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Adam Säl North

@adamsalnorth.bsky.social
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Only generous clothing enables me to walk on earth unchallenged or uneradicated. Technical SEO, Photographer, Bassist, LARP, TTRPGs linktr.ee/sal.media

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Adam Säl North @adamsalnorth.bsky.social · 5h
Why the heck is Yaelokre not coming to Brighton on their tour? Smh
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Adam Säl North @adamsalnorth.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Thread for my #morktober scribbles 🧵
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Adam Säl North @adamsalnorth.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Slipknot speed-running their own downfall is wild. Firing people left and right, collaborating with Radke, and now inviting Manson on their tour. From one of my favourite bands to someone I wouldn't pay to see in, like, a year is honestly an achievement.
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Keeper Mav @callmemav.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
To help with my beloved cat's extremely expensive medical bills, I've made a bundle of my #CallofCthulhu scenarios. I hope you will consider picking up my work at a discounted rate and helping me care for my furry little (adorable) eldritch horror. www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/5...
A tabby cat sits in front of a TV looking all majestic and adorable
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👻 🎃 🦇 Bela Lughosti's Dad 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇵🇸 @belalugosisdad.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I've known this dude for 20 years. One of the first friends I made in Bristol, he taught me what it means to be an antifascist. If there's dinner, he's cooking, if there's a benefit gig, he's flyposting, and if there's fash, he's first in, last out. I have literally bled alongside this man.
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Adam Säl North @adamsalnorth.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Lanterns is great but fuck I wish they'd stop referencing fucking Harry Potter
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👻 🎃 🦇 Bela Lughosti's Dad 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇵🇸 @belalugosisdad.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
A very dear friend and antifascist comrade is facing serious charges resulting from defending migrants housed in hotels in Bristol from a far right march in 2025. He's a father, has £11k in legal fees up front, and may be facing prison time if he doesn't win. Please dobate below.
chuffed.org
Support a Bristol antifascist on trial
Support a Bristol antifascist facing charges for resisting far right attacks
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Adam Säl North @adamsalnorth.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
In some niche circles, collective punishment is what's known as a "war crime".
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Nicola Kelly @nicolakellywrites.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I have spent weeks shadowing the RNLI and I can tell you, they do it out of nothing more than compassion. Wrote about the heroes I've met over the years in this free-to-read post. nicolakelly.substack.com/p/the-rnli-a...
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The RNLI aren't traitors; they're heroes
I have spent weeks shadowing lifeboat crews. Here's what they do and what it's like.
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Daniel C. Blight @danielcblight.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
***URGENT PLEASE SHARE*** University of Brighton management have announced today that they ‘give notice of termination of all collective agreements’. This is a fundamental erasure of workers' rights. Management have announced the termination of all contractual documents, which includes:
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Adam Säl North @adamsalnorth.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Does anyone know of any pre-industrialisation ships that are available for event hire OTHER than the Golden Hinde? (I messaged to enquire about rates many, many years ago, and the prices made my eyes water)
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The Verge @theverge.com · 02/09/2026
As a new Harry Potter trailer makes the rounds, it bears repeating that there’s no way to watch this show without supporting J.K. Rowling’s bigotry and the structural violence she’s inflicting on the trans community.
theverge.com
There is no ethical consumption of HBO’s Harry Potter series
You can’t without supporting Rowling’s transphobic bigotry.
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Adam Säl North @adamsalnorth.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Me: I definitely, 100%, do not need more games. @theatre-macabre.bsky.social: Eat the Hive is an Eat The Reich hack where you rise up against the f*cist overlords of a terrifying sci-fi mega city! Me: God damn it www.kickstarter.com/projects/the...
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EAT THE H.I.V.E. | ABATTOIR
A Cyber Gutter Punk Eat the Reich Hack; where you unleash hell on the overlords of an unending miles high Mega-City
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Swedens Softest Kitty @chizita.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
You would repost a frog

a picture of a frog
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Adam Säl North @adamsalnorth.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Extremely mild take, but Dungeon Crawler Carl is fine. It subverts some tropes nicely. It's a little heavy-handed in some of its explanations of what's going on, IMO, but it probably needs that to be accessible to people not super into gaming. It's easy to read, not groundbreaking.
