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Morgan Davie @fromthemorgue.bsky.social · 21h

I saw Radical play an early slot on the Big Day Out main stage in 2012, good to see they are still touring

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Tze Ming Mok 莫志明 @tzemingdynasty.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Sorry, I started doing it and felt quite confident due to my acute forensic instincts but I've just had a big lunch and started to feel nauseous after looking at only two disgusting photos and had to abandon this effort

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Morgan Davie @fromthemorgue.bsky.social · 22h

My #nzpol max frustration scenario would be Greens do so well they eat Labour vote so National ends up the single biggest party then Opportunity go with their ridiculous “we negotiate with the biggest party first” plan and even though their vote shot up after Luxon ruled them out they make him PM,

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Malcolm Craig @malcolmcraig.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

It's very exciting the the system(s) from Cold City and Hot War 2e are being used for the TTRPG adaptation for @aptshadow.bsky.social's fantastic Tyrant Philosophers books. @fromthemorgue.bsky.social is doing splendid work on nuancing the mechanics.

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

seeing a lot of discussion about this and like: the reason the poster did a screenshot with no link is that if you actually search for the article you'd learn that this bill 1) has nothing to do with Zohran Mamdani 2) was introduced in committee back in May and didn't go anywhere

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Jon at Handiwork Games @handiworkgames.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The Tyrant Philosophers RPG playtest sign up is now open! If you'd like to be among the first to play, then please sign up! We're building on the Cold City Hot War framework to create your meaningful and moving adventures in @aptshadow.bsky.social's Ilmar, City of Last Chances.

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The Tyrant Philosophers Roleplaying Game Playtest Sign Up

Thanks for your interest in the Tyrant Philosophers Roleplaying Game!

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Pablo Valcarcel @awakedreamer.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

We had such a blast playtesting this! I played loads of Cold City back in the day, and @fromthemorgue.bsky.social's iteration fits Tchaikovsky's incredible setting like a glove! Can't wait for the final game!!!

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Linden A. Lewis 🐈‍⬛ @lindenalewis.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I was so lucky to playtest this game with @fromthemorgue.bsky.social as our GM and I can’t wait for more people to visit Ilmar.

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Tanya Floaker @floaker.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I keep saying this, but we have been in a long golden age of game creation, and it isn't done yet. I can't think of a better time to be into ttRPGs across my lifetime than now.

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

this is out now -- a man worth knowing & knowing about.

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Morgan Davie @fromthemorgue.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Great to see Tanya (amazing designer!) digging into Tyrant Philosophers #TTRPG playtest rules! Developed in an amazing game I ran with the fantastic @lindenalewis.bsky.social and @awakedreamer.bsky.social, SFF novelists/games lovers. Dream playtesters. Sign up: www.tyrantphilosophersrpg.com

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Coming soon: The Tyrant Philosophers Roleplaying Game

Rebellion and Resistance in Adrian Tchaikovsky’s City of Bad Decisions

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Morgan Davie @fromthemorgue.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

‘Dirty Work’ was released *this week*.

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Morgan Davie @fromthemorgue.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Perfect summary. Exactly this. (about Hager’s Dirty Work; read the whole thread)

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Josh | writer, painter, tinkerer @tworuru.com · 26/09/2026

I've finally seen the light. I urge everyone to visit taxpayersunion.org.nz and see the good work that they've been doing on behalf of the hard-working taxpayers of New Zealand

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Morgan Davie @fromthemorgue.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

AI has gone rogue (put all its skill points into Sleight of Hand, dual-wields daggers, stole magic boots of silence from an elf)

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Tof Eklund @tofeklund.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

"I opened the box... and my cat was dead!" a distraught Schrödinger told our reporter. "I begging the government, please regulate the existential risk posed by cat-boxes before it's too late!" "I'm also seeking $100bn to continue my essential research into radioactive poison cat-boxes" he said.

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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Fuck ChatGPT flyers. The future is broadsheets.

