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🦉 Michael Schofield @schoeyfield.com · 01/10/2026

When a show is a serial, Bard says so and offers to start you from the beginning. Episodes list oldest first for the same reason. playbard.fm

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🦉 Michael Schofield @schoeyfield.com · 30/09/2026

Here's the player. Chapters, a sleep timer, and the usual buttons.

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🦉 Michael Schofield @schoeyfield.com · 29/09/2026

The thing that bugged me about every podcast app is that a show is a stream of episodes, latest first, which doesn't work for a story. So Bard's home screen asks what you were in the middle of and puts that first.

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🦉 Michael Schofield @schoeyfield.com · 28/09/2026

I'm a librarian, and discovery is really, really hard. So I built a deck: swipe right to follow a story, left if you're not interested. It surfaces audio fiction you'd never find on your own.

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🦉 Michael Schofield @schoeyfield.com · 26/09/2026

I am digging Halloween so hard.

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🦉 Michael Schofield @schoeyfield.com · 25/09/2026

This week I fixed the BBC audio dramas. They had a blank square where the cover should be, and their episodes wouldn't play. Both work now. Chapters show up on a lot more shows too.

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🦉 Michael Schofield @schoeyfield.com · 24/09/2026

Hey there. I made a podcast app just for fiction podcasts: audio drama, actual play, horror anthologies. You can't listen to Joe Rogan on it. It's called Bard. playbard.fm

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🦉 Michael Schofield @schoeyfield.com · 14/09/2026

Hey troubadours. Here's what's patched in BARD this week: www.patreon.com/thethief/pos... Listen to fiction better on - iOS apps.apple.com/us/app/bard-... - Desktop app.playbard.fm - Android Beta: (Drop me a note playbard.fm/contact) #ttrpg #actualplay #fiction #audiodrama #scifi #fantasy #dnd

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🦉 Michael Schofield @schoeyfield.com · 12/09/2026

It's not an Ambies category but maybe it should be. The website for Your Horror Show is, like, amazing. www.yourhorrorshow.com

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🦉 Michael Schofield @schoeyfield.com · 05/09/2026

There are a lot of new whizbangs and quality-of-life refinements in Bard this week, largely around discovery of new audio drama and actual plays. playbard.fm As I write this I'm releasing version 0.7.0. iOS is just slow as molasses, so expect the web app to be several versions ahead.

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🦉 Michael Schofield @schoeyfield.com · 04/09/2026

Bard is a totally free podcatcher that I'm confidently predicting will be the best way to find and immerse yourself in actual plays and audio drama by the end of the year. It's not _quite_ there, buuuuut I think it will be <3. - iPhones apps.apple.com/us/app/bard-... - Web app.playbard.fm

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🦉 Michael Schofield @schoeyfield.com · 01/09/2026

Run your fingers across a windchime and whisper some prayers. I'm surprised the review process has been such a slog. The first rejection was because the reviewer wasn't sure a podcast player had the copyright to play podcasts, and ... - I'm certain I've encountered some real trash on the app store.

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🦉 Michael Schofield @schoeyfield.com · 01/09/2026

This is probably my tenth time listening to The Black Tapes. i didn’t even intend to listen but its comfort food.

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🦉 Michael Schofield @schoeyfield.com · 01/09/2026

Today's Barding has a number of tweaks, namely addressing some issues with search. When you search, there are two fallbacks if your #actualplay or #audiodrama aren't in the library, and the last of them hilariously failed when you searched for more than one word. Woops.

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🦉 Michael Schofield @schoeyfield.com · 30/08/2026

A little Bard-on-Android status update. (playbard.fm)

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🦉 Michael Schofield @schoeyfield.com · 29/08/2026

There is a “Curator” role in Bard that only I and one another just now have, which is how i can handle podcasts that Bard can’t categorize on its own. Kinda cool

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🦉 Michael Schofield @schoeyfield.com · 24/08/2026

This is the work-in-progress browser version of Bard that's just about ready.

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🦉 Michael Schofield @schoeyfield.com · 24/08/2026

It's a little thing, but Bard finds Patreon, Ko-fi, and other links in the show description and makes it easier to support the creator by making a big ol' button. Also, threw in a @chartrulean.bsky.social screenshot because - goddamn what a star, ay. He's just chewing up that screenshot.

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🦉 Michael Schofield @schoeyfield.com · 23/08/2026

Bard is its own curated index of podcast fiction, but it’s really tricky to classify “fiction” correctly with the way podcast feeds work. So, Bard includes manual curation tools and background scanners that look for shows like this - that are “fiction,” but are also not what Bard’s made for.

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🦉 Michael Schofield @schoeyfield.com · 22/08/2026

H/T @therealgchu.bsky.social for sharing that @zencastr.bsky.social's terms of service (zencastr.com/terms-of-ser...) include yolo rights to your recordings (particularly to train models). As V.P. Eng of an enterprise SaaS, I hope _your_ Product / Eng Leadership blames legal for churn.

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🦉 Michael Schofield @schoeyfield.com · 22/08/2026

Thank youuu. It will likely be a work-in-progress because nothing's normalized, but this is a custom index that should make it a little easier to find specific stuff.

