The words Squad Chaos surrounding a shield with purple and white vertical lines with the letters 'THRUDBALL' and a cameo with the rather bovine head (partly due to the horned helmet partly due to the impassive expression) of Thrud the Barbarian.

Had a taxing but overall good week.

Last Saturday, tickets for this year's #Thrudball charity tournament went on sale, and only me and one other committee member were able to i put in some time in doing all the registration and communication.

We sold out within […]

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Purple translucent dice with white print. There are regular dice with normal pips and a barbarians horned helmet head with 'thrudball 2026' on the Six; there are also Block Dice a used in blood bowl, with a barbarian head instead of a skull, a barbarian head and splatter instead of the normal both down symbol, a nice and legible arrow for pushes and the regular splatter with and without exclamation point for defender stumblea and down. They are hella pretty.

I'm really in love with the dice for this year's #Thrudball

#onTheBall #BloodBowl

I'm on the ball, I'm off the ball, I'm on the ball, I'm off the ball, I'm where did I put my shoes
#DailyThoughts #LifePost #OnTheBall #ForgotAgain

“ON THE BALL” An EDIF quickly based on a soccer (football) player on our local team. Drawn in a 6“ x 8“ MUJI sketchbook with an orange fine liner, which was the closest Marc making utensil to me. #lobstartstudios #edif #ontheball #uth #soccer

Catherine Connolly with Béibhinn O'Connor, greeted by family and supporters at the Dublin Castle result announcement.

President Catherine Connolly's 2025 electoral hat-trick:

✅Greatest first preference vote in history

✅Largest share of valid poll in history

✅Highest victory margin in history

⚽️🏀🏐

#Áras25 #Spéirghorm #OnTheBall

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Absolutely nailed it in #OnTheBall today ⚽ 30/10/2025

I guessed the player in 3 guesses
Score: 76
Top 6% of players today

See if you can beat me!
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Bit of a struggle like he had against Torres #ontheball ⚽ On the ball - 23/10/2025

I guessed the player in 3 guesses
Score: 46
Top 70% of players today

See if you can beat me!

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Gw art of an Egyptian style mummy fella with glasses and a stack of scrolls on brass rods under his arm magicking a quill to write on a floating scroll with the souls of the damned by the looks of it.

So for all my #Nerdlings - the #BloodBowl nerds have been losing their minds over this:
www.warhammer-community.com/en-gb/articles/euo6nxbn/...

TL;DR (or summary for your entertainment) in the following […]

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a yellow bird is standing next to a tennis ball on the floor . ALT: a yellow bird is standing next to a tennis ball on the floor .

Who’s #paying #attention on #Bluesky? I’m #watching my #Playboy #dashboard and I’d like to make you an #offer I #hope you #cantrefuse…The next 100 #subs within the next 2.5 hours get #FREEDMs playboy.com/jenniferbayne
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🥎$3 subs + 🥎Free DMs which allow sending pics 😏‼️ #letsplayball #ontheball #value

Tiger striped dorfs beating up Amazons over a ball

Piece of oranjekoek with a chocolate with a gridiron rimmed Frisian pompeblêd (heraldic seeblatt in red, a vaguely rounded heart shaped water plant leaf to be found in European waterways and ponds). The oranjekoek is a cake with aniseed and orange peel, with pink glazing and whipped cream on top

Had a #BloodBowl7s tournament in #Amsterdam and we brought treats (picture). I took my unused dwarves (pictured here bullying Amazons), which I never had any intention of playing.

This is because playing against them is a boring grind and reportedly playing with […]

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Over 110 swag bags with coach names on

A queue of admins grabbing a good coffee from a bright orange van with badger paw prints. Sarah/Siouxsie did a great job and a lot of the positive feedback involved her

Alex Turner, author of the Advocatus fantasy novel, and myself, author of this thread dancing the can-can with thrudball and squadchaos flags in the background

#Thrudball retrospective 🧵 12/12

Some personal successes:

-the goodie bag and anniversary swag and anniversary Thrud models gave us a 150 line, 18 column Excel sheet and who picks up what for whom? Organised that to be arranged in 60m.

- instant coffee all […]

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Mr_t_ (the skinny white version), B4njo_Dan whose name isn't Dan, Ash1986 and Gromit in front of a giant Thrud standee

AndyDavo and MisspelledTree ruining one another's tournament😆

Torquemada with his futuristic body armour and Hargrim, with no body armour, playing a game

Trondur and Gr4n0t4 playing a game outside because they're Europeans and the sun was shining

#Thrudball retrospective 🧵 11/?

Apart from some things like people being unable to leave the premises at night and again a deplorable state of the Shared hygiene facilities, this was a succesful event. We raked up a total of £17.000, to be split between Roy Castle […]

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Landrover doing his thing in a three piece suit like a proper auctioneer

Hand drawn art in pencil and pen of thrud the barbarian, signed 'here to another 20 years! Best wishes, Carl Critchlow' FYI this thing sold for 555 pounds

Lovingly painted and decorated kraken stadium pitch donated by JemJar. It may have sold for a mere 150 quid, but the person who bought did leave message that he had lost his grandfather we before and came to the tournament straight from burial, and felt absolutely welcome and taken care of by everyone at the event. The pitch will be used to collect more money for charity in local tournaments.

