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John @wildpark.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

When I filled out my 70 question form - repetitive, badly designed, badly laid out - my first comment in the free text box was “I’m pretty sure I have ADHD because this form was absolute torture to me and took me 4 goes to get through.”

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John @wildpark.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Never saw Reginald Perrin but “It ain’t ‘Alf hot mum” was on regularly. But then I think the 70s were much more casually racist than later eras.

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John @wildpark.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Also - to be mid-Atlantic wouldn’t we need the Atlantic on both sides of us? We’re Atlantic Adjacent at best.

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John @wildpark.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Are you young enough that your TV experience wasn’t overwhelmingly repeats? (I know I am leaning into the age gap here. ) I don’t think I would have watched any of Rising Damp on first release. I was 7 or 8 when it stopped. But I’m pretty sure I saw most of the episodes eventually.

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John @wildpark.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I sprinted through the first two and am now trying to slow down and savour number three. Just love the stories :-) thank you!

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John @wildpark.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I’d agree. The books I mentioned were the only ones of his I’d read. I wasn’t meaning that none of his other books were.

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John @wildpark.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I went on to do a librarianship degree - this was one of the stories I told at my university interview. :-)

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John @wildpark.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The following week she upped the number of books I could take out to 12. :-)

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John @wildpark.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Me too. :-) Though my best was one summer when we had a mobile library visit the estate once a week. I was there waiting for it to pull up and took my allowed 4 books home as quickly as I could. I arrived back about 5 minutes before closing and returned them - all read. Then took out another 4.

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John @wildpark.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Currently at 60+ posts from Rob. Which to me says this should have been a blog post. It’s just ridiculous (and the series is excellent). It’s this and the pernicious rise of WhatsApp groups that have made me realise I’m getting old.

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John @wildpark.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

That link is to a pretty version - there are better (and wordier) ones out there but the illustrations really sell the concepts.

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John @wildpark.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Have you (or she) seen Vonnegut’s work on story structures? thenarrativepractice.com/shapes-of-st... Blew my mind when I first learned about it.

thenarrativepractice.com

Shapes of Stories — The Narrative Practice

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John @wildpark.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Love the top row - reminiscent of some of the pull backs in Watchmen without feeling at all derivative.

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John @wildpark.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I ran a brief UA game in the 00’s based on a similar concept called “Mind The Gap” with a character sheet design based on the tube map.

An Unknown Armies TREPG character sheet designed using elements from the iconic London Underground map. Original concept for the LU map Harry Beck.

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John @wildpark.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The Rest Is Entertainment did an interesting segment about a year ago where they looked at how much you could get paid as an influencer / content creator if you moved to Dubai and started putting out puff pieces saying how great it was. I mean - at that point you’re a civil servant in the PR dept.

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John @wildpark.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

It’s all relative - I can’t imagine being in the position of mislaying a cheque of that size.

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John @wildpark.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

But “moving slowly while some unspeakable thing chases me” is my exact experience of Mario Kart. The unspeakable thing being my 10yo, who breaks his vow of silence to just mutter ‘noon’ as he laps me twice each race.

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John @wildpark.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

That’s about as far as Norfolk to Heligoland. Which to be fair we did hold until 1890 when we gave them over to Germany.

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John @wildpark.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I’m not John (well, I am, but not the John you were talking to) but I would. Jurassic Park is definitely SF, as is The Andromeda Strain, and Terminal Man.

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John @wildpark.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

OTOH according to pTerry’s biography, at one point he mislaid a royalty cheque for most of a million quid and didn’t notice for a while. So the lad wasn’t doing too badly, I would surmise. :-)

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John @wildpark.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Yes. That doesn’t change the time or ease of cracking the phone. It just puts pressure on the individual to give up access. And one of the key reasons for that legislation is the ever increasing difficulty of getting into modern phones without the passcode.

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John @wildpark.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

(And it very often isn’t the end user who’s the weakest human in the system.)

