Chris Revie
@thetallone.bsky.social
Vainly attempting to have a good time all the time. RPGs, music and geekery.
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Now for some sports news...
(this week's cartoon for @theguardian.com books pages)
(this week's cartoon for @theguardian.com books pages)
November 24, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Now for some sports news...
(this week's cartoon for @theguardian.com books pages)
(this week's cartoon for @theguardian.com books pages)
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Hi Friends! #GroundhogPlay is a new access-focussed ttRPG playtest convention at @plutoq.bsky.social Glasgow, organized by @thirdvaultyarns.com and @floaker.bsky.social.
Run your in-dev game, get feedback, learn lessons, and try again. There will also be a creator peer support space.
#TTRPGintro
Run your in-dev game, get feedback, learn lessons, and try again. There will also be a creator peer support space.
#TTRPGintro
November 15, 2025 at 11:30 PM
Hi Friends! #GroundhogPlay is a new access-focussed ttRPG playtest convention at @plutoq.bsky.social Glasgow, organized by @thirdvaultyarns.com and @floaker.bsky.social.
Run your in-dev game, get feedback, learn lessons, and try again. There will also be a creator peer support space.
#TTRPGintro
Run your in-dev game, get feedback, learn lessons, and try again. There will also be a creator peer support space.
#TTRPGintro
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Damn! Watched the last episode of the current season of Slow Horses. Now what do I do?
November 15, 2025 at 8:54 PM
Damn! Watched the last episode of the current season of Slow Horses. Now what do I do?
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A radio programme like the Shipping Forecast but it’s called Bin Day and it just reads out every single council in the country’s bin schedule
November 10, 2025 at 11:53 PM
A radio programme like the Shipping Forecast but it’s called Bin Day and it just reads out every single council in the country’s bin schedule
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“WHY WOULD ANYONE LOOK INSIDE AN ALIEN EGG??” this is why:
November 18, 2024 at 8:35 PM
“WHY WOULD ANYONE LOOK INSIDE AN ALIEN EGG??” this is why:
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The home of the O'Donovan family is being used as a polling station in Coolmoyne, Co Tipperary. Around 250 people are eligible to vote at the house and after they cast their ballot, they will be treated to a cup of tea, a slice of apple or rhubarb tart, or a scone | More: rte.ie/b/1540324
October 24, 2025 at 10:51 AM
The home of the O'Donovan family is being used as a polling station in Coolmoyne, Co Tipperary. Around 250 people are eligible to vote at the house and after they cast their ballot, they will be treated to a cup of tea, a slice of apple or rhubarb tart, or a scone | More: rte.ie/b/1540324
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![1
Nurse:
It’s become a real problem in this area
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Nurse:
We’ve seen the whole community lost to addiction
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Show a building sign posted:
Westminster ‘X’ Addiction Clinic
With various Westminster people or looking at their phones outside it
Nurse:
Ministers, Spads, Researchers…
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Nurse:
Most mornings we’ll get a call about someone acting strangely
[Nurse on phone taking a call]
Ok - we’ll be right over
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Nurse:
We just have a gentle chat
[Nurses approach a minister –Robert Jenrick? - standing in the Palace of Westminster
Minister:
I understand your concerns…
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Nurse:
Are you OK love?
Minister:
Yes I’m just hearing legitimate concerns from real voters
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Nurse:
That’s a robot, a Nazi and a poorly-disguised Russian
[Show that the people he is talking to are precisely these characters]
Nurse 2:
Give us your phone, love
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Nurse:
At the clinic we put them in a Grass-Touching Pod, with a real voter to talk to
[We see them back at the clinic, holding the minister's head and pushing him into a glass isolation booth with a grass floor. And it is a baffled looking woman, on a chair, ready to talk to him.]
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Minister:
YOU MUST BE WORRIED ABOUT THE COMING CIVIL WAR
[woman looks baffled]
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woman:
I just want a bus service
Minister:
LOOK AT MY FLAG
[produces a St George's flag]
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Rob Wieland passed away last week at the age of 48; as a passionate and well-informed advocate of our hobby, he'll be greatly missed. As a tribute, @wyrdscience.bsky.social has put Rob's insightful article from February about the 40th anniversary of Pendragon as the lead on their new website.
The Once & Future Thing
40 years on from its original release, Greg Stafford’s Pendragon returns with its 6th edition, the first since Stafford’s passing. Regarded as amongst the greatest RPGs published, Rob Wieland speaks t...
wyrd.science
October 17, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Rob Wieland passed away last week at the age of 48; as a passionate and well-informed advocate of our hobby, he'll be greatly missed. As a tribute, @wyrdscience.bsky.social has put Rob's insightful article from February about the 40th anniversary of Pendragon as the lead on their new website.
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Glasgow City Council has a whole sovereign citizen FAQ
whoever wrote this was so very tired
glasgow.gov.uk/whyyouneedto...
whoever wrote this was so very tired
glasgow.gov.uk/whyyouneedto...
