Absolutely impeccable gag.

Fantastic Kingdom: Dr Helene von Bismarck on her latest book, and Britain

So, away from all the Trumpian madness, I had a Bank Holiday-friendly, long-form chat with @helenebismarck.bsky.social about her new book "Fantastic Kingdom" - a stranger's account of Britain: warm, insightful and - in appropriate measure - critical. Have a listen!

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*clears through for best marketing voice*
The kindle edition of Jungle Commandos is currently just £3.99 on Amazon. In the book, I made it my mission to share the incredible achievements of not just 3 Commando Brigade but the men of the Indian and African divisions who fought alongside them

Lá Fhéile Pádraig Sona Daoibh and as is traditional at this point I want to highlight a number of Irish comics creators working at both small press and mainstream publisher level. Ones to watch and support this St. Patrick’s Day (will also accept Paddy’s Day but not “Patty’s Day”).

World rugby: Okay. So you can win this entire tournament

Ireland: Okay, great!

World rugby: as long as England win their game.

Ireland:...

World Rugby: So obviously you would want England to-

Ireland: -Shush I'm thinking.

Reminder: a short time outside can do far more for your nervous system than an hour of overthinking

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Tycho Clipper warming up on the flight deck.

A comic strip featuring four panels with different RPG characters. The first panel shows a warrior with a sword saying, “I swear I will have my revenge for the death of my brother.” The second panel shows an elf with a bow and arrow saying, “You have my bow.” The third panel shows a dwarf with an axe saying, “And my axe.” The fourth panel shows a necromancer with a skeletal hand saying, “And your brother.”

A classic RPG party formation. You know the drill.

#ttrpg #dnd #rpg #meme #ttrpgsky #ttrpgcommunity

Mutants & Masterminds 4th Edition Tabletop RPG A new edition of our classic superhero TTRPG with updated and streamlined game systems, more options, and a new look!

Well, friends, here we go!

Check out Mutants & Masterminds 4th Edition Tabletop RPG by Green Ronin Publishing on @kickstarter.com www.kickstarter.com/projects/gre...

Here ya go. Enjoy Cats vs Bears😂😂😂

Infallibly brings a tear to the eye…

Such a great film.

Another Xmas pressie for Junior sorted. Ta!

A post from ViperThreat: Worked as an on-call computer tech for about a year, and I've seen some weird shit. Plenty of Hoarders, elderly men with interesting sexual fantasies, Multimillonaire Lawyers with closets full of gay porn, etc. The weirdest one was this cool old dude who had retired and lived in a double-wide trailer in a fairly nice retirement trailer park. His house had one of those trains that traveled along the walls from room to room, occasionally poking through walls and such. The primary purpose of this train was to carry his bird (a blue macaw IIRC) around the house. From his explanation, the bird had some birth defects and had difficulty flying, so they built the train for the bird to cruise around the house on. This may not sound all that weird to you, but let me set the stage for you: You're a college student removing a stupid browser hijack from some old guy's computer. You're nearly done with the job when you hear a clacking sound and look up to see a toy train crossing your vision. Aboard the train is a decently sized bird that makes eye contact with you and says "choo choo motherfucker" before disappearing into the next room. One of the most surreal moments of my life.

Get a load of this. 😆

Wyrd Science Vol.1 / Issue 7 [Print] IF YOU WANT A SUBSCRIPTION, AND TO SAVE 10% ON THE COVER PRICE, PLEASE GO HERE Wyrd Science returns for another exploration of the strange worlds and new horizons of tabletop games... In this issue......

Opening up a few more slots this evening for new readers

The real BBC bias story, narrated by Anna Ford

Hard to recall these days how it permeated popular US culture then.

It’s certainly an arms length way of engaging with the unthinkable 🙂. Always wondered what the motivation for creating the game really was tbh. You highlight a bunch of interesting choices!

I mean, seemed a pretty bloody real prospect to teenage me in 1984!

Excellent, that’s one preorder.

Thought that struck reading it. My sense is there was a *relative* lack of interest in military or contemporary TTRPGs back then, unless they had an element of fantasy (007 etc). Clearly post nuclear counts then as ‘fantasy’? Curious psychology there…

It’s a hugely interesting piece, feels like opening a very fertile area for further investigation. So many angles to take!

A list showing the most read articles in the Journal of American Studies over the last ninety days. In order, it shows: Malcolm Craig: When You Say, “Thermonuclear War,” I Think You Mean “the Call to Adventure”! The Twilight: 2000 Tabletop Role-Playing Game and the Postapocalyptic World’s Imaginary Spaces Joe Street: The Historiography of the Black Panther Party Caroline V. Hamilton: The Erotic Charisma of Alexander Hamilton Adam Fairclough: Historians and the Civil Rights Movement

Gee whizz! My article on Twilight 2000 in the Journal of American studies is now the most read piece over the last 3 months, despite it only being available for a couple of weeks. That's kind of terrifying! Thanks so much to everyone who's taken the time to engage with it!
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It’s comparable to the Macallan 12 for half the price imo

Nice list. Must seek out the Port Charlotte. And if you like Aberlour the Glendronach 12yo is a bit of a secret gem.

I enjoyed this. And what an infectious laugh. ❤️

"Reporter left speechless after witnessing Japan's new $70 million Maglev train in action at 310 mph"

Ellisland, 1791 Dear Sir: Thou eunuch of language; thou Englishman, who never was south the Tweed; thou servile echo of fashionable barbarisms; thou quack, vending the nostrums of empirical elocution; thou marriage-maker between vowels and consonants, on the Gretna-green of caprice; thou cobler, botching the flimsy socks of bombast oratory; thou blacksmith, hammering the rivets of absurdity; thou butcher, embruing thy hands in the bowels of orthography; thou arch-heretic in pronunciation; thou pitch-pipe of affected emphasis; thou carpenter, mortising the awkward joints of jarring sentences; thou squeaking dissonance of cadence; thou pimp of gender; thou Lyon Herald to silly etymology; thou antipode of grammar; thou executioner of construction; thou brood of the speech-distracting builders of the Tower of Babel; thou lingual confusion worse confounded; thou scape-gallows from the land of syntax; thou scavenger of mood and tense; thou murderous accoucheur of infant learning; thou ignis fatuus, misleading the steps of benighted ignorance; thou pickle-herring in the puppet-show of nonsense; thou faithful recorder of barbarous idiom; thou persecutor of syllabication; thou baleful meteor, foretelling and facilitating the rapid approach of Nox and Erebus. R.B. Robert Burns | Letter to a critic, 1791 | The Works of Robert Burns, Volume 4

Dear Sir:

Thou eunuch of language; thou Englishman, who never was south the Tweed; thou servile echo of fashionable barbarisms; thou quack, vending the nostrums of empirical elocution…

—Robert Burns, Letter to a critic (1791)
#WorldLetterWritingDay #C18th
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Re-upping this for the afternoon: