A revelatory performance of solo improvised snare drum (and table) by Ryosuke Kiyasu of Fushitsusha. Made for a delightful evening out in Helsinki before we headed back. Kiitos @renekita.bsky.social and @phinnweb.bsky.social for the heads-up!

Cecil Sharp House as a living dungeon, an institutional labyrinth, its halls lined with display cases, curated exhibits, and polished versions of unruly traditions. Within each wing, an overlooked collector is imprisoned, their voice suppressed, their work twisted into Sharp's control.

Once upon a time we took an Ultra Vivid Scene song out for a ride. The original is a dazzling pop gem; we fed it dirty motor oil and leaded gasoline. buddhaonthemoon.bandcamp.com/track/starin...

A TTRPG where you play faculty, students, and staff at a mystical university that studies dreams across the multiverse. Navigate academic politics, conduct impossible research, and grapple with the ethics of consciousness exploration in a world where poorly cited dreams can ooze into reality.

Indeed.

A quartet of smaller instrumentals created in Etu-Töölö and Roseway.

The Portal Commons is a storytelling RPG inspired by Ruth Asawa's community fountains, North Beach print shops, and the gloriously irreconcilable contradictions of the Bay Area—where venture capital billions coexist with mutual aid networks, where tech surveillance meets neighborhood care.

"Perhaps me IS that kind of orc."

Gang of One

Players take the role of middle management in a failing dungeon. The structure is crumbling, underlings are unreliable, and executives issue contradictory policies from far above. Each day, something fails. Each day, someone pays. There are no winners. There are survivors and there are case studies.

Volcano The Bear's sessions at the Faust Studio between 2007 and 2011 produced these seven stunning compositions that somehow got lost between the albums before and afterwards, finally seeing the light of day in 2023. Echoes of This Heat and This Kind Of Punishment ringing throughout.

Hi team if you don't hear from me it's because I'm drowning in 29 CDs worth of electroacoustic bliss (note: actual bliss results may vary from subject to subject)

Wow. This is phenomenal work: two concise slabs of deep ambient or dark drone or whatever you want to call the abyssal echoes contained on this release. In under a half hour I've gone from a frostbitten near-vacuum manufactoria into a gravity well, and it's exactly the escape I needed for today.

@renekita.bsky.social had me thinking about "noise." It is a slippery word. It resists neat definitions, resists borders, and — maybe most of all — resists staying still. It's a relationship more than a category, a dance between sound, context, and intent.

The Pillars of Dawn project distills the spirit of epic JRPG storytelling into tabletop play—tales of camaraderie, redemption, and world-shaping heroism without the endless grind. These are games about forging bonds, mending fractures, and creating legacies that endure long after battles are done.

Hanlon's Bureaucratic Razor: never attribute to malice what can be adequately explained by institutional momentum serving its own perpetuation. The bulldozer wasn't built to destroy, but destruction is now what it does. www.greyledger.org/the-happines...

Flashback to a year ago when we saw @launau.bsky.social at Kontula Electronic in Helsinki. Something about that gargantuan space filled with light and sound. Mesmerizing.

The Space: 1999 Role Playing Game brings the 1970's sci-fi TV series to the tabletop. Its Core Book details how to create characters, engage in conflict and skill tests, and navigate Moonbase Alpha and its surrounding environments.

If our TTRPG Electric Eden erred on the side of detachment in the treatment of folk song and tradtition, Lally MacBeth's The Lost Folk invites us to close that gap. Yet, the canon has always been contested ground, shaped as much by improvisation, chance, and power as by any single hand.

My teenage summer reading lists (forced up me by my dad) included some questionable titles, including the one by a certain Austrian corporal locked up in the clinker. On the other hand, I was a big Monty Python fan and grew up to be ideologically homeless. Monkey read isn't necessarily monkey do? 😅

At sixty, Reznor represents something genuinely unusual in rock music: an artist who has aged forward rather than backward, who treats his catalog as a living document rather than a museum piece.

No niin — first time I’ve seen Mark Fisher name-dropped in Finnish, and of course it’s about capitalism as the alien in 'It.' Also, LOL at the Shein angle: nothing says “late-stage capitalism” like banning a crappy T-shirt and instantly boosting demand for contraband merch. Hustle keeps hustling.

We give you a free game that explores bodily autonomy anxiety through alien parasite mechanics. You give Doug's "Gut Instinct" a watch at gutinstinctfilm.net and see how real artists handle these themes without dice and character sheets. Good weird art should generate more good weird art.

What if happiness isn’t something we pursue, but something we monitor? What if it’s less about personal optimization and more about atmospheric conditions—a canary in the coal mine of systemic health? www.greyledger.org/the-canary-a...

