Got home from dropping my partner at the station and the kids were listen to Hilltop Hoods and doing shadow boxing in the kitchen

This morning I was at a lecture on race in education, this afternoon I was in a skate park whilst 10 year olds punched each other in the face and filmed it. Strange day.

What’s the point of #ttrpg ? Well let me tell you!

Walking through Oxley what is striking is this form of privatised climate adaptation as serious flooding now reoccurs every few years

The #qldbudget shows how important the defeat of Campbell Newman was - the political appetite for large scale austerity was beaten out of the LNP. It was a sullen and defence victory for the class which currently still holds.

Introduced the kids to some real Australian culture : Rags the Kangaroo beating up Marty the Monster.

Reading this , whilst my partner is practicing with her footy team, the kids are debating an imaginary game, after we went to the Palestine rally and before I have a community group meeting. Threads together somehow

Pendragon session being run with Auslan (Australian Sign Language for the Deaf Community) at AlphaCon in Canberra this weekend.

Having been reading , and been provoked into thought and confusion, by this little book, since I found it on a back shelf of Jura Books in 2000 or so. Thanks Camatte

Went to Sunshine Coast.

The Grognard Files has renowned speculative fiction author China Miéville on their show; he talks about the formative influence #TTRPGs had on him as a creator – especially Call of Cthulhu – and also fondly recalls playing RuneQuest in Glorantha.

Listening to Thatcher on Acid whilst doing school work in Ipswich library

As we get ready for #TCAlfred here’s an interview I did last year with Nick Southall about Disaster Communism livingthedream.podbean.com/e/living-the...

Going through a listening to music my old housemates were into schtick - so walking through Goodna listening to Orchid.

It’s pretty amazing to see up-close the huge effort that is necessary to maintain mass literacy.

Have any rightwing grifters started claiming woke is the reason why on cop shows these days we don’t have middle aged captains complaining about their cholesterol? Could make a YouTube or two on that!

It’s been this many years since the Nirvana Unplugged album that I actually started listening to the Vaselines

Anyone remember that @withsobersenses.bsky.social and I do a podcast? Well we recorded one last year with the wonderful @lizhumphrys.bsky.social! Apols if it is a bit out of date... thewordfromstrugglestreet.wordpress.com/2025/02/03/l...

New pod ep alert! I joined @withsobersenses.bsky.social and @jonpiccini.bsky.social for a discussion about the Albanese Government, the ACTU and their placing of the CFMEU under administration. thewordfromstrugglestreet.wordpress.com/2025/02/03/l...

Latest episode of Living the Dream / on @albomp.bsky.social @australianunions.bsky.social and #cfmeu thewordfromstrugglestreet.wordpress.com/2025/02/03/l...

Anyone claiming yet that #DeepSeek proves the Fragment on Machines from the Grundrisse?

Praise Orlanth !

Musk’s Roman Salute: peak edgelord acting out or serious fascist semiotics ?

Dreams of the 20th Century

Interesting that RuneQuest seems to have avoided the D&D culture war - perhaps because it has always been such a wonderfully weird Californian hippie game ….

That was the year that was - 2024 in role-playing in a nutshell: thegrognardfiles.com/2025/01/12/2...

Pretty mind blowing that the #lafires have provided the Right the ability to blame decades of chronic underfunding of state services on the spectre of DEI

Me and @withsobersenses.bsky.social at a local pool hours ago. It was about to pour torrentially. Classic Brisbane.

Starting a new job tomorrow driving a tiny train and operating a model train set ….a couple more beers named after sea life

Explaining to the kids how much mooning went on in the 80s and they are shocked

For the first time in over a decade I have been to three gigs in three weeks. Poison Ruïn, Future Shocks and Antenna!

@kmilb.bsky.social @jemgilbert.bsky.social On disruption, technological innovation and accumulation

Hey kids, was Luigi a sussy imposter?! Follow NBC for more breaking news

The only thing interesting about Musk wanting to buy #dnd is that it shows the importance of pop-culture in the culture war

Saw Poison Ruïn play an all-ages show in a random community hall. Maybe 100 punters. Pure heaven

Everything obviously is unhinged, but the defence of the products of the central firms of the culture industry is just unfathomable