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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/...

We had a lorra, lorra fun playing this.

My #Vaesen scenario, The Man Who Was Too Lucky is in the @drivethrurpg.com Halloween sale until the end of the month... Johannes Wallėn recruits the Society to investigate his suspiciously happy life. tools.drivethrurpg.com/product/5262...

The ace @ingoodcompany.bsky.social are running my theatre-making-kit-meets-storytelling-game THE INVESTIGATIONS at @royalderngate.bsky.social as part of GenFest this year. You can take part and/or watch what they make with it: royalandderngate.co.uk/whats-on/gen...

with your help we can change this

The ace @ingoodcompany.bsky.social are running my theatre-making-kit-meets-storytelling-game THE INVESTIGATIONS at @royalderngate.bsky.social as part of GenFest this year. You can take part and/or watch what they make with it: royalandderngate.co.uk/whats-on/gen...

I cannot understand what these people think the purpose of human life is? It is *not* "pursue joy, deal justly, love well, try to understand as much and see as much of this beautiful world and of the deepness, richness and variety of human culture and experience as you can before you die"?

How is this repeatedly made into a policy issue - by *all* parties - when the blunt fact of the matter is that grown adults who are obliged to pay for their own education, and relentlessly pursued to repay their loans, should be able to study whatever the fuck they want.

And yet - nothing about this is on the BBC main app. It’s hidden under Welsh news. Nothing in the Daily Mail, Express, The Sun, The Times. Seems like Farage’s opinions on everything make front page news EXCEPT when one of his guys admits to taking Russian bribes….🤷🏼‍♀️ 13/14

Great fun talking to @irny.bsky.social about how to write system flexible scenarios, using the brilliant examples of her Darkened Hill & Dale and Terminus Kickstarters! You can still late pledge for Terminus until 1st Oct, see www.kickstarter.com/projects/pat... open.spotify.com/episode/6UTy...

Whether it’s paracetamol or something else, Trump and co are perpetuating the idea autism is wrong and disability is an individual’s responsibility to avoid. It’s anti-science but it’s deeply ableist at its core. The goal is for non-disabled to be afraid and disabled people to be ashamed.

DAAAAAAAAAMMMMNNNNN! 👏 “The USA, where you can pick up eggs, milk and lethal ammunition in the same supermarket run, in case you want to make a pancake and then shoot someone in the head, considers people who like trains a bit too much to be its society’s deadliest scourge.” 🤣

Great to see the excellent gobscure getting the recognition they deserve with this interview in The Guardian, alongside Jason Williamson. www.theguardian.com/stage/2025/s...

It's has been so rewarding to run #Vaesen for the last (nearly) 4 years. I started with a couple of the published scenarios to get a feel for it, then began writing my own stuff - which the rules really support. We'll come back to it - perhaps one of the other Societies - next year.

Some how this is suddenly 'this month'... Looking forward to talking to the brilliant Zodwa Nyoni for this Bunker Talk, 5.30pm on Tuesday 23rd September, at the Salutation pub in Manchester. www.art.mmu.ac.uk/bunkertalks/...

Should be fun and insightful, a few of us have converted and run Sarah's system agnostic Darkened Hill & Dale scenarios. They are wonderful and we have all pondered how you go about writing something without a specific system in mind... now we'll find out! Link in my bio, then look under Events.

"Previously On..." but for the 800 page novel you haven't had a chance to pick up for two weeks.

Profoundly unhelpful and flat out untrue. No parent would endure the misery of the ECHP system unless they felt it was really necessary.

Some how this is suddenly 'this month'... Looking forward to talking to the brilliant Zodwa Nyoni for this Bunker Talk, 5.30pm on Tuesday 23rd September, at the Salutation pub in Manchester. www.art.mmu.ac.uk/bunkertalks/...

every democrat who does not speak out about this enables it. what the administration is doing here is a large-scale tactic to isolate trans people and strengthen future attacks on us. the gains we have made are built on visibility and public knowledge of us and our needs.

North East weirdies, tickets are still available for our Folk Horror show on Wednesday 10 September, at @arcstockton.bsky.social, with @bobfischer.bsky.social and me! Everything from film & TV to comics, music, and suburban sex orgies will be covered... Tickets: bit.ly/44Jh9EJ

And on the subject of JKR, this is the hatred and lies and fear that she's throwing her billions behind...

This is amongst the most impactful two minutes of broadcasting I’ve ever seen. By Emma Murphy, International Editor, ITV News. #Gaza

I don't have a huge amount of algorithmic reach (either a social media conspiracy or just based on the innocuous inanity of my posts) but I'm really trying to cheerlead my friend's new visual novel so please do check it out/share to anyone you think would enjoy. Thx 🎩✨️

I run a number of small #ttrpg conventions in my home city of Sheffield, UK. I am ethically uncomfortable using Paypal as our payment service, though it is convenient and works. Do you run small, not for profit, events? We have asked our attendees, but wondered if you have a good alternative?

Very pleased to receive my copy of Research & Development in British Theatre, which includes an interview by Karen Quigley with Rachael and I, done just before Third Angel closed. Really great collection of interviews and essays, and we’re in fine company.