Chris Revie
@thetallone.bsky.social
Vainly attempting to have a good time all the time. RPGs, music and geekery.
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(*One of my favourite Nirvana songs)
![[TWO PINTS OF BEER are on a pub bar, one is PERONI and one is a brown Christmas-themed beer]
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PERONI:
Hello there
CHRISTMAS BEER:
Hello Peroni
2
PERONI:
So nice to have someone new on the lineup!
And you are…?
3
CHRISTMAS BEER:
You know who I am, Peroni.
4
CHRISTMAS BEER:
I am Brown Christmas Liquid.
I come back each year.
5
CHRISTMAS BEER:
Every time with a new name, and a new horrible ingredient.
Last year I was Reindeer Stomper. This year I am... Cheeky Elf.
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PERONI:
Oh god
You were on the bar for two months and…
CHRISTMAS BEER:
Three pints sold, aye.
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CHRISTMAS BEER:
I’m a seasonal blend of cinnamon, ginger, cloves, orange peel, nutmeg and this year, for reasons of late-capitalist sadism, vanilla.
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CHRISTMAS BEER:
My name is Cheeky Elf,
I taste of jam,
and I want to d*e.
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PERONI:
Well somebody’s trying you
CHRISTMAS BEER:
Poor bastard
[A hand comes down to lift CHRISTMAS BEER to sip the pint]
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[CHRISTMAS BEER being sipped, off-scene]
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[CHRISTMAS BEER being sipped, off-scene]
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[CHRISTMAS BEER gets put back on the bar ]
PERSON [who just drank CHRISTMAS BEER]:
Oh my god
CHEEKY ELF:
SEE?
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December 9, 2025 at 8:20 PM
(*One of my favourite Nirvana songs)
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REMEMBER: even in the wettest winter weather, SPONTANEOUS GOTH COMBUSTION is real and can strike AT ANY TIME.
Almost 1 in 4 goths will burst into flames at a Cure concert in their lifetime. Don't be a statistic, KNOW THE SIGNS.
Almost 1 in 4 goths will burst into flames at a Cure concert in their lifetime. Don't be a statistic, KNOW THE SIGNS.
December 5, 2025 at 8:37 AM
REMEMBER: even in the wettest winter weather, SPONTANEOUS GOTH COMBUSTION is real and can strike AT ANY TIME.
Almost 1 in 4 goths will burst into flames at a Cure concert in their lifetime. Don't be a statistic, KNOW THE SIGNS.
Almost 1 in 4 goths will burst into flames at a Cure concert in their lifetime. Don't be a statistic, KNOW THE SIGNS.
I think I’ve just discovered the best song title - Vorpal Laserblaster of Pittenweem.
December 3, 2025 at 7:36 PM
I think I’ve just discovered the best song title - Vorpal Laserblaster of Pittenweem.
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Took my car to the garage because it was making a terrible noise...
He removed the Mariah Carey Christmas CD, and now it’s fine.
He removed the Mariah Carey Christmas CD, and now it’s fine.
December 3, 2025 at 9:11 AM
Took my car to the garage because it was making a terrible noise...
He removed the Mariah Carey Christmas CD, and now it’s fine.
He removed the Mariah Carey Christmas CD, and now it’s fine.
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Post your favourite “Transformers” character. Wrong answers only.
November 30, 2025 at 10:05 PM
Post your favourite “Transformers” character. Wrong answers only.
The last leaves of autumn
November 30, 2025 at 5:01 PM
The last leaves of autumn
Some fascinating insights into the craft of script writing here.
Nine years ago Mike Fitzgerald wrote up an extraordinarily fascinating breakdown of the differences between the Tom Stoppard shooting script and the original Jeffrey Boam draft of Indiana Jones and The Last Crusade.
It's well worth your time: www.creativescreenwriting.com/indiana-jone...
It's well worth your time: www.creativescreenwriting.com/indiana-jone...
November 30, 2025 at 10:12 AM
Some fascinating insights into the craft of script writing here.
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#Rewilding One of the cartoons in my new book 'Physics for Cats'. Available now in good bookshops an online nowwww.tomgauld.com/comic-books-v2
November 28, 2025 at 2:37 PM
#Rewilding One of the cartoons in my new book 'Physics for Cats'. Available now in good bookshops an online nowwww.tomgauld.com/comic-books-v2
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![[Scene is a MEDIEVAL PLAGUE PIT with all the bodies inside it. On the edge of it is a young peasant woman, in a sack cloth dress, covered in boils. She is lounging glamorously next to the pit. Her boyfriend is standing a few feet away, photographing her with an anachronistic mobile phone]
GIRL:
OK so I'll sit here...
