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George Quail

@gquail.bsky.social
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Glaswegian nerd, with particular interest in RPGs, wargames, board games & nervous breakdowns. Yes, the sideburns are real. He/Him.

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Siobhán Fahey from Bananarama circa 1985Siobhán Fahey from Shakespear's Sister circa 1992
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David Willoughby @davidwilloughby.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Here’s Poly's iconic - & it is iconic - outfit from The Music is Black: A British Story exhibition at V&A East
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New-Cleckit Dominie @ncdominie.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Just saw folk who join the uncritical rush towards AI referred to as "LLMings", and I am stealing that.
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Vintage Pixel Game: Lemmings
Alt: Vintage Pixel Game: Lemmings
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Natphoenix (available for commission)🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @natphoenix25.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Bridging the gap between G1 and G2, it's Euro G1! #Transformers #TransformersFanArt #G1 #EuroG1 #Macaddam #Thunderclash
A Cybertronian street scene. Several Euro G1 Transformes characters (plus Jetfire, Cliffjumper and Sizzle) go about their business. Thunderclash is walking with Hyperdrive.
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fesshole 🧻 @fesshole.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
My girlfriend has started to notice that I'm on my phone in the middle of the night and I'm taking it into the bath with me. She probably thinks im having an affair but in reality I'm trying to hide all the expensive warhammer 40k stuff I'm buying for my new Ork army.
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Sooz Kempner @soozuk.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
During lockdown I was lucky enough to be a contributor on QueenPod, the official Queen podcast (band not lady). We dissected each album track by track but couldn't do them all coz everyone got busy etc. A couple of weeks ago I was recognised by a guy in a bar from my voice coz he loved QueenPod.
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onlycans @onlycans.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
beat andy burnham's half marathon time by time by ten minutes and he doesn't even take cross sex hormones. andy burnham must resign.
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The Oldhammer Fiction Podcast @oldhammerpodcast.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The key sources for warhammer: Morcock, Tolkein, Teddy Ruxpin
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Them Fatale, @mxthemfatale.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I wont name or tag as i don't want to embarrass anyone, however there are some absolutely legendary authors and writers donating to the Crowdfunder and its beautiful. From all over the world.
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George Quail @gquail.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
This was the first David Bowie album i ever bought - a pack of two CDs of archival 60s stuff and then a CD with a new concert aired on BBC that year
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Liz Climo @lizclimo.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
New designs available in my @threadless.bsky.social shop 💝 lizclimo.threadless.com
Pomeranian dog wearing a pink cowboy hat is looking in a hand mirror. Text says “Find out who you are and do it on purpose -Dolly Parton”
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Duncan Hothersall @dhothersall.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
"We are not the party of Donald Dewar and Wendy Alexander any more... We have long-since become a party of permanently grumpy opposition, which follows public opinion rather than leading it, which cowers under attack rather than holding its head high, which fears the mob instead of facing it down."
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Dear Michael
Labour Hame editor Duncan Hothersall writes to the new Scottish Labour leader Michael Marra about the desperate need to change the party’s direction of travel. Dear Michael, Congratulations o…
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Devon Dympsy @devondympsy.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Love this... (artist: Janis Goodman)
Image shows a drawing by artist Janis Goodman and it shows a huge computer that is plugged into 4 electrical sockets and is guzzling water via a hose attached to 2 taps. There is a woman sat nearby. This drawing is titled "The Data Centre Who Came To Tea"
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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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Pop Arena @poparena.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
It looks like Greta Gerwig and Emma Mackey are going a different direction for this Magician's Nephew film, which is fine, I'm looking forward to it, but I do want to pour one out for the book version of Jadis, one of the OG Sexy Giant Evil Women of fiction.
Jadis, the Last Queen of Charn, the future White Witch, seven feet tall, riding barefoot atop of a carriage, proudly swinging a whip. Hot.Jadis, the Last Queen of Charn, the future White Witch, seven feet tall, a sorceress who spoke the Deplorable Word to destroy all life but herself, stands tall as the victor of her court. Hot.Jadis, the Last Queen of Charn, the future White Witch, seven feet tall, commands the simp magician Andrew Ketterley to bow, for this is now her world to conquer. Hot.
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George Quail @gquail.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
I did attend a Wimpy kid's party as a child. It's exacrly as low rent as you'd imagine
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Mily @milymentalist.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
@mlyp.bsky.social I think you might enjoy seeing the trainwreck the loop tour team has set up trying to find a replacement for Beoga. The submissions are as glorious as you can expect. openforlegends.guitarcenter.com/campaign/ope...
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Guitar Center Open For Legends
Guitar Center Open for Legends is a brand-new competition series elevating undiscovered musicians to a global platform, beginning with the chance to open for Ed Sheeran at his LOOP Tour show in Mexico...
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Michael Harker @michaelharker.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
From: brilliantmaps.beehiiv.com
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It's Pipes, Mum! Pipes is here! @scriblit.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
The person with the music written on their arse from Hieronymus Bosch's Garden of Earthly Delights has pulled out of Ed Sheeran's tour
A bare bum with music written on it. Someone is pointing at it all 'look! Arse music!'
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Dan of the Year @downwithdan.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Since we're all rightfully shitting on Ed Sheeran, don't forget this gem
'Excuse me, can I have another glass of wine'
'I'm Ed Sheeran'
'Ok Ed get me another glass'
Daily Mail Celebrity • @DailyMailCe...
Ed Sheeran gets mistaken for a waiter by Amy Lee at the #Grammys
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The Floppy Guy 🌈💾 @floppyguy.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
New Life 🏳️‍⚧️🍄 #translivesmatter #transgender #floppydisks #floppydiskart #mariobros
3.5" floppy disks arranged on a floor in such a way as to resemble the 1-Up Mushroom from Super Mario Bros. The traditional red/white or green/white has been replaced with blue/pink/white as a tribute to the Transgender Pride flag
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Matt Bors @mattbors.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
It was exactly ten years ago today, on my 33rd birthday, that I posted this comic online.
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Alien vs. Predator Galaxy @avpgalaxy.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Here's another closer look at Alien: Earth's Weyland-Yutani APC parked outside of a Wey-Yu branded building! Via u/adakin01. Read more: www.avpgalaxy.net/2026/09/13/w... #AlienEarth #Alien #WeylandYutani #NoahHawley #OnLocation
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🐺Cold🪦Sam🪾 @pdfmerchant.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
in 1627 someone published a text called 'Woe to Drunkards' with an honest to goodness Chad knight vs. Virgin fop meme
"In a woodcut on the title-page of 'Woe to Drunkards,' a sermon preached by Samuel Ward, of Ipswich, 1627, the vices of that age are typically contrasted with the virtues of a former one. In the upper compartment we are shown what men were of old by the open Bible, the foot in the stirrup, and the hand grasping the lance; while in the lower, the degeneracy of their descendants is typified by the leg and foot, decorated with a broad silk garter and a large rosette; by cards and dice, and a hand holding at the same time a lighted pipe and a drinking cup with a cockatrice in it. Twenty years afterwards, these types would have been more strictly applicable, with the inscriptions merely transposed."

