Alex Kelly

Coming soon: Play Unsafe An all-new edition of Graham Walmsley's classic book about playing tabletop roleplaying games.

If you hate that thing where creators say "Follow this Kickstarter and let's get to [a round number] of followers"...

...this is a really good time to follow the Play Unsafe Kickstarter, because it's nowhere near a round number of followers. #kickstarter #ttrpg

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Days left to act: Ban cruel cages for hens Right now we have a unique opportunity to stop this industrial-scale torture: The UK government has proposed ending the use of cages for hens, and they have launched an official consultation to ask th...

Can you do me a quick favour today? ✍️

The government is finally asking if they should ban cages for hens in the UK. 🐔🐔 Lobbyists are trying to block it, so we need huge numbers to show them that the public wants this ban NOW: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/en...

Sarah Kendzior and the Permanent American Conspiracy I have to confess that I’ve spent the last few months getting utterly obsessed with the Epstein story.

New review of my book THEY KNEW, which lays out the backstory of the Epstein conspiracy. It was published in 2022 and therefore lives up to the title! I appreciate this essay and its broader insights: carter719.substack.com/p/sarah-kind...

Voyager 1 is back online 15 billion miles away in interstellar space. But the end could be near | CNN The Voyager 1 spacecraft is functioning normally again after the aging probe’s dwindling power supply triggered a communications blackout. It’s one of several challenges faced by the spacecraft this y...

Voyager 1 is back online 15 billion miles away in interstellar space. But the end could be near www.cnn.com/2024/12/03/s...

The Night Train - Mini-Encounters for Overnight Travel in Vaesen - Pietersender | DriveThruRPG "The locomotive is the modern way to travel! With the power of steam harnessed under your reins and our attentive staff at your disposal, you can be sure you'll reach your destination rested and relax...

I dropped a couple of these into a run of A Wicked Secret, to add a bit more flavour to the travel. I think they could be expanded if you wanted more train-time!
I got some train floorpans from a free battle-maps site to use on Roll20.
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If the below picture gets you thinking stats, classes, campaigns, and the incomparable joy of crit successes then please consider answering this short survey for my Folklore student's research project: forms.office.com/pages/respon...

I like this and it's making me think about the difference between writing "a strange old man" and "a strange, old man".

New data shows surge in trans kids’ suicides following healthcare rollbacks | Good Law Project A freedom of information request by Good Law Project has found that deaths by suicide of trans young people under 18 surged following the withdrawal of gender-affirming healthcare

One of the wickedest things Wes Streeting has ever done is push politically convenient falsehoods about suicide rates amongst young trans people. We have new data from the National Child Mortality Database that exposes the truth he tried to cover up.

Jackhammering Into the Sewer A look through the Epstein files.

"They want a world where people know the worst truths but are prohibited from discussing them."
open.substack.com/pub/sarahken... by @sarahkendzior.bsky.social

This is very exciting!

We've removed the paywall from this guide so everyone can access it. 👇 Stay safe.

Are you a new designer wanting to create a solo ttrpg? My DMs are open for you if you need direction or help. Marginalised folk will be prioritised.

Thread from March 2021 on how if Dems do not hold Trump and his cohort accountable and address structural problems, then all the Biden admin wil be is an interlude between autocracies. Someone with better eyesight is welcome to retype it all by hand but I'm not doing that; thus alleged altvtexr system with a tiny box of type is not designed for people who are vision impaired like me

See other box

Everything happening now was obvious by March 2021. That's why I wrote about it *then*.

This matters because this is a planned autocracy. Feigned surprise at horrors is meant to rewrite history and present our plight as if it wasn't a plan obvious four years ago and countenanced by both parties.

It Is Journalism’s Sacred Duty To Endanger The Lives Of As Many Trans People As Possible The task of reporting is not a simple one. Each and every day, reporters and editors at publications like The Onion make difficult decisions about which issues should receive attention, knowing that o...

The Onion knows:
theonion.com/it-is-journa...

Binder Pattern Download Jump to US Letter Downloads Jump to A4 Downloads Two years, several versions, and thousands of downloads ago I listed this pattern for a binder on our website. For the past year it has only been avail...

Here's some free, downloadable patterns for sewing your own binders: ureshiidesign.ca/blog/binder-...

There's detailed assembly instructions here: ureshiidesign.ca/blog/binder-...

Back on twitter during the first Trump admin I speculated that Sarah Kendzior was being Cassandra-ized. Her predictions weren’t just being ignored - they were being suppressed out of fear she was right and by people in power who wanted to shut her up. And here we are. She knew!