Luciferous Windmill at the cake stand looking over the two cakes she baked for the Event

#Thrudball retrospective 🧵 10/?

What Thrudball is also good at, is extorting money from people to donate to #charity. We've got the Orction, an auction run by the lovely Landrover (Dan), in which we sell off to the highest bidder all manner of rare or unique or […]

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Clearly someone's kid playing against one of the 'ardest fellas around, and not giving a shit how 'ard exactly. These people have nothing to do with the situation described in the toot, as Sickric and Straykid both had uneventful tournaments with a lot of fun.

#Thrudball retrospective 🧵 9/?

Anyway, the games played went off uneventfully. And that's great, because uneventful means fair. Lots of people were having a lot of fun, and Thrudball is GOOD at fun. Only one coach didn't enjoy their games and got really salty so […]

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Big Dan, who's really as big as the name promises. He's as tall as my youngest brother. And really friendly.

#Thrudball retrospective 🧵 8/?

Unfortunately for all the late rosters, the deadline missed was the first tie breaker and ofc people get a bit pissy and I get that, because fair, it affects your standing. It's interesting however, how many people can't find the […]

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Head referee Inderol being absolutely fuming with and seriously ignored by Goblin coach Glowworm playing Samlikesska (I do too) while there are podcast and streamer scum all around, and a Shakespeare actor (Sir Ian McKellen's understudy to be precise, BB has culture!)

#Thrudball retrospective 🧵 7/?

Somewhere in April we asked of people to hand in their rosters via Google Shits or however you want to call it before July 6th. Ofc we only got 20 well in advance, and the majority in the few days before😆

I felt like a teacher […]

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Innocent, poor Nurgle (the community painted legacy team won by Oddgood, lovely fella) being bullied by a ruthless Halfling team

#Thrudball retrospective 🧵 6/?

With all the people present having different preferences, different allergies or diets, ordering different sets of goodies, tickets, and generally all being eager to play 6 games of regular #BloodBowl, plus half of them 3 more of […]

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Peanut_uk saying he's being torn a new one young Wednesday who plays Khorne and does so devastatingly.

Understaffed breakfast buffet

The tent camp before it was completely set up. Great weather.

#Thrudball retrospective 🧵 5/?

These nerds and their hangers-on also need feeding (and the breakfast/lunch in 2024 were dogshit, as @StuWatts can attest). They want tournament dice. They want nice memorabilia, shiny models, and ways to give money to charity (we'll […]

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Eldritchfox dressed up as thrud the barbarian with Solar Punk sunglasses and someone else's kid

#Thrudball retrospective 🧵 4/?

Have I burnt out on this? Hell no! But around December I already said that for a next iteration, 4 admins is too few. So we're expanding the operation. Why is this so?

Well...

130 nerds, some of which bring their entire families […]

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Master Wiggins, undead team, versus Eyeballpaul, all zombies team, playing outside in the sun. They drew😆

#Thrudball retrospective 🧵 3/?

I can see how this event burns out organisers (a thing that has happened over the past 3 years). However, we had been warned, so we made sure to set ourselves boundaries and Landrover did a great job keeping us on track, while […]

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A bunch of Amazons where they belong - in the casualty box. Assorted dice all over the place

So, #Thrudball retrospective 🧵 2/?

Throughout the year, we had monthly meetings, followed by piles and piles of small tasks. When I say there were only four of us, I have to add that due to the stuff in my family, my contribution in the last 2 months before we […]

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Supermarine sports club hall with ~130 mostly fat nerds in pairs pretending they're the coaches of American football teams with fantasy creatures in.

So, @nerdlings, time for my personal #Thrudball retrospective 🧵:

As one of the four core organisers of this lovely #BloodBowl event, I spent a long year and many hours on making sure everything went right, we got everything and at the best value for money, and […]

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The barbarian himself with an axe over his shoulder. Unlike classic thread this one is painted in the squad chaos slash thrudball colours: white loincloth, purple belt gems. Thrud himself has a tiny head with helmet with itty-bitty horns, and giant muscles - and when I say giant it's not just giant but IMMENSE musculature. He's got some nice buttocks showing through that loin cloth. Good barbarian cakes.

Two blood bowl coins, rotter with elf arms, and a nurgle fist token, all on 25 mm bases. Off the coins, there's one with two nurgling balls on either side, with a purple ball with yellow rims and white Bs, marked 'score' on the base; the second one has a purple bowl with white rims and yellow Bs, and reads re-roll on the base. The rotter is rather cross-legged creature with Shabby white trousers and wicked looking knee pads, with two eyes protruding from its belly. It's also got a bit of tubing coming out of its chest. The head is a triclops thing with three horns. Lots of uneven bifurcations. It's arms are perfectly pretty elf Arms, one holding the ball, like a good elf boy should. It's uniform is otherwise purple with a shoulder pad with a yellow Rim. This one is marked Erik. The fist token is a White gloved hand with pimples erupting from it, with a wristband in purple with a yellow nurgle logo, three circles with three Arrows coming from between them. This is marked turn.

I rallied and found some time (last night 10-11 and this morning 7-8:30) to finish classic #ThrudTheBarbarian and paint these markers and rotter for the #SquadChaos #Thrudball legacy team, only to discover I missed the jewel settings AFTER the glam shots.

Do I put […]

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