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Matt Risby

@thebadspot.bsky.social

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TTRPG YouTube person // (he/him) // Nazis, TERFs and AI Bros can jog on, preferably off a cliff // Free 🇵🇸 YouTube.com/@thebadspot

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Matt Risby @thebadspot.bsky.social · 22d

With yesterday’s episode the last before we take a break until 2026, there is no better time to start watching The Last Starmarked.

There’s 16 episodes, all an hour or less plus there’s a monkey. That’s a sweet deal if you ask me.

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Sundered Isles: The Last Starmarked - YouTube

Gideon Finch is a rake, a liar and a thief. He and his loyal monkey companion Lorenzo become embroiled in a terrifying world of intrigue, after being asked t...

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Matt Risby @thebadspot.bsky.social · 12h

Look, we all want to hang in the catacombs below Paris, watching film noirs with the boys, drinking whiskey sours and eating couscous, nothing could be more natural.

the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 15h

In 2004, Parisian police were conducting a training exercise in the french catacombs and found, after moving past a desk and a tape playing audio of snarling dogs, a fully functional movie theater and bar. When they returned 3 days later, the equipment was gone, with a note: “Do not try to find us.”

Members of the force's sports squad, responsible
- among other tasks - for policing the 170 miles of tunnels, caves, galleries and catacombs that underlie large parts of Paris, stumbled on the complex while on a training exercise beneath the Palais de Chaillot, across the Seine from the Eiffel Tower.
After entering the network through a drain next to the Trocadero, the officers came across a tarpaulin marked: Building site, No access.
Behind that, a tunnel held a desk and a closed-circuit TV camera set to automatically record images of anyone passing. The mechanism also triggered a tape of dogs barking, "clearly designed to frighten people off," the spokesman said.
Further along, the tunnel opened into a vast 400 sq metre cave some 18m underground, "like an underground amphitheatre, with terraces cut into the rock and chairs".

There the police found a full-sized cinema screen, projection equipment, and tapes of a wide variety of films, including 1950s film noir classics and more recent thrillers. None of the films were banned or even offensive, the spokesman said.
A smaller cave next door had been turned into an informal restaurant and bar. "There were bottles of whisky and other spirits behind a bar, tables and chairs, a pressure-cooker for making couscous," the spokesman said.
"The whole thing ran off a professionally installed electricity system and there were at least three phone lines down there."
Three days later, when the police returned accompanied by experts from the French electricity board to see where the power was coming from, the phone and electricity lines had been cut and a note was lying in the middle of the floor: "Do not," it said, "try to find us."

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Matt Risby @thebadspot.bsky.social · 14h

Steel City panoramic view

A panoramic view of Sheffield from the top of Meersbrook park

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Nathanael Smith @nathanaelsmith.bsky.social · 18h

Well then it's not really your dream summer holiday, is it?

News headline: I asked AI to plan my dream summer holiday. Here's how it turned out.

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Alex Kain @tdcpresents.bsky.social · 1d

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C. Buckthorn @cbuckthorn.bsky.social · 20h

This is amazing. I laughed out loud www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

As 32-year-old Rich points out, though, "it's not like using ChatGPT guarantees success".
When he met someone in a bar one Friday night and swapped social media handles, he asked AI what his next move should be.
ChatGPT discerned that sending an initial message on Monday midmorning would set the right pace. "Then it gave me some options for what the message could be," says Rich.
"Keep it light, warm, and low-stakes so it reads as genuine interest without urgency," the bot advised. "Something like: Hey Sarah, still laughing about [tiny shared moment/reference if you've got one] - good to meet you!" Rich went back and forth with ChatGPT until he felt they'd hit upon exactly the right message ("Hey Sarah, it was lovely to meet you") but sadly she never replied, he says. "It's been two weeks now."

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Matt Risby @thebadspot.bsky.social · 1d

I can’t move

A photo showing a south Indian feast including dosa, vada, pani puri and all the trimmings

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Matt Risby @thebadspot.bsky.social · 1d

That’s a fucked up dog bro

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Matt Risby @thebadspot.bsky.social · 1d

I just watched an explainer video of the 6/7 meme and it is even stupider than I could have ever suspected.

a man with glasses and a yellow shirt says " it 's so dumb "

Alt: a man with glasses and a yellow shirt says " it 's so dumb "

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Epidiah Ravachol of the Unwritten Earths Symposium @epidiah.bsky.social · 2d

Folks, I have a number to watch as it goes up!

Unwritten Earths Symposium @unwrittenearths.bsky.social · 2d

⚔️ The Season of Swords is upon us! Swords Without Master is coming out of the pages of Worlds Without Master Issue 3 into a full, stand-alone release!