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Adam Säl North @adamsalnorth.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
The Deep Forest (a re-imagining of The Quiet Year) is fantastic you should check it out
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virgil (school hiatus) 🫆🔮💫 @vigilnaut.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
daily reminder ✨
DO NOT ask yourself whether your art is GOOD. instead ask: is it SINCERE, is it CATHARTIC, was it FUN TO MAKE, is it MADE BY ME, and don’t forget to stay silly
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Adam Säl North @adamsalnorth.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Absolutely shocked to hear that the D&D Warlock computer game will include the spell Eldritch Blast
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Adam Säl North @adamsalnorth.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Apps that only allow you sign in by sending you an email with a code instead of using a password can fuck ooooooooofffff
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Ian Fay @ianfay.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
This shit is why you can't separate continuing to financially support the Harry Potter IP (whether by buying the games, merch, watching the new TV show when its out) from the consequences of what JK Rowling does with that money She's become so stiflingly powerful that even private docs arent safe
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Adam Säl North @adamsalnorth.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Some Strange Glider have TWO (count em) gigs coming up soon in Brighton! Pop along if fuzzy noisy grunge is your jam. 26th August @ Rossi Bar www.eventbrite.com/e/alt-rock-n... 5th September @ Lewes Road Inn [FREE]
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ALT ROCK NIGHT @ THE ROSSI BAR, Brighton
presenting an evening of moody, groovy alt rock, courtesy of Crying in Colour, supporter by FATECRIMES and Some Strange Glider
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DGM @notredale.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Here is the full chart with labeled axes. It is comparing homework scores to test scores. Below-average and average scorers for homework and exams appear at about the same frequency regardless of AI usage. The high homework scorers using AI, however, are not replicating that success at test time.
Figure All. Homework and Exam Scores
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Note: The figure plots the smoothed mean and its 95% confidence intervals, by homework score, separately for students who have adopted generative Al and those who have not. The data also shows the average homework completion time for Al students with homework scores of 70 and 90. The data is at the student-month level and the sample summary statistics are shown in Panel A of Table 1.
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Adam Säl North @adamsalnorth.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Had great fun this weekend running The Disintegrator from the Pulp Cthulhu book... for Edge of the Empire. Culminated in the players running an imperial blockade to escape.
Wooden board with model spaceships on, simulating a star wars space battle
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Adam Säl North @adamsalnorth.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
An extremely mild take but Supergirl is fine and not awful but good lord yes that needle drop is bad
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Adam Säl North @adamsalnorth.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
That's 2 books now DNF'd because they use the narritive framing of the protagonist telling their story to someone else, without considering what that means for the reliability of the story being told.
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The Green Party of England & Wales @greenparty.org.uk · 11/08/2026
Britain is burning through its fifth heatwave of the summer. And the government is considering drilling for MORE oil and gas. Rosebank and Jackdaw must be stopped.
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Adam Säl North @adamsalnorth.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
How to tell the recipe was written by an English person.
The text "I like to add a bit of a zing to the sauce so I stir in some yoghurt, but you don't have to."
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Adam Säl North @adamsalnorth.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Live music people: Is there a better word than "promoter" for someone who organises and books bands in for gigs? Promotion actually seems like a pretty small part of what they do, and is a function that's sometimes better done by the bands (at a local, unsigned, level)
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Exeunt Press 💀🎲 @exeunt.press · 16/07/2026
Need some free art by dead people for your One-Page RPG Jam entry? I got you. Here's a two part series with thousands of public domain and open access art. Spread the word! www.skeletoncodemachine.com/p/public-dom... (Part 1 of 2) #ttrpg #art #publicdomain #freeart
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Public domain art resources
Using public domain art in tabletop game design
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Brotherwise Games @brotherwisegames.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
The record-breaking Cosmere RPG is looking for talented freelancers to join our design and narrative teams! Apply! 👇🔗 Core Design Team Member: bit.ly/3RvTFjH Open Call for Freelance Narrative Writers: bit.ly/3R6hzCd Applications are open now and close on August 5th. ⚔️✨
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Sara Hummingbird @sarahumm.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
The Far right Group that immigrated to Brighton in June is coming back to protest immigration. They are warning to not bring Children. They got stuck last time as enough people came. They have picked Hove lawns which is a open space & harder to block but not impossible with enough people.
theargus.co.uk
Anti-immigration protesters are coming back to Brighton for another march
An anti-immigration group is organising a second march in Brighton
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Adam Säl North @adamsalnorth.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
There are genuinely very few things that I think are as powerful as watching a band react to a crowd singing their song back at them. (Not my photo, but MCR last night was incredible)
Photo of the lead singer of My Chemical Romance
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Adam Säl North @adamsalnorth.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Hey gang! My bands new album is out today, and we are playing the Pipeline tonight to celebrate! Grungy punk rock kinda stuff. Give it a listen if that's your jam, maybe pop along this evening as we'll be giving away FREE CDs.
somestrangeglider.bandcamp.com
The Harsh Reality, by Some Strange Glider
8 track album
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Adam Säl North @adamsalnorth.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Friends Wot Are In Bands! My band are rapidly and aggressively finding out that The Algorithm is horrendous for letting people know when you have a gig on, let alone getting you discovered by new people. Give us some hints and tips from your own experience?
