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Huw Bowen / Sundog @huwbowen.bsky.social · 2h

Hell yeah!

Huw Bowen / Sundog @huwbowen.bsky.social · 20h

No shade on the city of Detroit itself, mind. I didn't even get to investigate it. I've heard some good things though, I think it's one of those cities, like Coventry, that gets an undeservedly bad reputation.

The airport is fuckass though

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Huw Bowen / Sundog @huwbowen.bsky.social · 20h

Detroit Airport is the only airport I have been to where I felt actively unsafe while inside the security perimeter. You're not supposed to feel sketched out when you're airside. Felt like Coventry on a Saturday night

This was over a quarter century ago though, may have improved since.

Old White Nepo Hat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 21h

Me: Ugh I have been sitting for days on this trip I feel gross
Detroit Airport: Can I offer you a three-mile walk from security to your gate
Me: PERFECT
[Later]
DA: Are . . . Are you using the mobile walkway
Me: It would be rude not to
DA: …
Me: IT SAYS IT IS FOR MY COMFORT AND CONVENIENCE

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Huw Bowen / Sundog @huwbowen.bsky.social · 21h

Charitably, the US was very much on the other side of the world at the time. Commercial transatlantic flights had only just started. I think we often lose sight of the heroic efforts that people had to make just to move stuff from one continent to another.

But yeah, late for two world wars, awks!

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Huw Bowen / Sundog @huwbowen.bsky.social · 21h

Although Antifa is a relatively new and extremely unBritish coinage, we did have some problems that needed that type of fellow back in the 1930s and 40s I seem to recall

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Huw Bowen / Sundog @huwbowen.bsky.social · 21h

Fun fact - if you dial 911 from a mobile phone in the UK, it'll put you through to 999. Some tourists never learn apparently, so it's easier to just put a patch in ;)

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Huw Bowen / Sundog @huwbowen.bsky.social · 21h

People need to be nice to @dankaszeta.bsky.social - the Captain's just trying to make sure you don't fucking blind yourself by putting piss in your eyes (or whatever the latest idiocy is) and don't get your hand burned to the point of non-functionality by grabbing a goddamn hot tear gas canister

Dan Kaszeta FRHistS @dankaszeta.bsky.social · 21h

Just because I explain tear gas and it’s legal position, it does not mean I am in favor of using it. I’m literally on record, in the most prominent way in serious circles, calling for more restrictions on tear gas. Don’t yell at me for not doing enough

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Oregon 🕎🎲 @oregonthedm.bsky.social · 1d

Look I've been holding off from months asking this on Bluesky because of my pride but I need help.

My car needs brakes, my rent is past due and my step kid needs shoes.

I hate having to ask this

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Huw Bowen / Sundog @huwbowen.bsky.social · 1d

What's your handle on Discord? I thought we were connected but apparently not

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Huw Bowen / Sundog @huwbowen.bsky.social · 1d

Yer a fine fella! Reckon it's time to cowboy up to the bar, pardners!

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Huw Bowen / Sundog @huwbowen.bsky.social · 1d

Should you need any online playtesters then I’d be more than happy to oblige sir! I reckon it’s a setting a man could get his spurs stuck into! (Hawks filthy wad of chaw into spittoon)

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Huw Bowen / Sundog @huwbowen.bsky.social · 3d

Those are very cool! I like the American logo. Seem to remember maybe seeing some as a kid?

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Huw Bowen / Sundog @huwbowen.bsky.social · 3d

I did not know that! That’s great

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Huw Bowen / Sundog @huwbowen.bsky.social · 3d

Or with Lemmy, IDK

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Huw Bowen / Sundog @huwbowen.bsky.social · 3d

He must have really liked it I guess. Or maybe Mike Moorcock threatened him with either physical or supernatural violence

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Huw Bowen / Sundog @huwbowen.bsky.social · 3d

"Regime spies"? totally normal American wording.

But hard agree on the lasers front

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Huw Bowen / Sundog @huwbowen.bsky.social · 3d

Just found out that Harlan Ellison was a Doctor Who fan! unsurprising, really, but welcome news.

Colin Smith @colinsmith.bsky.social · 3d

1975: Harlan Ellison visits Michael Moorcock in London. The Englishman sits Ellison in front of the TV when Dr Who comes on & insists Ellison “be quiet & just watch”. By the late 1970s,Ellison is such a fan of Dr Who that he’s taunting US scifi fans with declarations of its superiority over US fare.

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Huw Bowen / Sundog @huwbowen.bsky.social · 3d

Will do!

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Huw Bowen / Sundog @huwbowen.bsky.social · 3d

We need to hang out soon man, it's been far too long. I still haven't seen your laser cutter!

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Huw Bowen / Sundog @huwbowen.bsky.social · 3d

His aura is immense. We get wafts of it over here

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Huw Bowen / Sundog @huwbowen.bsky.social · 3d

Very useful thread if you're making models, or, if you're like me, desperately want to make films using miniature sets and need some advice!

ian.fenrisgames @fenrisgames.com · 4d

thread of how to scratchbuild a cave? okay then.

1) leftover Styrofoam packing, roughly cut to shape and size, separated into several interlocking pieces as it needs to fit inside our existing display cases. purple worm for scale!

ian.fenrisgames @fenrisgames.com · 5d

just imagine this miniature homage to 1e AD&D is finished and not just a rushed dry mockup in a spare hour between hospital runs and food prep

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Huw Bowen / Sundog @huwbowen.bsky.social · 3d

It works, I can see why you went for it! But there's a fairly stark difference between North and South Warwickshire, which, oddly enough, seems to be marked largely by the line of the Danelaw.

And if you go out towards Rugby, the whole place is positively haunted. Stains from the Civil War

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Huw Bowen / Sundog @huwbowen.bsky.social · 3d

Oh no. He'd have some lambs flown in.

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Huw Bowen / Sundog @huwbowen.bsky.social · 3d

I have no beef with you - you have made an honest mistake, I assume - but should you continue to associate me with the heart of darkness that is Nuneaton - or worse, Bedworth - then I shall be forced to ready my finest duelling-trout!

And don't even start on Coventry, that's a matter for firearms

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Huw Bowen / Sundog @huwbowen.bsky.social · 3d

They really are a drinker's drink. It's booze mixed with more booze, and the cocktail shaker makes it cold without watering it down. I used to absolutely cane them all the time but these days I tend to just stick to lager

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