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Wyrd Science Magazine @wyrdscience.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Every single person involved in putting together this cover for a comic called Unexpected absolutely nailed the brief

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jess m. ☕🍂 @jametc.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Something AI is responsible for that doesn't get enough talk: How, when it scrapes a website to illegally steal everything on it, it uses up a ton of its bandwidth allotment, crashing it or racking up massive fees for site owners.

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Wyrd Science Magazine @wyrdscience.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Well I think as long as you can drop ship a $1 product and make 100 times it back we’ll be seeing a lot more of it, certainly beats spending 4 months making a magazine and losing money 🤪

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Wyrd Science Magazine @wyrdscience.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Trying to imagine the incredibly bad vibes someone who pulled this out would bring to the table

An advert for a Kickstarter for some insanely naff looking tacticool 5-in-1 dice gizmo, you know the kind, bought direct from like Ali-baba or something for $0.50 and sold to people in America for probably around $100-150

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Wyrd Science Magazine @wyrdscience.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Oh I’ve had one of these rewind players on my wish list for ages, they do a lovely looking boombox too Tried to feature them in the mag once but got no reply

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Wyrd Science Magazine @wyrdscience.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I think I probably houseruled it that words of more than 2 syllables counted extra, needed to maintain verisimilitude even if professional standards were already clearly starting to lapse by this point

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Wyrd Science Magazine @wyrdscience.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

it is the #DayOfDredd, so as we hurtle, seemingly unstoppably, towards the kind of horrifying future that @2000ad.bsky.social has spent the last 5 decades warning us about, let’s look back at a better, absolutely in no way simpler, time when we weren’t scared of our RPGs having rules

A photo of a page from games workshop’s Judge Dredd rpg showing the absolutely peak 10 phase initiative matrix

A photo of a page from games workshop’s Judge Dredd rpg with rules for how many syllables you can speak in a round

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Wyrd Science Magazine @wyrdscience.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Hello, will do. Go to print next week so 🤪 but once dust settled thanks!

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Wyrd Science Magazine @wyrdscience.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Me: pink Pterodactyl, you have to stop. You smoke too tough. Your swag too different. Your bitch is too bad. they’ll kill you Pinkpteradctyl:

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Wyrd Science Magazine @wyrdscience.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Oh god, fuck, just look at that thing. Incredible Artists, turns out, a good thing

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Wyrd Science Magazine @wyrdscience.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Just saw someone completely unironically do a variation of ‘go woke, go broke’ about a kickstarter that’s raised $1.2 million with 17 days to go, just the stupidest people

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Wyrd Science Magazine @wyrdscience.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

And most importantly like I say these are all off the cuff thoughts banged out hurtling down a motorway so I assume I’m doing lots of people a grotesque disservice etc etc

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Wyrd Science Magazine @wyrdscience.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Postscript, the stuff adjacent to this I do , very occasionally, get pitched is almost inevitably done insufferably naff looking official dnd experiential experience or whatever that just looks like a piss poor excuse to rinse geeks by selling them $50 beholder burgers or some such shit

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Wyrd Science Magazine @wyrdscience.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

That mentions they’re doing something vaguely interesting And this obviously requires money behind these things but also I think a desire to make it appeal out of its niche and equally importantly some ambition Anyway I apologize for such a long thread - I didn't have time to write a short one

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Wyrd Science Magazine @wyrdscience.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Exhibitions that dig into the history and either way do it in a way that my dipshit mates who work in fashion/arts/culture are sending them to me saying this looks cool And I’m finding out about them without having to spend all day trawling library websites in case there’s a blog post somewhere

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Wyrd Science Magazine @wyrdscience.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Or about games, it was just using fantasy worlds as a spring board for his art which was lovely and the kind of thing I’d cover all day but I would love to see stuff coming from kind of inside the tent. Stuff that deals with games either as art exhibitions with artists creating new work, or like

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Wyrd Science Magazine @wyrdscience.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

