Brian Ashford
@brianbloodaxe.bsky.social
Role-player, husband, parent. Woke PoS. He/him.
Staff at Ancient Robot Games in Edinburgh.
ominosity.wordpress.com
Why you are rolling the dice is far more important than which dice you are rolling.
Staff at Ancient Robot Games in Edinburgh.
ominosity.wordpress.com
Why you are rolling the dice is far more important than which dice you are rolling.
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This evening I'll be leading a debate in Parliament about the scandal of extreme waiting times at Scotland's gender identity clinics.
The debate starts around 6:10pm, and will be live on the Scottish Parliament website.
www.parliament.scot/chamber-and-...
The debate starts around 6:10pm, and will be live on the Scottish Parliament website.
www.parliament.scot/chamber-and-...
The Scottish Government has been accused of breaking its promise to reduce waiting times at NHS Scotland’s gender identity clinics
Scottish Government urged to act on 'totally unacceptable' gender clinic wait times
www.thenational.scot
November 26, 2025 at 1:35 PM
This evening I'll be leading a debate in Parliament about the scandal of extreme waiting times at Scotland's gender identity clinics.
The debate starts around 6:10pm, and will be live on the Scottish Parliament website.
www.parliament.scot/chamber-and-...
The debate starts around 6:10pm, and will be live on the Scottish Parliament website.
www.parliament.scot/chamber-and-...
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Nice. Matching the lighting to the colours of the backdrop works so well. #jhbackdrops
Wednesday #Guardvember post:
Technically speaking Valkyries are Aeronautica Imperialis units but when attached to a regiment their crews report directly to that regiment's senior officer. Like the “Spirit of Hobarth” that serves the #4thMemnonRegiment.
#Nerdlings
#WarhammerCommunity
#JHBackdrops
Technically speaking Valkyries are Aeronautica Imperialis units but when attached to a regiment their crews report directly to that regiment's senior officer. Like the “Spirit of Hobarth” that serves the #4thMemnonRegiment.
#Nerdlings
#WarhammerCommunity
#JHBackdrops
November 26, 2025 at 7:44 AM
Nice. Matching the lighting to the colours of the backdrop works so well. #jhbackdrops
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"It is against the TOS to be talked into suicide by our LLM" is possibly the most evil tech bro thing I've ever read
Additionally, OpenAI argues its not liable because Raine, by using ChatGPT for self-harm, broke its terms of service
November 26, 2025 at 12:29 AM
"It is against the TOS to be talked into suicide by our LLM" is possibly the most evil tech bro thing I've ever read
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Not Gonna Lie, folks. I am incredibly dubious in this day and age of any study that states 'you don't reach adulthood until X' considering how the 'full brain at 25' thing has been weaponized by both young and old to avoid responsibility and deny autonomy
November 25, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Not Gonna Lie, folks. I am incredibly dubious in this day and age of any study that states 'you don't reach adulthood until X' considering how the 'full brain at 25' thing has been weaponized by both young and old to avoid responsibility and deny autonomy
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Sometimes I think it’s going to be the librarians who will save us all.
November 25, 2025 at 1:47 AM
Sometimes I think it’s going to be the librarians who will save us all.
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My attendance record in the European Parliament was the 4th worst out of 751 MEPs, yet I managed to turn up to vote AGAINST plans to tackle Russian misinformation.
Thankfully this is of no interest to the media.
Thankfully this is of no interest to the media.
November 24, 2025 at 9:20 PM
My attendance record in the European Parliament was the 4th worst out of 751 MEPs, yet I managed to turn up to vote AGAINST plans to tackle Russian misinformation.
Thankfully this is of no interest to the media.
Thankfully this is of no interest to the media.
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Zack Polanski: billionaire owned media have, “a vested interest in trying to discredit any idea or story that challenges the status quo”
“The status quo isn’t working. It’s broken. We need a complete clear out of that broken politics. We need something new and hopeful, and that’s what I’m offering.
“The status quo isn’t working. It’s broken. We need a complete clear out of that broken politics. We need something new and hopeful, and that’s what I’m offering.
