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Gav Thorpe
@gavthorpe.bsky.social
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New York Times Bestselling Author, world creator, consultant and games developer specialising in SF and Fantasy. Proud daddy. Whitecishet. He / him.
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brasidas.bsky.social
blinkist. BLINKIST. He isn't reading shit.
ratboy genius Follow @dogprom 2 LMFAO this fucking ad i just got. joyce BBQ'd his illiterate ass so bad he's pushing ads about how he reads books actually Blinkist @blinkist Ad ••• When he's not building rockets, boring tunnels beneath Los Angeles, or sending cars into space, Elon Musk reads a lot. Here are 9 nonfiction books he thinks we should all read. 9 Books from Elon Musk's Reading List That... From blinkist.com 7:24 am - 10 Nov 2025 • 5,256 Views
November 11, 2025 at 12:39 AM
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happytoast.co.uk
Anyone recently visited Caxton Gibbet services and lost a fairly heavy ring with an engraving inside?
November 11, 2025 at 9:09 AM
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Congratulations to David Szalay, but there is only one Flesh.
November 11, 2025 at 8:45 AM
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sardonicus.eu
Photo of a Nauruan warrior in the Nauruan Civil War around 1880 wearing traditional battle armour.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nauruan...
man in scale type armour holding a spear
November 11, 2025 at 8:49 AM
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anarchoshanties.bsky.social
RETVRN to stupidly horny hand-painted schlocky sword-and-sorcery covers
The cover of Robert E Howard's "Conan: the Sword Woman," showing a red-headed woman in a chainmail brah and leather-flap skirt swinging a khopesh blade down at some poor fucker who is in absolutely no good fencing position to block her attack (although luckily for him, she's got equally piss-poor stance in her swing, you can see it coming from a mile away, so maybe he's got a chance). They're fighting in a river.
November 10, 2025 at 10:13 PM
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aiannucci.bsky.social
Well, this is quite a serious allegation. I do hope the BBC shows true impartiality and investigate whether or not some of its Board members are systemically biased. www.theguardian.com/media/2025/n...
BBC board member with Tory links ‘led charge’ in systemic bias claims, say insiders
Sources say Robbie Gibb amplified criticisms of Trump, Gaza and trans rights coverage, and had ‘a lot of oxygen in the room’
www.theguardian.com
November 11, 2025 at 7:34 AM
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bramblebug.bsky.social
that’s what I’ve been saaaayying maaan
a screenshot from Animal Crossing New Horizons, where two characters (a red otter with a white beanie, and the player wearing a striped bathing suit and brown cowboy hat) float in blue water. a white and red chat bubble reads, in blue lettering “Pascal: Talented folks are just normal folks who practice something more than other folks, maaan.”
November 10, 2025 at 6:32 PM
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hilary-ps.bsky.social
An environment piece I created for a cool cyberpunk rebellion game by Scratchpad Publishing. This depicts the industrial district, where impoverished workers from the slums toil endlessly amid thick, polluted air.

More at
www.artstation.com/artwork/98oXxa

#conceptart #gameart
November 10, 2025 at 6:33 AM
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divinecoffeebinge.bsky.social
Dear Seattle friends:
zackdavisson.com Zack Davisson @zackdavisson.com · 11h
There are 1,700 ballots that need signature confirmation. That is enough to change the election.

Go. Check. Your. Ballot.

komonews.com/news/local/s...
November 11, 2025 at 6:32 AM
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literaticat.bsky.social
Authors, Beware! There's a firm called "ClaimsHero" doing aggressive social media outreach claiming to
"help" you file to get $ in the Anthropic class action. In fact, it's a bait-and-switch, they are luring authors to sign up with them, then OPTING THEM OUT of the class action so they'll get zilch.
November 10, 2025 at 10:01 PM
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unburntwitch.com
low polyamory
weeg.bsky.social weego @weeg.bsky.social · Sep 29
hardcore bondage people are so fucking funny look at this shit bro
November 10, 2025 at 9:33 PM
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elderman.bsky.social
Trump said that the United States and Italy have been allies since the time of Ancient Rome. The translator's reaction is priceless!

He's using ancient Rome as a synonym for a long long time?
November 10, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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kootenaymarxist.bsky.social
On this day in 1917, the October Revolution led by Vladimir Lenin’s Bolsheviks succeeded with the storming of the Winter Palace, overthrowing the Provisional Government.
Lenin, standing atop a stage, speaking to the crowds of people in Moscow, 1917
November 7, 2025 at 3:41 PM
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lorekeating.bsky.social
🚨 ATTN Writers, Book Club Scams

