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Derek @derekdesanges.bsky.social · Aug 15

with your help we can change this

the wicker mang @mangmangmang.bsky.social · Aug 14

People are always rightly pointing out that Warhammer contributes more to the British economy than the fishing industry, but the problem is that there just aren't very many folk songs about Warhammer

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Alex Kelly @voyager3.bsky.social · 1d

The ace @ingoodcompany.bsky.social are running my theatre-making-kit-meets-storytelling-game THE INVESTIGATIONS at @royalderngate.bsky.social as part of GenFest this year. You can take part and/or watch what they make with it:
royalandderngate.co.uk/whats-on/gen...

GenFest 2025: The Investigations - Royal & Derngate

The Investigations is a performance-making game from Voyager 3, delivered by In Good Company. Exploring the details of everyday life, this is a ‘make a show in a day’ devising workshop, presented as a...

royalandderngate.co.uk

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Naomi Alderman @naomialderman.bsky.social · 7d

I cannot understand what these people think the purpose of human life is?

It is *not* "pursue joy, deal justly, love well, try to understand as much and see as much of this beautiful world and of the deepness, richness and variety of human culture and experience as you can before you die"?

Tim Worthington @outonbluesix.bsky.social · 7d

How is this repeatedly made into a policy issue - by *all* parties - when the blunt fact of the matter is that grown adults who are obliged to pay for their own education, and relentlessly pursued to repay their loans, should be able to study whatever the fuck they want.

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Tim Worthington @outonbluesix.bsky.social · 7d

How is this repeatedly made into a policy issue - by *all* parties - when the blunt fact of the matter is that grown adults who are obliged to pay for their own education, and relentlessly pursued to repay their loans, should be able to study whatever the fuck they want.

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Emma Monk @monkemma.bsky.social · 18d

And yet - nothing about this is on the BBC main app.

It’s hidden under Welsh news.

Nothing in the Daily Mail, Express, The Sun, The Times.

Seems like Farage’s opinions on everything make front page news EXCEPT when one of his guys admits to taking Russian bribes….🤷🏼‍♀️

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jwmuk @jwmuk.bsky.social · 20d

Great fun talking to @irny.bsky.social about how to write system flexible scenarios, using the brilliant examples of her Darkened Hill & Dale and Terminus Kickstarters!

You can still late pledge for Terminus until 1st Oct, see www.kickstarter.com/projects/pat...

open.spotify.com/episode/6UTy...

So you want to write a system flexible adventure

open.spotify.com

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Frances Ryan @francesryan.bsky.social · 22d

Whether it’s paracetamol or something else, Trump and co are perpetuating the idea autism is wrong and disability is an individual’s responsibility to avoid. It’s anti-science but it’s deeply ableist at its core. The goal is for non-disabled to be afraid and disabled people to be ashamed.

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Alex Kelly @voyager3.bsky.social · 22d

“Urban myth”. Hiding in plain sight!

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Jason Hagglund @hagglundized.net · 23d

DAAAAAAAAAMMMMNNNNN! 👏

“The USA, where you can pick up eggs, milk and lethal ammunition in the same supermarket run, in case you want to make a pancake and then shoot someone in the head, considers people who like trains a bit too much to be its society’s deadliest scourge.” 🤣

The Daily Tism @thedailytism.com · 23d

Anti-autism campaigner, Karen Hoyland, 40, commented: “I love my child but I hate his autism. The other day I came home to find him lining up his guns, instead of playing with them like a normal kid.”

Country with bullet vending machines makes preventing autism a priority

Headline by Sarah Amero A country that distributes bullets like they’re chocolate bars has decided that eradicating autism is one of its top priorities, it has been reported. The USA, where you can p...

thedailytism.com

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Alex Kelly @voyager3.bsky.social · 23d

Great to see the excellent gobscure getting the recognition they deserve with this interview in The Guardian, alongside Jason Williamson.
www.theguardian.com/stage/2025/s...

‘It’s a lot darker than Sleaford Mods’: Jason Williamson on acting, rejection and a radical portrait of street life

The frontman is realising his stage dreams by starring in Edgecity which draws on playwright gobscure’s experience of being homeless. The pair talk about an urgent, explosive show

www.theguardian.com

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Alex Kelly @voyager3.bsky.social · 25d

only over a screen! (so far)
discord rpg pals.

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Alex Kelly @voyager3.bsky.social · 25d

Wait... do you two know each other IRL?

