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Elk
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Elk is a gardener who likes fun facts and little guys

Vivi is a forest cat who likes cable ties and swift clean vengeance

Bristol, UK 🐛 she/her
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ironcircuscomics.bsky.social
Happy Labor Day!

Today we're bringing you The First Union, as told by HBomberguy (@hbomberguy.bsky.social) and illustrated by Skutch (@skutchdraws.bsky.social) It's the dawn of the industrial revolution, and of the way many of us work...

Have you ever heard of the term "Luddite" from an elder?
Stanhill, Lancashire, 1764. Wear and carpenter James Hargreaves invents the Spinning Jenny, the first practical spinning-frame, to make the tedious task of producing cloth a little bit faster. He doesn't know it yet, but this will destroy the world. Spurred by inventions like his, the industrial revolution will transform everything -- work power, the wealth of nations. Society as we know it began here, and it wasn't great for everyone. But a group of weavers and textile workers saw this future coming. And did their best to prevent it. "Curse you spinning jenny, you ruined everything!" The standard narrative does that LUDDITES were foolish lunatics who, in fear of technology, decided progress was bad, and started hitting it with sticks. But the truth is entire ways of life were being destroyed. Previously, skilled craftsmen were respected for the time and effort it took to do their work. The entire family usit would form a cottage industry - creating something valuable, and command a decent living. But when a machine can work 10 times faster its owner can charge less for the prodcts- craftsmen couldn't compete and were left out of work almost overnight. And as factories became a fixture of the british landscape, these now unemployed labourers often ended up working the factories that had just destroyed their way of life. Britain was the most prosperous nation in history, factory owners became extremely wealthy and influential. But the people doing the actual work saw almost none of it. Factory work paid little, since "the machines" did "the real work" human labourers were deemed unimportant and replaceable. FUN FACT!: Factory owners preferred to hire ORPHANS since less people would notice if they were maimed or killed on the job! Now the owners quickly realized the workers might notice they did all the work for almost no pay. If they went on STRIKE or ARGUED FOR HGHER WAGES, this would threaten their tremendous wealth. In 1799, Parliament passed the Combination Act, which made FORMING TRADE UNIONS, COLLECTIVE BARGAINING, AND GOING ON STRIKE ILLEGAL. Organizing against the rich became a crime. If you were living through it, opposing the industrial revolution wasn't techno-phobia. It was SELF-DEFENSE. The combination act forced unions underground into secret societies. And the greatest secret of all was their leader - Ned Ludd. Ned had been a folk character for years. In one version after being whipped by his master, he smashed two knitting frames in a rage. In more fanciful versions, he then escaped to the Sherwood forest, here he lived among the animals as their king. Some versions specifically call him 'Much Better Than Robin Hood'.
September 1, 2025 at 5:15 PM
elkerino.bsky.social
@vornietom.bsky.social just been totally blindsided by the Highbury Vaults mention on Adventuring party.

The yearly Jack-in-the-Green pilgrimage collides with D20?? Mad
August 31, 2025 at 8:52 PM
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discoelysiumbot.bsky.social
Still, there's something inherently violent even about dice rolls. It's like every time you cast a die, something disappears. Some alternative ending, or an entirely different world...
August 3, 2025 at 10:29 AM
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jabronisean.bsky.social
I don't like to speak badly of people. I have grown up thinking and being told that if you cannot say something nice about someone, you should not say anything at all. But I must break that rule in this case because I hate Hulk Hogan very much. He is a big ugly goon and I want to squash his face. -Andre the Giant
July 24, 2025 at 3:56 PM
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gshowitt.bsky.social
The first interview I ever did was with Hulk Hogan. I wasn't ready for what he had to say, because Hulk Hogan unironically believed in immortality. lookrobot.co.uk/2014/07/30/o...
“THEY CAN STOP AGEING NOW” But the real kicker comes on the last question. “Every man wants to be part of a heist,” I say, stating a universal truth. “What role would you take, on your imaginary heist?” I figure he’ll say something like, I dunno, “Muscle, brother.” Or “The Brains, brother!” and we can all have a laugh at that. No. Hulk says something else. Hulk says something entirely unsolicited. I’m going to reproduce it in full below. (Emphasis mine.) “I would like to be thief that steals the actual formula from this laboratory in Reno Nevada that has figured out how to stop human cells from ageing, and they cannot put it on the market for another ten or fifteen years. If it happens – they’ve got these things called telomeres which the DNA is like the end of a shoelace the plastic on the end of a shoelace, telomere is when they shorten the DNA strands kinda like go apart and that’s why people die – the cells die – and they’ve got something called Telomes that now keeps the cap on the end of the DNA strands so cells don’t age. But there’s more than that to ageing, they can stop ageing now, they just cannot release that little bit of information which, I would love to have, I would love to live so long my kids come along and they’re like “when are you gonna die?” I would love to have that because it would change so many things about our environment because we’d adapt to our environment and people wouldn’t overpopulate so we wouldn’t have to worry about the world having too many people and the quality of life, so, yeah, I would like to have that formula.”
July 24, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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thoughtpunks.com
Come explore a large random selection of forever open source #TTRPG resources, from games to SRDs to art and more!

