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Brian Ashford @brianbloodaxe.bsky.social · 46m

I've been using my Crumpler bag for over 10 years and it still looks new. crumpler.co.uk/collections/...

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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 21h

Just a reminder that the folks who want to ban children’s books will allow children to watch a public execution…

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The Roll Came From Inside The House @icosacade.bsky.social · 7h

Fuck sake I’m trapped living in a nonsense society run by children and fools. When a product has a dangerous defect or is broken, it is recalled. Stop giving AI companies special dispensation just because they’ve slapped a couple of googly eyes on some software and you’re gullible as fuck.

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Mama twins @hi-its-alaa.bsky.social · 18h

Gaza is under bombardment right now. We don’t understand what is happening here The bombing is literally everywhere The aircraft are flying extremely low,making terrifying sounds that are impossible to describe. Don’t stop talking about Gaza.Don’t let the world become numb to what is happening here.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 08/10/2026

the reason “AI will create so much abundance we will have a utopian society” rhetoric falls so flat is that the people building it will never, ever share their bounty unless it is taken from them and we all know it

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YouGov @yougov.co.uk · 08/10/2026

If an election were held tomorrow for Britain to rejoin the EU, how would you vote? Rejoin: 52% Remain outside: 27% Don't know: 15% Would not vote: 7% 22% of Leave voters would now vote to rejoin yougov.com/en-gb/articl...

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Neil Mackay @neilmackay.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Why can’t we be more like the French? In France, young people are punching up at those in power demanding better education not decline and more cuts In Britain, middle-aged masked men with criminal records for domestic abuse punch down an at anyone who isn’t white In @heraldscotland.bsky.social

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What French student protests reveal about Britain's broken political system

In France, even children can see that the political system needs to be rebuilt from the ground up. In Britain, we seem incapable of understanding that truth, Neil Mackay says.

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Alex Harvey @alexharvv.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Oh this can just fuck off An AI-'written' complete copy of my own book is now on Amazon; same title, more-or-less the same blurb, and exactly the same impetus. Reviewers of Amazon, I urge you to absolutely dive-bomb this plagiaristic piece of shit: www.amazon.co.uk/FORGOTTEN-VI...

A hollow copy of my book with a shit AI-generated cover

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Brian Ashford @brianbloodaxe.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Can you explain why? More and more I'm heading the other way.

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Brian Ashford @brianbloodaxe.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I've been a huge fan for years. HH was like educational Monty Python. Incredible stuff. Yonderland was fantastic too.

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Brian Ashford @brianbloodaxe.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

You mean the Horrible Histories team?

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TabletopGamingDeals @tabletopgamedeals.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Mongoose Publishing is letting folk try their Traveller TTRPG For Free Click to Grab the Traveller Starter Pack FREE www.mongoosepublishing.com/products/sta...

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Traveller Starter Pack

This package of free PDFs is an introduction to the Traveller TTRPG that provides the tools to start a campaign that will take you across the stars.

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TAGS Festival @tagsfest.co.uk · 07/10/2026

📋 Board Game Zone sign-ups are now OPEN! You can stop by the Board Game Zone on the day to borrow a game or sign up to Blood in the Clocktower, or book in advance to secure a spot in one of 3 different RPGs! Book in advance: www.ancientrobotgames.co.uk/bookings

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Caroline Lucas @carolinelucas.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

“The only sensible solution at this point is a moratorium on datacentres until very basic questions about how many we need, what for, where, and how pollution will be avoided are answered satisfactorily by the government” - @olliehayes.bsky.social 👏

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Drax datacentre could create nearly twice the yearly emissions of all Gatwick flights

Exclusive: Campaign group’s analysis of North Yorkshire plans finds datacentre would have to burn 4.9m tonnes of wood a year

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Indie Aut. Stuart Miller📖✍️🤓 Believe in yourself & your potential @stuartmiller1.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

A miniature #Manhattan with its own nightlife. This handmade model recreates the city’s 1990s skyline, w/ glow-in-the-dark paint. After charging under a lamp, it glows when the lights go out, turning the tiny streets & buildings into a nighttime cityscape #architecture #nyc Artist: @flickz_by_nick

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Scréamus @phantom-limbs.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Hell yeah sick fucking work, love this

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Ripley 🏳️‍⚧️ @queerwizard.co.uk · 06/10/2026

Hello everyone should back this absolutely bonkers (positive) adventure. It’s great and also it’s got a bunch of cool maps by me!

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I Liv, I Die, Oliviagain Hill @machineiv.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

And you never once see the "I disagree with what you're saying but I'll fight to the death for your right to say it" people coming out in support of anarchists that are silenced unconstitutionally. It's why I've never believed America strives for "free speech." Because the evidence says otherwise.

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Brian Ashford @brianbloodaxe.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Someone else though, running the same edition but who always ends the session with a boss fight, they probably are running a combat game. "X-rated" is slightly different though. The convention is that one x-rated scene makes the whole thing x-rated. Just look at Mass Effect.

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Brian Ashford @brianbloodaxe.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I think it comes down to the things which are definitely going to feature in a session of play. If your D&D sessions always feature torches, traps and negotiations, but only sometimes combat, then it probably isn't a combat game.

