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Dr Adam @theeuphemism.bsky.social · 15d

Very excited to be presenting again later today at the Warhammer Conference! This year I'm talking about Necrons, Trans/Posthumanism, and why Wargame fiction is important to analyse. Plus I got this wonderful commission from @morgul.bsky.social 's sketch club, and I love it so much!

Bust of Oltyx from the Twice Dead King novels

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Dr Grace, Amidst Monsters @seifely.bsky.social · Aug 10

Alright, alright, I'm finally doing it. I'm posting!

If you don't know me, I'm Grace, I have a doctorate in AI (in which I mostly talked about feelings) and a background in a whole mix of things from psychology to robotics. I'm pretty confident everyone here knows me since I moved from Twitter...

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Dr Adam @theeuphemism.bsky.social · Jul 9

Man the Gilead is just such a moody piece. It's always stuck with me

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Dr Adam @theeuphemism.bsky.social · Apr 10

Knew you'd pick a good name for it

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Dr Adam @theeuphemism.bsky.social · Apr 6

Naturally I have to do my browsing on the big screen, in a chair. I can relate

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Dr Adam @theeuphemism.bsky.social · Mar 11

Got the chance to play some Mordheim again last night (first time in 11 years) on a friend's amazing scratchbuilt terrain. Man I've missed this game so much...there's so much character even in a dwarf who can't climb a wall, and a Marienburger stacking it from a jump and dying #warhammer

Dwarves lurking in a building while a fight happens behind a corner

A table with scratchbuild buildings, risers, and platforms

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Nicolete Burbach @nicoleteburbach.bsky.social · Mar 7

🚨🚨🚨WARHAMMER CONFERENCE ALERT🚨🚨🚨 I'm running this ridiculous but also weirdly timely stream about Warhammer 40K and left politics at the upcoming London Conference in Critical Thought 2025. If you're interested in submitting, see the instructions below. If you're interested in attending, it's free!

The Cruellest and Most Bloody Stream Imaginable: What’s Left of Warhammer 40,000? Warhammer 40,000 is now a global cultural phenomenon. This ascension has been accompanied by an adoption of the setting by reactionary political groups. Now wider political conflicts are played out over the meaning of the world and its aesthetics. Additionally, the setting is now a simulacrum of the phenomena it originally represented. Whereas HG Wells’ Little Wars pioneered tabletop wargaming as a humane alternative to conducting real ones, now Russian troops go into battle wearing purity seals blessed by the Russian Orthodox Church, while Ukrainian units named for the Chaos God of War launch drone attacks on North Korean soldiers. In this way, Warhammer 40,000 is a part of the construction and conquest of nations, along with the nationalisms emerging around these activities. On the other hand, to view Warhammer 40,000 as purely reactionary is to miss the fact that the hobby unites diverse communities, the setting is sufficiently rich as to generate multiple readings, and its eclectic repurposing of ideas and imagery lends itself to multifaceted and genuinely interesting discussion. This stream seeks to explore Warhammer 40,000 in its contemporary political significance. It also seeks to do so in a way that recovers it for more progressive political projects. Topics of papers might include: ● Queerness in Warhammer 40,000 ● Warhammer 40,000 and feminism ● Theopolitical aesthetics in the 3rd and 41st Millennia ● Satire in Warhammer 40,000 ● Rogue Trader and the politics of the 1980s ● The changing face of the Warhammer 40,000 community ● Grimdark and political hope ● Representations of masculinity in Warhammer 40,000 ● Warhammer 40,000 as a vehicle for fantasies ● Disability in Warhammer 40,000 ● Warhammer, war, and nationalism ● Mediatisation and the reception of Warhammer 40,000 ● Is the Biscopea stored in the balls?

LONDON CONFERENCE IN CRITICAL THOUGHT 2025 Birkbeck, University of London 20th-21st June 2025 Deadline for Proposals: Friday 4th April 2025 The Call for Presentations is now open for the 12th annual London Conference in Critical Thought (LCCT), which will be hosted and supported by Birkbeck, University of London on 20th-21st June, 2025. The LCCT is an annual interdisciplinary conference that provides a forum for emergent critical scholarship, broadly construed. The event is always free for all to attend and follows a non-hierarchical model. The streams for LCCT 2025 are: ● The Art of the Gimmick ● The Crisis of Experience in the in the Age of Algorithmic Attention ● Critical Thought Maintenance: How to mediate intellectual and organisational form (and get away with it!) ● The Cruellest and Most Bloody Stream Imaginable: What’s Left of Warhammer 40,000? ● Cruising as Critical Methodology: Practices and Imaginaries from the Shadows ● Diagramming Digital Image Ecologies: Material Articulations of Invisual Relations ● Ephemeral Resistance ● ‘In Theory’: Media, Systems and (Re)Conceiving Communication ● Interweaving Embodied Practice and Critical Theory in Transnational Feminisms ● Is Empathy Dead? Understanding and Questioning The Relevance and Significance of Empathy in the Digital Age ● Labour and Liveness in a New Age of Automation ● Margins & Ambiguities: Reflections Between Material and Epistemological Metaphors and Limits ● Masturbatory Reading ● Monstrous Becomings: The politics, aesthetics and contradictions of Monstrosity ● Radical Listening: Collective Practices, Histories and Possible Futures If you would like to participate in one of them, please send an abstract for a proposed presentation with the relevant stream title indicated in the subject line to hello@londoncritical.co.uk*. Abstracts should be submitted as Word documents of no more than 250 words and must be received by Friday 4th April 2025. Please note that LCCT is an in-person conference.

