ICYMI, this week's newsletter interviews 18th-centuryist, Actual Play scholar & TTRPG megabrain @friede.bsky.social. It's full of good stuff: on microcelebrity, the Mercer Effect, authenticity & anachronism in historical games, & the world's greatest break-up novel. buttondown.com/TeethRPG/arc...

Marsh & The Magdalena, Dr Emily Friedman on Actual Play, the 18th century, other things.

Ahoy, and welcome to the TEETH newsletter. This is an (aspirationally) weekly report about our travels on the TTRPG-seas, written and compiled by implacable...

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Cat spines are wild

This Wimbledon men’s final might be an all-timer. I bet my father-in-law a Kitkat that Alcaraz will win. The stakes couldn’t be higher

This isn’t a parody, it’s real, and it’s perfect

I just described my idea for a macaron experiment to @tomsenior.bsky.social and he said it left him feeling 'unsettled in my soul'. No peanut butter and bacon jam macarons for him, then.

Lovely day revisiting Glastonbury town in the blazing sunshine. Xenomorphs, crystals, churches, friendly pub dogs, and cults. All on one street.

Couldn’t sleep so I upgraded the arcade stick

How many red flags can you fit into one paragraph of a job description

The best thing about baths is that you get to become soup for a bit.

I was feeling glum today, but then Dad called and now I get to pilot an EVA! I’m sure everything will be great from here on out

Watching Blade Runner again. The nerd-god Tyrell tells Roy that in his short life burns so very, very brightly. 20 mins later, Roy is prancing around an abandoned building in his underpants. A film student nods sagely and whispers “yesss, THIS is character development”.

We’ve got wood pigeons too, of course. In the old flat I was watching a film with Ems and I said ‘wow they’ve actually got the bird sounds right for England’ and Ems said ‘Tom, the window’s open’

A small Saturday morning ritual: sitting in the garden with the Merlin app on to see which birds are hanging out here today

When Uncle Ben says ‘with great power comes great responsibility’ I don’t think he was imagining someone becoming a sticky acrobat.

I don’t know why, but Ryan Gosling characters die the moment they realise the film isn’t about them.

When you get a cat you think you’re inviting an elegant, graceful apex predator to share your home However, in reality, you look into the front room while cooking and see something like this

Scavengers Reign is perfect sci-fi. Exquisite animation originally exclusive to HBO and now buried in the Netflix archive. Watching again and enjoying the horror Fantasia of it

I’m interested in the last post because my eyesight is too poor to legally even learn to drive (lifelong 3rd nerve palsy double vision). It is hugely limiting to rely on public transport in this country, in terms of reach and expense, especially for employment.

Some interesting business sense-checks on Tesla’s convulsions and the EV market in the last few years podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...

Car crash: Musk and Tesla

Podcast Episode · The Slow Newscast · 20/05/2025 · 30m

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In which myself and @tomsenior.bsky.social *really* love Old Skies, and then talk about point and click adventures we've loved for ages. crateandcrowbar.com/2025/05/16/e...

I used to approve marketing thumbnails and now can’t stop loud questions popping in to my head as I browse Disney+ (and all other sites) “Why have you prioritised Bigfoot, Slug Monster and Cabbage Goblin over the life and death clash between the most important characters in all of Star Wars?”

If you’re enjoying Andor it’s worth reading The Secret Agent by Conrad. It captures how fanatics exploit one another, and how grand causes give way to personal grievances and pure greed. It’s somehow scary, quite sad and occasionally absurdly funny.

After playing Blue Prince I will be requiring my kid to pass a weird A-Level to inherit my wealth when the time comes

On the edge of my seat already for Villa v PSG. Arsenal incredible v RM, let’s go

Can we stop building news items around thinktanks plz

It feels like the first day of Spring and Cheddar the Cat is cross about it

New pod! The silliness and restrained ambition of Call of Duty, the delayed excellence of Monster Hunter, and thoughts on Avowed youtu.be/idXzg9v3g9I?...

Episode 443: It's Totally OK to Kill a Lizardman

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First music I bought with paper round pocket money was the tape single ‘If You Tolerate This, Then Your Children Will Be Next’ by the Manic Street Preachers. I was 13 I think? The Manics are part of why I picked up a guitar as a kid, and I’ve been chasing that ‘bwoooaaarrm’ intro noise for years…

I've been busy drawing piratical portraits of our esteemed Gold Teeth backers. Thanks to everyone who gurned for me and apologies for what I have done to your beautiful faces.

Happy publication day, Grombrindal! A Realms-spanning story of gods and fate and unlikely fellowship, and - above all else - an excuse to come up with names for a bunch of new kinds of duardin ale.