Wes Streeting calls his harmful and dangerous Conversion Therapy approach to banning lifesaving treatments for trans kids “holistic”. It is about as holistic as giving someone counseling for diabetes instead of insulin. He is deliberately harming trans kids. He disgusts me.

@hwrpodcast.bsky.social Bart meeting his latest hookup

FIVE YEARS & he has not been held accountable for one of the most disgraceful events in this nation's history. Trying to overturn a fair election in an attempted coup against his own government is the very definition of TREASON. We can never move forward until this is fully adjudicated. #ShameOnUS🇺🇸

A Dungeon Game is here and it's free! (It's been both of those things for ages tbh) Explore subterranean depths, face dragons, and discover what lurks beneath. It's classic dungeon crawling with modern design (i.e. it's good). https://loottheroom.itch.io/a-dungeon-game

Cartoon. #Cartoon

The people of Venezuela do not deserve this. Solidarity with the people of Venezuela. May the words of Chavez give them some solace

If you’re trans you gotta survive and thrive. If you think you’re trans but are scared of what that means for you, you gotta survive and thrive. If you’re trans and scared right now, it’s ok, but you gotta be brave. I adore you my siblings in love. Let us keep going. Be the light to someone else.

The shorteste daye The longest nighte Welcome, sun Welcome, lighte

So the “figure out how to use it lest you be left behind” replies about ‘AI’ that have been popping up here strike me as inauthentic but also kind of funny because they grant the point that rather than an automation panacea these technologies are quite difficult to figure out how to use effectively

💥 Seventy thousand women have now signed our letter. Seventy thousand women saying clearly that exclusion is not in our name and that trans people deserve dignity, safety and belonging. 🙏 Sign and share: notinourname.org.uk #NotInOurName #Love #Inclusion #WomenUnite

The BMA has come out swinging for the rights of all trans people in healthcare settings and beyond - both patients and healthcare providers. Genuinely brilliant news amongst the bad - please read it and share, and remember that we are NOT alone. Not by a long stretch.

“Dr. Laura Marshal Mattthews has quickly become a vital ally to our community, stepping in to protect our children by taking on prescribing responsibilities and bravely standing her ground against the ICB [NHS Sussex].” northwestbylines.co.uk/news/equalit...

While I think the most obvious transferable skill from Improv to playing TTRPGs is learning how to react to situations quickly and authentically, we should also take note that Improv (especially long form) can teach narrative pattern recognition to help call back to previous themes and characters.

I'm part of this reading! It's organised by @mrspike.bsky.social and it's really nicely done. You can hear the second part in the Good Friends server tonight

SLOPERATOR 👏 👏 👏

I've been asked for information about UK-based researchers with interest in TTRPGs and Actual Play. I have a half-dozen names off the top of the dome, but would be happy to hear of more to pass along for Schemes.

Every writer who generates a slop image for their work is a class traitor. "I can't afford a visual artist" So your solution is stabbing artists in the back? Stealing from them? Furthermore, slop-generated imagery suggests slop-generated writing. That's how you're presenting yourself.

Podcast ad: "Say what you want about AI but... it's here." That's really the best argument they have, just trying to convince us we have to use it because... we have to use it! 😂

Even after this happened, they're still rolling out another AI "powered" feature to catch up on books in your Kindle library. I imagine it's going to go just as well. www.pcmag.com/news/kindles... Remain defiant. The only people who say this is "inevitable" are the ones trying to sell it to you.

A million Muslims live in New York City. We belong here, as does every other New Yorker. This is vile Islamophobia from the Councilwoman and it has no place in our city.

In a major win for Trans+ rights, an employment tribunal has ruled the Supreme Court’s ruling on the definition of ‘woman’ does not require trans people to be excluded from single-sex spaces.
 Here’s what the ruling said 👇

It seems that bsky has turned off the setting that some people had on to remind us all to add ALT TEXT - you might want to check and see if yours has been switched off, then you can switch it on again 🥰🔥🙏

Bridget Phillipson knew her history, was told by MPs not to appoint her, insisted on appointing her, and in her first interview the Chair of the Equality and Human Rights Commission has ignored super clear and explicit human rights law that trans people are not a third sex. What a disgrace.

With 36 hours left to go, Mud Ghost Estate Redux is nearly funded. Just 6 more pledges to the physical book and we'd hit the goal! 👀 www.kickstarter.com/projects/wha...

At @chaosium.bsky.social Con UK I was invited to play in MIKE-MARES, a Call of Cthulhu live game with Mike Mason as Keeper. Thanks @miskatonicplayhouse.com for having me! And my fab fellow players @tanewman.bsky.social @lynneahardy.bsky.social & @cosmicoutpost.bsky.social youtu.be/24KQKRZw6FE?...

