When you're a screw everything looks like a hammer.

No real surprises there

First saved photo on the phone, etc. Now name the scenario

Utterly inspired by the Sheep Detectives. Thinking of a new spin on Matrons of Mystery.

As always...mapping out a scenario for the Raspy Raven's gothix season, working on something inspired by the Sisters' Floodland LP. And after six hours of little sleep I now have a full campaign. In theory. But still no scenario actually written.

That not being *quite* centred winds me up no end...

Global warming Ilkley style

D2's school one of many to listen to Jonathan Haidt's nonsense and ban mobile phones. However, they still deliver lessons via ipads. Which means the kids still go on the tiktoks and the instas (and roblox) while in school. Because the school hasn't blocked them Maybe cos the teachers use them too?

Pretty comprehensive Green sweep of Manchester...sending out job applications as I write...

@alistairsmith.bsky.social I got inspired!

'The election results demonstrate whatever I previously believed'

So...Burnham cancels speech this morning, hankering down with advisors. Problem is--where can he win a seat?

Got the full screaming 'I hate you's from the kids on the way out this morning. Ah, teenagers. I mean, I hate me too, but I dont shout about in the street

Interesting reports from Essex, where LDs voting CON to keep Reform out. Possibly had Reform as an issue for longer so time to develop a strategy

Pollen fields...*ah-choo*

Arrive home and two minutes later the car gets carpet bombed by a red kite

Manchesters vape village--about 75% of the UK's vapes come through here. A proper square half mile...makes you proud.

Second session of this and, despite a looong break, players got into it and solved it tout du suite. Albeit with some casualties. And something deeply unpleasant returning to London with them

Following up their 'what are your ten favourite films?' question, girls yesterday asked me 'top 5 acts/bands'-taken me more than 24 hours I think *current* top five is Bring me the Horizon Rainy Miller Sophie Powers Sick Joy 16 Horsepower With Aya just outside. And that one song by Ruby Roberts

Debbie Does Dallas and Grogu

Takes him only three posts into the thread for him to say 'Israel is to blame for elderly Jews being stabbed in the street' The guilt those on the left who breathed life into anti-semitism in the Corbyn years must feel....

Quote with a photo you've taken of some public art

(DOnt read this my players...) The future. I'm saying no more. But London ends on 30 March 1979.

My first day working at the Tower, an American tourist came up to my guide (the then War Historian there) and asked whether there was a lift in the White Tower. 'Regretably', he replied 'William the first didn't have the foresight to have one installed'

Gothic scenario right there @jwmuk.bsky.social

Slow and full River Wharfe avec bluebells

Come on, its 7am on St George's Day and I havent even seen a *well, ackshully* post yet. UK bluesky is slipping.

Just read on xitter.. 'If you turn I to We, you can turn illness to wellness' Which I'm sure would be useful info for the NHS.

Good lowland things--Borders council staff out at 7 every morning cleaning loos and changing bins. And huge numbers of new towns on the A1 south of Edinburgh. Bad--man with taser going mental in Edinburgh attacking people. Also--bloody drones over EVRRY beach. Need a laser shooter...(for both)

Happy 80th birthday to the second most important aircraft of WW2

In 'Trash of the Titans' Sanitation Commissioner Simpsons spends the entire budget in a month. Mayor Z is ahead of that schedule

These two things are not, in fact, interconnected. Whatever Tom Forth likes to say there is no evidence that expanding the tram lines in Manchester has had a causative effect on its recent economic success.

I mean, if I had to become a mason, I'd want to join the Land of Cakes lodge

We're in Eyemouth. The girls have already identified the home of the incoming Herring Queen. Which made them very excited.

Favourite bit of the night was watching one of the ground delivery drones all over Leeds utterly confused by Hyde Park roadworks and just going back and forth between bits of pavement. They dont understand march madness obviously

'Another blitz scenario?'

The modern equivalent of ghost signs is ghost street view photos...travelling down Royal Park Rd, Leeds....you can both see Royal Park school and (in the next image) see the empty space where it once was. Schrodinger's primary school... www.google.com/maps/place/S...

And so we finish the main Cosmic Dark campaign. What a stonking book/rpg/concept...ended beautifully by then riding into the Glitch in the hope of starting again and getting it right 'this time.' Thanks to @grahamwalmsley.bsky.social for creating and players for enjoying going mad often...

First session of a ridiculously high-concept scenario tonight...of course the players didn't do anything in the order I thought they would....but seemed to stumble towards a solution. A second session will see them right I think. If they're still sane

Oh gods, its started... Hopefully @cavalorn.bsky.social is on the case...

Entertaining concatenation of posts @hookland.bsky.social @arcticreviews.bsky.social

So the new Manc Green MP's first encounter with Piccadilly Gardens went well I see...

Discovered that Rainy Miller's wonderful 'Joseph what have you done?' (LP of last year) was inspired by Jim White's BBC film 'Searching for the one-eyed Jesus' which makes a HUGE amount of sense

So, according to the lore in Barbie and the Fairy Secret (the follow up to the excellent Barbie Fairy Fashion Tale), every fitting room assistant is actually a Fairy and theres always one cubicle which is a transporter to Fairy land. Explains why some people spend so long in them

This was really good. Carter is an excellent writer and has done LOADS of original research and interviews. It just would have been better as a non-academic book. The standard 'here is my methodology'.type template doesnt really fit (and restricts sales!)

Pretty sure I was the first museum curator to be accused of being 'woke' by the Daily Mail

'Every move in the polls confirms my prior opinions'

Whats the longest running actual play thats been a single campaign? Anyone know? @friede.bsky.social ? #ttrpg

Yet to see anyone suggest that the bombing of Iran is just to tank the stock market, buy low and then sell as it recovers. The left is really slacking in its conspiratorialism Tim Snyder had some mad thoughts, but TOO complicated.

Jeez, the comments...as Persians all over the world celebrate (with trepidation of course, as Syrians did a few months ago) the blue(sky)pilled US left confidently tells those fighting they're war criminals. And, of course, repeat totally unverified claims about bombing victims.