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Jim Rossignol

@rossignol.bsky.social
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Writer. Makes books, games. Co-founded Rock, Paper, Shotgun and Big Robot (Sir, You Are Being Hunted). Now: TEETH RPG, MILESHIPS. And oldmenrunningtheworld.com email: jim at big-robot.com

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Kieron Gillen @kierongillen.bsky.social · 4h
A year on from me starting it, I complete my list of 101 TTRPGs I played before my 50th birthday. How did you spend your birthday? I bet it wasn't doing your work and then hammering out 3.5k words about the chatgames with funny dice (or no funny dice, or no dice.) #ttrpg
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My 101 Favourite TTRPGS: 10-1 - Old Men Running The World
Lawks. We've only gone and done it. I set myself a year to write about my 101 favourite TTRPGs. In my tribute to freelancers everywhere, I do almost all the
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Derek Lieu - Game Trailer Editor @derek-lieu.com · 11h
This part kills me 🤣 - "fall of" (11,527 results on Steam) - "echoes of" (2,750 results on Steam) - "shadow of" (8,243 results on Steam) Excellent insight from @itshannahflynn.bsky.social about game naming (I contributed a few words, too)
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Evil Hat @evilhat.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Designers & Dragons: Origins tells the tale of *each and every* product TSR released for OD&D, Basic D&D, and AD&D 1e. @shannonappelcline.bsky.social takes us on a tour de force through the early TSR catalog and it's a ride you won't want to miss! Reserve your copy now: evilhat.com/product/desi...
On the left, a copy of Volume 1 of Designers & Dragons Origins, featuring a red and gold dragon egg on the cover. On the right, a slipcase with Volumes 2-4 inside. The slipcase is adorned with a fire-breathing gold dragon frolicking on a treasure hoard. Caption: Delve Deep into History. In stores Monday October 5th.
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Gregory Norminton @gregorynorminton.bsky.social · 9h
It's bright and blustery in the UK right now. You know what that means. grid.iamkate.com
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Failbetter Games | Wishlist Mandrake on Steam! @failbettergames.com · 13h
We're hiring! We're looking for a Writer and Narrative Designer to join the Fallen London team at a senior or mid level. This position is permanent, remote, and full time, which for us means 35 hours a week. #GamesJobs
Night. The House of Chimes - a tower which you might immediately think of as Big Ben - is adrift in the River Thames. It still seems to be keeping time. In the background, a large, alien building looms over the city of London.
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gob-1.bsky.social @gob-1.bsky.social · 14h
I have a very small footprint on social media, but for those that see this could you take a look at this please and respond of you wish to. Google (former motto "Don't be evil") want to build a data center on an Essex wildlife reserve. action.wildlifetrusts.org/page/200909/...
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Defend wildlife in Thurrock from a data centre
The Thurrock Local Plan is the perfect tool to ensure development does not damage nature.
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George Outhwaite @georgeouthwaite.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
found in a ditch on the way to the station digital painting
of iron bacteria underwater with conker leaves
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Nick Harkaway @nickharkaway.com · 17h
“A group of US hedge funds” does not, on the face of it, seem likely to be the kind of owner which would reverse decades of under-investment and tackle the coming fresh water crisis.
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Jank @jank.cool · 29/09/2026
I didn't expect THAT in the new Plague Tale game. www.jank.cool/resonance-a-...
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Resonance: A Plague Tale Legacy review
Magical mystery minotaur
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JellyMuppet @jellymuppet.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Tell me, oh muse, of the launch of a crowdfunding project! Speak now of ATRAPOS, the inevitable goddess whose hand doth cut the measured strings of fate, deciding that hallowed time when heroes fall to the dark mists of death and projects go live on Kickstarter! www.kickstarter.com/projects/sou...
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Alasdair Beckett-King @misterabk.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Is it me, or does Michaelmas start earlier every year?
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Jim Rossignol @rossignol.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Genuinely waking up in the middle night to note down TTRPG ideas, that's how much time my brain now devotes to working on this stuff. When it should be sleeping. Probably fine.
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Ben Austwick / BiggusBennus @biggusbennus.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I still find it astonishing that Sir Ian Livingstone is the only person knighted for services to the UK games industry. Film, TV and sport are constantly recognised with knighthoods, yet one of Britain's biggest creative industries has had just one.
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Ludipe @ludipe.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
October is approaching, so I'm once again recommending you to get A Night In The Lonesome October. It's like a Halloween advent calendar, with each chapter taking place on one day of October. I read a chapter each day during October. Such a nice book.
