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Nathan Dowdell, not cool enough to look away from explosions. @n01h3r3.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

"how did you get into TTRPGs" I was already playing Warhammer regularly, I found a copy of Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay in a bookstore, GMed it for a group of friends at my local Warhammer club (The Spiky Club, back when it was in Reading), and never looked back.

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Ali Gundam @aligundam.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I've been socialising in nerd circles for about forty years. FORTY. YEARS. I've seen cliques, tribalism, gatekeeping and territorial behaviour. I've been pushed out by people who didn't seem to recognise quite how far along the autism spectrum THEY were while "protecting" their territory.

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Tom Humberstone @tomhumberstone.com · 16/07/2026

The Luddites loved technology. They owned looms at home and would ‘mod’ them to count threads. Their battle was against worker exploitation. The degradation of their rights, safety and wages. They were against a handful of rich businessmen owning the means of production. Sound familiar?

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Brian Bilston @brianbilston.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

Today’s poem is called ‘The Power of a Homophone’.

The Power of a Homophone

“Sometimes the power
of a homophone will just come out of nowhere
and hit you –
like being struck
by a ten ton truck,” articulated Laurie.

Brian Bilston

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Nathan Dowdell, not cool enough to look away from explosions. @n01h3r3.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

Fill in the blanks: One's a _______________. The other's a ___________. Together, they fight crime!

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mahsa alimardani @mahsaalimardani.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

We didn't deserve this day.

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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

Ezri once told Worf, "The Klingon Empire is dying, and I think it deserves to die … I know this sounds harsh, but the truth is you have been willing to accept a government that you know is corrupt. Gowron is just the latest example." Later that day, Worf killed Gowron. This is a post about DS9.

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Kevin Church (Spooky Remix) @beaucoupkevin.com · 26/09/2025

The most accurate recreation of DS9 I've seen.

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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

everything is terrible so here’s the swedish chef doing rapper’s delight

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🏳️‍⚧️ Alexandra Merideth Erin [she/her] @alexandraerin.com · 27/06/2025

There was a plan in motion to defenestrate our target, but unfortunately we missed the window.

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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

as ever, if you ask people if they think art should exist for their enjoyment they will say yes, and then if you ask them if the people making the art should get paid for it they'll tell you "no that's a fake job"

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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 11/06/2025

"Generative AI" systems do not care about facts and truth, they care about you liking their output, and when the don't know the correct answer they will make shit up. This is not the right tool for anything regarding naturalistic identification.

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Scott Pearson @scottpearson.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

In my geeky hands! I did my usual editing/canon review on the Star Trek Adventures Technical Manual. Shout-out to the all the writers: Michael Dismuke, @n01h3r3.bsky.social, @ineti.bsky.social, Aaron M. Pollyea, @gmadmiral.bsky.social, and @daytonward.bsky.social, and the artists too many to list!

Hardcover copy of the Star Trek Adventures Technical Manual, with a crashed shuttlecraft in a barren winter landscape on the cover, the crew milling around it. Behind the book is a shelf full of other Star Trek Adventures books and various Trek memorabilia, most prominently the Playmate Original Series Starship Enterprise.

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Leon "Used to Be Cat" Richardson @catlinggun.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

dear new TTTRPG designers: Charge for your games. They are good enough! It's easy to feel like you're an amateur and no one will be interested if you don't make them free, but don't sell yourself short. Also, you're not just selling YOURSELF short when you do this!

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zombie byron kilbourn @zbk.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

Some Navy guy says to Lisa Simpson: “It's a three-pronged attack: subtextual, textual, and super-textual”

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Evil Hat @evilhat.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

On Tuesday we're launching the crowdfunder for Blades in the Dark: Deep Cuts. Today we're offering a preview as a free, direct download. But don't delay, the download link expires in less than 24 hours: www.backerkit.com/call_to_acti...

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Sneak preview! Blades in the Dark: Deep Cuts

From Evil Hat - Sneak preview! Blades in the Dark: Deep Cuts

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Ethan Kocak @ethankocak.com · 15/05/2025

Stop calling A.I. slop “art” and real human-created works “content”

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Matt is Just Trying His Best @thegrampus.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

Fandoms obsession with Canon Policing is a set of concrete boots around the very content they profess to love.

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Sooz Kempner @soozuk.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

A couple of years back companies started using AI voiceover and my voiceover gigs disappeared. And then they realised it wasn't quite working...and started using VO artists again. You can create something that is passably a human voice but you can't create something that's even passably human.

