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TAGS Festival @tagsfest.co.uk · 03/10/2026

📢 Exhibitor announcement: FURTIVE SHAMBLES (@furtiveshambles.bsky.social). "Furtive Shambles is a game design co-op based in Yorkshire. We make wild, strange and sharp games, for people and community." 🏷️ Learn more about TAGS Fest at tagsfest.co.uk

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thryn|shem @bonemade.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

being Really Offline these days comes with an unexpected amount of running into Really Online People irl and instantly taking 1000 points of psychic damage

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thryn|shem @bonemade.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Got a work email this week from someone in the department I used to teach in while I was doing my PhD, which was lovely, and then learned that they teach using one of my papers in their module! Which is even nicer! They had no idea I work there, the world is so small and nice sometimes

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thryn|shem @bonemade.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

we made that! LOOK AT IT! LOOK AT THAT BEAUTIFUL, HEFTY ANGEL!

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thryn|shem @bonemade.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

"wow these book cloths we made are so beautiful and special I hope everyone treats them with the respect they deserve" immediately using my own as a mousepad because we're apparently at "misplaced my mousepad" levels of flapping around today

thryn usinghis fancy watercolour fabric bookcloth as a mousepad

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Furtive Shambles @furtiveshambles.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Something strange is washing in with the tides 🍂🪸🐚 RYNE, life in the footsteps of gods, is available to download now. Physical copies will be available to the UK in October (other territories pending) rpg-trader.com/products/915...

A copy of RYNE perched on the rocks of a tidal pool. The book is an A4 hardcover in red and orange tones, showing a Remnant in the background and a group of characters sat on a floating rock in the centre

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thryn|shem @bonemade.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

someone needs to invent a kind of marketing that is just me, exhausted, waving at a book and then everyone claps and cheers and tells me I have been very brave

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Dimitri, Dr. Givaca @dgivaca.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

New week, new games, this time from a couple crowdfunding campaigns! Legend in the Mist, by Son of Oak Game Studio Ryne, by @furtiveshambles.bsky.social My to-read pile is gonna be plenty busy for weeks to come. Can't wait to see how they've changed since the respective pre-crowdfunding betas!

Legend in the Mist - slipcase with the two rulebooks and the setting book, action grimoire, gm screen, pregen folios, dice, tracking and theme cards, and so much more!

The beautiful cover of the Ryne: Life in the Footsteps of Gods hardback.

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Samantha Mackenzie Greer @sammgreer.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

It's yer girl's birthday this weekend & as a gift, could folk make a donation to my boxing club? It's a queer, inclusive, vital community that means the world to me. Knockout is a non-profit so all donations help keep the club accessible and affordable to everyone www.knockoutboxinglgbt.com/donate

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Donate — Knockout LGBTQ + Boxing London

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pseudonym jones @pseudonymjones.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

“I’m queer” “Queer how, specifically?” “Come back with a warrant”

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thryn|shem @bonemade.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Actually criminal to spend my lunch break foraging wild fruit with my dog and making syrups to gift to my friends, and then remember I need to do... Promotional Social Media

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thryn|shem @bonemade.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

I will limit myself to five (5) minutes max* about ghosts as trans metaphors and Reverse Ghosts as neurodivergent metaphors *I will do no such thing

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Furtive Shambles @furtiveshambles.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Ryne has been a huge labour of love - it would mean the world to us to see people as excited about it now as we have been this whole time. We're very tired, but it's been worth it 🧡

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Furtive Shambles @furtiveshambles.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

We've finished it, though, because we really truly love this game. We hope you love it as much as we do. If you DO love it, we hope you tell us a little bit about your time with it, or tell your friends, or the internet, or anyone at all!

