Due to my core roster of podcasts being diminished atm due to ending, hiatuses or irregular release schedules, I'm in the market for some new stuff to try - any recommendations?

I have never used or even felt the need to use any AI tools, they've actually made my life more inefficient because I have to cross reference everything to ensure its neither intentionally faked by humans using AI or AI has conjured up false info out of nowhere.

Ayo@darrylayo.bsky.social · yesterday

Guys like this don’t realize that they are the freak

Bird-dex #817 - Hudsonian Godwit Took a trip to Suffolk today to catch up with a long-staying Hudsonian Godwit - a vagrant of a relatively little understood species that breeds in Alaska and Canada, migrating to Argentina. I have now seen all 4 Godwits! bird-dex.blogspot.com/2026/08/huds...

Hudsonian Godwit (Limosa haemastica)

A photographic quest for wild bird species and other wildlife.

bird-dex.blogspot.com

In today's table at the Quill & Quiver the party helped selecting a new guild scout, getting to choose between: - A poison dart frog Grung assassin - If Manny Jacinto was an academically exceptional monk - Middle aged halfling who was basically a mountie with big "Mom" energy who rides a St Bernard

Anxiety's friend: Behold! it's ADHD They fuck me over lots. A Haiku by me.

So the other day I showed you the NPCs from the game I'm running at the store, and today I need YOU and youe idea. Mineral DeLancie here is a dwarven paladin (no specific oath yet), probs a bit of a disaster lesbian, and she needs an accent! Wanna avoid standard Dwarf tropes, give me your pitches!

Well I feel like my year is calling me out here, but probs the 4 most personally pertinent of my birth year are: Boomerang Child JPEG Non-avian Dinosaur Queer Theory

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So the other day I showed you the NPCs from the game I'm running at the store, and today I need YOU and youe idea. Mineral DeLancie here is a dwarven paladin (no specific oath yet), probs a bit of a disaster lesbian, and she needs an accent! Wanna avoid standard Dwarf tropes, give me your pitches!

Spoilers for X-men 97 - S2e7 I feel like its a reflection of the state of our real world that when the antagonists have their ultimatum as "meet our demands or we will kill Graydon Creed", that is imo the epitomy of don't threaten me with a good time.

It was my fourth week running D&D at the Quill & Quiver in Corby on Sunday and we had 7 players this time! To allow for variable players each week, we are doing a West Marches style game with a guild rather than a set party.

In rare bit of local news from me, some random guy built an (allegedly) structurally unsound 6 story appartment complex at the end of Kettering town centre without any planning permission and which he continued building after a High Court Ruling said it to be demolished back in 2023.

It was my fourth week running D&D at the Quill & Quiver in Corby on Sunday and we had 7 players this time! To allow for variable players each week, we are doing a West Marches style game with a guild rather than a set party.

I must admit, I don't really think of my home county of Northamptonshire as a pretty one, it has the geography and ecology of a between place with no mountains nor sea nor great expanses of wilds. But that doesn't mean that sometimes it can't be beautiful.

The most alien thing about AI users to me is people using it to replace the bits of tasks which are fun and defined by the personal? Like, if you don't like the process of creating things, why do you want to create things?

New Bird-dex Update: no. #815 - Long-tailed Shrike bird-dex.blogspot.com/2026/07/long... I took a day out to the Oxfordshire/Gloucestershire Border to see only the third ever example of this species seen in the UK, which is odd cos the 2nd arrived only like a few days earlier in Fife.

Long-tailed Shrike (Lanius schach)

A photographic quest for wild bird species and other wildlife.

bird-dex.blogspot.com

My youtube algorithm is currently giving me a bunch of what I'm thinking of as micro "morality tales", the ones where its a pitched up artificial voice reading allegedly "real" reddit/social media posts and what a weirdass little genre?

Sometimes with a work in progress you focus on one area for a little while and it really starts to come together: before to the left, update to the right. He is looking more like Conquest than when I started which wasn't intentional.

@slovenlytrulls.com Just finished your Lady of Pain / Planescape episode and tbh probably my favourite episode you've done yet! Though I am biased as she is absolutely one of my favourite D&D characters, but a great listen regardless!

I took a different route yesterday to avoid roadworks and ended up stopping long enough to see a new species of butterfly: the Chalkhill Blue! They are notable bigger than common blue and have a neat symbiotic relationship with ants who care for the catepillars in exchange for a sugary fluid

I've just finished the final "mainline" episode of @xplainthexmen.bsky.social and I just wanna say imo it has been such a touchstone series for me and remains my absolute benchmark for quality and depth in a podcast.

Urgh I'm so bad at remembering to check when Global BirdFair is on, its literally just in the next county over, but once again I only realised once it's already happening. 🫠 I'm at work today anyway, but hope people have a great time!

The whole Clacton by-election situation is fascinating in its media coverage as it's functionally be a microcosm of how the media usually extensively covers Farage as a disruptor, but as he *is* the status quo here this means we are currently getting serious interviewers talking to a bin-alien.

Now this is novel - I'm in the outskirts of Leicester right now and can hear a raven nearby, the first ever time I've encountered this species inside a British city! They suffered massive persecution historically & were pushed back to remote habitats so having them recover to urban spaces is great!

Ahh.... so just an art school? (Game: Dragon's Dogma 2)

I had to come into town today so decided to vring my camera for a visit to the peregrines and was verypleased to get this unplanned shot of one doing a little hop!

A random thing, but I'm really saddened at the state of online media critique and commentary these days. AI has undoubtedly worsened it, but even before that there has just been a painful decline in media literacy.

It may have been delayed a little cos of various life chaos times, but we are back with season 2, episode 2 Pride special of Break the Binary!

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We're live now with the newest episode of Break the Binary Season 2, our DND game with an all non-binary cast! Today: PRIDE is a riot! Featuring @alexjholt.bsky.social as DM with players @peculiarplanets.com @urbanfriendden.bsky.social and @theagentp.bsky.social! www.twitch.tv/pantslesstab...

Just about to begin watching X-men 97 series 2 and pondering Apocalypse. Like, he's this weird character where he's both powerful and scary, but tbh that covers up the fact he's absolutely not the philosopher he thinks he is, and and is kinda a tool?

Do you live near Corby, Northants and want to play some TTRPGs? Book a space at The Quill & Quiver Bookshop either to run your own games or to join sessions written and run by me, a genuine TTRPG actual play performer who ordinarily lives in your digital device! PS. We have iced drinks & air con!

Do you live near Corby, Northants and want to play some TTRPGs? Book a space at The Quill & Quiver Bookshop either to run your own games or to join sessions written and run by me, a genuine TTRPG actual play performer who ordinarily lives in your digital device! PS. We have iced drinks & air con!