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Nick is back @ikdenick.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

currently reading up on the first couple of post-1066 Kings of England and... wow they really loved the name MATILDA for their wives and daughters at the time, huh? Isabella and Eleanore also wildly popular. My favourite though is BERENGARIA

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Politics UK @politicsuk.com · 28/09/2026

🚨 BREAKING: Andy Burnham is set to signal the end of the state pension triple lock in his conference speech tomorrow [@Telegraph]

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Nick is back @ikdenick.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

D&D is weird man (from my notes)

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Nick is back @ikdenick.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

was reading an article in the Ordinaris dingsdaeghse courante, one of the oldest newspapers in the Netherlands, from 1645, and I love how there are already ads in it (in this case, for books)

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John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 24/09/2026

Everyone, stop what you are doing. I've discovered there is a politician called Teresa May running for city council in British Columbia. And this is from one of her campaign videos. Never have two people with the same name had such different vibes.

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ma_danni_Lex @glitterstrands.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

OUBLE BOGE

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Association for Scottish Literature @asls.org.uk · 23/09/2026

Scottish Workmanship at the Jacobean & Tudor Courts 6 Oct, Oxford – free Explore the arts of calligraphy, embroidery & bookbinding as practised in the 16th & 17th centuries by Esther Inglis, creator of exquisite miniature manuscripts #EarlyModern #C16 #C17 visit.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/event/2026/o...

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The Manuscripts of Esther Inglis in Oxford Libraries

Free talk at the Weston Library. Explore the arts of calligraphy, embroidery and bookbinding as practised by Esther Inglis, creator of exquisite miniature manuscripts

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Nick is back @ikdenick.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

the more I read about GURPS the more I want to run something in it

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Nick is back @ikdenick.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

lots of tweets about the Troye MV revealing that the past is a big blob to some people... I've seen it described as Wuthering Heights? 😭

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Nick is back @ikdenick.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

The New Troy Sivan MV. There is one scene in particular that speaks to me.

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Nick is back @ikdenick.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

will having a glass of red wine with my dinner tonight cure my anxiety y/n

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Nick is back @ikdenick.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

burying the lede, apparently the sale is also for London

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Nick is back @ikdenick.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Am currently experiencing some sort of semi-constant anxiety at the moment so bear with me while I try and find my zen somehow.

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Nick is back @ikdenick.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I can't explain it but the older the French writing is, the easier I find it to follow along and understand (within limits)

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Nick is back @ikdenick.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Things I was frightened of as a child: The Dark Raised voices Shapeshifters

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Nick is back @ikdenick.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I sort of pivoted what I did with my account and now I have a lot of very serious academics following me and I really appreciate it and them, but the urge remains to post the lightest of thirst traps.

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Nick is back @ikdenick.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Was listening to this last night and really enjoyed it - anyone got any recommendations for similar? I realise this is a vague request but I do not know where to start.

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Nick is back @ikdenick.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Sometimes I think RETVRN... no need to worry about your outfit or clothing combinations anymore. You simply wake up and you wear The Outfit. It is the only one you have.

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Nick is back @ikdenick.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

I am a coward and will never get around to actually playing any horror games (even when I owned Resident Evil 4 on the GC back in the day I had my friends play it for me), so I decided to just read the plot summaries of all Resident Evil games on Wikipedia instead

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Nick is back @ikdenick.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Underrated aspect of a good laptop: I looooove typing on my new Neo. The keyboard is so pleasant to work with - almost more so than the wireless keyboard I use at home. It just love going CLICKITY CLACKITY on it as much as possible.

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Nick is back @ikdenick.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Rotated through a bunch of options for lore keeping/campaign management (Notion, Google Docs, World Anvil, Kanka, Legendkeeper), yet ended up settling on Obisidian, which I'd earlier rejected for seeming both too bland and too complicated.

