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The Trandalorian @charliejaneanders.com · 07/10/2026

I saw Goodreads announced they were adding half stars to their ratings I made a list of changes they ought to make instead (or in addition)... buttondown.com/charliejane/...

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How To Fix Goodreads

Last week, a nauseating scandal hit the book world. Basically, a white author created fake accounts on Goodreads, and used them to leave a slew of one-star...

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Jukka Särkijärvi @nitessine.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

The idea of authors being in competition with each other is bizarre to me. Books aren't cars. We don't get just one.

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Lindsay Ellis @lindsayellis.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

WE ARE BACK BABY I appreciate you being reasonable, Travis, despite our fundamental disagreements on fair use. But we will meet again. youtu.be/zjPRAM0WDgw

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I Tested Every Cruise Line to Find the Least Evil

YouTube video by Lindsay Ellis

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Mike Pohjola @mikepohjola.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I'm trying to remember a tv show or a movie I saw in the 90s. I only remember one scene but it's stuck with me... It's a historical story, set during the Christianization of Scandinavia. One character is a monk or a bishop sent to convert the heathens. He gets advice from a Norse person. 👇🏼

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Jukka Särkijärvi @nitessine.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

David Zaslav just might be the most useless person in showbiz.

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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 05/10/2026

The SPEAKER implies. The LISTENER infers. The DUDE abides.

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Jukka Särkijärvi @nitessine.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Winston Churchill as a baby (colourized).

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Jukka Särkijärvi @nitessine.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

And because of technology developing it reads differently from what it was back then, and it has for a few steps in between.

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Jukka Särkijärvi @nitessine.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Not sure I am making a point and not sure if I want to make one, but I am looking forward to seeing how they will square that circle. The show's not gonna live or die on it, I hope, but the creators are faced with the expectation of executing one of the most famous opening lines of the genre.

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Jukka Särkijärvi @nitessine.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

What does the sky above the port, looking like television tuned to a dead channel, look like?

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Adrian Hon @adrianhon.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

icymi the cover for my new book, THE AGE OF IMMERSION is out! Here's why I wrote it, what's going to be in it (everything from medieval tournaments and pageants to panoramas, installation art, Happenings, the Starcruiser, and jubensha), and how I researched it.

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The Age of Immersion is coming June 2027

Why my next book is about the history and future of immersive experience.

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David J Prokopetz @prokopetz.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

While some purists restrict the "OSR" label to games emulating OD&D and/or Mentzer Basic, others consider anything from the hobby's first decade fair game; thus, having first been published only six years after OD&D, under the broader definition you could technically write an OSR game based on this:

The cover of "Dallas: The Television Roleplaying Game", a licensed RPG based on the 1978 American prime time soap opera of the same name. The cover depicts Larry Hagman in the role of J R Ewing, dressed in a business suit and a large cowboy hat, surrounded by inset photos of the remainder of the show's principal cast. The cover's promotional blurb reads "All the drama and power, the wheeling and dealing, the loves and lives of TV's greatest family are yours to enact in this fun-filled, fast-playing game."

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Jukka Särkijärvi @nitessine.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Not, perhaps, the most age-appropriate viewing. To contextualize how young I was, Michelle Pfeiffer in skintight latex didn't yet provoke strange feelings.

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Batman Returns The Penguin

ALT: Batman Returns The Penguin

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Jonas-Merlin Schumacher @jonasmerlin.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Bit late on here due to some familial expansion, but Shelfie #3 is already out and in it @ghargremxul.mt shares his very unique collection that helps him produce games inspired by Maltese history and folklore: www.shelfie.email/p/003-ghar-g...

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Shelfie #003 - Għar Gremxul

Għar Gremxul talks about his collection focused on Maltese history and folklore.

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Jukka Särkijärvi @nitessine.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

The third Kingsman movie was hardly absolute cinema, but having Tom Hollander play King George, Tsar Nicholas, and Kaiser Wilhelm was inspired.

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Jukka Särkijärvi @nitessine.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

How to make Jacob Rees-Mogg look good: put him next to Tucker Carlson.

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Jukka Särkijärvi @nitessine.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

“How did you get into TTRPGs?” I no longer even remember. I have always been here.

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Satanic Panic | DNGN CLUB @dngnclub.itch.io · 01/10/2026

Happy Spookie Season - STRAHD MUST DIE is live! This 54 page supplement is a cypher to make #Daggerheart shift from heroic fantasy to dark gothic horror.

the cover for STRAHD MUST DIE: A HORROR FRAME

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Mikko Rautalahti @mikkihel.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

We had this talk sometime in the beginning of the year so I'm frankly a little hazy on the specifics by now, but I do remember it was a good time. It's always a good time talking to Cam. Anyway, RPGs are the fuckin' best and I love talking about them.