November 25, 2025 at 8:48 AM
Zack Polanski: billionaire owned media have, “a vested interest in trying to discredit any idea or story that challenges the status quo”
“The status quo isn’t working. It’s broken. We need a complete clear out of that broken politics. We need something new and hopeful, and that’s what I’m offering.
“The status quo isn’t working. It’s broken. We need a complete clear out of that broken politics. We need something new and hopeful, and that’s what I’m offering.
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Sam Sorensen wrote a beautiful, albeit complex, roleplaying wargame called Cataphract, and I took the rules and mashed them into a sheer monstrosity. Set loosely in Britain in the Dark Ages, you play as competing warlord households in real time.
I'm looking for people bad enough to play.
I'm looking for people bad enough to play.
November 25, 2025 at 10:10 AM
Sam Sorensen wrote a beautiful, albeit complex, roleplaying wargame called Cataphract, and I took the rules and mashed them into a sheer monstrosity. Set loosely in Britain in the Dark Ages, you play as competing warlord households in real time.
I'm looking for people bad enough to play.
I'm looking for people bad enough to play.
Aww man...
Good morning. XKCD just made me cry again
xkcd.com/3172/
xkcd.com/3172/
Fifteen Years
xkcd.com
November 25, 2025 at 10:24 AM
Aww man...
People keep writing me versions of The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas.
if elon just hired an Inverse Jester (guy hired to listen to his jokes and pretend they're funny) we could solve every problem except how to keep the inverse jester from killing himself
November 24, 2025 at 9:44 PM
People keep writing me versions of The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas.
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Because "we actually spent time and money on this" is an infinitely better sales pitch than "we made a computer hallucinate this in order to save a negligible amount of money, and it sucks"
Indie game developers have a new sales pitch: being ‘AI free’
Indie game developers have a new sales pitch: being ‘AI free’
“We can produce results that meet our quality standards without its assistance.”
buff.ly
November 24, 2025 at 8:13 PM
Because "we actually spent time and money on this" is an infinitely better sales pitch than "we made a computer hallucinate this in order to save a negligible amount of money, and it sucks"
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Even Hilary Cass - who disgracefully called parents terrified that their trans kids would take their own lives if they were denied healthcare "shroud wavers" - didn't go so far as to call for a ban on puberty blockers.
Nothing Wes Streeting says turns out to be true.
Nothing Wes Streeting says turns out to be true.
November 24, 2025 at 7:24 AM
Even Hilary Cass - who disgracefully called parents terrified that their trans kids would take their own lives if they were denied healthcare "shroud wavers" - didn't go so far as to call for a ban on puberty blockers.
Nothing Wes Streeting says turns out to be true.
Nothing Wes Streeting says turns out to be true.
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Trying to be the ttrpg scene I want to see in Los Angeles. If you are in LA and want to play some Troika and stuff in person, join me:
discord.gg/xFhgKm7EN7
discord.gg/xFhgKm7EN7
November 6, 2025 at 1:36 AM
Trying to be the ttrpg scene I want to see in Los Angeles. If you are in LA and want to play some Troika and stuff in person, join me:
discord.gg/xFhgKm7EN7
discord.gg/xFhgKm7EN7
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This snippet from an interview with Enver Solomon, outgoing head of the Refugee Council, seems very typical of this govt's approach and speaks to a desire to relentlessly spend tax payer's money in pursuit of a dream of total administrative control
November 24, 2025 at 6:53 AM
This snippet from an interview with Enver Solomon, outgoing head of the Refugee Council, seems very typical of this govt's approach and speaks to a desire to relentlessly spend tax payer's money in pursuit of a dream of total administrative control
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Woah!
November 23, 2025 at 11:10 PM
Woah!
One for you @samsorensen.bsky.social I think.
Can anyone who knows Suits help me with Prelusory Goal thoughts?
So Suits says the Prelusory Goal is a specific state of affairs we want to be completed, which requires the playing of the game. Eg "I want to run from one line to another line" or "I want to get this golf ball into a hole".
