John
@wildpark.bsky.social
Games, security awareness, culture change, Eurovision.
Prepping a very old adventure - The Snowbird Mystery from White Dwarf 41 - and I really want to intro it the way @burnafterrunning.bsky.social did for the Stay Frosty adventure I played with him at Grogmeetish. But I can’t remember the acronym! Guy - was it COTS? I know theme was in there somewhere!
February 12, 2026 at 3:03 PM
Prepping a very old adventure - The Snowbird Mystery from White Dwarf 41 - and I really want to intro it the way @burnafterrunning.bsky.social did for the Stay Frosty adventure I played with him at Grogmeetish. But I can’t remember the acronym! Guy - was it COTS? I know theme was in there somewhere!
Chatting with @nickbradbeer.bsky.social and others last night as we were playing Traveller and I mentioned Blades in the Dark being a favourite of mine for being low prep. As proof, this photo shows 4 index cards that were responsible for about 20-30 sessions of roleplay and scores.
February 6, 2026 at 3:05 PM
Chatting with @nickbradbeer.bsky.social and others last night as we were playing Traveller and I mentioned Blades in the Dark being a favourite of mine for being low prep. As proof, this photo shows 4 index cards that were responsible for about 20-30 sessions of roleplay and scores.
I agree with Jules’ point about there should have been much more fanfare here but this is proper good news for renters in the UK.
Good news but slightly odd manner and timing of announcement? - in a video on tik tok, not made overnight to maximise press coverage, no supportive quotes
www.gov.uk/government/n...
www.gov.uk/government/n...
PM: “We're capping ground rents at £250”
PM caps ground rents at £250 a year in game-changing shake up of leasehold system and to support families with the cost of living.
www.gov.uk
January 27, 2026 at 10:08 AM
I agree with Jules’ point about there should have been much more fanfare here but this is proper good news for renters in the UK.
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Ok, I could *really* do with a vague idea of how many people might be interested in this event, otherwise finding a suitable venue is a nonsense.
I've set up a temporary event page here: ti.to/tabletop-unc...
If you're conceptually interested, please click through and register your interest!
I've set up a temporary event page here: ti.to/tabletop-unc...
If you're conceptually interested, please click through and register your interest!
January 21, 2026 at 10:51 AM
Ok, I could *really* do with a vague idea of how many people might be interested in this event, otherwise finding a suitable venue is a nonsense.
I've set up a temporary event page here: ti.to/tabletop-unc...
If you're conceptually interested, please click through and register your interest!
I've set up a temporary event page here: ti.to/tabletop-unc...
If you're conceptually interested, please click through and register your interest!
Introduce yourself with 5 bands / concerts you’ve seen live:
Kate Bush
Tori Amos
Billy Bragg
Lamb
A-ha
Kate Bush
Tori Amos
Billy Bragg
Lamb
A-ha
Maktub
Caravan Palace
Gin Wigmore
Charles Bradley
Prom Queen
(+ My Terrible Friend )
(++ The Doubleclicks)
Caravan Palace
Gin Wigmore
Charles Bradley
Prom Queen
(+ My Terrible Friend )
(++ The Doubleclicks)
Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you’ve seen:
Pete Seeger and Arlo Guthrie
Flogging Molly
Jethro Tull
Calexico
Emmylou Harris, Patty Griffin, and Shawn Colvin
Pete Seeger and Arlo Guthrie
Flogging Molly
Jethro Tull
Calexico
Emmylou Harris, Patty Griffin, and Shawn Colvin
January 20, 2026 at 9:03 AM
Introduce yourself with 5 bands / concerts you’ve seen live:
Kate Bush
Tori Amos
Billy Bragg
Lamb
A-ha
Kate Bush
Tori Amos
Billy Bragg
Lamb
A-ha
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There are going to be limits to what you can make other countries do by threatening to tax your own citizen's purchases of their products.
I believe handing over entire territories falls well beyond those limits.
