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Neil Webber @larpsidekick.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Cable Street. It’s complaining about politics in a description of the Battle of Cable Street. Faaaaahhkin Ell.

Neil Webber @larpsidekick.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Just saw someone comment “a pity politics had to creep in to this otherwise historical record” and you will never guess what it’s about.

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Neil Webber @larpsidekick.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Morning Womble hope alls well! Continuing with Tunisgrad by Saul David, but I have an office/hobby room that needs sorting seriously so I expect minimal progress today…

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Neil Webber @larpsidekick.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Yes, (3) especially feels very difficult to navigate if you want a playable Germany in WW2. Impossible to have the player do the vast crimes of the Nazis, wrong to have them be the Nazis without virulent, murderous anti-semitism and racism

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Andy Clark of the living dead @andycruns.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Mini of the month - Tanks for the memories Entry 15 by @loganshobbylair.bsky.social "Grot Tank Kitbash" #Nerdlings #MiniOfTheMonth

"The front right view of a Grot tank painted in the Blue and white colors of the Deathskulls klan of Orks. Visible weld marks are present along the main gun and a scavenged red barrel that houses a number of exhaust stacks, rivets securing a number of extra armor plates, field repairs, and decorative "teef". Looted guard equipment is hanging from the tank's turret, and a skull is mounted at the top of the tanks antenna. The tank treads are caked in orange red dust kicked up from the environment."

"The front left view of a Grot tank painted in the Blue and white colors of the Deathskulls klan of Orks. Visible weld marks are present along the main gun and a scavenged red barrel that houses a number of exhaust stacks, rivets securing a number of extra armor plates, field repairs, and decorative "teef". Looted guard equipment is hanging from the tank's turret, and a skull is mounted at the top of the tanks antenna. The tank treads are caked in orange red dust kicked up from the environment."

"The rear left view of a Grot tank painted in the Blue and white colors of the Deathskulls klan of Orks. Visible weld marks are present along the main gun and a scavenged red barrel that houses a number of exhaust stacks, rivets securing a number of extra armor plates, field repairs, and decorative "teef". Looted guard equipment is hanging from the tank's turret, and a skull is mounted at the top of the tanks antenna. The tank treads are caked in orange red dust kicked up from the environment."

"The rear right view of a Grot tank painted in the Blue and white colors of the Deathskulls klan of Orks. Visible weld marks are present along the main gun and a scavenged red barrel that houses a number of exhaust stacks, rivets securing a number of extra armor plates, field repairs, and decorative "teef". Looted guard equipment is hanging from the tank's turret, and a skull is mounted at the top of the tanks antenna. The tank treads are caked in orange red dust kicked up from the environment."

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Andy Clark of the living dead @andycruns.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Mini of the month - Tanks for the memories Entry 12 by @owolf.bsky.social Da Pink Pantha (or seven Grots in a pile of scrap) #Nerdlings #MiniOfTheMonth

Da Revolushun is going well and da Gobbo’a from da Grot Freedom Committey are buildin mightey Waaghmachines from da Scrapyards of da Empereum. Dis one is moe Dakka and Zapp than is good for itself but it makes da Oppressa‘s runnin‘.

Libaté - Egalyté - Frataneyté!

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Andy Clark of the living dead @andycruns.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Mini of the month - Tanks for the memories Entry 7 by @thatbennett.bsky.social "Little Monster" #Nerdlings #MiniOfTheMonth

Front-left view of a very squat custom Chaos Wardog Brigand, built around a Dakkarig's legs and an Onager's turret/hull, painted in various shades of green, brown, and corroded metals.

Left view of the same Wardog, showing a tarnished icon of Nurgle embossed on the hull.

Close-right view of the Wardog showing tiny "Little Monster" graffiti on the hull.

Close up view of the top hatch showing a Nurgling peeking out.

