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Ray Irving 🇺🇦 @skiingmouse.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Today’s #TTRPG challenge: design a scenario using this hat!

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Francis Irving @flourish.org · 21/09/2026

Next Land Talks is tomorrow! Speakers on the tickets page: luma.com/mka0gu7s Get a ticket, bring a friend, if you think the cost of land, or quality of housing, or the consequences of those, needs radical improvement.

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Land Talks #7 · Luma

🗺️ Where Fresh Thinking Meets Britain’s Oldest Bottleneck Land is key to economic growth and equality of opportunity, yet in Britain we’ve done almost nothing…

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Ray Irving 🇺🇦 @skiingmouse.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

That Bronze Age Cyclops art really is quite the thing (not to mention those hippo riders…), very evocative…

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uoɯolɐS uɐƃɹoW uɥoſ @fuzzybunny.org · 24/08/2026

Found on reddit. Credit: www.instagram.com/fotoroom_fot...

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Ray Irving 🇺🇦 @skiingmouse.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Vernor Vinge passed away in 2024, his SciFi book *Rainbows End* which is set in 2025 - uncannily accurate prediction of destructive book scanning: www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/20...

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Ray Irving 🇺🇦 @skiingmouse.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

A couple of years ago I made a concerted effort to remove as many die rolls from my #callofcthulhu as possible. The result: a regular player had a quiet word that she actually *liked* rolling the dice, could I please reverse this change 🤷‍♂️

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Ray Irving 🇺🇦 @skiingmouse.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

All set for some Cthulhu Invictus! Scenario is a 117AD homebrew heavily influenced by Rosemary Sutcliff’s The Eagle of the 9th and Robert E Howard’s The Worms of the Earth…

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Ray Irving 🇺🇦 @skiingmouse.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

This is just 👌🏻

From that point on, it was all downhill for Musk. He suggested that everyone read lain Banks for a vision of the
future, and Beddoes pointed out that Banks was a socialist. Musk insisted he wasn't. Musk said he wanted a Star Trek version of the future, which is also a version of the future that is routinely referred to as "space communism."

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Ray Irving 🇺🇦 @skiingmouse.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Definitely passes the same vibe check…

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Ray Irving 🇺🇦 @skiingmouse.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Good thread - we don’t actually know for sure how Homeric armour looked…

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Ray Irving 🇺🇦 @skiingmouse.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

As portrayed in Nolan’s Odyssey, the Atreus brothers come over as exactly the kind of guys who would go to considerable effort to obtain exotic wives. The scene with Menelaus in his gold spangled palace in Sparta makes it clear - Lupita fits in perfectly. It’s entirely believable.

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Ray Irving 🇺🇦 @skiingmouse.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

I really enjoyed The Odyssey in IMAX format, it is excellent: intense, epic, beautiful and well acted. Definitely nothing to get worked up about like folks did after the trailer…

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Ray Irving 🇺🇦 @skiingmouse.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Of course Plato was right, life would be better in a rationally structured city-state governed by enlightened philosopher-kings

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✨John Carpenter’s BOObies✨ @ourflagmeansbeth.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

Oh my god there’s a short with him and Hugo Weaving taking a bath??

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Ray Irving 🇺🇦 @skiingmouse.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Today’s AI ick trigger (from a sales email): “No demo, no deck — just a concrete control pattern to react to”. They certainly got a reaction!

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Ray Irving 🇺🇦 @skiingmouse.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

I just announced to my Swiss colleagues that my summer wish list is for England to win the world cup and the UK to get a decent Prime Minister. Oh the mirth, they are falling over themselves with laughter!

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Ray Irving 🇺🇦 @skiingmouse.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Over on LinkedIn I can’t look anymore - every post: “here’s the bind” “why this matters” “and another thing” Totally doing my head in!

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Ray Irving 🇺🇦 @skiingmouse.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Later in my 2nd Call of Cthulhu campaign I had the epiphany every single player had totally different motivations to play - I now swear by premise buy in, session zero and hooks between party members

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Cephaloplod @archytoothless.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

And here I would have captioned it, "Trump meets with Elric of Melniboné cosplayers to ask if this so-called 'Black Blade' named Stormbringer can be used to end the war with Iran"

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Ray Irving 🇺🇦 @skiingmouse.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

@flourish.org remember playing this and marvelling at the parallax scrolling?

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Ray Irving 🇺🇦 @skiingmouse.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

I don’t understand all the fuss about OSR - it’s an obsolete 40 year old game that is best forgotten

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Ray Irving 🇺🇦 @skiingmouse.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

Brilliant how, when you add the colour, it becomes clear The Regia Marina was not loaded with mines, but Poké Balls. I wonder what types of aquatic Pokémon Mussolini managed to collect?

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Ray Irving 🇺🇦 @skiingmouse.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

Inspector Morse was a huge thing for me at the time, totally unmissable, seriously tempted to start re-watch…

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Ray Irving 🇺🇦 @skiingmouse.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

All set for tomorrow, running the Regency version of the #callofcthulhu scenario Zennor & the Sins of St. Senara by @stygianfoxpub.bsky.social. Jane Austin’s Persuasion meets Lovecraft, well, sort of… 🤭

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Ray Irving 🇺🇦 @skiingmouse.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

Inspired by @fuzzybunny.org and if anyone has a *working* version of the Tintin ttf please help me out

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Jordan @jordanpfot.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

Might be the greatest opening paragraph of anything ever.

