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beardgoblin-101.bsky.social @beardgoblin-101.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Repost with an image of your favourite James Bond (wrong answers only)

Everyone's (Right? Right!) favourite spy - plain, simple Garak from Star Trek Deep Space 9. Wearing a lovely two tone green shirt, giving us his best maniacal expression whilst also giving us 'jazz hands'.

beardgoblin-101.bsky.social @beardgoblin-101.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Things I was frightened of as a child: OG Bungle, from Rainbow. My OG sleep paralysis demon, aged 3! Dogs. I'm a cynophobe (in the actual phobia sense). Always have been. 👨‍🚀🔫👨‍🚀 The dark. OG Bungle at work again, I recon.

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beardgoblin-101.bsky.social @beardgoblin-101.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Not sure if alien invasion or thunderstorm - brb, off to hide with the dust bunnies under the bed!

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beardgoblin-101.bsky.social @beardgoblin-101.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

You're offered $250,000,000 but to claim it you must enter the last video game you've played and stay there for a full year. How are y'all faring in this deal? Vintage Story - avoid bears and the occasional night terror, stay indoors during 'The Event'. Digging, lots and lots of digging.

A stone cottage, a garden farm, and a windmill on a hill, in a wintery scene from Vintage Story. It's a survival game in a Minecraftesque voxel world.

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beardgoblin-101.bsky.social @beardgoblin-101.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Post something that scared you as a kid: IYKYK. And if you don't: www.youtube.com/watch?v=XNPM...

A spooky hooded figure stands over a pool of water, shrouded in mist., surrounded by trees, obscured by branches.

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beardgoblin-101.bsky.social @beardgoblin-101.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

I have a rock! It has lived under my desk (in 6 different abodes, so far). I picked it up on a beach on the Isle of Wight (Whale Chine) in 03 or 04. Being able to rest my foot on it brings me peace. I really need to get back to the island, soon.

A flat, dark grey rock, about 7 inches long by about 5 inches wide, curving to a point at the top right corner. It has many inclusions, in the form of ancient mollusc shells. I have no idea what they might be, but it sure looks cool. And it comes from my favourite place, the Isle of Wight.

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beardgoblin-101.bsky.social @beardgoblin-101.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

Cracking thunderstorms over Belgium! www.lightningmaps.org?lang=gb#m=se...; Visible on Isle of Wight Webcams atm: www.youtube.com/watch?v=CmsV... www.youtube.com/watch?v=I0A2...

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🔴 Ventnor Camera | Ventnor Esplanade Isle of Wight | LIVE UK Webcams

YouTube video by Isle of Wight

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beardgoblin-101.bsky.social @beardgoblin-101.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

I have a beard, and I appear to be some sort of goblin (see PFP). Yes, it was dark, and I was wearing sunglasses. I was on a mission from Goth.

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beardgoblin-101.bsky.social @beardgoblin-101.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

Trying to get my nexy #PaintSlam entry before I lose impetus - can't decide though - should 'Villainous Warlock for Scale' be as is (pic 1) or 'Doing a necromancy' (pic2). Excuse the heinous lighting, it was all done in the worst possible haste! Obvs, very rough and ready. Decisions, decisions.

A hideously overlit picture of a 28mm wizardy figure with some base colours on - red robes and brown trim, dark grey cloak. Its our friend from my previous posts - 'Villainous Warlock', from Ral Partha Europe.

Another hideously overlit picture of a 28mm wizardy figure with some base colours on - red robes and brown trim, dark grey cloak. Its our friend from my previous posts - 'Villainous Warlock', from Ral Partha Europe. This time he has the upper torso of a plastic Mantic skeleton badly poster-tacked to his base, a very raw serving suggestion for what I'm contemplating.

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beardgoblin-101.bsky.social @beardgoblin-101.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

Ok, I'll try again, after (checks notes) my abject failure in 2023... ...and pretty much since. First model finished! A Renedra Wattle Shed, with unpainted Ral-Partha Europe Villainous Warlock for scale. Guess I gotta paint the Warlock now! #PaintSlam

Paintslam 2026 log, showing one whole model painted - already achieved my hobby goal for the year!

A drab looking timber, wattle and thatch outbuilding, with a few accoutrement - a barrel, a basket and a whell, as is tradition. Seen from the front, the door is closed.

The same model timer/wattle/thatch building from the back/otheride. It still looks drab, and you can now see weeds growing around it's founddation. You can also see how I attached the roof ridge a little too far towards the rear. Shhhh. Finished is better than perfect right now ;D

The Renedra Timber/Wattle/Thatch shed from previous images from the front again, different angle. You might even to be able to make out the yellowish patch of moss on the thatch here. To the left stands an unpainted 28mm human miniature - the "Villainous Warlock" from Ral-partha Europe. He looks kinda familiar, tbh.