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Andy Clark of the living dead @andycruns.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Mini of the month - Tanks for the memories Entry 6 by @tammi.bsky.social Mr Rumbles, Hero of the Revolution!! And Keiko! #Nerdlings #MiniOfTheMonth

A close-up glamour shot of the gloriously pink Hero of the Revolution, Mr Rumbles, an armoured fighting vehicle with all-terrain tracks, extra armour, a large calibre heavy machine gun and cute little ears welded to his turret. His green sensor lens is bright, like his future, and he proudly wears the number 4 of his former unit - 4 The Revolution! Blurred by distance behind him is Keiko, pointing the way.

Among the rubble and ruins, Mr Rumbles, machine gun pointing up and forward, is alert and ready to follow the mission of his friend and companion at his side, Keiko! She has her arm out, showing the way, and looks fabulous in her pink jumpsuit that matches Mr Rumbles' armour plating! She carries a sub-machine gun and wears ear defenders with extra cat ears, just like her robot buddy! You guessed it, it was Keiko that welded those ears onto the turret of the broken AFV-4 and named him Mr Rumbles after she reactivated him.

A sad Mr Rumbles tilts his turret down as he realises the mission involves yet more death and destruction. Sure, he's a top-of-the-range armoured fighting vehicle, he was built for this, and Keiko seems happy when he's all BLAM-BA-BLAM-BA-BLAM and turning the Bad Guys into meat chunks, but isn't there more to life? Keiko hasn't even noticed he's sad.
Oh well.

A top-down view as Mr Rumbles and Keiko advance through the rubble heading to victory.

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Andy Clark of the living dead @andycruns.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Mini of the month - Tanks for the memories Entry 5 by @grumpykiltpin.bsky.social Made From Girders #Nerdlings #MiniOfTheMonth

A scavenged Space Marine Rhino with a Whirlwind missile launcher has been pressed into service by a group of grots. The fact that it stopped working didn't stop them. They just added some big wheels and are have it dragged around by two enormous armoured beasts. It has been (badly) painted bright orange and blue.

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Andy Clark of the living dead @andycruns.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Mini of the month - Tanks for the memories Entry 4 by @tristanwelsh.bsky.social Maximum Goberdrive #Nerdlings #MiniOfTheMonth

A large red scratch built Grot Tank with a huge green goblin head for the turret. The tanks barrel is sticking out in place of it's nose and a large blue hat can be seen on top. The hat has a hinge near the top where the tip is opened up revealing a Grot with a large machine gun. On top of the hat is a Git holding on for dear life with a large artillery shell on top of it's head.

The tank is covered with many other Grots and Gitz. Some riding on the end of the barrel, others sticking out the aides of the tank with a variety of weapons. One is even hanging from the large ear of the goblin turret head. Two large boosters can be seen on the back of the tank. The whole thing is heavily weathered with chipping and rustball over.

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Neil Webber @larpsidekick.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I wonder if this has been regularised for the World Cup, or if MAGA has managed to reduce visitors to the US by 2M year on year while hosting the biggest sporting event in the world…

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Neil Webber @larpsidekick.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

My problem is I’m a big fan of the trilogies by Ian W Toll and John C McManus. But for a single book, I think Tully and Parshall’s Shattered Sword is a simply excellent piece of history, taking advantage of their ability to access Japanese sources to reevaluate Midway

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Neil Webber @larpsidekick.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

This whole thing is a sub plot in a Guy Ritchie film.

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Neil Webber @larpsidekick.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Very much enjoyed Star Wars Zero Company. Really good story, set in the late Clone Wars. Some fab little cameos, and Hawks goes into the “best protagonist” list. Fun twist on the X-Com gameplay with different action points. Worth a play

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Casey S. Pumpkins 🎃 @caseyexplosion.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The cluelessness of this reminds me a lot of the NFT grift. The thing about NFTs was that it was mainly something finance bros were into, and when they were trying to worm their way into gaming, their pitches were an abyssal trench of bad ideas because they couldn't grasp why people played games.

