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For a very long time my male RPG characters were Kenneth Branagh as Hamlet, and the female ones, April O'Neill from the TMNT cartoon

Kenneth Branagh as Hamlet. A blonde man with Van Dyck facial hair, in a partly undone full black hussar jacket.

April O'Neill from the TMNT cartoon. A redhead woman journalist in a bright yellow jumpsuit, white boots, holding a mid-90s videocamera.

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Mike Ratcliffe @mike-rat.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Once again, the English are demonstrating what Howard Newby once noted was their genius for turning diversity into hierarchy. David Mba and Julie Farrell on how we should avoid using ‘prestige’ as a proxy for delivering value. wonkhe.com/blogs/lets-n...

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Let’s not confuse institutional prestige with national priority

We should fund higher education based on the needs of the country, not league table placings, say David Mba and Julie Farrell

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FieldExplores (Gator Days) @fieldexplores.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Secret Ingredient - Gator Days

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Peldrigal @peldrigal.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I swear: if Schuman becomes a saint, I'll hang the medallion from my car's rearview mirror, put the holy card in my wallet, and place the figurine with the two candles on a shelf in the living room.

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The Alternate Historian @althistorian.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Happy Stanislav Petrov Day. Today we celebrate the life of a man who saved billions by not believing a computer. May we all learn this valuable lesson.

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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Fuck ChatGPT flyers. The future is broadsheets.

A crowded broadsheet with way too many fonts. It says:
Forget ChatGPT Flyers
Say it with
Broadsheets
Unlimited fonts
Stretch them
Or cram a really long sentence into one line for no good reason
No whitespace
Mix capital and lowercase
Pointing hands
(They're called manicules!)
Don't be left behind
Broadsheets are the future

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Peldrigal @peldrigal.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

According to the greeks, Thracians drank with straws. "Drinking like a Thracian" means to give a blowjob. I checked to be sure I did not hallucinate it: it is Archilochus

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Peldrigal @peldrigal.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

If for some reason I ever become a billionaire, my whole home will be decorated with memento Mori artwork like a Roman villa. In other news my grandfather turned 95 a month ago

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🏳️‍⚧️Trevorlynn 🦇David🦇 Cooper🏳️‍⚧️ @awholedamntown.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Here's my pitch for a Star Trek show: A bunch of competent people solving problems competently, and sometimes they don't even get to save the day, even when they do everything right. But they try. Also there's lizard men and Clint Howard and studio backlots everywhere. #StarTrek

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Peldrigal @peldrigal.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I like to remember how once at a HEMA event, I started a discussion about pasta shapes with another Italian, and the locals formed a circle around us, expecting a fight.

A fantasy adventurer, on a flying contraption similar to a surfboard, on a technicolor background. Text say "get on, losers, we're having strong opinions about pasta shapes". On the bottom, different types of pasta.

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Peldrigal @peldrigal.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I have been told that the secret of financial stability is to never buy an elephant with a cocaine habit.

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Jack Tindale @jacktindale.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I don't know what people are talking about, Canada is only about twelve miles away from France.

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 12/09/2026

"don't you care about fairness in sports?" No actually, I don't. Nobody does

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Gareth Dennis @garethdennis.uk · 12/09/2026

UK rail infrastructure is expensive because we barely build any of it, not the other way around.

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Peldrigal @peldrigal.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

-My words are filled not with bitterness, but with disillusion. May them be a moral punishment for those who broke their oath: soldiers of Chile, field commanders […] They are strong, they may force us to submit, but social processes cannot be stopped with crime nor force. #11Septiembre

A picture of the Chilean Presidential Palace, La Moneda, being bombed during the military coup of 11 September 1973 to depose socialist president Salvador Allende. He would commit suicide to avoid capture by the insurgent military.

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Peldrigal @peldrigal.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

So the British government is broadly ok with far-right domestic terrorism. Cool cool cool...

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Starfire’s Deranged Neocon Foreign Policy Podcast @irhottakes.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

An ironic thing about Trench Crusade is that “World War I where you have to shoot demons” feels less grimdark a setting than the actually existing “World War I where you have to shoot the 19 year-old you played soccer with during the Christmas of 1914.”

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Doc Vivi Leandra【 VTC 】- Real-Life Scientist VTuber 🧬🖥️ @docvivileandra.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Basically, "Making design decisions towards Simulationism without knowing how the real world actually works" is the same as "Making decisions towards Gamism without knowing what makes a game fun to play", or "Making decisions towards Narrativism without knowing how to write a good story"

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Peldrigal @peldrigal.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Every time a man says "I prefer women without make-up, like this" and he shows me a picture of a woman wearing natural-look make-up, I roll my eyes so hard I give myself a concussion.

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Peldrigal @peldrigal.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Went to get my sight checked, need reading glasses, and I was shocked that they only had the frames on show. I remember going to opticians, asking for some styles, and they would open drawers with hundreds of more frames.