With my hair like this…
Rubbing my cyst with the corpse's hand.
[She produces a whithered severed hand and starts rubbing it on her face.]
[We are treated to a revolting close up of her rubbing the severed hand on her disgusting massive cyst.]
[Her boyfriend takes a photo of her.]
SNAP
GIRL:
OK, now write this:
"Hanging out at the burial pit, rubbing my sebaceous cyst with a severed corpse hand from
#BurtsGraverobbers…”
And then: #selfcare, #metime, #BurtsGraverobbers…
... nails emoji, heart emoji, cyst emoji.
BOYFRIEND:
Um...
Should we really be promoting this?
I mean… does rubbing a corpse's hand on a cyst actually work?
GIRL:
Look, Burt's done research, OK?
And he's paying us four groats.
BOYFRIEND:
Hmm.
[Boyfriend dutifully taps out the post on his phone]
TAP TAP TAP
BOYFRIEND:
Cyst emoji?
GIRL:
Just use a fried egg.
[Ends]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:4m3we4apbjayclzcnhwe3pfp/bafkreifyvq2vzehtutrj7ild2dd7kkljmkbcby7yompicekbbpa2bqpluq@jpeg)
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Now for some sports news...
(this week's cartoon for @theguardian.com books pages)
(this week's cartoon for @theguardian.com books pages)
November 24, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Now for some sports news...
(this week's cartoon for @theguardian.com books pages)
(this week's cartoon for @theguardian.com books pages)
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Hi Friends! #GroundhogPlay is a new access-focussed ttRPG playtest convention at @plutoq.bsky.social Glasgow, organized by @thirdvaultyarns.com and @floaker.bsky.social.
Run your in-dev game, get feedback, learn lessons, and try again. There will also be a creator peer support space.
#TTRPGintro
Run your in-dev game, get feedback, learn lessons, and try again. There will also be a creator peer support space.
#TTRPGintro
November 15, 2025 at 11:30 PM
Hi Friends! #GroundhogPlay is a new access-focussed ttRPG playtest convention at @plutoq.bsky.social Glasgow, organized by @thirdvaultyarns.com and @floaker.bsky.social.
Run your in-dev game, get feedback, learn lessons, and try again. There will also be a creator peer support space.
#TTRPGintro
Run your in-dev game, get feedback, learn lessons, and try again. There will also be a creator peer support space.
#TTRPGintro
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Damn! Watched the last episode of the current season of Slow Horses. Now what do I do?
November 15, 2025 at 8:54 PM
Damn! Watched the last episode of the current season of Slow Horses. Now what do I do?
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A radio programme like the Shipping Forecast but it’s called Bin Day and it just reads out every single council in the country’s bin schedule
November 10, 2025 at 11:53 PM
A radio programme like the Shipping Forecast but it’s called Bin Day and it just reads out every single council in the country’s bin schedule
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“WHY WOULD ANYONE LOOK INSIDE AN ALIEN EGG??” this is why:
November 18, 2024 at 8:35 PM
“WHY WOULD ANYONE LOOK INSIDE AN ALIEN EGG??” this is why:
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The home of the O'Donovan family is being used as a polling station in Coolmoyne, Co Tipperary. Around 250 people are eligible to vote at the house and after they cast their ballot, they will be treated to a cup of tea, a slice of apple or rhubarb tart, or a scone | More: rte.ie/b/1540324
October 24, 2025 at 10:51 AM
The home of the O'Donovan family is being used as a polling station in Coolmoyne, Co Tipperary. Around 250 people are eligible to vote at the house and after they cast their ballot, they will be treated to a cup of tea, a slice of apple or rhubarb tart, or a scone | More: rte.ie/b/1540324
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![1
Nurse:
It’s become a real problem in this area
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Nurse:
We’ve seen the whole community lost to addiction
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Show a building sign posted:
Westminster ‘X’ Addiction Clinic
With various Westminster people or looking at their phones outside it
Nurse:
Ministers, Spads, Researchers…
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Nurse:
Most mornings we’ll get a call about someone acting strangely
[Nurse on phone taking a call]
Ok - we’ll be right over
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Nurse:
We just have a gentle chat
[Nurses approach a minister –Robert Jenrick? - standing in the Palace of Westminster
Minister:
I understand your concerns…
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Nurse:
Are you OK love?