🔮 Follow the Kickstarter page to get notified on launch in early 2026

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Coming soon: Swords Without Master

A ttrpg of strange sorceries, brutal violence and astounding wonder by Epidiah Ravachol.

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Matt Risby @thebadspot.bsky.social · 2d

Hire Sam. Absolute pro.

Sam Langford @samsighs.bsky.social · 2d

A pleasure to step in as the producer for this episode of Public Access over on The Bad Spot.

An absolutely wild time, with some of the most talented people working in TTRPGs.

Matt Risby @thebadspot.bsky.social · 2d

Episode 3 lets gooooooooo

youtu.be/stqkCra0C0s

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Sam Langford @samsighs.bsky.social · 2d

A pleasure to step in as the producer for this episode of Public Access over on The Bad Spot.

An absolutely wild time, with some of the most talented people working in TTRPGs.

Matt Risby @thebadspot.bsky.social · 2d

Episode 3 lets gooooooooo

youtu.be/stqkCra0C0s

@jessjewell.bsky.social @masquewren.bsky.social @jasoncordova.bsky.social @samsighs.bsky.social

Darkness On The Edge Of Town | Public Access: Part 3 | RPG Actual play

YouTube video by The Bad Spot

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Matt Risby @thebadspot.bsky.social · 2d

Toot away, that’s some prestige right there.

Matt Risby @thebadspot.bsky.social · 2d

The awards just keep coming, I can't help it.

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Matt Risby @thebadspot.bsky.social · 2d

Pleased to announce I won the Nobel Prize for being a Sexy Fucking Legend.

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Matt Risby @thebadspot.bsky.social · 2d

Episode 3 lets gooooooooo

youtu.be/stqkCra0C0s

@jessjewell.bsky.social @masquewren.bsky.social @jasoncordova.bsky.social @samsighs.bsky.social

Darkness On The Edge Of Town | Public Access: Part 3 | RPG Actual play

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Prof Anna Watts @profannawatts.bsky.social · 3d

Lol the Nobels can't even acknowledge women's contribution to discovery. But sure let's acknowledge The Machines.

Headline from an article in Nature this week that states "Prizes must recognize machine contributions to discovery. The future of science will be written by humans and machines together. Awards should reflect that reality."

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ceej @ceej.online · Mar 26

the most annoying thing about living here is tourists asking to meet She Who Slumbers in the Lake. buddy, we all want to meet her. that’s why we lure the tourists

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Jason Cordova @jasoncordova.bsky.social · 3d

The French-language edition of Brindlewood Bay is crowdfunding!They are at nearly 400% funded, with 5 days remaining in their campaign. Check out the campaign if you game in French, or if you know someone who would be interested, let them know about it! www.gameontabletop.com/cf5531/brind...

Brindlewood Bay (Storyline)

Crowdfunding: Brindlewood Bay (Storyline)

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Dragan "Zeka" Ciric @runningcritter.bsky.social · 3d

I can't recommend this enough.

Matt Risby @thebadspot.bsky.social · 3d

Live for patrons now!

Everyone else, this time tomorrow.

youtube thumbnail for Public Access on the bad spot. 3 lathckeys look terrified against a TV static background. text reads PART 3 darkness on the edge of town

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Matt Risby @thebadspot.bsky.social · 3d

I enjoyed Wake Up Dead Man last night. Those films play so well in packed rooms and this one is no exception.

Such a shame people still feel the need to commit complicated murders in this day and age though. Disappointing.

Close up of cinema ticket for WAKE UP DEAD MAN

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Shelly/Whoobs (they/she) @whoblue.bsky.social · 3d

The reaction when someone says they have been doing specific actions with a person is priceless! One area felt backrooms in feel. The more I watch the more I am drawn in.

Matt Risby @thebadspot.bsky.social · 3d

Live for patrons now!

Everyone else, this time tomorrow.

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Matt Risby @thebadspot.bsky.social · 3d

Live for patrons now!

Everyone else, this time tomorrow.

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Paul Duane 🥔 @paulduane.bsky.social · Apr 17

Here's Palantir's Louis Mosley, grandson of Britain's most famous fascist leader, talking about the importance of AI, if you aren't convinced yet that this is one big co-ordinated push towards the destruction of everything good in life.

www.politicshome.com/news/article...

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ouinne @ouinne.bsky.social · 4d

The only correct take on a fundamentally anti-human technology.

Screenshot of David Simon interview
SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

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Matt Risby @thebadspot.bsky.social · 4d

Artisanal wax melt is a great Victorian era insult

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