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Gav Thorpe

@gavthorpe.co.uk
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New York Times Bestselling Author, world creator, consultant and games developer specialising in SF and Fantasy. Proud daddy. Whitecishet. He / him.

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Aysha U. Farah @ayshaufarah.bsky.social · 14h
I still think about the conversation I had with an uber driver Him: so what do you do Me: I’m a video game writer Him: wait, video games? They have writing? What do you write? Me: you know when you open up a game and you see the words? Him: yeah? Me: those
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Andrew Deck @andrewdeck.bsky.social · 16h
ChatGPT is adding the signatures of real New Yorker cartoonists to its AI-generated images. So far, I've found the signatures of more than 15 contributors. "It’s slop, and unlike the other slop that I’ve encountered, this is slop that’s pretending to be me." www.niemanlab.org/2026/10/chat...
Left: A cartoon generated by ChatGPT and signed with Emily Flake’s signature that was posted to a Reddit forum in June. Right: A real Emily Flake cartoon published in The New Yorker on August 20, 2026 and licensed via The Cartoon Bank.
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Saltstone Studios ⚓️The Hearth and Harbour⚓️ @saltstonestudios.bsky.social · 17h
BLUESKY!! WE NEED YOUR HELP!! The demo for The Hearth and Harbour goes live in just THREE DAYS!! @fellowtraveller.games‘ Ludonarracon is featuring a tonne of great indie games, we’re so excited to be a part of it 🧡 Spread the word, and see you there!!
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Gav Thorpe @gavthorpe.co.uk · 15h
I always use soft returns because I’m paranoid that a hard return = send and I’ve not had a chance to re-read or reconsider.
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Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 16h
I understand that paywalls are annoying, but the grim reality for everything right now, is if you want something to exist, you have to put money towards it. Every creative person is having their life's work hoovered up by AI companies. Layoffs never end. Private equity keeps making things worse.
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Mythic Tabletop Games @mtg-fan.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
The Galaxy was judged. ⚔️ It was an epic day of Warhammer 40K battles, with the Forces of Light claiming victory. 🏆 Thanks to everyone who joined us, and especially to talented Black Library author @neilandrewmiller.bsky.social for creating the story. #warhammer40K #winchester
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John Bilodeau Illustrations @servsci.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
reposting this just in case people missed it first time around. It's a blogpost I wrote about finding art for your ttrpg projects. www.carouse.blog/owl-1-findin...
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OWL-1: Finding Art For Your Projects
by John Bilodeau This is the first in a series of articles I call “The rest of the F#@king Owlbear” about making art for tabletop role playing games. This month I want to talk about the basics of fin...
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 05/10/2026
Ofcom rules say broadcasters cannot use politicians as newsreaders, interviewers or reporters in any news programmes. So why is Nigel Farage allowed to host his own primetime show on GB News? Demand that Ofcom takes immediate action ⬇️
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Farage on GB News: Demand that Ofcom takes immediate action - Best for Britain
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JellyMuppet @jellymuppet.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
www.kickstarter.com/projects/sou... We're 80% funded and I really want to get Atrapos over the line! Please share the project widely and give it a look to see if it'll be a fit for you.
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Atrapos: A Roleplaying Game of Odyssey
A doomed mythic fantasy roleplaying game of defying fate in an epic world of Gods and heroes.
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Alex Jay Brady @alexjaybrady.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
ModernWarships by ArtStorm Games used my atomic ekranoplan design without permission or so much as buying me dinner, cmon guys don't do me dirty like this, cut me a cheque I'm broke! #Modernwarships #ArtStormGames
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Grant Howitt @gshowitt.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Acrobat's AI offered to summarise my hand-written "Colour in a Goblin" sheet Cracking stuff lads, keep up the good work. Worth it
Colour-and-draw outline of a goblin that we bashed together for Questival last weekend. Next to it are some hand-written notes:

"THIS GOBLIN'S NAME IS ____________
AND THEY DREAM OF ___________

Win fabulous prizes!
- Finish the drawing
- Colour it in if you want
- Bring it to the RRD stall
- Win a free one-page roleplaying game!

