Nic Wilkinson
@nicwilkinson.bsky.social
The other half of CyNic Stories. The arty, fonty half. Bad Sector now available from Amazon in paperback, hardback and KU. She/Her See our books: https://cynicstories.co.uk
This woman is my hero! I salute you ma'am Eunice Whitlatch, 88, of Tennessee was kicked out of the cinema after unwrapping a full roast chicken, 14 roasties, glazed carrots & a tub of gravy from her foil-lined purse! Fellow moviegoers applauded her as she folded her cloth napkin & was led out
As I said on Threads, which I feel bears repeating here: what kind DM has such poor storytelling skills that this is necessary? Our GM has drawn tears of joy and sadness from us, caused us to whoop with glee, roar with triumph, whisper in terror and have our hearts racing in our chests #ttrpgs 1/2
To celebrate Lammas Mr Pricklefoot told me it's time I painted him and his friends. So here they are. "On our Accord with the Pricklefolk" Words that go with it in the ALT text
Want a #SummerRead? A bit of fictional dystopia in place of the IRL one? How about: Bad Sector? A #cyberpunk thriller exploring identity and justice in a sentient city with augmented assasins. Costs less than a lolly on Kindle! Written by my partner, art & design by me www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0DXCFDL2R
A.I. thinges fall apart The data center kan not holde Olde fashioned love Ys loosed upon the worlde
"Get in, losers, we're going to The City of God!"
'Skull of St. Thomas Aquinas being transported to Fossanova Abbey.' Photograph by Daniel Ibanez
Or maybe...just talk to your kids, love them, understand them, build relationships with them as they grow as people?
One of the most important issues of our time is that the future of humanity is presently being authored by people who have nothing but total contempt for humanity and seek the erasure of everything that gives being a human meaning. It’s not just annoying. It doesn’t just suck. It’s existential.
Ah - that thing where you make a character who'll be used for the game you play when everyone can't make main campaign night, but having played one session you love him so much you want to play him more often than that! That's what being in the best #ttrpg group means, people. All games are great.
We just played the #WorldWideWrestling #ttrpg and it was immense! Marshal Stack, the conscience of the federation found clowns to the left of him, monsters to the right, bled for the people, was burned and all broken by a radioactive mutant, climbed the cage and... 1/2
I've learned a lot thanks to ttrpgs. This afternoon, for example, I learned to work Audicity so I could make entrance music for my #WorldWideWrestling #ttrpg character. It's got a fade out and everything!
Just been served a promoted post for Insta photo filters - and I was like "ha ha monster face filter on normie Insta Travel Influencer pics, nice!" But, alas, it was just bad targeting and me looking at a flowery hair decoration without my reading glasses 😀
Catching up on #AEW #Redemption Oh Kenny! Oh Will! Oh no! Absolutely fantastic.
Just said "finger bangs" when I meant "finger guns", getting over excited about my World Wide Wrestling PC for tomorrow night. You don't want to confuse those. Good job there was only @cydethan.bsky.social to hear it.
Been watching clips of Justified to try and quickly pick up a Kentucky accent for a new #ttrpg character* on Friday night. Everything about it is so heartbreakingly cool. Now I need to watch the whole 6 season plus City Primeval again! *For #WorldWideWrestling by Nathan D. Paoletta @ndpdesign.com
All Ich wisshe to do Ys have sum funne And Ich ful wel reckon Ich nam not the onlye oon
Ooh look what arrived today - the #Invincible #ttrpg It looks fantastic The system looks great It smells divine
I love seeing the haystacks. They really remind me of the art in the nature series of Ladybird books.
We all need to remember the very core of Meta - Facemash created by Zuckerberg to rate the "hotness" of girls from side by side ID photos he hacked into Harvard’s online student housing directories to steal ID. He's been about data theft and objectification from the very beginning.
There’s a not so covert effort to feminise these glasses underway. All their ads feature women and they are primarily collaborating with female celebrities and athletes. This weekend at #wnba all star Flau’jae Johnson and Natasha Cloud both dropped ads for the glasses.
The skye above the port was the color of parchment, as yet unmarked by a scrybe.
Today it's 2 months since my hysterectomy and 6 years since the first death of Simon Toth, our adopted NPC in our ALIEN #ttrpg game. Both things that ripped stuff out of and significantly rearranged me forever on the inside. Both stories being very much about dangerously overgrown egg chambers.
A year here and he still dreamed of cyberspace, hope fading nightly." The trailer for Neuromancer dropped and my hope is on the rise again. It looks very promising 🤞 youtu.be/g79GPZSQHBk?...
Neuromancer — Official Teaser | Apple TV
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Inside of you are two wolves. I told you not to swallow those wolf seeds.
In todays installment of "which dystopian film is being used as a guidebook, not a warning" I bring you Class of 1999. Now, the film robots are ex-military terminator style whereas these ones are made by a former "realistic sex doll" producer - but we've all seen what happens in those movies, too.
‘Really inappropriate’: teachers decry plan for humanoid robot in New York high school
Robot from company that acquired sex doll maker to be introduced in school with large Native American population
theguardian.com
Found a very feisty little wood dragon in the fields tonight! Starting to look a bit like Lammas with the ripening blackberries, the ragwort and the cut yellow grass.
Go Anna! I love seeing a chalk pavement game and will always hop a scotch if I happen across one in the street. The lighting game here is fierce! I want a go.
Everyone on here be like “oh yes I am a games designer with very strong opinions”, meanwhile here’s Anna age 12 out-designing all of you with her amazing pavement games. G’aun yersel, Anna.
Exactly what I thought as soon as I heard it. I'm not a dev either so the smoke, mirrors and propaganda machine isn't working as well as intended. The next step is sure "...and only our good AI can save you from their evil AI..."
Every time. It's literally every fucking time these people are so eager to push the fear-hype of "Rogue AI" that they're willing to completely obfuscate the fact that a system was in fact given tools/capabilities & a set of instructions *By Humans*, & did not, thus, autonomously initiate anything. …