Simon K 🏴 🇩🇪 🇺🇦
@yorkistic.bsky.social
Player of board games, wargames, and RPGs. Copyeditor and proofreader, Intermediate Member @the-ciep.bsky.social. Philosophy grad. Ex reenactor & morris dancer. Tsundokuka. Often beset by loganamnosis. Immigrant/emigrant, depending on where you’re stood.
In all these Hollywood battles that are just a mass of brawling warriors, the hero will at some point shout "Hold the line!!". Mate, there is no line. There are no lines to be seen. You might fight better if you formed one.
November 11, 2025 at 3:49 PM
In all these Hollywood battles that are just a mass of brawling warriors, the hero will at some point shout "Hold the line!!". Mate, there is no line. There are no lines to be seen. You might fight better if you formed one.
That Thai director at Miss Universe really looked like a cartoon despot when he started shouting for security.
November 6, 2025 at 3:15 PM
That Thai director at Miss Universe really looked like a cartoon despot when he started shouting for security.
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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 auction is now live on eBay.
1500 credit Orlock gang.
9 humans and 2 cyber-mastiffs
(Scenery not included)
www.ebay.co.uk/itm/39722454...
Starting at £50.
Oz will get the money, not me.
DM me if you have any questions.
#Nerdlings
#Necromunda
1500 credit Orlock gang.
9 humans and 2 cyber-mastiffs
(Scenery not included)
www.ebay.co.uk/itm/39722454...
Starting at £50.
Oz will get the money, not me.
DM me if you have any questions.
#Nerdlings
#Necromunda
November 3, 2025 at 5:52 PM
This auction is now live on eBay.
1500 credit Orlock gang.
9 humans and 2 cyber-mastiffs
(Scenery not included)
www.ebay.co.uk/itm/39722454...
Starting at £50.
Oz will get the money, not me.
DM me if you have any questions.
#Nerdlings
#Necromunda
1500 credit Orlock gang.
9 humans and 2 cyber-mastiffs
(Scenery not included)
www.ebay.co.uk/itm/39722454...
Starting at £50.
Oz will get the money, not me.
DM me if you have any questions.
#Nerdlings
#Necromunda
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Why does everyone keep calling it “The Epstein Ballroom?” Please stop repeating “The Epstein Ballroom” because it is not called “The Epstein Ballroom!” Don’t tell the news that it’s called “The Epstein Ballroom” and please don’t repost this!!!!!
October 22, 2025 at 10:33 PM
Why does everyone keep calling it “The Epstein Ballroom?” Please stop repeating “The Epstein Ballroom” because it is not called “The Epstein Ballroom!” Don’t tell the news that it’s called “The Epstein Ballroom” and please don’t repost this!!!!!
October 19, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Sky
Steeleye Span
Fairport Convention
Manowar
Steeleye Span
Fairport Convention
Manowar
Mine in order of importance
Iron Maiden
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Guns and Roses
Leon Goossens
Iron Maiden
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Guns and Roses
Leon Goossens
Mine in order I remember them.
New Model Army
Levellers
Carter the Unstoppable Sex Machine.
Hawkwind
Iron Maiden.
Sultans of Ping FC
Dead Kennedys
Crass
Conflict
It Bites
Blaggers ITA
Chumbawamba
Blind Mole Rat
Dick Gaughan
Velvet Underground
James
Half Man Half Biscuit
EMF
Stiff Little Fingers
New Model Army
Levellers
Carter the Unstoppable Sex Machine.
Hawkwind
Iron Maiden.
Sultans of Ping FC
Dead Kennedys
Crass
Conflict
It Bites
Blaggers ITA
Chumbawamba
Blind Mole Rat
Dick Gaughan
Velvet Underground
James
Half Man Half Biscuit
EMF
Stiff Little Fingers
October 17, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Sky
Steeleye Span
Fairport Convention
Manowar
Steeleye Span
Fairport Convention
Manowar
We bought an apple press, and I have never felt so damned rustic. Apples! Capfuls! Three bushel bagfuls!
October 10, 2025 at 1:51 PM
We bought an apple press, and I have never felt so damned rustic. Apples! Capfuls! Three bushel bagfuls!
