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Darrell Impey
@brotherbaldric.bsky.social
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Husband, father, RPGer, nature lover.
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No.29 Battlecry!, by @paizo.com #2025reads
November 13, 2025 at 9:01 PM
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everyonehateselon.bsky.social
James Dyson owns more UK land than the actual KING. But he pays an effective tax rate of LESS THAN 1%* on his total wealth.

Here’s a novel idea @keirstarmer: to fund schools and hospitals, TAX THE BILLIONAIRES.

📍Station Lane, Bristol - near James Dyson’s £20m country estate Dodington Park
November 12, 2025 at 11:45 AM
brotherbaldric.bsky.social
No.28 Mountain of Sea and Sky, by @paizo.com (Adrian Ng) . #2025reads
October 30, 2025 at 10:25 PM
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No.27 Mischief in the Maze, by @paizo.com (Mikko Kallio) . #2025reads
October 30, 2025 at 10:24 PM
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No.26 Enough is Enough, by @paizo.com (Matt Duval) . #2025reads
October 29, 2025 at 10:03 PM
brotherbaldric.bsky.social
@watchitplayed.tv
Why did I think of you first?
youtu.be/9k7OUowPPMQ?...
I Am the Very Model of a Modern-Day Canadian
YouTube video by Tod Maffin
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October 15, 2025 at 8:41 AM
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jaseheeley.bsky.social
Magnificent.
October 12, 2025 at 6:55 PM
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kojamf.bsky.social
Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.
October 5, 2025 at 9:08 AM
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specialkhersoncat.bsky.social
The Prime Minister of Albania came up to Macron and Azerbaijani President Aliyev and joked about how Trump had resolved the conflict between Albania and Azerbaijan.
October 2, 2025 at 9:02 AM
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@spissatella.bsky.social
My brother had just shared his photo from the other side of it.
September 27, 2025 at 10:02 AM
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@floellabenjamin.bsky.social
BBC Archive celebrating the 49th anniversary of your first Playschool appearance today.
The love for you (and the program) in the comments is palpable.
September 27, 2025 at 9:16 AM
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daraobriain.bsky.social
I don’t know about you, but I’m still sort of processing that the US president stood up in the UN and declared that London is about to be under Sharia law, and the response has been “actually, that won’t happen” rather than “Jesus, that is insane.”
September 25, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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peterohanrahah.bsky.social
Remember that thing with dogs and cats that the orange nonce said, Pharage is just copying the lies....
September 24, 2025 at 12:03 PM
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No.25 To Blot Out the Sun, by @paizo.com (Jessica Catalan) . #2025reads

Mmm. This AP won't be ine that I'm eager to run; can't put a finger on why though.
September 24, 2025 at 5:08 PM
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No.24 The Broken Palace, by @paizo.com (James Jacobs) . #2025reads

This one just didn't gel for me; no idea why, it's a perfectly good adventure.
September 11, 2025 at 9:11 PM
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anarchoshanties.bsky.social
This one's maybe a little on the ling side, but trust me, it's worth it. I've cried reading it multiple times.