White box copy of DnD in a glass case. Wooooooooo! And I would love to see really interesting exhibitions and shows that in some way tie into this culture but also are part of this culture, like the Jean Jullien show at Nanzuka we covered in WS7, super cool but not an artist working within games

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Wyrd Science Magazine @wyrdscience.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Culture/etc spaces, almost never gets pitched or sent to moi, editor of the worlds best tabletop game magazine, or if I do find out about it its like a month after it opened, a week after we’ve gone to print And then there’s every chance that like I said elsewhere the height of its ambition is a

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Wyrd Science Magazine @wyrdscience.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

But to get back on track. All the events they sent (a) looked cool & (b) I’d already seen them myself, either organically or via a PR And I’m sure interesting stuff is being done in this space related to tabletop games but it very very very rarely gets any kind of traction in more general arts/

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Wyrd Science Magazine @wyrdscience.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Interest in games or what I do apart from (using it as something to take the piss out of me &) that they all work in arts/culture/media and would quite like it do well because they surprisingly like me and probably more likely are interested in seeing if something actually sustainable can be built

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Wyrd Science Magazine @wyrdscience.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

These are all incredibly inchoate thoughts that like most of them would probably have been best left unsaid for now but it was spurred by a couple of mates over the past week sending me very cool looking exhibitions that in some way revolve around (video) games. These are friends who have zero

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Wyrd Science Magazine @wyrdscience.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Cool. We go to print in a few days and then after a 48 hour lie down in a dark room I will for the first time in months have some free mental bandwidth, I may well try to pick your brains if you don’t mind

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Wyrd Science Magazine @wyrdscience.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

yes @davidblandyrpgs.bsky.social was one of the few people I immediately thought of in this sphere, though it would be interesting to hear as to whether doing "artier" tabletop exhibition kind of things has been harder (in terms of funding, getting an audience, getting artists etc) than say this

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Control, OHSH at Peckham Oasis Gallery, London — David Blandy

CONTROL brings together fifteen artists to explore the video game as a vital and expanding cultural medium, tracing the line between design and art and asking at what point a rendered world, a crafte...

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Wyrd Science Magazine @wyrdscience.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

O can see Toad having an incredibly intense 2 weeks were he spends a small fortune on modular synths and vintage keyboards and makes loads of music that sounds a bit like 1970s BBC idents

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Wyrd Science Magazine @wyrdscience.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

my contribution would be an old CRT TV on a plinth in the centre of a big white empty room, connected to an equally old VHS player playing 24/7 on a loop the 1989 TV advert for Milton Bradley's HeroQuest, becoming increasingly degraded and distorted as the tape disintegrates. pretty fucking deep tbh

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Wyrd Science Magazine @wyrdscience.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I am a doomed to be a Mr Toad who longs to hear Pan's pipes echo on the wind

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Wyrd Science Magazine @wyrdscience.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

yeah I mean anything that isn't just a copy of an old DnD box in a glass cabinet would be a step up

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Wyrd Science Magazine @wyrdscience.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

and obviously as big fans of trying stuff that involves a lot of work & comes with the promise of incredibly minimal reward I think it would be right up our straße. So if you are working in this space already, do drop us a line as we'd love to hear about your experiences, what's worked & what hasn't

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Wyrd Science Magazine @wyrdscience.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I'd very much expect to get somehow even less support from the 'industry' than we do today when just trying to promote their games but still I think it would be a worthwhile project (and I know there are people who are already doing some stuff like this, or trying to) but it needs turbocharging

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Wyrd Science Magazine @wyrdscience.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I think our main aim over the next few years (apart from releasing magazines every 4 months and not losing money for once) is to aggressively try and push tabletop games into these more interesting, art spaces that video games so often comfortably exist in today. It will probably be a struggle as...

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Rendered From Memory Exhibition: Curated by Heavy Duty Games

RENDERED FROM MEMORY is a contemporary group art exhibition exploring the lasting emotional connection between artists and video games.

