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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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George Quail @gquail.bsky.social · 16h
Can confirm as a kid at the time, Thunderbirds really did explode for me. Stingray was also fun but I think Captain Scarlet excited me more I picked up the thunderbirds comic (almost all reprints of 60s stories) for quite some time
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George Quail @gquail.bsky.social · 16h
Interrsting that in 2005 we were still relying on 4th Doctor "hat and scarf" imagery, presumably for the older crowd, to sell the connection
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George Quail @gquail.bsky.social · 16h
I fucking love Fabuland, me
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George Quail @gquail.bsky.social · 18h
Yeah, as someone with IBS and with a partner with coeliac i do understand why holiday buffers and dining abroad can be tense. But of course if you have a digestive problem you ask before going what the food options are and don't just expect a Toby Carvery everywhere
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George Quail @gquail.bsky.social · 19h
I am trying to search online to find out more about this. Do you remember any other details about this at all?
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Henry Mance @henrymance.ft.com · 22h
Okay
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George Quail @gquail.bsky.social · 20h
I properly laughed out loud when I realised this was a serious bit.
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Mei 🪽 @meidotwav.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
treat your body like a data center. consume as much water, art and literature as possible. upset local municipalities with your existence.
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George Quail @gquail.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Pew pew pew pew!
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George Quail @gquail.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
(Don't let her fool you into thinking she had cred, she also saw the Bay City Rollers)
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George Quail @gquail.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
I remember as a teen in the 90s being totally bamboozled to learn about the world of early 70s gigs. My mum just casually throwing out "Oh yeah I saw Marc Bolan and the Stones" But you see adverts like this and.... yeah. Yeah you really could amble into some ace lineups.
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George Quail @gquail.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Excellent news @annabelcwrites.bsky.social !
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Gillian Mackay - Scottish Greens @gillianmackaygreen.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
It was a pleasure to be in Glasgow at the unveiling of the Nelson Mandela Statue. While Thatcher’s UK Government labelled Mandela a terrorist, Glasgow gave support, and in 1981 awarded Mandela the Freedom of the City. This statue is a permanent symbol of the struggle against Apartheid.
Gillian Mackay at unveiling of Mandela statue in Glasgow
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George Quail @gquail.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Every one of these AI posters somehow looks identical and also uniquely terribly Is this like the gene for tasting brussel sprouts or coriander? Do some humans just not have the gene to see that AI posters look fucking haufing
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George Quail @gquail.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Its a runnint joke in my nerd group that all the Spanish paint companies - AK, Greenstuff, Scale75 & Vallejo - have various levels of problems and drama attached to them. (Vallejo was mostly union stuff that I /think/ is resolved now?) Army Painter and Coat D'Arms are fairly safe still, right?
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George Quail @gquail.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Honestly my favourite part of the TOTP repeats is the stuff I /don't/ remember, or stuff i didn't like/appreciate at the time but i can now see with distance. But like it or not it's a fairly big deal in this corner of the internet, and lamenting it risks looking like sour grapes
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George Quail @gquail.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
While i appreciate the frustration that old men are talking about their youth rather than interesting modern music... i think it's a bit unreasonable to lament that a Friday night slot thats been happening for years is occuring rather than everyone stopping to admire your personal thoughts
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Big Finish Insider @bigfinish.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
🎄 FREE CHRISTMAS LIVE STREAM! 🎁 Christopher Eccleston and Carole Ann Ford star in a seasonal spectacular, The Ninth Doctor Adventures: The Wash to be streamed live on the official Doctor Who YouTube channel this December. Click bgfn.sh/washls to find out more.
The cover artwork for "The Wash" by Oliver Chenery. It shows the Doctor on the left and Susan on the right, with a sparkling blue background and the Doctor Who logo in the foreground..
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Andy Arthur💃🏰⚓🦌 Threadinburgh 🧵 @threadinburgh.scot · 09/10/2026
I am once again asking/begging cultural, heritage and environmental groups in Edinburgh to stop using Gen AI images of a city that has been photographed from nearly every conceivable angle and for which a vast portfolio rights-free images already exist to use if you don't have a budget to pay
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George Quail @gquail.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
If any of you do see these booster bundles available in the wild, let me know! The ones online are mostly priced 2 or 3 times the original cost by nerd card collectors, because **FOR FUCK'S SAKE** of course they are. Imagine if kids could get given small packs of a kids card game, eh? Madness
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George Quail @gquail.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
@ailsalongmuir.bsky.social commented on kids getting super excited when they saw them mixed in with sweets and chocolates in our bowl - and in particular how a half-dozen teenage girls (all dressed as Bruno Mars) suddenly went from "we're too cool for school" to "OMG THEY HAVE POKÉMON CARDS"
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George Quail @gquail.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
...except, inevitably, for a cheeky Pikachu in the mix. All cards were marked with a little expansion symbol, a Pikachu jack-o-lantern, in the bottom corner to mark them as a reprint for this set. Otherwise they were visually and mechanically identical to the other cards.