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#OpenSource #TabletopGames #IndieGames
Open Source TTRPG Resources
Here's a collection of forever open licensed tabletop roleplaying games and resources. Borrowed from and inspired by the Forever Open Source RPG game jam series. Example Open Licenses Creative Commons Zero ("CC0"). Release your work into the public domain. The most open license. Creative Com
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July 24, 2025 at 4:13 PM
elkerino.bsky.social
Finally (16 days later) my elaborate plan comes full circle @cheekface.bsky.social
July 12, 2025 at 9:31 PM
elkerino.bsky.social
It's me I'm friends
cheekface.bsky.social america’s local band cheekface @cheekface.bsky.social · Jun 27
wear ur cheekface shirt to the show
so u can find ur friends
July 2, 2025 at 9:13 AM
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carmico.bsky.social
Its my birthday!! So y'all get a lil gift too ✨️

GIVEAWAY: $500 CAD for a shopping spree (or your cart completely refunded + credit for more if you've already pre-ordered!)

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June 10, 2025 at 12:47 AM
elkerino.bsky.social
The audacity of Brennan Lee Mulligan to use the word 'effulgent' in earnest.

Truly a word i only know because they put it in Buffy to show how Spike was really bad at poetry.

#dimension20 #cloudwardho #cloho #dropout
June 7, 2025 at 8:29 AM
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tomkimmerer.bsky.social
Below-ground relationships of trees and other soil organisms are complex and barely understood. Is the wood wide web (WWW) proven or a theory? It's neither, and books on the subject are not based on science. We will learn more, but for now, we just don't know enough. Biologists avoid the WWW term.
The wood-wide web: A story too good for its own good?
Hard questions about one of our most popular scientific narratives
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June 4, 2025 at 2:18 PM
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themessyecologist.bsky.social
Messy spotlight : Moles (Talpa europaea for Latin buffs)
These little animals are remarkable- just look that those claws! They don’t feed on plants they in fact eat grubs which would damage plant roots and they aerate garden soils and improve drainage 👏😊
June 5, 2025 at 8:37 AM
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themountaingoats.bsky.social
you guys are being very cynical about this but the real explanation is that bears and Bigfoot are buddies. They like to hang out and do stuff together
June 3, 2025 at 3:11 AM
elkerino.bsky.social
This is a really solid proposal.

The further into horticulture I go, the more baffling levels of nasty class metrics I find propping up every aspect.

Chelsea is the microcosm of the whole thing, but it really is everywhere. And it absolutely doesn't have to be

It should be for everyone!
jackwallington.com Jack Wallington @jackwallington.com · Jun 1
Why I believe the UK’s flagship gardening show needs to leave Chelsea - one of the wealthiest suburbs in the world - to move around communities each year as the British Flower Show. In the same ways as other arts and sport events. www.wildway.info/p/does-rhs-c...
Does RHS Chelsea Flower Show need to evolve?
Imagining a better model for the UK's flagship gardening show for communities, nature and the gardening profession
www.wildway.info
June 1, 2025 at 10:02 AM
elkerino.bsky.social
Been working on an rpg setting for the last year, and have run it on a couple systems.

Two were Fate Core homebrew

Currently working on a blend of kids on bikes (Mentopolis variant) with a rumour phase a la Good Society from @storybrewersroleplaying.com because of ACOFAF @aabria.bsky.social
May 31, 2025 at 5:42 PM
elkerino.bsky.social
Speaking of springwatch, the baby foxes are getting brave (ish)
May 31, 2025 at 9:41 AM
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discoelysiumbot.bsky.social
Still, there's something inherently violent even about dice rolls. It's like every time you cast a die, something disappears. Some alternative ending, or an entirely different world...
May 31, 2025 at 6:55 AM
elkerino.bsky.social
Vivi is enjoying #springwatch
Vivi the cat is attentively watching a short-eared owl feeding a vole to her chicks on tv
May 30, 2025 at 7:22 PM
elkerino.bsky.social
Incredibly wet day at work today but these soggy lads made it worth it.

Finally, some proper actual rain. What a relief!
A mossy bank covered with harts tongue and shuttlecock ferns, all glistening with raindrops Alchemilla mollis glistening with raindrops
May 27, 2025 at 1:14 PM
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milesmorkri.bsky.social
happy wii shop wednesday
May 21, 2025 at 6:41 PM
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gshowitt.bsky.social
BIG GOAT LITTLE GOAT is this month's free one page game.

One of you is a big goat. The other is a little goat. If you need to know more than that, this game is probably not for you.

PDFs and "design notes" here: www.patreon.com/posts/128931...
A one page ttrpg called BIG GOAT LITTLE GOAT. Download a text-only version here https://www.patreon.com/posts/128931545
May 21, 2025 at 9:05 AM
elkerino.bsky.social
Like many plant enthusiasts, I've been captivated by the odd social media lifehack.

The Seed Snail is my favourite, and so of course I had to scale it up to a ridiculous size..
Seed snails: a rolled up tube of soil and cardboard in a spiral pattern (like a snail shell) with tiny seedlings growing out of the top
May 19, 2025 at 10:21 AM
elkerino.bsky.social
Had a visit from the inspector today
Vivi the cat is perched on Elk's shoulder inside a greenhouse. It's a sunny day and there are plants on the table waiting to be potted up.
May 18, 2025 at 11:19 PM