Finally watched Spinal Tap 2. Unsurprisingly not quite as perfect as the first, but a decent tribute to Rob Reiner. Pity that most of the songs were jammed together in the last 30 mins. Still, I’m sure repeated watchings will uncover a new store of quotable bits.

The Holly & The Ivy/ The Holly Bears The Crown. Trad. English carol, played badly on the #AngloConcertina. #Folkmusic #carols #murderatuneaday. Proper version here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=mKer...

Finally watched Heavy Metal, and now I know exactly how to play Ultraviolet Grasslands. #TTRPG

Tried out Dragon Rampant 2nd ed. from @ospreygames.bsky.social. Orcs vs wood elves. The local #Bloodbowl team turned out to serve as wardancers & treat behemoth against the orcish horde. #wargaming

Nineteen. My first email address was demon, not AOL.

About time for my yearly rewatch of Old Father Christmas. If you've never seen it, it's hard to describe: #folklore, mummers' plays, #paganism vs Christianity, a bit of opera ... www.youtube.com/watch?v=EWII...

As pleasingly Satanic as this is, we’re perilously close to 100% so defy the beast and back Secret Passages issue 3 www.kickstarter.com/projects/jdh...

Rereading a Michael Moorcock book I've not read since the 80s, The Warhound and the World's Pain. I wonder if this particular sentence lodged in the brain of a Marvel comics scriptwriter? #IamGroot

I’m convinced there’s an entire campaign for Vampire the Masquerade in Rammstein’s video for Deutschland. #TTRPG #VtM www.youtube.com/watch?v=NeQM...

The sculptures at our local artists' corner look like a #TTRPG adventure suitable for character levels 1–3.

The Kickstarter is at that awkward mid-point where there’s one pledge cancellation for every two that come on board, so if this is your jam, please give it a boost because we’re SO CLOSE www.kickstarter.com/projects/jdh...

Post a book quote that you love. #booksky #bookchallenge #writers #authors #readers #booklovers Neuromancer #williamgibson

This world needs legends. Don’t leave the heroics to others – back Secret Passages issue 3 now. www.kickstarter.com/projects/jdh... #ttrpgs #ttrpgzine #gamebooks #oldhammer

The lifts in the Mercedes Benz museum in Stuttgart are straight outta Metropolis.

I just backed Secret Passages #3 (and the next three issues after that): An Old School RPG and Oldhammer Magazine on @kickstarter.com www.kickstarter.com/projects/jdh... @jdhoare.bsky.social

The Coventry Carol, English, 15th century, slightly murdered on #angloconcertina.

We’re hovering just below 50% funded so make my day and get us over the half-way mark, pretty please.

Spread the word. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...

@pixelsonapage.bsky.social Hi Barry, Simon, ex of Brighton Morris here. Can I DM you? I'm after a larger size of a photo that I think you may have taken?

Much how my family react to me practicing my anglo concertina.

The pre-launch page for Secret Passages #3 is LIVE, which means I now have to DO THINGS. Give it a follow and share it with your pals for #BloodBowl #Warhammer #Spelljammer #DND #WayoftheTiger #HeroesUnlimited #WorldofDarkness and more! www.kickstarter.com/projects/jdh...

Bohemian knights, 15c., by Claymore Castings. #wargaming

I slept with the lights on for a week after watching this.

In all these Hollywood battles that are just a mass of brawling warriors, the hero will at some point shout "Hold the line!!". Mate, there is no line. There are no lines to be seen. You might fight better if you formed one.

That Thai director at Miss Universe really looked like a cartoon despot when he started shouting for security.

it hasn't helped sell any mags but it appears our nonsense on here has just pushed our account over 5K 'followers', so let's embrace that as some kind of achievement! Like & repost this to be in with a chance to win every in-print issue of Wyrd Science & a t-shirt of your choice*

This auction is now live on eBay. 1500 credit Orlock gang. 9 humans and 2 cyber-mastiffs (Scenery not included) www.ebay.co.uk/itm/39722454... Starting at £50. Oz will get the money, not me. DM me if you have any questions. #Nerdlings #Necromunda

Why does everyone keep calling it “The Epstein Ballroom?” Please stop repeating “The Epstein Ballroom” because it is not called “The Epstein Ballroom!” Don’t tell the news that it’s called “The Epstein Ballroom” and please don’t repost this!!!!!

The #OSR in a nutshell. #TTRPG #Halloween

Sky Steeleye Span Fairport Convention Manowar

We bought an apple press, and I have never felt so damned rustic. Apples! Capfuls! Three bushel bagfuls!

if you’ve ever watched the apprentice, that’s the world without arts or humanities degrees

The dawn chorus is so sweet in April but by October it’s just six drunk rooks arguing in a dead tree.

Philosophy for the modern world.

Got my copy of @wyrdscience.bsky.social magazine. It’s a good read, and its special ability is that it lays flat on the cafe table for ease of reading.

@nicholaseames.bsky.social just finished Kings of the Wyld. Very good, I’m sure my extensive knowledge of rock music allowed me to spot nearly 25% of the music references you hid in the story.

Post a concert photo. #CastleRat

Cancelled my Disney+ sub, and told them this is in protest at their treatment of #Kimmel. Funny how they don't have an account on Bluesky I can tag directly, bet they have one on the other place, but I don't intend to open my old account to look.

Watched Time Bandits with my son today. I am forever surprised that Napoleon's line "That's what I like – little things, hitting each other!" is not the motto of many many #wargames clubs. #wargaming

@jdhoare.bsky.social I'm enjoying Secret Passages 2, and also slogging through Harry Potter with my son at bedtimes. I'm thinking the Technocracy could have sorted out the whole wizarding war thing VERY quickly.

I had forgotten, until now, that there was a Jack Russell terrier named ‘Spunky’.

The evil that men do lives on and on …

What were your first 3 #ttrpg box sets? 1. D&D red box (1981) 2. Traveller (1981) 3. Call of Cthulhu (Games Workshop edition 1983)

Have you heard the English phrase 'since time immemorial'? I've just today learned it has an exact legal definition. Time immemorial ceased in 1189AD, when King Richard I took the English throne. Legal memory began on that day. I love these sort of facts. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_im...

The Bright Sword by Lev Grossman is the best fantasy novel I've read for a long long time. Lots of #TTRPG tropes: quests, adventures, monsters, magic items, powerups, boss fights; but doesn't read like someone's campaign, it has a tightly woven story. Perfect for Pendragon or Mythic Bastionland.

It's Monday, works boring and I know you're probably thinking, damn, I wish I could buy a cool magazine about tabletop games today that will then be delivered in September as a little treat to future me... Well, looks like you just rolled a nat 20 kiddo! shop.wyrd.science

New T-shirt from Cropredy, the Mound of Sorrows from the Franks Casket. ‘Here Hos sits on the sorrow-mound. She suffers distress as Erta decreed for her a sore-den of sorrows and torment of mind’ #anglosaxon #fairportconvention

Playing Cosmic Wimpout at Cropredy. The Mornington Crescent of dice games. #FairportConvention