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Vraicbeard

@vraicbeard.bsky.social
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Musical instrument restoration, piano guts, festival and event crewing and other bits and bobs. Probably eating falafel or cake. President of The Guild of Funerary Tuba Players he/him Sarnian

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Mystery John @glempy.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
My favourite theory is that as a society we’re no longer marinading in a high enough background level of nicotine to accidentally self-medicate the entire ADHD population
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Vraicbeard @vraicbeard.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Day off today. Was first customer through the chip shop door at lunch opening time. Not sure what to do now. Maybe a nap.
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Harry Hill Says Chippy Chips!
Alt: Harry Hill Says Chippy Chips!
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Vraicbeard @vraicbeard.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
very proud of my 2d6 list of Musical Performance Related Discomfort text in alt
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Vraicbeard @vraicbeard.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
For One Night Only - THIS ONE TIME AT BARD CAMP will come through the curtain as... THIS ONE TIME AT FIDDLE CAMP - "YOU are a trainee luthier at Chippings Craft School. You’ve been waiting all year for the highlight - Fiddle Camp, ...You’ve got five days to team-build a fiddle..."
A rather un-hinged attempt to adapt game into a zine type booklet, with a folk melody tune as a border, The Lady KIllers string quintet and landlady in costume and instruments, a list of side quests and a 

2d6 list of Musical Performance Related Discomfort as follows:
2  EYES! Can’t look at conductor, won’t, mustn’t.
3  Your beta-blockers have got mixed up with someone’s adhd meds
4  Mystery Stains have ruined your only black top
5  Pounding timekeeping stamper boot guy.
6  You have misplaced your phone.
7  Hiccups.
8  Shoulder Freeze.
9  Who is that your parent is flirting with?
10 Too Horny to Count. (or could not care less)
11 Barred from pre-performance self-medication at the artists bar.
12  Someone witnessed your vengeful tampon in french horns’ tuning slide.The cover of a zine called This One Time at Fiddle Camp, with a barefoot musician playing a fiddle as birds and flowers surround her.
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Vraicbeard @vraicbeard.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Very Neat! Playing with Electric Zine Maker for an hour turned into a lot of fun. A month adapting a @gshowitt.bsky.social one-page rpg into a couple of zines, for some friends. Enjoyed picking art, mucking about writing 2d6 tables, choosing sheet music, folk songs, recipes. ITS A THING!
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Hannah Alexander Artwork @hannahartwork.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Moth 🔦 first picture in my October series!
A digital illustration of a giant moth fae with glowing yellow eyes clinging to a lighthouse. At it's base, a lighthouse keeper emerges from his house to investigate.
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Frenchbloke @darkoutside.co.uk · 05/10/2026
from the eejit that brought you Reich's Crispy and the ADS-B303..... Behold, The SCHAFFELATOR ! this is a lot easier and less time consuming than manually editing out every 4th beat by hand. Needs tweaking though
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Vraicbeard @vraicbeard.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Full marks must go to Team Edit and best wishes to all those that took part.
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Bernard Cribbins Crying
Alt: Bernard Cribbins as Wilfred Mott crying and waving farewell
