John Donegan
@johndonegan.bsky.social
TTRPG Fantasy & sci fi geek, works in Leeds City Council's International Relations Team, does acupuncture and tuina, teaches tai chi and talks about food
Reading this has made my morning 😂😖
Today is the 28th anniversary of a young Brazilian man seeking medical treatment because he’d got one of those pesky fish that swim up your stream of urine and embed their spines in your urethra... er, jammed up his urethra
Finally! Proof that the legend is true! Er, well... 🧵
Finally! Proof that the legend is true! Er, well... 🧵
October 28, 2025 at 9:30 AM
Reading this has made my morning 😂😖
For all your #LARP / #Cosplay needs, Dean, my husband now has his own shopfront website.
Visit to buy some amazing crafted gear. Stay to revel in him chewing the carpet as he channels his mad #skaven alter ego 🐀
yeahthatlldo.co.uk
Visit to buy some amazing crafted gear. Stay to revel in him chewing the carpet as he channels his mad #skaven alter ego 🐀
yeahthatlldo.co.uk
Yeahthatlldo
yeahthatlldo.co.uk
October 19, 2025 at 6:45 AM
For all your #LARP / #Cosplay needs, Dean, my husband now has his own shopfront website.
Visit to buy some amazing crafted gear. Stay to revel in him chewing the carpet as he channels his mad #skaven alter ego 🐀
yeahthatlldo.co.uk
Visit to buy some amazing crafted gear. Stay to revel in him chewing the carpet as he channels his mad #skaven alter ego 🐀
yeahthatlldo.co.uk
Finally got a chance to play Glorantha: The Gods War - a boardgame I’ve had sitting unplayed on my shelf for bloody ages! What a great game! Lovely game figures and board and really fun gameplay. Ok, you need a football pitch to play it on, but Timothy Payne has that perfect pitch-sized table 😁👍🏻.
October 4, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Finally got a chance to play Glorantha: The Gods War - a boardgame I’ve had sitting unplayed on my shelf for bloody ages! What a great game! Lovely game figures and board and really fun gameplay. Ok, you need a football pitch to play it on, but Timothy Payne has that perfect pitch-sized table 😁👍🏻.
Dean is destruction testing his 3D printed chain mail. Now with added commentary from his insane #skaven alter ego 😂🐀💥💥💥
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Short 4 Hit Chainmail with Hammer! #3dprinter #3dprinting #maker #LARP
YouTube video by Yeah That'll Do
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September 30, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Dean is destruction testing his 3D printed chain mail. Now with added commentary from his insane #skaven alter ego 😂🐀💥💥💥
youtube.com/shorts/X0vne...
youtube.com/shorts/X0vne...
Out on the wily windy moors today (though the weather was lovely, and not at all wuthering 💨)
September 21, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Out on the wily windy moors today (though the weather was lovely, and not at all wuthering 💨)
Proud to be the 333rd backer 😎 on @BackerKit Crowdfunding for Pathfinder Quest! www.backerkit.com/c/projects/p...
Pathfinder Quest
Pathfinder Quest is a cooperative adventure board game for 1–4 players. No Game Master. No endless prep. Just adventure in a box.
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September 16, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Proud to be the 333rd backer 😎 on @BackerKit Crowdfunding for Pathfinder Quest! www.backerkit.com/c/projects/p...
So this weekend’s epic instalment of our long running steampunk game saw the retirement of my old character, Gong, a kung fu master, who in his time had won the world’s toughest martial arts competition, and kicked the head off an elder god.
September 14, 2025 at 9:40 AM
So this weekend’s epic instalment of our long running steampunk game saw the retirement of my old character, Gong, a kung fu master, who in his time had won the world’s toughest martial arts competition, and kicked the head off an elder god.
I feel discriminated against! 🫖🤭🏳️🌈
September 10, 2025 at 6:17 PM
I feel discriminated against! 🫖🤭🏳️🌈
At the local recycling centre. Some things, some terrible terrible things, can never merit recycling 😂😖
September 6, 2025 at 5:55 PM
At the local recycling centre. Some things, some terrible terrible things, can never merit recycling 😂😖
Farewell to the finest musical satirist musical satirist of his generation 😢
#TomLehrer
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#TomLehrer
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Tom Lehrer - Wernher von Braun - with intro
YouTube video by The Tom Lehrer Wisdom Channel
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July 27, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Farewell to the finest musical satirist musical satirist of his generation 😢
#TomLehrer
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#TomLehrer
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Reposted by John Donegan
It is, today, the delightful 141st anniversary of a charming nautical tale involving three shipwrecked sailors in a small boat selecting the fourth – a sick, weak 17-year-old – to kill and eat. (Yes, today’s #OTD comes with a content warning: bit nasty, really)
July 25, 2025 at 8:11 AM
It is, today, the delightful 141st anniversary of a charming nautical tale involving three shipwrecked sailors in a small boat selecting the fourth – a sick, weak 17-year-old – to kill and eat. (Yes, today’s #OTD comes with a content warning: bit nasty, really)
Reposted by John Donegan
If they make another Star Trek movie, can we have James Gunn direct it? Not because of his directorial skills; I just think it’s about time a narrative included Gunn’s Chekov.
July 23, 2025 at 6:24 PM
If they make another Star Trek movie, can we have James Gunn direct it? Not because of his directorial skills; I just think it’s about time a narrative included Gunn’s Chekov.
