GMCarl
@gmcarl.bsky.social
Old, fat, TTRPG GM, player and sometime author. 🤣
Fucking fuck's sake man what in God's name is the fucking matter with you? www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Kemi Badenoch gives former neo-Nazi advisory role after he withdraws as Tory candidate
Joshua Bonehill-Paine says Conservative leader has asked him to work with party’s culture and integration commission
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I'm delighted to hear that BP doubled their profits, making £4.2bn in just 3 months. Not that I have any vested interest in it, other than the £50,000 given to us by the wife of former senior BP executive James Hay.
7.4 million in a single state market for a primary would have been a healthy amount before Citizens United. The people receiving tens of millions look bad. They look owned.
Abdul El-Sayed was outspent 9-to-1 by AIPAC and corporate Super PACs in the most expensive Senate Democratic primary of all time. Last night, he proved that organized people can beat organized money.
When you can’t afford a PlayStation Original post
Spot on ⬇️ "Reform UK remains almost entirely a party of grievance. Rather than offering a vision of a more prosperous, productive or communitarian Britain, it doubles down on punitive proposals." https://national.thelead.uk/p/nigel-farage-end-of-reform-as-we-know-it
It's the end of Reform as we know it
A bad few months for Nigel Farage's insurgent party has shown their true colours
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Republicans call Democrats communists the way toddlers call every vegetable broccoli.
Anyone who claims AI is a great support tool for neurodivergent people is welcome to gargle my entire unwaxed nutsack because they just held a pillow over the face of one of my most-used ADHD support tools to replace it with the million wrong opinions with a lanyard around its neck machine.
Brainmage.itch.io@brainmage.bsky.social · 14h agoI remember when Gemini replaced google assistant. I said "Okay google, set a timer for five minutes", and instead of setting a timer like it used to, it said "I can't do that. Would you like to hear some things I can do?" so I cannot WAIT for this change to make my phone significantly less useful.
You missed out us misers who just don’t buy many games. Not EVERYONE buys EVERYTHING. But thank you for trying. Every time you read a game and pst your thoughts you’re saving someone £40(?). Probably several someone’s.
WHERE AM I GOING TO FIND THE TIME AND MENTAL ENERGY TO READ ALL THOSE FUCKING BOOKS ON MY SHELVES?! This is the burden with which everyone in this hobby is forever cursed. Except those poor disadvantaged peeps who only play one RPG. Yes, that one. You know. /End
Grant me the senility to forget the people I never liked anyway, the good fortune to run into the ones I do, and the eyesight to tell the difference.
Man Squinting, Struggling with Glare
ALT: Man Squinting, Struggling with Glare
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Noticing some folks seem to think writers just say clever things without understanding how the world works, as if we're all naifs who just happen to be good with words instead of people with formal educations and a professional interest verging on requirement in the ability to conduct research
Reform UKs plan to use the Royal Navy to intercept migrant boats in the Channel brilliantly taken apart by ... er ... Nigel Farage
Nigel Farage has made his clearest admission that he was in talks to return to lead Reform UK months before the 2024 general election, casting fresh doubt on previous claims that he was not involved in politics when he received a £5m gift.
Book readers when they first saw Viggo Mortensen on screen in 2001
French forces held a fierce defensive perimeter around Dunkirk and lost 18,000 souls. 40,000 became POWs. Without their resolve we wouldn’t have our nation’s story. It’s estimated 20-60k French resistance fighters died during the war. These fuckers really are vile bastards 😡😡
[ the story was part of The Martian Chronicles; you can find it online in lots of places that don't look.... fully legit? but there's also an awesome reading of it by Leonard Nimoy, on Youtube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=nmcU... ]
August 4, 2026: There Will Come Soft Rains | Ray Bradbury & Leonard Nimoy | OEW Institute
YouTube video by OEW Institute
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The day that Ray Bradbury died I was on book tour and that night I read "There Will Come Soft Rains" to my audience instead of the usual reading.
Adam Rawnsley@arawnsley.bsky.social · 2d agoToday, August 4, 2026, is the setting of Ray Bradbury’s short story “There Will Come Soft Rains” about a fully automated house continuing on after the family who lived there and the world around it died in a nuclear blast.
Nigel Farage taking time out from campaigning against a bin to claim a Reform government would land Royal Navy boats on French beaches without French consent.
So, here's a thing. I met this wonderful lady, @thehappysorceress.bsky.social, at a convention in Asheville, NC, near the start of my comics career. Every year since then, she has sent a box of home-made treats on my Birthday and at Christmas. Every year for SIXTEEN YEARS. 1/
Nigel Farage just took a question from a 'journalist' at his press conference, who turned out to be his former chief adviser Raheem Kassam, who asks him why the media are being so unfair to him
#RAPTURE Still no game but talking to people. Old guy who goes to Expo. Hyper teenager who has just discovered D&D and is running games and is reading everything about it and have I heard of forgotten realms she’s getting all of that stuff and she’s just had a TPK and she wants to try old….
#ttrpg Been watching latest season of Caped Crusader and catching up with Spider Noir. Superhero stories are, it seems to me, soap operas at heart. Much of the audience buy-in is because you see how the villains are acting, preparing. Question: How do we simulate those two things?