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Julian Simpson @juliansimpson.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Just 50 HOURS TO GO, and then you can stop seeing these plugs from me. www.backerkit.com/c/projects/j...
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Adam Säl North @adamsalnorth.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
The pub next door's stream of the football is a solid 30s ahead of mine, which really removes a lot of the excitement 😅
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Julian Simpson @juliansimpson.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Oh, I should probably mention that we're currently crowdfunding a new series of the Lovecraft Investigations.... www.backerkit.com/c/projects/j...
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Lovecraft Investigations: The Call of Cthulhu
Something ancient is stirring. The Lovecraft Investigations brings H.P. Lovecraft's The Call of Cthulhu into the modern world — a new season of cosmic horror from the hit independent audio fiction sho...
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Jenn de Jeune @jennay.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Please contact your MP’s & let them know why it’s important to lend their support to this. Currently 87 MP’s have signed up, please keep the pressure on: edm.parliament.uk/early-day-motion/… To email your MP see template email generator below which will email your MP based on postcode.
equalrecognition.eaction.org.uk
Email your MP to reject the Code of Practice and support EDM 240
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Sian Berry MP @sianberry.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
I have written to the Prime Minister and Bridget Phillipson, calling for the cruel and confusing EHRC Code of Practice to be rejected. Legislative action must be taken to create an equalities framework that protects trans people’s safety, dignity and humanity.
Image is a letter. It reads: Dear Keir and Bridget,
Reject the EHRC’s Code of Practice
I am writing as Interim Women and Equalities lead of the Parliamentary Green Party to raise
serious concerns over proposed guidance from the Equality and Human Rights Commission,
which is not fit for purpose and will harm trans people living in the UK.
The Code of Practice for services, public functions, and associations is the culmination of
years of well-funded campaigns to drive a minority group out of British public life. It sets out
a system of segregation where trans people are excluded from services and spaces that reflect
their gender, and in some cases also excluded from services and spaces that reflect their sex
assigned at birth. Where unisex facilities exist, trans people will be forced into them. Where
they do not exist, trans people will be left with nowhere to go.
Your own Equalities Impact Assessment1 on the code admits there will be a significant
impact on those with the protected characteristic of gender reassignment - from forcing trans
people to out themselves by using disabled toilets to putting trans women at greater risk of
sexual violence by making them use men’s services.
The Code of Practice is both cruel and confusing. Inconsistencies between the Code of
Practice and its Equalities Impact Assessment, the Gender Recognition Act and the European
Convention on Human Rights will leave organisations and service providers at risk of
litigation from all sides. Frontline staff in spaces like cafes, gyms, and offices will be forced
to police gender, whilst the costs of creating self-contained gender neutral facilities are
estimated by your advisors as reaching £600m, which the government is providing no
funding to cover.2 I am pleased to see associations, like the Women’s Institute and
Girlguiding, given a potential route to serving trans and cisgender women, but this does not
counteract the pain caused by the majority of the guidance.

Letter continued: By enacting this guidance, trans people will simply be scapegoated. Research by Translucent
found there was just one complaint to English Unitary Authorities in 2025 concerning trans
women’s use of single-sex spaces, such as toilets and changing rooms.3 By refusing to act,
your government is once again playing politics with trans people’s lives, rather than tackling
real problems, like the soaring cost of living, rising inequality and the ongoing climate
crisis.

Trans people of all ages and backgrounds exist in communities across the country - and
always have. They have every right to thrive just as their cisgender friends, family members,
and colleagues do. When Labour brought in the Gender Recognition Act in 2004 it promised
trans people they could live their lives with peace, privacy, and dignity. Now you are
breaking that promise.
I believe there is a real risk of trans people being essentially segregated from public spaces. I
urge you to withdraw the code and take legislative action to create an equalities framework
that protects trans people’s safety, dignity and humanity.