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if you’ve ever watched the apprentice, that’s the world without arts or humanities degrees
October 8, 2025 at 1:12 PM
if you’ve ever watched the apprentice, that’s the world without arts or humanities degrees
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The dawn chorus is so sweet in April but by October it’s just six drunk rooks arguing in a dead tree.
October 7, 2025 at 7:24 AM
The dawn chorus is so sweet in April but by October it’s just six drunk rooks arguing in a dead tree.
Philosophy for the modern world.
![[Scene is ANCIENT GREECE - where SOCRATES and PLATO and others are sitting round, thinking]
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SOCRATES:
Plato..
PLATO:
Yes Socrates?
2
SOCRATES:
Can you tell me, are you human?
PLATO:
Why… yes, Socrates
3
SOCRATES:
And would you agree, Plato, that a human knows what a chariot is?
PLATO:
Um, yep
4
SOCRATES:
So you can tell me, then
5
[Socrates produces a papyrus, showing a drawing of the corner of a chariot wheel]
SOCRATES:
*Is that a chariot*?
6
PLATO:
Well
that’s more just a bit of wheel
7
SOCRATES:
So not a *chariot*.
PLATO:
No.
8
SOCRATES:
[Producing another papyrus with the full drawing of the chariot, chopped into boxes]
So if a man were challenged to “tap the boxes containing chariots to prove you’re human” when he was just trying to check his ClubCard points... *where could he tap*?
9
PLATO:
Well you can’t tap any of them really
10
SOCRATES:
So are we not human?
PLATO:
‘Spose not.
11
[Bleak pause]
12
PLATO:
I’ll get the hemlock
SOCRATES:
Yeah
[ends]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:4m3we4apbjayclzcnhwe3pfp/bafkreiazbuxbxnuyt5etli2cjseaychvbuym6n6z33nwx2mutlvoqjdhge@jpeg)
October 3, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Philosophy for the modern world.
Got my copy of @wyrdscience.bsky.social magazine. It’s a good read, and its special ability is that it lays flat on the cafe table for ease of reading.
October 2, 2025 at 7:52 AM
Got my copy of @wyrdscience.bsky.social magazine. It’s a good read, and its special ability is that it lays flat on the cafe table for ease of reading.
@nicholaseames.bsky.social just finished Kings of the Wyld. Very good, I’m sure my extensive knowledge of rock music allowed me to spot nearly 25% of the music references you hid in the story.
September 30, 2025 at 5:36 PM
@nicholaseames.bsky.social just finished Kings of the Wyld. Very good, I’m sure my extensive knowledge of rock music allowed me to spot nearly 25% of the music references you hid in the story.
Cancelled my Disney+ sub, and told them this is in protest at their treatment of #Kimmel. Funny how they don't have an account on Bluesky I can tag directly, bet they have one on the other place, but I don't intend to open my old account to look.
September 20, 2025 at 9:49 AM
Cancelled my Disney+ sub, and told them this is in protest at their treatment of #Kimmel. Funny how they don't have an account on Bluesky I can tag directly, bet they have one on the other place, but I don't intend to open my old account to look.
Watched Time Bandits with my son today. I am forever surprised that Napoleon's line "That's what I like – little things, hitting each other!" is not the motto of many many #wargames clubs. #wargaming
September 15, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Watched Time Bandits with my son today. I am forever surprised that Napoleon's line "That's what I like – little things, hitting each other!" is not the motto of many many #wargames clubs. #wargaming
@jdhoare.bsky.social I'm enjoying Secret Passages 2, and also slogging through Harry Potter with my son at bedtimes. I'm thinking the Technocracy could have sorted out the whole wizarding war thing VERY quickly.
September 13, 2025 at 7:55 AM
@jdhoare.bsky.social I'm enjoying Secret Passages 2, and also slogging through Harry Potter with my son at bedtimes. I'm thinking the Technocracy could have sorted out the whole wizarding war thing VERY quickly.
I had forgotten, until now, that there was a Jack Russell terrier named ‘Spunky’.
