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Husband, Father, Good Cook. Reader. Keeper of abandoned dogs. Does not fit into a neat box or category. "Ah Mr. Gibbon, another damned, fat, square book. Always, scribble, scribble, scribble, eh?” Grogsquad, MUP Professor, a Good Friend of J.E. and More

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Fred Kiesche 🇺🇦 🇨🇦 🇲🇽 🇩🇰 @fredkiesche.bsky.social · Feb 28

Вільна Україна!

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ian.fenrisgames @fenrisgames.com · 15h

death goals

Anni Jyn @annijyn.com · 15h

the shrivelled holy relic hand of margaret clitherow

a shrivelled mummified hand in a case made of brass and glass

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Jeff Dreher @jeffdreher.bsky.social · 14h

Fantastic write up on Hill House. If you've never read it, take a few hours this month and do yourself the favor. It's the template for modern day haunted house stories, including King's The Shining.

Lincoln Michel @thelincoln.bsky.social · 17h

Starting my October horror posting...

countercraft.substack.com/p/shirley-ja...

Shirley Jackson and the Eerie Omniscient Narrator

Some thoughts on the horror classic The Haunting of Hill House

countercraft.substack.com

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Frank Davis @fdavismobile.bsky.social · 10h

WARGAMES IN ACTION
Von Manstein's Backhand Blow - GMT Games (2002)
Game Turns 2-4
Game Designer: Dirk Blennemann
You Tube Channel: Hex2Hex
youtu.be/xvwHwUWUps4

Von Manstein's Backhand Blow (Turns 2 - 4) GMT

YouTube video by Hex 2 Hex

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Mr Jim Moon @hypnogoria.bsky.social · 6h

A drop of October dream fuel - The Darkest Part of the Woods by Edward Miller

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The Spaceshipper 🚀 @thespaceshipper.com · 8h

Frank Herbert (1920-1986) was born 105 years ago today.

Here's Frank Herbert with David Lynch, who wrote and directed the first Dune adaptation in 1984 (and who passed away in January).

David Lynch and Frank Herbert during the production of Dune (1984)

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SF Encyclopedia @sfencyclopedia.bsky.social · 8h

Frank Herbert sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/herber... was born on this day, so here are some of his book covers (Artist: Bruce Pennington, Don Punchatz, Dean Ellis and Bruce Pennington):

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SF Encyclopedia @sfencyclopedia.bsky.social · 10h

Artist Richard Hescox sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/hescox... was born on this day, so here's some examples of his cover art. 1st for "The Dragon Lord" by Peter Morwood; 2nd for "Brightsuit MacBear" by L Neil Smith; 3rd for "The Best of Marion Zimmer Bradley" and the 4th for "Life Force" by Zach Hughes:

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Echoes @echoesradio.bsky.social · 10h

Echoes Podcast: Marissa Nadler. You've been entranced by her album, New Radiations, all month. Now hear her talk about this personal recording and it's ambient -folk atmospheres. wp.me/p4ZE0X-x6q @marissanadler.bsky.social

Echoes Podcast – Marissa Nadler Interview

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The Spaceshipper 🚀 @thespaceshipper.com · 12h

"What does interest me is the possible development of society in centuries to come. The way different levels and types evolve in the script is intriguing and refreshing, and could well be true."

Sean Connery Starred In A Terrible Sci-Fi Movie To Escape His James Bond Legacy - SlashFilm

On a quest to distance himself from James Bond, Sean Connery slapped on a big mustache and a red bikini for this sci-fi oddity.

www.slashfilm.com

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The Spaceshipper 🚀 @thespaceshipper.com · 12h

John Boorman's Zardoz (1974)

Speaking to the magazine Films and Filming in 1974, Sean Connery said that "Zardoz" was "one of the best ideas [he'd] come across for ages" and claimed to have been "gripped" by lack of "spaceships and rockets" in a sci-fi movie.

Sean is team big-flying-stone-head☝️

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Anthony Ryan @anthonyryan.bsky.social · 11h

Work. Of. Genius.

