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Alex Kelly @voyager3.bsky.social · Jun 20

After thinking about it for years, I have finally published a #TTRPG scenario. THE MAN WHO WAS TOO LUCKY is a 'mini-campaign' for Free League's Nordic horror roleplaying game #Vaesen. The Society are contacted by a man who is concerned that everything is great.
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The Society receive an enigmatic Invitation from a wealthy young businessman in the village of Olsnäs on the shores of

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 1d

No it isn’t stop complying in advance

Scientific American @sciam.bsky.social · 3d

Despite early, and familiar, copyright growing pains, Sora may be the prelude to AI-generated on-demand TV and movies

Want to See Marilyn Monroe in Game of Thrones? AI Could Make It Soon

Despite early, and familiar, copyright growing pains, Sora may be the prelude to AI-generated on-demand TV and movies

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Cinephilia & Beyond @cinephiliabeyond.org · 2d

Movie poster legend Drew Struzan has passed away at 78. RIP.

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Adam Lance Garcia @adamlancegarcia.bsky.social · 3d

Thank you to all who have watched, liked, and shared the VFX video.

Neither @tvaziri.com nor I could have ever anticipated the response, and it means the world to us that our silly idea has left such an impact.

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ILM Visual Effects Artist Breaks Down Hidden VFX | Vanity Fair

YouTube video by Vanity Fair

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💙 🇺🇦 NomadicWriter (Fritha Malcouronne) 🇺🇦 💙 @nomadicwriter.bsky.social · 4d

Next time someone in the industry says nobody’s interested in stories about mature strong women stick them in front of #RiotWomen. It’s struck a chord with the public because it’s so relatable. Hey, half the population are female and the menopause will come to all of them. Sally Wainwright aces it.

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barrytryan @barrytryan.bsky.social · 5d

Cold/cooled espresso?

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Jim Waterson @jim.londoncentric.media · 8d

Without one I just couldn’t balance work/kids and would have given in and bought a car. The biggest challenge for mass take-up is everyone’s buying them through regressive Cycle to Work tax dodge. So a £5k bike costs 12 x £241 monthly payments if you’re high earner or 12 x £416 if you’re in poverty.

Oxford Clarion @oxfordclarion.bsky.social · 9d

Electric cargo bikes can replace many everyday car trips for the average family and “reshape suburban family mobility”, say Oxford University researchers. 49 British households were loaned e-cargo bikes for school runs, shopping trips, family outings and other day-to-day use.

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Matthew Highton @matthighton.bsky.social · 11d

At some point in 2017 I made this. The world just wasn’t ready…

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barrytryan @barrytryan.bsky.social · 10d

In the build up to Halloween I rewatched Tom Holland’s (not that one!) Fright Night. Roddy McDowall is such an amazing physical actor. Transmits so much with reactions

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barrytryan @barrytryan.bsky.social · 11d

I love Slow Horses but ep2 has me shouting “what time is it?” Roddy leaves a nightclub, River is working out (in his office clothes??), Lady Di goes home from the Park and gets a visitor. What time did Roddy leave the nightclub…9pm??

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Gregory Norminton @gregorynorminton.bsky.social · 12d

Blustery day, isn't it? Here's the National Grid: Live generation data. Wind and solar are generating 74.2% of our electricity. Gas is generating 13.1%. And yet our household electricity prices are pegged to... the volatile price of gas. Which is the basis on which the right attacks... renewables.

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Henry Mance @henrymance.ft.com · 14d

Great thread

Dan Neidle @danneidle.bsky.social · 14d

Douglas Barrowman and Michelle Mone's company, PPE Medpro, has just been ordered to refund the Government £122m from a PPE contract.

There are two very odd things about PPE Medpro that may affect the odds of the Government ever getting that £122m...

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Patrick Freyne @patrickfreyne.bsky.social · 14d

I wrote about House of Beamish www.irishtimes.com/culture/tv-r...

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barrytryan @barrytryan.bsky.social · 14d

One Battle After Another is cracking stuff. It’s subtle and funny with beautiful imagery presented without pomp. The skateboarders leading Leo across the rooftop, the car chase on long lenses, Leo’s dressing gown, Sean Penn’s arse clenched walk, Greenwood’s jagged score. Effortlessly brilliant

Leonardo di Caprio, wearing a shabby dressing gown, stood in the middle of a desert road holding a hunting rifle and a scanner.

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404 Media @404media.co · 15d

Kodak is officially selling their own film again for the first time in many years and will be selling directly to photography stores now.