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Furtive Shambles @furtiveshambles.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

we're a team of two - we have full time jobs which aren't Ryne. We've created this game around work, volunteering, serious health issues, several house moves between us, one gender transition, a global pandemic, and All This in the world right now. Neither of us have been paid so far

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Furtive Shambles @furtiveshambles.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

This game has taken us, cumulatively, about 8 years. It wasn't always intended to be for release, but part way through writing it we thought "actually, this is quite special, isn't it" and made the unhinged choice to develop our first full size rulebook because it deserved a chance to be seen

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Furtive Shambles @furtiveshambles.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Ryne is shipping! It's real! It's going to be in people's hands! This is absolutely wild

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These Flimsy Rituals @flimsyrituals.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

a four year hiatus is normal behaviour actually

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thryn|shem @bonemade.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

I've been in a weird headspace of feeling like I """wasted""" my academic potential recently, but, consider. This year I learnt a very useable amount of plastering, bricklaying, woodworking... I'm gonna get quails next year. I made jam. Maybe i'm fine actually.

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thryn|shem @bonemade.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

All I want in life these days, ideally, is to never have to log in to another Service ever again

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Chase Taylor-Carter @chasecarter.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Some radical transparency: we may only have a year left at our current pace. If you'd like to help us survive to reach our full potential, consider subscribing, donating, or buying a gift subscription.

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innes mck @innes.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

but they already made a historically accurate version of the odyssey?

three men, grinning, stand in front of an old timey microphone in a still from O Brother Where Art Thou

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thryn|shem @bonemade.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

we made that! LOOK AT IT! LOOK AT THAT BEAUTIFUL, HEFTY ANGEL!

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Pat Ashe @patrickashe.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

As well as having to declare ads and sponsored content, lifestyle influencers should have to declare what very well paying job they used to do in London before they moved to a big house near the sea to make snack plates for a living.

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𝔬𝔭𝔥𝔢𝔩𝔦𝔞✧*:･ @maidmorphia.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

no better meal than Rice With Some Bullshit

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Jay Hulme @jayhulmepoet.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

"What is [small org] doing to help and support trans people?" Bitch I ain't posting that on the internet where GB News can see it! Are you stupid??? The local community knows, the people who need help are getting it, that's all that matters. Get off the internet and find somewhere you can help too

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Jay Hulme @jayhulmepoet.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

A reminder, as we enter into this difficult period for trans ppl in the UK that most of the work that actually makes a difference in the day to day lives of trans communities cannot be posted online. Just because people aren't shouting about what they're doing, doesn't mean they're doing nothing.

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thryn|shem @bonemade.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

please enjoy these references I sent to one of our RYNE artists: they worked perfectly, fyi

stick figures sat around a campfire - the drawing is terrible

crudely drawn hedgehog lad carrying a big pot

baffling sketch of a big ribbony monster

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Samantha Mackenzie Greer @sammgreer.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

The degree to which transphobia is acceptable in the UK, even among ostensibly "progressive" voices, is so bleak. Young trans folk deserve so much better from their elders. The lack of seriousness given to very real persecution, I cannae wrap my head around it

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thryn|shem @bonemade.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

It's all fun and games doing character sheet layout until you're spending 14 hours making your own fonts for patches

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thryn|shem @bonemade.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

The real downside to finally finishing up work on Ryne is figuring out where to put 700 hardback books

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Samantha Mackenzie Greer @sammgreer.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

Chapter Three of IT EATS PLANETS begins... TODAY! Debris's plan to escape the inescapable Quod-Quell unfolds alongside the circumstances of the past that lead her there. But can Debris pull the people she needs together? You can check out the first pages now! iteatsplanets.com/page/79

A collage of the recent IT EATS PLANETS posters, with each quadrant of the text having a different colour background and a different face laid inside the text

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thryn|shem @bonemade.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

guess who remembered their password it's all over for Online

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Dimitri, Dr. Givaca @dgivaca.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

This last month or so I had the opportunity to run an introductory adventure of @furtiveshambles.bsky.social's Ryne for two different groups. It really speaks of the game's improvisational strengths that both games were so different from each other, but equally memorable. adtidi.itch.io/ryne

The map at the end of the Ryne introductory adventure with the first group, in which they tamed a herd of gazelle-giraffes, met with the neighbouring amphibian community, almost were taken by a huge river wave going upstream, found pink flowers choking the landscape, persuaded a pig-bear to let them through, almost fell into a ravine, were taken up the mountain by a huge bird, and found that their Remnant was succumbing to another Remnant.
Their solution to the problem consisted in using their bonds to other communities to coordinate a collaborative effort to increase the tributes to their broken god.

