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Books read in September: David Sodergren - The Haar David Sodergren - Maggie's Grave Ellen Datlow ed.) - Lovecraft's Brood

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Tore @torenielsen.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Sometimes they do a story that's not for me, but I don't remember a single bad one. Plenty of brilliant ones though. Not just good, brilliant.

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Tore @torenielsen.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

It's a fab game. I'm running it at Grogmeetish. 🙂

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Tore @torenielsen.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

In my unhealthy addiction to react vids I've gotten to Bobbie Gentry an her Ode to Billy Joe. It seems that there are three reactions (in order) she's so pretty. wait, what? WHAT DID THEY THROW OFF THE BRIDGE!? 1/ youtu.be/nv33eaygVDQ?...

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Bobby Gentry - Ode to Billy Joe

YouTube video by Mettz Musik

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Dennis Detwiller @drgonzo123.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

All Microsoft software is bad and getting worse. That's what they do.

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Tore @torenielsen.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

It came! Now to frighten everyone.

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Tore @torenielsen.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I owe a debt of thanks to @draugmith.bsky.social and @cultistofsooty.bsky.social for listening to my tipsy rant about Jonathan Carroll and his novel A Child Across the Sky. It got my proverbial goat to the extent that I read Depraved and Depraved 2 as a palate cleanser. Lockdown shit amirite?

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Tore @torenielsen.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Dearpeople who have followed me because I'm in the "OSR starter package", I hope I won't disappoint you. I don't talk about OSR a ton here. I'll try to be better about it, but I find it difficult to come up with an opinion on hexes, armor class, or neo-otyughs (when a regular ol' otyugh won't do!)1/

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Tore @torenielsen.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

There's a shiny star on the dressing room door But I'll be out in the back of my car 'Cos I don't know a soul I can trust with the money Or to tune up my guitar youtu.be/cyT4JQfvdqY?...

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Jon Langford, "Nashville Radio"

YouTube video by Bloodshot Records

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Tore @torenielsen.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Hill Street Blues has some surprising guest stars.

Danny Glover! Not too old for this shit.

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Tore @torenielsen.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Dragonbane in 25. Getting psyched. www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Qzd...

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Amebix-Axeman

YouTube video by NekroLust66

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JV West @jvwest.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

This comic is dedicated to a fantastical cartographical genius we all know and love. I hope @dysonlogos.bsky.social doesn't think this has anything at all to do with him.

BW comic panel. Glasses nerd artist thinks about how to make money with Disney nudes and stuff.

BW comic panel. Glasses nerd artist proclaims a quick path to fame and glory, rolling his d4.

BW comic panel. Glasses nerd artist steeples his hands deliciously as he thinks about aping the maps of Nelson Legos.

BW comic panel. Glasses nerd artist's hand cramps up due to the hatching involved. Nelson Legos is nuts.

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Tore @torenielsen.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I have a joke about Apocalypse World, but maybe that's a bit of a basic move.

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Tore @torenielsen.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

"Steve kissed Courtney and thought of Boris Johnson. It was an old trick, one he used to prolong his state of arousal. Anytime he felt near release — like right…this…second — he pictured the potato-faced clown waving a Union Flag and grinning." David Sodergren - Maggie's grave

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Tore @torenielsen.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Thatwas a lovely story about a Scottish widow's last stand against an American billionaire. Brutal and sentimental in the best ways.

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Tore @torenielsen.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

"It was still chucking it down as Muriel sat in front of the telly, trying to pay attention to The Great Pottery Throw Down. The nice man on the screen was looking at a clay pot and crying, but Muriel was thinking of Arthur. " David Sodergren - The Haar

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Tore @torenielsen.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I've bought a suit. I don't remember the last time I had a suit. I don't think I've ever had a suit. It'd better confer some kind of gravitas.

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Tore @torenielsen.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

My niece's reach exceeds her grasp. My brother: "She's gotten TOO GOOD. She can even open doors now!"

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Tore @torenielsen.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Another great game of Orbotal Megastructures tonight. We braved the spooky darkness, and liberated a vehicle. It's kind of like a bus on insect legs.

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Tore @torenielsen.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

"I swear I didn't lay a tooth on 'im!" "Yor life's unfolding ike a bad umbrella" "I try to be nice for a change, and you zing me! I DON'T REACT WELL TO BEING ZINGED!" "No matter nuthin' they're freaks or junkies or neck-suckin' vampires as long as they're white". Hill Street Blues y'all.