TIL that moose is deer and moose is also elk?!?!?!?!?!!?!?!!?!?!?

if you're into AI "advisors" and find their insights helpful, may I non-ironically recommend seriously considering: tarot - connection to your subconscious - therapeutic or confessional as need be - patterns of meaning - self-determined takeaways - no need to google facts afterwards

I've been working my way through them and I'm so in love with the whole ridiculous crew.

Happiness is sitting outside on a nice day after work, eating a warm chocolate chip cookie fresh from the oven, and listening to the latest episode of The Two-Headed Serpent from @hwrpodcast.bsky.social 🐍

How We Roll has run Cthulhu Dark! Thanks so much to @mrspike.bsky.social for doing it. If you want a hardback of Cthulhu Dark, you can get one as part of the Cosmic Dark Kickstarter (do it now though). cosmic-dark.backerkit.com/hosted_preor...

Our Session 0 for Cthulhu Dark scenario Goodcliffe with guest Keeper @mrspike.bsky.social has dropped! Join us as we explore the 1800s 'model' mining village of Goodcliffe, cut off by an oppressive winter, where shadows press in against the dying light... howweroll.simplecast.com/episodes/001...

Keen to explore horror TTRPGs in non-traditional settings? So were we! Loved hosting this panel for @illusionhorror.bsky.social with an inspiring crew: @paulbaldowski.bsky.social, @kgodwin.bsky.social, Matt Sanderson @goodfriendsofje.bsky.social, D Lauzon, and Mickael Petersén @kultrpg.bsky.social.

Recorded version of this discussion available here: www.youtube.com/live/hvYb2Hk...

In a few hours I'll be attempting to look like I know what I'm talking about. One of these three... 🧐🤓😵‍💫 I thoroughly enjoyed this morning's discussion on ludonarrative dissonance. Or harmony. Or the "Dread fan club" 😀 (Play more Dread!)

In a few hours I'll be hosting this fabulous discussion panel on Horror in Non-Traditional Settings for @illusionhorror.bsky.social! Ft. Matt Sanderson, @paulbaldowski.bsky.social, Michael Petersén, @kgodwin.bsky.social and D Lauzon! m.youtube.com/watch?v=4qh_...

I'm starting to wonder how much "the male loneliness epidemic" is just straight and bisexual women identifying low-effort, mean, and incompetent men and choosing not to date, marry, and tolerate them anymore

Had a great time discussing Realistic Character Development in Horror TTRPGs for @illusionhorror.bsky.social con! Big thank you to my excellent co-discussers @rinahaenze.bsky.social, @bearwinters.bsky.social, @topherburk.bsky.social, @ladybedivere.bsky.social & @seancreef.bsky.social!

Watched Female Trouble for the first time. So many lines that go so hard. "I'm a thief and a shitkicker and I'd like to be famous."

This is so good to see ❤️ More and more these days I wonder why I'm still living on TERF island 🫠

@hwrpodcast.bsky.social I am listening to the latest two headed serpent episode, and I am dismayed to learn this may be the last we see of Greg, running amok in Santos. And Jane is too high to be outraged enough to get him back. A sad day.

I finally Did The Thing and moved all my music off Spotify 😌 #SpotifyWrapped

The NHS is due to tackle autism assessment waiting lists by outsourcing some of the backlog to Becky and Olivia from Year Seven, it has been announced.

Caskets have dropped in occupied Paris. Our commando vampires have one mission: drink all of Adolf Hitler's blood. Eat the Reich is streaming on Symphony soon with GM @thirdfloorwars.bsky.social www.twitch.tv/symphonyente...

Compliment a creator whose work you enjoy! I compliment @symphonyhorror.bsky.social who delights me with every actual play she's in.

An easy way to explain luddites: Textile manufacturers brought in machines that could do in an hour what would have taken 12 hours by hand. And then, tried to keep paying the now 12x more productive workers the same wages as before. That's it, that was the problem luddites had. Not complex.

Based on @pushtheroll.com's amazing romcom Call of Cthulhu scenario, I've been coming up with titles: Dreamless in Dunwich Something's Gotta Yig Groundhog Dagon Pretty in Yellow You've Mi-Go(t) Mail There's Something About Mormo He's Just Not That Into Yabou and... The 4,000 Year Old Virgin

If I can't do a task, I put on a costume of a person who can do a task. I can't clean my kitchen, but the tavern wench who pours the grog can.

I recently graduated with my Level 4 in Counselling Skills, I'm now simply a counsellor instead of a counsellor in training! 🥳 Thanks @zerofiftyone.bsky.social for this prospectus worthy photo xo

A reminder that the median book deal for a debut author in the UK is £7000, paid over 12-18 months. (from 2022 Society of Authors report). Some of your favourite writers are struggling. societyofauthors.org/2022/12/06/a....