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Not sure what I am yet, I mean it’s early days. Mainly SF&F, TTRPG etc 80s geekery on this. Grogsquad adjacent. Part time historian (MA ✅, PhD tbc). Dabbling writer. Scot by origin, Irish/Euro by choice & fortune. Possibly a cat-operated meat puppet.
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ottomancer.bsky.social
Such a great film.
December 13, 2025 at 7:58 PM
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December 8, 2025 at 2:21 PM
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brutumfulmen.bsky.social
Get a load of this. 😆
A post from ViperThreat: Worked as an on-call computer tech for about a year, and I've seen some weird shit. Plenty of Hoarders, elderly men with interesting sexual fantasies, Multimillonaire Lawyers with closets full of gay porn, etc. The weirdest one was this cool old dude who had retired and lived in a double-wide trailer in a fairly nice retirement trailer park. His house had one of those trains that traveled along the walls from room to room, occasionally poking through walls and such. The primary purpose of this train was to carry his bird (a blue macaw IIRC) around the house. From his explanation, the bird had some birth defects and had difficulty flying, so they built the train for the bird to cruise around the house on. This may not sound all that weird to you, but let me set the stage for you: You're a college student removing a stupid browser hijack from some old guy's computer. You're nearly done with the job when you hear a clacking sound and look up to see a toy train crossing your vision. Aboard the train is a decently sized bird that makes eye contact with you and says "choo choo motherfucker" before disappearing into the next room. One of the most surreal moments of my life.
December 5, 2025 at 1:35 PM
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wyrdscience.bsky.social
Opening up a few more slots this evening for new readers
Wyrd Science Vol.1 / Issue 7 [Print]
IF YOU WANT A SUBSCRIPTION, AND TO SAVE 10% ON THE COVER PRICE, PLEASE GO HERE Wyrd Science returns for another exploration of the strange worlds and new horizons of tabletop games... In this issue......
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November 23, 2025 at 8:18 PM
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The real BBC bias story, narrated by Anna Ford
November 19, 2025 at 12:12 PM
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malcolmcraig.bsky.social
Gee whizz! My article on Twilight 2000 in the Journal of American studies is now the most read piece over the last 3 months, despite it only being available for a couple of weeks. That's kind of terrifying! Thanks so much to everyone who's taken the time to engage with it!
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A list showing the most read articles in the Journal of American Studies over the last ninety days. In order, it shows: Malcolm Craig: When You Say, “Thermonuclear War,” I Think You Mean “the Call to Adventure”! The Twilight: 2000 Tabletop Role-Playing Game and the Postapocalyptic World’s Imaginary Spaces Joe Street: The Historiography of the Black Panther Party Caroline V. Hamilton: The Erotic Charisma of Alexander Hamilton Adam Fairclough: Historians and the Civil Rights Movement
November 17, 2025 at 11:55 AM
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joneshowdareyou.bsky.social
I enjoyed this. And what an infectious laugh. ❤️

"Reporter left speechless after witnessing Japan's new $70 million Maglev train in action at 310 mph"
September 2, 2025 at 8:29 PM
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Dear Sir:

Thou eunuch of language; thou Englishman, who never was south the Tweed; thou servile echo of fashionable barbarisms; thou quack, vending the nostrums of empirical elocution…

—Robert Burns, Letter to a critic (1791)
#WorldLetterWritingDay #C18th
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Ellisland, 1791 Dear Sir: Thou eunuch of language; thou Englishman, who never was south the Tweed; thou servile echo of fashionable barbarisms; thou quack, vending the nostrums of empirical elocution; thou marriage-maker between vowels and consonants, on the Gretna-green of caprice; thou cobler, botching the flimsy socks of bombast oratory; thou blacksmith, hammering the rivets of absurdity; thou butcher, embruing thy hands in the bowels of orthography; thou arch-heretic in pronunciation; thou pitch-pipe of affected emphasis; thou carpenter, mortising the awkward joints of jarring sentences; thou squeaking dissonance of cadence; thou pimp of gender; thou Lyon Herald to silly etymology; thou antipode of grammar; thou executioner of construction; thou brood of the speech-distracting builders of the Tower of Babel; thou lingual confusion worse confounded; thou scape-gallows from the land of syntax; thou scavenger of mood and tense; thou murderous accoucheur of infant learning; thou ignis fatuus, misleading the steps of benighted ignorance; thou pickle-herring in the puppet-show of nonsense; thou faithful recorder of barbarous idiom; thou persecutor of syllabication; thou baleful meteor, foretelling and facilitating the rapid approach of Nox and Erebus. R.B. Robert Burns | Letter to a critic, 1791 | The Works of Robert Burns, Volume 4
September 1, 2025 at 5:27 PM
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marthawells.com
Re-upping this for the afternoon:
August 24, 2025 at 4:56 PM
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thegrognardfiles.bsky.social
An experience you’ll never forget. Gatsby and the Great Race was a standout event at this year’s GROGMEET. Get a copy now!
Paul. Fricker holding an Eldritch trophy
August 20, 2025 at 8:03 PM
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fionasmall.bsky.social
One of the less known aspects about the Easter Rising is that Indian students at UCD also took part & were then deported by the British authorities for it. Among those students was V.V. Giri who became president of India and said “when I am not an Indian, I am an Irishman”
August 9, 2025 at 3:38 PM
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angusabranson.bsky.social
(RPG PDF Spotlight)

Welcome to the Old West, where life is hard, life is short, and life don’t owe you a goddamn thing.

