Joe Murphy
@joermurphy.bsky.social
Early career psychologist researching: Do RPG players know if anyone is having fun? (No)
RPG writer & editor, brewer, big data, various bits and bobs. Irish childhood survivor.
He/him
RPG writer & editor, brewer, big data, various bits and bobs. Irish childhood survivor.
He/him
I've never been on a rail replacement bus that had to make a connection with a second rail replacement bus. But here we are.
November 30, 2025 at 11:03 AM
I've never been on a rail replacement bus that had to make a connection with a second rail replacement bus. But here we are.
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Last month, I found out I have hypermobile Ehlers Danlos Syndrome, after decades of chronic pain and medical disinterest.
I've decided to write publicly about this, not just about hypermobility and its health impacts, but about how it feels when doctors don't care:
medium.com/p/4fea6398b8ba
I've decided to write publicly about this, not just about hypermobility and its health impacts, but about how it feels when doctors don't care:
medium.com/p/4fea6398b8ba
Welcome to my body
After twenty years of pain and repeated medical dead ends, a stranger sent me a message on Instagram. It led to a diagnosis all the doctors…
medium.com
November 26, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Last month, I found out I have hypermobile Ehlers Danlos Syndrome, after decades of chronic pain and medical disinterest.
I've decided to write publicly about this, not just about hypermobility and its health impacts, but about how it feels when doctors don't care:
medium.com/p/4fea6398b8ba
I've decided to write publicly about this, not just about hypermobility and its health impacts, but about how it feels when doctors don't care:
medium.com/p/4fea6398b8ba
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Hey @bsky.app @safety.bsky.app @support.bsky.team please unsuspend Goran immediately.
Goran is a great person, a great artist, and the whole anti-Palestine thing youre on is one of those "Ford funding Hitler" disasters you remember being shocked and dismayed by when you learned of in middle school.
Goran is a great person, a great artist, and the whole anti-Palestine thing youre on is one of those "Ford funding Hitler" disasters you remember being shocked and dismayed by when you learned of in middle school.
November 26, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Hey @bsky.app @safety.bsky.app @support.bsky.team please unsuspend Goran immediately.
Goran is a great person, a great artist, and the whole anti-Palestine thing youre on is one of those "Ford funding Hitler" disasters you remember being shocked and dismayed by when you learned of in middle school.
Goran is a great person, a great artist, and the whole anti-Palestine thing youre on is one of those "Ford funding Hitler" disasters you remember being shocked and dismayed by when you learned of in middle school.
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Please tell me your worst Secret Santa experiences. I’m writing a piece on why it’s (largely) stupid and wasteful.
November 24, 2025 at 8:38 AM
Please tell me your worst Secret Santa experiences. I’m writing a piece on why it’s (largely) stupid and wasteful.
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Anyone after tickets for Inside no.9 tickets for next Saturday's matinee performance in Edinburgh?
November 22, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Anyone after tickets for Inside no.9 tickets for next Saturday's matinee performance in Edinburgh?
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I have been doing entirely too much earnest posting about deep things recently, I need to do a proper thread about hippo testicles or something just to keep myself sane.
Oh by the way hippos have migratory testicles.
Oh by the way hippos have migratory testicles.
a statue of a hippopotamus with its mouth open and teeth showing .
Alt: A hippo being tossed a watermelon, which it crushes in its massive jaws.
media.tenor.com
March 12, 2025 at 5:33 AM
I have been doing entirely too much earnest posting about deep things recently, I need to do a proper thread about hippo testicles or something just to keep myself sane.
Oh by the way hippos have migratory testicles.
Oh by the way hippos have migratory testicles.
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Last chance to sign up for my art blog newsletter before the next issue's out tomorrow, all about brains in sci-fi! 70s-sci-fi-art.ghost.io
Here's a sneak peek, featuring Carlos Ochagavia, Bruce Pennington, Jean-Francois Penichoux, and an uncredited artist.
Here's a sneak peek, featuring Carlos Ochagavia, Bruce Pennington, Jean-Francois Penichoux, and an uncredited artist.
November 16, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Last chance to sign up for my art blog newsletter before the next issue's out tomorrow, all about brains in sci-fi! 70s-sci-fi-art.ghost.io
Here's a sneak peek, featuring Carlos Ochagavia, Bruce Pennington, Jean-Francois Penichoux, and an uncredited artist.
Here's a sneak peek, featuring Carlos Ochagavia, Bruce Pennington, Jean-Francois Penichoux, and an uncredited artist.
@davidhoy.bsky.social Hey, what was the event you mentioned for next Sunday?
November 12, 2025 at 4:37 PM
@davidhoy.bsky.social Hey, what was the event you mentioned for next Sunday?
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Andrew Mallarkey is putting this on next week
Hopefully see some of you there
Hopefully see some of you there
November 7, 2025 at 9:24 PM
Andrew Mallarkey is putting this on next week
Hopefully see some of you there
Hopefully see some of you there
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it hasn't helped sell any mags but it appears our nonsense on here has just pushed our account over 5K 'followers', so let's embrace that as some kind of achievement!
Like & repost this to be in with a chance to win every in-print issue of Wyrd Science & a t-shirt of your choice*
Like & repost this to be in with a chance to win every in-print issue of Wyrd Science & a t-shirt of your choice*
November 3, 2025 at 12:31 PM
it hasn't helped sell any mags but it appears our nonsense on here has just pushed our account over 5K 'followers', so let's embrace that as some kind of achievement!
Like & repost this to be in with a chance to win every in-print issue of Wyrd Science & a t-shirt of your choice*
Like & repost this to be in with a chance to win every in-print issue of Wyrd Science & a t-shirt of your choice*
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this goes so fucking hard. perfect halloween release. god i love lankum
www.youtube.com/watch?v=aLLn...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=aLLn...
