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Alistair Smith @alistairsmith.bsky.social · 9h

Because more inherited wealth is going to make Britain a better place. What a load of tosh.

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Alistair Smith @alistairsmith.bsky.social · 12h

Kemi dislikes Paddington. She always roots for the baddies. He’s an illegal immigrant see.

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Alistair Smith @alistairsmith.bsky.social · 14h

The Tories are going to give the £10bn to Michelle Mone aren’t they? She’s just created a new high tech defence business in the Isle of Man.

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Alistair Smith @alistairsmith.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

We’re comparing a manufacturing and creative company with the last hunter/gatherer activity, and one which has to be controlled really tightly or else all the fish get caught and there are no more. Whereas there is no goblin quota that GW has to manage. They can produce infinitely.

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Alistair Smith @alistairsmith.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

“Take back control” they said. Turns out this was something better controlled as part of a larger group of countries.

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Alistair Smith @alistairsmith.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Given that dice rolls represent moments where were introducing chance, and therefore consequence, I’m with you that we want people focused on the roll - and able to see it. I don’t understand why we need dice roller gadgets. We literally have a 5000 year old technology that still works best.

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Alistair Smith @alistairsmith.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Was it Lord Palmerston and had he not realised he’d woken up in 2026?

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Alistair Smith @alistairsmith.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Feeling v tempted to come down sick.

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Alistair Smith @alistairsmith.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Alice is Missing is probably the most intense rpg experience I’ve had. Played online using only text.

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Alistair Smith @alistairsmith.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I think my main reasons are laziness and concealment of chins.

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Alistair Smith @alistairsmith.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

They’ve done this with AI haven’t they. Exactly the shittiness you’d expect.

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Alistair Smith @alistairsmith.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

“No one elected you”. There’s a whole palaver with cardinals and smoke.

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Alistair Smith @alistairsmith.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

The combination of ‘extend benefits to the high paid’ and reduce inheritance tax suggest Kemi doesn’t really want to win. She’s too busy listening to people who are only ever going to vote for her anyway.

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Alistair Smith @alistairsmith.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Wouldn’t it be more disturbing if she was Calypso.

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Alistair Smith @alistairsmith.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

A room in which Jacob Rees-Mogg is the good guy is a very bad place.

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Alistair Smith @alistairsmith.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Oh yes, that would be incredible. Dice afloat.

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Alistair Smith @alistairsmith.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

These are just instances of normalising Council Tax in the boroughs where the Tories have managed historically to keep them unnaturally low. This means improving services for people who need them.

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Alistair Smith @alistairsmith.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

My friend spent a year as the Master of the Balmoral, its sister ship. His friend was the Master of the Waverley 25 odd years ago. We went down the Thames on it on the bridge. What views. And very cheap booze. Need to go on it again.

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Alistair Smith @alistairsmith.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Yes. And social media ban for the over 65s instead of the kids.

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Alistair Smith @alistairsmith.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

A great book. Recommended to me by the Managing Partner of one of the world’s largest law firms.

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Alistair Smith @alistairsmith.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

She always strikes me as an over-caffeinated sixth former. Full of energy and the conviction that she’s absolutely right about everything because people find her wearing and don’t argue.

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Alistair Smith @alistairsmith.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

All of those on a playlist of mine that gets heavy rotation.

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Alistair Smith @alistairsmith.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I imagine they’re working flat out in the Cabinet Office to work out how to ferret back from ‘we’ve foiled a massive Iranian plot’ to ‘we caught some wrong ‘uns with illegal diesel/drugs/dogging’. Especially given how big Trump and Rubio have gone on it. We live in an Armando Iannucci world.

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Alistair Smith @alistairsmith.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I’m betting it was a more 70s/80s Kate poster!

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Alistair Smith @alistairsmith.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Quite possibly. But he’s a middle class Notting Hill dweller. He doesn’t watch that shite.

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Alistair Smith @alistairsmith.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

He may be the only person I’ve ever heard say they like Mrs Brown’s Boys. And he’s lying.

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Alistair Smith @alistairsmith.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Watching Slow Horses before bed and waking up to yesterday morning’s wall to wall coverage felt like I’d slipped into Mick Herron’s head. Even more so now they’ve bailed the suspects. The greatest security minds now trying to work out how to get out of this fix.

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Alistair Smith @alistairsmith.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Your work is great. Rather than commissions have you spoken people about using your images as is? Can definitely think of things they’d suit brilliantly.

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Alistair Smith @alistairsmith.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Afternoon slated to help teenager and his pal sort out their DofE Silver route plan. They’ve gone out and said “we’ll do it this evening”. Running One Ring this evening, so perhaps we merge the two activities and do it with a couple of Travel rolls.

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Alistair Smith @alistairsmith.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I tend to think it’s a marker of a WFRP like sensibility- which I take as a good thing. So I also expect it to have a dose of GW 80s humour (minus the bits you wouldn’t do now).

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Alistair Smith @alistairsmith.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

It worked really well. Felt like a series of scenes in a movie.

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Alistair Smith @alistairsmith.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Same issue. Can’t get wife or son to play anymore. 😢

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Alistair Smith @alistairsmith.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

“Please find attached a daft proposal”.

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Alistair Smith @alistairsmith.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Not since the cruel Daily Mail turned him and his mum into refugees. Oh the irony.

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Alistair Smith @alistairsmith.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Surely there’s a piracy statute that means he can be executed at high tide or something. 🤞🏴‍☠️

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Alistair Smith @alistairsmith.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I wish more total twats would fuck off to Dubai.

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Alistair Smith @alistairsmith.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Which means that at best his stepfather secured the mortgage on his behalf and gave him the property. Bank might think that fraudulent.

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Alistair Smith @alistairsmith.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I’d go further. It’s disrespectful.

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Alistair Smith @alistairsmith.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I can see myself only wearing a poppy on 11/11 and to the Remembrance service this year. Am sick of jewelled ones on Strictly, crappy plastic ones on cars all year, the nationalism that combines it with flags, etc. Might get more provocative and go white.

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Alistair Smith @alistairsmith.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Shouldn’t we be angry that so many people can’t survive on what they’re being paid? And doesn’t that mean that UC is in many cases a business subsidy (enabling low pay) rather than a benefit to workers?

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Alistair Smith @alistairsmith.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

100%. Sometimes people already have setting familiarity (TOR, Alien, etc). But I think setting and context capture your imagination and chargen is the first thing you can do by yourself. So having it early is important.

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Alistair Smith @alistairsmith.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I’ve had a long day after a long weekend. Did I really just see Charlotte Church slapping down Ed Sheeran and covering the Dead Kennedys? Or do I need to have a lie down?

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Alistair Smith @alistairsmith.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I think a bit about setting and context needs to come first. Otherwise you don’t know where these characters are from. Detailed mechanics can come after.

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Alistair Smith @alistairsmith.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Kalab Daark on the painting pile at the moment. Next wave.

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Alistair Smith @alistairsmith.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Which RPGs do you think of when you see this morning’s Cub activity?

A dark tunnel disappears into a mound surrounded by ferns and brambles.

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Alistair Smith @alistairsmith.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

And Squats roamed the stars on their big three wheelers.

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