BTW the Peakrill store – peakrill.com – is still open for business and books and zines are being posted out. Any sales would be exceptionally welcome right now!

Why would we want to learn from our pasts, or ponder the power of the written and spoken word, or explore the deep questions of humanity? According to the University of Hertfordshire, we wouldn't. They've just cut all of our undergrad Humanities programmes

It's #gothic writing season on The Raspy Raven (see link in bio). We've been tasked by @groewe.bsky.social to write a #TTRPG game or scenario by 31/Aug. But what is Gothic? What are the key tropes? How do you make it gameable? What system? What genre? Any thoughts? Please share this post 🙏

London 2012 Paralympics teaser trailer. Still one of the greatest Olympic adverts of all time, I think. Sound up!

Just had a baller one-shot recorded session of Honorbound with the @apintofcthulhu.bsky.social crew! Love what you hear? Support them here: www.patreon.com/cw/APintOfCt... Buy the game here: www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/5... Slide into my DMs if you too would like an interview or actual play!

This. News outlets keep failing to mention the people who have been killed in Lebanon and Iran, just to get back to worse than where we started.

HABITATION is a sequence of poems by Angelina D’Roza, Steve Ely, Pete Green, Rob Hindle, Chris Jones, and Fay Musselwhite Come hear us read at The Harlequin, Sheffield Tuesday 21st April at 7.30pm entry 7pm onwards Free to attend All welcome Booking at – www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/habitation...

I loved playing a campaign of this last year - a great take on the myths and folklore of Britain.

Merlin's Miscellany, a new rules supplement for Romance of the Perilous Land, is now available on itch and dtrpg trollish-delver-games.itch.io/merlins-misc...

This was a very fun game from the start, but it's been honed and tuned to a glowing gem. The elevator pitch a science fiction riff on the 3 musketeers. But that doesn't tell you about the ton of world building and vision that is packed into it. Go treat yourself.

Unconscionable that Lebanon is barely even a footnote in British journalism about US and Israeli aggression in the Middle East.

There's a week to go on the Kickstarter for Play Unsafe, my book about how to play TTRPGs. This is a really good time to give it a boost, so please repost this, talk about it in your own channels, etc etc. Thanks so much. www.kickstarter.com/projects/gra... #kickstarter #ttrpg

This is brilliant.

“Barbrook I” stone circle at the Spring Equinox. A thin place.

We are LIVE! Time to delve into tunnels and hope you don't run into any trolls. Get in on the ground floor for Tunnels & Trolls: A New Age www.kickstarter.com/projects/reb...

Wes Streeting is planning a Cass review for neurodivergency. We are the latest group targeted for public punishment in Labour's vain quest for rightwing support. Lives will be ruined and lives will be lost if they get their way. Please sign this petition. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/75...

Amongst all the chatter and analysis, @sarahkendzior.bsky.social is exceptional. Detailed, thorough, meticulously researched, and depressingly accurate. But there is also this: "original writing & photography. I don’t use AI. I try to create beauty out of the ugliness of this world." She succeeds.

If you hate that thing where creators say "Follow this Kickstarter and let's get to [a round number] of followers"... ...this is a really good time to follow the Play Unsafe Kickstarter, because it's nowhere near a round number of followers. #kickstarter #ttrpg www.kickstarter.com/projects/gra...

Can you do me a quick favour today? ✍️ The government is finally asking if they should ban cages for hens in the UK. 🐔🐔 Lobbyists are trying to block it, so we need huge numbers to show them that the public wants this ban NOW: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/en...

New review of my book THEY KNEW, which lays out the backstory of the Epstein conspiracy. It was published in 2022 and therefore lives up to the title! I appreciate this essay and its broader insights: carter719.substack.com/p/sarah-kind...

Voyager 1 is back online 15 billion miles away in interstellar space. But the end could be near www.cnn.com/2024/12/03/s...

If the below picture gets you thinking stats, classes, campaigns, and the incomparable joy of crit successes then please consider answering this short survey for my Folklore student's research project: forms.office.com/pages/respon...

I like this and it's making me think about the difference between writing "a strange old man" and "a strange, old man".

One of the wickedest things Wes Streeting has ever done is push politically convenient falsehoods about suicide rates amongst young trans people. We have new data from the National Child Mortality Database that exposes the truth he tried to cover up.