Excerpt from: Facts and Speculations on the Origin and History of Playing Cards, William Andrew Chatto, 2014
www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/45584
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Rik @slightlyonfire.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
(… not Dief though, he’d quickly be bewitched by the ring looking like a donut)
Constable Benton Fraser of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (and Diefenbaker). He first came to Chicago on the trail of his father’s killers and…
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Steven Perkins @stevenperkins.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
happy 10th anniversary to “they’re good dogs Brent”
Thread of Twitter posts from 12 September 2016:
@brant tweets to @dog_rates: “your rating system sucks. Just change your name to ‘CuteDogs’.”
@dog_rates replies “Why are you so mad Bront”
@brant replies “well you give every dog 11s and 12s. It doesn’t even make any sense.”
@dog_rates replies “they’re good dogs Brent”
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Jonny Morris @jonnymorris.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
The best thing about Blake's 7 will always be its many futuristic board games.
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Draculosity Jones: Ghost Skeleton @brainmage.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
I think about this HST paragraph a lot. From www.espn.com/espn/page2/s...
The towers are gone now, reduced to bloody rubble, along with all hopes for Peace in Our Time, in the United States or any other country. Make no mistake about it: We are At War now -- with somebody -- and we will stay At War with that mysterious Enemy for the rest of our lives.
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Oakbound Studio @oakboundstudio.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
It will soon be here... Strictly limited to 100 copies, don't miss out on yours! On sale Friday 11th September at Oakbound.co.uk
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Ed Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
If you're not old enough to remember 9/11, remember that when the Tonight Show returned to the air on 9/17/01 the musical guest was Alien Ant Farm dressed up as American flags playing "smooth criminal", and it's a pretty good microcosm of what the 2-3 years after 9/11 were like.
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Alien Ant Farm - Smooth Criminal (Live - Leno)
YouTube video by Faders Up
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alix e. harrow @alixeharrow.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
sorry, but torturing the omelas kid is just a smart move, polling-wise. i personally wish there wasn't a kid in the omelas hole--of course i do!--but let's not get distracted by purity tests, here.
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Artwork of Stephen Byrne @stephenbyrne86.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
If elected, the following video game features will be punishable by up to 5 years in prison. - Stealth sections that make you start over if caught. - Slow sideways shimmy through a crevice. - 30mins of cutscenes before you get to gameplay. - Forced walk and talks while someone delivers exposition.
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Austin Kelmore @austinkelmore.com · 10/09/2026
Closing out the rally, @nershly.bsky.social beautifully speaks about her experience being fired by Rockstar and how they try to use fear.
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Chris Reeves @chrisreeves3d.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Demonising people with physical and mental disability was what the Nazis did before eventually exterminating them. encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/a...
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The Murder of People with Disabilities | Holocaust Encyclopedia
At the beginning of WWII, people with mental or physical disabilities were targeted for murder in what the Nazis called the T-4, or "euthanasia," program.
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Anjali Dayal @anjalikdayal.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
It’s 25 years since 9/11 and it’s now more publicly acceptable to be a bigot than it was then, which is really saying something
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Temple Phoenix @templephoenix.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
The BBC: His actions may be controversial to some but it's clear that Starscream has legitimate concerns regarding the direction of Megatron's leadership
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George Quail @gquail.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Genuinely thought this might be Zardoz for a second
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Neil Slorance @neilslorance.com · 06/09/2026
Here 👏 We 👏 Go 👏
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Anatoly Shashkin💾 @dosnostalgic.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
It's NOT safe to turn off your computer.
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Wreck the knucklechucks @ladywreck.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
The Cullen family, who will have a Funeral for Peter a week from today have asked in place of flowers or gifts send a donation to Make-A-Wish or Gary Sinise Foundations. My youngest son was awarded a Make-A-Wish this last year. It's a Foundation near and dear to my heart.
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Funbie Studios @funbiestudios.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
With the current lineup of SS86 Decepticons now, let's create some printable Energon cubes for them to be displayed with. There are 5 cube variants and also a cube generation effect part for Soundwave. #3dprint files now up at www.patreon.com/posts/168670396!
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The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Seems the difference between ‘protestors’ and ‘terrorists’ is that protestors wear balaclavas while terrorists hold placards.
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The Onion @theonion.com · 04/09/2026
Journalism's most heroic moment is back in print. Become an Onion member, and get a reissue of our historic 9/11 edition. membership.theonion.com/totepromo/?…
Journalism's most heroic moment is back in print. Become an Onion member, and get a reissue of our historic 9/11 edition.
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DeadGamerUK @dadgamer.uk · 04/09/2026
It seems gaming has found its own Don Estelle
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George Quail @gquail.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
On the coach to Edinburgh to go to @tabletopscot.bsky.social , partly for fun and partly with my @criticalchance.bsky.social hat on. Listening to the end of Monday's @noiseboxradio.com show by @benbaker.bsky.social as I travel - at number 5 of the anthems top 50.
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Andy Lewis @andylewis.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
When my dad interviewed Basil Brush for the Watford Talking Newspaper in 1977, Basil's operator insisted the microphone be pointed at Basil at all times. It was my first practical demonstration of the value of an omnidirectional microphone.
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Thew Adams @toygrind.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
God I can't stand what google has become. I don't need to know what gemini thinks I mean by the phrase "shit 1980s fireplace" just show me a fucking jpeg
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Critical Chance Collective @ Tabletop Scotland I-10 @criticalchance.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
All four Directors of CCC will be at @tabletopscot.bsky.social, not just to talk about our work and share our passion with you... but also to visit some of the other lovely stalls on display, some whom are friends of CCC! If you're attending Tabletop Scotland too..... what's on your to-do list?
A shot of a ruled piece of note paper, with hand written comments

