Kate Pierson of the B-52's interacts with a Centipede arcade machine. Source: Vidiot, April/May 1983.

You need to watch out for those spirit bison! Many thanks to @tomwd68.bsky.social who ran the 6mm Glorantha game yesterday pretty much single-handed.

New #GammaWorld/ #TMNT/ #MutantYearZero/ #MCC / #MutantFuture TTRPG monster. Or character type.

My partner has started his own blog! He will be discussing his love of #warhammer, especially classic warhammer, wargaming and #oldhammer. He isn't on socials yet but would really appreciate you taking a look! averlandgoestowar.blogspot.com?m=1 #wargaming #warhammeroldworld ##warhammerpainting

Zbigniew Herbert wrote a poem on chess, referencing Deep Blue... so this is how a kingly game passes into the hands of automatons we must break it out of the prison camp at night when mind drowses machines are roused the quest for the imagination must be begun all over again tr. Alissa Valles

A quick retro SF art heads up for @lectrotext.bsky.social !

I am also looking for artists who work in that weird 1990s version of Cyberspace/ the 'Net computer art. Anyone have any recs?

Reposting for the Sunday crowd!

GenAI truly was the worst technology to come along at this moment. An energy and water guzzler when we most urgently need to take climate action. A disinformation machine as our journalism fails. A bias machine as fascism takes root. A job killer in a cost of living crisis.

Proper lush, as we used to say. (Q.V. “mega” & “sorted.”) Warhammer Grand Cathay army!

Human form Miao Ying! That's the last model for the Cathay Commission! #WarhammerCommunity #Paintslam25 #grandcathay #PaintingWarhammer

The gang is all here

Something minor I love about crossword dungeons is the difference between UK and US crossword styles. US crosswords can actually work better for this as they focus alot more on multiple words overlapping which create room shapes. Ive found that UK crosswords often have longer words and less trivia

Looking for 15mm transparent / “clear resin” minis suitable to represent “shadow backers” or other AR elements in a 15mm tabletop cyberpunk miniatures game. I would LIKE sensibly proportioned suit wearing corporate types but realize that might be a big ask. Will consider pretty much anything!

TFW one realize’s that a commercial website wants to install more than FIFTY cookies on one’s device. 😵‍💫🫣

Too many ideas. Not enough focus. Argh!

From one iconic design to another: Tron (1982) & Akira (1988) Director and writer Katsuhiro Ōtomo: “In terms of Kaneda's bike in Akira, the initial inspiration was the lightcycles from Tron designed by Syd Mead. However, they are wide, so I halved them and used that as an initial basis.”

interesting snake care advice

monkey gamer prints to north america: www.inprnt.com/gallery/guil... t-shirts, prints and much more to norht america, europe and oceania: www.redbubble.com/shop/ap/1727...

One of the cartoons in my new book 'Physics for Cats' which is out now in the UK, USA, Canada, France and Germany. Order from your local bookshops or online: www.tomgauld.com/

Looking for 15mm transparent / “clear resin” minis suitable to represent “shadow backers” or other AR elements in a 15mm tabletop cyberpunk miniatures game. I would LIKE sensibly proportioned suit wearing corporate types but realize that might be a big ask. Will consider pretty much anything!

If you're interested in Traveller at all, this is very very good. A fascinating, thorough, warts-and-all account of the history of the game. Also, refreshingly, unlike some other RPG celebs of the era, Marc Miller comes across as quite a decent chap.

If you, like me, have no desire to upgrade to Windows 11 but Microsoft is rattling their metaphorical "no more protections for YOU!" saber, Enroll in extended security updates. Took me less than five minutes for both devices. Do it before October 14!!!!! windowsforum.com/threads/how-...

Blimey. That's a rather remarkable ending for James Maliszewski's House of Worms Empire of the Petal Throne campaign. (Read all three parts of the coda.) #Tekumel grognardia.blogspot.com/2025/10/coda...

Dear @claytonian.bsky.social, I doubt you do requests but ... ZOMG! Have you seen this street cats (some magical, some not?) TTRPG reviewed by @barkingalien.bsky.social ?!?!? barkingalien.blogspot.com/2025/08/the-...

imagine having to market the thing that just burned off three of your limbs

Behold the absolutely bangin' 1940s lunar spacesuit design by the British Interplanetary Society. Thermal cape, front airlock for specimen collection, shooting stick, and a goddamn knight's helmet. The National Space Centre even built a "working" version of it: www.spacecentre.co.uk/collections/...

TTRPG scenario seed just dropped. 😐 Whut?

As @lectrotext.bsky.social cites The Thirteenth Floor as being among the NetCrawl TTRPG’s media inspirations, I must ask if James has seen “World on a Wire” or read the novel that inspired BOTH films, Daniel Galyoue’s Simulacron-3

Give folks their flowers No, I mean right now. Go tell someone you loved their work right now. They're on social media just say it, it has never been easier "They know how much people love--" no they don't go say it right now to a composer or artist or game dev or writer or anyone AAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH

before and after hegseth's directive

Because the movie Zardoz is on Disney+, Sean Connery is now officially a Disney Princess™.

ZARDOZ also features a telepathic social network where people are communally ostracized for offenses, an AI overlord that the populace are in thrall to, a society that demonizes aging. It's wild and prescient and goofy and smart and psychedelic in a way much modern sf has forgotten to be.

Ansible 459, October 2025 ... news.ansible.uk/a459.html

We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.

Owner of massive Thunderbird 3 space rocket parked outside Humberside Airport allegedly thought he was buying a model. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Next Tuesday, October 7 at 6:30 pm, I'll be at Main Point Books in Wayne, PA with @franwilde.bsky.social, talking about her fantastic new novel, A Philosophy of Thieves. Hope to see you there!

"I'm imagining a lanky dragon man in a dark blue coat, languidly peering from the bowl of a clockwork-powered gondola as it flies through fog-shrouded canyons between hexagonal pyramids of carved stone" (I forgot to make the coat blue)

tortle from @steamforgedgames.bsky.social

A comment on itch reminded me of this idea for creating #TTRPG dungeons I had a while back. I still think its neat and I don't think I've actually shared it here on bsky. So bsky.. meet Crossword Dungeons! Do a crossword, use the answers and designs as inspiration for the rooms, get creative!

Anyone know what happened to the cat who used to write the Sickly Purple Death Ray blog? #OSR, #OldSchoolRevival, #OldSchoolRenaissance, #RussNicholson … web.archive.org/web/20110827...

Must admit that I have found my rewatch of Wild Palms “a bit of a struggle.”

Not for the first time, I am surprised to see that @jeffdee.bsky.social’s tremendously useful #TTISG (TableTop Immersive Simulation Game) hasn’t caught on in the TTRPG world. What gives, groovers?

Cancelled Netflix & Amazon Prime, a few months ago—& we haven't done the “thing” of subscribing to either AppleTV or Disney Plus since those cancellations. Shockingly, we are not really missing “streaming,” chez Blipvert.

My goodness, this book was prescient. 40 years ago!

Today, I will be mostly daydreaming about hacking A Ghastly Affair, Tales of the Grotesque & Dungeonesque, Fudge/ Fate, & Castle Falkenstein.

Prettiest book on my bookshelf

Believe in yourself, value your creativity, and know your art has worth. In his 20s, Jim was offered a LOT of money by the Purina dog food company to buy Rowlf--who he'd made for a series of ads--outright. Jim refused, telling his agent, "Never sell what I own." Your creativity is priceless. /5