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#UK based #MilitaryHistory and #RPG #author. #TTRPG and #BoardGame player. Lapsed #wargame and #LARP player. #NonBinary and #autistic.

My legal name is Robin, but […]

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Complete false dichotomy. Nobody need object to deploying IBM's RedHat software on #digitalsovereignty grounds, cos it is open source. It is "owned and controlled by somebody else" that governments are worrying about.

https://www.ft.com/content/0847914c-be27-4573-8600-8cdb54e604b7
Google warns EU against ‘erecting walls’ in tech sovereignty push
Europe risks undermining its own competitiveness drive through curbs on US groups, tech company says
www.ft.com
February 13, 2026 at 10:29 AM
I've just read an article in my RSS reader. As is common with RSS feeds, at the bottom it states where it was originally posted.

I've not seen this wording before though:

> This blog article appeared first on and was stolen from ### Blog.

I'm rather annoyed by the "and was stolen from" part […]
Original post on gts.phillipsuk.org
gts.phillipsuk.org
February 12, 2026 at 10:23 PM
A friend sent me this earlier. I can't argue with the logic 🙂
February 12, 2026 at 7:51 PM
I'm pleased to note that #bookshop.org now have #drm-free copies of my #ebooks on both UK and US stores.
https://uk.bookshop.org/search?keywords=Russell+Phillips

The US store also has paperbacks and hardbacks, but the UK store doesn't.

#coldwar #militaryhistory #secondworldwar #ww2 #history
February 12, 2026 at 11:34 AM
I gave blood today. It was my 50th donation, so I got a thank you card.
February 11, 2026 at 7:59 PM
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The real Tavistock Clinic scandal: 1,000 court cases that never materialised
The real Tavistock Clinic scandal: 1,000 court cases that never materialised
A FoI request for the data behind the media hysteria over the Tavistock Clinic presents quite a different picture
yorkshirebylines.co.uk
February 11, 2026 at 4:20 PM
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ngl it'd be funny as hell if a massive chat provider was abandoned in favour of ten thousand fedi weirdos running Prosody servers on used pregnancy tests
February 10, 2026 at 5:06 PM
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One of our clients has a DriveThruFiction deal of the day today. For the next 23 hours, you can get the sci-fi novel Dreamwalkers for just £1.54.

https://site.drivethrufiction.com/product/498995/Dreamwalkers?affiliate_id=235519&src=fediverse

#sciencefiction #scifi #bookstodon #drivethrufiction […]
Original post on gts.phillipsuk.org
gts.phillipsuk.org
February 9, 2026 at 4:39 PM
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"A piece of handsomely mounted crypto-fascist propaganda. As if during world war 2 someone had filmed Eva Braun looking sad and trying on dresses." – Mark Kermode review of Melania
February 7, 2026 at 12:42 AM
Saw this model of a #spitfire next to the canal in #chester.

#secondworldwar
February 5, 2026 at 2:35 PM
A little while ago, thanks to @nerdydaytrips I discovered Sick to Death in #chester. Today I went with my youngest, who _loved_ it.

#museum
February 5, 2026 at 1:02 PM
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@JessTheUnstill Yes. As someone once said to me, money doesn't buy happiness, but at least you can be miserable in comfort.
February 3, 2026 at 4:03 PM
I added my first venue to this site today. I'm intending to add more, and I would encourage other autistic people to do the same.

prepped.to | Sensory information and service instructions for better planning
https://prepped.to/

#actuallyautistic #autism #autistic
prepped.to | Sensory information and service instructions for better planning
Plan your visit at businesses and locations with sensory information and instructions, for and from the autistic community. Noise, lighting, smells, human load, payment methods, toilets and how to get service.
prepped.to
February 3, 2026 at 4:00 PM
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Folks selling Kindle books, you should know that Amazon now offers the option to allow EPUB and PDF downloads of DRM-free books.

The option is presented when adding new books to Kindle, but for existing titles you have to opt-in for each of them to allow these new file formats.