A tough truth: Since it debuted in 1993, the title "Rocko's Modern Life" is no longer accurate.
September 13, 2025 at 5:35 AM
I had forgotten, until now, that there was a Jack Russell terrier named ‘Spunky’.
The evil that men do lives on and on …
September 11, 2025 at 7:43 PM
The evil that men do lives on and on …
What were your first 3 #ttrpg box sets?
1. D&D red box (1981)
2. Traveller (1981)
3. Call of Cthulhu (Games Workshop edition 1983)
1. D&D red box (1981)
2. Traveller (1981)
3. Call of Cthulhu (Games Workshop edition 1983)
What were your first 3 #ttrpg box sets?
1. Tunnels & Trolls
2. Lords of Creation
3. Daredevils
I've never had a D&D boxed set, only the Moldvay Basic Rules and AD&D Player's Handbook.
1. Tunnels & Trolls
2. Lords of Creation
3. Daredevils
I've never had a D&D boxed set, only the Moldvay Basic Rules and AD&D Player's Handbook.
What was my first 3 #ttrpg box sets?
Actually boxed?
Space Opera
Land of the Rising Sun 1st ed
Chivalry and Sorcery 2nd edition
Empire of the Petal Throne I got bagged, not boxed
Actually boxed?
Space Opera
Land of the Rising Sun 1st ed
Chivalry and Sorcery 2nd edition
Empire of the Petal Throne I got bagged, not boxed
August 27, 2025 at 5:27 AM
What were your first 3 #ttrpg box sets?
1. D&D red box (1981)
2. Traveller (1981)
3. Call of Cthulhu (Games Workshop edition 1983)
1. D&D red box (1981)
2. Traveller (1981)
3. Call of Cthulhu (Games Workshop edition 1983)
Have you heard the English phrase 'since time immemorial'? I've just today learned it has an exact legal definition. Time immemorial ceased in 1189AD, when King Richard I took the English throne. Legal memory began on that day. I love these sort of facts. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_im...
Time immemorial - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
August 26, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Have you heard the English phrase 'since time immemorial'? I've just today learned it has an exact legal definition. Time immemorial ceased in 1189AD, when King Richard I took the English throne. Legal memory began on that day. I love these sort of facts. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_im...
The Bright Sword by Lev Grossman is the best fantasy novel I've read for a long long time. Lots of #TTRPG tropes: quests, adventures, monsters, magic items, powerups, boss fights; but doesn't read like someone's campaign, it has a tightly woven story. Perfect for Pendragon or Mythic Bastionland.
August 24, 2025 at 5:24 AM
The Bright Sword by Lev Grossman is the best fantasy novel I've read for a long long time. Lots of #TTRPG tropes: quests, adventures, monsters, magic items, powerups, boss fights; but doesn't read like someone's campaign, it has a tightly woven story. Perfect for Pendragon or Mythic Bastionland.
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It's Monday, works boring and I know you're probably thinking, damn, I wish I could buy a cool magazine about tabletop games today that will then be delivered in September as a little treat to future me...
Well, looks like you just rolled a nat 20 kiddo!
shop.wyrd.science
Well, looks like you just rolled a nat 20 kiddo!
shop.wyrd.science
August 11, 2025 at 11:21 AM
It's Monday, works boring and I know you're probably thinking, damn, I wish I could buy a cool magazine about tabletop games today that will then be delivered in September as a little treat to future me...
Well, looks like you just rolled a nat 20 kiddo!
shop.wyrd.science
Well, looks like you just rolled a nat 20 kiddo!
shop.wyrd.science
New T-shirt from Cropredy, the Mound of Sorrows from the Franks Casket. ‘Here Hos sits on the sorrow-mound. She suffers distress as Erta decreed for her a sore-den of sorrows and torment of mind’ #anglosaxon #fairportconvention
August 10, 2025 at 12:21 PM
New T-shirt from Cropredy, the Mound of Sorrows from the Franks Casket. ‘Here Hos sits on the sorrow-mound. She suffers distress as Erta decreed for her a sore-den of sorrows and torment of mind’ #anglosaxon #fairportconvention