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🦉 Michael Schofield @schoeyfield.com · 22/08/2026

Bard (playbard.fm) is just pending app store review and ought to be in the wild in the next day or so. Bard is a podcast player for literally just actual plays and audio drama. I already think hands-down it's the best place to discover new shows. -- and ai podcast fiction is suppressed.

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🦉 Michael Schofield @schoeyfield.com · 12/06/2026

So I’ve been dogfooding my audio drama podcatcher (Bard) and I stumbled on Hannahpocalypse - which I’m legit loving. Also trying out my little share button. #audiodrama

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🦉 Michael Schofield @schoeyfield.com · 27/05/2026

I made a podcast player for actual plays and audio dramas, called Bard. After just about 40 test builds, it’s just about ready. Discovery is really dialed-in.

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🦉 Michael Schofield @schoeyfield.com · 31/03/2026

I finished the first unseemly draft of my first unseemly novel 😭

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🦉 Michael Schofield @schoeyfield.com · 23/02/2026

The paradigm shift comes with questioning why there must be a hand-off from product to engineering in the first place. stoic.substack.com/p/vigil-2-pr... by me #ai #engineering #product #design #ux

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🦉 Michael Schofield @schoeyfield.com · 22/02/2026

The world where this kind of emergent agent behavior is the norm. As the web makes itself more readily consumable by agents (Cloudflare creating a new “for agents” request header, for interest), means agents will stitch services together in ways that no one expected.

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🦉 Michael Schofield @schoeyfield.com · 14/02/2026

Our parlor does Friday the 13th flash event, and Naely and I had a couple hours to ourselves.

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🦉 Michael Schofield @schoeyfield.com · 13/02/2026

My sleep deprived brain said "okay. yes. I want chess horror."

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🦉 Michael Schofield @schoeyfield.com · 12/01/2026

It won't hit podcatchers until the morning, but if you're up and at 'em you can stream the next THE YOUNG www.patreon.com/posts/young-... . Don't fear the patreon, it's totally free. The Young is a coming-of-age horror set in Michigan 1995. #actualplay #audiodrama #zombies

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🦉 Michael Schofield @schoeyfield.com · 08/01/2026

Partial Veil was recommended to me a ton and I finally listened to the first episode. I'm pretty optimistic and subscribed. Might be way off but I'm getting True Detective vibes. #AmListening #audiodrama pod.link/1765764792/e...

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🦉 Michael Schofield @schoeyfield.com · 07/01/2026

Next episode of The Young ought to be done tomorrow and published either immediately when I finish or Monday. I'm technically _a lot behind_, but now that the holidays are in the rear view mirror things are shaping up. www.theyounghorror.com #walkingdead #actualplay #ttrpg

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🦉 Michael Schofield @schoeyfield.com · 06/01/2026

I heard the 1st episode of LIMINAL last night. It's a miniseries (?) where someone goes real deep while lucid dreaming - and gets stuck. My vibe is ... Inception + Freddy Krueger, in the what-happens-in-dreams-is-real sense. Easy subscribe for me. pod.link/1838164719/e... #amlistening #audiodrama

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🦉 Michael Schofield @schoeyfield.com · 06/01/2026

The public release of the second season of our award winning #actualplay THE THIEF is around the corner, and it’s a really convenient time to remind you that this exists - because it’s been a minute 🫠. Start here: open.spotify.com/episode/485g...

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🦉 Michael Schofield @schoeyfield.com · 02/01/2026

Of 13 writings — selfish and otherwise; broad, narrow — the one I’m left with after burning one for the last twelve nights is well within my control: “my audio dramas find a large audience who like them.”

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🦉 Michael Schofield @schoeyfield.com · 29/12/2025

Hiya. I make 6 podcasts -- 3 #audiodramas, 2 #actualplays, 1 #ttrpg soundscape thing -- and if you've dug any of them, I suuuuper invite you to join patreon.com/thethief for free. And, in 2026 - A comic with @isabeladuffles.bsky.social - A top-tier VTM AP with @nandikayyy.bsky.social - and more 🐈‍⬛

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🦉 Michael Schofield @schoeyfield.com · 29/12/2025

In the Arctic circle, a salvager board a rampant icebreaker gnarled in the pack ice. THE EDDA is a slow-burn #audiodrama about a dying ship in the dead of winter. www.patreon.com/posts/edda-0... It's not yet on the podcatchers but will be in a couple of days when it's done distributing.

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🦉 Michael Schofield @schoeyfield.com · 24/12/2025

I remastered A Huddle-close Yarn -- our Thief-y Christmas Story about Comeuppance. All the podcatchers, but if you use patreon and can follow me there (for free) it may help their new discovery tool. @therealgchu.bsky.social is Aebbe Half-hand. Patreon: www.patreon.com/posts/huddle... 🧵

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🦉 Michael Schofield @schoeyfield.com · 21/12/2025

The sword Wærgwengléom is stolen from the kindlinger abbey - where the Friar Cynwerd foments treason. Performed by Charles Villard. thief.substack.com/p/01-war-sti...

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🦉 Michael Schofield @schoeyfield.com · 20/12/2025

#AmListening This weekend, I'm trying a new show that caught my eye this morning on r / #audiodrama: TAVENEND (www.tavenend.com). > Tavenend is an investigative horror audio drama, presented as the personal audio log of an unnamed Investigator obsessed with the single isolated town of Tavenend.

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