John Power Jr.
@johnpower.bsky.social
Void Wizard
Large Stone Enjoyer
Wyrd Science Editor
Freelance Writer
God’s Own Idiot
https://linktr.ee/wyrdscience
Large Stone Enjoyer
Wyrd Science Editor
Freelance Writer
God’s Own Idiot
https://linktr.ee/wyrdscience
Oh god. I used to stare at this picture for hours as a kid, absolutely loved every line of it, the colours, the composition. genuinely magical
The remarkable end-papers for 1966’s Rupert Annual, by Alfred Bestall.
December 7, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Oh god. I used to stare at this picture for hours as a kid, absolutely loved every line of it, the colours, the composition. genuinely magical
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A reminder there’s about a day left of @drivethrurpg.com’s site wide sale & you can pick up our new issue for just over £2 or get all 7 issues for roughly a third of the price I just paid for a burger at a Christmas market that I suspect I may see again soon 😑
www.drivethrurpg.com/en/publisher...
www.drivethrurpg.com/en/publisher...
December 7, 2025 at 4:40 PM
A reminder there’s about a day left of @drivethrurpg.com’s site wide sale & you can pick up our new issue for just over £2 or get all 7 issues for roughly a third of the price I just paid for a burger at a Christmas market that I suspect I may see again soon 😑
www.drivethrurpg.com/en/publisher...
www.drivethrurpg.com/en/publisher...
I don’t do many podcasts, for obvious reasons, but couldn’t say no to The Smart Party, alongside The Grognard Files they’re more to blame than anyone for my return to games not just being one of my usual temporary obsessions (🤔, where do I send the bill for that?)
Anyway was a pleasure to do this
Anyway was a pleasure to do this
A huge, huge thanks to @evilgaz.bsky.social who invited me onto the UK's Premier RPG Podcast The Smart Party the other week, let me basically talk at him for about 2 & a half hours and then somehow edited my unfiltered stream of consciousness down to something that is actually listenable to
Wyrd Science Magazine
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December 6, 2025 at 2:01 PM
I don’t do many podcasts, for obvious reasons, but couldn’t say no to The Smart Party, alongside The Grognard Files they’re more to blame than anyone for my return to games not just being one of my usual temporary obsessions (🤔, where do I send the bill for that?)
Anyway was a pleasure to do this
Anyway was a pleasure to do this
December 6, 2025 at 11:56 AM
I just don't think you can structure a society around a scenario where half the population seem to be posting venmo or PayPal links on social media all day so they can buy food and meds and the other half are paying $750 a year to film their family's piss and shit
Kohler's Smart Toilet Camera Not Actually End-to-End Encrypted
Gives new meaning to the 'internet of shit.'
www.404media.co
December 5, 2025 at 1:04 PM
I just don't think you can structure a society around a scenario where half the population seem to be posting venmo or PayPal links on social media all day so they can buy food and meds and the other half are paying $750 a year to film their family's piss and shit
wonderfully odd time capsule
30 YEARS AGO TODAY: the Smash Hits Poll Winners Party is opened by Reeves & Mortimer covering Hawkwind's Silver Machine. No explanation, no lyrical changes unless a cameo by the riff from Day Tripper counts, never released, and they weren't hosting it. www.youtube.com/watch?v=EGeb...
Vic Reeves and Bob Mortimer - Silver Machine (Smash Hits Poll Winners Party 1995)
www.youtube.com
December 5, 2025 at 10:59 AM
wonderfully odd time capsule
To quote Dr. Krakower, "One thing you can never say is that you haven't been told."
short but not at all sweet (or lets be honest surprising) post by @phillipspobrien.bsky.social on the present and future state of US/European relations
short but not at all sweet (or lets be honest surprising) post by @phillipspobrien.bsky.social on the present and future state of US/European relations
The New US National Security Strategy
Trump Says Openly That the US Wants to Dominate Europe and Make it MAGA
phillipspobrien.substack.com
December 5, 2025 at 10:11 AM
To quote Dr. Krakower, "One thing you can never say is that you haven't been told."