Why you require to pay Council Tax - Glasgow City Council
Information about why you are required to pay Council Tax.
glasgow.gov.uk
October 14, 2025 at 8:54 PM
Glasgow City Council has a whole sovereign citizen FAQ
whoever wrote this was so very tired
glasgow.gov.uk/whyyouneedto...
whoever wrote this was so very tired
glasgow.gov.uk/whyyouneedto...
Went to see Dewolff tonight- Hugely enjoyable! A sort of distillation of seventies rock - Deep Purple, a bit of Jethro Tull, Little Feat, Golden Earring and a touch of James Brown. All original material apart from an excellent cover of War Pigs!
October 9, 2025 at 10:42 PM
Went to see Dewolff tonight- Hugely enjoyable! A sort of distillation of seventies rock - Deep Purple, a bit of Jethro Tull, Little Feat, Golden Earring and a touch of James Brown. All original material apart from an excellent cover of War Pigs!
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On Yom Kippur many Jewish people in Britain have their phones off to mark the holy day.
As it ends at 723pm, some will hear the tragic Manchester news for the first time.
At that time, please join many of us to send a message of solidarity to British Jews.Thanks Together coalition for proposing.
As it ends at 723pm, some will hear the tragic Manchester news for the first time.
At that time, please join many of us to send a message of solidarity to British Jews.Thanks Together coalition for proposing.
October 2, 2025 at 4:06 PM
On Yom Kippur many Jewish people in Britain have their phones off to mark the holy day.
As it ends at 723pm, some will hear the tragic Manchester news for the first time.
At that time, please join many of us to send a message of solidarity to British Jews.Thanks Together coalition for proposing.
As it ends at 723pm, some will hear the tragic Manchester news for the first time.
At that time, please join many of us to send a message of solidarity to British Jews.Thanks Together coalition for proposing.
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"i just use it to generate ideas"
October 1, 2025 at 9:45 AM
"i just use it to generate ideas"
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I've been down the most fascinating rabbit hole this evening. A charity here in the UK called Heritage Crafts are giving bursaries for people wanting to learn endangered crafts. Just some of the crafts on the list:
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September 29, 2025 at 2:27 AM
I've been down the most fascinating rabbit hole this evening. A charity here in the UK called Heritage Crafts are giving bursaries for people wanting to learn endangered crafts. Just some of the crafts on the list:
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“And that’s Liminal Dachshund with the cover of their new album, Every Day Has Its Dog.”
September 29, 2025 at 6:43 AM
“And that’s Liminal Dachshund with the cover of their new album, Every Day Has Its Dog.”
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Autumn sun on the wind turbines of Brandenburg #CrossBorderRail
September 29, 2025 at 5:40 AM
Autumn sun on the wind turbines of Brandenburg #CrossBorderRail
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A brilliant @newyorker.com cover.
An early look at next week’s cover: "Remote Control,” by Barry Blitt.
nyer.cm/6ApBXER
nyer.cm/6ApBXER
September 27, 2025 at 9:05 PM
A brilliant @newyorker.com cover.
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They've lost the 9yos
September 24, 2025 at 4:03 PM
They've lost the 9yos
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If you're not entitled to a free flu shot, you can get one privately from Asda for 60p(!!) as part of a promotional offer if you book online and can go before September ends. Here's the link:
asda.cxmflow.com/OABS/Appoint...
asda.cxmflow.com/OABS/Appoint...
asda.cxmflow.com
September 23, 2025 at 7:31 PM
If you're not entitled to a free flu shot, you can get one privately from Asda for 60p(!!) as part of a promotional offer if you book online and can go before September ends. Here's the link:
asda.cxmflow.com/OABS/Appoint...
asda.cxmflow.com/OABS/Appoint...
Out for a walk in Comely Bank. Not phased by people at all.
September 14, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Out for a walk in Comely Bank. Not phased by people at all.
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All I saw was cheesecake boat and ocean for at least 5 minutes
September 12, 2025 at 5:08 PM
All I saw was cheesecake boat and ocean for at least 5 minutes
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![Comic. [Building with large sign in front of it[ SIGN: Welcome to the *Biology Department* It has been [changeable sign: 3] days since we discovered something existentially horrifying about bugs that makes you question your whole reality](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreigvmzverlrjgqp4mazbkhm43fpvv2hdbkd2t2646dhihozrwdcy24@jpeg)
September 11, 2025 at 9:24 PM
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Despite easily being the most British fighting vehicle ever developed, the mock-Tudor AT-AT programme was sadly cancelled due to budgetary concerns
September 11, 2025 at 9:21 AM
Despite easily being the most British fighting vehicle ever developed, the mock-Tudor AT-AT programme was sadly cancelled due to budgetary concerns
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Star trek strange new worlds has been bought by itvx for any uk fans who don't want to bother with paramount plus. Spread the word.
September 8, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Star trek strange new worlds has been bought by itvx for any uk fans who don't want to bother with paramount plus. Spread the word.
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Three years ago some people were paying £50,000 for a picture of a cartoon monkey
September 9, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Three years ago some people were paying £50,000 for a picture of a cartoon monkey