Back from a week in beautiful North Wales. Proper tidy! 🏴
July 23, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Back from a week in beautiful North Wales. Proper tidy! 🏴
Fab game of Blood on the Clocktower yesterday for my mate Gareth’s 40th. It was pretty deathy tbh, but the forces of good came through in the end!
July 13, 2025 at 1:22 PM
Fab game of Blood on the Clocktower yesterday for my mate Gareth’s 40th. It was pretty deathy tbh, but the forces of good came through in the end!
Just finished @mytholder.bsky.social’s Sword Defiant. What an absolute corker! It’s so refreshing to see a fresh take on high fantasy, that doesn’t trample all over the things that make it precious. Plus the sly way he drops Easter egg quotes into the dialogue just for shits and giggles 🤭. 5🌟
July 9, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Just finished @mytholder.bsky.social’s Sword Defiant. What an absolute corker! It’s so refreshing to see a fresh take on high fantasy, that doesn’t trample all over the things that make it precious. Plus the sly way he drops Easter egg quotes into the dialogue just for shits and giggles 🤭. 5🌟
Why has our local Asda got a giant inflatable … oh, it’s a rainbow!
(It’s not *just* me is it? I mean it’s totally me 😜)
(It’s not *just* me is it? I mean it’s totally me 😜)
June 28, 2025 at 1:19 PM
Why has our local Asda got a giant inflatable … oh, it’s a rainbow!
(It’s not *just* me is it? I mean it’s totally me 😜)
(It’s not *just* me is it? I mean it’s totally me 😜)
My sentence of the day, from @aptshadow.bsky.social ‘s ‘And put away childish things’
“[He], in that moment, looked like the sort of man who’d bathe in the blood of virgins every Tuesday if only you could source it from Waitrose”.
Perfect 👌🏻🤩🩸🩸
“[He], in that moment, looked like the sort of man who’d bathe in the blood of virgins every Tuesday if only you could source it from Waitrose”.
Perfect 👌🏻🤩🩸🩸
June 28, 2025 at 11:00 AM
My sentence of the day, from @aptshadow.bsky.social ‘s ‘And put away childish things’
“[He], in that moment, looked like the sort of man who’d bathe in the blood of virgins every Tuesday if only you could source it from Waitrose”.
Perfect 👌🏻🤩🩸🩸
“[He], in that moment, looked like the sort of man who’d bathe in the blood of virgins every Tuesday if only you could source it from Waitrose”.
Perfect 👌🏻🤩🩸🩸
I am shockingly late to the Star Trek: Strange New Worlds party, but I have to say it’s by far the best Trek I’ve seen in absolutely YEARS!
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June 24, 2025 at 8:16 PM
I am shockingly late to the Star Trek: Strange New Worlds party, but I have to say it’s by far the best Trek I’ve seen in absolutely YEARS!
I never know for sure what Dean is going to greet me with when I get home from an afternoon out 😂.
June 22, 2025 at 2:40 PM
I never know for sure what Dean is going to greet me with when I get home from an afternoon out 😂.
Well who in their right mind wants a bitter split in their circle? Ouch 😖🤭
June 18, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Well who in their right mind wants a bitter split in their circle? Ouch 😖🤭
Off to Strasbourg with my colleague Becca, to talk about an anti disinformation project that I ran in East Leeds last year at the @coe.int’s ‘No Hate Speech Week’.
June 17, 2025 at 12:56 PM
Off to Strasbourg with my colleague Becca, to talk about an anti disinformation project that I ran in East Leeds last year at the @coe.int’s ‘No Hate Speech Week’.
Reposted by John Donegan
La cocina tradicional de hong kong usa ingredientes un poco diferentes a los occidentales
It’s surely worth the price of a return flight to Hong Kong for that perfect Fathers’ Day gift!
A mere HK$5 for entry to the Fathers Day cum Dumpling festival.
A taste experience! 🥟🥟🥟
A mere HK$5 for entry to the Fathers Day cum Dumpling festival.
A taste experience! 🥟🥟🥟
June 10, 2025 at 8:11 AM
La cocina tradicional de hong kong usa ingredientes un poco diferentes a los occidentales
It’s surely worth the price of a return flight to Hong Kong for that perfect Fathers’ Day gift!
A mere HK$5 for entry to the Fathers Day cum Dumpling festival.
A taste experience! 🥟🥟🥟
A mere HK$5 for entry to the Fathers Day cum Dumpling festival.
A taste experience! 🥟🥟🥟
June 10, 2025 at 7:54 AM
It’s surely worth the price of a return flight to Hong Kong for that perfect Fathers’ Day gift!
A mere HK$5 for entry to the Fathers Day cum Dumpling festival.
A taste experience! 🥟🥟🥟
A mere HK$5 for entry to the Fathers Day cum Dumpling festival.
A taste experience! 🥟🥟🥟
Well who *doesn’t* like a Quickwipe Fuki Fuki? 🤔🤭
(Photo courtesy of my friend in Southeast Asia. Thank you Dave 😘)
(Photo courtesy of my friend in Southeast Asia. Thank you Dave 😘)
June 6, 2025 at 9:06 AM
Well who *doesn’t* like a Quickwipe Fuki Fuki? 🤔🤭
(Photo courtesy of my friend in Southeast Asia. Thank you Dave 😘)
(Photo courtesy of my friend in Southeast Asia. Thank you Dave 😘)