For new writers: Money should always flow TOWARDS the writer. NEVER pay for promo.
I've been getting roughly one of these emails a week for the last month. I contacted the real club to give them the heads-up (who confirmed the obvious scam) so I feel I can share
1/3
Scam bot using scraped text to sound familiar with my work" "Your novel Agony’s Lodestone stopped us in our tracks. The way you capture the ache of grief, that terrible void where memory and reality blur is both devastating and beautiful. The concept of a sister resurrected through shifting videotape imagery feels like a modern ghost story in its purest, most unsettling form: haunting not just because of what’s seen, but because of what’s lost" in order to convince me a) they're legit b) I should pay to be discussed in their book club ..... no, honey.
November 10, 2025 at 7:30 PM
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jameshodden.bsky.social
His workplace is going to get one of these installed.
November 10, 2025 at 9:25 PM
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razzball.bsky.social
Joyce Carol Oates owned Elon so hard he's spent the last day posting about movies he hasn't seen in 15 years
cinesthetic. @ @TheCinesthetic - 6h Edge of Tomorrow (2014) was sunk by confusing marketing and a forgettable title, yet it turned out to be one of the smartest and most entertaining sci-fi films of the last decade. Tom Cruise and Emily Blunt at their absolute best. 5 cinesthetic. © @TheCinesthetic - 14h What film have you gone into absolutely expecting to hate but that ended up pleasantly surprising you the most? 303 t7 703 • 15K Elon Musk • Great movie 9 98 17 47 0 cinesthetic. @@TheCinesthetic - 1d Man on Fire (2004) sits at 38% on Rotten Tomatoes, proof that critics don't always see the vision. Tony Scott turned vengeance into poetry, and Denzel Washington gave one of his most quietly devastating performances. cinesthetic. • @TheCinesthetic-2d What's your favorite movie with a "rotten" (below 60%) rating on Rotten Tomatoes? © 44к ni 217K 贝 Elon Musk • x 2 @elonmusk - 16m Man on Fire is great! • 64 to 16 • 187
November 10, 2025 at 4:31 PM
gavthorpe.bsky.social
From now on to be known as Pissfingers.
garethwatkins.bsky.social Gareth Watkins @garethwatkins.bsky.social · 18h
I know, right? And I'm supposed to 'share my toys'? Uh, newsflash, they're *my toys*. Right folks? And what's the deal with naptime?
November 10, 2025 at 9:21 PM
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richardpearshouse.bsky.social
Climate COPs are, essentially, an opportunity to better align govt actions with their rhetoric.

So as #COP30 begins in Brazil's Amazon, @hrw.org is drawing attention to the Terra Nossa settlement, where a federal agency plans to hand over a large area of the rainforest to illegal cattle ranches:
In the Shadow of COP30, Brazil is Stripping Rainforest of Protections
While the city of Belém steps up to host the COP30 global climate summit in November, in another corner of Pará state, a federal government agency is planning to hand over a large area of the Amazon r...
www.hrw.org
November 10, 2025 at 7:58 PM
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graemedavis.bsky.social
In a few hours, I'll be talking to students in the Interactive Narrative program at Champlain College about narrative design and worldbuilding, sharing some war stories from Games Workshop and other parts of my career, and answering questions.

Looking forward to it!
November 10, 2025 at 6:15 PM
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amysnuggs.bsky.social
These are the Utility Bots for Paranoia I painted for @modiphius.bsky.social
They were my favourite to paint for the line, I loved the characterful sculpts, I particularly love the robot chef ‘Butcher’, and had a lot of fun painting the blood effects!

#paranoiarpg #miniaturepainting #modiphius
November 10, 2025 at 4:24 PM
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monstergirltrish.bsky.social
I’ve finished painting my new Forest Dragon, Darach.
Always a joy to get the colours out after working with grey putty for a while :-)
You can pick him up here

footsoreminiatures.co.uk/collections/...
A forest dragon miniature painted in browns and greens against a painted backdrop, standing on needle felted terrain. A forest dragon miniature painted in browns and greens against a painted backdrop, standing on needle felted terrain. A forest dragon miniature painted in browns and greens, close up of the head A forest dragon miniature painted in browns and greens, close up of a wing
November 10, 2025 at 1:33 PM
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tachyonpub.bsky.social
PUB TOMORROW!

LETTERS FROM AN IMAGINARY COUNTRY by World Fantasy Award winner @theodoragoss.bsky.social

buff.ly/ZeOVp7f

introduction by @bluejo.bsky.social

3 #giveways

@thestorygraph.com buff.ly/fAUS9Iw

#goodreads buff.ly/055IqCm

@fantasycafe.bsky.social buff.ly/HhnMtbe
Cover to Letters from an Imaginary Country Art by Catrin Welz-Stein Design by Elizabeth Story
November 10, 2025 at 8:22 PM
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theblacklibrarian.bsky.social
Finally, folks mentioned this week also include:

@jmswallow.bsky.social @aptshadow.bsky.social Starship Alexandria, @markalatham.bsky.social Jervis Johnson, @gavthorpe.bsky.social @idwpublishing.com

Thanks for reading!

#Warhammer #BookSky #BlackLibrary
November 10, 2025 at 6:54 PM
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johnrogers.bsky.social
If 10% of my business was based on defrauding and scamming people, and was called a "pillar of the global fraud economy", I would have some serious moral qualms about my business. Not our friends at Meta though.

www.reuters.com/investigatio...
Meta is earning a fortune on a deluge of fraudulent ads, documents show
Meta projected 10% of its 2024 revenue would come from ads for scams and banned goods, and it internally estimates that its platforms show users 15 billion scam ads a day, company documents show.
www.reuters.com
November 10, 2025 at 5:43 PM
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raznag.bsky.social
Level 60 of the Dungeon That Never Ends is available for subscribers!

www.patreon.com/posts/donjon...

#ttrpg #rpg #jdr #maps #fantasy #dungeon #fantasymaps #art #fantasyart #noai
low resolution map of the dungeon that never ends level 60!
November 10, 2025 at 3:25 PM