(We have felt tip pens and that, come say hello)Generative summary of the note which says it discusses the importance of flexible approaches, reference frameworks and adaptability in managing change and fostering growth. Which it doesn't. It's a series of instructions on how to colour in a fucking goblin
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Sir Game of Bunker 🔜Gamehole @gamesinabunker.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
October publisher of the month @rowanrookanddecard.bsky.social
Collection of RPG books. Voidheart Symphony, Heart, Royal Blood, Eat the Reich
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Rob Turpin 🇺🇦🇵🇸🏳️‍⚧️ @thisnorthernboy.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Spaceship sketches with digital colour. Featuring, at some point, in my zine/book ‘Spaceships’. #Spaceships #Illustration #SciFi
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Petergeist Clines @peterclines.com · 04/10/2026
Don't want to keep being THAT guy... BUT... If you have any interest at all in this Space Zombies From Mars Kickstarter I keep blabbing on about, today's the LAST DAY for the early bird bundles. They essentially give you free figures when the stretch goals unlock. And I bring this up because...
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Space Zombies From MARS! Red Dust II.
A 6" action figure line featuring astronauts and zombies. The Nameless Toy Company's first offering in the 'Nameless Universe.'
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Jennifer C. Martin @notreallyjcm.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Extremely grateful for these two grocery store ladies recreating Prodigy’s Firestarter
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Gav Thorpe @gavthorpe.co.uk · 05/10/2026
Fatal 4 Way ladder match at the next PPV.
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o faquir da dor @tropigotico.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
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Dylan Difford @dylandifford.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Anyway, with party conference season entering its final stages, here's the respective 'three word description' bubble charts for each of the five major party leaders, together in one place for the first time.
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Joanne Harris @joannechocolat.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
£2,912 pledged of £2,995! So close, and just 24 hours to go...
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Gav Thorpe @gavthorpe.co.uk · 03/10/2026
The device of the One Ring neatly undercuts anyone that wants to win via Badassery alone.
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Gav Thorpe @gavthorpe.co.uk · 03/10/2026
One of my favourite aspects of LOTR (and The Hobbit to some extent) is how the Prof downplays power to foreground heroism. The story is littered with Ultimate Badasses - the elves, Gandalf, Aragorn, among many - but the little people carry most of the tale. And Gandalf even calls it out.
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Pól Micheál O'Slatraigh @pmoslatraigh.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Suella Braverman, consider Walter Tull. Born in Folkestone to an English mother and a Barbadian father. A footballer for Tottenham Hotspur and Northampton Town. A British Army officer who led soldiers into battle and was killed serving his country in 1918.
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Wilson @wilsonjettone.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I have more followers now than I had when I asked this. Anyone have any ideas? It might Irish-American, to be fair. I suppose the book is too genre/low-brow to have been read by the Bluesky book contingent, but it is worth the ask.
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Wangle-BOO-ry @wangleberry.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
My dad was a bus driver; he once got in trouble for bunking off 'sick' and showing up on the telly on the same day, in the depot canteen, in the crowd at the Headingley test match
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worm @rfksbrainworm.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
If you ever wondered why visible light is those particular wavelengths, it's because life evolved to see in the narrow range where water is transparent
Diagram of absorption of emf by water. There's a gap right that dips in the 500 nm range
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Victoria Hayward @writervh.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
So excited to be able to talk more about this soon.... it's something we've been cooking for a while and we can't wait to share what we have planned! 😍🖤 @guyhaley.bsky.social @nickybandini.bsky.social @johnfrench.bsky.social @squintywitch.bsky.social @thetowerofstars.bsky.social @gavthorpe.co.uk
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fairrealms.bsky.social @fairrealms.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Fair Realms is coming to Nottingham Central Library on 26th March 2027 🌟📚✍️ Follow us as the adventure unfolds...
Fair Realms