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Francis Irving @flourish.org · 15/03/2026

Land Talks #5 is soon! I'm running another evening of lightning talks about land policy. This one's got quirky stuff about the impact of driverless cars on land, and crunchy stuff about how liberalising planning can reduce trust and cause more problems. luma.com/avdjw348 Come along!

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Land Talks #5: Phantom Cabs, Books on Fire & The Trust Deficit · Luma

🗺️ Where Fresh Thinking Meets Britain’s Oldest Bottleneck Land is key to economic growth and equality of opportunity, yet in Britain we’ve done almost nothing…

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Ray Irving 🇺🇦 @skiingmouse.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

#DnD has a lot to answer for - I think the issue stems from later versions containing a mini game, namely designing and levelling up your PC. Players are so invested in this mini-game that killing a PC without cause breaks the social contract with the DM. Thus the “balance” obsession. It’s absurd.

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Alasdair Beckett-King @misterabk.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

Let me tell you a story (before the ship explodes):

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Ray Irving 🇺🇦 @skiingmouse.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

This would make Reform a sort of Arc B for useless MPs!

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Ray Irving 🇺🇦 @skiingmouse.bsky.social · 05/10/2025

A lifetime studying primates provides valuable insight on humanity…

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Ray Irving 🇺🇦 @skiingmouse.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

Took me 25 minutes to download an app, create an account and set up credit card payment to charge a hire car before returning it in Germany. Ridiculous!

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Ray Irving 🇺🇦 @skiingmouse.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

A one shot should be designed to complete in 4 hours. A good one also has safeguards to ensure it does.

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Francis Irving @flourish.org · 09/09/2025

If you're in London - my third evening of lightning talks about Radical Land Policy is next Tuesday - have a look at the Luma page to see the speakers! luma.com/v8knl21z

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Land Talks #3: New Prisons, Open Source Construction, Land in Japan & More! · Luma

🗺️ Where Fresh Thinking Meets Britain’s Oldest Bottleneck Land is key to economic growth and equality of opportunity, yet in Britain we’ve done almost nothing…

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Ray Irving 🇺🇦 @skiingmouse.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

I urge you all to back this - like me - he says in a desperate effort to atone from dropping out of Paul’s play by mail game in the early 90’s!

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Ray Irving 🇺🇦 @skiingmouse.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

In The Hobbit the people of Lake Town don’t really believe in the dragon under the mountain anymore. Apparently this is a “feature” of humanity - a potentially very destructive one…

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Ray Irving 🇺🇦 @skiingmouse.bsky.social · 03/08/2025

Listening to an @apocalypseplayers.bsky.social #CallofCthulhu actual play. The investigators are early 90’s kids. For plot they have flashed back to an earlier game of 2nd edition D&D. So they are 2020’s adults RPing 1990s kids RPing 2nd edition D&D characters! 🤯 Love this Matryoshka meta spiral! 🥰

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Ray Irving 🇺🇦 @skiingmouse.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

This is why #CallofCthulhu should always be set in the UK. Tea is the perfect counterpoint to cosmic horror.

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Ray Irving 🇺🇦 @skiingmouse.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

@fuzzybunny.org & I once shared an office. We talked nonsense at the coffee machine. Follow us both now and you too can join the party! 🎉

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Ray Irving 🇺🇦 @skiingmouse.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

Close but no cigar. He was actually part of a legion slaughtered by a Celtic death cult. Artists impression of what happened based on a floor mosaic from a Verulamium villa

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Joe Slowik @pylos.co · 14/05/2025

A tale as old as time

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Ray Irving 🇺🇦 @skiingmouse.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

So I’ve finally got around to reading the Silmarillion and will have a go at summarising here in this thread.

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Ray Irving 🇺🇦 @skiingmouse.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

I recently ran a Dread game where I turned out the lights and gave the players two flashlights to represent the two flashlights in their inventory.

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Ray Irving 🇺🇦 @skiingmouse.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

Essentially we’re now all “supply” for a narcissist, but unlike if one is hired by or in a relationship with a narcissist, there is nothing one can do about it.

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Ray Irving 🇺🇦 @skiingmouse.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

My concern is what happens when they start making goblins to ride them!?

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Wondermark Comics @wondermark.com · 31/03/2025

reading is very fun Wondermark #1562; A Cold Stare From a Tall Bookshelf

A woman holds up a thick hardcover book. Smiling, she addresses her friend! What a nice friendship they seem to have!

READER: I just finished reading HEADSTABBERS: FATHOMS!

FRIEND: Ooh, what'd you think?

READER: I LOVED it. Meiji-era Atlantis was SUCH a cool setting. And the way the writing AUTHENTICALLY felt like a wet manuscript was SO compelling

READER: And of course, I fell in love with Vertebrakz INSTANTLY.

FRIEND: I would GIVE MY LIFE for Vertebrakz. Even if such a sacrifice were completely unnecessary.

READER: So, yeah! I THOROUGHLY enjoyed it!

FRIEND: Then you'll be thrilled to learn it's just the START of a 66-BOOK CYCLE!

The Reader is suddenly overwhelmed by this thought, throwing off flop sweat. Nervously, she asks:

READER: W-will you tell me if the rest of them are as good as the first?

FRIEND (eyes narrowed): How DARE you demand the FORBIDDEN KNOWLEDGE

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Ray Irving 🇺🇦 @skiingmouse.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

This. It’s like me telling my boss I want to go 80% so I can bake my own bread & make my own clothes. But clothes & bread don’t cost me 20% of my income, so I’m worse off…

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