A crowded broadsheet with way too many fonts. It says:
Forget ChatGPT Flyers
Say it with
Broadsheets
Unlimited fonts
Stretch them
Or cram a really long sentence into one line for no good reason
No whitespace
Mix capital and lowercase
Pointing hands
(They're called manicules!)
Don't be left behind
Broadsheets are the future

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Rob✅✅ @robdickinson.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Also, we need more money for wolves

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Morgan Davie @fromthemorgue.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I trained 300 wolves to eat humans and put them hungry in my poorly-fenced back garden, and they escaped and ate your grandma! Please wake up to the existential risks of wolves before we put them in charge of driving buses!

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🍁 Levi Kornelsen @levikornelsen.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Historian: These two women were roomates, you see. Lesbian historian: One of them probably thought so for a surprisingly long time, yes.

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Morgan Davie @fromthemorgue.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

A pleasure to find there is TTRPG discourse but I don’t know what it is because have already blocked the people posting about it. “Blocking for discourse” strategy validated.

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Morgan Davie @fromthemorgue.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

This is getting shared wide but the changes noted are just the bog-standard result of getting ChatGPT or similar to edit a photo. Because it can’t actually edit the photo, it just recreates it entirely based on your new prompt, and often does weird shit in the background. Ineptitude not conspiracy.

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Malcolm Craig @malcolmcraig.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

1) So You're A Game Designer Who Needs Advice From a Historian? Games with historical/historically inspired settings/themes are great. Occasionally an email pops into my university inbox from someone seeking advice, feedback, consultancy, and so on. As the advice-seeker, what's the best approach?

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MK Hardy @mkhardywrites.com · 24/09/2026

The Haunting of Avis Lovelock is now out in paperback, ebook, and audiobook from @solarisbooks. Join Avis and the other passengers of the Excambion as they undertake a transatlantic crossing full of ghosts, mysterious lights on the water, and hidden secrets... Get your copy today! geni.us/avisl

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Morgan Davie @fromthemorgue.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Nicky Hager book is unusual because its main thesis seems to be "they are just doing all this bad faith money-for-racism stuff in plain sight and the media don't seem to perceive it as bad" Media: "Hmm this Hager book has no revelations in it, we knew all this already, oh well carry on as normal"

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Morgan Davie @fromthemorgue.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

“climate of fear of political reprisal” is just a very special way of saying “awareness of social norms”

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Pablo Valcarcel @awakedreamer.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

😍😻 So happy to see how far Dream has travelled!

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J? @jquestionmark.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

It's really exciting to see that Mars Watch funded!! And there's still a bit over 2 days left, so maybe that number can keep going up and Ash can get paid for all their hard work! www.kickstarter.com/projects/wun...

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Mars Watch | PBTA space military + survival horror

An almost tenth-anniversary second edition of award-winning RPG The Watch by Ash Kreider, with a new setting and playbook

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🐻Iona🐻 @bewarethefish.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

In those twelve years the NZ media has targeted multiple brown women politicians, including publishing made up stories about the sex life of Wellington's former mayor being spread by bad faith actors. It's not just that the NZ media don't care, it's that they're active participants in this.

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Morgan Davie @fromthemorgue.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Tremendous new ep of @originstorypodcast.bsky.social on John Rawls’s theory of justice. The section about the limits of using a ‘free speech’ lens on political donations hits particularly hard with the #nzpol Taxpayers Union drama unfolding. If only, eh. youtu.be/X936nsVYnDc?...

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John Rawls – Philosopher king of the 20th Century | Origin Story

YouTube video by Origin Story

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Morgan Davie @fromthemorgue.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Thank you Unity Books voucher! Dream of the Jet Black City by @awakedreamer.bsky.social The Valley of Unlikely Acquaintances by Terri Te Tau HOT STUFF

Two books:
Dream of the Jet Black City by Pablo Valcárcel Castro, and The Valley of Unlikely Acquaintances by Terri Te Tau

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Charles Pulliam-Moore @charlespulliam.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

The Emma Frost x Miss Piggy comic has hit the internet and it's so, so, so much more magnificent than I ever could have hoped for

Emma Frost: "Emma Frost, darling. I'm a telepath. May I read your mind to ascertain if you're telling the truth?"