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Adam Säl North @adamsalnorth.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
You can tell we have devolved as a society because interesting facts about Magic: the Gathering have gone from "It's Turing complete" to "You can mpreg sonic" and "Sauron can wield Mjolnir".
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Dr Joby Razzelliot @jobium.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Westminster MPs have until the end of the month to reject the proposed anti-trans guidance. If you haven’t written to your MP yet, here’s a good template for you to use. writetheletter.bimini.workers.dev
writetheletter.bimini.workers.dev
Write the Letter, Babes
EDM 240 / prayer motion is live. Your MP needs to sign it. Two taps via the coalition tool.
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Good Law Project @goodlawproject.org · 03/06/2026
🚨 BREAKING 🚨 MPs call for government to kick Palantir out of the NHS goodlawproject.org/mps-call-for-gov…
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MPs call for government to kick Palantir out of the NHS | Good Law Project
Cross-party committee identifies Palantir’s ‘clear mismatch with UK values’ and calls on ministers to bring the spy-tech firm’s data contract with the NHS to an end
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Alix Dunn @alixdunn.com · 31/05/2026
Oh hell yeah @amnesty.org comes out swinging: "Amnesty International finds that standalone generative AI systems... are fundamentally incompatible with IHRL. As such, Amnesty International is calling for a prohibition of such systems." www.amnesty.org/en/documents...
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Unlawful by design: Exposing the human rights costs of generative AI - Amnesty International
This briefing examines how standalone generative AI systems, based on unlawful web scraping, are in conflict with international human rights law (IHRL) and standards through their design, development ...
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Weird Alex @jackalpants.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
THE CHAFF PROJECT Hi! Are you cis in the UK and you'd like to support trans rights? Great! How: buy a trans flag pin and wear it in public. Why: chaff is an overwhelming amount of false positives so that when a missile gets close to the plane, it hits the chaff and not the plane.
A very simple diagram showing radar, a chaff cloud, a confused missile and an airplane. The confused missile is aiking for the chaff cloud and not the airplane.
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Adam Säl North @adamsalnorth.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Off to be a Wizard for the weekend at Menhir's Fate. Of course it's going to be raining the whole time. I brought this on myself by specialising in Water magic.
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Adam Säl North @adamsalnorth.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
With Spotify down I'm having to resort to The Old Ways
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Adam Säl North @adamsalnorth.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
If you have an Adobe account, be a doll and go give this a vote for us would ya? community.adobe.com/feature-requ...
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Adobe, Linux Support, and the Linux Foundation. | Community
While generally I've only lurked the Adobe forums I've finally worked up guts to post this. I also know that about every 1-2 months this question is asked but I think it deserves a another go around. ...
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Science Magazine @science.org · 05/05/2026
Deepfakes are everywhere, but digital forensics investigators are fighting back. Learn more: scim.ag/42dMPBg
To verify images, digital forensics investigators will often check whether the geometry of the scene is realistic. In a real photo, lines that run parallel in reality—like floor tiles—should meet at a single vanishing point. In this image, however, the dotted lines do not meet in a single point, indicating it is a fake.
Image: an AI-generated image of soldiers marching down a hallway in three lines, wearing fatigues and carrying rifles. Four dotted white lines have been added over the image, running along the floor tiles visible in the foreground and extending back to where the vanishing point should be, behind the soldiers. Instead of meeting in a single point, the lines all cross at different points.Investigators also examine reflections. The lines connecting points on an object to matching points in its mirror image run parallel in reality, so similarly should meet at a vanishing point. In this image, the lines again do not converge on one point, revealing it to be a fake.
Image: An AI-generated image of a plastic cartoon dinosaur toy with its reflection visible in a small mirror. Four dotted white lines are layered over the image, connecting points on the toy with the same points on its reflection: the top of its eye, the end of its jaw, its hand, and its foot. The lines extend out to the side of the image, where they all cross at different points rather than meeting at a single point.Shadows can be a giveaway, too. Because the Sun is so far away, its rays are essentially parallel when they reach Earth's surface. That means that the lines connecting points on an object to the shadows they cast in sunlight should also intersect at a vanishing point. In this Al-generated image, that is clearly not the case.
Image: An AI-generated image of colorful, semi-transparent plastic cubes arranged in a group in a city plaza. Six dotted white lines are layered over the image, connecting corners of several cubes with the corresponding corners in their shadows. The lines extend upward off the edge of the image, toward where a vanishing point should be. Three of them converge on roughly the same point, but two extend further, and one cuts across all the others at an angle.
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