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ABS @abs.ventures · 2h

Andor and @techwontsave.us

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Sar Cousins @6knifes.bsky.social · 18h

TOY #objectober

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Wyrd Science Magazine @wyrdscience.bsky.social · 20h

Right, now I have some time (and a copy myself!) it's time to share some internal pics from the new issue, my thoughts on the relevant features & perhaps persuade a few more of you to buy a copy (because it's swell)

shop.wyrd.science

So today let's start with @malcolmcraig.bsky.social's one, as...

a photo of the latest issue of Wyrd Science, open to a spread on a feature about Cold War RPGs, one the left hand side is a full page picture of an atom bomb test, on the right the headline Playing Games in the Shadow of the Bomb

a photo of the latest issue of Wyrd Science, open to a spread on a feature about Cold War RPGs, it shows a still from the film Red Dawn with Russian soldiers posing in front of a McDonalds, the subhead for this section reads The Paranoid Style in American Gaming

a photo of the latest issue of Wyrd Science, open to a spread on a feature about Cold War RPGs, one side is taken up with the cover art for Greg Costikyan's Price of Freedom

a photo of the latest issue of Wyrd Science, open to a spread on a feature about Cold War RPGs

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 22h

"15 years ago, Polish workers came here to find opportunity. Now Poland is growing twice as fast as we are," says Kemi Badenoch.

Any ideas what may have happened in the interim?

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Dan Whitehead @danwhitehead.net · 21h

Tory policy: everybody must speak English but nobody is allowed to study it.

Dr Ian McCormick @wokestudies.bsky.social · 1d

UK Tory Party Conference: Conservative Leader Kemi Badenoch declares war on English degrees.
#literature #language #English #HigherEd #University

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Florencia Minuzzi @flom.bsky.social · 1d

Members and non-members are invited to this set of lightning talks on the specific needs of different game forms, featuring the wonderful @kimmacaskill.bsky.social, @flipdock.bsky.social, @thewizardlockwood.bsky.social, @rosebehar.bsky.social and chair Ben Sabin!

Writers' Guild of Great Britain @writersguildgb.bsky.social · 1d

Shaping your game narrative - 15 October

Join our expert panel of games writers/narrative designers for this free online series of talks + Q&A, sponsored by @articydraft.bsky.social

Non-members welcome too!

Find out more + register:

forms.office.com/pages/respon...

Photo of the speakers from left to right: Kim MacAskill, Will Aryitey, George Lockett, Rose Behar and chair Ben Sabin

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Wyrd Science Magazine @wyrdscience.bsky.social · 22h

please don't say they're whining about wheelchairs in fantasy games again? do they not have any new material? shouldn't they be standing around in ill fitting fatigues being twerked on by a frog rather than whining like little babies?

anyway, Games Workshop did missile armed wheelchairs in 84, so 🤷‍♂️

a combat wheelchair, or indeed battlechair, from the Games Workshop battelcars game in 1984

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Jennifer Kretchmer @dreamwisp.bsky.social · 1d

Because it feels relevant as we continue to evaluate the media and our representatives’ statements, my favorite way to identify the active vs. passive voice.

A post by Rebecca Johnson:
“I finally learned how to teach my guys to ID the passive voice. If you can insert "by zombies" after the verb, you have passive voice.”

A tumblr respond from mightymur:
“The final, brilliant word on passive voice.
"She was killed [by zombies.]"<--passive
"Zombies killed [by zombies] her." <-- active”

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Kevin the Pikachu @kap3692.bsky.social · 2d

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Mike Sowden @mikeachim.bsky.social · 2d

Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy:
www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...

Post from Threads user rodneyowl: "Ireland has declared the Basic Income for Artists scheme permanent. This will be officially announced in tomorrow’s budget. Details to follow. Congratulations to all who fought for it and the present and future artists of all sorts in Ireland. That includes me 👌We’re just comin to the end of a 3 year pilot scheme. It’s been a roaring success. For every €1 paid out to the 2000 participants, the government got €1.46 back. Can’t argue with that. Other countries are already taking note."

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Iain Lowson @embraagain.bsky.social · 2d

Is it too much to hope that the inevitable bursting of the AI bubble can be the final muscle contraction for the hideous, fetid, late-stage capitalism bowel movement we're enduring?

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Neil Williamson @neilwilliamson.bsky.social · 4d

And Blood In The Bricks, an anthology of urban folk horror. Secretive communities and dark rituals and all the good FH stuff... but right here in our towns and cities. Brilliant stories by Angela Slatter, James Bennett, Tim Major, Lyndsey Croal and more!

www.newconpress.co.uk/info/book.as...

Blood in the Bricks, James Bennett, Ray Cluley , Joanna Corrance, Dan Coxon, Lyndsey Croal, James Everington, Tracy Fahey, Matthew Hopkins, Timothy J Jarvis, Penny Jones, Kim Lakin, Tim Major, Phil Ra...