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Wyrd Science Magazine @wyrdscience.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Bonjour à tous les francophones qui aiment lire des écrits intelligents sur les jeux. nouvelle excitante aujourd'hui, la campagne pour financer la relance du magazine @jeuxetstrategie.bsky.social est maintenant lancée ! Merci de votre attention à ce sujet !

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Jeux & Stratégie

La revue indépendante pour comprendre le jeu à travers la société, les sciences, la culture et l’histoire.

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Wyrd Science Magazine @wyrdscience.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Ah there’s a version of the story in the back of my copy, I thought it was familiar

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Wyrd Science Magazine @wyrdscience.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Oh this is just wonderful, and now I suppose I’m going to have to find my copy of Something Wicked this Way Comes and read it again this weekend. Marvellous stuff.

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Wyrd Science Magazine @wyrdscience.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Interesting… Ben Robbins is producing a new edition of Microscope, a game which if I’m sure you let him @kierongillen.bsky.social will tell you about. Kickstarter launches next week. www.kickstarter.com/projects/lam...

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Coming soon: Microscope (2nd Edition)

The fractal game of epic histories

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Kieron Gillen @kierongillen.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

A year on from me starting it, I complete my list of 101 TTRPGs I played before my 50th birthday. How did you spend your birthday? I bet it wasn't doing your work and then hammering out 3.5k words about the chatgames with funny dice (or no funny dice, or no dice.) #ttrpg

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My 101 Favourite TTRPGS: 10-1 - Old Men Running The World

Lawks. We've only gone and done it. I set myself a year to write about my 101 favourite TTRPGs. In my tribute to freelancers everywhere, I do almost all the

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Wyrd Science Magazine @wyrdscience.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

So, who wants a Mordheim inspired game from the guy who wrote the rules for Warcry, Games Workshop’s best wargame for years? Because that’s what you can get* if you click this link. * well, the beta rules at any rate.

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Black Death City

Black Death City: miniatures-agnostic narrative skirmish game of dark fantasy and gothic horror.

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Hellebore @helleborezine.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

⚡️IT’S HERE!⚡️ Ruined temples, living myths, riddles and enigmas, Medieval mystics, a gas-lit world of secret societies and energy grids, psychedelic revivals, and sonic experiments at the City of the Dead. 👉🏼 Gaze into the eyes of the sphinx and pre-order The Mystery Issue on helleborezine.com

A woman standing by a sphinx, the wind beating her cape

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Wyrd Science Magazine @wyrdscience.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

ah I think they meant first London headline show (the London gig of that tour was part of Desertfest)

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Wyrd Science Magazine @wyrdscience.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Famous for being the stars of the first Sidequests section in WS7 (and for some other cool stuff) Castle Rat will play their first ever UK headline show, May 27 next year at the Electric Ballroom in Camden. Tickets go on general sale Friday, 10am www.livenation.co.uk/castle-rat-t...

a gig poster for Castle Rat live in London

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Wyrd Science Magazine @wyrdscience.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

then again THE SAME COULD ALSO BE SAID FOR EVERY MEDIUM TO MAJOR TABLETOP GAMES PUBLISHER, eh... 🧐

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Wyrd Science Magazine @wyrdscience.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

fools, if the government had spent just £9 instead on 1 (one) Wyrd Science subscription they might be better placed to recognise fantasy thinking when its expensive lobbyists come knocking (+ the UK wouldn't still be at war with the Unseelie Court, but that's another matter altogether) wyrd.science

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David Barnett @davidmbarnett.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Issue 2 of my newsletter THE WHITE RABBIT going up and out tomorrow, folks. First one is here, subscribe (for free) if you like. www.patreon.com/DavidBarnett...

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The White Rabbit: Issue #1 | David Barnett

The author, David Barnett, for it is he, wearing a velvet burgundy jacket he bought for his daughter Alice's graduation ceremony but was in

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Grid @isbergillustration.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Hey, Uh. What's... What's With That Guy? They Okay, You Think? #illustration

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Art Of Coop @artofcoop.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

ONLY 2 DAYS LEFT!! WE're closing in on 75K!

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