RobotFrancis
@robotfrancis.bsky.social
Writer of queer and pulpy sci-fi and fantasy books (check out some free novellas at: https://francisgaskin.itch.io/), and tabletop roleplaying games (https://robotfrancis.itch.io/). He/him
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New to the #SoloRPG List: The Rock Limpet by @robotfrancis.bsky.social
Write the memoir of an exiled revolutionary. #Historical #TTRPG
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Write the memoir of an exiled revolutionary. #Historical #TTRPG
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November 6, 2025 at 7:15 PM
New to the #SoloRPG List: The Rock Limpet by @robotfrancis.bsky.social
Write the memoir of an exiled revolutionary. #Historical #TTRPG
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Write the memoir of an exiled revolutionary. #Historical #TTRPG
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New awareness campaign
November 3, 2025 at 3:23 PM
New awareness campaign
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This petition gained a million signatures yesterday. If we can keep up that growth it will terrify people at the Labour conference.
#PapersPlease
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...
#PapersPlease
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...
Petition: Do not introduce Digital ID cards
We demand that the UK Government immediately commits to not introducing a digital ID cards. There are reports that this is being looked at.
petition.parliament.uk
September 27, 2025 at 7:37 AM
This petition gained a million signatures yesterday. If we can keep up that growth it will terrify people at the Labour conference.
#PapersPlease
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...
#PapersPlease
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...
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This is a good take. Alternatively, the hire car I had recently made an interminable, shrill beeping sound every time I nudged even 1mph over the limit. The centrist view would be that at least this could be compulsory in all vehicles!
My least popular (and most correct) view is that cars should be automatically limited to the local speed limit. Put the pedal to the floor and you still can't go over 25mph in a residential area.
(15 in Manhattan btw)
(15 in Manhattan btw)
There is no possible justification for limiting e-bikes to 15mph but not cars.
August 10, 2025 at 10:49 PM
This is a good take. Alternatively, the hire car I had recently made an interminable, shrill beeping sound every time I nudged even 1mph over the limit. The centrist view would be that at least this could be compulsory in all vehicles!
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Every time you see a Labour MP heading to the toilet, make sure to intercept them and demand documentary proof that their Supreme Court-undefined "biological sex" matches the socially constructed gender signifiers in the icon on the toilet sign, and then simply refuse to accept any proof they give
🚨 BREAKING | Labour is set to impose a sweeping ban on trans people using any "single-sex space".
In EHRC guidance that Labour is set to approve, trans people will be barred from accessing toilets, gyms and changing rooms that match their gender.
(Source: @TheTimes)
In EHRC guidance that Labour is set to approve, trans people will be barred from accessing toilets, gyms and changing rooms that match their gender.
(Source: @TheTimes)
August 8, 2025 at 9:40 AM
Every time you see a Labour MP heading to the toilet, make sure to intercept them and demand documentary proof that their Supreme Court-undefined "biological sex" matches the socially constructed gender signifiers in the icon on the toilet sign, and then simply refuse to accept any proof they give
@jmstar.bsky.social Hi Jason, are you aware that your Itch.io storefront has been blocked from being accessed in the UK? I can't believe that anything on there should fall under the Online Safety Act, even as draconian as it is!
August 4, 2025 at 6:19 PM
@jmstar.bsky.social Hi Jason, are you aware that your Itch.io storefront has been blocked from being accessed in the UK? I can't believe that anything on there should fall under the Online Safety Act, even as draconian as it is!
Elder Millennials who came of political age under the last Labour government, and remember Jacqui Smith and Charles Clarke and David Blunkett and Jack Straw:
May 12, 2025 at 11:32 AM
Elder Millennials who came of political age under the last Labour government, and remember Jacqui Smith and Charles Clarke and David Blunkett and Jack Straw:
Google is at the stage where its AI is suggesting weight conversions from US to Imperial that are off by a factor of three. I nearly made a lot more waffles than I was expecting.
May 6, 2025 at 10:10 PM
Google is at the stage where its AI is suggesting weight conversions from US to Imperial that are off by a factor of three. I nearly made a lot more waffles than I was expecting.
Andor is amazing of course, but particularly enjoying that I cycle past Coruscant and Ghorman on my way to work every day. You kind of feel like, wow I was just on that alien planet earlier!
April 30, 2025 at 8:36 PM
Andor is amazing of course, but particularly enjoying that I cycle past Coruscant and Ghorman on my way to work every day. You kind of feel like, wow I was just on that alien planet earlier!
Of all the sci-fi I’ve read, why does it increasingly feel like we’ve slipped into @annodracula.bsky.social’s Dark Future timeline? And without even badass Elvis to rescue us.
February 21, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Of all the sci-fi I’ve read, why does it increasingly feel like we’ve slipped into @annodracula.bsky.social’s Dark Future timeline? And without even badass Elvis to rescue us.
