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BoardGameWire 🔜 Spiel Essen @boardgamewire.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

UK-based Osprey Games has let go of its entire board and card game development team and cancelled its booth at the upcoming Spiel Essen game fair - five months after parent company Bloomsbury began searching for a buyer for the operation: boardgamewire.com/index.php/20...

Green board game tiles representing fields and grassland with a blue river running through. Several round cardboard counters representing soldiers are visible on the tiles, and two black eight-sided dice, as well as other small cardboard counters. Undaunted: Normandy from Osprey Games, designed by Trevor Benjamin and David Thompson.

Hexagonal board game tiles pressed together in a mass, representing a yellow prairie-like terrain. Small wooden counters in red, green and beige are visible on the board, and a cardboard screen with two owls on sits behind it. Upland & Prairie from Osprey Games, designed by Peer Sylvester.

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Graham 🏳️‍🌈 - UKTM @uk-tank-markings.co.uk · 26/11/2024

WW2 British Vehicle Markings Deciphered - a thread 🧵 Using the Tank Museum's Comet as an example, we can see the following: 1 - Arm of Service Flash 2 - Bridge Classification 3 - Formation Insignia 4 - Serial Number 5 - Tactical Sign 6 - Vehicle Name All explained in turn below... [1/10]

A photograph of a Comet tank, from a front-quarter angle, showing off its various markings.

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Graham 🏳️‍🌈 - UKTM @uk-tank-markings.co.uk · 16/10/2026

Apparently the West Yorkshire pension DID automatically transfer to the Worcestershire scheme, but the Worcestershire pension didn't automatically transfer to the West Midlands scheme. And I've still somehow got two concurrent memberships with West Midlands. Argh.

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Graham 🏳️‍🌈 - UKTM @uk-tank-markings.co.uk · 16/10/2026

I would have sworn that first photo was an old railway station. Every day's a school day.

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Graham 🏳️‍🌈 - UKTM @uk-tank-markings.co.uk · 15/10/2026

Yeah. It's my own fault for never looking into it properly when I moved, I suppose, but I've now got about five years of contributions to West Yorkshire Pension Fund, another five with Worcestershire, five with West Midlands and somehow another three with West Midlands but under a separate account.

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Graham 🏳️‍🌈 - UKTM @uk-tank-markings.co.uk · 15/10/2026

I've apparently got four, two of which are with the same scheme. 🤦🏻‍♂️

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Graham 🏳️‍🌈 - UKTM @uk-tank-markings.co.uk · 15/10/2026

Silly me, assuming Local Government Pension Schemes would automatically fold into each other if you moved from one to another. Silly, silly me.

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Graham 🏳️‍🌈 - UKTM @uk-tank-markings.co.uk · 14/10/2026

Suddenly I'm 12 years old and playing Homeworld in 640x480 again.

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Graham 🏳️‍🌈 - UKTM @uk-tank-markings.co.uk · 13/10/2026

I should definitely have read the ingredients more closely before buying this innocent-looking can of pop from the world foods aisle.

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Graham 🏳️‍🌈 - UKTM @uk-tank-markings.co.uk · 11/10/2026

Now I'm imagining him as the Military Advisor in Civ 2.

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Graham 🏳️‍🌈 - UKTM @uk-tank-markings.co.uk · 11/10/2026

Captain Tom and Paddington in pith helmets, running headlong into a sea of poppies.

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Graham 🏳️‍🌈 - UKTM @uk-tank-markings.co.uk · 11/10/2026

This loony was as uninterested in the cows as they were of her.

A red and white collie with her tongue lolling out.

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Graham 🏳️‍🌈 - UKTM @uk-tank-markings.co.uk · 11/10/2026

Saw some free-roaming coos on Hartlebury Common.

Three large-horned cows, one brown, one black and white and one tan and white.

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Graham 🏳️‍🌈 - UKTM @uk-tank-markings.co.uk · 09/10/2026

Been wondering why work has seemed absolutely relentless so far this academic year. Did the figures today and it turns out we've done more printing in the first week of October than in the whole month last year. Fookin' knackered.