Miss Piggy: "But of course, darling I am an open book, a tell-all memoir."

Emma Frost telepathically witnessing the entirety of Miss Piggy's life.

Wolverine: "Frost? She legit?"
Emma Frost: "She's..She's... She's everything. And I would die for her."

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Lyndon Hood @lyndonhood.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

The guy in The Princess Bride does not list all the classic blunders but I guess one is doing Nicky Hager damage control when Nicky Hager was not thinking about you.

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Morgan Davie @fromthemorgue.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

We have a copy in the house and i am second in the queue; but does seem to be a massive validation of everything bluesky #nzpol has been saying...

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mayor of tr*nny town @missfluss.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

the streisand effect to be hence known in new zealand as the williams effect

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Josh | writer, painter, tinkerer @tworuru.com · 22/09/2026

Let’s not forget that one of the main reasons the Taxpayer’s Union has enjoyed such oversized influence is the news media giving them an endless platform, to the extent that Stuff partnered with them on the “Ratepayers Report”, which was a thinly veiled TPU email harvesting operation

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Felix Geiringer @barristernz.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

“I think the people behind this dirty work are deeply lacking in integrity and have far more influence than they deserve.”

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Morgan Davie @fromthemorgue.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

“What's to day?" cried Scrooge, calling downward to a boy in Sunday clothes. "EH?" returned the boy, with all his might of wonder. "What's to day, my fine fellow!" said Scrooge. "Today!" replied the boy. "Why, HAGERMAS DAY'"

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Jeff Bridges as The Dude: What Day Is This?

ALT: Jeff Bridges as The Dude: What Day Is This?

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Morgan Davie @fromthemorgue.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

'Twas the night before Hagermas, and all through the motu Folks posted their reckons, some random, some thought through; The liveblogs were hung on the news-sites with care, In hopes that our Nicholas soon would be there.

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Mal Function @mister-fishy.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

New Zealand's triumphal arch will just be giant rugby goalposts

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Morgan Davie @fromthemorgue.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

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Morgan Davie @fromthemorgue.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Still following my rules of engagement to add some normality to Facebook, the frontline of electoral disinformation. I find that making a comment like this, then dipping, feels pretty good.

RNZ screenshot on facebook
The Green Party is pledging to restore city centre vibrancy.

Election 2026
Greens announce reforms to lower commercial rents, fill empty shops

Morgan Davie • Just now
This sounds like a very targeted change, so small businesses actually get freedom to negotiate fairly.
From the article: "Current commercial leasing rules let rents rise when the market goes up and hold them up when it goes down. Small businesses end up paying more than the market rate when consumer spending slows down."
Sounds like a really smart change to help small business owners and communities, nice one.

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Gwen Marshall @drgwenmarshall.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

The Onion ran this amazing article and thought, I wanna play this! So I made it! 38 pps, PbtA, plus every mechanic mentioned in the article, and a bunch of Rodrigo song references. And it's free! Enjoy! #OliviaRodrigo @theonion.com #theonion #ttrpg #itch.io drgwenmarshall.itch.io/high-winter-...

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High Winter Elves of Girlville by Gwen Marshall

A satirical game based on an Onion article about Olivia Rodrigo making a TTRPG!

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Julie Fairey (she/her) @juliefairey.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Pepper's stuff is gorgeous, I'm literally wearing one of her t-shirts right now (Kārearea: Nature Reigns Eternal) Like band t-shirts for birds, perfect for #BirdOfTheYear season! And if you prefer to be more subtle with your bird love there are delightful badges too. Get in there folks!

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Graham Walmsley 🎲 @grahamwalmsley.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I'm so happy when people play Will That Be All?. I think it's one of the best things I've written, but it tends to get overlooked, because it's a LARP-on-a-deck-of-cards. www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/1...

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