Will Sheff’s latest, Extra Mile, is so good. Takes what made Okkervil River so good, but weds it to a gentler, if no less sardonic, perspective. Last track Ancient Tourist builds to a delirious finale which manages to make the fact we just endlessly repeat patterns of the past sound almost noble.

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Familiar faces of the Gommune

What’s the description from The Call of Cthulhu… ‘a slushy nastiness as of a cloven sunfish’? Turns out, it’s pretty good description. As demonstrated by Orcas. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Orcas seen ramming prey so hard it explodes may be playing game

Scientists believe sunfish-smashing behaviour could be form of entertainment or to help younger whales feed

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Cosmic horror but make it colourful

Freya Holmér@freya.bsky.social · 2w ago

movement in non-euclidean quaternionic space

The World Cup halftime show is like doing ketamine while watching YouTube adverts

Only America could make a World Cup final ceremony even tackier than FIFA

I wrote this a long time ago now, but it’s nice to see it out in the wild. My contribution to the ‘weird London fantasy’ tradition of Machen to Mieville.

Angus Abranson@angusabranson.bsky.social · 3w ago

Necromancer is an urban fantasy campaign setting in a supernatural London where the hidden world of sorcery—the Demi-Monde—lies just beneath the mundane city. You play necromancers: ordinary people who discovered they can bring things back from the dead. angusabranson.com/2026/07/17/r...

For those who don't know... @robbiaburns.bsky.social is a fucking sicko. So good thing we paired them up with fellow sicko @quinnblackwell.bsky.social for an upcoming release of a stand alone stand alone solo game created by Quinn for use with @bastionland.bsky.social's Mythic Bastionland.

Just TWO DAYS TO GO till the biggest #ManchesterPopfest yet! £50 for THREE whole days of your best indie and jangle pop and post punk. This weekend in Manchester. Tickets here👇↴⬇️ see.tickets/mcrpopfest

You didn't name the game that just for a dumb joke, did you? Me: youtu.be/XOQBu7GN7sU

Intergalactic Bastionland Teaser

YouTube video by Bastionland

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Bachrooms.

Burden Bird for Vaults of Vaarn 2E

John Blanche’s influence is vast, the touch of his genius visible everywhere you look in modern geek culture. As someone who spent a lot of time in rooms with the same nicotine-stained palate he made such use of, he helped make those places alive, fantastical. Battlegrounds on grandad’s wallpaper.

It’s an interesting choice for Edgar Wright’s Running Man (2025) to cast Glenn Powell as the rugged working class hero - given he looks like white American privilege in a tightly fitted flesh suit.

📸 Roman Vishniac Interior de la estación de Anhalter,Berlín (1929)

The Sopranos Buffy the Vampire Slayer I’m Alan Partridge Hancock 30 Rock It’s Always Sunny True Detective (S1&4) Seinfeld Masterchef: The Professionals Great British Menu Dr Who The Young Ones Garth Marenghi’s Dark Place Taskmaster Peep Show

Paul Mitchener@thetweedmeister.bsky.social · 3mo ago

"Name your top 15 TV Shows, gut instincts only" The Sopranos Buffy the Vampire Slayer Mad Men Carnivale Deep Space 9 Rome True Detective Andor Gilmore Girls Babylon 5 Father Ted Farscape Game of Thrones (mostly) I, Claudius Slow Horses This is harder than it looks.

I am struggling to understand why Breathless isn’t already funded. It’s a very good game, very well made, and incredibly easy to get to the table. So if you haven’t backed it, you should. Be smart like me, and back it.

RP@rpdeshaies.farirpgs.com · 3mo ago

Alright so, we need to think about the possibility that Breathless may fail to fund. I'd hate this. But it's possible. This was super hard to record and I hope it helps other creators in the space. If you like it, please share the video around because we're living in difficult times.

Do you know that the Hittite kings had the best names in the ancient world, or are you wrong?

TTRPG about me First game: D&D 3e Last game: Five Torches Deep Longest Game: Delta Green Favourite Game: Cthulhu Hack Favourite Mechanics: Night’s Black Agents Favourite Art: Advanced Fighting Fantasy

Scott M | DISMAL KEEP ⚔️@voxparlour.bsky.social · 4mo ago

TTRPG about me First game: D&D 3e Last game: Delta Green Longest game: Pathfinder 2e Favourite game: T&T Favourite mechanics: Soulbound Favourite art: AD&D 2e

Brown Horse’s new album, Total Wreck, is phenomenal. That is all.

I love y'all, but if I have to read another "I am inventing game-based learning and/or larping from first principles" essay that refuses to acknowledge the last 25 years of research, I'm going to have to give its author an academic time-out (and a reading list).

‘When there was wonder in the world’: why Raiders of the Lost Ark is my feelgood movie

‘When there was wonder in the world’: why Raiders of the Lost Ark is my feelgood movie

The latest in our series of writers paying tribute to their go-to comfort films celebrates Steven Spielberg’s escapist globe-trotting adventure

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The first Imaro is one of the greatest sword & sorcery books ever written. Prose with the heft and cadence of myth. If you’re interested in fantasy, you should check it out!

New Edge Sword & Sorcery Magazine@newedgeswordmag.bsky.social · 4mo ago

We would like to remind folk the first two Imaro books were reprinted only last year. Now is an excellent time to check out one of the greats! store.gollancz.co.uk/products/imaro

I’ve lost count of the times my boss has selected who I date, or insist I move out of my apartment. Daily occurrence here in the old EU.

Wouldn't it be CRAZY if we could get 5000 people following the Fomoria Kickstarter before it goes live on April 7? About 300 to go. fomoria.com

Coming soon: Fomoria – Epic Folk Horror Roleplaying

Brave the Darkness, eat the heart of gods, and purge the filth of the Red Plague in a shifting subterranean world.

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And yet somehow they will emerge from this massacre convinced that they’re secretly nailing it.

Jim Pickard@pickardje.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Labour is on track for its worst wipe-out in English local elections in half a century or more, according to Oxford professor Steve Fisher Plus dismal results in Scotland and Wales www.ft.com/content/2ba1...

A thread worthy of the read

Russ Jones@russincheshire.bsky.social · 2y ago

Just for fun, let me tell you about somebody you've probably never heard of, but who was once one of the most famous people in England, a national hero, a disgraced fraudster, and an astonishingly accomplished piratical maniac. He led quite a life. (1/53)

Show somebody who absolutely rocks a hat and isn’t Indiana Jones.

ALT:

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Sean@seanpkelley.com · 5mo ago

Show somebody who absolutely rocks a hat and isn’t Indiana Jones.

I would not like it in my art, I would not like it from the start, I do not want it in a can, I do not want it Sam I Am!

Frost || 3D Models & Reviews@3dfrost.bsky.social · 8mo ago

I don't want gen AI in my browser I don't want gen AI in my pc I don't want gen AI in my art I don't want gen AI in my games I don't want gen AI in my music I don't want gen AI in my movies I don't want gen AI in my books I don't want gen AI in my cart I don't want gen AI in my life