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Neil Webber @larpsidekick.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Morning Womble hope alls well! I just finished the brilliant Servus by Emma Southon - if anyone has any interest in Ancient Rome they should read it! Now reading Tunisgrad by Saul David

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Neil Webber @larpsidekick.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

The importance of shaft maintenance…

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Neil Webber @larpsidekick.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Thank you @emmasouthon.bsky.social for the magnificent Servus. Properly and scholarly ripping down any rose tinted view of Roman slavery, in the most readable package Righteously angry in the best way, it’s brought to the forefront those people who have been background and forgotten. Brilliant

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Here's today's column on the astonishing, ongoing mistreatment of people with #ME/CFS. Please spread it far and wide: the only thing which can break the media's wall of indifference is seeing an article about the issue go viral. Thank you. 1/2 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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Abandoned, dismissed and gaslighted: there is no excuse for the way ME sufferers have been betrayed | George Monbiot

Changes in guidance and science seem to have little impact on millions of devastated lives. It’s a social crisis playing out behind closed doors, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

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Neil Webber @larpsidekick.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Threads like this are why BA gave up using the tag “the world’s favourite airline”, because it seems they’re actively trying to make people hate them

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Dave Gilbert @wadjeteyegames.com · 22/09/2026

Nighthawks is OUT! When the sun sets, outcasts rise. Gather new friends, face old prejudices, and prepare to seize the night in Nighthawks, the vampire RPG where the secret is out... but the hunt continues. Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/1221950/... GOG: www.gog.com/en/game/nigh...

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Neil Webber @larpsidekick.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

And Robin of Sherwood, where he’s just interested in getting more cash and banging off on the next military adventure. And is a jerk

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Neil Webber @larpsidekick.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

This is really good! A really fun adventure, with some great characters and a top protagonist.

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Ben Coles @bencoles.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Yes, this is a real picture. Shaun Edwards has joined the Red Roses in a short-term coaching consultancy role.

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Asterix Archiv 🐗 @comedix.de · 20/09/2026

Eine schöne Bastel- und Malarbeit. Manchmal trägt Obelix den Hinkelstein. Manchmal ist Obelix der Hinkelstein. Dürfte nicht leicht gewesen sein, diesen Stein zu finden. #Asterix #Fanart

Das Bild zeigt einen kleinen, länglichen und nach oben abgerundeten Stein, dessen Form an einen Hinkelstein erinnert. Der Stein wurde rundherum so bemalt, dass er selbst zum Körper von Obelix wird.
Auf der Vorderseite sind Obelix’ Gesicht mit den roten Zöpfen, sein nackter Oberkörper sowie der grüne Gürtel mit großer gelber Schnalle zu sehen. Darunter setzt sich seine typische blau-weiß gestreifte Hose bis zum unteren Rand des Steins fort. Seine Füße stehen auf einer kleinen grünen Wiese, die mit roten Pilzen und Blumen verziert ist. Der obere, dunkelgraue Teil des Steins bleibt weitgehend unbemalt und wirkt dadurch wie ein Hinkelstein, der hinter Obelix aufragt.
Die Rückseite löst den kleinen optischen Scherz auf: Dort fehlen Kopf und Oberkörper völlig. Stattdessen sieht man nur Obelix’ Arme, die sich von beiden Seiten um den grauen Stein legen. Seine Hände greifen hinter dem „Hinkelstein“ ineinander. Darunter sind wiederum die gestreifte Hose und seine Füße auf der Wiese zu erkennen.

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DelMcG @delmcg.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Absolute filth from Pau's Rodrigo Marta 🇵🇹 Also, serious wheels to stay behind the kicker in the first place & still be in place to gather it like that (cc @franciscoisaac.bsky.social)

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Neil Webber @larpsidekick.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Morning Womble hope alls well! I’ve just (literally!) finished Faithbreaker by Hannah Kaner having run through it in two days - a brilliant end to a really good trilogy. Next up, I think, is Emma Southon’s Servus

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Neil Webber @larpsidekick.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Lifeboats are a miracle of the naval architects art and as someone who’s worked in ship building I am utterly in awe of them

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Mags L Halliday @magslhalliday.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Every year on 19 December, the famous Christmas lights at Mousehole in Cornwall are dimmed between 8 and 9pm, leaving just the Cross and Angels shining down across the village and out to sea.