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beardgoblin-101.bsky.social @beardgoblin-101.bsky.social · 27/12/2025

#FestiveTankChallenge Not much progress, the 15mm Shermans have been assembled, and mostly stowage-greebled - the late model on the right needs more, and the PSC (light green, 2nd left) needs some tidying up around the fenders. The Warlord (left) needs most work still... More in the ALT text.

Four model shermans, L>R: Warlord 28mm, needs fiddly bits and the underside of the turret finishing (I'm part way througfh fashioning a replacement for the missing part). Plastic SDoldier Company 15mm, presented desert style with track fenders and modest stowage. Battlefront/FoW, silly pile of boxes and bags on the engine deck - for... reasons... Battlefront/FoW late model A3 (I think, it doesn't have the extra side armour panels of the Jumbo - I think I'll have to make some!) with the fancy 'Fury' 76mm gun. Stowage has started, but I want to go overboard on this one! A random assortment of other WWII vehicles in 15mm (I got distracted!), a Warlord 28mm Matilda II and a couple of barely glimpsed robots lurk in the background. These are all from old projects. I should get back to them...

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beardgoblin-101.bsky.social @beardgoblin-101.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

#FestiveTankChallenge Been a grotty week, mostly, so I've been unwinding by starting assembly of not one, but four Shermans! Found a Jumbo (objectively the coolest looking, with the 76mm gun!) in 15mm whilst looking for the still lost turret base for the Warlord kit. More details in the ALT text.

Four lower hulls and tracks for model Sherman tanks on the left, 28mm Warlod kit, then a PSC kit (those tracks - so fiddly!) and then two Flames of War/Battlefront, those last 3 in 15mm scale. All have had some M6 nuts (6 in the big one, 3 each in the lil ones) glued in for extra heft, then smothered with milliput to keep em from breaking free and rattling about. Theyre viewed from above, resting on a green cutting mat with a 1cm grid. A computer keyboard and bits of mysterious other models can be seen around the periphery.

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beardgoblin-101.bsky.social @beardgoblin-101.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

#FestiveTankChallenge Found my long abandoned Warlord 28mm M4 Shermman in the attic, with uh, most of the parts present, so I'll give it a go! Bonus 15mm PSC and Flames of War/Battlefront. Even I should be abler to get one of the lil ones done, if nothing else!

A small pile of plastic M4 Sherman Tank kits - a Warlord 28mm scale in dark grey, a PSC 15mm in light green, and a 15mm Flames of War/Battlefront, all still on the sprues!

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🎃 🕯️ Monica Valentinelli is Sipping Tea. 🐈‍⬛ ☕ @booksofm.com · 20/11/2025

If you use GMail, AI (Gemini) was turned on yesterday by default and now scans all of your content for machine learning. To turn off, go to Settings>General and scroll down. Uncheck the box for "Smart features." There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.

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beardgoblin-101.bsky.social @beardgoblin-101.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

Nevermind the Whampocalypse, this is the real nightmare before Christmas!

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beardgoblin-101.bsky.social @beardgoblin-101.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

The (Star Trek themed) vibe I bring to the party:

Morn from DS9, looking dour and unwelcoming, raising a drink to his lip-less mouth.

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Brandy Schillace @bschillace.brandyschillace.com · 24/07/2025

Hey there. We are all suffering from cognitive dissonance … people in Gaza are being starved, LGBTQIA & women’s rights rolled back, public media lost, disabled people targeted… and we are still being asked to live life as usual, go to work, butter toast. Some helpful thoughts from my work on grief:

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beardgoblin-101.bsky.social @beardgoblin-101.bsky.social · 20/07/2025

1. First #ttrpg you ever played - D&D Red Box (83 rev) 2. First you ever ran - Star Frontiers 3. Played the most - AD&D 1e/2e 4. Run the most - AD&D 1e/2e 5. Favourite - Delta Green 6. Most recently played - D&D 5e 7. Most recently run - Traveller MgT2e (yesterday!)

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Matt 'Wib' Ward @wib.bsky.social · 19/07/2025

Nearly every time I see someone talk about what they use AI for it's something I would never, ever use it for even if it didn't hallucinate all the god damn time. I don't need it to fact check or summarise anything since actually reading things and looking into them is like... fun? And rewarding?

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Richard Carl Askins @richca.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

Certainly close enough to the real truth!

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Remleiz - 40K Theories @remleiz.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

The amount of times I found a YouTube channel, start watching a video and thinking "this guy's pretty good" only for them to then immediately post AI slop on screen. You do that, and I'm telling YouTube to never recommend your channel to me ever again.

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beardgoblin-101.bsky.social @beardgoblin-101.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

Without downloading any new pics, where are you at mentally?

A photo-portrait of the poster, who stands in a doorway in their pyjamas, looking wild and disheveled whilst clutching an enourmous chorizo sausage. Or perhaps it's just their small hands.