(1/3)
So Suits says the Prelusory Goal is a specific state of affairs we want to be completed, which requires the playing of the game. Eg "I want to run from one line to another line" or "I want to get this golf ball into a hole".
(1/3)
November 23, 2025 at 10:55 PM
One for you @samsorensen.bsky.social I think.
13th Age is my favourite modern D&D and this new edition looks fantastic.
Starting a reaction thread on 13th Age 2E.
First, this is gorgeous edition, and it seems like a great upgrade and refinement of what already a really fun, smooth running game. /1
First, this is gorgeous edition, and it seems like a great upgrade and refinement of what already a really fun, smooth running game. /1
November 23, 2025 at 10:51 PM
13th Age is my favourite modern D&D and this new edition looks fantastic.
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#over/under was not one of a kind. I have been playing similar games for the last EIGHT YEARS. Today, I give this medium a name - "Live Text Roleplay" - and help you build a community of your own.
www.valerialoves.com/how-to-repli...
www.valerialoves.com/how-to-repli...
How to Replicate Over/Under
A Guide to Live Text Roleplay
www.valerialoves.com
November 19, 2025 at 1:00 AM
#over/under was not one of a kind. I have been playing similar games for the last EIGHT YEARS. Today, I give this medium a name - "Live Text Roleplay" - and help you build a community of your own.
www.valerialoves.com/how-to-repli...
www.valerialoves.com/how-to-repli...
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I mean it's not complicated. Twenty people who were there have confirmed that Nigel Farage said all of these things.
He's the only one denying it, which means just one thing. He is a liar
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
He's the only one denying it, which means just one thing. He is a liar
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Twenty people allege he has a racist past. He denies it. Who’s telling the truth about Farage’s schooldays?
Reform UK’s leader refuses to answer questions about his abusive behaviour, claiming there’s ‘no evidence’. We talk to victims and witnesses
www.theguardian.com
November 23, 2025 at 10:53 AM
I mean it's not complicated. Twenty people who were there have confirmed that Nigel Farage said all of these things.
He's the only one denying it, which means just one thing. He is a liar
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
He's the only one denying it, which means just one thing. He is a liar
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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📢 Not introducing a #WealthTax on the UK's richest people in the upcoming budget will be more than just economically stupid. It will be immoral and cowardly. It will confirm that the UK just can't tax the rich. It will be an admission of total defeat, an abject capitulation to the power of money.
November 14, 2025 at 5:48 PM
📢 Not introducing a #WealthTax on the UK's richest people in the upcoming budget will be more than just economically stupid. It will be immoral and cowardly. It will confirm that the UK just can't tax the rich. It will be an admission of total defeat, an abject capitulation to the power of money.
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This is the technological equivalent of not being able to get your house insured in Florida, and for similar reasons.
share.google/SOpWK172vQx5...
share.google/SOpWK172vQx5...
Insurers retreat from AI cover as risk of multibillion-dollar claims mounts
AIG, Great American and WR Berkley seek permission to limit liability from AI agents and chatbots
share.google
November 23, 2025 at 9:45 AM
This is the technological equivalent of not being able to get your house insured in Florida, and for similar reasons.
share.google/SOpWK172vQx5...
share.google/SOpWK172vQx5...
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Kneecap’s Sayonara with Paul Hartnoll (and a claaaaaaaass remix by Wallace) had me back down the Orbital Brown Album rabbit hole. Never not a good time to play Lush 3-1, Lush 3-2 and Impact, but a rainy Sunday afternoon in is deffo one of the better times. Also this one: youtu.be/cxBibGq4I1o
Lush (Euro-Tunnel Disaster '94)
YouTube video by Orbital - Topic
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November 23, 2025 at 1:09 PM
Kneecap’s Sayonara with Paul Hartnoll (and a claaaaaaaass remix by Wallace) had me back down the Orbital Brown Album rabbit hole. Never not a good time to play Lush 3-1, Lush 3-2 and Impact, but a rainy Sunday afternoon in is deffo one of the better times. Also this one: youtu.be/cxBibGq4I1o