Simon K 🏴 🇩🇪 🇺🇦
@yorkistic.bsky.social
Player of board games, wargames, and RPGs. Copyeditor and proofreader, Intermediate Member @the-ciep.bsky.social. Philosophy grad. Ex reenactor & morris dancer. Tsundokuka. Often beset by loganamnosis. Immigrant/emigrant, depending on where you’re stood.
Just watched Free Guy (I'm well behind of films), and it was an excellent recommendation from a friend. So many gamer jokes. It’s like a mashup of the Matrix, Lego Movie 1, and They Live.
the ideal academic life is being an eccentric Victorian lord. Invent a stamp licking machine at 22. Get elected to the Royal Academy for counting the beetles on your estate. Die in an arsenic explosion. The perfect life.
Here it is. My manifesto for the 2026 Clacton By-Election. It's a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. Join me, clean up Clacton and let's make 13th August Bin Day! #VoteBinface #VoteyMcVoteface #YesWeTinCan
A last attempt: Would anyone like two tickets to the Flaming Lips at the Kelvingrove Bandstand in Glasgow tonight. My treat.
Finished some ca. 14c spearmen, old Citadel figs now made by Foundry. Painted them as serjeants of the lords of Rodenstein in Hesse. Bases are a nod to 90s Goblin Green. #Wargaming
lol just saw if you scroll down to the 2nd to last category & then scroll past the 201 other options you can vote for the PERPETUALLY AWARD SNUBBED WYRD SCIENCE in the ‘fan award for best publisher’ section I’ll start writing our acceptance speech now i guess vote.ennie-awards.com/vote/2026/ba...
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Family out for evening, so sitting on balcony with a book and latest issue of Secret Passages by @jdhoare.bsky.social, listening to Greta van Fleet.
I am once again begging Hollywood to stop using the Greek alphabet for an Ancient World movie, if they can't afford to even throw a couple of quid at anyone with an inkling of the language. Unless they really think audiences are dying to see THS THDPSSSSPS
Wargames Foundry AG007 Chatti Warriors, painted for upcoming Saga Age of Caesars. All Romans are cordially invited to a picnic in the Teutoburg Forest. #wargames #wargaming
So how long before Trump calls Fifa and they make the score 4–1 to the US?
Hwaet! I'm reading my son the Rosemary Sutcliffe version of Beowulf, from 1961. It's illustrated, but I'm starting to think the artist had no reference for a 'boar-crested helm' and this was their best attempt at what one looked like. #AngloSaxons #wargaming #5thcentury
Albion Band : Battle Of The Somme
YouTube video by Folk rock / Australian rock / MORE!
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Paul@atticusfinch-105.bsky.social · last mo.1 July 1916 First day on the Somme: On the first day of the Battle of the Somme 19,000 soldiers of the British Army are killed and 40,000 wounded. #WW1 #History #HistoryMatters
It is time for Yet Another Completely Unprofessional Unboxing, as I take a rambling dive into @wyrdscience.bsky.social, a fantastic magazine covering the weird and wonderful corners of tabletop gaming. And, as is tradition, vanish into several avoidable tangents along the way.😅 youtu.be/e8Du6b70iYM
@jdhoare.bsky.social @wyrdscience.bsky.social I know Goodreads is owned by the evil empire, but I use it to track my reading, would be good if all issues of your mags were listed there. @oldmoonquarterly.bsky.social is mostly on there, just missing the latest two issues I think.
Now I've spotted the frequency of 'stand down' in Vox Machina & so much other media I can't unheard its overuse. "Stand down!" "No, YOU stand down!" "No, YOU ...." etc etc etc.
Vox Machina plays more like The Avengers or Justice League than any D&D game I've ever played in. Especially when one character chooses to face off against the others, before rejoining the fold. Also, total overuse of the phrase 'stand down!'
Yeah, well try doing this with a YouTube channel
If rumours are to be believed I'll be living with a seventh different Prime Minister shortly. If it carries on like this I'm going to stop making the effort to learn their names.
Between Two Fires. Only a few chapters in and I’m hooked. www.goodreads.com/book/show/25...
Between Two Fires
The year is 1348. Thomas, a disgraced knight, has found…
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Every year I sow wildflower seeds in the garden. This year, nothing seemed to happen all May–early June, then suddenly they've sprung into life for Midsummer.
18/25-pdr QF gun from @warlordgames.com for #BoltAction. A 25-pdr barrel on an upgraded WW1-era 18-pdr carriage. As they say in A Bridge Too Far: "All guns commence firing!" #Wargaming
Vickers VIB light cavalry tank from @warlordgames.com for #ChainofCommand & #BoltAction. Under-armoured & under-armed, more like an armoured car on tracks. #SpreadtheLard #Wargaming
I suspect Masters of the Universe has more Queen in it than the upcoming Highlander remake will.