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PJ Coffey - They/Them @homebrewandhacking@mastodon.ie @homebrewandhacking.bsky.social · 1h

When you stop getting wood shavings and start getting rubble, perhaps stop scraping? But who am I to tell professional politicians what to do.

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PJ Coffey - They/Them @homebrewandhacking@mastodon.ie @homebrewandhacking.bsky.social · 1h

Incredible boost in polling. If Reform achieved second, it would be a sign of a mandate for a popular uprising. Because it is a progressive, environmentally focused movement, it is a "crushing defeat". The power of people actually getting out onto the street.

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PJ Coffey - They/Them @homebrewandhacking@mastodon.ie @homebrewandhacking.bsky.social · 3h

I think we need more postal votes to get past this active voter suppression. An actual reform from the minority government inducing first past the post system would be amazing. Speaking as a former polling clerk etc.

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PJ Coffey - They/Them @homebrewandhacking@mastodon.ie @homebrewandhacking.bsky.social · 3h

This man does not have young children, or someone else is looking after them. When you have put a child to bed, you're not then going to go out to vote. Especially if you don't drive and it is raining. Other countries suppress the vote a lot less. I think we need more postal votes.

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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 5h

Imagine if Reform had tripled their vote in this election and how the coverage would look...

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Morrus @morrus.bsky.social · 14h

My article about the CERN gaming club is live. There are four video interviews and a documentary coming also, but this is the article part of the coverage. www.enworld.org/threads/we-v...

enworld.org

We visited CERN, played games, and saw antimatter!

CERN--the Conseil Européen pour la Recherche Nucléaire, or the European Council for Nuclear Research--is famous for many things. Based in Geneva, Switzerland, it is a testament to global cooperation, ...

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Izzy.PumpkiNG | comms closed @izzydotpng.bsky.social · 13h

#mörktober 1: goat this piece was inspired, in part, by @gamefiend.bsky.social's call for more black faces in ttrpg stock art. in that spirit, this piece and any other piece i post this month with "mörktober" in the image is free to use for anything, by anyone (except AI skimmers & chuds.) #art

a powerfully built black man, head shaved, in gold silks and joint armor, holding aloft an ikakalaka, astride a huge white mountain goat

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Fernando Salvaterra @salvaterra.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

Do you like weird hand-drawn decorative borders? Because this is how you get weird hand-drawn decorative border: www.patreon.com/posts/januar... #ttrpg #stockart #bwart #darkart

black and white decorative border + spot art/page divider. comprised of abstract organic lines that resembles sea wead. the spot art has a strange hammerhead shark head with three sets of eyes.

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PJ Coffey - They/Them @homebrewandhacking@mastodon.ie @homebrewandhacking.bsky.social · 16h

Apparently Ukraine should just surrender to Russia because it's a superpower. I think not. Just say no to genocidal murderers and their yes men.

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PJ Coffey - They/Them @homebrewandhacking@mastodon.ie @homebrewandhacking.bsky.social · 16h

Arch Conservative Thatcher disagreed. She wrote laws against teaching children LGBTQ. Many people are still dealing with the self-hatred that caused today. Cameron was relying on memory holes to pull people back from the institutionalised hatred his party wrought. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Section...

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Section 28 - Wikipedia

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Ben from Spookily Drawn Swords @glenatron.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The assumption is that it doesn't matter because no human will ever need to understand their output, and that assumption is way bigger than most programmers realise, never mind non-programmers. What I'm seeing is an engine for creating technical debt.

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R. Blaylock Art @meanderingunicorns.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I always try to put the money I earn from comms back into art somehow—ref packs, mutual aid for artists, prints or handmade things, or courses by artists. It’s the circle of art! Right now, comms and tips are going to offset the cost of a painting course. ko-fi.com/rblaylockart...

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Support R. Blaylock Art

Mythic Pets on Ko-Fi

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PJ Coffey - They/Them @homebrewandhacking@mastodon.ie @homebrewandhacking.bsky.social · 18h

It might be simpler to ask if there are Christopher Nolan films you enjoy. 😊

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PJ Coffey - They/Them @homebrewandhacking@mastodon.ie @homebrewandhacking.bsky.social · 18h

Yes. I read the article. Seems like the sort of thing that would be useful for people to know about as it's: 1. Unique 2. Under a CC SRD. But hey. It's not my game.

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PJ Coffey - They/Them @homebrewandhacking@mastodon.ie @homebrewandhacking.bsky.social · 18h

Smite one as an example to the others and see what happens!

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PJ Coffey - They/Them @homebrewandhacking@mastodon.ie @homebrewandhacking.bsky.social · 19h

Anyway, whilst this is true, you'd need some sort of resource with challenge ratings for non-combat exploration etc. Wouldn't a searchable online database be good? Oh... a5e.tools/exploration-... Good work #a5e.

a5e.tools

Exploration Challenges | Level Up

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Phineas @phineas.bsky.social · 20h

It's Wold Octopus Day. Remember to hug your octopus.

O is for Octopus: A screenprint done for a show of alphabet illustrations. A pink-purple octopus posed with its arms all curling around every which way, holding a gold letter 'O' inscribed with a tentacle design. At the bottom there's a human skull nestled within the arms.

CephaLovePod: A screenprint of a red octopus posing with its mantle and arms forming a valentine heart shape. It is wrapped around a harpoon in place of Cupid's arrow.

4 Limbs Bad... 8 Limbs Good.: A screenprint of an orange octopus on the bottom of a sea wrapped around and cradling a broken human femur and a skull. A banner bears the title of the piece.