🤷♂️
I believe handing over entire territories falls well beyond those limits.
🤷♂️
January 17, 2026 at 5:09 PM
There are going to be limits to what you can make other countries do by threatening to tax your own citizen's purchases of their products.
I believe handing over entire territories falls well beyond those limits.
🤷♂️
I believe handing over entire territories falls well beyond those limits.
🤷♂️
Stop scrolling and post two characters who bring you happiness.
January 14, 2026 at 9:58 AM
Stop scrolling and post two characters who bring you happiness.
I’ve seen some of the maps and designs for this and it looks awesome - really looking forward to getting my hands on a copy.
Our next crowdfunder!
Blades '68 grabs Blades in the Dark by the lapels of its woolen jacket and launches the game 100 years into the future!
New crews, new rules and subversive acts of radical revolution await you under the light of an artificial sun.
Sign up here:
www.backerkit.com/call_to_acti...
Blades '68 grabs Blades in the Dark by the lapels of its woolen jacket and launches the game 100 years into the future!
New crews, new rules and subversive acts of radical revolution await you under the light of an artificial sun.
Sign up here:
www.backerkit.com/call_to_acti...
January 8, 2026 at 6:25 PM
I’ve seen some of the maps and designs for this and it looks awesome - really looking forward to getting my hands on a copy.
overcast.fm/+ABFPLrrMVaM TRiE is often a bit hit and miss but this episode is a corker - they bury the lede in the title but the first section on the Disney+ deal with OpenAi is fascinating. Osman cites Karl Marx (quite properly in my opinion) and they discuss the motivations and likely outcomes.
The Bitchiest Celeb Interview Of All Time — The Rest Is Entertainment
What is the cattiest Hollywood interview of all time? Should we ignore ‘notorious a-hole’ Quentin Tarantino? Is Richard Osman a Marxist? Disney has signed a highly controversial deal with Open AI, lic...
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December 17, 2025 at 9:25 AM
overcast.fm/+ABFPLrrMVaM TRiE is often a bit hit and miss but this episode is a corker - they bury the lede in the title but the first section on the Disney+ deal with OpenAi is fascinating. Osman cites Karl Marx (quite properly in my opinion) and they discuss the motivations and likely outcomes.
Just complimented a woman on the train for her necklace (lovely South American style jewellery). She in her turn said that she’d heard me on the phone and I had a lovely voice.
And now we both feel great and the world is a little bit a better place.
And now we both feel great and the world is a little bit a better place.
December 3, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Just complimented a woman on the train for her necklace (lovely South American style jewellery). She in her turn said that she’d heard me on the phone and I had a lovely voice.
And now we both feel great and the world is a little bit a better place.
And now we both feel great and the world is a little bit a better place.
Hard to believe it’s London, really.
December 3, 2025 at 8:20 AM
Hard to believe it’s London, really.
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Does anyone know of any geek/nerd events taking place anywhere in the UK next weekend - 31st Oct, 1st Nov, 2nd Nov.
I’ve found out about 3 I’ve not been aware of in just past couple of days and I don’t want the same to happen next weekend.
Please repost.
I’ve found out about 3 I’ve not been aware of in just past couple of days and I don’t want the same to happen next weekend.
Please repost.
October 26, 2025 at 12:56 PM
Does anyone know of any geek/nerd events taking place anywhere in the UK next weekend - 31st Oct, 1st Nov, 2nd Nov.
I’ve found out about 3 I’ve not been aware of in just past couple of days and I don’t want the same to happen next weekend.
Please repost.
I’ve found out about 3 I’ve not been aware of in just past couple of days and I don’t want the same to happen next weekend.
Please repost.
I’ve been involved in the web since pretty much its beginning - I remember when Danny Sullivan started Search Engine Watch, for example, because there were sufficient different search engines to be worth writing about. And Simon’s article is sadly true.
Well worth a read (and Simon is a nice guy).
Well worth a read (and Simon is a nice guy).