short but not at all sweet (or lets be honest surprising) post by @phillipspobrien.bsky.social on the present and future state of US/European relations
short but not at all sweet (or lets be honest surprising) post by @phillipspobrien.bsky.social on the present and future state of US/European relations
I mean, you can see how far the right got by encouraging every US male to drink lead soup over the past decade
if they can just get lead back into fuel & belched back into the environment via your average monster truck then they'll have a lock on the vastly expanded dribbling idiot vote for decades
if they can just get lead back into fuel & belched back into the environment via your average monster truck then they'll have a lock on the vastly expanded dribbling idiot vote for decades
Sean Duffy on slashing fuel economy standards: "This rule will actually allow you to bring back the 1970s station wagon. Maybe a little wood paneling on the side. We can bring back choice to consumers."
December 4, 2025 at 3:30 PM
I mean, you can see how far the right got by encouraging every US male to drink lead soup over the past decade
if they can just get lead back into fuel & belched back into the environment via your average monster truck then they'll have a lock on the vastly expanded dribbling idiot vote for decades
if they can just get lead back into fuel & belched back into the environment via your average monster truck then they'll have a lock on the vastly expanded dribbling idiot vote for decades
another day another academic book costing over £80 which features 1 essay I want to read as research for a feature. god bless academic publishing, it would truly be awful if any of the stuff you punished were ever to be read by other humans
December 4, 2025 at 1:18 PM
another day another academic book costing over £80 which features 1 essay I want to read as research for a feature. god bless academic publishing, it would truly be awful if any of the stuff you punished were ever to be read by other humans
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Lobbyist / ex Tory MP Ben Howlett has been done by an undercover sting. As ever, the most revealing thing is how very very cheap it is buy access in British media/politics — and especially how Howlett controls one of the biggest UK pol Twitter accounts!
democracyforsale.substack.com/p/breaking-o...
democracyforsale.substack.com/p/breaking-o...
December 3, 2025 at 9:33 PM
Lobbyist / ex Tory MP Ben Howlett has been done by an undercover sting. As ever, the most revealing thing is how very very cheap it is buy access in British media/politics — and especially how Howlett controls one of the biggest UK pol Twitter accounts!
democracyforsale.substack.com/p/breaking-o...
democracyforsale.substack.com/p/breaking-o...
it's a pretty cold Wednesday night, perfect for a midweek round of 16 cup match, playing a team we beat 4-1 at their ground 2 weeks ago in the league, and will play again in 2 weeks back at the Marien.
excited to see if Waregem's away support reaches double figures tonight
excited to see if Waregem's away support reaches double figures tonight
December 3, 2025 at 4:54 PM
it's a pretty cold Wednesday night, perfect for a midweek round of 16 cup match, playing a team we beat 4-1 at their ground 2 weeks ago in the league, and will play again in 2 weeks back at the Marien.
excited to see if Waregem's away support reaches double figures tonight
excited to see if Waregem's away support reaches double figures tonight
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Ok, if you need something a little less rowdy than Cimmerian sword fights to start your day let’s go back to 1987 as Tony Hart gently teaches british children how to draw their own pagan temple, ruined but still standing eternal guard and lit by the morning fires of the awakening sun god. Magic TV
1987: TONY HART creates a pastel STONEHENGE | Hartbeat | Children's Television | BBC Archive
YouTube video by BBC Archive
youtu.be
December 3, 2025 at 8:51 AM
Ok, if you need something a little less rowdy than Cimmerian sword fights to start your day let’s go back to 1987 as Tony Hart gently teaches british children how to draw their own pagan temple, ruined but still standing eternal guard and lit by the morning fires of the awakening sun god. Magic TV
Fabulous evening (so far), private after hours viewing of the new John Baldessari exhibition at Bozar (vg), stumbled into someone’s fancy Xmas work and necked a bottle of wine & load of canapés before busted, quick dinner at Wolf & now off for a snog in the Grand Place & home for Masterchef 😘👌
December 2, 2025 at 7:48 PM
Fabulous evening (so far), private after hours viewing of the new John Baldessari exhibition at Bozar (vg), stumbled into someone’s fancy Xmas work and necked a bottle of wine & load of canapés before busted, quick dinner at Wolf & now off for a snog in the Grand Place & home for Masterchef 😘👌
I had done so very well not buying a ridiculous amount of, almost certainly superfluous, graphic design typeface/texture/asset bundles in this year's various BF sales.
had.
had.