Minister:
Yes I’m just hearing legitimate concerns from real voters
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Nurse:
That’s a robot, a Nazi and a poorly-disguised Russian
[Show that the people he is talking to are precisely these characters]
Nurse 2:
Give us your phone, love
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Nurse:
At the clinic we put them in a Grass-Touching Pod, with a real voter to talk to
[We see them back at the clinic, holding the minister's head and pushing him into a glass isolation booth with a grass floor. And it is a baffled looking woman, on a chair, ready to talk to him.]
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Minister:
YOU MUST BE WORRIED ABOUT THE COMING CIVIL WAR
[woman looks baffled]
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woman:
I just want a bus service
Minister:
LOOK AT MY FLAG
[produces a St George's flag]
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Rob Wieland passed away last week at the age of 48; as a passionate and well-informed advocate of our hobby, he'll be greatly missed. As a tribute, @wyrdscience.bsky.social has put Rob's insightful article from February about the 40th anniversary of Pendragon as the lead on their new website.
The Once & Future Thing
40 years on from its original release, Greg Stafford’s Pendragon returns with its 6th edition, the first since Stafford’s passing. Regarded as amongst the greatest RPGs published, Rob Wieland speaks t...
wyrd.science
October 17, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Rob Wieland passed away last week at the age of 48; as a passionate and well-informed advocate of our hobby, he'll be greatly missed. As a tribute, @wyrdscience.bsky.social has put Rob's insightful article from February about the 40th anniversary of Pendragon as the lead on their new website.
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Glasgow City Council has a whole sovereign citizen FAQ
whoever wrote this was so very tired
glasgow.gov.uk/whyyouneedto...
whoever wrote this was so very tired
glasgow.gov.uk/whyyouneedto...
Why you require to pay Council Tax - Glasgow City Council
Information about why you are required to pay Council Tax.
glasgow.gov.uk
October 14, 2025 at 8:54 PM
Glasgow City Council has a whole sovereign citizen FAQ
whoever wrote this was so very tired
glasgow.gov.uk/whyyouneedto...
whoever wrote this was so very tired
glasgow.gov.uk/whyyouneedto...
Went to see Dewolff tonight- Hugely enjoyable! A sort of distillation of seventies rock - Deep Purple, a bit of Jethro Tull, Little Feat, Golden Earring and a touch of James Brown. All original material apart from an excellent cover of War Pigs!
October 9, 2025 at 10:42 PM
Went to see Dewolff tonight- Hugely enjoyable! A sort of distillation of seventies rock - Deep Purple, a bit of Jethro Tull, Little Feat, Golden Earring and a touch of James Brown. All original material apart from an excellent cover of War Pigs!
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On Yom Kippur many Jewish people in Britain have their phones off to mark the holy day.
As it ends at 723pm, some will hear the tragic Manchester news for the first time.
At that time, please join many of us to send a message of solidarity to British Jews.Thanks Together coalition for proposing.
As it ends at 723pm, some will hear the tragic Manchester news for the first time.
At that time, please join many of us to send a message of solidarity to British Jews.Thanks Together coalition for proposing.
October 2, 2025 at 4:06 PM
On Yom Kippur many Jewish people in Britain have their phones off to mark the holy day.
As it ends at 723pm, some will hear the tragic Manchester news for the first time.
At that time, please join many of us to send a message of solidarity to British Jews.Thanks Together coalition for proposing.
As it ends at 723pm, some will hear the tragic Manchester news for the first time.
At that time, please join many of us to send a message of solidarity to British Jews.Thanks Together coalition for proposing.
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"i just use it to generate ideas"
October 1, 2025 at 9:45 AM
"i just use it to generate ideas"
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I've been down the most fascinating rabbit hole this evening. A charity here in the UK called Heritage Crafts are giving bursaries for people wanting to learn endangered crafts. Just some of the crafts on the list:
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September 29, 2025 at 2:27 AM
I've been down the most fascinating rabbit hole this evening. A charity here in the UK called Heritage Crafts are giving bursaries for people wanting to learn endangered crafts. Just some of the crafts on the list:
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“And that’s Liminal Dachshund with the cover of their new album, Every Day Has Its Dog.”
September 29, 2025 at 6:43 AM
“And that’s Liminal Dachshund with the cover of their new album, Every Day Has Its Dog.”