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Joe Murphy

@joermurphy.bsky.social
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Early career psychologist researching: Do RPG players know if anyone is having fun? (No) RPG writer & editor, brewer, big data, various bits and bobs. Irish childhood survivor. He/him ICQ - 5434131

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Joe Murphy @joermurphy.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
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Joe Murphy @joermurphy.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
@eleanormorton.bsky.social Ophelia (1852)
A photo of a waterlogged Peppa Pig doll floating in a river, surrounded by grass and river flowers, slightly resembling the 1852 painting of Ophelia drowning by John Everett Millais
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Joe Murphy @joermurphy.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
This guy (Pickles) has a very similar pattern! Must be cousins
A tuxedo cat lies stretched out on the ground, out of his gourd on catnip toys
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Joe Murphy @joermurphy.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
@gralefrit.bsky.social I really want a hot buttered rrrhum.
A car with the registration plate 'GY LODGE'
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Joe Murphy @joermurphy.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
If you like clicky clicky there's also Mobile Frame Zero. www.reddit.com/r/MFZ/
A small dark blue and grey underwater mecha made from Lego
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Joe Murphy @joermurphy.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
Near Pilrig
A city garden with purple thistles and one small bee
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Joe Murphy @joermurphy.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
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Joe Murphy @joermurphy.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
Great question! Depends on the game but here's some snippets from the new AW edition.
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Joe Murphy @joermurphy.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
@arcticlass.bsky.social
Advertisement for Crokinole Club at Potions & Rations on Thursday 14 May at 19.00
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Joe Murphy @joermurphy.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
@thisnorthernboy.bsky.social I unreservedly recommend this show, which I've seen thrice.
An advertisement for Dune: The Musical in York on 28 June showing a giant sandworm moving down a cobbled street
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Joe Murphy @joermurphy.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
It's ridiculous isn't it. Maybe a mile from the city centre.
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Joe Murphy @joermurphy.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
@brianbloodaxe.bsky.social What we call your activity on Bluesky
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Joe Murphy @joermurphy.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
@arcticlass.bsky.social :)
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Joe Murphy @joermurphy.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Foraged what is definitely 500g of what is almost certainly wild three-cornered leek. Egg not foraged, just for scale. My eyes. 🥲
A large green plastic bowl contains a huge pile of chopped, pointed green leaves.
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Joe Murphy @joermurphy.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
I like it and you like it but Pickles doesn't like it.
A black and white tuxedo cat looks easily at an outstretched human hand
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Joe Murphy @joermurphy.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
If you see this post something pink
A pink, pale blue and white bipedal mecha made from Lego
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Joe Murphy @joermurphy.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
Completely agree.
A screenshot of a groceries app that includes weird components like chicken ham and fucking onions
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Joe Murphy @joermurphy.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
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Joe Murphy @joermurphy.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
Mine were WiFi-enabled
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Joe Murphy @joermurphy.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
I was walking to the bath and in order to escape from my cat, who hates toes, I held my towel behind my naked arse, and ran like a matador using a wedding dress train. This caused me to stub my toe, pull a muscle, and fall over. He's not even a very big cat.
A black and white tuxedo cat laying in a shaft of sunlight, with his white bits in the sun and black bits in shadow.
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Joe Murphy @joermurphy.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
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Joe Murphy @joermurphy.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
Very open! We next meet up in Jeremiah's Taproom next Thursday 12 March at 7. Come along! There's usually half a dozen players.
Edinburgh Crokinole Club: meet the second Thursday of every month in Jeremiah's Taproom at 7pm.
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Joe Murphy @joermurphy.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
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Joe Murphy @joermurphy.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
A tuxedo cat lying on his back, playing with a twine ball, all in a patch of sunlight
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Joe Murphy @joermurphy.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
@mooneysart.bsky.social Looks like someone 3D printed your stuff.
A museum exhibit of a small 4-wheeled vehicle with cyberpunk vibes. Plastic panels cover small wheels, the windscreen is dark and curvy, and there's lots of stickers applied.
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Joe Murphy @joermurphy.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
There can mew only one
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Joe Murphy @joermurphy.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Mussels are £4!
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Joe Murphy @joermurphy.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
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Joe Murphy @joermurphy.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
His are too little to be useful.
A picture of a black and white tuxedo cat sitting in a cardboard box. He has a suspicious look.