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Brian Ashford @brianbloodaxe.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I've done exactly that a bunch of times and killed a procedure or an entire system because I hadn't left enough room for the roleplay part of my rpg.

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Brian Ashford @brianbloodaxe.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

If they are ditching the idea for great of someone else saying "that's too boardgamey," then yes, that did m sucks. If however they have made a set of rules which they feel is more like a boardgame than an RPG, and that's not what they wanted, then it makes perfect sense to drop that thread.

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Alex Awoos @alex-awoos-backup.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I feel like more people should be talking about this part

Screenshot from the article that reads, The Stud, San Francisco's oldest gay bar, was only able to have its Meta pages restored because of the bars popularity among gay tech executives with connections to Meta

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Brian Ashford @brianbloodaxe.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Agreed. It's been useless in Edinburgh recently.

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Tristan Grayford @tristangrayford.scot · 05/10/2026

"We lost, therefore the system doesn't work" is an intellectually cowardly response to avoid confronting the fact that you and your allies simply didn't try very hard in the first place. So you fall back on the standard privileged response - "maybe if we in power can just ignore people instead..."

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Tristan Grayford @tristangrayford.scot · 05/10/2026

A single vote indicates that an entryist faction was able to take advantage of a party's low conference turnouts for its own benefit and *far* too many people have concluded the only possible response is either burning down the party completely or entirely doing away with party democracy.

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Brian Ashford @brianbloodaxe.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I have been told so many times that if I am not following the rules of my rpg, then it's not a game, but nobody has ever explained why this matters. I'm definitely still playing an RPG, so maybe "game" was never the right word.

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Brian Ashford @brianbloodaxe.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Yep and people use the word game for all sorts of things and it is not helpful. If play is a game, then how can a book also be a game? Are the rules a game? If everyone who plays an RPG is playing the same game, then why is everyone's play so different? Why do we all have different goals?

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Brian Ashford @brianbloodaxe.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

If that isn't an X-rated game, then D&D isn't a combat game. This is the problem with thinking that the games is in the books. The game was never the books, it is always in the play. What you have there is instructions for playing an X-rated game.

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Brian Ashford @brianbloodaxe.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I definitely see them as play. I see the components of an RPG as toys and tools which we use to create games with.

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Robert Rose @robear.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

A good fresh Star Trek take on those fake isekai title jokes

A tumblr screenshot showing a post and two reblog responses, reading:
1. "star trek would be the ideal fictional universe to get trapped in because you'd explain your situation and they'd be like yeah makes sense. no further questions. fortunately we can use the mysterious warp signature emitting from this system's icy moon to counterface with the solar radiation and slingshot you back home"
2. "I'm from a universe where your world is all a work of fiction." Benjamin Sisko, nodding. "That happened to me once."
3. "I Got Isekaid Into The Star Trek Universe And They Quickly Understood What Was Happening"

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pmamtraveller.bsky.social @pmamtraveller.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

By artist Bruce Timm

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Brian Ashford @brianbloodaxe.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Want he in Dr Who as a baddie once? One of the early Matt Smith episodes as a dream entity or something.

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Brian Ashford @brianbloodaxe.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I think the *WN games are really good for open tables because they are versatile systems but they are also not complicated and they will be familiar to anyone who has ever played D&D or anything similar like Mass Effect.

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Brian Ashford @brianbloodaxe.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I wouldn't worry, there's six distinct classes and the focus choices are different again. There's plenty to work with.

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Eric Lang @ericlang.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

My most innovative designs have never been published. Junior game designers often massively overvalue innovation. I was no exception. I have designed at least seven "entire new genre" type of games. I think maybe two of them are any good.

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Brian Ashford @brianbloodaxe.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

The best contribution you can make to the RPG discourse is writing your thing.

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Brian Ashford @brianbloodaxe.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

The Things Without Number line is a good call. In my experience casual players don't really care what system you are using unless they were expecting D&D.

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Brian Ashford @brianbloodaxe.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Honestly I don't like thinking about RPGs in terms of game loops. I don't like thinking of RPGs as games.

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Brian Ashford @brianbloodaxe.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I've felt this myself with overly detailed combat systems (5e), clocks in Blades, travel in TOR, skills in Gumshoe... Fate. I think I just find very attracted systems "boardgamey". But importantly, that's not really a criticism of the RPG, it's just me saying it's not for me.

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Brian Ashford @brianbloodaxe.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Yeah calling an RPG a boardgame is silly. I do have some sympathy for when people find particular RPGs "too boardgamey" though. Sometimes you want to roleplay in character but instead you are spending all your time on mechanics feeding into other mechanics... Like a boardgame.

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Brian Ashford @brianbloodaxe.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I'm not following that last sentence at all. Can you elaborate?

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James Morton @glesga-grognard.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

The two ronnies, in one of their classic sketches. Comedy gold.

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jess m. ☕🍂 @jametc.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Something AI is responsible for that doesn't get enough talk: How, when it scrapes a website to illegally steal everything on it, it uses up a ton of its bandwidth allotment, crashing it or racking up massive fees for site owners.

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