"They want a world where people know the worst truths but are prohibited from discussing them." open.substack.com/pub/sarahken... by @sarahkendzior.bsky.social

We've removed the paywall from this guide so everyone can access it. 👇 Stay safe.

Are you a new designer wanting to create a solo ttrpg? My DMs are open for you if you need direction or help. Marginalised folk will be prioritised.

Everything happening now was obvious by March 2021. That's why I wrote about it *then*. This matters because this is a planned autocracy. Feigned surprise at horrors is meant to rewrite history and present our plight as if it wasn't a plan obvious four years ago and countenanced by both parties.

The Onion knows: theonion.com/it-is-journa...

Here's some free, downloadable patterns for sewing your own binders: ureshiidesign.ca/blog/binder-... There's detailed assembly instructions here: ureshiidesign.ca/blog/binder-...

Back on twitter during the first Trump admin I speculated that Sarah Kendzior was being Cassandra-ized. Her predictions weren’t just being ignored - they were being suppressed out of fear she was right and by people in power who wanted to shut her up. And here we are. She knew!

Very pleased to end the year with the publication of a chapter about Third Angel's show '600 People', written with collaborators co-AD Rachael Walton and astrophysicist Prof Simon Goodwin. Edited by ace colleagues @drwannado.bsky.social @pesch909.bsky.social & Simon Parry. #theatre #science #seti

This is quite the thread, and worth reading even if you know all the cancelling Christmas claims are rubbish. The details are, as they say, important. 🎄

Here he is taking the photo.

Had an excellent time playing this last night, even if my bandmates are a bunch of lying, backstabbing, royalty grabbing bastards. Thanks very much for the invite Matt!

Apparently this is the wrong answer, so Wes Streeting is launching another review by a team picked to deliver a more convenient answer 🙄 Whichever review gives the answer they want will be hailed as "gold standard science", the other will be ignored.

"I spoke to one 80-year-old woman who has been in our organisation for decades, who said it was one of the greatest experiences of her life, and the only place in her 80 years where she’s been treated as a woman with respect.” What does this do for women's rights?

Really looking forward to catching this on tour next year.

We're watching the wholesale burning of every scrap of dignity afforded to trans people in the UK, their rights, their medical services, their employment, their place within society, their bodily functions. It is a disgrace, and a disgusting stain on the government and media of this country.

The argument in favour of AI is that it cuts employee costs for businesses that simply can’t afford those staffing levels. But a successful businesses not having enough money to pay the required number of staff is a *decision*. And a side effect of endlessly moving money up, away from most workers.

I had a great time yesterday visiting the first public outing of #TheINVESTIGATIONS, as part of @royalderngate.bsky.social's GENFEST2025. Annis McGee from In Good Company ran the 'core' version of the game - a make-a-show-in-a-day research and storytelling workshop.

For anyone who wants to try out Sanction and create their own Community Content, you can pick up the Core Rules at a discount on @drivethrurpg.com: www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/4... Or, grab the Bundle, which includes all the Genre Setups and adventures: www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/4...

I'm enthralled by the great quality of the adventures that have sprung forth from The Raspy Raven organised competition. Third Party Community Content Creation embraces all of Sanction, and I'm loving what's coming out of it. www.sanctionrpg.com www.thedeesanction.com/the-dee-sanc...

I’ve been lucky enough to play this and run it, and had a blast both times. Recommended!

Really enjoyed this atmospheric folk horror show last night - if you can get along to Salford or Leeds then book in advance as it's selling out most venues.

I teach a field natural history course that’s very analog—a hand-written field journal, hands-on skill sessions, hours in nature each week. This very much tracks. My evals for that class emphasize the class’s impacts on how they think, and their mental health.

Really pleased that my Bunker Talk about Playable Theatre is now up online. I talk about the crossover between boardgames, Tracker Gamebooks, #TTRPGs and my theatre making/story swapping practice, in particular my new project The Investigations. www.art.mmu.ac.uk/bunkertalks/...

Roll up, roll up - we’re teaching you how to cobble together a career in the arts! All the soft skills the neurotypicals just seem to know but nobody tells us? We’ve got you covered! Save the date and sign up to our Patreon at any paid level to join in!

Really pleased that my Bunker Talk about Playable Theatre is now up online. I talk about the crossover between boardgames, Tracker Gamebooks, #TTRPGs and my theatre making/story swapping practice, in particular my new project The Investigations. www.art.mmu.ac.uk/bunkertalks/...