David M. Bennett MD (FAAOS, FPOSNA, DABOS) @davembmd.bsky.social · 13h

This is the funniest thing I’ve seen in a long time. @aptshadow.bsky.social @abraham.bsky.social

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Fred Kiesche 🇺🇦 🇨🇦 🇲🇽 🇩🇰 @fredkiesche.bsky.social · 15h

Fred Kiesche 🇺🇦 🇨🇦 🇲🇽 🇩🇰 @fredkiesche.bsky.social · 18h

Arrived!

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Tim_Eagon @tim-eagon.dice.camp.ap.brid.gy · 1d

David Bennett, one of my favorite YouTube music theorists, takes a deep dive into Led Zeppelin's "Stairway to Heaven."

https://youtu.be/pZnBWuqjCOM

#music #musictheory #rock #ledzeppelin #youtube

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Scott Fitzgerald Gray @scottfgray.bsky.social · 1d

“Camelot*.”

“Camelot!”

“Camelot!!”

“It’s only a model…”

*Actually le Mont-Saint-Michel.

In the background, a majestic fortress rises high upon a small mountain. In the foreground, tourists wander along a walkway flanked by low-tide mud flats.

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Somebody wake up Hicks @jonmarkhicks.bsky.social · 1d

The HPLHS Call of Cthulhu on Amazon Prime? Get in!

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Ross Payton @rosspayton.bsky.social · 1d

Mothership: ARKYVR – Interview with author Rhodrick Magsino

I interviewed Rhodrick Magsino, author of ARKYVR at Gen Con 2025 about his new module. ARKYVR is a multimedia MOTHERSHIP 1E setting & toolkit to play documentary filmmakers in space. Equipped with only their camera gear, ARKYVRs will…

Mothership: ARKYVR – Interview with author Rhodrick Magsino

I interviewed Rhodrick Magsino, author of ARKYVR at Gen Con 2025 about his new module. ARKYVR is a multimedia MOTHERSHIP 1E setting & toolkit to play documentary filmmakers in space. Equipped with only their camera gear, ARKYVRs will attempt to document life in space and expose corporate client atrocities while surviving the void’s unspeakable horrors. We talked about his inspiration for creating the module, playtesting, and what he plans next. Get ARKYVER on DTRPG Watch this interview on Youtube

slangdesign.com

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Juan Ochoa @juanochoa.bsky.social · 1d

#blorp

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Ed Of Fannyside @edoffannyside.bsky.social · 1d

I'm up for this.

Colin Dickey @colindickey.com · 1d

Ann Radcliffe eating hard cheese right before bed to give herself nightmares, Stoker claiming Dracula was the result of a nightmare induced by a “too generous helping of dressed crab,” let’s go back to the golden age of eating incredibly rich food before bed to create horror literature

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Fred Kiesche 🇺🇦 🇨🇦 🇲🇽 🇩🇰 @fredkiesche.bsky.social · 19h

All the way back.

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Eddy Webb - Pugsteady @pugsteady.com · 1d

On the one hand, cool that this is getting larger media attention.

On the other hand, lumping wargames, tabletop RPGs, and board games together as "dice and toy soldier games" is fucking weird.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Spalding Wargames Club putting mental health on the front line

Members of a wargaming club say the support they have been getting from the sessions are 'crucial'.

www.bbc.co.uk

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John Ossoway @ottomancer.bsky.social · 1d

Fraser the Duck necromancer from our Dragonbane game. This one's for you @dampscot.bsky.social

Pencil sketch of a duck necromancer called Fraser. He's an anthropomorphic duck like the ones you get in the RuneQuest RPG. Pose inspired by a duck knight with foot on box from Dragonbane.

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Fred Kiesche 🇺🇦 🇨🇦 🇲🇽 🇩🇰 @fredkiesche.bsky.social · 19h

Ouch.

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Tim Harford @timharford.ft.com · 1d

New York billboards are advertising Cautionary Tales!
Wow. (I think this is Patreon's way of showing some love for my favourite podcast... www.patreon.com/c/Cautionary...)

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Sardonicus @sardonicus.eu · 22h

Sergey Fyodorovich Podmarev.

stylised painting, long thin trees reaching up to the sky

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