(Amazon isn’t […]
Original post on wandering.shop
wandering.shop
February 3, 2026 at 2:42 AM
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It's a mistake to compare the costs of ebooks and coffee.
https://authorhelp.uk/books-vs-coffee/
Books vs Coffee
I sometimes see authors complain about how cheaply books are priced, and subsequently how little they make per sale. A common comparison is with coffee. An ebook often costs less than a coffee from Costa or Starbucks, the argument goes, but the book took months or years to write, whereas the coffee is made in minutes. This is a disingenuous comparison. The two things are completely different, but I don’t think many authors fully appreciate the difference. When a barista makes a coffee, they can sell that coffee once. In order to sell a second coffee, they will have to go through the whole process a second time. If it takes two minutes to make a coffee, it will take over three hours to make a hundred coffees, assuming the hapless barista works non-stop. By contrast, when someone buys one of my books, everything is handled by the vendor, with no need for me to do anything. I can sell my books while I sleep. Even direct sales through my website are fulfilled by BookFunnel and BookVault, without me lifting a finger. Once a coffee has been made, it has to be sold almost immediately or it’s wasted. By contrast, books can be sold, and earn money for the author or their heirs, for decades. I published my first book almost fifteen years ago, and it’s still making money for me. I bought my first copy of _The Lord of the Rings_ more than forty years after it was first published. Assuming copyright law doesn’t change, that book can continue to make money for the Tolkien estate until the end of 2043. A book can also be sold in multiple ways. At its simplest, that means that you can sell it as an ebook, paperback, hardback, audiobook, large print, etc. But the value of the book isn’t in the ebook’s electrons or the print book’s paper, it’s in the words contained within it. Those words can be licensed to others to create products based on the book. We’ve all seen films and TV series based on books, and many authors dream of seeing their stories on screen. You could also licence a book to be used for a role-playing game, a board game, or a graphic novel. I won’t pretend it’s simple, but the options are almost limitless. A book can be sold many times, in a variety of ways. Even the best coffee can only be sold once.
authorhelp.uk
February 2, 2026 at 5:53 PM
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Great expression that should be used more.
February 2, 2026 at 9:07 AM
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Notepad++'s update mechanism was compromised from June to December 2025. They believe it was a state actor practicing selective targeting and not a no-hosts-refused malware gang situation. https://notepad-plus-plus.org/news/hijacked-incident-info-update/
Notepad遭国家支持的黑客劫持
Notepad hijacked by state-sponsored actors (notepad-plus-plus.org) 09:59  ↑ 182 HN Points
notepad-plus-plus.org
February 2, 2026 at 8:27 AM
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A Danish survey documents that the country has 484 public statues of historically important men, and 43 of historically important women.

Most public statues of women in Denmark depict anonymous nudes. The historically important men are almost entirely fully clad […]
Original post on archaeo.social
archaeo.social
February 2, 2026 at 7:51 AM
This sounds like a really good idea to me. It's a map of businesses etc. For each one, there is information to help autistic people navigate them.

prepped.to | Sensory information and service instructions for better planning
https://prepped.to/

#actuallyautistic #autistic
prepped.to | Sensory information and service instructions for better planning
Plan your visit at businesses and locations with sensory information and instructions, for and from the autistic community. Noise, lighting, smells, human load, payment methods, toilets and how to get service.
prepped.to
February 1, 2026 at 6:39 PM
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If there are any #savageworlds gamers on Mastodon who are interested in the #hellfrost fantasy setting, I just put a large lot of books on eBay, including author-signed books:

https://www.ebay.com/itm/406656334324

Would love to see these go to a good home.

#ttrpg
SAVAGE WORLDS RPG, HELLFROST LOT - INCLUDES AUTHOR SIGNED ITEMS | eBay
Find many great new & used options and get the best deals for SAVAGE WORLDS RPG, HELLFROST LOT - INCLUDES AUTHOR SIGNED ITEMS at the best online prices at eBay! Free shipping for many products!
www.ebay.com
January 31, 2026 at 5:54 PM
I'm commissioning someone to create the cover art for my next book. We've just had a meeting to discuss ideas, process, etc.

This is the first time I've commissioned art for a cover, and I'm really excited to see what comes of it.

#author #artist #indieauthor
January 31, 2026 at 3:30 PM
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@haubles just dropped the massive news that Mastodon is going to be changing the default signup flow on mobile apps to choose an instance thats geographically close to you instead of choosing mastodon.social by default!
January 31, 2026 at 10:27 AM