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Seth Skorkowsky @sskorkowsky.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

There was a brief window when a popular internet gag was about forcing a bot to watch a bunch of something & then write it. Like, "I forced a bot to watch 500 hours of CSI & write a script" followed by the funniest shit you ever read. In the Age of AI Slop, the reality of that joke is way less funny

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Danni Rowan @dannirowan.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

Powerful statement from the BMA calling the supreme court ruling scientifically illiterate and harmful to trans, bon-binary and intersex people.

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This meeting condemns the Supreme Court ruling defining the term 'woman' with respect to the Equality Act as being based on 'biological sex', which they refer to as a person who was at birth of the female sex', as reductive, trans and intersex-exclusionary and biologically nonsensical. We recognize as doctors that sex and gender are complex and multifaceted aspects of the human condition and attempting to impose a rigid binary has no basis in science or medicine while being actively harmful to transgender and gender diverse people. As such this meeting:
i. Reiterates the BMA's position on affirming the rights of transgender and non-binary individuals to live their lives with dignity, having their identity respected.
ii. Reminds the Supreme Court of the existence of intersex people and reaffirms their right to exist in the gender identity that matches their sense of self, regardless of whether this matches any identity assigned to them at birth.
ill. Condemns scientifically illiterate rulings from the Supreme Court, made without consulting relevant experts and stakeholders, that will cause real-world harm to the trans, non-binary and intersex communities in this country.
iv. Commits to strive for better access to necessary health services for trans, non-binary and gender-diverse people.

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beardgoblin-101.bsky.social @beardgoblin-101.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

Hmm. Barons War looks intersting, but from what I can gather has a lot of tokens in play, and whilst i'm alright with tokens, I don't like a lot of 'em all the time. Anyone point me at any good run-downs/actual plays? Or recommend similar scale games without the tokens? #wargames #skirmishgames

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Matt 'Wib' Ward @wib.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

You could make observations about the general fecklessness of liberal parties like Labour, unable or unwilling to make things better due to an ideological spine removal. But also sometimes they're just full of bigoted wankers who do the same shitty stuff as their conservative counterparts.

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beardgoblin-101.bsky.social @beardgoblin-101.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

It's over 100k now, but do it anyway. Please.

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beardgoblin-101.bsky.social @beardgoblin-101.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

So. Many. Greeblies! Work on continues. Not content with re-arranging the hull, I'm now smothering it in greebling! Plenty more to do yet! The base model is the J-109 Atlas, from @sublightdrive.bsky.social - pick one up for yourself, it's fun! #greeblies #scratch-build #kitbash #scifimodels

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beardgoblin-101.bsky.social @beardgoblin-101.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

Started panelling & greebling the J-109 Atlas last night, with a 4 day weekend, hopefully I'll get a lot more done. No real plan here, just sort of feeling my way through it. I have Traveller to run on Monday, I should probably prep for that, too! #greeblies #scratch-build #kitbash #scifimodels

The ship, front on. Close up showing the styrene panels and kit part details.

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Cheshire Cat ᓚᘏᗢ, @autismsupsoc.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

Alt text added 💛 #GNUTerryPratchett

"I need no axe to be a dwarf," said Bashfullsson. "Nor do I need to hate trolls. What kind of creature defines itself by hatred?"
- Terry Pratchett, Thud! (via nuncallovioquenoparara)

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beardgoblin-101.bsky.social @beardgoblin-101.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

First post! Was gonna save this for when it's done, but what the heck - another one rumbles along the assembly line... The J-109 Atlas, by @sublightdrive.bsky.social Kinda rough at first (cheap styrene & my shonky bladework), but sanding + first panels and greebles are pulling it together...

A cutting mat, a bottle of Tamiya cement, a brush, tweezers and the first few parts of a model cut from styrene sheet.

The cutting mat again, with more styrene parts and the first two hull forms assembled, the third taking shape. A keyboard lurks in the background.

The green cutting mat, all the styrene parts have been assembled into a cogent whole. Due to some rough bladework and using some cheap styrene that is far too thick, the parts didn't match up quite right (not helped by my pathalogical inability to follow instructions), so I improvised a lil box on top of the aft hull, to even out the shapes. the first few additional parts - a white metal radar dish, a round gubbin from a soap dispenser pump and a nacelle cut from an old pen barrel lie to the right. the keyboard continues to skulk in the background.

The Atlas hull stands on it's tail on the cutting mat, the first few outer hull panels in thinner styrene have been applied to the front of the ship. Some vandal has drawn some lines on the hull - future panels? Greeble outlines? Maybe where the cargo dorors will be? The pen-nacelle from the previous picture is now mounted on the lower front hull, and houses the metal radar dish. Various plastic kit-greebles are heaped on the right, and lower left, some tiny 1/300 scale astronauts...

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