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Jim Rossignol

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Writer. Makes games. Co-founded Rock, Paper, Shotgun and Big Robot (Sir, You Are Being Hunted). Now: TEETH RPG, MILESHIPS. And https://oldmenrunningtheworld.com/ email: jim at big-robot.com

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Jim Rossignol @rossignol.bsky.social · Aug 26

My meticulous partner in TTRPGs, @marshdavies.bsky.social, has taken on newsletter duties this week to show you some of the insanely accomplished illustations he is producing, and also to interview the renowned scholar, @friede.bsky.social: "Austen is really about power and desperation."

Marsh & The Magdalena, Dr Emily Friedman on Actual Play, the 18th century, other things.

Ahoy, and welcome to the TEETH newsletter. This is an (aspirationally) weekly report about our travels on the TTRPG-seas, written and compiled by implacable...

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Jim Rossignol @rossignol.bsky.social · 5h

Ridiculous that this is news, really. Fossil fuels are not just polluting, they are finite. Renewables are *inevitable*, far moreso than AI or any other rubbish that tech wishes to pour trillions of dollars into. Bet on the absolute certainties, lads.

Climate investment is growth opportunity of 21st century, says economist

Lord Stern says fossil-fuelled growth is futile as the damage it causes ends in economic self-destruction

www.theguardian.com

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Jim Rossignol @rossignol.bsky.social · 6h

A style you carry to this very day. (I still wonder why we *both* got interviewed by the NYT over it, I was hardly implicated.)

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Kasey Gifford @kaseygifford.bsky.social · 12h

We should be asking this
c o n s t a n t l y.

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Kenny Goblins @kennylogins.bsky.social · 1d

Turducken Lowery
@kenlowery.bsky.social
I didn't have the words to express it at the time, but growing up I definitely thought of Gary Busey as Nick Nolte's Wario
August 18, 2024 at 11:16 PM

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Benn Jordan @bennjordan.bsky.social · 1d

Come hear unheard sounds and find out how they can make you feel sick and even see ghosts.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=UTvr...

Infrasound: What You Can't Hear CAN Hurt You

YouTube video by Benn Jordan

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Catsuka @catsuka.bsky.social · 1d

"The World of the Dark Crystal" documentary (1983, 1 hour) is available for free on Youtube.
>> www.catsuka.com/breves/2025-...

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Karthik Sankaran @rajakorman.bsky.social · 2d

The Uncanny Valet

Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 2d

our economy is currently being propped up by the promise of billions of fully autonomous robot butlers coming in a year or so

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Jim Rossignol @rossignol.bsky.social · 1d

Spiritual attacks... by mould?

Jim Rossignol @rossignol.bsky.social · 1d

What did he do? Why he took the credit.

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Liam sunner but in the old world and scary @iamshirtacus.bsky.social · 1d

Little bit of shameless self promotion but i spoke about Gw and naming IP law at the last warhammer conference youtu.be/z94zwRyfBmw

An analysis of Games Workshop’s intellectual property law policy – Warhammer Conference 2024

YouTube video by Warhammer Conference

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Jason Adams @jamnpp.bsky.social · 2d

Sometimes there's so much beauty in the world,... I feel like I can't take it. And my heart is just going to cave in.

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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 1d

This is an exact encapsulation of why I moved to Bluesky.

No amount of handwringing in the Atlantic about how I owe some eternal Promethean suffering to the discourse is going to make me stay on a site I hate, that stopped doing anything for me professionally years ago.

Well – no. Bluesky may or may not be, as one centre-right friend who felt unwelcome put it, “self-righteous island”. But the idea that’s why we went is nonsense. That I’ve largely stopped posting on a site that’s done more to shape my career and social circle than the rest of the internet combined is less about avoiding rival opinions (I love arguing with people who are wrong!) than with the fact the site simply became unusable. It stopped generating the things (good jokes, interesting debate, clicks) I wanted; it became extremely good at generating the things (racists, pornbots, racist pornbots) I did not.

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Jim Rossignol @rossignol.bsky.social · 1d

Cook good, my friend.

