It is the year 2026 AD. Super hackers have gained illicit backdoor access to the AI Claude through the Chipotle support chat.

I love TTRPGs (tabletop roleplaying games) and also TTRPGs (tip-top roly-poly gory stories)

That's a first: I just got doorstepped by a Mail on Sunday journalist. (I know I should have said, "One of the other, mate you can't be both," as the old joke goes.)

Add a food to a movie title: The Call of Cthulhulahoops

it’s Easter Saturday, traditionally the day when medieval peasants were given a day off from the burden of the plough to buy and read magazines Why not partake in this ancient rite & grab our new issue filled with folklore, fairies, fantasy, fungi & other stuff that doesn’t start with an F

Okay, I get publishers affirming that the books we've produced are human-made, but have we also considered bringing back medieval book curses??? Just saying.

Add this to my, “not surprised but you can get your $5.38 from the class-action lawsuit! browsergate.eu

Paging @gregstolze.bsky.social

How is the scene in Doom Patrol where Cliff and Jesus get into a fight in a pile of giant eyeballs not a huge meme?

I'm in this issue, asking and trying to answer two questions: i. When did 'RPG' become 'TTRPG'? ii. When did TTRPGs get so digital?

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moby-dick, his eyes enormous: from hell's heart you STAB at moby? for hate's sake you spit your last BREATH at moby? oh! oh! the great shroud of the sea for ahab! the great shroud of the sea rolling on as it rolled five thousand years ago!!!!

"The 🇫🇷 National Health Insurance Fund reported that it paid around €10.2bn in daily sick leave benefits in 2023, SIGNIFICANTLY HIGHER THAN BEFORE THE COVID-19 CRISIS" If only there was a clue as to why more people are ill. www.aa.com.tr/en/europe/fr...

Many years ago, with the help of a friend, I recorded Prospero - Britain's one solo-launched satellite - sending her hopeful pings down to earth. We'd long forgotten her codes. No way of replying. She's still up there, in the loneliness of space, hoping one day we'll answer her again.

My first clear memory is watching men walking on the moon. Not sure which landing, but definitely not 11. I also remember the adults around me being completely uninterested.

what if we put issue 8 of Wyrd Science on sale? What if this got more likes & shares than our stupid jokes? featuring Dolmenwood, Blades In The Dark, Doomsong, Kamping Kitbash, Lee Gold, The Old King's Crown, weird fiction, aggro comics, dungeon synth & lots more shop.wyrd.science/products/wyr...

Here are my top 10 WORST dogs!

thank you. is a game of gratitude. to celebrate #tdov, and give you the opportunity support this trans mom, it's here a day early. you pay for the game, you win the game. you have my thanks. jnbutlerart.itch.io/thank-you

A bit of research reminded me of the fact that bonds the UK and Iran: they are the only two countries in the world where senior clerics are automatically given seats in the legislature. (yes yes, Vatican City, yes, how many divisions has the Pope?)

Respect to Linkedin Games for putting an 01-04 spin on most of their games today, including a very clever version of Crossclimb with all-digital answers to the clues. (Still aced it.)

This whole mess could have been avoided. Nicole Richie's novel The Truth About Diamonds came out in 2005, she admitted in an interview that not only did she not write it, she hadn't even read it, and the publishing industry didn't blink. The was the moment fiction's fate was sealed.

We have been watching The Pitt, but have renamed it 'Bleeding Americans'

As one of the creators for this game, and the one in charge of its development, I am deeply moved by your support. Please donate. Please share. Thank you all.

mistaking explaining things for supporting things is one of the worst things on bluesky and it's so far away from the culture that we used to have here that we all ought to take a look in the mirror and ask ourselves how we got here

Curses are underrated.

No Joke 🌲🍄🧙‍♀️

By all means--continue. www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/go-ahead-a...

I didn’t know that the world’s best TTRPG ever made was available in french @jameswallis.bsky.social !

Organizations such as ILGA-Europe recently reclassified the UK as having "no functioning legal or administrative process for legal gender recognition." This places the UK alongside countries like Hungary and Russia in European rights rankings. rainbowmap.ilga-europe.org/categories/l...

Working my way through the Doom Patrol series, which is up and down, but I'd pay good subscription money for an actual pilot episode of Steele & Stone. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dp8W...

"One man can change the world - with a bullet in the right place."

Golden retriever runs 15 feet after owner mimes throwing tennis ball

We have heard this consultation may have had a strong transphobic response. It looks like they've tried to slip it through without trans input. It needs to be in by 02 APR, so almost time up. We haven't been able to put a guide for this one due to the short notice. www.nice.org.uk/guidance/ind...

There must be more pictures of famous people playing boardgames. Bring 'em on, the more unlikely the better.

Israeli police stopped Cardinal Pizzaballa, head of the Roman Catholic Church in the Holy Land, and Most Rev Fr Ielpo, Guardian of the Church of the Holy Sepulcher, from entering the church and celebrating Palm Sunday Mass there today, their offices say.

Why isn’t everyone talking about this? ‘The devastating second wave could have been largely avoided’ 🦠

Given how much energy we know data-centres use, is it weird that the Amazon AWS ads use a snippet from Jumpin' Jack Flash that repeats the phrase "It's a gas gas gas"?

I thought this treasure was lost, but it was lurking in a crate from an office move. It's LOVE IS NOT CONSTANTLY WONDERING IF YOU ARE MAKING THE BIGGEST MISTAKE OF YOUR LIFE by an anonymous author, not a Choose Your Own Adventure in which you, as an ace starfighter, must escape from a planet (cont.)

Slept in my Blue Öyster Cult teeshirt and when the alarm went off I didn't fear the bleeper

NEW: I’ve found an opaque financial vehicle owns a large chunk of the Observer. And neither it or the Guardian will say who it is. Why? Well there is a clue. Which goes by way of Saudi Arabia… 1/ open.substack.com/pub/broligar...

The difference between these two is racism

They want to police our genitalia and run tests on our bodies to “prove” we are women, at which point they will still deny it. This is why the only feminism is trans-inclusive and why transphobia and anti-trans discrimination should be a top political priority.

You may recall the serious allegations by Reform about voting offences at the Gorton and Denton by-election. This detailed thread sets out what happened next. All too late, and this won’t get the same circulation as the original allegations.

"Venus. It's always Venus. She loves a practical joke."

In London and looking for something to do this evening? The V&A Late has been taken over by games folks showing off a collection of ludicrous ludic ideas, physical and digital. I'll mostly be hanging out with the Car Boot Casino card-game prototypers in the cafe www.vam.ac.uk/event/Wl9jvz...

Why was there no funding? The mint had a hole.

Why is it that I can hotspot from my phone anywhere except on a train, where I need to hotspot because the on-train WiFi is so unusable?

You have to be fucking deranged to believe that the configuration of basically *anyone else’s* genitals are any of your fucking business, but particularly those of a total stranger. These people are just perverts, right?