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Joe Murphy @joermurphy.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
My herd of lemonpig
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Joe Murphy @joermurphy.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
And obviously! Lemon Pig. It's so silly. There's numerous people in Leith who have taken it up thanks to me.
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Joe Murphy @joermurphy.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
Cat?
A close up picture of a sleepy tuxedo cat with very big pupils, sleeping on his paws.
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Joe Murphy @joermurphy.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
Got to see him at the Harryhausen exhibition in Edinburgh a few years ago. Magic.
A model of a metal owl, Bubo, designed by Ray Harryhausen. It's about 40cm high with silver foil feathers, wide metal eyes and brass claws
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Joe Murphy @joermurphy.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
What fun. Introduce yourself with four spaceships.
Lego Model 6890, a blue and white spaceship that opens to reveal a little white shuttle. A red Lego spaceman waves from the shuttle.A black and white illustration of the Blitzspear, a spaceship from the Nemesis comic. It looks aggressive, with stripes, spikes and a hook-like nose. A 1970s painted illustration of the Interstellar Queen, an elegant cruiser. A model of the X-Bomber, a spaceship from the 1980s Japanese puppet show, Star Fleet. It's a complex shape, comprising an angular body, block engines and extended pylons.
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Joe Murphy @joermurphy.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
Brexit is great isn't it. Ffs
A picture from a delivery app of a bottle of Merlot, with a price of €4,19
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Joe Murphy @joermurphy.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
Left the last slice for you. :) In Cologne for a few days
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Joe Murphy @joermurphy.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
Best malaprop I've seen in ages
A tweet: 'the spirit enters the body upon conciseness'
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Joe Murphy @joermurphy.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
Pickles stretched out in the sun. The forbidden fluffy zone on show.
A black and white cat stretched out on a windowsill, showing his tummy
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Joe Murphy @joermurphy.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
Pickles. Absolute champion. Backed my wife into a corner to get between her and a threat. Woke us up during a fire. Slept on my head after major surgery. Likes Italian ham and olives.
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Joe Murphy @joermurphy.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
Building Stories by Chris Ware is a wonderful thing that you need to research and compare as much as read. We covered it at a book group and had _very_ different feelings about characters based on the order we read the pieces in.
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Joe Murphy @joermurphy.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
Remarkably similar pic, Moose! This is about 1981. And this apparently communal Kenwood.
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Joe Murphy @joermurphy.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
Post a warning
a warning sign in a car park, with many handwritten responses scrawled on top
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Joe Murphy @joermurphy.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
Me aged 10 (in red) beside a lion (aged 108) and aged 50 (in red) beside the lion (now 158). It's my birthday. :)
A photo of a family by the lion in Trafalgar SquareA photo of me on my 50th birthday wearing a red jacket beside the lion in Trafalgar Square
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Joe Murphy @joermurphy.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
Whoa, edge case there. On the other hand:
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Joe Murphy @joermurphy.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
Yes, and this is a spider.
A picture of a strange monster made from two humans, with 4 arms and 4 legs with two bodies and two heads.
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Joe Murphy @joermurphy.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
Premee! We all immediately need pictures of him. In exchange, I offer some idiot I know.
A black and white tuxedo cat looking plump on a kitchen table
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Joe Murphy @joermurphy.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
Let's get stuck in. @raynewman.bsky.social
On a pub table, a pint of beer beside a fresh copy of Intervals of Darkness, a short story collection by Ray Newman
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Joe Murphy @joermurphy.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
A few formative strands in my #comicsdna
The cover to the comic The Invisibles showing a weird guy in a shiny visor and a redhead with red circles on her cheeksA cover too 2000AD showing a 6 limbed mutant holding various characters including Judge Dredd by their necksThe cover to Scream magazine showing various creepy characters including the grim reaper and an evil computer called Maxthe cover to the comic Asterix and Cleopatra showing asterix, obelix and cleopatra reclining oon a bed with pyramids in the background
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Joe Murphy @joermurphy.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
That's pressure dropped suddenly on the top graph
A series of weather graphs showing low pressure, temperature and increasing wind speed for Storm Eowyn
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Joe Murphy @joermurphy.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
Beautiful live map of #stormeowyn zoom.earth/maps/wind-sp...
a colour map of the weather with swirling patterns for wind and indicators for wind speed
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