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Simon Brading author 🪐📚 @simonbrading.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

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Do you like strong, competent FMCs? Well, do I have a series for you!
Misfit Squadron
WW2 as you've never read it before

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John Bull @garius.eurosky.social · 08/10/2026

Amazon. Uber. Air-BnB. All represent the use of technology to streamline the customer experience and, bluntly, reduce costs by dodging regulation or taxes. They weren't the PRODUCT. No consumer wants to BUY AI. It's not a product. Billy six-fingers has no value to them until he gets a job.

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Graham 🏳️‍🌈 - UKTM @uk-tank-markings.co.uk · 07/10/2026

FAO: Birmingham and West Midlands people Birmingham Gaymers are doing another Blood on the Clocktower beginners' session www.tickettailor.com/events/birmi...

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Graham 🏳️‍🌈 - UKTM @uk-tank-markings.co.uk · 07/10/2026

"Likely" lives in Edinburgh, as though they haven't got your address.

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Graham 🏳️‍🌈 - UKTM @uk-tank-markings.co.uk · 07/10/2026

I'm sure someone with a software background is now recoiling in horror at the fact yours has an ampersand and mine has an "and".

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Graham 🏳️‍🌈 - UKTM @uk-tank-markings.co.uk · 07/10/2026

It's under "My Shopping Preferences" if you can find that.

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Graham 🏳️‍🌈 - UKTM @uk-tank-markings.co.uk · 07/10/2026

Found the bit in my Amazon account where it lists what their algorithm knows about me, and it might as well just come out and call me autistic.

Screenshot from Amazon on what it knows about me:

"Systematically collecting complete book series"
"Building comprehensive craft supply collection"
"Studies railway history actively"

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Graham 🏳️‍🌈 - UKTM @uk-tank-markings.co.uk · 04/10/2026

Not this time, sadly. I don't have a tin for making individual ones - it's one massive one or none at all!

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Graham 🏳️‍🌈 - UKTM @uk-tank-markings.co.uk · 03/10/2026

I had a dream in which the BBC had started using Dire Straits' Money For Nothing style CGI in its coverage of sporting events, particularly cricket matches, and this had somehow spawned a long thread of terrible puns and dad jokes on here. Suspect I need to get offline for a bit.

Screencap from the music video to Dire Straits' Money for Nothing

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Graham 🏳️‍🌈 - UKTM @uk-tank-markings.co.uk · 01/10/2026

Yeah, the 15mm tanks were a real boon when Flames of War was still mostly metal and resin.

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Graham 🏳️‍🌈 - UKTM @uk-tank-markings.co.uk · 01/10/2026

Anyone know what's going on with The Plastic Soldier Company? I know they've been struggling for a while and their responsiveness on social media has been dreadful, but now their actual website seems to be dead too. 😬 www.theplasticsoldiercompany.co.uk

theplasticsoldiercompany.co.uk

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Graham 🏳️‍🌈 - UKTM @uk-tank-markings.co.uk · 30/09/2026

When someone sends me a document to print and it's on Letter rather than A4, this appears above my head.

The "social relationship minus minus" icon from The Sims

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Graham 🏳️‍🌈 - UKTM @uk-tank-markings.co.uk · 28/09/2026

Thank you! I was a bit sceptical of the blue when I first picked up the pattern, but it works very well.

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Graham 🏳️‍🌈 - UKTM @uk-tank-markings.co.uk · 28/09/2026

Oh I finished my birb too. Got my next one already kitted up and ready to start tomorrow, because if I don't have a project on the go then there's only The Horrors. #cross-stitch

Completed cross stitch of a bird (possibly a song thrush) surrounded by flower and leaf accoutrements.

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Graham 🏳️‍🌈 - UKTM @uk-tank-markings.co.uk · 28/09/2026

Nothing a massive Yorkshire pudding won't fix.

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Graham 🏳️‍🌈 - UKTM @uk-tank-markings.co.uk · 28/09/2026

Oh and there's currently a sale on. 25% off mugs and whatnot.

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