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𝕸𝖔𝖑𝖑𝖞𝖜𝖊𝖊𝖓 𝖑𝖑𝖑: 𝕾𝖊𝖆𝖘𝖔𝖓 𝖔𝖋 𝖙𝖍𝖊 𝕲𝖑𝖎𝖙𝖈𝖍 @mollyfied.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
please enjoy my favorite video in the world. it's about lasagna
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The Orkney News @theorkneynews.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
This is wonderful film @shetlandlibrary.bsky.social Thank you to all involved in its making www.youtube.com/watch?v=3JxK...
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Hearts Across the Sea | The Shetland Bus
YouTube video by Scalloway Museum
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Vraicbeard @vraicbeard.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The upcoming police auction will be busy then
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Vraicbeard @vraicbeard.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
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Olivia Colman's Surprised Reaction in Hot Fuzz
Alt: Olivia Colman's Surprised Reaction in Hot Fuzz
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Juniper Harper Lark @juniperhl.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I’ve just spent the last two months prepping a megagame. Its a live text discord RPG set on a space station full of factional intrigue and desperate people, incorporating all the lessons we've learned since the time we all did that last October. Enjoy! thegardenbelow.blot.im/apa-1/so-im-...
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APA-1 / So, i’m running a megagame. - The Garden Below
An announcement of a new live text discord megagame starting October 16th 2026.
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karanormal activity 💜 @deadontheoutside.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
tech bro is short for technically broken
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Vraicbeard @vraicbeard.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Timeline Friends
4 Guernsey cows having a lay down in a sunny field. They are medium caramel and white coloured
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The Ghost Ship EverGemma @evergemma.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
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Nitro 🐻‍❄️ 🔜 NFC @es.nitrobear.gay · 06/08/2026
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Standplaats Kraków could really use some cash! @standplaatskrk.pl · 06/09/2026
[Text is overlaid on a stylized, melting blue brain floating in a speckled void.]
"Are you suffering from Brain?
You may be owed compensation."
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Vraicbeard @vraicbeard.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
oof! excellent youtu.be/eVdmxXXK1tA?...
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Go Down Easy _ The John Martyn Project _ Live @ Bert Jansch Studio
YouTube video by The John Martyn Project
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Jock @jockbsky.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
… to final From ‘Batman: ONE DARK KNIGHT’💥 @dc.com
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don't hug me I'm porksweats @porksweats.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
first principles, clarice. simplicity. read marcus aurelius. of each particular thing ask: what is it in itself? what is its nature? what does he do, this man you seek?
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Vraicbeard @vraicbeard.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Last four characters you saved on your phone are your D&D party
Snoopy, our party's Warlock of The Great Old One
Snoopy is pictured here as an anthropomorphic beagle, he grins from the top of an arcane pyramid.A master the art of oratory, Louis Balfour is the party Bard, trained in the College of Eloquence. "Grrrrreat!"