So psyched to play #Blades68 that I’m rewatching the psychedelic 1967 Casino Royale as GM prep.
a man in a military uniform is standing in front of a group of people with the year 2023 on the bottom left
ALT: a man in a military uniform is standing in front of a group of people with the year 2023 on the bottom left
media.tenor.com
January 31, 2025 at 11:19 PM
So psyched to play #Blades68 that I’m rewatching the psychedelic 1967 Casino Royale as GM prep.
Starmer soft-banning Elon from the UK.
January 8, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Starmer soft-banning Elon from the UK.
Nerd gripe of 2024: Warhammer vloggers pronouncing WAAARGH as “wahh” instead of “war”. Orcs aren’t having a mild tantrum! They love war. It’s their whole thing. War!
December 18, 2024 at 6:47 PM
Nerd gripe of 2024: Warhammer vloggers pronouncing WAAARGH as “wahh” instead of “war”. Orcs aren’t having a mild tantrum! They love war. It’s their whole thing. War!
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Now, more than ever, you have to be a weird little pervert who makes art of questionable quality. You need to be driven crazy by the flesh. Because, as we all learned from Cronenberg's The Fly, the computers are not made crazy by the flesh. They can't do it like us.
December 17, 2024 at 6:12 PM
Now, more than ever, you have to be a weird little pervert who makes art of questionable quality. You need to be driven crazy by the flesh. Because, as we all learned from Cronenberg's The Fly, the computers are not made crazy by the flesh. They can't do it like us.
This is maybe a bit niche, but if you’re interested in a solo journalling RPG about being a deposed revolutionary leader, I have something for you! robotfrancis.itch.io/rock-limpet
The Rock Limpet by RobotFrancis
A solo journalling RPG about an exiled revolutionary.
robotfrancis.itch.io
September 3, 2024 at 6:06 PM
This is maybe a bit niche, but if you’re interested in a solo journalling RPG about being a deposed revolutionary leader, I have something for you! robotfrancis.itch.io/rock-limpet
Had an amazing time today playing @jmstar.bsky.social’s RPG Perfection the park. It’s an incredibly dark setup about being in a Jonestown style cult, but also super relatable as a game about working in a dysfunctional organisation with a terrible boss. May have got some funny looks from passers by…
July 27, 2024 at 11:10 PM
Had an amazing time today playing @jmstar.bsky.social’s RPG Perfection the park. It’s an incredibly dark setup about being in a Jonestown style cult, but also super relatable as a game about working in a dysfunctional organisation with a terrible boss. May have got some funny looks from passers by…
Jet lag has unwillingly turned me into a morning person. 9am and it’s been so long since breakfast that I’m already ready for lunch. How do people live like this? Do morning people have an extra meal they keep secret from normal society?
May 25, 2024 at 8:03 AM
Jet lag has unwillingly turned me into a morning person. 9am and it’s been so long since breakfast that I’m already ready for lunch. How do people live like this? Do morning people have an extra meal they keep secret from normal society?
I simply was not prepared for how terrifying the first five minutes of Fallout would be. Real flashbacks to watching Threads (1984 BBC nuclear war drama) in school.
April 12, 2024 at 9:53 PM
I simply was not prepared for how terrifying the first five minutes of Fallout would be. Real flashbacks to watching Threads (1984 BBC nuclear war drama) in school.
Not a fan of the concept of monarchy, but the royals now having become cryptids makes me more sympathetic. Much more exciting to have a king and queen who, like the Loch Ness monster, exist only as grainy long-distance photographs.
March 19, 2024 at 11:28 AM
Not a fan of the concept of monarchy, but the royals now having become cryptids makes me more sympathetic. Much more exciting to have a king and queen who, like the Loch Ness monster, exist only as grainy long-distance photographs.
My new story is free to download this weekend - Death in Venice meets The Last Of Us on a gay cruise in outer space. Hmm, that pitch needs work… but it is free and all.
www.amazon.com/dp/B0CTPD2XG3
www.amazon.com/dp/B0CTPD2XG3
February 2, 2024 at 3:03 PM
My new story is free to download this weekend - Death in Venice meets The Last Of Us on a gay cruise in outer space. Hmm, that pitch needs work… but it is free and all.
www.amazon.com/dp/B0CTPD2XG3
www.amazon.com/dp/B0CTPD2XG3
Now playtesting Emerald Haven. A Disco Elysium inspired detective ttrpg, powered by Agon and Brindlewood Bay. robotfrancis.itch.io/emerald-haven
Emerald Haven by RobotFrancis
A detective story
robotfrancis.itch.io
October 1, 2023 at 4:57 PM
Now playtesting Emerald Haven. A Disco Elysium inspired detective ttrpg, powered by Agon and Brindlewood Bay. robotfrancis.itch.io/emerald-haven