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Let's Be Careful Out There - Hill Street Blues

ALT: Let's Be Careful Out There - Hill Street Blues

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Tore @torenielsen.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

I've started watching Hill Street Blues (1981-87). I haven't seen it since I was wee. Of course it shows its age, not least in the gender role department. The duty sergeant (a man in his 50s) is dating a high school senior(!) The stepfather having sex with his teenage stepdaughter 1/

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Tore @torenielsen.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

In other news, my neice keep learning new words. Her latest is "mere ma'" ("more food!") like a little troll. Her favorite remains "ur" ("clock"), something she's endlessly fascinated by.

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Tore @torenielsen.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

mitch mcconnell is so dead that even Elvis and Jimmy Hoffa have stopped poking him with sticks.

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Tore @torenielsen.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Thanks for all the kind words, folks.

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Tore @torenielsen.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Fucking hell. My cousin was killed in a traffic accident on Thursday. I wasn't in contact with her, so I feel weird rather than devastated. On Firday my other cousin became a grandfather (again). Today I turn 48. If there's a greater point , I don't know it. We pass this way but once.

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Tore @torenielsen.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

He ain't real smart But he gets things done Drinks his beer Like it's oxygen youtu.be/1bRt13ygKwE?...

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John Prine and Iris DeMent In Spite of Ourselves

YouTube video by Philippe Ballarini

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Tore @torenielsen.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Plowing my way through The Ocean Game. Slower, 'cos the world keeps intruding. I am still digging it immensely.

In such a situation, faced with a pack of suicidal but
undeniably useful idiots, the oceanographer must
set aside pity and follow the dispassionate path of
science. If these fool are determined to plunge into
the water, why not give them bright orange flotation
devices so they can swim out a little further before
they die? Why not direct them towards particularly
fascinating rocky outcrops?
Why not lure bigger predators out of the deeps by
using the idiots as bait?

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Tore @torenielsen.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Name an album you can listen to on repeat that doesn't get old. www.youtube.com/watch?v=upej...

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Kenny Dorham - Una Mas (ORIGINAL Blue Note MONO 1963) [FULL ALBUM]

YouTube video by Netsh

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Tore @torenielsen.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Note to self, Renegade Quíche is my new wave/indie band.

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Tore @torenielsen.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

She talks to bees (Dunno if Joey heard the cover before he passed). youtu.be/pVTbdy1I-5A?...

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Ronnie Spector - She Talks To Rainbows (studio version)

YouTube video by Vlassis Skandalis

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Tore @torenielsen.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

If you see this post a not quite Star Trek.

Lieutenant Columbo (Peter Falk) and Lieutenant Lucerne/Ward Fowler(William Shatner).

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Tore @torenielsen.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

When you come to my fights And I am under the lights And you see that my footwork is false Don't count me out at the start of the bout I'm just doing the secondary waltz (I was taught waltz in the lunch break, by a girl in 6th grade in 6th grade). youtu.be/AE_47RU7xns?...

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Mark Knopfler - Secondary Waltz

YouTube video by Mark Knopfler'sWorld

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Tore @torenielsen.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

They're always good. Besides, who could say no to those faces?

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Tim Gray @timgray101.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Looking for help with ttrpg editing or proofreading in the next couple of months? I provide attention to detail and helpful feedback so your book can be its best. Extra interested in any of myth/folklore, Celtic, hope/points of light, fun ideas, system noodling. silverbranch.co.uk/ttrpg-editing/

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TTRPG editing

Hi, I'm Tim Gray. I provide freelance editing and proofreading for roleplaying game publishers, large and small, to make your work its best.

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Tore @torenielsen.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

I'm reading through The Ocean Game, Pelgrane Press' campaign for the new edition of Fear Itself. I'm very impressed and enthused by the thing. the basis of the campaign is an occult game, played by a few, understood by even fewer, and exploited by many. I was curious to how they swing this. 1/

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Tore @torenielsen.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

It is nice to have a working toilet.

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Evey 💀 Swamp Hag Trainee 🐸|🏳️‍⚧️ @violentmedia.itch.io · 26/08/2026

please help if you can this kind of cruelty is so amazingly dangerous it's hard enough to squirm out from under debt when you're in a secure position. it's impossible w/o help. help pls. however you can.

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Tore @torenielsen.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Old rockerboys never die, their software just becomes obsolete.

French funk-rock band Fédération Française de Fonck.

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