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Jukka Särkijärvi @nitessine.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

On further reflection, if these guys really did stay away from spaces for girls, that'd also be really great.

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Jukka Särkijärvi @nitessine.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I mean, I'm not on Instagram because of a deep loathing for short-form video content, but I am glad to discover this has also protected me from cooties.

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Jukka Särkijärvi @nitessine.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

It also amuses me immensely that, presumably as a result of this conversation, I have just been followed by what looks like a bot account by the name of Madeleine.

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Jukka Särkijärvi @nitessine.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I have a card game idea for making ridiculous polearm hybrids that I need to develop to a stage where it can be playtested. I call it "Voulge".

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Jukka Särkijärvi @nitessine.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

That was also the context where I was first introduced to Proust.

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Dom Ford @domford.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Thrilled to see this latest special issue of Eludamos out now! Pop open some champagne and read about Party Studies in Game Studies, guest edited and introduced by Leland Masek and @jaakkostenros.bsky.social!

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Jukka Särkijärvi @nitessine.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

(Of course, this is assuming I would agree to run D&D 5E, which is not a safe assumption. But the structure would apply to any of its cousins.)

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Jukka Särkijärvi @nitessine.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Something along these lines, and I'd structure it to have a trap, a puzzle, and a combat encounter.

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Shannon Appelcline @shannonappelcline.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Given Wizards' abandonment of D&D fiction, it's great to see Hachette Partworks bringing back 100 classic D&D novels—even better, all in a gorgeous HARDCOVER format. If they were more easily available in the US, I suspect I'd be looking for shelving to fit 100 books. 🧵1

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UK Publisher Brings Back Over 100 Classic D&D Novels

UK-based publisher Hachette Partworks has just unveiled its new Dungeons & Dragons Novels Collection, which features over 100 classic books from D&D history.

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Jukka Särkijärvi @nitessine.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I am now apparently a #dragonlance influencer. I did a pronunciation guide for the Finnish Dragonlance Chronicles audiobooks and then the publisher, Saga Egmont, also wanted Instagram videos about it. www.instagram.com/p/DdoLMINoTBE/

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Create an account or log in to Instagram - Share what you're into with the people who get you.

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In Otter News @in-otter-news.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

After a long day at the aquarium, the otters help tidy their toys away. Payment is made promptly and entirely in ice cubes.

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Jukka Särkijärvi @nitessine.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

There are two definitions we don't really have pinned down, which will start a fight if you start demanding them, and "indie" is one of them. "OSR" is the other.

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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 24/09/2025

1/ A longtime Wired editor just wrote a mush-brained essay about how he totally missed the political rot of Silicon Valley (& still doesn't get it). But in the late 1990s, a Wired journalist warned of a toxic ideology bubbling up from tech. Paulina Borsook has largely been erased. Let's change that

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Ed Maibach @maibached.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Happy Stanislav Petrov Day He passed in 2017. As Encyclopedia Britannica puts it, “He is survived by his two children, two grandchildren, and the entire human race.” If you don't know his story, please take 3 minutes now to learn it. @gchalliance.bsky.social @docsforclimate.bsky.social

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Happy Stanislav Petrov Day

Take five minutes to not destroy civilization

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Jukka Särkijärvi @nitessine.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I'm currently on The First Heretic. I am taking my time. Especially in this series, it is about the journey rather than the destination.

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Brendan Keogh @brkeogh.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Last night I finished reading the 64th and final book in the Warhammer 40,000 Horus Heresy series.

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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 05/01/2024

If you ask someone today to name the builder of Hadrian's Wall, they would give you a funny look. But historical memory is odd, and right up to the 1800s we forgot who built it. Until in 1840 John Hodgson, an obscure Northumbrian clergyman, published the LONGEST footnote in history... 1/22

long stretch of worked roman stone on Hadrian's Wall.

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Graham Walmsley 🎲 @grahamwalmsley.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I was in an awkward conversation today in which I had to think of a joke about liminal spaces. It took me a moment, but then I said "Let's not talk about liminal spaces, they're neither here nor there", and it may be one of my proudest achievements.

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Jukka Särkijärvi @nitessine.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I know not what either of these spoonfuls of alphabet soup mean, but I'm here for the dog.

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Mikko Meriläinen @merilainen.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

My favourite bit of game trivia is that 1st edition Warhammer is explicitly a role-playing game, while 1st edition D&D is explicitly a miniature wargame.

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Casey S. Pumpkins 🎃 @caseyexplosion.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

can't not repost this every time

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