Louis Balfour, the host of the Fast Show Jazz sketch, is pictured here painted in a cubist style in front of the painting “Composition for Jazz” by Albert Gleizes,
sorry I can’t remember which artist did this. "Nice!"Our party’s Cleric of the Tempest Domain, works as a trawler crew.

They are pictured standing inside the boat, where behind him, a door way is bulging with spider crabs.Ron Mael, from the bard Sparks and more recently a Hexblade Warlock
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Good Trailcams @goodtrailcams.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
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Novelty Cistern @noveltycistern.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER: *totally calm after throwing a hit man over a railing into a mall atrium, where he smashes through a table where people are playing d&d, causing them to scatter in fear* encountah table
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🦇💀 Rigg-or Mortis 💀🦇 @rigg.lgbt · 14/08/2026
If I were designing that I'd make the message persistent after people have dismissed the horrible noise. Willing to bet most people didn't read it because they were too busy going FUCK FUCK FUCK SHUT UP
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SMD's pension @anothersmd.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Other countries figured out years ago to use it only for clear and specific warnings, not whatever this shite is.
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Rebecca WB @rwb22.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
I really don't think that's what that thing is for! It's for imminent and localized emergencies where you need to take action, not 'don't go do dumb shit'!
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Paul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.com · 10/08/2026
There's a solar eclipse coming up this week. Here's a photo of a solar eclipse from last year. Taken from the surface of the Moon. Yep, that black circle is Earth.
A diamond ring of fire in the black.
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Jonathan Edwards @jontofski.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Tove Jansson. Born on this day in 1914.
Portrait of Tove Jansson
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Vraicbeard @vraicbeard.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
My weekend started at 615 this morning with coffee, Snow Crash and Miles' Kind of Blue, a post jazz nap and now is continuing with a bit of Monk and a Call of Cthulhu character creation youtu.be/iOyf4R3lLKU?...
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Monk's Dream - Thelonious Monk [1962](USA)|Jazz, Bebop, Hard Bop
YouTube video by Garoth Archives III: Jazz, Funk & More
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Vraicbeard @vraicbeard.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
*Ahem*and I said…“Like Sandra Bullock, only ‘otter.”
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101 Dalmatians Roger Plays Trombone
Alt: 101 Dalmatians Roger Plays Trombone, like me trying to squeeze a joke out
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Vraicbeard @vraicbeard.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
*Ahem*and I said…“Like Sandra Bullock, only ‘otter.”
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101 Dalmatians Roger Plays Trombone
Alt: 101 Dalmatians Roger Plays Trombone, like me trying to squeeze a joke out
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Vraicbeard @vraicbeard.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
The fucking cheek of it
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corpsepaint boothoughts @allwrongthink.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
fair play, "we shredded all books to feed to the Computer, then a solar flare wiped it out" is a fairly decent post-apocalyptic backstory
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Vraicbeard @vraicbeard.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
yes!
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Vraicbeard @vraicbeard.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Adventures in Lollygagging crew begin with a quick overview and then get stuck into the action from 4:17 . youtu.be/XvKG7-P2iC8?... I’ll get it from their recommendation
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ORBITAL BLUES || Stars Come Tumbling E01 (Adventures in Lollygagging)
YouTube video by Adventures in Lollygagging
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Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Film this, you cowards!
Screenshot of one of my highly intelligent internet poems: Roses are red / Feet need socks / then a photo of a newspaper hoarding containing the headline GRAN WITH SHOVEL FIGHTS GIANT FOX
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Vraicbeard @vraicbeard.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
“Would you like to be on my podcast, we could call it Weed Shortage?”
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Vraicbeard @vraicbeard.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
www.youtube.com/watch?v=qYxS...
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Underwater Original Version 1979
YouTube video by Harry Thumann - Topic
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Vraicbeard @vraicbeard.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Cryan_Johnsonson and Fryan_Johnsonsonsonsonson do *not* play nicely together during therapy sessions, still, I found time to do some more weird shit today, while the pool guy cleaned my tank.
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Uncle_Wolf @demiurg.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Why I love EU? I refound this image today. It is from when the Polish army of fire engines arrived to save Sweden from the largest forrest fire in Swedish history. At this point the Swedish fire departments had lost the fight against the raging fires. 1/3
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Vraicbeard @vraicbeard.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Stunning part of the world you’ve found
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Vraicbeard @vraicbeard.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Holy shit-balls
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Vraicbeard @vraicbeard.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Brrr- hat and jumper for those who haven’t ventured out yet
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Woman in Fur Coat with Pot on Head
Alt: Woman in Fur Coat with Pot on Head
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Vraicbeard @vraicbeard.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Concussion protocols are still in their infancy
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Vraicbeard @vraicbeard.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
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Eric Draven's Intense Stare (The Crow)
Alt: Eric Draven's Crow 0- Ewa 1
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Vraicbeard @vraicbeard.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
If you see this, post an Archer.
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Vraicbeard @vraicbeard.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
This morning I visited my friend’s workshop after a full power night shift for a coffee and catch up. Work must continue so I gave a violin neck a sunbath and beauty treatment. Blissful time but have now sought the cool of a shandy and a book in an air conditioned pub.
A hand is holding a violin out of a upper story window to catch some rays for the magic to give colour to the paler wood of the neck.
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Juniper Harper Lark @juniperhl.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
Recently I've taken part in a bunch of discord live text games and each has reminded me in in some way of my larp experiences. This blog post is an attempt to explore those similarities, and see what lessons the LTRP scene can learn from its in person cousins. thegardenbelow.blot.im/setting/expe...
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Setting / Expectation - The Garden Below
A deep dive into the lessons live text games can learn from Empire Larp, and the broader fest larp sphere.
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Vraicbeard @vraicbeard.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Granola in the yoghurt leading to family harmony or milk excess problems?
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