Lankum - Ghost Town (Official Video)
YouTube video by LankumDublin
www.youtube.com
October 31, 2025 at 12:02 PM
this goes so fucking hard. perfect halloween release. god i love lankum
www.youtube.com/watch?v=aLLn...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=aLLn...
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When I get older, losing my head
Trunkless legs of stone
Look upon my works, ye mighty, and despair
Nothing remains, boundless and bare
Only my passions will yet survive
Stamped on lifeless things
Will you understand
I was Ozyman
dias, king of kings?
Trunkless legs of stone
Look upon my works, ye mighty, and despair
Nothing remains, boundless and bare
Only my passions will yet survive
Stamped on lifeless things
Will you understand
I was Ozyman
dias, king of kings?
October 31, 2025 at 1:28 PM
When I get older, losing my head
Trunkless legs of stone
Look upon my works, ye mighty, and despair
Nothing remains, boundless and bare
Only my passions will yet survive
Stamped on lifeless things
Will you understand
I was Ozyman
dias, king of kings?
Trunkless legs of stone
Look upon my works, ye mighty, and despair
Nothing remains, boundless and bare
Only my passions will yet survive
Stamped on lifeless things
Will you understand
I was Ozyman
dias, king of kings?
House of Dynamite. 1/x
October 29, 2025 at 11:40 PM
House of Dynamite. 1/x
@johnchrostek.com hello! Where can I buy Feast in epub format?
October 29, 2025 at 7:39 PM
@johnchrostek.com hello! Where can I buy Feast in epub format?
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EARTH MUST DIE is a comedy narrative adventure with a stacked cast of British comedians, a very funny script, and it's exceptionally pretty. Like playing a cartoon.
store.steampowered.com/app/3639780/...
store.steampowered.com/app/3639780/...
Earth Must Die on Steam
These moronic Terranoids think they can just roll in here and take over my beautiful Tyrythian kingdom? The kingdom that I built from the ground up with my bare hands, and only sort of inherited from ...
store.steampowered.com
October 27, 2025 at 10:42 PM
EARTH MUST DIE is a comedy narrative adventure with a stacked cast of British comedians, a very funny script, and it's exceptionally pretty. Like playing a cartoon.
store.steampowered.com/app/3639780/...
store.steampowered.com/app/3639780/...
Brexit is great isn't it. Ffs
October 22, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Brexit is great isn't it. Ffs
A Popeye's server just said 'hello again' so I'm going to get her fired.
September 27, 2025 at 1:45 PM
A Popeye's server just said 'hello again' so I'm going to get her fired.
Just crossed the border back to Scotland. The rain stopped. The tarmac improved so driving was almost silent. The sunset appeared. A huge flock of gulls went overhead, a fox ran across the road.
youtu.be/M78sYaGjvv8?...
youtu.be/M78sYaGjvv8?...
Who Framed Roger Rabbit - Toontown Scene
YouTube video by Rob Lightyear98
youtu.be
September 20, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Just crossed the border back to Scotland. The rain stopped. The tarmac improved so driving was almost silent. The sunset appeared. A huge flock of gulls went overhead, a fox ran across the road.
youtu.be/M78sYaGjvv8?...
youtu.be/M78sYaGjvv8?...
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All these Tory MPs switching to Reform.
September 16, 2025 at 12:04 PM
All these Tory MPs switching to Reform.
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"I'm putting in an order from the co-op of chocolate cake, malteasers and ultra-absorbant pads. Do you want anything?"
... tbh I wouldn't want to disturb the clarity of the narrative.
... tbh I wouldn't want to disturb the clarity of the narrative.
August 30, 2025 at 10:44 AM
"I'm putting in an order from the co-op of chocolate cake, malteasers and ultra-absorbant pads. Do you want anything?"
... tbh I wouldn't want to disturb the clarity of the narrative.
... tbh I wouldn't want to disturb the clarity of the narrative.
I love chatting to strangers. Here are three exceptions.
An American so profoundly uninformed that it was concerning. Asked where the Scottish president lived. Was amazed Edinburgh had built a parliament, because 'those buildings are usually old'. Fascinated that vegan milkshakes existed.
An American so profoundly uninformed that it was concerning. Asked where the Scottish president lived. Was amazed Edinburgh had built a parliament, because 'those buildings are usually old'. Fascinated that vegan milkshakes existed.
August 16, 2025 at 10:26 AM
I love chatting to strangers. Here are three exceptions.
An American so profoundly uninformed that it was concerning. Asked where the Scottish president lived. Was amazed Edinburgh had built a parliament, because 'those buildings are usually old'. Fascinated that vegan milkshakes existed.
An American so profoundly uninformed that it was concerning. Asked where the Scottish president lived. Was amazed Edinburgh had built a parliament, because 'those buildings are usually old'. Fascinated that vegan milkshakes existed.
@lauralexx.bsky.social So good to see your show today! Goddamn, just masterful everything - pacing, movement, references, commentary. Hope your Fringe is very good to you!
August 14, 2025 at 11:18 PM
@lauralexx.bsky.social So good to see your show today! Goddamn, just masterful everything - pacing, movement, references, commentary. Hope your Fringe is very good to you!
Twitter: you're shit and the libs are shit
Bluesky: we're shit and the internet is shit
Bluesky: we're shit and the internet is shit
July 28, 2025 at 7:48 PM
Twitter: you're shit and the libs are shit
Bluesky: we're shit and the internet is shit
Bluesky: we're shit and the internet is shit