This should be fun. Two of my favourite podcasters (since the old Remainiacs days), about to explain how the Telegraph lost its marbles. @originstorypodcast.bsky.social

It's time to delve into the Fog... Time Without Tide, our latest TTRPG, is live now on Backerkit! Make your pledge today: www.backerkit.com/c/projects/c...

The moon fell... The age of decadence ended... Time Without Tide launches September 1 on Backerkit! Check out the trailer live now on YouTube, starring the incomparable Mark Meer! youtu.be/gJlZFh9asSM

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Mirth & misery in a faux-Victorian post-appocalypse. Our Time Without Tide Backerkit campaign is launching soon. Check it out:…

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Credo, the game in which you compose your own Nicene creed, is being republished on September 23rd. Everyone who has played with my increasingly battered copy in the last thirty years, now you can get your own www.chaosium.com/blogwe-playe...

We played a game of Credo at the site of the actual first Council of Nicaea, 1701 years later...

Chaosium's MOB and Nick Brooke are in Turkey for Horror in the Cisterns, a Call of Cthulhu actual play show taking place in Istanbul's ancient 5th century Cistern of Theodosius on Saturday night.  Bu...

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Why have I not heard of this? Absolute goldmine of archaeological maps. Map Archive | Maptism: Archaeological Culture Maps share.google/Wicpl5PJofBc...

Releasing September 23rd – Credo, the game of duelling dogmas! Credo is Chris Gidlow's strategic negotiation and voting board game for 3–6 players, set during the formative centuries of early Christianity.

Trump, empowered by SCOTUS, entered office convinced he could do insider trading, sell pardons and favors, take bribes, steal and openly flout the law. Now, with the prospect of investigations looming, he is growing ever more fearful that he miscalculated.

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"The US conflict with Iran looks ike a Nolan film, in which the timeline has been scrambled: the US goes to military action first, then informs allies, then backwards to economic sanctions, then a warning, then diplomacy - all to get a deal that it already had with Iran, before any of this started."

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🆕 How to Lose a War in 10 Ways🗽 As if Trump wasn't humiliated enough in Iran, now Canada calls his tariff bluff. With the midterms swinging away from him, how will this play out? PLUS your nominated local annoyances! 🐦 🍏 podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/q... 🎧 open.spotify.com/episode/69Ad...

"Mr. President, all these famous 80-year-olds keep dying and then the entire nation says great things about them."

My copies of Designers & Dragons Origins arrived yesterday. They're gorgeous books thanks to the work of everyone at @evilhat.bsky.social designers-dragons-origins.backerkit.com/hosted_preor...

Our friend Darren has been hit by heartbreaking personal tragedy, losing his father, his partner of 31 years, and his pet over a matter of days. Green Ronin is honored to have contributed to this fundraiser bundle for his benefit. Please help us spread the word! www.drivethrurpg.com/product/5807...

Imagine being talented and beautiful and rich and famous and still the most noteworthy thing about you is how good a person you are.

there will be many ways to celebrate dolly parton and the one I want to point out is that she was a friend of Miss Piggy

Important: Dolly Parton meets Miss Piggy. youtu.be/rhKo0BXikM8?...

My heart is breaking. In addition to her musical talents, she was an exemplary human being. R I P Dolly Parton www.nytimes.com/2026/08/25/a...

Dolly Parton, Country Music Superstar Whose Songs Spoke to Millions, Dies at 80

Known for her outsize persona, appearance and talent, she rose from rural poverty to become a top-selling singer, songwriter and entrepreneur.

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SCOOP: Republican House candidate Ralph Alvarado is pivoting his message, editing his website to remove Trump mentions and delete a photo of them together. From “America First Fighter” to “Independent Leadership.” Trump won KY06 by 15 pts. www.nbcnews.com/politics/202... BEFORE/AFTER

Is President Trump sanctioning himself? And if not, why not? www.newyorker.com/magazine/201...

Donald Trump’s Worst Deal

The President helped build a hotel in Azerbaijan that appears to be a corrupt operation engineered by oligarchs tied to Iran’s Revolutionary Guard.

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Let’s plug this on main: If you enjoyed Sinbad movies or Pirates of the Caribbean, check out SANDOKAN on Netflix. We all know what happens when the governor’s spunky daughter gets kidnapped by a romantic pirate type, but that doesn’t stop us watching. Bonus: Secret History of the Brooke Family!

Go and see Coyote vs. ACME. You can thank me later (although for the legal record I note that your reading this BlueSky post does not establish any legally-binding obligation on you as the receiving party, and you remain at liberty *not* to thank me, in the unlikely event this seems appropriate).

Found this recording of Rita Moreno performing “Fever” on The Muppet Show from 1976. 14/10

PREMIER OF MANITOBA: “.. He’s got two more years left in office. We should be prepared to duke it out for two years. And then, hopefully, sanity will return to America.” 🇨🇦

Out now from the Jonstown Compendium: the Traditional Chinese translation of my first published RuneQuest scenario, “The Duel at Dangerford.” It was a pleasure working with Sass, a leading light of the Taiwanese RQ community, to pull this together. www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/5...

At the launch of "What Happened to the Silver Spoon Boys?" With @dungeonmotherkir.bsky.social, Nightshade Tavern and GM Dinesh! At Tsutaya Bukit Jalil now. Come find us if you are near/free!

This explainer out of Australia is genuinely useful background and analysis of what happened with the Canada-US trade deal last night. Note that it is extremely and delightfully sweary. Also there’s an appended glossary of Australian slang. ifloz.substack.com/p/king-carne...

KING CARNEY ACTIVATES KONG MODE WITH ZERO FUCKS

Carney Reads the Clock Like a Pro Wrestler

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Every subsequent U.S. president who tries to do a modicum of good via foreign policy or trade is going to be sitting across from someone thinking yeah sure, okay, but what about the next guy. Absent political reforms, tribunals and truth and reconciliation, that credibility is gone forever.

You're laughing. The Department of Phrenology just lost its greatest mind and you're laughing.

In case you are an academic who is currently being gaslit into believing that you're a caveman who wants their students to be jobless if you resist allowing AI in your classrooms... I present to you Berkeley Law's response, which can be summarized as "Fuck off directly into the sun."

Artificial Intelligence Policy

Effective Summer 2026 Purpose Future lawyers may need to use artificial intelligence (“AI”) fluently. But the current state of the technology requires that AI use be coupled with the cognitive […]

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