The most incredible library in the world, @bodleian.ox.ac.uk opened to OTD 1602, through the energy, money & commitment of Sir Thomas Bodley. It began with 5k books, & now more than 22m, with 2m+reader visits a year, & multi-million online users across the globe. Privilged to be its 25th librarian!

Collaboration and cooperation are foundations of human development. But we force our species’ story to fit one of relentless competition, because a certain sort of dickhead likes that version. Probably because they can exploit it, and declare themselves a Magic King. Ridiculous.

what star wars really need is a HUNT FOR RED OCTOBER style submarine thriller

If there’s any of you who profess to be into noir and have not yet seen MR INBETWEEN, you need to fix that asap. If you need further convincing, my @crimereads.bsky.social piece from a few years ago #noirvember crimereads.com/mr-inbetween/

Finished up my Necron conversion army! Been a long time in the making!

Lovely introduction to game design, distilling decades of thinking by Raph and many others. I can't wait to discuss it in my classes.

Clearly these little lads are highlights of last night’s Warhammer reveals

The second print run of Changing Landscapes is with me, so it's back for sale via my website at £10 including P&P (UK only I'm afraid). Good for gifts for Christmas, dare I suggest. As always, appreciate how much you've got behind this project. #Photography www.mariegardiner.co.uk/zines-and-pr...

The reviews of #ColdCity on @drivethrurpg.com have been immensely cheering. It's been a delight to see that people are enjoying the game in all its aspects.

It's hard to overstate Meguey and Vincent's contribution to the Tabletop RPG hobby through Apocalypse World. So many TTRPG creators were inspired to make their own #PbtA game, often pushing game design even further. Here's a chance to thank them. www.kickstarter.com/projects/lum... #ttrpg

"Far from draining our welfare system, migrants are supporting the British state’s solvency." New analysis by @lgilbert.co ukandeu.ac.uk/lower-migrat...

Do all this so you don't miss my profanities!

perhaps the most egregious thing that happened with the Future Class was when The Game Awards took money from Old Spice in the name of the FC & simply... pocketed it it wasn't used to fund Future Class initiatives, it wasn't used to help lift marginalised developers they just profited from us

Violence baguettes violence.

So... we won't need education in the future? Because the future is about fighting over rat meat in the tunnels? A fair analysis by Labour, but I do think they should begin diploma level training for how to combat the super-mutant who fights people with a metal pole stuck in a lump of concrete.

In Icelandic we have 'Ókind' for monster. But the translation is un-sheep. So everything not a sheep is dangerous.

Europeans recognize Zohran Mamdani’s supposedly radical policies as ‘normal’ www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

And away we go. www.kickstarter.com/projects/lum...

‘The heavily gilded renderings of ballroom interior owe far more to the baroque, even the rococo, than to Thomas Jefferson. It sits on the city limits between Las Vegas and St Petersburg. It is, quite simply, not the sort of thing democracies build.’ — Will Wiles on the White House

This should be sobering reading for the government departments, Labour MPs, and UK voters who are still on that platform. If it was owned by any faction other than US tech it would surely be banned.

Yous buzzing?

Not to say that experience doesn't count for a lot, but I was extremely powerful at 34. It's probably the only point I could have coped with being mayor of a major city.

Embarrassing. Get your shit together, Labour.

Excited to properly announce this networking event in partnership with our friends at Dragonmeet, featuring a catalogue of excellent speakers and panelists, as well as a networking space. Running one the friday before the show at Excel, and free for everyone!

“Starmer’s investment deals with US big tech threaten to give them priority access to our resources – energy, water & personal data – rather than using these resources to meet public need. They’ll drive a coach & horses through our climate commitments” Pleased to be quoted👇

The centrist parties in the UK and US need to wrestle with the fact that they are used by business and right-wing interests to "squat" the vote against progressive policies. The "oh renewables are putting your costs up" stuff is a perfect example of that at a time when renewables are getting cheap.

It's weird to me that Mamdani is such an outlier in terms of articulacy and progressivism. The US is a country brimming with talent and charisma: more of these people need to come forward. (Also my own United Kingdom. Come on now. This is not the best we can do.)

Here's another bit of conventional wisdom Zohran completely blew away: His speech was at well above a 10th-grade level. It was complex, erudite, punctuated by deep and fluent references. You don't have to condescend to voters with baby talk! Part of re-establishing norms is speaking like an adult.

We... put out a video game? That you can play? On your computer?!? store.steampowered.com/app/2963240?...

In long-overdue Big Robot Ltd news: the reboot, 'Sir, You Are Being Hunted Reinvented Edition', is now not happening, for certain. This means I can and will try once again to port Sir to consoles via other means. Perhaps it will even happen one day!

This also goes some way to explain why, given that there's a centre left party in power, and centre left parties take over 50%+ of the vote in polling, we *still* end up with centre-right talking points. First past the post is robbery and gross distortion of influence.

I have a really massive sale going on right now for my original art, everything I've made (that's available!) up to the end of last year. This year's creations are not in the sale. Ideal for monster or fantasy lovers gifts! buff.ly/QZIAKGN #artforsale #monsters #fantasyart #folklore #artsale

While I am on Sir stuff, I found a few copies of Marsh's amazing family portrait poster from the original 2012 Kickstarter, and some t-shirts. I shall sling them on the Big Cartel site in case anyone wants one.

As a part of my ongoing series "I Am A Hopeless Fantasy Maps Dork", I did a vid on what a GM is going to be able to get out of the Dolmenwood maps book. I own a whole bunch of fantasy atlases, and I have never seen one quite like this. (I know that's the monster book, it was the better thumbnail!)

In long-overdue Big Robot Ltd news: the reboot, 'Sir, You Are Being Hunted Reinvented Edition', is now not happening, for certain. This means I can and will try once again to port Sir to consoles via other means. Perhaps it will even happen one day!

I was laid off from Teen Vogue today along with multiple other staffers, and today is my last day. certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.

Oh ho!

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*

Random but: the amazing thing about making art for your own games, whether you consider yourself an artist or not, is that as soon as you make a piece of art? You are an artist. Whether you’re a “good artist” is entirely out of your hands, and always will be. All you can do is throw yourself at it.

Update: MILESHIPS fulfilment in UK and EU will be at the end November; North America in January. And this means we won't actually be at Thought Bubble later this month.

As a part of my ongoing series "I Am A Hopeless Fantasy Maps Dork", I did a vid on what a GM is going to be able to get out of the Dolmenwood maps book. I own a whole bunch of fantasy atlases, and I have never seen one quite like this. (I know that's the monster book, it was the better thumbnail!)

Should you run The Between with your RPG group? In short: yes. In (really quite) long:

The BIG ROBOT games are all discounted on Steam this weekend! If you enjoyed being hunted by murderous robots or exploring eldritch landscapes, or just chilling in an eerie sci-fi place, then these are for you. store.steampowered.com/developer/bi...

Last night I went to the Puca Festival in Trim, Ireland. It's all fun and games until someone unleashes a giant demonic hare.

The joy of ttrpgs, to me, is that anyone can hack them. After years of hearing people say "wouldn't it be cool if" about digital games and then sighing at the sheer ludicrousness of work involved, a medium where someone can suggest something at the table and then you can just do it, is bliss.

Mild plant horror 🌱🌿

it's me, unnamed critter from bosch's triptych of the temptation of anthony!

When we say that the demise of fossil fuels is inevitable, this is what we mean. It's already over.

Should you run The Between with your RPG group? In short: yes. In (really quite) long: