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Overlooked in discussions of Manchester City penalties are the executives and accountants who actually cheated. I read that club representatives intentionally lied during the investigation. Their names should be part of the furor prior to their lifetime bans from English football.

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Dave @daveturner.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

"The classic beginner's mistake in Argentina is to neglect the first steak of the day." The classic style triumphs again. Finding examples of my favorite writing style always energizes me.

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Argentina On Two Steaks A Day (Idle Words)

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Dave @daveturner.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

My qualifications speak for themselves.

Screenshot of a Spotify Year-end Wrap-up showing that my top artist of the year was Sting. The text emphasizes that I placed among the elite Sting listeners, the top 0.1%. In the image accompanying the acknowledgement, Sting's dressed in black and stood in a stone archway. A black iron gate blocks the archway behind him. His hands rest on either side of the archway, relaxed but suitably Christ-like.

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Dave @daveturner.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

My fallible memory insinuates I saw this for the first and only time on the big screen when it played IFC years ago. It never left my memory. I will return for the Sunday morning service to reaffirm my faith and my salvation.

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Dave @daveturner.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Me, upon hearing the news:

Poster image for a movie called "The Man With Two Brains." It shows Steve Martin grinning like a maniac. The top of his skull floats above his head with white hair in disarray.

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Braden Serkas @portmanteauface.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Got my ass kicked trying to break up a skirmish down at the convent with my flute music. Never bring a fife to a nun fight

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Dave @daveturner.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Colbert goes full Method by spending time in New Zealand to grow the traditional, post-CBS-Late-Show-Gandalf beard.

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Dave @daveturner.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Me, after seeing the trailer for the new Nathan Fielder movie.

Patrick Stewart wearing an Elizabethan costume while sitting on a couch in front of some windows. His knowing glance to someone out of frame suggests he's seen many things, perhaps everything.

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Dave @daveturner.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

The less your RPG's GMing advice references and leverages your game's rules, the less game design you've done.

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Dave @daveturner.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

RIVALS OF AMZIAH KING isn't getting enough credit for its screenplay. All of its characters and stories work like spinning tops in reverse: wobbling before rising perfectly onto their tips. The dialog has the same baroque pleasures of a Charles Portis novel.

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Dave @daveturner.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

A game like MCDM's Crows buries its GM dependency. "Player skill" really means "GM skill" in an RPG with that much GM authority. Players can't have brilliant, ingenious ideas of the GM can't or won't support them. Like all RPGs, the proof is in the book's GMing advice.

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Chuck Wendig @chuckwendig.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Ahh! It's out, it's out! Beware! Run for the hills! Protect yourselves! THE CALAMITIES has escaped its prison deep in the void and is now appearing on bookshelves in libraries and bookstores everywhere! Shit! Shit!!

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The Demons! The Demons Are Free! The Calamities Is Out!

The Calamities (Book One of The Fiends) is now out, rampaging through the populace, gamboling about, claws at the ready, teeth sharp, and its countless eyes fixed upon you. So, I do hope you’…

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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Three major league at bats, three home runs. If my calculations are correct he is on pace to hit approximately 6,000 home runs in his career.

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Cam Banks 🇳🇿 ❌👑 @rustysellsword.com · 13/08/2026

Eight days left on the JUSTICE LEAGUE UNLIMITED RPG campaign on Gamefound. I’m the developing editor on this project and I’d like to say a little more about it so that maybe you’ll go back it if you haven’t already. gamefound.com/en/projects/...

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DC Justice League Unlimited Roleplaying Game by D20 Culture - Gamefound

Live your ultimate superhero dream with the Justice League Unlimited RPG! Fight alongside Batman, Superman, and Wonder Woman—or play as the icons themselves. Join the world's greatest superhero team a...

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Dave @daveturner.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Does the Tiktok train guy play locomotive sounds when he gets busy with his lady instead of Sade?

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Chuck Wendig @chuckwendig.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

I also must remind -- going on tour with this book! Philly! NYC! Doylestown! Harrisburg! Pittsburgh! Cincinnati! Chicago area! Milwaukee! Madison! Minneapolis! Denver! St. Louis! Charlotte area for the Belmont Litfest! And then some more dates in October. COME BEHOLD MY CORPOREAL FORM

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Dave @daveturner.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Amused to see François Vatel valorized in the new Bourdain movie by Bourdain's mentor. Vatel famously ran himself through with a sword over the lateness of a seafood delivery intended for a 2,000-person banquet honoring Louis XIV. I first learned of Vatel via this quotation.

