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Kevin Kulp @kevinkulp.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

We have a glorious and rare late-season Storrowing this morning — except it’s on Mem Drive, so I think that makes the truck “Memorialized”! Photo from reddit - www.reddit.com/r/boston/s/S...

A white truck under a low Memorial Drive bridge, roof ripped off, front wheels off the ground. Debris is scattered on the pavement. Rescue workers stand nearby and traffic fills the background.

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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Whelp. After 15 years of me saying “every shark swimming through a flooded city street after a storm photo on social media is fake,” we may finally have a real one. I’m awaiting confirmation from folks with better eyes than mine. abcnews.com/video/136803...

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Shark spotted in New Jersey floodwaters during nor'easter

A dogfish shark was spotted swimming through floodwaters in Surf City, New Jersey, heading up a resident's driveway and then toward Barnegat Bay on Saturday.

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Pelgrane Press @pelgranepress.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Ludonarrative Dissidents put Swords of the Serpentine through its paces in an Actual Play with co-designer Kevin Kulp as GM. Expect fast action, sharp choices, and plenty of Eversink trouble. bit.ly/4xDs5zQ #TTRPG #SotS

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Kevin Kulp @kevinkulp.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

My border collie Yoink: four years of difference!

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Kevin Kulp @kevinkulp.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Years ago I ran across this at a supermarket bread case. My first thought was “CAN DO!” I stuck with tissues instead. Illiteracy is apparently unsanitary.

A (real, not AI) photograph of a sign at a supermarket bread case. It reads

“Please use tongues or tissues
When making your selection
Thank You“

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Crowsmack @crowsmack.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Can confirm this book is so good! I'm playing through Keep on the Borderlands with my family at the moment, and I'm thinking about introducing Bait as an NPC.

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Kevin Kulp @kevinkulp.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

CRAPPY SHARK MOVIE PITCH #763: A girl meets her fairy godmother. Instead of a prince & true love, though, the girl demands her enemies be devoured by sharks—and the horrified fairy godmother is compelled to fulfill her wish until she finds a way to outwit the girl. Title? MAKO WISH FOUNDATION.

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phoenixrising @mmcarthur.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Jason Anderson (UK, b.1970) : Tree in the MidNight Blue, 2025 Acrylic and oil on wood panel 60 x 80 cm Further description in the alt text 👇

Known for his unique style that blends precise geometric mosaic-like patterns with atmospheric abstraction, this artwork captures a glowing tree structure dramatically silhouetted against and reflecting onto a deep, midnight-blue landscape.

The painting showcases his signature pixelated impasto technique, utilizing thick, sculpted patches of oil paint applied with a palette knife to guide the viewer’s eye toward a singular, radiant focal point.

Geometric Abrication:
He simplifies complex natural landscapes into bold, angular planes and blocky, pixel-like tiles.

The "Glow" Effect:
By carefully arranging high-contrast pastel and neon tones, the central tree seems to emit its own vibrant light source, creating a stark juxtaposition against the surrounding dark midnight hues.

Textural Impasto:
The thick, raised edges of the palette knife work add a heavy three-dimensional quality to the surface, allowing the painting to change character depending on how physical light hits it.

Restrained Compositions:
Anderson creates a distinct sense of depth by transitioning from detailed, thick tilework in the focal zones to smooth, hazy, and sweeping gradients toward the edges of the canvas.

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Joanne ⁷ 💜 ⊙⊝⊜ @jmcport.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

I’m reading it now and thoroughly enjoying it. I got put off fantasy a long time ago, but this is bright and fresh and funny as hell and I’m going to hate for it to end.

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Kevin Kulp @kevinkulp.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

This is how I felt about The Dungeon Book as well! Me: “Of course I’ll go walk the dogs! It.. it may be a long walk.”

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Kevin Kulp @kevinkulp.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

I dont usually make book recommendations, but I loved THE DUNGEON BOOK by @mytholder.bsky.social enough that I actually said “I sure as f**k did!” to an empty car when the audiobook finished with “Audible hopes you enjoyed this program.”

The cover of Gareth Hanrahan’s THE DUNGEON BOOK looks like a sepia dungeon map with a fire breathing dragon at the bottom.

