I'm told I spelled Ronan's name wrong, well after what he did to that song he should change his name and think about what he did so I'm just giving him a leg up really.

Bands I love where I don't love every track but the best of is absolutely immense* Idlewild Jimmy Eat World Weezer (Some albums are solid gold, success thins out later) System of a Down Foo fighters They highs are so high. * YMMV

Listening to a Christmas one hit wonders thing from the BBC and they had a version of "The War is Over" by the pop idol people. It was dreadful. People who like that song, are the kind of people who are ok with GenAI. See also Ronan Keeting an his abominable version of The Fairy Tale of New York.

I just heard that some people I don't know might be playing a TTRPG I don't play in a way that I wouldn't want to. Let me rush to YouTube to make an hour-long video about my horror and rage...

Leave little Saruman alone.

Do I know anyone who got got by unbound? Do you @raynewman.bsky.social ?

UNBOUND AUTHORS: Leftover copies of your books in the UK (MacMillan) warehouse will be pulped within the next week or two. DM me for a link to the warehouse stock list and contacts. If you have no dosh, another publisher (Wilton Sq) is willing to buy the books & distribute on a 50/50 profit split

There is a 1% chance on any log in that your authenticator code is 69. Nice.

I think it will effect me to the princely sum of £1.5 per week. A lot of absolute melts are going to lose it about this. I hope your car hits every pothole and you can't get an appointment about your piles.

We've got 1 week and about $2500 left to fund! Bite the Hand is a TTRPG about rebels in future cities, using Mothership’s engine to bring a touch of horror to the cyberpunk genre. There will also be a conversion guide to run Mothership modules using BTH's rules! www.backerkit.com/c/projects/s...

On the one hand that budget will sting a bit in a few years but I've said I should pay more tax for ages.

@stormsoveroceans.bsky.social Where can I buy your albums? I had a look on bandcamp and I think it is all individual tracks... which is a pain in the harris on band camp 😂 Also is "Free" available - I heard it on the sleeping forecast but can't see it.

There is no way you can guess how the thread that ends in this instant classic begins.

This is incredible.

Best description: youtu.be/d5HBPs_hiPk?... Electrical engineering degree > attempted EE PhD > basic admin roles > nearly killed by teacher training > purchasing assistant temp role > trainee accountant > accountant > data science degree > data scientist > engineering managment

Bloody hell is the floor sprung? They should have mentioned #Strictly

Really, it is.

This is interesting. I am currently doing, another, masters degree. I finished the previous one (data science) 5 years ago. From the other side of this as the student, this would not bother me at all. I don't think I'm unique in that. 1/

There was an AI from Nantucket, Which made AI slop by the bucket, But if you typed in a rhyme, It worked every time, That the AI gave up, and said ‘fuck it!’

"Getting a robot to use the treadmill for you at the gym doesn't make you any fitter" You don't say?

BLOG POST: An attempt to put into words my *feelings* about generative AI and why (a) I don't like being tricked into consuming it and (b) I just don't care about things that are made using it. precastreinforced.co.uk/2025/11/21/a...

Boots Boots Boots Boots Providing all my medicines There's no discharge from my ear

Oh. Oh no. I should have foreseen this. Fucking art bots.

I really want a cyberpunk cityscape as a piece of art. Ideally supporting a local artist (Bristol) or UK artist. Are there any UK market places? Feel free to approach direct (FYI: You can shove your genAI horseshit back up your arse & fuck off while you're doing it) #cyberpunk #art #illustration

Whomst among us hasn't felt a little vacuum about snackie all done

He's been, he's been

"M&S made without flapjack biscuit" made without: Gluten ✅ Metal shavings ❌ What a treat!

“Housing estates, factories, tower blocks and caravans, nowhere is safe from Ray Newman’s dark imagination. Existing somewhere between Robert Aickman and J.G. Ballard, these blackly funny tales are sure to chill you.” – John Grindrod on Intervals of Darkness. Go on, treat yourself. (Treat me.)

Does anyone have resources (books, articles, websites, drive thru or itch) for base building or settlement building in #ttrpg #scifi or #horror. Like what I've seen of @embersofhumanity.bsky.social but they haven't (or hadn't last I checked) released the full rules. Also I like multiple sources.

This isn't a chump competition either, bad gaming ads is a packed field with some heavyweight contenders and real pedigree.

At this point we'd walked for hours and seen no sign of life, except rats gnawing on what might have been a human hand, and a makeshift gyrocopter circling high above. The Roamers rarely come out during the day, after all – or, at least, know how to ensure they're not seen.

2026 belongs to the first indie RPG to bin dice in favour of (somehow) using a 1978 MB Games Simon

Not the first to make this point. But there is a tyrant in charge of another country who is accused of being heavily linked to a paedophile sex ring - and supposed ‘patriots’ in this country are passionately willing him to take down our national broadcaster. Madness.

Note that if it's happening in the Fediverse it is ABSOLUTELY DEFINITELY happening here on Bsky.

Steve Jackson hands down. Didn't know who Gygax was until years later. Of course I now know that Gygax was quite the knobhead. Should I Google SJ? Someone tell me SJ is a good egg. #ttrpg

Like @floaker.bsky.social, it's Steve Jackson (the British one), Ian Livingstone, and Marc Gascoigne. I'm pretty certain that I did not know the name Gary Gygax until much, much later. I probably knew who Frank Chadwick was before I knew who Gygax was!

The balloon knot society

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It is entirely possible to be good at mathematics and not be a huge bell end. You might not agree that I have achieved this, but it is possible to be both nice and good at maths.

In a quite remarkable turn up for the books one of my predictions turns out to have been wrong. I made a sealed envelope prediction five years ago about something, it turns out even a miserable bastard like me wasn't pessimistic enough.

1/ In terms of comparative examples, when anybody brings up the "man of his time" defense of Gygax, I always think of Palladium and the infamous early insanity table. For those unaware, Palladium took an outdated version of the DSM as inspiration and included "homosexuality" as an insanity.

I thought bond was a code name? That was established wasn't it? Like he wasn't born, they pluck boys out of orphanages and rename them. That was part of the point. James B, Alec T in bond. Not just bond either Jason B, hell Harry Palmer only got a name because of the film right? A spy film staple

Sweet Christmas

This art by John Berkey is fantastic. That's a sci-fi TTRPG campaign setting right there.

Just tried out the Monotropism questionnaire. Monotropism is a model of a key autistic trait - the tendency to focus intensely on a few interests. I answered honestly & scored pretty highly. It's an area with some research behind it & lots of community discussion. dlcincluded.github.io/MQ/

Heh heh.

It's a weird mix in my time line of people discussing MTG (The lead eating American) and MTG (The card game). Sometimes it's tricky to tell which one. "Looks like I'm not the only one worried about an Island Sanctuary coming out #mtg" #TTRPG #Politics #Nerds #Geeky

George looks like he'd be mates with Bertie Wooster #strictly #GentlemansPersonalGentleman