"If Vatel can ruin Louis XIV’s dinner by dying, then Vatel is too necessary for either the prince’s or the king’s honor to bear. The best servant can never be truly indispensable."

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Anthony Etherin @anthonyetherin.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

REMOTE METEOR (Sonnet) It sprints alone, a stone aglint — its tint and tone a throne of flint that twists and sparks its flight amidst the dark of night.

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Dave @daveturner.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Nolan's Odyssey isn't an interpretation in the same way that Clueless interprets Emma nor does it interpret the text like Luhrman's Romeo & Juliet. It's maybe closer to Fennell's "Wuthering Heights." The missing quotation marks might have spared us some angst.

rogerebert.com

The People from the Sea: How "The Odyssey" is About America

A reading of Christopher Nolan's blockbuster as a commentary on the current state of America.

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Dave @daveturner.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

LUCKY JIM: Funny both in the scenes and sentences even when, and sometimes because, they're built with every grammaric hair in place. Like many of his generation and the author, Jim Dixon's misanthropy will see him pulling the lever for the Tories he castigates.

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Dave @daveturner.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

"Your attitude measures up to the two requirements of love. You want to go to bed with her and can't, and you don't know her very well. Ignorance of the other person topped up with deprivation." One of the semisweet blooms tucked into the bitter thorns of Kingsley Amis' Lucky Jim.

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Dave @daveturner.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

SPIDER-MAN: BRAND NEW DAY: We enter the Daniel Craig/RDJ era of Spider-Man, where the star's influence and interests rest 9/10's submerged beneath the film. Stretched taut between Holland and the MCU, it still plucks a tune you can tap with your toes.

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Dave @daveturner.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Baz Luhrman will finally get that poem about sunscreen into multiplexes. Austin Butler stars in a script penned by Craig Mazin.

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Dave @daveturner.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

The company producing this new RPG owns Vampire: the Masquerade.

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Ppallo @ppallo.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

I've come to the realisation that I just can't talk about my looseness retreats with stiffs anymore. You can only explain how important it is to have one rigid member in the collapse tent, when present members are going fully loose, and have family members laugh at you so many times.

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Dr. Stephanie @punkrockscience.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

I just saw a meme that said “get in losers, we’re reclaiming the emdash”. People. PEOPLE. Where are your STANDARDS? It CLEARLY should be “get in, losers — we’re reclaiming the em dash.”

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Dave @daveturner.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

We reward celebrities for their goodness and decency so long as it's effortless. Effortlessness is inherent, something you are, not something you chose. Both Hathaway and John Cena are transparently decent. It shifts the gap between us from aspirational to moral. We could be like them if we tried.

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Devan Scott @dagscott.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Up now on FILM FORMALLY: from the long-take trenches of RUSSIAN ARK to the boundary-pushing digital grading of ANTICHRIST and SECRET AGENT, colourist Dirk Meier has seen it all. We break down the evolution of look-development and how to build a visual language from scratch.

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Film Formally | Digital Colour w/ Dirk Meier, Colourist of 'Secret Agent'

YouTube video by Film Formally • How Would Lubitsch Do It

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kattsdogma.bsky.social @kattsdogma.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

if i wrote a book, my ‘A Note on the Type’ page at the end would say: you know the type. she’s a bitch. she’s arrogant. she doesn’t care about anyone. she’s the worst. she’ll chew you up & spit you out. the typeface is garamond .

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Dave @daveturner.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

“They want to pass the ball into the back of the net..." Spain’s strategy is predicated on the idea that defensive gaps will be exposed by patience, but they sometimes play as if they’re mildly offended by the need to put the ball in the net at all."

theringer.com

Ode to Spain, Our Competent Kings of the World Cup

Spain’s style may be dull, but their logistical excellence is strangely inspiring

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Dave @daveturner.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

I like to read books about syntax, language, and rhetoric. There comes a time between finishing a new author's book and ordering the second when I must canvas the Internet to determine where they stand on the topics of the day.

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Dave @daveturner.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

The Odyssey: Christopher Nolan's Frankenstein.

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Dave @daveturner.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Pregaming for tonight's screening of THE ODYSSEY.

The game statistics for Odysseus from an old Advanced Dungeons and Dragons book. It features an illustration of a Greek sailing ship and a seagull.

Game statistics for Athena from an old Advanced Dungeons and Dragons book. It features a woman dressed in a robe and helmet while wielding a spear and shield.

The statistics for a greater cyclops from an old Advanced Dungeons and Dragons book. It shows a giant cyclops standing on a beach between two cliffs. He wears simple armor and a loincloth. He holds a spear in his left hand.

Game stats for Circe, the Black Sorceress from an old Advanced Dungeons and Dragons book.

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Chuck Wendig @chuckwendig.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

PSST The deadline for getting dark demonic goodies with your pre-order of THE CALAMITIES from @doylestownbookshop.bsky.social approaches in a couple weeks -- Also, adding new tour stops! Madison! Minneapolis! Denver! St. Louis! And the Belmont Lit Fest in NC. Tell everyone! Even your pets!

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Deadline Approaching For Demonic Goodies (And More Tour News)

Firstly, I note that we are now in the one-month-ish run-up to The Calamities, which of course means I’m going to be louder and more annoying about that book for the next four or so weeks. (A…

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Mr. Bea Arthur, Batshit Crazy™️ @steamymac.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

People that think Pat Sajak is a good game show host obviously never saw Richard Dawson tongue fuck somebody's wife on national TV.

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CrazyMyra @outonthemoors.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Monday Mood I see the tarot electric

A pole carrying pedestrian traffic lights. It is functional, but the lit red standing man isn't in its housing, it's hanging below (upside down) by a thin cord.

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Dave @daveturner.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

This song always lives up to its name on sluggish mornings. In other moods on other days, it scores a chase scene in a California noir playing at 11:30pm on a Tuesday night on @rachellichtman.bsky.social 's Programme 4.

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Junior Kickstart

YouTube video by The Go! Team

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Dave @daveturner.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

As a patron of MCDM, I have a window into their encouraging and frustrating RPG scenario design process. The process itself is laudable, but it mistakenly believes that innovation in RPG scenario design will come from applying video game design principles to a medium they aren't suited for.

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Nuclear Winter @4slars.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Carey Mulligan always looks like she won 3rd place in a contest she didn't know she entered.

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Nuclear Winter @4slars.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

I think I got someone suspended yesterday with the most powerful Karen letter ever written. I'm not even white.

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Jonas Hallgren @nyheter.nu · 07/07/2026

Haaland Oates

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Michael Jay McClure @mjmimages.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

It’s hot & I’m not good in the heat & my lesbian bestie who is meeting me for a glass of white wine asked me why I’m looking at her like I’m disinheriting her.

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Dave @daveturner.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

"Design your product so that the GM never turns a page more than once" produces a novel, not an RPG scenario.

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Chad Topaz Queer DEI Race Traitor @chadtopaz.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Did you hear about the DC July 4 fireworks show? It promises 850,000 fireworks in 40 minutes. That's 354 per second. You'll miss up to 142 of them every time you blink. For your edutainment, I proudly present the nerdiest thing you will read about this dangerously absurd / absurdly dangerous event.

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Three Hundred Fifty-Four Fireworks per Second — Chad M. Topaz

Organizers promise 850,000 fireworks in roughly 40 minutes over the National Mall this Saturday. I did what a mathematician does with a big number: I divided. It did not make the show look better.

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Dave @daveturner.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

I noticed the quality of Lument's prose in MAKING MOVIES right away. The Internet selects for complex-compound sentences. Lumet usually writes complex *or* compound sentences and rarely the combined. Delightful to see him keep consistent grammars across different mediums.

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Dave @daveturner.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Can I order an AD&D Dungeon Master's Guide at the same time to save on shipping?

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Dave @daveturner.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

There absolutely was a time when people did play differently because they bought a different RPG book. Maybe not always successfully, but we tried our best.

Why Bother

Cultures of play help us see what's happening at the table beyond the game someone picked. Folks don't just play differently because they bought a different book. They bring different habits, expectations, and ideas about what the whole thing is even for.

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