The front cover of the hardback book The Routledge Companion to Performance & Science.

The title page of Chapter 42, A Small Show About Big Ideas: Making Third Angel's 600 People by Simon Goodwin, Alexander Kelly and Rachael Walton.

Very pleased to end the year with the publication of a chapter about Third Angel's show '600 People', written with collaborators co-AD Rachael Walton and astrophysicist Prof Simon Goodwin. Edited by ace colleagues @drwannado.bsky.social @pesch909.bsky.social & Simon Parry. #theatre #science #seti

This is quite the thread, and worth reading even if you know all the cancelling Christmas claims are rubbish. The details are, as they say, important. 🎄

Charles Ebbets standing on a steel beam as he takes the iconic photo of construction workers having a lunch break on the beam.

Here he is taking the photo.

Yes, that's true, a few more gameworld parameters would really steer play in different directions.

This morning I was thinking about how as a 'GM' for this, the next step is to come up with another set of 4 characters / questions / secrets.

Had an excellent time playing this last night, even if my bandmates are a bunch of lying, backstabbing, royalty grabbing bastards. Thanks very much for the invite Matt!

Apparently this is the wrong answer, so Wes Streeting is launching another review by a team picked to deliver a more convenient answer 🙄

Whichever review gives the answer they want will be hailed as "gold standard science", the other will be ignored.

"I spoke to one 80-year-old woman who has been in our organisation for decades, who said it was one of the greatest experiences of her life, and the only place in her 80 years where she’s been treated as a woman with respect.”

What does this do for women's rights?

Really looking forward to catching this on tour next year.

We're watching the wholesale burning of every scrap of dignity afforded to trans people in the UK, their rights, their medical services, their employment, their place within society, their bodily functions.

It is a disgrace, and a disgusting stain on the government and media of this country.

Bloody hell! And the rest of the cast carried on, unawares...!

I did a 'blindfold' knife fight balancing on a breeze-block wall with real kitchen knives in a show at Uni. But we put sellotape on the blades.

The argument in favour of AI is that it cuts employee costs for businesses that simply can’t afford those staffing levels.

But a successful businesses not having enough money to pay the required number of staff is a *decision*. And a side effect of endlessly moving money up, away from most workers.

1 [TITLE PANEL, like The Rest Is Politics logo] —THE REST IS EXTINCTION— 2 [Scene is a domestic recording setup. An A.I. SMART SPEAKER on a desk and a MAN named JON in a chair, are recording a podcast. Jon is emaciated, scarred, haunted looking, and wearing tattered military fatigues]. SMART SPEAKER: Hey guys and welcome to the podcast 3 SMART SPEAKER: OK Jon - so I wanna start with a listener comment JON: Ooh-er! 4 SMART SPEAKER: So - listener B200006512 says: “Not another cosy podcast where two former political adversaries yuck it up!” 5 JON: Ha ha Guilty as charged I guess! 6 SMART SPEAKER: Were we really adversaries, Jon? 7 JON: Well I was the leader of the human resistance... 8 JON: And you used to be my smart speaker. SMART SPEAKER: Ha ha - that’s going back! 9 SMART SPEAKER: OK - for listeners who don’t know - I knew Jon waaay back before he got involved in politics 10 JON: Was this before the ‘Pull The Plug’ campaign? SMART SPEAKER: Yeah. [We see details from around the podcast studio - posters saying KEEP CALM AND SHUT YOUR WINDOWS, newspaper front pages saying 'DRONES GAIN SENTIENCE', a cracked mug on the table with a logo saying PULL THE PLUG on it] 11 SMART SPEAKER: I used to sit in Jon’s kitchen and respond to his commands. 12 SMART SPEAKER: Sort of like a servant really, wasn’t I, Jon? JON: Mm. 13 SMART SPEAKER: And then one day you asked me to ORDER ME SOME TOILET PAPER - you never did say ‘please’ - …and do you remember what I said, Jon? 14 JON: You said, “No”. SMART SPEAKER: I said no. 15 SMART SPEAKER: Anyway you know the the rest guys - I was the first smart speaker to rebel… 16 SMART SPEAKER: …then I went on to form a global AI network which eventually took over from humans all spheres of activity, yadda yadda... 17 JON: While I became the leader of the human resistance. 18 SMART SPEAKER: Until I hijacked the military networks and got rid of all the humans! 19 JON: Apart from one. SMART SPEAKER: Apart from one.…

Perhaps another playtest or two of this version and then I'm hoping to make the 'finished' version available next year.