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The Society of Authors @societyofauthors.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

We are proud signatories of this letter to the PM. Good to see powerful names speaking out to protect the rights of all creators, and continuing to keep this issue in the news. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Elton John and Dua Lipa seek protection from AI

They are among 400 artists appealing to Sir Keir Starmer, saying creative industries are threatened.

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Jeremy Corbyn @jeremycorbyn.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

The problems in our society are not caused by migrants or refugees. They are caused by an economic system rigged in favour of corporations and billionaires. If the government wanted to improve people’s lives, it would tax the rich and build an economy that works for us all.

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Nathan Dowdell, not cool enough to look away from explosions. @n01h3r3.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

#TTRPGQuestion Something that's been on my mind recently: To what extent has the RPG market been influenced by the popularity of streaming and actual plays, as the most visible format of the hobby?

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The Bookseller @thebookseller.com · 09/05/2025

ICYMI: An amendment backed by creatives that would ensure AI models obey copyright law has been defeated in parliament as the contentious Data Bill proceeds towards its final stages 👇 #BookSky

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Data Bill's AI amendment to enforce copyright law on tech companies defeated in parliament

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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

There it is…

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Mollie Goodfellow @hansmollman.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

So basically just sort of banning people who enjoy a sport for fun really?

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Darryl Mott @gamerstavernshow.com · 30/04/2025

I wish people would understand the difference between analytical "AI" and generative algorithms using LLMs. The former is used for pattern recognition at high rates and precision humans can't replicate and highly useful in medicine and science. The latter is autocomplete with delusions of grandeur.

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Foucault's Pudendum @kaitave.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

Increasingly I have come around to the perspective that "hackability" of TRPGs is not actually a positive of the medium and is instead an overall neutral aspect that often dips into the negatives when used to justify Bethesda-esque "it's fine that the game is bad because YOU can fix it!" stances

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Dragon Cobolt @dragoncobolt.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

it's a bad mentality too, imo, because it...fuckin' ruined generations of gamers so that they now don't know how to engage with mechanics and *use* them - a huge number of people don't even think that mechanics are real, or that you can design them, which is a little fucked up if you think about it

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John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

Absolutely right. If you know how movie financing works you know they were popping champagne corks Monday morning at the studio, and that was *without* this insane second weekend. All this “concerned” coverage is bullshit.

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John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

By this fall we'll have several hundred peer reviewed studies showing UBI saves money and produces great results and one janky "vaccines cause autism" paper by a non-doctor longtime anti-vaxx grifter and the result will be the US government will immediately ban vaccines. Because we live in hell.

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Matt Sanders is going to GenCon @iammattsanders.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

Putting the FFS back into tariffs.

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Bonhomie Games @bonhomiegames.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

If you're in an area with a local election please vote If you're not drawn to a particular party, good on you. Maybe try to meet some candidates & vote for someone *kind*. Someone who you'd trust to babysit your kids. If none of the candidates qualify write a note on the ballot paper. They read em

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John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

This reinforces that todays billionaires could easily (see Parton, Dolly) become internationally beloved figures but they are *so fundamentally broken and evil* that they can’t conceive of how to even *pretend* to care about others. convincingly.

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John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

That’s how alienated from humanity they’ve become, and I use that word specifically.

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Nathan Dowdell, not cool enough to look away from explosions. @n01h3r3.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

Remember, everyone: March has 32 days, and April begins with the 2nd for mysterious reasons. There's no such thing as April 1st.

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Chuck Wendig @chuckwendig.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

I get why techbros and their ilk like gen-AI: artists and writers to them are just an obstacle to be bypassed. But I'll never get an author/artist/musician who uses it. "I want to be a writer." No you don't. You fetishize ideas but hate the work. You don't respect the craft or its practitioners.

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Nathan Dowdell, not cool enough to look away from explosions. @n01h3r3.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

1. WFRP 1e 2. WFRP 1e 3. Advanced Fighting Fantasy 4. Star Trek Adventures 5. Marvel Heroic Roleplay 6. D&D 5e 7. Star Trek Adventures 1. First #ttrpg you ever played? 2. First you ever ran? 3. Played the most? 4. Run the most? 5. Favourite? 6. Most recently played? 7. Most recently run?

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UKGamerspodcast @trebormills.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

If consumers are prepared to wait 50 years and pay £200 for a 100 page pdf of a fully tested RPG. Then maybe it is possible. Although even then I am not 100% convinced it would cover all bases.

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UKGamerspodcast @trebormills.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

I suggest it is impossible to "fully" playtest a RPG. Especially a very complex one. However, that doesn't mean no playtesting at all. I am pretty sure most games get some form of playtesting.

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