MikeyDemonSamurai
@mikeydemonsamurai.bsky.social
4 years back into RPG’s after 23 year hiatus. Preaching the gospel of Traveller RPG. Love for the lord Cthulhu too. Big fan of hard science & evidence based decision making. Northern British - The True North !
I feel a Christmas holiday visit is due
After a trip to Sheffield, and Patriot Games, I have a brief stopover amidst the glorious retail front end of @allrolledup.bsky.social — on the 3rd floor of Vernon Mill, Stockport.
December 20, 2025 at 1:50 PM
I feel a Christmas holiday visit is due
It's never too late Zen!
December 20, 2025 at 10:05 AM
It's never too late Zen!
Io Saturnalia!
December 17, 2025 at 10:06 AM
Io Saturnalia!
Fascinating interview with @krishgm.bsky.social and Cory Doctrow all about enshitification and how Trump has ended the American Internet. The most exciting question is what is the post American internet going to look like?
youtu.be/tZQaEeuuI3Q?...
youtu.be/tZQaEeuuI3Q?...
Cory Doctorow: why Facebook and Google are incentivised to make their products worse
YouTube video by Channel 4 News
youtu.be
December 16, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Fascinating interview with @krishgm.bsky.social and Cory Doctrow all about enshitification and how Trump has ended the American Internet. The most exciting question is what is the post American internet going to look like?
youtu.be/tZQaEeuuI3Q?...
youtu.be/tZQaEeuuI3Q?...
I'm appalled by the antisemitic terror attack at a Hanukkah event on Bondi Beach yesterday. My thoughts are the those who lost their lives, the injured, and the whole Jewish community. We must speak out against hatred and radicalisation, the rise of which drives violence and terrorism
December 15, 2025 at 7:39 AM
I'm appalled by the antisemitic terror attack at a Hanukkah event on Bondi Beach yesterday. My thoughts are the those who lost their lives, the injured, and the whole Jewish community. We must speak out against hatred and radicalisation, the rise of which drives violence and terrorism
Listened to this interview with @wyrdscience.bsky.social this morning and really enjoyed, think i will make a purchase of a few issues as my little Christmas treat to myself!
Monday morning bump for all those who, somehow, had something better to do over the weekend than hang around on social media
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
December 11, 2025 at 10:57 AM
Listened to this interview with @wyrdscience.bsky.social this morning and really enjoyed, think i will make a purchase of a few issues as my little Christmas treat to myself!
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Cool spaceship design by @fredgambino.bsky.social for an unnamed (and probably unannounced or unproduced) game.
"The brief was to come up with mining ships that looked like they had been cobbled together from cannibalised ship parts."
"The brief was to come up with mining ships that looked like they had been cobbled together from cannibalised ship parts."
December 9, 2025 at 8:55 AM
Cool spaceship design by @fredgambino.bsky.social for an unnamed (and probably unannounced or unproduced) game.
"The brief was to come up with mining ships that looked like they had been cobbled together from cannibalised ship parts."
"The brief was to come up with mining ships that looked like they had been cobbled together from cannibalised ship parts."
Worth a listen.
"When it comes to building public works – never trust anyone who speaks English."
Analyst, writer and China specialist Dan Wang tells Lewis Goodall why the British are among some of the worst at building and have the highest housing costs in the western world
Analyst, writer and China specialist Dan Wang tells Lewis Goodall why the British are among some of the worst at building and have the highest housing costs in the western world
December 5, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Worth a listen.
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This was peak Twitter. 😂
wife got a timer for all of our christmas lights so obviously thinking of this
December 2, 2025 at 9:01 AM
This was peak Twitter. 😂
Just 364 days until the next budget! The media frenzy and speculation starts today!!
a couple of women are standing next to each other and one of them is wearing an orange coat .
ALT: a couple of women are standing next to each other and one of them is wearing an orange coat .
media.tenor.com
November 27, 2025 at 10:20 AM
Just 364 days until the next budget! The media frenzy and speculation starts today!!
what a day to fired up an old Twitter account! It's literally the best day ever on that platform as we see lots of those outraged MAGA accounts are in fact another iteration of the 'Nigerian Prince and a frozen bank account'.