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Gareth DAMIAN MARTIN | Jump Over the Age @jumpovertheage.com · 29/09/2026
Andrey Surnov's concept work for Jusant in my brain again this morning. Can't think of a game set among ruins that made me more desperate to see more of its world. So few games manage such an original and rich aesthetic, so sad the team never got to make more.
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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
It will never not be wild to me that the Russians attacked Keir Starmer's home, successfully spread falsehoods about Starmer's love life, and this didn't changed British politics and British political elite behaviour *at all*.
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Kieron Gillen @kierongillen.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
WHAT HAPPEN?
What Happen
When someone wonders "What happen?"
Roll 2D6
On 10+: GOOD HAPPEN!
ON 7-9: SO SO HAPPEN
ON 6-: BAD HAPPEN

POWERED BY APOCALYPSE

Various bad doodles attached.
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Stacey Mason @stcymsn.bsky.social · 15/10/2024
Formal affordances are the elements that pull a player toward certain actions, they “cry out” for the player to take those actions. Material affordances are the actions a system actually allows the player to take. Agency occurs when the two are in balance. (Mateas 2001)
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Tube Mapper- Luke Agbaimoni @tubemapper.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
PRINT OF THE DAY Today’s print was captured outside Leicester Square Station on a rainy night. I love the mix of colours as the bus speeds past, with all those vibrant lights and reflections dancing in the puddle below. My wife says this one looks like a painting. If you like this print see below
Photo of A couple waiting to cross the road as a bus zooms past
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Kieron Gillen @kierongillen.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Includes! Warhammer stuff of various levels of fidelity! My highest OSR game! Games set in malls involving time travel and kissing! Games about language! Civ: but a TTRPG! And more!
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Jank @jank.cool · 22/09/2026
Are videogames trying to make me contemplate my mortality? Fine. I shall. By @jmrivera.bsky.social www.jank.cool/are-videogam...
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Are videogames trying to make me contemplate my mortality? Fine. I shall.
The quantified life
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Bart⚓️ @bartgonnissen.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
The Facial Expressions of Tethys by artist Julius von Bismarck. A suspended high-sea buoy that moves in real time. Sensors on a twin buoy out in the Atlantic Ocean send live satellite data to motors inside the museum. This makes the indoor buoy copy the exact, real-time movements of the ocean waves.
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Present & Correct @presentcorrect.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Infinite Ice Creams - found rocks and pebbles with the addition of a popsicle stick. www.instagram.com/infinite.ice... Simple brilliance
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Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Still, it's extremely difficult to predict how tech will interact with arts businesses Take US novel sales, which had been declining for decades up to 2020. Would anyone have anticipated that short-form video apps like TikTok would reverse this trend and send book sales soaring?
a graph of recreational book sales
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Ian McQue @ianmcque.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Started this drawing over 10 years ago (😲), gave up cos I wasn’t feeling it, having another crack at finishing it
Pencil drawing, gnarly trees and ruined stone walls
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Marsh Davies @marshdavies.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
I think this is my favourite glamour shot of Gold Teeth so far.
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Marsh Davies @marshdavies.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
This article is a really powerful insight into the changing definition / decline / corruption / corporate capture of AI research. This line particularly: "Modern AI products are not scientific achievements, they are, at best, engineering ones if not purely infrastructural ones."
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Mark Wallace, so-called @markwallace.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The journey of a thousand TTRPG sessions begins with a single one-shot.
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Piers Gaviscon @wakjana.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I think it's Richard Scarry thinking: if you can't see a job being done by an anthropomorphic animal in a children's book, it's not a real job.
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Swan River Press @swanriverpress.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I strongly suspect the signed, limited hardback edition of NOCTURNAL MIRRORS by Richard Gavin will be out of print by the end of the year. Just saying. (I've the remaining copies sitting here beside me. Let me know if you want one.) swanriverpress.ie/srp-title/no...
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Bruno Dias @brunodias.dev · 28/09/2026
What is happening is not that AI-generated cultural goods are replacing human-made cultural goods; what is happening is that capital is flowing out of the production of cultural goods *entirely,* making us all poorer for it.
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Catherine Gogerty @catherinegogerty.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
My top names from the apple and pear tent at the Autumn show
A pile of 5 apples on a table with a name card saying 'Knobby Russet'Two black plates on a table with pears on, they have name labels behind the saying 'dead boy' and 'dead dog'A pile of pears on a black plate with a sign saying 'butts'
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Eleonor Piteira @eleonorpiteira.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I had the utmost pleasure of painting the cover illustration of @marianavcoelho.bsky.social 's debut novel 'Truthteller' for Transworld/Penguin Random House UK! ⚖️ Out March 2027!
