Leigh Dodds

My 101 Favourite TTRPGS: 101 - Old Men Running The World Earlier this year, we saw John Harper on the socials having worked out how many TTRPGs he's played. It was a big number. It made Jim and me sit back and do

On the day that commences my 50th year on this planet (and the 40th of playing RPGs), I start my list of my favourite 101 RPGs that I've played. It's in order.

So we begin with my least favourite RPG of all time.

Drumroll...

Yep! I did a thing where I was taking snaps of ids and data in the city

All good here thanks, hope you are too. What prompted the mention? 🤔

Sunday:

✅️ B&Q
✅️ Garden Centre
✅️ DIY
✅️ Cake

Pretty successful so far.

If you see this, quote skeet with a screenshot from a video game that released the year you were born.

Multiple "invalid handle" accounts · Issue #9090 · bluesky-social/social-app Steps to Reproduce Multiple users are reporting an escalation in accounts displaying as "Invalid Handle" https://bsky.app/search?q=%22invalid+handle%22 Attachments What platform(s) does this occur ...

If you're having a problem with "Invalid Handle" errors on the web, please add a 👍 or leave a comment on github.com/bluesky-soci...

bsky.app/profile/did:...

Elsewhere, by Grandbrothers 10 track album

This is a great album. Electronica + classical piano 👍

grandbrothers.bandcamp.com/album/elsewh...

1/ Whatever you think of digital ID, the process matters.
And in 2025, this is still how we make big public policy. 👇

Is there evidence for Nigel Farage’s claim that migrants are catching and eating swans and carp? – Full Fact With several related claims and video clips circulating on social media in the wake of the Reform UK leader’s comments, we’ve looked at what’s known.

So much time and money wasted on debating and debunking these fuckwits.

fullfact.org/immigration/...

Reform UK's Crypto Donations Put Under Spotlight as Experts Warn It's 'Impossible to Trace' Foreign Cash Anti-corruption campaigners raise the alarm over loopholes that could allow large sums of untraceable money to slip past checks

Reform UK’s Crypto Donations Put Under Spotlight as Experts Warn It’s ‘Impossible to Trace’ Foreign Cash

bylinetimes.com/2025/09/26/r...

Plan to make Tony Blair interim leader of Gaza branded ‘insane’ by SNP A PLAN to make Tony Blair the interim leader of Gaza has been described as “nothing short of insane” by the SNP ....

Yes, but is it good for Oracle?

www.thenational.scot/news/2549755...

David Lynch - Feeling & Thinking Checking Stick YouTube video by ReInstallPaul

TIL about David Lynch's Feeling & Thinking Checking Stick.

youtu.be/Z-Ju1I4P4BU?...

Things! GOLD TEETH Beta, Book Delay, Doomsong, Poor Old Jim Welcome, bold adventurers, to the TEETH newsletter! This is a (sort of) weekly transmission about our explorations in the very secret land of Tabletop...

I did a newsletter. But more importantly I DID A VIDEO. Riiiight out of my comfort zone, but entirely inspired and necessary because Doomsong is so fucking cool. Check it out (and also get yourself a copy of Wyrd Science issue 7):

The Coerciveness of the Primary Key: Infrastructure Problems in Human Services Work: Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction: Vol 3, No CSCW The premise of a primary key is simple enough: every record or row in a table should have some number or string that can uniquely identify it. Primary keys are essential for linking data spread across...

ID card discussion reminded of this paper:

"The Coerciveness of the Primary Key: Infrastructure Problems in Human Services Work"
dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...

My notes after I read it a few years ago:
blog.ldodds.com/2020/01/18/p...

I'm seeing so many takes around parts of the "ID card" melange, I have to add a few.

It's not about cards. It's about registers. A register is a definitive 'true source' of data, about people, places, buildings, whatever.

yes, although I don't think the concerns are limited to where it is mandated: where else will it be adopted, or become a norm even if not mandated.

Dataguessr Update your knowledge of the world. One quiz at a time.

This is fun... Dataguessr dataguessr.com HT @puntofisso.bsky.social

Deutsche Bank Notices That a Needle Is Getting Dangerously Close to the AI Bubble If not for AI spending, the bank says the US would be in a recession.

"...spending in the AI sector is “parabolic.” In fact, it is so vast, the researcher said, that it might single-handedly be propping up the American economy."

gizmodo.com/deutsche-ban...

Assume there will be a Britcard BBC Microbit Edition™ for anyone without a smartphone.

Lot of territory between "A digital certificate that says you can work in the UK" and "ID Card"

Send a job lot round to Labour HQ

Need an actual toolbox with:

- a set of Oblique Strategies
- a Feeling & Thinking Checking Stick
- a Rubber Duck
- and a Hammer for when the others don't work

David Lynch - Feeling & Thinking Checking Stick YouTube video by ReInstallPaul

TIL about David Lynch's Feeling & Thinking Checking Stick.

youtu.be/Z-Ju1I4P4BU?...

Aapti Institute | Building the Third Pillar: A New Framework for Data as Digital Public Infrastructure Digital Public Infrastructure (DPI) have played a major role in economic and societal transformation. While identity and payments have emerged as mature pillars of this infrastructure, the third criti...

Looks like the Aapti Institute are about to repeat the work the Open Data Institute was doing about 5 years ago

aapti.in/blog/buildin...

Nobody tell them about Calpol.

What can I take for my allergic reaction to this much stupidity?

It'll be shaped like a Thermos right?

Semiotic Standard-style chapter icons from my book Perfect Organism: An Alien: Isolation Companion, designed by the game's lead UI artist, Jon McKellan.

Government to improve road journeys across the country with £93 million investment and cutting-edge transport tech Investment to target current pinch points on local roads.

2020: "One of the projects to receive funding for tech projects will see the development of a new AI-powered app to detect potholes in real-time, using mobile phone sensors to measure when cyclists ride over or swerve to avoid them"

www.gov.uk/government/n...