NewCon Press is a multiple award-winning independent publisher specialising in science fiction, fantasy, dark fantasy and horror.

www.newconpress.co.uk

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Kier-La Janisse @kierlajanisse.bsky.social · 2d

Visiting my producer friend Andy Starke and got to wear one of the actual masks from KILL LIST

Me wearing pointy mask made of straw and twigs

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Jess Nevins @jessnevins.bsky.social · 2d

TIL that Sumerian, that wonderful language, had the word "ah-du-ga," which is the spittle spewed by a wicked magician while uttering an evil spell.

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Noir Haunted Shack🕸♬🎞🦇 @noirbeachshack.bsky.social · 2d

25 days until Halloween

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Tarras Valley Nature Reserve @tarrasvalleynr.bsky.social · 2d

Anyone noticing LOTs of acorns this year?

It’s looking like 2025 is a mast year, an ecological phenomenon where trees produce bumper crops of seeds and fruits ensuring the next generation of trees and a rich bounty for wildlife! 🌱

Our ancient oak forests are a wonderful sight at the moment 🍁🍂🌿

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ABS @abs.ventures · 2d

Extraordinary. 'the BBC scrapped their interview with Polanski ... citing the need to cover last week’s Manchester synagogue terror attack.

Polanski, who is both Jewish, and from Manchester, was bumped by the show just days prior to airing, say the party.'

Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 2d

🔴BBC Laura Kuenssberg Show Accused of Anti-Green Bias After Cancelling Zack Polanski Interview

The new Green Party leader was the only major party leader not to have been granted a conference interview on the flagship BBC show

bylinetimes.com/2025/10/06/b...

BBC Laura Kuenssberg Show Accused of Anti-Green Bias After Cancelling Zack Polanski Interview

The new Green Party leader was the only major party leader not to have been granted a conference interview on the flagship BBC show

bylinetimes.com

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Dr Lynne Hardy @lynneahardy.bsky.social · 2d

What a phenomenal woman

Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 3d

Earlier this year, Dr. Jane Goodall sat down for an interview for Brad Falchuk’s new Netflix series, Famous Last Words.

The premise of the series is to interview people on the condition that the interview not air until the subject has passed away.

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Dark and Wondrous - it's in the trees! it's coming! @darkandwondrous.bsky.social · 8d

As October begins, we contemplate how the sea wind had its way with this now-fungal saint.

scary sea-weathered saint on the church near Hartlepool headland (body of saint is heavily eroded down to a veined or boxwork-like underlying structure of the stone, which looks like weird branching fungus).

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Boater Witch Poppy @boaterwitch.bsky.social · 2d

A line drawing of a British cop with the words popo on his helmet. Around him, in comic sans, it says:

stop, this protest is illegal!

you're only allowed to protest against the government if the government says it's okay!

yes I know the point of protests is to cause disruption to incite those in power to make a change

but you're causing too much disruption now and it's starting to annoy those in power so stop pls

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Meredith Whittaker @meredithmeredith.bsky.social · 3d

📣 Germany's close to reversing its opposition to mass surveillance & private message scanning, & backing the Chat Control bill. This could end private comms-& Signal-in the EU.

Time's short and they're counting on obscurity: please let German politicians know how horrifying their reversal would be.

Signal @signal.org · 5d

We are alarmed by reports that Germany is on the verge of a catastrophic about-face, reversing its longstanding and principled opposition to the EU’s Chat Control proposal which, if passed, could spell the end of the right to privacy in Europe. signal.org/blog/pdfs/ge...

signal.org

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Sarah E. Bond @sarahebond.bsky.social · 3d

October 5: Apologies for the bad news, but today is one of the 3 unluckiest days of the year in the Roman calendar. Definitely let people know that the underworld opens up to the living today (mundus patet) and so you just can’t leave your house, especially to sail (also on August 24 & November 8).

The tomb was designated the “Tomb of Cerberus” after the incredible mural of Hercules fighting the three-headed dog that guarded the underworld.

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Jack King-Spooner - ABIDE Hopefully our next game! @king-spooner.bsky.social · 5d

I am thrilled to say that Judero is is OUT NOW on Playstation 5, Xbox Series X and S, and Xbox One!

store.playstation.com/en-gb/concep...

www.xbox.com/en-gb/games/...

Judero

A handmade adventure game based on the folklore of the Scottish Borders.

store.playstation.com

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Joanne Harris @joannechocolat.bsky.social · 3d

Unsolicited writing advice, no. 235:
Stop equating wealth and fame with your value as a writer. Some of the writers we now admire were unknown in their lifetimes; just as many once-bestselling writers are now forgotten and unread. Making good art is not the same as making good money.

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Lucy Sullivan @lucysullivan.bsky.social · 3d

Final Days to fill out the survey!
Help them understand comic creators work/finances & help grow their case for supporting comics.

DO IT ASAP! Please!
(UK based creators only)

Hannah Berry @streakofpith.bsky.social · 6d

🚨FINAL FEW DAYS!🚨

The UK Comics Creator Survey will close forever at midnight on Monday 6th! Have you submitted your response yet? Or were you, like me*, waiting for the last minute? The last minute is now, lads! Get in there!

ukcomicscreators.org.uk

*I thrive** on pressure
**Exist painfully

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