This comprehensive core book contains everything you need to create gritty and hard-hitting adventures in the American West .

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(RPG PDF Spotlight) Tales of the Old West
Tales of the Old West  A Year Zero Engine RPG by Effekt “I love it. It is wild with adventure.”  Henry Starr*  Welcome to the Old West, where life is hard, life is short, and life don’t o…
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April 17, 2025 at 6:59 PM
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Discworld QOTD, from Night Watch
You took an oath to uphold the law and defend the citizens without fear or favor," said Vimes. "And to protect the innocent. That's all they put in. Maybe they thought those were the important things. Nothing in there about orders, even from me. You're an officer of the law, not a soldier of the government.
April 14, 2025 at 6:20 PM
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littletollerbooks.bsky.social
On Monday our instagram account was hacked and then deleted. We received a ransom note to recover it; obviously we couldn't and wouldn't pay, and therefore lost thousands of followers. Meta support was useless. But we're BACK with a new account: @littletollerbooks. Can you follow us there and share?
March 28, 2025 at 1:46 PM
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All the emoji, all the time! 😱
March 26, 2025 at 6:17 PM
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richardlittler.bsky.social
Pulled up at a traffic light in some small Swiss town and...
..wait... what?

#MrBenn
Shopfront resembles the shopfront from Mr Benn. Red Knight, navy uniform etc the shopfront from Mr Benn. Red Knight, navy uniform etc
March 20, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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shonamurray.bsky.social
Former Irish PM
March 17, 2025 at 8:59 PM
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curatorian.bsky.social
Very struck to read this. The Few become The None, as the last of a generation passes.

Rest in peace, John Hemingway, and thank you.
The last surviving Battle of Britain Pilot, John 'Paddy' Hemingway DFC, passes away
John "Paddy" Hemingway, the last surviving pilot of the iconic Battle of Britain, passed away peacefully on 17 March 2025 at the age of 105. Paddy Hemingway, one of a number known as ‘...
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March 17, 2025 at 10:26 PM
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garius.bsky.social
“If she wants to know something specific, but doesn’t want people to notice her asking questions, she should simply make incorrect statements while in the company of experts. Her companions will correct her, especially if they're men.”

- Advice for female agents in WW2, provided during SOE training
March 17, 2025 at 11:52 AM
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Cartoon by Stephen Collins for The Guardian. Script as follows: [scene is Winston Churchill in a bbc studio, giving his 'finest hour' speech] 1 CHURCHILL: The whole fury and might of the enemy must very soon be turned on us. 2 CHURCHILL: Hitler knows that he will have to break us in this Island or lose the war. 3 CHURCHILL: If we can stand up to him, all Europe may be free and the life of the world may move forward into broad, sun- BBC PRESENTER: Thank you prime minister 4 BBC PRESENTER: Mr hitler, your response? 5 HITLER [in the studio]: Vell zis is hysterical woke nonsense as usual from mr Churchill 6 HITLER: What we are proposing - CHURCHILL: Hang on 7 HITLER: Let me finish - what we are proposing eez a simple power-sharing arrangement - 8 CHURCHILL: What's he doing here BBC PRESENTER: It's important we hear both sides of the debate 9 CHURCHILL: This isn't a debate You don't debate fascists 10 HITLER: Oh here we go with ze Godwins law! 11 HITLER: Why must you people always compare ze things you don't like to 'fascists, Nazis, Hitler'... CHURCHILL: Because you are a fascist Nazi Hit- 12 HITLER [standing up, saluting]: RAUSS! BBC PRESENTER: *Please* Mr Churchill let him speak [ends]
March 9, 2025 at 9:15 AM
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countbinface.bsky.social
So Teslas are fossil-fueled after all.
March 11, 2025 at 9:29 PM
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brianklaas.bsky.social
I wrote about how Trump is destroying American democracy, along with eight crucial lessons about how to counteract it, drawing on my 14 years of studying brave pro-democracy opposition movements in authoritarian regimes across the globe. We’re in serious trouble, but there’s still hope.
Is American democracy doomed?
How to understand the concept of "competitive authoritarianism" and why it's crucial to push back now to avoid it.
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March 6, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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mytholder.bsky.social
The other bit is Gimli’s description of the Glittering Caves, which I always trot out in interviews when asked about what it’s like working on the One Ring roleplaying game.
None of Durin’s race would mine those caves for stones or ore, not if diamonds and gold could be got there. Do you cut down groves of blossoming trees in the springtime for firewood? We would tend these glades of flowering stone, not quarry them. With cautious skill, tap by tap – a small chip of rock and no more, perhaps, in a whole anxious day – so we could work, and as the years went by, we should open up new ways, and display far chambers that are still dark, glimpsed only as a void beyond fissures in the rock.
March 3, 2025 at 9:04 AM