Entertainment websites are disappearing, or having to double down on clickbait etc to keep going. A few thoughts, and a presumably futile request to Google for some guidance.
filmstories.co.uk/news/okay-th...
filmstories.co.uk/news/okay-th...
Okay then, Google: tell us what to do | The future of entertainment websites
Google's search results are, sadly, damaging lots of websites. What does Google actually want? And is it what a human being would want?
filmstories.co.uk
October 7, 2025 at 5:54 AM
I’ve been involved in the web since pretty much its beginning - I remember when Danny Sullivan started Search Engine Watch, for example, because there were sufficient different search engines to be worth writing about. And Simon’s article is sadly true.
Well worth a read (and Simon is a nice guy).
Well worth a read (and Simon is a nice guy).
Interesting that two different news sources can take the same event and spin an entirely different story about it via the headline. In one, Kimmel is defiant, in the other, he’s repentant to the point of tears.
I wonder which one it was.
I wonder which one it was.
September 24, 2025 at 6:51 AM
Interesting that two different news sources can take the same event and spin an entirely different story about it via the headline. In one, Kimmel is defiant, in the other, he’s repentant to the point of tears.
I wonder which one it was.
I wonder which one it was.
I am (very slowly) catching up with a podcast called “Improvised Radio Theatre - With Dice” (
tekeli.li/podcast/inde... Michael Cule and Roger Bell-West talk about RPGs each month. It’s great :-)
But I just caught up on an episode where they look to the future …. 1/2
tekeli.li/podcast/inde... Michael Cule and Roger Bell-West talk about RPGs each month. It’s great :-)
But I just caught up on an episode where they look to the future …. 1/2
tekeli.li
September 1, 2025 at 6:45 PM
I am (very slowly) catching up with a podcast called “Improvised Radio Theatre - With Dice” (
tekeli.li/podcast/inde... Michael Cule and Roger Bell-West talk about RPGs each month. It’s great :-)
But I just caught up on an episode where they look to the future …. 1/2
tekeli.li/podcast/inde... Michael Cule and Roger Bell-West talk about RPGs each month. It’s great :-)
But I just caught up on an episode where they look to the future …. 1/2
Very happy to be speaking at this. Come along (virtually) and hear me talk about my favourite frauds!
Our 2025 Schedule is now live! pancakescon.com/2025-confere...
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@hecksec.com
Congratulations to: jodiem.bsky.social @dotdot.horse neurovagrant.bsky.social @t-dye.bsky.social
@wildpark.bsky.social @tindrasgrove.com @vamagabyte
@winterknight.net @redteamwrangler.bsky.social
@hecksec.com
August 31, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Very happy to be speaking at this. Come along (virtually) and hear me talk about my favourite frauds!
Deeply amused that when translated into Arabic and then back to English, the Kevin McCloud show, Grand Designs, translates as “The Rich Also Cry”.
Which, if you have ever seen the programme, is a /perfect/ title.
Which, if you have ever seen the programme, is a /perfect/ title.
August 31, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Deeply amused that when translated into Arabic and then back to English, the Kevin McCloud show, Grand Designs, translates as “The Rich Also Cry”.
Which, if you have ever seen the programme, is a /perfect/ title.
Which, if you have ever seen the programme, is a /perfect/ title.
“He hated being thought of as one of those people that wore stupid ornamental armour.
It was gilt by association.”
PRATCHETT!!!!
(Night Watch reread - first time in many years. And the literary landlines have just started …)
It was gilt by association.”
PRATCHETT!!!!
(Night Watch reread - first time in many years. And the literary landlines have just started …)
August 25, 2025 at 1:39 PM
“He hated being thought of as one of those people that wore stupid ornamental armour.
It was gilt by association.”
PRATCHETT!!!!
(Night Watch reread - first time in many years. And the literary landlines have just started …)
It was gilt by association.”
PRATCHETT!!!!
