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a key witness to the Fairford "bomb" "plot" refused to be named or have their face appear on air, which makes me doubt the veracity of their story. would really not be surprised to discover that the three white vans were, in fact, involved in some nefarious but non-terror crime, e.g. hare coursing.

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Marx S— @phophos.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

as with any controls which depend on end-users, safety tools and sessions zero do not eliminate the possibility of serious safety failures at table. risks must be controlled much earlier in the process than the screaming brakes of the X-Card, whether in game design or session planning.

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Marx S— @phophos.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

the edgelands are spaces between the city and the countryside, filled with things that belong to neither: waste treatment, pallet yards, container storage, abandoned industrial lots. they're not-quite-human spaces, where certain ecologies thrive. what's a weird space you've seen in the edgelands?

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Marx S— @phophos.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

most replied and quoted UWBFT post I've ever seen, this is vitriol off the charts.

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Marx S— @phophos.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

in the grim darkness of the far future there is only jazz

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Marx S— @phophos.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

omg this film "Remarkably Bright Creatures" FUCKING SUCKS, who is this for

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Luna P. @satelitesnaturales.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Today's wisdom

A design featuring a beige paper background, a rainbow snapped in two and the phrase "All iPhones are foldable, Bitch" in dark gray

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Marx S— @phophos.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

"Pendragon" implies the existence of other media of dragon, such as "Pencildragon", "Pasteldragon", and "Quilldragon".

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Marx S— @phophos.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

motion that we genericise the term for game designers into "stevejacksons"

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Marx S— @phophos.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

a bunch of protestors spraying paint on a plane got their entire organisation proscribed as a terror group, wonder if the Labour Party will have the integrity to follow through with that precedent.

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Marx S— @phophos.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

hack of Bluebeard's Bride for Charlie & The Chocolate Factory "Saw for kids" games called A Chocolate's World.

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Marx S— @phophos.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

okay: burnt sausage or undercooked bread?

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Marx S— @phophos.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

would you rather eat dry toast or wet cheese

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Marx S— @phophos.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

i dunno if i enjoyed the final series of Colin From Accounts but the actual final episode was pretty good, particularly the very last five minutes.

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Marx S— @phophos.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Hot Honey Dragon, just to be /really/ trendy

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Marx S— @phophos.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

i pressed the windows button earlier to get a Powershell instance and made the mistake of typing the three letters that, last year, would have got me what i wanted. two minutes of blue spiral whirring and it still hadn't found it. in the end i right-clicked on a folder and opened a shell from there.

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Marx S— @phophos.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

"they found out what we'd been planning and told us where to stick it"

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Marx S— @phophos.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

went to join a Discord server dedicated to Vietnamese food, but the owner-admin took an immediate dislike to me, and within hours they'd voted to bánh mi.

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Far Horizons Cooperative @farhorizonscoop.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Professor Elemental & The Anarchist Ambassadors – follow along now! Based on the music of Professor Elemental, a chap-hop artist with loads of colourful, satirical steampunk albums under his explorer's belt, Professor Elemental & The Anarchist Ambassadors is a whimsical, collaborative #ttrpg.

kickstarter.com

Coming soon: Professor Elemental & The Anarchist Ambassadors

A whimsical & collaborative steampunk tabletop roleplaying game, based on the music and art of Professor Elemental

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Finan Oillpheist @finanoillpheist.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

awesome artwork we have planned for this. I'm looking forward to providing more updates soon as we are nearing the end of this cool little project. This is part of a overarching project of the cooperative's called #ThousandBurningStars with credit to @phophos.bsky.social for organising!

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Far Horizons Cooperative @farhorizonscoop.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

@rpgtrader.bsky.social's System Neutral Kit bundle is now live! For $15 you can get 75 system neutral adventures, modules, supplements etc., including the EXTREMELY GOOD Far Horizons Guide to Cults. Guide to Cults is a collection of weird, secretive organisations for your games. Go pick it up now!

rpg-trader.com

System Neutral Kit on RPG Trader

A bundle of 75 modules for use in any TTRPG

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Marx S— @phophos.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

@farhorizonscoop.bsky.social has a book in this, the (excellent) Guide to Cults. it's an absolute steal of a bundle at fifteen dollar bucks for 75 things.

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Marx S— @phophos.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Piddington complaining over hundreds of "unvetted" people moving into nearby accommodation, this is in fact how new housing works as well, basically you don't get to choose your neighbours?

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Marx S— @phophos.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

as a more serious point: sometimes when you live in a society on which you depend for certain services, you have to accept some conditions of living within that society as well.

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Marx S— @phophos.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

uk government should totally call Piddington's bluff over their referendum to leave the uk.

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Marx S— @phophos.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Ed Sheeran: *caressing a wad of fifty pound notes* ooh... yes... i'm in love with the shape of you

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Marx S— @phophos.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

this rules, these chaps have so much integrity. Sheeran is left looking absolutely spineless. well played, Macklemore, Beoga.

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Marx S— @phophos.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

this was the fewest words i've ever read before blocking an account.

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Marx S— @phophos.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

i dunno much about Sheeran's music but i don't think Woody Guthrie would approve of his most recent stance.

singer/songwriter Ed Sheeran in a blue t-shirt and jeans with an acoustic guitar, in a mid-jump pose. guitar has "This Machine Enables Fascists" written on it in black stencil typeface.

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Marx S— @phophos.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

has anyone received an email from an iLands account recently? trying to work out if this is a really recent trend, or whether it's been going on for ages?

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Marx S— @phophos.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

if you need to give your eyebrow muscles a workout today then i suggest reading this excellent complaint against Dungeons & Dragons by a man who alleges WotC stoles his idea for a wereshark when, in the throes of immune condition-induced pain, he shouted his idea through an open window.

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Marx S— @phophos.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

so much of modern politics seems to be just two sides pouring money into social media advertisers to basically misrepresent the other sides' arguments to agitate the average voter's lizard brain. we seemed to have lost the ability to think critically about how to perceive what politicos say.

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Marx S— @phophos.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

£5.49 for a sausage roll, does it give you superpowers

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Marx S— @phophos.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

office building bathroom designers, i am politely asking you to reconsider the use of automatic soap dispensers. they passively and actively consume power in a way which seems to lack any enhancement over the manual method.

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Marx S— @phophos.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

"please help us to slow down before we kill everybody" jfc why are the capitalist swine who reportedly control our society such nitwits. the solution is just to instruct """engineers""" to focus on providing the world with useful, value-added functionality instead of planet-killing lies machines.

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jay Dragon is unstoppable @jdragsky.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

so my village has been having a lot of issues. rather than deal with any of them, i grabbed a goat and had all the villagers pile their blame and hate onto the goat. while we were getting ready to drive it into the woods (and absolve ourselves) the goat BIT ME????? RUDE?!?

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Marx S— @phophos.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

i'm available for #ttrpg editing at the moment, particularly for short games and zine-y things. i come with a lot of relevant experience, and also i am really nice to work with, apparently.

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Marx S— @phophos.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

"cold caller" implies the existence of callers of other temperatures, such as "cool callers", "scolding callers", and "hot callers".

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Olivia Hill @machineiv.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

The actual trolley problem nobody seems willing to address.

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Marx S— @phophos.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

wondering how one could make a character sheet where a GM could pick up individual components and examine them thoughtfully before either putting them back or bringing them thoroughly into play.

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Marx S— @phophos.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

i think some of this is because ultimately it turns out that even writing an effective art prompt is harder than tech bros thought (i should know, i have had to do it multiple times). so where we're at now is back to paying people for art, but a lot less, and a machine is doing the fun bit.

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