(1/3)
mylordshesacactus Carpathia received Titanic's distress signal at 12:20am, April 15th, 1912. She was 58 miles away, a distance that absolutely could not be covered in less than four hours. (Californian's exact position at the time is... controversial. She was close enough to have helped. By all accounts she was close enough to see Titanic's distress rockets. It's uncertain to this day why her crew did not respond, or how many might not have been lost if she had been there. This is not the place for what-ifs. This is about what was done.) Carpathia's Captain Rostron had, yes, rolled out of bed instantly when woken by his radio operator, ordered his ship to Titanic's aid and confirmed the signal before he was fully dressed. The man had never in his life responded to an emergency call. His goal tonight was to make sure nobody who heard that fact would ever believe it. All of Carpathia's lifeboats were swung out ready for deployment. Oil was set up to be poured off the side of the ship in case the sea turned choppy; oil would coat and calm the water near Carpathia if that happened, making it safer for lifeboats to draw up alongside her. He ordered lights to be rigged along the side of the ship so survivors could see it better, and had nets and ladders rigged along her sides ready to be dropped when they arrived, in order to let as many survivors as possible climb aboard at once. I don't know if his making provisions for there still being survivors in the water was optimism or not. I think he knew they were never going to get there in time for that. I think he did it anyway because, god, you have to hope. Carpathia had three dining rooms, which were immediately converted into triage and first aid stations. Each had a doctor assigned to it. Hot soup, coffee, and tea were prepared in bulk in each dining room, and blankets and warm clothes were collected to be ready to hand out. By this time, many of the passengers were awake-prepping a ship for disaster relief isn't quiet-and all of them stepped up to help, many donating their own clothes and blankets. And then he did something I tend to refer to as diverting all power from life support. Here's the thing about steamships: They run on steam. Shocking, I know; but that steam powers everything on the ship, and right now, Carpathia needed power. So Rostron turned off hot water and central heating, which bled valuable steam power, to everywhere but the dining rooms-which, of course, were being used to make hot drinks and receive survivors. He woke up all the engineers, all the stokers and firemen, diverted all that steam back into the engines, and asked his ship to go as fast as she possibly could. And when she'd done that, he asked her to go faster. I need you to understand that you simply can't push a ship very far past its top speed. Pushing that much sheer tonnage through the water becomes harder with each extra knot past the speed it was designed for. Pushing a ship past its rated speed is not only reckless-it's difficult to maneuver-but it puts an incredible amount of strain on the engines. Ships are not designed to exceed their top speed by even one knot. They can't do it. It can't be done. Carpathia's absolute do-or-die, the-engines-can't-take-this-forever top speed was fourteen knots. Dodging icebergs, in the dark and the cold, surrounded by mist, she sustained a speed of almost seventeen and a half. No one would have asked this of them. It wasn't expected. They were almost sixty miles away, with icebergs in their path. They had a responsibility to respond; they did not have a responsibility to do the impossible and do it well. No one would have faulted them for taking more time to confirm the severity of the issue. No one would have blamed them for a slow and cautious approach. No one but themselves.
September 11, 2025 at 10:20 AM
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August 30, 2025 at 3:33 PM
brotherbaldric.bsky.social
Noun or verb?

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Oban lifeboat called to pleasure craft off Luing | RNLI
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August 16, 2025 at 7:41 PM
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floregonian.com
I love this so much and I am absolutely tearing up about it. The gentleness and plainness of this, the way he just lets her be her (and she seems so damn lovely, who wouldn’t?), the generosity.

It isn’t going to solve the world’s problems, but this kind of humanity is a hell of a start.
August 12, 2025 at 1:51 AM
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@gregjenner.bsky.social
Thoughts?
August 8, 2025 at 3:41 PM
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Somebody has got to have shown @manmademoon.bsky.social
christhebarker.bsky.social christhebarker @christhebarker.bsky.social · Aug 4
Honourable mention:
The poster for Moon but with Mr Spoon from Button Moon off of the telly in the eighties
August 4, 2025 at 10:41 PM
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@jonmarkhicks.bsky.social
Hi mate, you still thinking about visiting the board games con in Kettering on Saturday?
August 1, 2025 at 12:30 PM
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No.23 Thirst for Blood, by @paizo.com (Luis Loza) . #2025reads

Written with many side-bars and suggestions for a new GM, it strangely also contains some quite complex encounters.
July 31, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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philrosenthal.bsky.social
I’m heartbroken, but Tom Lehrer was a genius who lived a long, fruitful and remarkable life. Along with Mad magazine and Allan Sherman, he fed and shaped my sense of humor. I didn’t understand all of it at first — but I learned.

My God, he was smart.
Tom Lehrer Full Copenhagen Performance
YouTube video by Tom Lehrer
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July 27, 2025 at 5:17 PM