November 24, 2025 at 2:44 PM
what a day to fired up an old Twitter account! It's literally the best day ever on that platform as we see lots of those outraged MAGA accounts are in fact another iteration of the 'Nigerian Prince and a frozen bank account'.
have to say, it is pretty cool that X now tells you where an account is based. Turns out that many of the MAGA outrage crowd are not based in the U.S. Who could have imagined??
November 24, 2025 at 9:07 AM
have to say, it is pretty cool that X now tells you where an account is based. Turns out that many of the MAGA outrage crowd are not based in the U.S. Who could have imagined??
BREAKING: American guy is not actually an American guy
November 24, 2025 at 9:05 AM
BREAKING: American guy is not actually an American guy
Your Monday morning deep read on Quantum mechanics and observers for gravity in a closed universe. It contains (according to Brian Cox) what is surely one of the great footnotes. ‘We leave the theological implications of this statement as an exercise for the reader’.
arxiv.org/pdf/2501.02359
arxiv.org/pdf/2501.02359
arxiv.org
November 24, 2025 at 8:59 AM
Your Monday morning deep read on Quantum mechanics and observers for gravity in a closed universe. It contains (according to Brian Cox) what is surely one of the great footnotes. ‘We leave the theological implications of this statement as an exercise for the reader’.
arxiv.org/pdf/2501.02359
arxiv.org/pdf/2501.02359
You're doomed!
November 23, 2025 at 10:38 PM
You're doomed!
Took 7 year old son to the Lovell radio telescope at Jodrell Bank today, where they had a fantastic exhibition showing some of the photography from the 1965 Gemini missions. Hopefully the next generation of Traveller GMs starts here!
November 22, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Took 7 year old son to the Lovell radio telescope at Jodrell Bank today, where they had a fantastic exhibition showing some of the photography from the 1965 Gemini missions. Hopefully the next generation of Traveller GMs starts here!
😂 This popped up on FB from 8 years ago during my MSc.
November 18, 2025 at 3:14 PM
😂 This popped up on FB from 8 years ago during my MSc.
Imagine telling an unwell patient that you have news about their health, but it'll be 3 months until you can tell them the full diagnosis and treatment plan. In the meantime, you tease them with the possibilities. Imagine what that would do to them. That's what UK gov have done with this budget.
November 15, 2025 at 9:57 PM
Imagine telling an unwell patient that you have news about their health, but it'll be 3 months until you can tell them the full diagnosis and treatment plan. In the meantime, you tease them with the possibilities. Imagine what that would do to them. That's what UK gov have done with this budget.
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I'm 2 followers off 1.5K. I'd have more of that if I didn't block all the suspiciously lady-only-following accounts, but it would be nice to reach the next milestone. So if you're interested in TTRPGs, sketching, memes and snark, I'm yer woman.
Here's a Godzilla meme to tempt you in.
Here's a Godzilla meme to tempt you in.
November 12, 2025 at 11:14 AM
I'm 2 followers off 1.5K. I'd have more of that if I didn't block all the suspiciously lady-only-following accounts, but it would be nice to reach the next milestone. So if you're interested in TTRPGs, sketching, memes and snark, I'm yer woman.
Here's a Godzilla meme to tempt you in.
Here's a Godzilla meme to tempt you in.
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I have no strong position on whether dude in the beer jacket is AI-generated or not, but I will note that if it real it would only be performance art--I can think of much better pastimes than lugging around 50-100+ pounds of liquid that is slowly sapping my body heat to become undrinkably warm.
November 9, 2025 at 5:53 PM
I have no strong position on whether dude in the beer jacket is AI-generated or not, but I will note that if it real it would only be performance art--I can think of much better pastimes than lugging around 50-100+ pounds of liquid that is slowly sapping my body heat to become undrinkably warm.
7 year old son picked this magazine up for me yesterday. Cheeky fucker 😂
November 5, 2025 at 1:06 PM
7 year old son picked this magazine up for me yesterday. Cheeky fucker 😂
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"The gods that we've made are exactly the gods you'd expect to be made by a species that's about half a chromosome away from being chimpanzee."
Christopher Hitchens
Christopher Hitchens
November 1, 2025 at 8:16 PM
"The gods that we've made are exactly the gods you'd expect to be made by a species that's about half a chromosome away from being chimpanzee."
Christopher Hitchens
Christopher Hitchens