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John @wildpark.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

That doesn’t contradict what I said. And you’re talking about my professional field here. :-)

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John @wildpark.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

It’s nowhere as easy as that. This is a US site so the law they quote is specific to there but the tech is pretty much spot on. observed.org/can-police-g... - if you have a long alphanumeric passcode, up to date software and have turned off biometrics, it’s not at all easy to get in.

observed.org

Can Police Get Into a Locked iPhone or Android?

Can police get into a locked iPhone or Android? How phone-cracking tools, encryption, and passcode strength decide whether they break in.

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John @wildpark.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

In (most of?) the US you cannot be required to give up your PIN so hacking in is the only real option. In the UK you can be required to provide it with a prison sentence if you refuse. But at the core yes. Phones are increasingly difficult to hack into without significant resource.

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John @wildpark.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Surely “you have been inside of …”?

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John @wildpark.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I can think of a dozen or so reasons why your statement might not be true. And I’m not a high powered lawyer specifically hired to get you off the negligence charge. Double the complexity if you are in a different legislation from where the illegal thing happens. Google “corporate manslaughter”.

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John @wildpark.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

“…supervisory responsibility reposed in them by a business organization not only a positive duty to seek out and remedy violations but also, and primarily, a duty to implement measures that will insure that violations will not occur”. www.law.cornell.edu/supremecourt...

law.cornell.edu

UNITED STATES, Petitioner, v. John R. PARK.

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John @wildpark.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The problem is the legal system doesn’t exist which can hold the software responsible. Start dragging CEOs into the dock for dereliction of duty and that changes. E.g. the US Responsible Corporate Officer doctrine: “The Act imposes upon persons exercising authority and…

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John @wildpark.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Hitler made the mistake of saying “you and who’s army?” after George threatened to bop him on the chin if he didn’t sit down and shut up. And George said “Well …”

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John @wildpark.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Oh, because old China Mieville was the model of sanity? … Oh, you mean the latest book. As you were. :-)

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John @wildpark.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Sorry. My sarcasm filters are offline :-) thank you for confirming.

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John @wildpark.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I don’t think you’ve missed anything. I do think you’re a kinder and less blunt person than I am. :-)

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John @wildpark.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Simon! You’ve just made me be kinda rude to a stranger on the internet! The right hand list is utter bobbins. Keep game related instructions clear and unambiguous. Save the colour and verbal diarrhoea for descriptions.

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John @wildpark.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

If you wouldn’t mind, thanks :-)

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John @wildpark.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

You should read my essay on LinkedIn - “What successfully avoiding the humblebrag taught me about B2B sales” …

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John @wildpark.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

“Banning both rich and poor from sleeping under bridges and begging for bread”. Laws applying equally to everyone is a start …

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John @wildpark.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I’ve written to my MP making exactly that point. Probably won’t do anything, but I felt I had to do /something/.

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John @wildpark.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

You’re lucky. I nearly suggested Etruscan. (I assumed there was an equivalent to old English in most languages rather than jumping to a different language.)

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John @wildpark.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Out of interest (if you remember!) it says “hallowed be they name” in the 1611 version l, rather than “thy name”. Is that a typo, or was there a different pronoun there then? The rest of the prayer uses “thy”.

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John @wildpark.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Up until recently we were all speaking Elizabethan English. :-)

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John @wildpark.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Isn’t that Latin? :-)

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John @wildpark.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I had the same reaction to Kemi Badenoch on Desert Island Discs.

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John @wildpark.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

My only exception is names - I’ll usually have a sheet of genre appropriate names to stop “Bob Bobson, the Necromantic Elf Wizard” raising his ugly head when I have a brain fart in the middle of a session.

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John @wildpark.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

No. They should follow the same rule set as the PCs though - no NPC only skills. I don’t really play crunchy games any more (though Stranger Things means 10yo wants to play D&D, gawd ‘elp me) but if / when I do, stat blocks are the way forward. And often ‘vibe’ … what does the game need now.

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