The map at the end of the Ryne introductory adventure with the second group, in which they calmed down some goats, almost kidnapped one, questioned bad-cop style a poor ghost-shepherd, realized the goats were panicking because of some bright pink flowers, tried to pluck one and got chased by wild animals, were attacked by a huge bird that tore a thread out of the Tethered, helped other birds that had a nest full of eggs stuck beneath broken trees and debris, tamed said birds with delicious sandwiches., were attacked by the same large bird once again, found some premium cheese that they offered their broken god, got a stone goat in return that grew tremendously, established a vibrant cheese development with surrounding communities through messenger birds, and increased their town's production means to keep up with their Remnant's increased hunger.

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Kári Tulinius @kattullus.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

Ursula K. Le Guin on the true pain of being a writer

Screenshot of a single question and answer from interview in the Times Literary Supplement with Ursula K. Le Guin. Here is the quote:

If you could make a change to anything you’ve written over the years, what would it be?

In The Dispossessed, I would mention the communal pickle barrels at street corners in the big towns, restocked by whoever in the community has made or kept more pickles than they need. I knew about the free pickles all along, but never could fit them into the book.

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Friends at the Table @friends-table.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

Our latest season, Perpetua, is finally here! 💫 Perpetua takes place in a brand new setting for Friends at the Table, so of course we had to start off with some world building. Check out Perpetua Prelude 01 now (and tell your friends to listen! 🗣️)! friendsatthetable.net

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Friends at the Table

Friends at the Table is an actual play podcast about critical worldbuilding, smart characterization, and fun interaction between good friends. Find us (and a listener guide) @Friends_Table on Twitter.

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zaratustra @zaratustra.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

weird, because i have never seen anyone shoplift in my life

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Jonaya Kemper @violetriotgames.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

Being a lil weirdo artist is a valid way to fight fascism. There's a reason why artists from all genres are considered dangerous. It's because sometimes all it takes is a song, painting, banner drop or play to make you see the workers of the world deserve peace and prosperity.

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wwxwashere.bsky.social @wwxwashere.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

i love when fictional characters who are objectively very powerful also manage to be big losers somehow

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Kym Deyn @kymdeyn.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

recipe for inner peace: subscribe to the newsletter of a small community orchard. Delete any other emails that come into your inbox.

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Samantha Mackenzie Greer @sammgreer.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

IT EATS PLANETS is now publicly available to read! A queer, sci-fi comic about heists, ancient evil and fighting to survive on a dying planet. New pages every Thursday. Please kindly check it out, give it a read and share it 🔴 iteatsplanets.com 🔴

A three armed woman in a prison jumpsuit with a mullet walks in handcuffs along a metal walkway away from armed guards in futuristic, padded armour and helmets that completely hide their faces. Behind the woman the title "IT EATS PLANETS" is emblazoned in bright red. At the bottom the author's name "Samantha Mackenzie Greer" is written in red too.

In the background is a landing pad with a large, well used helicopter with fumes falling from its exhaust pipe. Above them is a dark sky of green clouds though a parting reveals the void of space where a ringed gas giant is silhouetted against a red sun.

A blueish, gloomy derelict factory floor with an avalanche of garbage in the foreground and sides of the frame with a sliver of floor space guiding the eye under a concrete bridge and past heavily graffitied columns, to a large, towering machine and altar at the centre. A person in a poncho sits there, waiting beneath the collapsed ceiling where far above we can see towering pipes of extraction criss crossing to form a dark, steel sky.

A comic page. A vertical panel on the left side which depicts a mysterious person in a poncho coming down the steps of a trench and alleyway carved out of rock, covered in graffiti and with pipes criss crossing above.

On the right are a panel of this person rustling under their poncho and a second panel show them looking up some small orange case with a relieved smile, held in the hand of a previously concealed third arm. A third panel shows them concealing this object, their attention drawn to something off panel.

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josh mckenzie @amonns.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

i avoid commenting on celebrity passings due to the parasociality of the thing but David Lynch was an artist’s artist and a reminder to never explain yourself (when you don’t want to). one of the greatest filmmakers to ever do it.

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