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James Wallis @jameswallis.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Meanwhile our Kickstarter backers have access to the penultimate episode of the season, an Actual Play of SWORDS OF THE SERPENTINE, run by the game's co-designer @kevinkulp.bsky.social and with guest-player Vee from Queen's Court Games. Check the website for link: www.ludonarrativedissidents.com

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Kevin Kulp @kevinkulp.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Noah’s Shark comes in at #157/191 crappy shark movies we’ve seen! Our notes read “Wood fondling, zipper exorcisms, extended flashbacks, and a Mount Ararat that looks just like upstate NY. The least awful of Mark Polonia’s shark films, but that's probably not the compliment it sounds like.”

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Kevin Kulp @kevinkulp.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

20 hours left to back MERRYSHIRE DETECTIVE CLUB, my favorite rpg from the past few years. It’s a cozy fantasy mystery game where you play halflings from the Shire solving murder mysteries between second breakfast and afternoon tea. Funny to read, a delight to play. www.backerkit.com/c/projects/p...

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

English stained glass artist Tamsin Abbott, who is inspired by #folklore and nature #WomensArt

Stained glass artwork with image of a rural scene with a hare running in the foreground, a woodpecker on a tree and house in the background on a hill, all against a golden sunset

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AskHistorians @askhistorians.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

If there's one thing we've learned over the years of running the forum, it's that there's a lot of wannabe time travellers who start having second thoughts about the availability of fast food.

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Kevin Kulp @kevinkulp.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

I’m 2/3rds of the way through pulling 24 lbs of slow-smoked pork butt, after already making 15 lbs of really tasty pork belly burnt ends. Briefly considering vegetarianism.

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Kevin Kulp @kevinkulp.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

A THREAD. This week lots of my friends will be driving cross-country to Indianapolis for Gen Con, a big gaming industry convention. They'll also be driving home - and they're way more likely to be exhausted! This seems like a good time to pull out my semi-annual standard advice to keep you alive.

Two sleepy tollers, neither of them driving.

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Kevin Kulp @kevinkulp.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

I’m flying back from Sheboygan with fifteen pounds of fresh cheese curds and made-today string cheese. On the other hand, my flight-that-replaced-a-canceled-flight (that itself replaced a different canceled flight) now gets me home at 3 am. At least we know I won’t starve?

15 lbs of cheese curds and mozzarella sticks.

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Kevin Kulp @kevinkulp.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

We do one of these every year, and it’s pretty much the best. There’s good advice here.

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Hectic Electron is defying raccoons @hecticelectron.com · 21/07/2026

"The Splendid Annunciation of the End of the World" by @kevinkulp.bsky.social introduces a mighty Atlantean entity. The more who know of it, the more powerful it becomes, threatening to shatter even heaven's vault. Will you aid its ambition to further your own or find a way to bury it beyond memory?

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Kevin Kulp @kevinkulp.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

You guys, I think I’ve figured out how Avengers: Doomsday canonically resolves! They’re not showing Squirrel Girl… YET. #tippytoes4Eva

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Kevin Kulp @kevinkulp.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

The 1st edition of @megueyb.bsky.social ‘s Psi*Run is BRILLIANT - recreating the feel of Stephen King’s Firestarter in a RPG that does “holy crap we have no memory and we are running for our lives” so very well. Please grab 2e! I think you’ll be glad you did. www.kickstarter.com/projects/117...

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PsiRun Second Edition

Whoever was holding you captive, you're free, for now. You have superpowers & amnesia. You know they're after you. What could go wrong?

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MegueyB 🔜Metatopia @megueyb.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

3 days to go. $986 to hit the More Art! stretch goal. Back the game, share the link, and hey, ask me any questions! www.kickstarter.com/projects/117...

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PsiRun Second Edition

Whoever was holding you captive, you're free, for now. You have superpowers & amnesia. You know they're after you. What could go wrong?

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Morrus @morrus.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Ugh. Trying to get stock art off Shutterstock and it makes it so hard to avoid the AI slop. Doesn't help that uploaders don't always label it. My current trick is to only use art uploaded before 2021, but that feels like it screws genuine artists uploading new stuff.

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Grant Howitt @gshowitt.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

I used to post a free game on r/RPG every month until they started taking them down as self-promotion. And like; it’s free. It’s a free thing. I haven’t offered a way to pay for it, even. Anyway that was in 2021 and I haven’t used the website since

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Kevin Kulp @kevinkulp.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Tommy Wiseau of The Room has made a shark movie, BIG SHARK - and he sent me a love note! Also, on the back side of the love note, I learn that he really wants me to buy his underwear. Didn’t expect that.