Octopus Samurai: A screenprint of a pink-ish octopus wearing blue-green Japanese samurai armor and a helmet with a gold crab-shaped crest on the front. The octopus holds a katana in one arm, a wakizashi in another, and a naginata with two other arms.

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PJ Coffey - They/Them @homebrewandhacking@mastodon.ie @homebrewandhacking.bsky.social · 19h

I'll see if I can get a podcast done on it. We haven't covered how to on the industry side for a while.

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PJ Coffey - They/Them @homebrewandhacking@mastodon.ie @homebrewandhacking.bsky.social · 19h

I think someone needs to write an explainer of what stock art means in terms of limited distribution and merchandising rights. I also would love to have some respectful art. IIRC last time you did a request you got a lot of people who don't understand the term (and would benefit if they did).

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PJ Coffey - They/Them @homebrewandhacking@mastodon.ie @homebrewandhacking.bsky.social · 20h

It shouldn't be on writers to report this but a win is a win.

Amazon says this is not a functioning page

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PJ Coffey - They/Them @homebrewandhacking@mastodon.ie @homebrewandhacking.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Doing things right and doing the Right Thing are really hard. Changing to the much easier method of posturing really aids only the management classes in terms of dividing people who do work and create value from each other.

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PJ Coffey - They/Them @homebrewandhacking@mastodon.ie @homebrewandhacking.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Bit of a tangent to the great thread but Patriarchy really does mess up men as well. Stripping themselves of pride in their work and duty and becoming inadequate and unskilled grunters focused on performance of gender rather than The Work.

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Morrus @morrus.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Welp,we've gone behind a login wall for the night. Didn't want to. The AI corps and their scraperbot armies made it impossible to open as the site just goes straight down under the onslaught. You can still register and use the site. Hopefully the bots haven't figured that bit out, though they will.

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PJ Coffey - They/Them @homebrewandhacking@mastodon.ie @homebrewandhacking.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Wednesday night gaming was a mini convention which included: Blades 68, Cairn, Delta Green, Dread, D&D 5.5, And Vampire 6e(!) Across 7 tables. Quite a lot of one shots tbh. 😊

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Rogue Penguin @roguepenguin.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Everybody knows Badger loves mashed potato.

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Pete Fraser @petefrasermusic.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

It totally has to be this. As I discussed in another thread last week, this is complicated by the fact that if you do become ‘that guy’, you are VERY quickly excluded from the kinds of situations and conversations that expose you to knowledge of this behaviour, but the awkward fact is, if enough of…

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PJ Coffey - They/Them @homebrewandhacking@mastodon.ie @homebrewandhacking.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Mmm nothing like the scent of schadenfreude to elevate the spirit. 😊

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PJ Coffey - They/Them @homebrewandhacking@mastodon.ie @homebrewandhacking.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

You were listed as following them. If I was following an account that pivoted to AI, I would want to be told.

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Sarah Madsen @unfetteredmuse.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Since apparently I don't talk about it enough, did you know I have two novels published? WEAVER'S FOLLY is a cyberpunky urban fantasy for fans of Shadowrun and Kim Harrison's Hollows series; WHEN THE STARS BLEED is a space opera for fans of Mass Effect and Firefly! Links below.

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 06/10/2026

I felt very clever when I used this new tool to show the impacts of *NOT* burning fossil fuels thanks to the blood, sweat and tears of climate activists and government policies to deploy tech carbonimpactstracer.com#interactive-...

carbonimpactstracer.com

Carbon Impacts Tracer

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PJ Coffey - They/Them @homebrewandhacking@mastodon.ie @homebrewandhacking.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

This was purely in the context of Actual Play for charity where all proceeds went. Options also included to mess with us, which was also good fun.

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PJ Coffey - They/Them @homebrewandhacking@mastodon.ie @homebrewandhacking.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

In some actual plays for charity, people have paid to fund dice rolls so it didn't seem wildly outlandish to me.

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PJ Coffey - They/Them @homebrewandhacking@mastodon.ie @homebrewandhacking.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

As any politician will tell you, artists should be impoverished and starving in garrets (a sort of upstairs broom closet). Successful creation brings in a lot of other jobs because top quality goblin making and administrative and logistical skills are rarely in the same package.

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PJ Coffey - They/Them @homebrewandhacking@mastodon.ie @homebrewandhacking.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

People actually know how much the video games industry is worth. Fascinating eh.

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PJ Coffey - They/Them @homebrewandhacking@mastodon.ie @homebrewandhacking.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

@jameswallis.bsky.social Is attempting the #BigTable initiative but alas poor SEO means that Las Iguanas is crowding him out of the results. The #TIN is an attempt at getting people together and I run monthly meetings in Southampton which are really helping boost that community.

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Jim Rossignol @rossignol.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

This gets said constantly, but it worth reiterating: Games Workshop being bigger than fishing is important to shout about because you wouldn't know it from government talking points, which are rarely about anything creative or artistic. Growth won't involve fish or steel, it will involve goblins.

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PJ Coffey - They/Them @homebrewandhacking@mastodon.ie @homebrewandhacking.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Exactly. #bigTable is a plan to try and bring the industry together but apparently trying to get cats all going in the same direction is hard.

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PJ Coffey - They/Them @homebrewandhacking@mastodon.ie @homebrewandhacking.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

In addition to being a FTSE100 company, and thus bigger than Greggs. The UK has no idea how much money the Tabletop sector is worth. Nor does Ireland. Board games, war games, card games, even TTRPG. Then the ancillary industries that support them. Tokens, minis, art, boxes, distribution. Unknown.

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PJ Coffey - They/Them @homebrewandhacking@mastodon.ie @homebrewandhacking.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Less beating yourself up with "why can't I just..." "arrgh why am I this way?"? Just less painful really.

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