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Alex Kelly @voyager3.bsky.social · 25d

It's has been so rewarding to run #Vaesen for the last (nearly) 4 years. I started with a couple of the published scenarios to get a feel for it, then began writing my own stuff - which the rules really support. We'll come back to it - perhaps one of the other Societies - next year.

barrytryan @barrytryan.bsky.social · 26d

Another brilliant game of Vaesen run by @voyager3.bsky.social in which we managed to set up spinoffs to the mythic Britain and carpathia supplements

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Alex Kelly @voyager3.bsky.social · Sep 2

Some how this is suddenly 'this month'... Looking forward to talking to the brilliant Zodwa Nyoni for this Bunker Talk, 5.30pm on Tuesday 23rd September, at the Salutation pub in Manchester.
www.art.mmu.ac.uk/bunkertalks/...

Alex Kelly – Bunker Talk #154 – Manchester School of Art

www.art.mmu.ac.uk

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jwmuk @jwmuk.bsky.social · 26d

Should be fun and insightful, a few of us have converted and run Sarah's system agnostic Darkened Hill & Dale scenarios. They are wonderful and we have all pondered how you go about writing something without a specific system in mind... now we'll find out!

Link in my bio, then look under Events.

Sarah Cole @irny.bsky.social · 26d

I'm talking about writing system-agnostic TTRPG scenarios over on @jwmuk.bsky.social's Raspy Raven Discord next week – 7pm UK time, Thurs 25th Sept.

Writing scenarios to be system-agnostic can create some interesting additional challenges; join us to hear about how I discovered this the hard way. 😅

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Alex Kelly @voyager3.bsky.social · 27d

Before Fighting Fantasy, before Choose Your Own Adventure, there were Tracker Books. I had these three and was obsessed with them. (Still got 'em, and have acquired a few more from the series recently).

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Alex Kelly @voyager3.bsky.social · Sep 9

"Previously On..." but for the 800 page novel you haven't had a chance to pick up for two weeks.

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Alex Kelly @voyager3.bsky.social · Sep 5

Aw shucks! Thanks :)

It is indeed a great game and game world to explore.

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Alex Kelly @voyager3.bsky.social · Sep 4

IKR? I couldn’t tell if they didn’t understand what would happen or they just didn’t want to leave their bags somewhere?!

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Alex Kelly @voyager3.bsky.social · Sep 4

Yes I did this. There was a young couple in my group who had their weekly shop in 4 carrier bags that they had to lug with them the whole time.

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · Sep 3

Profoundly unhelpful and flat out untrue. No parent would endure the misery of the ECHP system unless they felt it was really necessary.

Samantha Booth @samanthajbooth.bsky.social · Sep 3

What's his evidence for this inflammatory claim? Can't see any reference to it in the story...

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Send system 'hijacked' by parents, Reform UK's Richard Tice says

The Reform UK deputy leader says some children are receiving Send provision who do not need it.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Alex Kelly @voyager3.bsky.social · Sep 2

Some how this is suddenly 'this month'... Looking forward to talking to the brilliant Zodwa Nyoni for this Bunker Talk, 5.30pm on Tuesday 23rd September, at the Salutation pub in Manchester.
www.art.mmu.ac.uk/bunkertalks/...

Alex Kelly – Bunker Talk #154 – Manchester School of Art

www.art.mmu.ac.uk

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chelsea bridge 🏳️‍⚧️🩸 @secretaboutbox.bsky.social · Aug 26

every democrat who does not speak out about this enables it. what the administration is doing here is a large-scale tactic to isolate trans people and strengthen future attacks on us. the gains we have made are built on visibility and public knowledge of us and our needs.

NBC News @nbcnews.com · Aug 26

The Trump administration directs 40 states, five territories and Washington, D.C. to remove references to transgender people from their sex education programs or risk losing federal funding.

States must ax transgender references from sex ed or risk losing funds, Trump admin says

The mandate comes just days after the Trump administration terminated funding for a sex education program in California.

nbcnews.to

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Scarred For Life @scarredforlife.bsky.social · Aug 23

North East weirdies, tickets are still available for our Folk Horror show on Wednesday 10 September, at @arcstockton.bsky.social, with @bobfischer.bsky.social and me! Everything from film & TV to comics, music, and suburban sex orgies will be covered...

Tickets: bit.ly/44Jh9EJ

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Danie Ware @danacea.bsky.social · Aug 6

And on the subject of JKR, this is the hatred and lies and fear that she's throwing her billions behind...

Patrick Ness @patricknessbooks.bsky.social · Aug 6

The employee asked the girl and her mother if they needed help shopping. That’s it. That’s all. The misinformation, the insinuations (because the facts are inconveniently benign) are EXACTLY what was done to lesbians in the 80s. This is the product of hate and fear, not reality.

JK Rowling tweeting got a boycott of M&S, stretching facts to the breaking point, and making the world a worse place for absolutely everyone.

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