December 2, 2025 at 10:04 AM
I had done so very well not buying a ridiculous amount of, almost certainly superfluous, graphic design typeface/texture/asset bundles in this year's various BF sales.
had.
had.
We did it, Joe.
'Tumbling into the abyss' – Brussels breaks record for longest period without government
To mark 542 days without a government in the Brussels-Capital Region, nearly 200 prominent Brussels residents have signed an open letter calling for action. The Brussels Times has published the letter...
www.brusselstimes.com
December 2, 2025 at 9:03 AM
We did it, Joe.
Can you imagine getting a magazine with that cover and a flexdisc by a band called Sabbat when you were ten years old
Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive, but to be young was very heaven
Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive, but to be young was very heaven
So the next key document in the history of #warhammer40k that I shall be covering is the flex-joy of White Dwarf issue 95.
So do drop any grav-tastic thoughts here! exploringwarhammer.substack.com/t/keydocuments
So do drop any grav-tastic thoughts here! exploringwarhammer.substack.com/t/keydocuments
December 1, 2025 at 7:14 PM
Can you imagine getting a magazine with that cover and a flexdisc by a band called Sabbat when you were ten years old
Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive, but to be young was very heaven
Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive, but to be young was very heaven
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Every year we treat ourselves to a new decoration or two for the Christmas tree and this year’s additions are just absolutely outstanding
Tempted to not add anything else as we basically have a muppet Christmas tree
Tempted to not add anything else as we basically have a muppet Christmas tree
November 30, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Every year we treat ourselves to a new decoration or two for the Christmas tree and this year’s additions are just absolutely outstanding
Tempted to not add anything else as we basically have a muppet Christmas tree
Tempted to not add anything else as we basically have a muppet Christmas tree
Every year we treat ourselves to a new decoration or two for the Christmas tree and this year’s additions are just absolutely outstanding
Tempted to not add anything else as we basically have a muppet Christmas tree
Tempted to not add anything else as we basically have a muppet Christmas tree
November 30, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Every year we treat ourselves to a new decoration or two for the Christmas tree and this year’s additions are just absolutely outstanding
Tempted to not add anything else as we basically have a muppet Christmas tree
Tempted to not add anything else as we basically have a muppet Christmas tree
Dude out here just bringing shame to both the family name and the writing profession
"An elf and a demon" is so funny. I guess we're just letting whoever write whatever... Mr. Power, your story is yours to tell 💛
November 30, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Dude out here just bringing shame to both the family name and the writing profession
Been a great week for gigs, Say She She were just wonderful last night
November 30, 2025 at 8:58 AM
Been a great week for gigs, Say She She were just wonderful last night
Starting to develop a theory that the day after the general election whilst everyone was recovering from the night before, Zack Polanski broke into Starmer’s flat and stole his by then well used genie’s lamp
Would certainly explain a lot
Would certainly explain a lot
Zarah Sultana boycotts first day of Your Party conference over 'witch hunt' expulsions
Zarah Sultana boycotts first day of Your Party conference over 'witch hunt' expulsions
Zarah Sultana has boycotted day one of the Your Party Conference over the expulsion of members of left-wing groups.
news.sky.com
November 29, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Starting to develop a theory that the day after the general election whilst everyone was recovering from the night before, Zack Polanski broke into Starmer’s flat and stole his by then well used genie’s lamp
Would certainly explain a lot
Would certainly explain a lot
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November 29, 2025 at 8:05 AM
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