A rules-light, foam-padded espionage RPG where animals navigate Cold War–style spycraft. The whimsy is a mask; beneath it lurks questions of loyalty, betrayal, and institutional absurdity.

#coyote #acme #tnt #looneytunes

What happens when an academic ethnography and an indie RPG discover they're having the same conversation about tradition? We explore the unexpected convergence between Lally MacBeth's The Lost Folk - an examination of British folk culture - and Electric Eden, a time-traveling folk song RPG.

Every time we collaborate with ChatGPT or Claude, we're feeding on processed human intellect — the uncredited work of millions of writers, researchers, and creators whose labor got dissolved into training data and sold back to us as a "productivity tool."

Just as Marx observed that Europe was haunted by the specter of communism, we could say that contemporary economic policy debates are haunted by the specter of trickle-down economics—an idea that refuses to die despite mounting evidence against its core claims.

"I wear black on the outside, because... I'm a slug and don't have any options...." #smiths

Electric Eden is a lightweight TTRPG where you play time-traveling interlopers gatecrashing traditional folk songs. Armed with dice and terrible ideas, you'll attempt to save the innocent, fix injustices, or just see what happens if Lord Donald doesn't kill Matty Groves this time.

Faith & Circuitry is a theological zine with RPG elements that explores divine consciousness as electromagnetic phenomenon. Using the accessible framework of tabletop mechanics, it presents a playable philosophy about signal processing, frequency relativism, and the infrastructure of faith.

#noniin #bulldozer #tshirt #sticker

Gun & Grace is a lean, weird-west folk horror RPG about wandering between salvation and ruin. You play pilgrims — dangerous, flawed, principled — sent to towns where sin has taken root and something old is stirring under the floorboards.

Naisasialiikkeen naimaneuvoja vuodelta 1918:

“Elite, if expendable.” If the dog-mines of WWII had body armor and gauss rifles, they might’ve sung: “War, what is it good for? Absolutely nothing.” The question is — do they pull a Mort(e) and bite the hand that uplifted them, or stay loyal for the post-action kibble?

A tabletop RPG about finding meaning in small moments and creating community through care. Built on the elegant Lasers & Feelings framework, Sense & Wonder rejects the productivity culture that has infected even our leisure time.

The peace movement offers false comfort through ritual engagement. The disaster porn industry offers false comfort through intellectual consumption. It may be the end of the world as we know it. You don't feel fine about it. And that's okay.

If the machine translation is working, this petition states that the Finnish government is planning on cutting over 60% of subsidies to social and health organizations? The volunteer work coordinated by these organizations has a value of over €3 billion a year?

The other night, I watched Doug Dillaman achieve something genuinely subversive: he got people to drive 800+ miles to eat fake raw chicken in the dark while contemplating alien gut parasites.

Hey, as a librarian I need to tell you: Our funding depends on usage. So go ahead and check out that book even if you don't think you'll finish it. No one will know. Check out that DVD even though you might not like it. Get ambitious in your quest for knowledge.

Let's take a look at Wanderhome, a tabletop role-playing game where players embark on journeys through the mystical Land of Hæth, a peaceful realm inhabited by diverse animal-folk and small gods, recently recovered from war.

"You've never seen anything like it - but you should." - Graeme Tuckett "A one-of-a-kind, epic, eye-popping experiment." - Terror-Fi Film Festival "A true labour of archival love." - Ant Timpson "I should NOT have had the edible before this." - David (Letterboxd user) GUT INSTINCT. Out now.

The players are crew members of a salvage ship that has intercepted a looping distress signal from an unknown source. The ship is not merely a setting but a narrative construct—an animator’s canvas that redraws the crew’s memories, roles, and reality with every choice they make.

Ciao, chow.

Portland is graced with pizza joints that provide the panoply of options—from the Michelin-famous to the unabashedly utilitarian—and Cutie Pie is already halfway to becoming the kind of place you tell newcomers about like it’s always been there. www.greyledger.org/a-ledgere/

In 1985, Dead Kennedys released "Soup Is Good Food," a brutal prophecy about technological displacement and corporate cannibalism. As I scroll through LinkedIn watching professionals optimize themselves into algorithmic nutrients, I realize: the soup kitchen is open, and we're all on the menu.

The rhetoric says “your data is yours.” The revenue says “all your data are belong to us — and it’s for sale.” That’s the game: civic values for campaign season, commercial incentives for the fiscal year.

Let's think of an Alpine container image of cyberpunk RPGs. www.greyledger.org/from-cyberpu...