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Dr Adam @theeuphemism.bsky.social · Feb 10

My head is not switched on, I completely forgot this was you! I hope you can attend again even if virtually (biased because I'll also be virtual if I can go). Also because I'm crossing fingers we'll get to explore more Fantasy/AoS topics for round 2

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Dr Adam @theeuphemism.bsky.social · Feb 10

I was fortunate enough to have been involved with this last year, and it was a fantastic experience (even presenting remotely) that sparked a brilliant community. I can only reccomend getting involved if you're at all interested

The World of RPGs @theworldofrpgs.bsky.social · Feb 10

See you in Heidelberg: warhammer-conference.com/call-for-pap...

Call for papers – Warhammer Conference

The second ever Warhammer Conference will take place in September. Abstract submission deadline: 30th June 2025.

warhammer-conference.com

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The World of RPGs @theworldofrpgs.bsky.social · Feb 10

See you in Heidelberg: warhammer-conference.com/call-for-pap...

Call for papers – Warhammer Conference

The second ever Warhammer Conference will take place in September. Abstract submission deadline: 30th June 2025.

warhammer-conference.com

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Rascal News @rascal.news · Feb 7

A conversation with the creators of the Jan 6 wargame that left @rowanzeoli.bsky.social with a number of concerns about the potential safety of future players and audience members.

Why does the January 6 wargame even exist?

A conversation with the creators of Fight for America! about art, politics, and player safety.

www.rascal.news

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Dr Adam @theeuphemism.bsky.social · Feb 6

Still perhaps my favourite Underworlds crew. These little guys look lovely!

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Dr Adam @theeuphemism.bsky.social · Feb 6

What a lovely first holiday evening with my girlfriend (@seifely.bsky.social), who was more than happy to confirm that my niche as one of her boyfriends was 'homely'

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Dr Adam @theeuphemism.bsky.social · Jan 15

Couldn't be more chuffed with getting best sportsman either. Although it being a 3-way tie just shows how lovely everyone was. Can't wait for another!

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Dr Adam @theeuphemism.bsky.social · Jan 15

Forgot to post up the pictures I got of my finished Shatterpoint Team from this weekend's Grand Tournament (amazing what a deadline does to motivation)! It was my first one and honestly so much fun. Everyone was lovely, and I'll never get tired of throwing Hondo under a bus to try and sneak a win

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Chase Taylor-Carter @chasecarter.bsky.social · Jan 15

I'm writing about an upcoming RPG created by someone who understands the implications an unreliable author puts on a text. In fact, the game wholly embraces that reading.

Cannot wait for more creators to fuck with reader confidence.

jay Dragon has firmware updates @jdragsky.bsky.social · Jan 15

this article about triangle agency by @cannibalhalfling.bsky.social is really good, but it grapples with the same thing i see a lot of reviews of TA miss on, and a thing that im surprised more people dont talk about:
it's not the author, its the agency

cannibalhalflinggaming.com/2025/01/15/t...

The three layers of Triangle Agency

Depending on how you look at it I either chose the best or the worst time to read Triangle Agency. Over winter break I finally beat Control, and found I absolutely loved its setting and vibe. The w…

cannibalhalflinggaming.com

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Dr Adam @theeuphemism.bsky.social · Dec 31

Oh hell yeah!

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Dr Adam @theeuphemism.bsky.social · Dec 30

I'm forever on the hunt for hacking rules that hit right. Still got to actually try the cyberpunk Mork Borg though

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Dr Adam @theeuphemism.bsky.social · Dec 30

Thankfully Netrunner is out of production so they maybe couldn't get you for neurobombs

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Dr Adam @theeuphemism.bsky.social · Dec 7

Nothing like an event to motivate you to get some paint on things....it's a start. (Tag for @michipeachy.bsky.social because I promised, and because of the good stream company)

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Dr Adam @theeuphemism.bsky.social · Dec 2

Looking forward to Grand Theft Hamlet tonight at a local cinema. Still cannot believe the tickets were just free...

Dr Adam @theeuphemism.bsky.social · Nov 22

Sometimes you end up in a Doom Metal gig unexpectedly. Wish I could have stayed longer for the frogs to start

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Dr Adam @theeuphemism.bsky.social · Nov 21

Another day another woodworking tool appears in my house

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Dr Adam @theeuphemism.bsky.social · Nov 19

So the birds may not be using my feeder yet, but we at least painted up some fridge magnets to look at in the meantime

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Dr Adam @theeuphemism.bsky.social · Nov 18

This Savage Eau Forte advert is killing me because every time I think he's going to say Savage Opress....