(Night Watch reread - first time in many years. And the literary landlines have just started …)
Playing “Mind the Gap” - a London Transport Uno variant with the family on holiday. Can’t get my family to understand my joy at this win.
August 23, 2025 at 9:00 AM
Playing “Mind the Gap” - a London Transport Uno variant with the family on holiday. Can’t get my family to understand my joy at this win.
This thread is absolutely worth your time reading. Absolutely put a huge smile on my face. Thank you @delafina777.bsky.social for sharing it.
funny story, I signed up for personal training at a local gym and was assigned a former NFL linebacker as a trainer
giant man, covered in tattoos, big muscles, loud voice
I am someone who just… doesn’t have a particularly well-assembled body
giant man, covered in tattoos, big muscles, loud voice
I am someone who just… doesn’t have a particularly well-assembled body
“men can’t express their feelings because they get taught as boys to toughen up if they cry”
*stares in Was In Ballet For Her Entire Childhood*
*stares in Was In Ballet For Her Entire Childhood*
August 14, 2025 at 10:12 PM
This thread is absolutely worth your time reading. Absolutely put a huge smile on my face. Thank you @delafina777.bsky.social for sharing it.
Here’s how good accessibility benefits more than its focussed audience. I’m with my 6yo daughter at the theatre and for the toilet I have a choice of taking her into the gents, or trying to make sure the ladies is clear. With gender-neutral toilets I wouldn’t worry. #TransRightsAreHumanRights
August 10, 2025 at 9:51 AM
Here’s how good accessibility benefits more than its focussed audience. I’m with my 6yo daughter at the theatre and for the toilet I have a choice of taking her into the gents, or trying to make sure the ladies is clear. With gender-neutral toilets I wouldn’t worry. #TransRightsAreHumanRights
I’ve just realised - my general disdain for shows like Critical Role et al (nothing against them personally, but RPGs are for participants, not spectators #HillIWillDieOn ) is basically punk. Screw watching people. Get 4 dice, get up there and do it yourself.
August 9, 2025 at 6:57 PM
I’ve just realised - my general disdain for shows like Critical Role et al (nothing against them personally, but RPGs are for participants, not spectators #HillIWillDieOn ) is basically punk. Screw watching people. Get 4 dice, get up there and do it yourself.
Watched the Lionesses final - I’m not a football fan but my 9yo son and his mate are. And they’re just as happy to cheer for the male team (if they ever give us cause …)
July 27, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Watched the Lionesses final - I’m not a football fan but my 9yo son and his mate are. And they’re just as happy to cheer for the male team (if they ever give us cause …)
Listening to an 80s playlist on Apple Music and they’ve got some great tunes on there. Most surprising so far has being their choice to use what they claim is the original 12” of Soft Cell’s Tainted Love.
It’s awesome. But also very, very strange.
It’s awesome. But also very, very strange.
July 19, 2025 at 11:14 AM
Listening to an 80s playlist on Apple Music and they’ve got some great tunes on there. Most surprising so far has being their choice to use what they claim is the original 12” of Soft Cell’s Tainted Love.
It’s awesome. But also very, very strange.
It’s awesome. But also very, very strange.
It’s a hard world out there - Green Ronin do some great stuff and don’t deserve to be treated like this by Diamond’s bankruptcy. Please consider donating to their legal fund and / or sharing their post.
If you would like to help a (my) small company avoid having a bunch of our shit stolen by a much larger company, anything you can do would be appreciated, whether that is an actual contribution or just spreading the word. We're not in this alone, but we can use all the help we can get.
We've launched a GoFundMe campaign so we can defend our property in the Diamond bankruptcy case. The full story is at the link but basically, Diamond is trying to take consignment inventory that they don't own and sell it to pay big creditors. TY for help and shares! www.gofundme.com/f/support-gr...
July 12, 2025 at 8:18 AM
It’s a hard world out there - Green Ronin do some great stuff and don’t deserve to be treated like this by Diamond’s bankruptcy. Please consider donating to their legal fund and / or sharing their post.