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Kodak Is Selling Its Own Film Again for the First Time in a Decade

Kodak announced two new types of film that it will sell directly to photography stores, sidestepping a bizarre distribution agreement that has been in place since its bankruptcy.

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Wyatt Sinclair @wyattswickedgoods.com · 16d

We could have had this, but instead we're recalling 58 million pounds of corn dogs because we put wood in the batter and we're suing companies for not making scary enough candy.

Iceland approved the 4-day workweek in 2019, nearly 6 years later, all the predictions made by Generation Z have come true.

Generation Z's advocacy for revolutionary workplace changes has found its most compelling validation in Iceland's groundbreaking four-day work week implementation. What started as bold predictions fro...

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 15d

I literally have seen someone posting on Twitter a version of Hamilton where Scarlett Johansson is in it.

On top of this likely costing OpenAI a dollar a second to generate, they are potentially going to get sued into a fine paste by multiple different parties

an AI generated version of hamilton with Scarlett Johansson in it

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Matthew Highton @matthighton.bsky.social · 17d

Wow, this is getting embarrassing now. ICE missed another illegal alien on a bike, but this time being aided by a kid!!

Yep, for your viewing pleasure here's ET evading ICE.

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Kieron Gillen @kierongillen.bsky.social · 21d

I forgot to mention - the latest Wyrd Science is out. Look at that cover. You should order all the copies, and then if there's no copies left, fight over the copies. It's the best RPG zine in the world, sez I*

Wyrd Science Vol.1 / Issue 7 [Print]

PLEASE NOTE - THIS ISSUE WILL SHIP IN EARLY/MID SEPTEMBER, ANYTHING ORDERED AT THE SAME TIME WILL BE SENT OUT TOGETHER PLEASE PLEASE NOTE - IF YOU WANT A SUBSCRIPTION, AND TO SAVE 10% ON THE COVER PRI...

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barrytryan @barrytryan.bsky.social · 17d

Tonight at 2250 on Film4

Poster for the Shane Meadows film. Dead Man’s shoes. Paddy Considine holds an axe. The image is in Red, black and white.

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Rachel Coldicutt @rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social · 20d

If I was a Labour politician who wanted to design a better right to work scheme, I'd (a) start by cracking down on employers who transfer the risk to their workers, (b) work with the unions to design a scheme that puts workers' rights front and centre, and (c) phase roll-out, like digital switchover

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James Bennett @jamesbennett.bsky.social · 20d

Be more like Chrodechild today.

📚💙 #Research

"While the usual motive for an attack was to seize monastic goods and lands, there were other causes as well: in the late sixth century the nunnery of the Holy Cross in Poitiers was almost destroyed by one of its nuns, Chrodechild, the daughter of a Frankish king, who objected to washing dishes and other labours, and led an assault on the monastery to kidnap an abbess with "forty rebel nuns and assorted thugs. Even in defeat she declared, "I am queen."

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 21d

TV tonight: the phone-hacking scandal gets the Mr Bates treatment

Jack Thorne dramatises the Guardian’s 2011 investigation into widespread illegality at the News of the World. Plus: who is the Ibiza Final Boss? Here’s what to watch this evening

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Joel Morris @gralefrit.bsky.social · 22d

The Borderlands (2013) is available on Amazon Prime. If you’ve not seen it, make some time for it, because it is extremely good. And then enjoy this podcast discussion…

#BrokenVeil #DiscomfortBlanket

Joel Morris @gralefrit.bsky.social · 23d

NEW DISCOMFORT BLANKET!

Exclusively on the Broken Veil channel, we talk about the art of found-footage horror, and 2013’s The Borderlands, pitting priests and techies against an ancient evil.

JOIN THE BROKEN VEIL CHANNEL and support all this, plus our work on Series 2.

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Scott Santens @scottsantens.com · 23d

Ireland just released a report showing the huge success of the unconditional basic income it provided to artists. Each $1 spent led to society gaining $1.39. Artists' earned incomes went up more than their side job incomes fell. And they were happier and used less welfare

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For every €1 of public money invested in the pilot, society received €1.39 in return
The net cost of the BIA pilot went from €105m to under €72m due to tax generated and savings on social welfare payments

It also finds that recipients’ arts-related income increased by over €500 per month on average, while their income from non-arts work decreased by around €280. Dependence on social protection declined, with recipients receiving €100 less per month on average, and 38 percentage points less likely to receive Jobseeker’s payments.

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