Shannon n/withstanding) but the Emily Wilde books drew me back in to trilogies and now BAM The Raven Scholar lures me into 600+pp fantasy books 1/3...
@ariadnereviews.bsky.social
@ariadnereviews.bsky.social
January 3, 2026 at 3:57 PM
I went through a long novella / single book phase (ongoing Shannon n/withstanding) but the Emily Wilde books drew me back in to trilogies and now BAM The Raven Scholar lures me into 600+pp fantasy books 1/3...
@ariadnereviews.bsky.social
@ariadnereviews.bsky.social
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Also wow I don't think I've ever cracked the Kindle Top 50 in... anything, LOL. (They have some VERY esoteric categories and still no.) UNTIL NOW!
THE BUTCHER OF THE FOREST is still $1.99 at ebook retailers apparently! :)
THE BUTCHER OF THE FOREST is still $1.99 at ebook retailers apparently! :)
January 2, 2026 at 6:07 PM
Also wow I don't think I've ever cracked the Kindle Top 50 in... anything, LOL. (They have some VERY esoteric categories and still no.) UNTIL NOW!
THE BUTCHER OF THE FOREST is still $1.99 at ebook retailers apparently! :)
THE BUTCHER OF THE FOREST is still $1.99 at ebook retailers apparently! :)
Reposted by Pete Smith
Today we launched a brand-new podcast! The Lands Remaining Podcast tracks the development of The Lands Remaining TTRPG. The first episode is straightforward enough: What is The Lands Remaining?
Listen below or wherever you get podcasts.
Please re-post!
www.gauntlet-rpg.com/the-lands-re...
Listen below or wherever you get podcasts.
Please re-post!
www.gauntlet-rpg.com/the-lands-re...
January 1, 2026 at 5:49 PM
Today we launched a brand-new podcast! The Lands Remaining Podcast tracks the development of The Lands Remaining TTRPG. The first episode is straightforward enough: What is The Lands Remaining?
Listen below or wherever you get podcasts.
Please re-post!
www.gauntlet-rpg.com/the-lands-re...
Listen below or wherever you get podcasts.
Please re-post!
www.gauntlet-rpg.com/the-lands-re...
Just recommended The tea master and the detective to a detective fiction reading friend. They're going to check it out! @aliettedebodard.com
January 2, 2026 at 6:41 PM
Just recommended The tea master and the detective to a detective fiction reading friend. They're going to check it out! @aliettedebodard.com
Uruk hai❌
Pad Thai ✅
Pad Thai ✅
January 2, 2026 at 4:45 PM
Uruk hai❌
Pad Thai ✅
Pad Thai ✅
Reposted by Pete Smith
TIRED: Listening to billionaires
WIRED: Listening to our great episode about the Brontes
INSPIRED: Going 'is that Gabby channeling Daphne Moon to play Emily?'
WIRED: Listening to our great episode about the Brontes
INSPIRED: Going 'is that Gabby channeling Daphne Moon to play Emily?'
It's the 15th & final episode of this series of Dead Funny History & it's the one that made us laugh the hardest in the writers room. Terrible teachers, brilliant (yet struggling) writers, and also Branwell was there! It's The Brontes!
(feat Emma as Anne & me as Emily) www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
(feat Emma as Anne & me as Emily) www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
You're Dead to Me - Dead Funny History - The Brontës - BBC Sounds
Tragedy and triumph in the Brontë story.
www.bbc.co.uk
January 2, 2026 at 3:13 PM
TIRED: Listening to billionaires
WIRED: Listening to our great episode about the Brontes
INSPIRED: Going 'is that Gabby channeling Daphne Moon to play Emily?'
WIRED: Listening to our great episode about the Brontes
INSPIRED: Going 'is that Gabby channeling Daphne Moon to play Emily?'