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Andy Clark of the living dead @andycruns.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

We can’t tell the racist shitweasels attacking the RNLI to get in the sea because the RNLI would then go and save them

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Andy Clark of the living dead @andycruns.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Apparently this concept is difficult so i drew a picture

A very basic drawing of a bar with good on the left, silence in the middle, and evil on the right.
There is an arrow pointing to the division between good and silence that says ‘Where the line of
opposition actually is’

There is another arrow pointing to the division between silence and evil that says ‘Where people think the line of opposition is’

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The Fake History Hunter @fakehistoryhunter.net · 15/09/2026

I'm so excited about this. I love ghosts, especially these mad ones. youtu.be/iLKGXt5JHKk?...

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Ghosts: The Possession of Button House - Official Trailer

YouTube video by LionsgateFilmsUK

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Loki @lokideburca.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Love women's rugby. Hate fucking Transphobes. Stand up for everyone who plays. Silence is what bigots feed on.

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Mikel Reparaz @wikiparaz.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

PAUL: What’s in the box? REVEREND MOTHER: Pain. [PAUL hesitantly puts his hand in the BOX, then FROWNS IN CONFUSION. He pulls out A BAGUETTE.] REVEREND MOHER: Hōn hōn,

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Neil Webber @larpsidekick.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Legend (1980s HMRC drug sting, based on a true story. Some great performances) Shogun (based on the book about an English navigator who falls in with essentially Tokugawa. Magnificent) Bookish (Mark Gatiss post war murder mystery. Cosy in the best way)

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The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

History is about interrogating documents and questioning narratives; and law is about the rules that bind us and the rights that protect us. Neither are STEM; both are essential.

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Dave Andress @davidandress.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

This is all true. And it's also true that other major European sea-rescue organisations, incouding the Germans AND the French, are also run by volunteers. This is an INTERNATIONAL nobility of quiet heroes. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soci%C3...

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Neil Webber @larpsidekick.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

It can’t happen here (oh yeah?) How the fuck is this more relevant than ever. Sharing this patch of earth with a bunch of fash wankers. youtu.be/76wSk1j02_4?...

youtu.be

Pop Will Eat Itself - Ich Bin Ein Auslander

YouTube video by PopWillEatItselfVEVO

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Neil Webber @larpsidekick.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

It’s a Bird and Fortune sketch. But real

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Neil Webber @larpsidekick.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

This is a cracking film, visceral and bloody and comic and heartening and also Bloodywood on the soundtrack. Cracking

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Neil Webber @larpsidekick.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Yeah, this is probably just tastes crossing each other - macro vs micro focus, all of that.

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Dreadnought Holiday @dreadships.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

This country used to know how to deal with fascists interfering with the peaceful operation of Dover...

Photograph of British servicemen in full panto drag, manning (or possibly daming) a naval gun overlooking the Channel. I'm pretty sure this was taken for propaganda purposes rather than a genuinely spontaneous event - the idea that normal, sometimes silly, life was going on despite (and *to spite*) the Nazis was an important message on the home front.

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Neil Webber @larpsidekick.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

As well, the period generally thought of as the High Middle Ages includes so many things to create stories in. Just in England, the Anarchy, Henry II vs his wife and sons, Robin Hood, John vs the Barons, Simon de Montforts rebellion. Loads of stories there

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Neil Webber @larpsidekick.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

This was the first thing I tried doing with an airbrush. Turned out alright!

A giant mech suit, with yellow armour plate wielding a big gun and a big sword

Close up on the knightly helm of the big mech suit

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