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Nick is back @ikdenick.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

closed my wardrobe and saw my own movement in the mirror and YELPED in panic as if there were an intruder in the flat

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Nick is back @ikdenick.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Right, announcement: I already know too many Matts, Alexes, Nicks, Toms, and Adams. I am now also PAUSING new acquaintances named Louis. I know TOO MANY.

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Nick is back @ikdenick.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

I have found that I actually work harder and more focused when I "work from home" somewhere else (e.g. a cafe, a library, abroad) because part of me feels really guilty about it and so I compensate by being super on top of things

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Nick is back @ikdenick.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

do I know anyone who's got a pile of untranslated Dutch archival material lying around?

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Nick is back @ikdenick.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

vergeet "beste", ik wil aangesproken worden met "Hoochgheleerde wyse discrete seer voorsinnighe Heere".

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Nick is back @ikdenick.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

One of my favourite things about reading 17th-century Dutch is that there are a lot of words that are no longer in use in modern Dutch that are clearly cognate with common terms in modern English (e.g. "apparentelijck" vs apparently), and vice versa.

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Nick is back @ikdenick.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Hugo Grotius at 16. Rough hairline for that age.

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Nick is back @ikdenick.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

I fear I may have to read mare liberum : (

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Nick is back @ikdenick.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

anyone with UK PhD experience want to tell me why this is a terrible/the best idea for me?

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Nick is back @ikdenick.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

you know if I did a PhD I would be poorer and have even worse career prospects but I would also have a visa so who's to say if it's good or bad

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Nick is back @ikdenick.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Was going to watch Return of the King Extended tonight but quickly realised 8:30 is TOO late to start that one if I am trying to get to bed on time

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Nick is back @ikdenick.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

in a very Tolkien time of my life

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Nick is back @ikdenick.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Did second one-shot of Nimble! Almost a year after the first one too Anyway, still convinced it's the most fun system for heroic fantasy *in the vein of* D&D, but just more fast-paced, easier to prep and play, and with far more combat options.

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Nick is back @ikdenick.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

What's an official 5e/5.5e D&D rule that we think is most often misapplied/misunderstood at tables? With the caveat of course that there are as many rules as there are tables and they are all valid ways of playing as long as you have fun, yadda yadda yadda

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Nick is back @ikdenick.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Martin's first words after coming to from general anaesthesia

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

hey people sorry if some of you breeze past this part but it’s Friday. We do AI discourse on Wednesday and Thursday. Friday is for stuff that rocks and is actually fun. It’s in the TOS & the packet you got at orientation. get it together please

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Tyron @tyron.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

𝘚𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘵𝘪𝘮𝘦𝘴 𝘐 𝘭𝘪𝘬𝘦 𝘵𝘰 𝘫𝘶𝘴𝘵 𝘩𝘪𝘥𝘦 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘩𝘢𝘥𝘰𝘸𝘴... 𝘤𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘵𝘦 𝘢 𝘯𝘦𝘸 𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘴𝘰𝘯𝘢... 𝘢 𝘣𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘯𝘦𝘸 𝘪𝘥𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘵𝘺... 𝘐 𝘧𝘦𝘦𝘭 𝘴𝘰 𝘧𝘳𝘦𝘦𝘦𝘦𝘦𝘦𝘦𝘦

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Nick is back @ikdenick.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

I love working from home I can have my breakfast like God intended: in small instalments between waking up and lunchtime

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Nick is back @ikdenick.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

have been complaining about not getting enough sleep for like well over a week now, but am I still coping well? no. am I doing anything to fix it? also no.

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Nick is back @ikdenick.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

like I don't need an app to tell me I have not been sleeping enough - I just started getting random muscle spasms in my arm.

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Nick is back @ikdenick.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

could not catch me doing anything that scores my sleep because I do NOT need another metric to worry or obsess over

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Nick is back @ikdenick.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Bluesky loves to tell me my post failed to upload when it has, in fact, uploaded

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