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Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 1d

Every day is a good day to point out that 92% of Reform's donations were found to come from figures and groups linked to the fossil fuel industry. @desmog.com

Nigel Farage’s Reform Party Has Accepted £2.3 Million from Fossil Fuel Interests, Climate Deniers, and Polluters Since 2019 Election

Reform UK has received more than £2.3 million from oil and gas interests, highly polluting industries, and climate science deniers since December 2019, amounting to 92 percent of the party’s donations...

www.desmog.com

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Kieron Gillen @kierongillen.bsky.social · 5d

Who blogs the blogmen?

Panel of Rorschach from Watchmen, with caption.

"We do not do this thing because it is permitted. We do it because we have to. We do it because we are compelled."

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Jim Rossignol @rossignol.bsky.social · 1d

Oh interesting, I had no idea it was copyright expiration. GW has a little way to go on space marines being public domain.

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👁🌻🦊⚙️⚓ Bob, Engineer, Pusher of Paper @navmecheng.bsky.social · 1d

> It is 2025 BC. I am a soldier from one of the outlying provinces called to defend the pyramid in Memphis

> It is 2025 AD. I am a soldier from one of the outlying provinces called to defend the pyramid in Memphis

Soldiers at the Bass Pro Shops pyramid in Memphis, TN.

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Jim Rossignol @rossignol.bsky.social · 1d

My first ever writing gig was as a financial news copywriter, and let me tell you: i had no idea what the fucking was happening.

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Chris Farnell is behind you right now @thebrainofchris.bsky.social · 1d

Not saying the economy is in the shitter but the job site I signed up to for potential copywriter gigs just offered me a job as a farm hand.

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Jim Rossignol @rossignol.bsky.social · 1d

If "compatible" Lego was okay, then surely "compatible 32mm miniature ranges" is absolutely fine.

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Alex Kain @tdcpresents.bsky.social · 1d

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 1d

Completely agree with this - there is a lot of terrible policymaking where you can see the direct echo of “this guy played a lot of Civ as a child and teen”.

Duncan Weldon @duncanweldon.bsky.social · 2d

Genuinely think the concept of the tech tree has done a lot of damage.

Tech-Based Teaching @edutecheditor.bsky.social · 2d

“Since 1991, the video game Civilization, now in its seventh installment, has become one of the most successful game franchises ever. That means millions of kids have grown up with Civ as one of their formative ways of thinking about history.” (via @jstor.bsky.social) #AcademicSky

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Alison Fisk @alisonfisk.bsky.social · 2d

Marvellous Minoan clay vessels made by creative potters on the island of Crete during the Aegean Bronze Age around 3,500 years ago! 🤩

Heraklion Archaeological Museum 📷 by me

#Archaeology

From the Aegean Bronze Age, Minoan clay vessels with black handpainted decoration.on a pale biscuity-coloured slip

Top left - clay flask decorated in Minoan ‘Marine Style’’ with an octopus with tentacles writhing around the body of the vase. Additional motifs such as seaweed and rocks represent the seabed. From Palaikastro, 1500-1450 BC

Top right - clay rhyton in the shape of a bull’s head. A rhyton is a type of pouring vessel used for filling cups or making liquid offerings. There is a pouring hole at the bull’s mouth. From Knossos Little Palace, 1450-1375 BC

Bottom left - Nautilus vessel - clay rhyton depicting the seabed with nautili, corals and seaweed. From Phaistos Palace, 1500-1450 BC

Bottom right - Basket shaped rhyton decorated with double-axe motif. There is a small pouring hole in one of the bottom corners. From Pseira, 1500-1450 BC

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Ursula K. Le Guin @ursulakleguin.com · 2d

Today, The Word for World: The Maps of Ursula K. Le Guin opens at AA Gallery in London! Curated by Sarah Shin and Harriet Jennings, the exhibition presents a selection of Ursula's maps, including some that have never been exhibited before.

A photo of the entrance to The Word for World exhibition, with two banners hanging vertically down outside the doorway to a brick building with white-paned windows. A row of bicycles are parked in front. The banners are purple and white and say the name of the exhibition and Ursula K. Le Guin's name.

A cord-wrapped rock rests on a vivid blue background next to a map of and program for The Word for World exhibition.

A stack of copies of The Word for World book, which shows the title in vivid blue against a black cloth cover.

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