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Still sorting things out on here ... hold the line ... Library systems, ux, ttrpgs, cycling, books, veganism, politics, folklore and folk horror ...
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AI will eat itself.

Solidarity with staff and students at Cardiff who are impacted by this dreadful news. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Mood open.spotify.com/album/3LkTcl...

Tarot-based Arthurian questing tonight #solo #ttrpg

No matter what spin you might hear, don't be under any illusions - he knew exactly what he was doing.

I'd like to apologise unreservedly for appearing more gammon-like than usual during this morning's Primo Working Group meeting. This was due to me being hot and bothered having started the day off by making a vegan ragu. (This may be the most bourgeois statement I've ever made)

I literally can’t believe that we’re hearing the case being made for austerity again. After it destroyed growth, destroyed communities, trashed public services & gave us all this far right backlash to deal with. These smug rich men still saying Reeves should make the case for more cuts🤦‍♀️ #r4today

Making some updates to our custom Primo Book Takeaway form and am amazed at the uncharacteristically detailed and helpful comments in the code - thanks a lot, past version of me 👍

Today's #solo #ttrpg was Vaesen. Semi-professional cricketer George Carruthers heads to York to search for his missing teammate Smythe. It's a mystery that might have something to do with a batch of tainted porter that causes "unwanted effects."

First opportunity to do some writing after the (mercifully brief) Yule madness so prepping for next session - trying to make some sense of the accumulated lore of a four year campaign that started in #5e (don't judge) and has since ventured into

Reading Wyrd Walk while listening to this absolute masterpiece. open.spotify.com/album/6GwatC...

Another quick Thousand Empty Light session this evening, the mad flight from what had to be that PULC (Previously Unidentified Leviathan-Class Cephalopod) they'd told Barger definitely did not exist very much informed by open.spotify.com/album/0feJqF... #solo #ttrpg #mothership

Back to Thousand Empty Light by @alfredvalley.bsky.social this afternoon - top-notch #solo #ttrpg action for Mothership. Perfect soundtrack for Simeon Barger's dropship descent in a terrible storm to the pneumatic caisson which provides ingress to TEL 022 was open.spotify.com/album/3md1Cd...

Absolutely LOVE me an isometric map.

One day ...

Trying to come up with mechanics for (a) fashioning a bone harpoon, (b) finding rope in a flooded valley, (c) harpooning a 15' long squid, (d) dragging said squid alive to the top of a hill #ttrpg #osr

I mean, I do believe we're in a 2nd dark age - all our info is online, digital preservation is super hard & most of our media companies don't want to do it. The chances of direct sources being hard to find in 1000 yrs are high. Not because of religious zealotry/because we 'forgot' stuff.

The people who said Miro was all you needed to run a #ttrpg online were right. I've fallen out of love with every #vtt I've tried: Roll 20 (especially because they bought and then killed Astral, which I *did* like), Tabula Sono, Alchemy et al because sooner or later they start to get in the way.

This quote by Andrew Michael Hurley (Starve Acre et al.) from @weirdwalk.bsky.social #3 on why folk horror is a relevant genre for our times really resonated with me: it "demythologises the idea of Britain's 'gloriousness' being somehow expressed in its aesthetic natural beauty ... "

A quick GLIDE session to round off the afternoon. Klen and Kale left the wrecked weather station and took advantage of a favourable wind to head for home. This really worked as the soundtrack open.spotify.com/album/2aoe0R... #ttrpg #solo #writing #soundtrack

Last night the party rested up in a windmill, got annoyed by The Crows, climbed a giant cypress full of corpses in search of gold, and finished the session off by plotting to capture a giant squid alive ...

Tonight is #ttrpg game night!

I bloody love this man

Wow ... just, wow ... open.spotify.com/album/58ZEnl...

You can always rely on @blindboyboatclub.bsky.social to come up with an appropriately wise and nuanced take on current events, in this case the CEO shooting open.spotify.com/episode/5zpJ...

I think I've reached the sweet spot between #ttrpg prep and leaving ample space for improvisation and reacting to the brilliantly unexpected shit the party is going to try. It's why I love the #osr so much - rulings not rules shall be the whole of the law.