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Curtis @soccurt.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

"Human extinction but can I get lower property taxes?" is probably going to become a popular climate view too

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Peldrigal @peldrigal.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

I think you could make a case that France is the actual cradle of fascism, as Boulangism is an ethnonationalist antisemitic conservative reaction to liberal-democracy. And with that I mean that we should stab more fascists in the neck in honour duels.

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Peldrigal @peldrigal.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

The bliss of my childhood does not hold a candle to the future I can imagine.

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Calling Israeli settler actions a state-backed terror campaign is objective description. You can approve, disapprove, or not care—your opinion—but that's what it is. Settlers frequently commit unprovoked violence targeting civilians for political purposes, and have material support from the state.

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Sharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

I dont think the universe where every anti-social script kiddie has the ability to break critical infrastructure is good actually

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Peldrigal @peldrigal.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

2025-27 is the new 1936-38 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_P...

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Great Purge - Wikipedia

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Peldrigal @peldrigal.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

You either believe in self determination of people or you don't. If you do, then Argentina claiming the Falklands is imperial colonialism. If you don't think it is, then you do not believe in self-determination.

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Peldrigal @peldrigal.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

88⭐ 90🎯 100🎯 76⭐ 100🎯 454/500 anno-game.netlify.app Not bad, not bad...

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Chrononaut @chrononaut.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Welcome to Bluesky. Please familiarize yourself with the following accounts to understand the range of opinions it is acceptable to express

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SF Encyclopedia @sfencyclopedia.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Artist Attila Hejja sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/hejja_... died on this day, so here's some of his 1979-1980 artwork:

Attila Hejja's cover artwork for 'Vectors' by Charles Sheffield

Attila Hejja's cover artwork for 'High Justice' by Jerry Pournelle

Attila Hejja's cover art for 'The Man Who Corrupted Earth' by G. C. Edmondson

Attila Hejja's cover art for 'A Cold Wind from Orion' by Scott Asnin

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Michael Baumann @baumann.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

RIP Tim Curry, who had the range to star in the two greatest movies about a mutiny in the middle of a transatlantic sea voyage, and also the crew occasionally breaks into song

Tim Curry as Dr. Petrov in The Hunt for Red October

Tim Curry as Long John silver in Muppet Treasure Island, and also Sweetums

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Peldrigal @peldrigal.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

One of my university textbooks was so old that, in the early 2000s, it referenced as the accident that could sour public perception of nuclear power... Three Mile Island. Chernobyl still hadn't happened.

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The Alternate Historian @althistorian.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Look buddy there is a reason that famous poem doesn't begin with the line "First they came for the racists..." because it's usually the racists who are showing up at your home unannounced.

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Peldrigal @peldrigal.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

"This category of people, who I despise, do not have interaction with people unlike them, so they cannot understand the real world and should not have power" And while I agree with the sentiment, ALMOST NOBODY has interactions with people unlike themselves. That is just the human condition!

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Ducktor Nald @ducktornald.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

As Smokey the Bear is unknown and foreign in Italy, the most recent Italian translation of Watchmen (and probably most of them) has Silk Spectre jokingly referring to herself as Grisù's secret mistress. Grisù is an Italian cartoon character - a baby dragon who dreams of being a firefighter.

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Peldrigal @peldrigal.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

As a university student I would always take my exams in a suit and the way professors interacted with me changed in fascinating ways. Guy before me in jeans and t-shirt - Ok, Firstname, see you next time, bye- Me, sitting in a suit : - Oh, Good morning, Candidate Mr. Lastname-

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tiddlydump.bsky.social @tiddlydump.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Google hates their products, regardless of their quality. Microsoft hates *you*, the user, just because. Apple hates the idea of consumer surplus, and they *will* get every penny out of you.

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Sean McKnight @ynot1989.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

20. We need more TV spinoffs of movies in the vein of Stargate SG-1. Tell me you wouldn't watch a Galaxy Quest series set after the events of the movie. An intact alien spacecraft lands at a Sci-fi convention and only Trekkies understand how the technology works... It writes itself!

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Peldrigal @peldrigal.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

The Terminator is such an odd movie to rewatch: of I knew nothing about it and you told me it was made by an obscure French director, and in pre-production Kyle Reese was supposed to be played by Jean Paul Belmondo, I would believe you.

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Peldrigal @peldrigal.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

"Hay al menos dos cosas que claramente se le pueden atribuir al ingenio vasco: la Compañía de Jesús y la República de Chile". "There are at least two things that can clearly be attributed to Basque ingenuity: the Society of Jesus, and the Republic of Chile" Miguel de Unamuno

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Peldrigal @peldrigal.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

The EU , the bureaucratic juggernaut, employs 60 to 80k people, fewer than a large city.

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Peldrigal @peldrigal.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Driving fast is a very fun thing to do. And that is why I am booking my track day!

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