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George Quail @gquail.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
The multipacks came out in 2022, 2023 and 2024 - none came out in 2025 but I didn't notice at the time as I had some leftover ones for us. Each one contains many 3-card boosters designed to be given out as a non-edible Halloween gift. All cards were Ghosts, Psychic, Dark and "spooky" Pokémon...
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George Quail @gquail.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Unfortunately, it looks like the Pokemon "Trick or Trade" mini-booster pack bundles they did in some previous years are no longer being made. That's a real shame - giving those away on Halloween got a really big reaction from the kids! (Including some maybe a bit too big to be guising)
The 2022 Pokemon "Trick or Trade" BOOster bundle - a large multipack containing many 3-card Pokemon packs, each with a purple ghostly Pokémon called Gengar on the front.

the multipack is orange with the Gengar in front of a scared/confused Pikachu.  The individual packs are purple to match the Gengar.  The logo has a pumpkin jack-o-lantern styled Pikachu head on it.
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George Quail @gquail.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
On my big King of the Hill rewatch of the first six or so seasons recently - this episode and this moment really got me 👼
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That catgirl with The Posts @roodypatooti.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
greatergirlfriend
never forget what's really important: approval from pervert women on the internet
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Freyja Valentine, Girl IRL Cat URL @freyjavalentine.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
promising you are running an official dnd product and then taking your players through this
the advanced dungeons and dragons beach towel, framed as a grid of squares with walls and doors, rooms filled with iconic dnd monsters. gygax wanted money.
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George Quail @gquail.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
"This post better not awaken anything in me" .... "Ah, shit"
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George Quail @gquail.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Ooooh thats cool
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George Quail @gquail.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I have had an MRI before and my main memory is how noisy it was. However it isn't a hugely long period of time, so just try to pace yourself
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George Quail @gquail.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I guess what I like about these over reissues or missing link is the genuine "new" quality - that feeling that I almost found a hidden 1988 toy The boxes with fake 80s designs also add to that to me.
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George Quail @gquail.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I regret this concept didn't carry on - the idea of "retreaux" toys like this is really fun
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George Quail @gquail.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I shudder to ask what the list of mods you install is like...
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George Quail @gquail.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Wow a truly deep cut there
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Noodles @noodlesnood.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
My current ick is seeing people in the arts use AI for posters/anything at all. I don’t care if you’re a kids choir or a small amateur dramatics group, make your own poster, make it part of *your* art and, crucially, not the same as every other death/agreement machine creation.
An MS paint screen with a white background and pink text which reads “if the flyer is A.I. I ain’t going”
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George Quail @gquail.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
This and its proceeding line genuinely get quoted a lot by @ailsalongmuir.bsky.social and I
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George Quail @gquail.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Jesus fucking Christ that looks bad
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George Quail @gquail.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
OK this made me chuckle. That would be a hell of a historical premise to turn into a game Less a "build a metropolis" and more "survive until the next ship of colonists arrives and gets you the hell out of there"
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George Quail @gquail.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I got JemBlaster because teenage me had a pinky/purple FemmeBlaster OC as part of hisnl little fanfic world because CHRIST i was a weird kid But yeah its a lot for the toys and the cassettes alone much more affordable. But the Kiss Players charms gonna creep out the westerners
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George Quail @gquail.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I'm here for Dead Souls
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__________ @jenbren.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
September 30 October 1st
Siobhán Fahey from Bananarama circa 1985Siobhán Fahey from Shakespear's Sister circa 1992
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George Quail @gquail.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
"If i was married to your spouse I would simply push him the fuck over" *same answer to every letter for sixteen weeks in a row*
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George Quail @gquail.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
There's definitely some more mixed spaces out there, though it is very region specific. Even just in Scotland, for example, Glasgow and Edinburgh feel like they have distinctive RPG scenes Genuinely I think Forbidden Plalnet might have the best indie rpg selection in all of Glasgow
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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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George Quail @gquail.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
@willmill82.co.uk repost this you coward
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George Quail @gquail.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Nerds really do make visiting any club or shop like the fucking island in The Wicker Man
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George Quail @gquail.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
This just feels like the local store owner is a total weirdo TBH, and that their space cultivates those same people. Following from your original story of the Discord message its all just layer and layers of the owner and their henchmen getting weirdly defensive about.... honestly i don't know what
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George Quail @gquail.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Flimbo and Fiendish Freddy really betray your UK computer gaming roots
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