Cover illustration by Eleonor Piteira for the book 'Truthteller' by Mariana V. Coelho, featuring a woman with a golden headpiece that covers her eyes and fans out behind her head like rays. She is wearing a red and elaborate outfit with multiple layers and gold embroidery with gemstones. She is holding a scale in each of her hands, while the scales' chains wrap around her hands and forearms and go up towards the sky. Some of the chains are breaking, one of the scales is tipping down and gold liquid is running down.
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Jim Rossignol @rossignol.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I had a lot of fun with this, although the disjointedness of it did mean I was bored through the middle section. A couple of people have said to me that the ending feels out of step with the rest of it, too, and I think that's true, but also it's exactly the sort of stuff I want to read.
There Is No Antimemetics Division by qntm
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Richard D. Morey @richarddmorey.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Complex systems can do surprising things, even artificial ones! That doesn’t mean thought or intentions are involved. It’s like believing the weather is conscious because it is complicated and surprising (which is also something people have historically done)
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Ian McQue @ianmcque.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Ormiscaig, Wester Ross.
Digital painting, barn and croft house at Ormiscaig township in Wester Ross on the north east coast of Scotland
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Ian McQue @ianmcque.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
flood
Digital painting, flooded city streets
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Rebecca @rebeccafpainter.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Morning!!! I am very excited that my painting of Tobias Menzies is going to be exhibited at the Oxo Gallery as part of the British Art Prize in October. There is a People's choice award & if you feel so inclined I'd be very grateful for your vote!! awards.artistsandillustrators.co.uk/vote/?artist...
Oil painting of the actor Tobias Menzies
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Justin Lewis @whenisbirths.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Hard as it is to believe, news bulletins are likely to become even worse.
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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Peacehammer 40K: Paintinge miniatures of gardeneres, sculptors, academics. Detailed scale dioramas of museums, kiosks, cafés. Trimminge hedges. Makinge friendes. So manye hues of greene. Yn the cozye glowe of the far future ther ys onlye WARMTH.
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Jim Rossignol @rossignol.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Unacceptable. These are the projects that should get maximum support from local councils. It stinks. Remember and vote these clowns out.
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Sophie Carr @sophiecarr.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
A turquoise iceberg on Fellsfjara beach at Jökulsárlón in south-east #Iceland on a very stormy day back in Feb 2022.
A very turquoise iceberg on a beach with long exposure slowing the waves a little. Black sand beach to bottom left and very grey stormy skies above.
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Sarah Elizabeth Cox @oispooky.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
2yrs after I finished my MA History at Goldsmiths, my research rights were bought and I was hired to work as historical consultant on this TV show. It's had BAFTA and International Emmy nominations. I got a book deal, too. Goldsmiths: "No point in MA History, let's fire everyone and delete it."
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Wyrd Science Magazine @wyrdscience.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
this is a really good album, and it just happens that we have a great interview with Jim, aka The Belbury Poly, about it in our next issue...
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Comics Covers @comicscovers.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Cat-Man 16 (3405)
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Failbetter Games | Wishlist Mandrake on Steam! @failbettergames.com · 24/09/2026
"Oh, let me look at you, my poor darling. Yes, it's just as I thought! You have the Lily-Tongue Sweats. Fascinating. Beautiful!" Investigate a burgeoning aesthetic movement that treats illness as art in the Exceptional Story for October, The Unwellness Salon by @rossignol.bsky.social.
A slender white woman in an acid green off-the-shoulder dress and jewels looks over at you across a party. Her dress is adorned with sickly green bubbles and her silk glove seems to be covered with a green slime.
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Geek Native @geeknative.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
UK Games Expo has banned generative AI art, text, and merchandise across all NEC exhibition halls, bringing the convention in line with broader British tabletop standards. Standholders face removal or bans if their products aren't made by humans. #UKGE
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UK Games Expo bans generative AI art and text across all trade halls
UK Games Expo has introduced a mandatory policy prohibiting generative AI art and text across all NEC trade halls, requiring exhibitors to sell only human-made games.
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Rachel Coldicutt @rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I am STILL redrafting my paper on AI safety and yesterday I wrote a small section on why long and boring documents are a safety risk - tbh it seems more likely to me that the way AI will expedite the end of the world is because the important point got buried at the end of page 72 and no one read it
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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
What they don’t teach you at Harvard Business School: if all you care about is business then you’ll destroy the world.
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