Cover of the BIG SHARK dvd (featuring a very big shark) next to an autographed photo of Tommy Wiseau. Eeeeee!

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Sâmara Lígia ☆ﾟ.*･｡ﾟ @samiligia.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Hello! I'm Sam, a Brazilian artist I'm interested ^^ My portfolio: samiligia.squarespace.com

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Kevin Kulp @kevinkulp.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

Crappy shark movie #190 was WATER PARK SHARK, which we ranked at #122 (below Bikini Shark & Ouija Shark 2). It’s the 1st movie where we are convinced the stinker of a script was written by ChatGPT! Acting was fun, CGI sharks were fun, budget was decent, but the script was bad.

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Kevin Kulp @kevinkulp.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

My dog Yoink loves this lake as much as I do. Today we loved it at 5:30am.

With dawn turning the horizon pink, a border collie swims after a just-thrown floating tennis ball. He leaves a wake behind him.

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Kevin Kulp @kevinkulp.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Today I learned that the European Space Agency has an acoustic testing facility so loud (158 db) that it can kill a person. I desperately want to see this used in a locked room murder mystery. www.esa.int/Enabling_Sup...

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Large European Acoustic Facility (LEAF)

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James Wallis @jameswallis.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

wait I forgot to give you the URL for the Swords of the Serpentine episode. It's here: www.ludonarrativedissidents.com/season-3-epi... (another drum roll pls)

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Season 3 episode 24: Swords of the Serpentine – Ludonarrative Dissidents

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James Wallis @jameswallis.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

...was a goddess as well as a city, and full of swashbucklers and merchants and cultists?" Great game, huge fun conversation. We'll be following that up with an actual-play of the game run by its co-designer @kevinkulp.bsky.social , and then our final release of the season is (drum roll pls) (cont.)

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James Wallis @jameswallis.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Season 3 of Ludonarrative Dissidents is drawing to a slow close: our backers have just received ep.25, about DIALECT, a game abut 'language and how it dies'. Meanwhile ep.24 is now on general release, delving into SWORDS OF THE SERPENTINE, the RPG that answers the question 'What if Venice... (cont.)

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Kevin Kulp @kevinkulp.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

No take only throw NO TAKE ONLY THROW

Close-up of a red dog with a grungy tennis ball in her mouth.

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John Harper @johnharper.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Eleonor's work is so amazing! A constant source of inspiration.

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Gareth Hanrahan @mytholder.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

Reposting for the evening crowd...

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Gareth Hanrahan @mytholder.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

A grubby, run-down local museum dedicated to a dungeon. A few broken ten-foot poles, mostly Victorian replicas. A copy of the book of poems written by some Byronic dungeon crawler in the 1700s. Early 20th century dungeon miners, staring hollow-eyed out of black-and-white photographs.

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Grandiloquent Word of the Day @grandiloquentwords.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

Wonderclout (n.) - Something showy in appearance but that’s utterly worthless. “The druxy oligarch, a meretricious wonderclout, doddered his way to the sacellum for a garishly Barnumized token balop featuring an awkwardly perfunctory rictus and the cack-handed wielding of a sacrosanct enchiridion.”

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wade of mutilation @waderockett.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Flipping heck indeed: Swords of the Serpentine, Fábula Última (which I’ve heard good things about), The One Ring, TimeWatch, Urban Shadows 2e, Fantasy AGE, Ashen Stars, Star Trek Adventures 2e, If I Were a Lich, Man, AND MORE. An incredible bundle.

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The Nerdy Lawyer @nerdylawyer.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

Now you've got me watching the entire 11 Foot 8 archives, I hope you're happy.

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Kevin Kulp @kevinkulp.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

If you know Boston, you’ll appreciate this. A perfect Storrowing! (Photo from reddit - www.reddit.com/r/boston/s/R...)

A Ryder truck with the entire roof peeled away by a low bridge on Storrow Drive in Boston.

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Kevin Kulp @kevinkulp.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

36 hours left. I gleefully backed this – it’s a good heist game and right now it’s incredibly cathartic. Take a look!

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