Marty Jopson
martyjopson.bsky.social
Marty Jopson
@martyjopson.bsky.social
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Sometimes lichens look so hypnotizing. I can stare at this one all day!
#Lichen #FungiFriends #Nature #Photography #MacroPhotography
November 5, 2025 at 8:02 PM
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Not enough monsters with mullets
October 3, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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A form of time travel.
October 1, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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Good news, everyone!

I'll be publishing Boldly Go! Somewhere in Time on Back to the Future Day (October 21, 2025).

Over the next few days, I'll be posting some more information about what's in Somewhere in Time and how you can use it to run time travel adventures in your Boldly Go! games!
October 1, 2025 at 3:37 PM
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It is with great sadness that we have been informed of the passing of the remarkable Dr. Jane Goodall, age 91, who died of natural causes in Los Angeles, CA while on her speaking tour in the United States.

Photo credit: Marko Zlousic #jane #goodall #JaneGoodall #drjanegoodall #wildlife #nature
October 1, 2025 at 7:32 PM
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We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.
October 1, 2025 at 2:38 PM
How much haggis is too much haggis?

Is, just for example, 2.7kg of MacSween's finest vegetarian haggis too much?

My hand for scale 😋
October 1, 2025 at 8:25 PM
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Share the last 4 TTRPGs you played and expose your gaming habits:

D&D 5e
Cairn
Tales of the Valiant
Call of Cthulhu
Share the last 4 TTRPGs you played and exposed your gaming habits.

Vaesen
The Wildsea
Dragonbane
Traveller (latest Mongoose version)
Share the last 4 TTPRGs you played and expose your gaming habits.
Swyvers
Trail of Cthulhu
Cloud Empress
Mythic Bastionland
September 30, 2025 at 10:17 AM
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If you go down into the steam tunnels today, you're in for a big surprise! Join us on Patreon at the Scholar level or higher for our #StrangeStudies Extra Credit interview with the co-founder of the HP Lovecraft Literary Society, Andrew Leman!

#hppodcraft #HPLHS
September 27, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Share the last 4 TTRPGs you played and exposed your gaming habits.

Vaesen
The Wildsea
Dragonbane
Traveller (latest Mongoose version)
Share the last 4 TTPRGs you played and expose your gaming habits.
Swyvers
Trail of Cthulhu
Cloud Empress
Mythic Bastionland
Share the last 4 TTPRGs you played and expose your gaming habits.

Spirit of 77
Chaosium basic roleplaying
savage worlds
gangbusters
September 30, 2025 at 7:01 AM
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European Red Squirrel (Sciurus vulgaris): The Head & Body length of this rodent is 23cm (9in) with its tail adding 20cm (8in). Beautiful Red Squirrel photo taken by Pamela Parker on the Isle of Wight in the UK. #squirrel #redsquirrel #rodent #red #nature #wildlife #wildlifephotography #photography
September 29, 2025 at 4:38 AM
And...

... rest

End of day one of opening weekend. Nothing broken. All to plan.

Phew
September 27, 2025 at 4:30 PM
And yes, I can confirm that, despite scurrilous rumours to the contrary, Laddie the Railway Collection Dog has two (glass) eyes
September 27, 2025 at 12:48 PM
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This gorgeous being is thwaitesia argentiopunctata. Also known as the sequinned spider, mirror spider and is found in Australia. Absolutely beautiful! I am at a loss for words.

#nature #arachnid #insect #mirrorspider #Australia
September 26, 2025 at 12:20 PM
September 27, 2025 at 10:23 AM
Big day at @railwaymuseum.bsky.social - 50th birthday of museum, 200th anniversary of birth of modern railway, and opening of station hall

Nice to see a loco under steam popping in for some coal as well 😁
September 27, 2025 at 7:07 AM
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#FlintFriday! Stunning 🤩 Mesolithic scraper from submerged #Doggerland 🌊 found on the beach by Maurits a couple of weeks ago.
September 26, 2025 at 8:05 PM
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the new @raspberrypi.com Pi 500+ keyboard SBC looks really cool

I have no idea what I'd want to use it for, but it looks so funnnn😭
September 25, 2025 at 7:29 PM
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Your daily dose of botanical drawings from the Botanical Magazine.

Yellow day-lily (Hemerocallis flava)
Plate 19 in volume 1, 1790.

#magazine #artist #plants #curtis #botany

September 26, 2025 at 3:40 PM
So far so good. Station Hall at the Railway Museum is looking lovely and the visitors seem to be enjoying themselves. With the staff though there is a palpable air of suppressed panic. Tomorrow - Sat 27 - is our big birthday weekend and the museum is essentially sold out!

It's going to be busy!
September 26, 2025 at 11:51 AM
Saw this lovely rack of bracket fungi on a tree stump (beech?). I suspect it is Ganoderma australe (or maybe G. applanatum), or artists conk. Apparently you can draw on the underside, scraping the white gills to reveal cocoa coloured spores
September 26, 2025 at 7:35 AM
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Here's some more Red Dragon Inn game lore that I wrote. This one features Alaric, one of the new characters that you can play in the upcoming Red Dragon Inn 10!
Trapmaster Alaric – SlugFest Games
slugfestgames.com
September 26, 2025 at 3:30 AM
Saw this little fella on the station platform fence this morning - the cunningly named yellow wall lichen (Xanthoria parietina). It's super common but gorgeous colours. A little sunburst as the weather draws in.
September 25, 2025 at 6:37 AM