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𝗦𝗧𝗜𝗣𝗔𝗡 𝗠𝗢𝗥𝗜𝗔𝗡 @stipanmorian.bsky.social · 7h

I'm open for one commission.
Something cyberpunk or something Conan, whatever, I'm in the mood to churn out something crazy!
Hit me up!

Pencil, please:

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Gav Thorpe @gavthorpe.bsky.social · 5h

So floof.

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Chaosium @chaosium.bsky.social · 6h

The Pendragon Starter Set contains everything a fledgling Gamemaster requires to run a band of freshly-knighted characters through several adventures in the historic fantasy of King Arthur’s Britain.

www.chaosium.com/pendragon-st...

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Gav Thorpe @gavthorpe.bsky.social · 6h

A particular MMO game did this instead of banning abusive users. The naughty kids server. So they could carry on playing, but in the end most of them realised how horrid it was playing with assholes and just quit.

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Toby Earle 🇺🇦 @tobyontv.bsky.social · 14h

if you’ve ever watched the apprentice, that’s the world without arts or humanities degrees

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NateKC @natekansas.bsky.social · 11h

I believe Daily's outsources security as well. They didn't take my shirt away though! Doing my part to balance those ads because Fuck ICE

PAC (bastard) walking in front of me wearing an "Abolish ICE" shirt (@JCPxdesigns) on his entrance

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Naomi Alderman @naomialderman.bsky.social · 15h

this made me actually laugh out actual loud

Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 16h

"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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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 15h

Banned by Reform Party, Conservative Party, sanctioned by the Russian Government six times - what is @bylinetimes.bsky.social doing right?

Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 16h

Second Byline Times Journalist From Conference

Veteran award-winning investigative journalist @davidhencke has attended the Conservative Party conference since 1987, but is now hundreds of pounds out of pocket after being blocked from attending

bylinetimes.com/2025/10/08/c...

Conservatives Accused of ‘Trumpian’ Tactics After Barring Second Byline Times Journalist From Conference

Veteran award-winning investigative journalist David Hencke has attended Conservative party conference since 1987 but is now hundreds of pounds out of pocket after being blocked from attending

bylinetimes.com

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Phil Nobile Jr. @philnobilejr.bsky.social · 1d

You don’t need AI; AI is not “inevitable.” That’s a lie being fed to you by companies who are going to lose a fuckton of money if they don’t convince you that AI is something you can’t live without.

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 1d

NVIDIA and OpenAi:

Concerns that their “increasingly complex and interconnected web of business transactions is artificially propping up the trillion-dollar AI boom.“

@bloomberg.com $NVDA 👀
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

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Gav Thorpe @gavthorpe.bsky.social · 19h

I may be biased but the last time I played it… did not go well.

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Gav Thorpe @gavthorpe.bsky.social · 19h

Sounds great!

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Gav Thorpe @gavthorpe.bsky.social · 19h

I don’t think I ever played it (my cousin owned a copy though not many miniatures) but I loved reading through it and looking at the art.

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Frédéric Moreau @goodclimate.bsky.social · 1d

This lurid headline is about British tourists no longer getting away with overstaying in Schengen. Or being 'illegals', as it's often called in the UK.

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Gav Thorpe @gavthorpe.bsky.social · 19h

Don’t do it!

It’s a dull, dull, dull game of micromanagement with a drawn-out victory point death spiral if something goes wrong.

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Gav Thorpe @gavthorpe.bsky.social · 19h

Inbox Bruges

Cap'n Cupcake @maliceunchained.bsky.social · 19h

Red Tape One

Gav Thorpe @gavthorpe.bsky.social · 19h

Deep Impact Assessment

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Gav Thorpe @gavthorpe.bsky.social · 19h

Copy of Battle with Model Tanks, by Donald Featherstone and Keith Robinson. Book cover with model tank battle across a scenic battlefield.

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Gav Thorpe @gavthorpe.bsky.social · 19h

Except these shrink your head rather than (violently) expand it.

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Willard Foxton @willardfoxton.bsky.social · 19h

This is obviously totally pointless for fiction but under the orders of a previous (rubbish) CEO we tried it for non fiction and it was also completely worthless and you got nothing from a summary of a book you wouldn’t from the back cover

bsky.app/profile/newy...

The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 1d

Abridging has always been in vogue. Now, apps like Blinkist take entire books and crunch them down to a series of what are called Blinks—which amount to around 2,000 words. “Is that what books are coming to, a handy social lubricant?” Anthony Lane asks.

Can You Read a Book in a Quarter of an Hour?

Phone apps now offer to boil down entire books into micro-synopses. What they leave out is revealing.

www.newyorker.com

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Gav Thorpe @gavthorpe.bsky.social · 19h

Deep Impact Assessment

tharook @tharook.bsky.social · 20h

28 business days later

ian.fenrisgames @fenrisgames.com · 20h

the human resources centipede

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tharook @tharook.bsky.social · 20h

28 business days later

ian.fenrisgames @fenrisgames.com · 20h

the human resources centipede

Courtney 🐙 Lovecraftian 🐙 Actually @hexadecibelle.fyi · 22h

the blair witch project manager

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Gav Thorpe @gavthorpe.bsky.social · 19h

Could certainly ditch those pointless PPE courses.

Martin Paul Eve @eve.gd · 21h

This makes me so angry. These people view all life as training for lifelong servitude/work. There's no room for interest, enjoyment, and culture in their bleak vision of education. At least she'll never be in power to see it through. Though Reform are probably worse.

Badenoch: Curb students taking "rip-off" degrees such as English. The performing arts, sociology and anthropology are among the subjects the Conservatives would like to cut

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Melissa Rogerson @melissainau.bsky.social · 1d

Do you teach boardgames? We have just launched a survey asking about your experience! It takes about ten minutes to complete - please share!
Survey link: go.unimelb.edu.au/45qp

Image text reads:
Do you teach board games?
We invite you to complete a short survey for academic research into people’s experiences of teaching boardgames, at home and elsewhere.
The survey takes about ten minutes to complete.

To find out more, please use the QR code,
visit go.unimelb.edu.au/45qp
or email hybrid-games@unimelb.edu.au

(University of Melbourne Human Research Ethics Approval 33778)

There is also a decorative image of game pawns and dice, with a magnifying glass on top, as well as a QR code which points to the given link.

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Jaunty Art @jaunty.art · 1d

hang in there bud

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Sebas @ohlookbirdies.bsky.social · 2d

"but it's everywhere now so we just have to accept it's the new reality" motherfucker we can just stop putting it everywhere! we did it with asbestos and CFCs and lead-based paint or petrol and make-up with arsenic in it! if everyone is using something and it's bad, we can choose to stop!

Sebas @ohlookbirdies.bsky.social · 2d

"anti-AI people should just learn more about it" motherfucker I know so much about it, that's why I'm anti-AI

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Aliette de Bodard @aliettedebodard.com · 1d

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