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Matthew Campbell

@socialscifi.bsky.social

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Ennie winning writer of nerd things, all round geek. Likes dinosaurs, pictures of birds, TTRPGs and wargames. he/him (Banner by cenocrocodile)

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GolgariGlenRoss @golgariglenross.bsky.social · 1d

1st edition Twilight:2000.

Matthew Campbell @socialscifi.bsky.social · 1d

brb, finding the crunchiest math game possible to insert 2Spellcasting with Poetry" into

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Matthew Campbell @socialscifi.bsky.social · 1d

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GOP Maintains Solid Hold On Youth That Already Look Like Old Men

YouTube video by The Onion

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Matthew Campbell @socialscifi.bsky.social · 1d

This comparison immediately reminded me of this video, talking about the slow and perfectly sounded works of Oliver Postage youtu.be/3KIoOopWquI?...

Charlie brooker on Oliver postgate

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Matthew Campbell @socialscifi.bsky.social · 1d

brb, finding the crunchiest math game possible to insert 2Spellcasting with Poetry" into

Matthew Campbell @socialscifi.bsky.social · 1d

International Lesbians is the U.N.C.L.E reboot we need right now

Matthew Campbell @socialscifi.bsky.social · 3d

Look if we're going all Ancient Greek with this the first person to be hit by one will be HIM

Matthew Campbell @socialscifi.bsky.social · 5d

me and the lads on the way to get new exoskeletons with all the oxygen we've now got

Matthew Campbell @socialscifi.bsky.social · 7d

"no political themes"

So.... I guess that leaves unconnected words with no meaning?

Matthew Campbell @socialscifi.bsky.social · 8d

The fact that I can't tell if this is a general sentiment or a specific response to one of two different news stories.

What a terrible timeline we're in.

Matthew Campbell @socialscifi.bsky.social · 9d

Didn't she also get a grant? (Which is a good thing! The state should subsidise art and creative industries!) It's like the opposite of self made: supporting a person so they can roll the dice on becoming an author.

Matthew Campbell @socialscifi.bsky.social · 9d

To be fair to The Elephant House "rewriting a grain of truth into a nearly-totally-fictional narrative" is pretty on brand for... no author in particular.

Matthew Campbell @socialscifi.bsky.social · 9d

this detail provides some interesting context for her portrayal of The Poor Family Who You Know Are Poor Because of Hand-Me-Downs

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Matthew Campbell @socialscifi.bsky.social · 10d

So she stayed for a while in the swanky flat of a family member, then moved to the one in the video. (I live in the same part of Edinburgh, it even has/had a little "JK lived here plaque)

Matthew Campbell @socialscifi.bsky.social · 12d

dang it! They complicated eggs? Now we have to retire "as sure as eggs is eggs" as the British idiom for uncomplicated certainty.

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BiblicallyAccurateMoth @bibleaccuratemoth.bsky.social · 14d

Centipedes are older than trees. Centipedes are older than Polaris. Centipedes have made two circles around the Milky Way.

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Matthew Campbell @socialscifi.bsky.social · 14d

older than Polaris? Really!?!

ah yeah that's the stuff

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Matthew Campbell @socialscifi.bsky.social · 14d

ok but I do want to hear that centipede fact

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Matthew Campbell @socialscifi.bsky.social · 14d

@lastweektonight.com we need you now more than ever

Matthew Campbell @socialscifi.bsky.social · 15d

Look the 3D shades bit is pretty obnoxious.

But Jammerzz is the coolest guy ever and I will brook no disagreement.

Matthew Campbell @socialscifi.bsky.social · 17d

Doing the 'Mini of the Month' in store is very educational because I get to learn how often the instructions are just wrong.

Matthew Campbell @socialscifi.bsky.social · 17d

wait hold on it's legal to deliver brass at bullet speed, but not at punch speed?

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Matthew Campbell @socialscifi.bsky.social · 18d

If they don't have a dino-sized Tropius then we've failed as a society....

Matthew Campbell @socialscifi.bsky.social · 18d

Oh hey, I'm in this! Try Fantastical Field Studies and go do magic geometry with a frog!

Dungeon Masters Guild @dmsguild.com · 20d

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Includes A Syllabus of Sorcery, Strixhaven Faculty Handbook, Mimsy's Strixhaven Shop of Treasures, The Pub that Crawls, and more!

#dnd5e #dungeonsanddragons #ttrpgs

Strixhaven September Sale at DMsGuild.com

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Matthew Campbell @socialscifi.bsky.social · 21d

Sometimes you get healthcare workers smiling and nodding along as they encourage and prompt applicants to say The Right Words.

I mean, it used to be this happened with Medical Marijuana, but I guess we're doing vaccines now...

Matthew Campbell @socialscifi.bsky.social · 24d

I'll take "Rich people confusing the advantages of material wealth for skill and intelligence" for 200 Alex