How day 3? 4? of heatwave is going in my house

Hey, you! Are you making a neat little ttrpg for a game jam and need a cover? I gotchu. ✨And they're free✨ ko-fi.com/alderdoodle/...

Anyone else engage in long meeting cope-crafts?

Oh god, they invited a guest speaker and he's doing a presentation of entirely slop images.

Not only do I have a day job, I'm currently stuck in a 3 hour meeting about how we can use more AI. In a heatwave. Day-jobbing on hard mode.

Rain would be nice right about now. And a deep, COOL, subterranean pool in which to swim and dive? GM @buttonkin.bsky.social had both in their plenty when she ran oneshot of @threesailsstudios.bsky.social's Mappa Mundi! buff.ly/AijETzz

I don't think I understand anything about Free RPG Day. Colour me bemused.

As a matter of URGENCY, PLEASE could 100,000 of you sign this petition in the next week: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/77...

I feel bad for the person getting dunked for complaining about the word "scrying" in a book they were reading. I'm sure they thought they had a relatable take. These things happen. What it really makes me wonder is who taught them that new words are a tedious obstacle rather than an opportunity?

Play testing my regency era spooky castaway game is already reminding me how much I love this phase of development. Doing 3 more in the coming weeks and then taking a break until after Tabletop Scotland Join me: tickets.buttonkin.com/events

The correct answer is The Muppet Count of Monte Cristo.

Ever feel like you’re being given the hard sell?

The prize draw for Stamp Quest 2026 will take place on Sunday 21st June at 7.30 PM BST on our Twitch channel (www.twitch.tv/uktabletopin...)! We will record the draw and put it up on our YouTube page (www.youtube.com/@UKTabletopI...), as well as emailing the prize winners ASAP after the draw.

You didn't name the game that just for a dumb joke, did you? Me: youtu.be/XOQBu7GN7sU

Do you like Regency fiction? Do you like horror? Would you like to see them kiss? There's still a couple of spots left on the next play test of The Custom of the Sea, this evening at 7pm UK time: tickets.buttonkin.com/ticket/f5f7f

How TERFs think the doors to women's bathrooms work

Don’t tell me you’re a nerd unless you’ve been featured in the in-world magazine for your LARP being interviewed in character about your imaginary nation’s fashion trends.

This and the gentle patter of rain on my office window have got me to a pretty zen place today

Something that's often missing from the safety tools discourse is awareness of how common PTSD is in the population. The NHS estimate is 5%. That's 1 in 20 people who could be harmed by experiencing a trigger during a game. Statistically 1 in 4 convention games of 5 players includes one.

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I'm a writer, I write for TTRPGs. But did you know you can hire me to do that? Well, you can: www.buttonkin.com/services/wri...

Anyone else STILL tired from Expo? No? I’m just old? Sigh

Very much enjoyed this tome about lesbian space necromancers that my dad recommended to me. I don’t know why I’m bringing Elsa into this. She is not my dad.

SOON 🤓

Super official (and lengthy) Button Kin statement on generative AI just landed fresh from my brain. TL;DR: I don't use it and I won't, but I don't think it's going anywhere: www.buttonkin.com/news/ai-blog/

The digital version of Wolfshead: Wrath of the Greenwood is now available on DriveThru! www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/5...

Can we find a control group of actually, definitely neurotypical people to spot check some of these very online autism takes? Like, yes fizzy drinks hurt my mouth as a child but this doesn't feel like science.

Agreed. We love a FLGS. We love an online marketplace. Stockists, we salute you

PLEASE SHARE! Calling all journalists, reviewers, YouTubers, bloggers, content creators, and anyone who covers TTRPGs! WE WANT YOU (to contact us about covering CITY OF ESPERS by @theneoncaster.bsky.social)! Found families, psychic powers, queer experiences, a sentient city sound like your jam?

I've decided to start offering my services for TTPRG layouts. I have a page on my site with prices and examples: www.buttonkin.com/services/lay...

Time for a gratitude thread! Some of my stall visitors last weekend came bearing gifts 🎁 First up: Mathieu from Rabbit Hole brought my their first print of the French language version of Drama Llamas: un jeu de rôle sur les compétitions de télé-réalité et leurs candidats lamas. Merci beaucoup! 🧵

Listened to Talking Heads on the way back from UKGE and now I’m fighting the urge to shout TAKE A LOOK AT THESE HANDS every few minutes. Are tired brains more vulnerable to ear worms? Anecdotally yes.

IT'S HERE Gallows Corner (@threesailsstudios.bsky.social) is in my disgusting little mitts. Not only is it very beautiful, it's also stuffed full of words by some brilliant people... And me?! A huge thanks to 3SS for letting me be a teeny part of the book! Check out Worcestershire + Bromsgrove!

This UKGE to promote my new regency horror TTRPG, The Custom of the Sea, we played a little game called “Regency but make it Horror”. The results were life affirming and silly.

Two UKGE days down, one more to go! Will my voice hold out? Come over to stall 4-223 tomorrow and find out

All set up and you could wring me out like a cloth. Come at me, U.K. Games Ex-bro

I’m off to UKGE this weekend, of course. Hall 4, stand 223. I’ll be the one one front of the giant llama.

I am begging the BBC to not use the BREAKING headline in this year of our lord 2026 when it's just some football nonsense occurring.

This is excellent. Like if Bjork and Nelly Furtado had a baby and it grew up into a funky, glitchy genius.

Great night for standing on the porch looking owlish, muttering about how a storm’s a’brewin

Guyssss I updated the Button Kin website ahead of expo and I'm effing thrilled with it. It's like a real professional website, or something? www.buttonkin.com You can now buy my games in both physical and digital, read all my blog posts, and also find out about hiring me to write or do layouts

Reminder to anyone who takes antidepressants or antipsychotics - you are at higher risk of heat exhaustion, dehydration and sunburn. Fluoxetine, Citalopram and Sertraline are some of the most common. If you're taking these, be extra careful in this hot weather. Sun cream, shade and lots of water!

Still thinking about a man at the next weight bench in my gym last night telling his work our partner that NFTs are amazing actually and “the new copyright”. I think we’ve found the guy left holding the bag.

A reminder that after the success of the teddy bear, President William Taft tried to make his own animal mascot called “Billy Possum” en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_P...

CW: UK Politics I will say one thing for the implosion of the two major parties in this country: it's shaken people and got their attention. I've had more measured and thoughtful political conversations with regular people which previously were impossible to conduct through the fog of tribalism.

My internal jukebox has gotten so much classier since I started having singing lessons. Currently mentally vibing to Vivaldi's Domine Deus Gloria.

Trying to catalog some of the Bumbling play-throughs I've seen since I'd love to reach out and feature them on my website. It's genuinely like digging through the ruins of a lost civilisation, but instead of dungeons it's social media feeds. Only fragments remain.