TO DO

●Buy More Dice
●Say Hello To Venger's Decks
●Visit The Free League Publishing Stall
●Admire The Art Of Lost Haven Studio 
●Buy Yet More Dice From ChaosCurios
●Wear A Tasteless, Loud Shirt

The top and bottom items are scored through, as though already completed.

This is an edited screenshot of the 2019 Computer Game "Untitled Goose Game", made with the help of Alice Averlong's "Death Generator" website.
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Andy Foster (Heresy Miniatures) @heresyminiatures.com · 01/09/2026
Worth a read if you were a fan of Freddie Mercury at all www.theguardian.com/music/2026/s...
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The extraordinary untold story of Freddie Mercury: Mary Austin on her best friend – and love of her life
He was Queen’s flamboyant frontman. She was his shy girlfriend, dreaming of marriage until they both realised he preferred men. Thirty-five years after his death, in the week he would have turned 80, ...
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Critical Chance Collective @ Tabletop Scotland I-10 @criticalchance.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
It's just a few days now until Tabletop Scotland in Edinburgh - and Critical Chance Collective will be there. All four of our directors will be manning the CCC stall at various points over the weekend - 4th, 5th & 6th September - and will be happy to talk to you about our work.
A copy of the floor plan for Tabletop Scotland 2026, in which a large blue arrow points towards table I-10 on one of the sides of the hall and a caption notes "WE ARE HERE! TABLE I-10"
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