27 March 2027

Nottingham central library

Follow us as the adventure unfolds...
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Gav Thorpe @gavthorpe.co.uk · 03/10/2026
Sort of like this?
Poster for the movie Hoppers that shows a giant shark being carried by loads of gulls.
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Bits @bitshammer.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
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Shelfdust @shelfdust.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
“Democracy is Not For The People”: Judge Dredd’s ‘Letter From A Democrat’, by @tomshaps.bsky.social: shelfdust.com/2019/03/27/d... #dayofdredd
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“Democracy is Not For The People”: Judge Dredd’s ‘Letter From A Democrat’
By Tom Shapira “Letter from a Democrat” was first published in Prog #460 in the year 1986. It’s a short story, running a mere seven pages and written by the regular team of the time, John Wagner an…
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Gav Thorpe @gavthorpe.co.uk · 03/10/2026
Let’s not forget how badass this is.
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Angry People in Local Newspapers @apiln.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
We don’t do the Daily Mail, but as a public service, here is someone with far too much money being attacked by an owl.
Princess Beatrice's friend Alice Naylor-Leyland is attacked by rogue owl during chaotic photoshoot.
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Ed Maxwell @edpaintskrieg.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
It's pretty fun coming up with some interesting mini dioramas for the base of my mega gargant.
An unpainted WIP model of a medieval peasant sat on an outhouse toilet. The outhouse has been smashed around him leaving him understandably a little confused and rather perturbed.The model outhouse and peasant in place on the base of a huge giant model striding past in the background. The giant has just knocked the top of the outhouse leaving the fortunate peasant behind.
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Dr Mike Hollows/MJ Hollows He/Him @mikehollows.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
In desperate need of some additional work that I can put my skills and experience to. Does anyone know of any freelance/remote work going?
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Iceland Cricket @icelandcricket.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Following last night's AGM, we can officially confirm that women's cricket will commence in Iceland in January.
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Dylan Difford @dylandifford.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
🌻🧵/ With the Green's party conference underway, here's our briefing on attitudes to Polanski and the party. In short, over his first year as leader, Polanski has significantly changed the party's image, bringing both record election gains and record unpopularity.
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How do Britons see the Greens and Zack Polanski, ahead of the party’s 2026 conference?
Opinion towards the Greens has become more unfavourable in the last year
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Gav Thorpe @gavthorpe.co.uk · 03/10/2026
One of my favourite online people. “I have a very clear idea in my head of how it’s going to go. But it’s not going to go like that. It’s going to go wrong. I’m going to have to learn loads of random skills I didn’t anticipate. But AI is just A to B.”
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‘It’s frustrating to see immoral videos do so well’: how YouTube sensation Half-Asleep Chris sent a rollercoaster to space and made Bella the cat a star
His videos of cats, loopy contraptions and theme park rides round the heavens (and his back garden) have notched up a billion views. We meet Chris Burton in the suburban home where it all happens
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Mark @wils.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Happy #DayofDredd to all Squaxx dek Thargo.
My WIP of 80s Citadel Dredd miniatures.
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mjcarrick.bsky.social @mjcarrick.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
A few shots from the Mother of All Battles gaming event in Sydney today. I’m playing chain of command but haven’t gotten to see most of the other games yet. Steamy with rainy weather around outside but great atmosphere and the CoC event is its usual excellent environment. #tabletopwargaming
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Dogma2097 @dogma2097.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
For #dayofdredd meet the judges and perps of Burnishab. Heading into the fray is Grumpy Boy John with his wee chocolate banana pistoleras.
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Gav Thorpe @gavthorpe.co.uk · 03/10/2026
I really think syllables are better than words as a measure of speaking time… 😉
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Dave Cook @davecook.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
All set up at Oh!Con in Stornoway, and giving live-streamed talks about video game narratives (10:30) and how to self-publish your own comic (15:30) - head on down if you’re in town 👋 ohcon.info
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Culture Ship Names @cultureshipnames.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
GSV (Eccentric) HT @gcu-grey-area.bsky.social
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National Trust @nationaltrust.org.uk · 03/10/2026
We have the best-named machinery ever.
The back of a wheeled trailer with a red sign saying "Trailer Swift"The back of a wheeled trailer with overhanging leaves and a green sign saying "Elizabeth Trailer"The back of a low trailer with a plastic water container on top and a plastic tap. The sticker across the bumper reads "Splash Gordon"A bright orange wheelie trolley with the name "Jack Sparrow the Sack Barrow" printed in white on the side
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Gav Thorpe @gavthorpe.co.uk · 03/10/2026
Why does it look like a Fallout poster?
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Twlldun @twlldun.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Honestly guys isn’t this a bit weird? This is a bit weird
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Gav Thorpe @gavthorpe.co.uk · 03/10/2026
Realistic chimp economies.
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Arion Games @ariongames.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
One and a half days in and just £73 short of the funding goal... 3 or 4 more backers and the artists get the go ahead to start work! www.kickstarter.com/projects/203...
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Aliens and Heroes
Three RPG books for Advanced Fighting Fantasy and Savage Worlds
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John Power Jr. @johnpower.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
This place has incredible underground-temple-dedicated-to-Pan-that-the-recently-returned-from-the-levant-protagonist-of-a-1920s-novel-has-built-in-the-grounds-of-their-newly-acquired-manor energy
A candle lit grotto and stone bathA few of the grotto looking up at the light chimney carved through the rock
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