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Tom Senior

@tomsenior.bsky.social

Mimsy mome rath.

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Marsh & The Magdalena, Dr Emily Friedman on Actual Play, the 18th century, other things. Ahoy, and welcome to the TEETH newsletter. This is an (aspirationally) weekly report about our travels on the TTRPG-seas, written and compiled by implacable...

ICYMI, this week's newsletter interviews 18th-centuryist, Actual Play scholar & TTRPG megabrain @friede.bsky.social. It's full of good stuff: on microcelebrity, the Mercer Effect, authenticity & anachronism in historical games, & the world's greatest break-up novel.
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27.08.2025 20:24 β€” πŸ‘ 19    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Cat spines are wild

13.07.2025 18:57 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

This Wimbledon men’s final might be an all-timer. I bet my father-in-law a Kitkat that Alcaraz will win. The stakes couldn’t be higher

13.07.2025 17:40 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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This isn’t a parody, it’s real, and it’s perfect

13.07.2025 10:53 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I just described my idea for a macaron experiment to @tomsenior.bsky.social and he said it left him feeling 'unsettled in my soul'.

No peanut butter and bacon jam macarons for him, then.

13.07.2025 09:55 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Whenever I stub my toe I will be yelling β€œJESUS THE CHRIST” going forwards

11.07.2025 17:08 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Lovely day revisiting Glastonbury town in the blazing sunshine. Xenomorphs, crystals, churches, friendly pub dogs, and cults. All on one street.

11.07.2025 16:57 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Couldn’t sleep so I upgraded the arcade stick

06.07.2025 10:34 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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No thank you, I enjoy not being murdered

27.06.2025 16:03 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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How many red flags can you fit into one paragraph of a job description

27.06.2025 15:55 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0

The best thing about baths is that you get to become soup for a bit.

16.06.2025 05:15 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I was feeling glum today, but then Dad called and now I get to pilot an EVA! I’m sure everything will be great from here on out

15.06.2025 15:56 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Don’t tell maniacs they’re amazing

08.06.2025 07:30 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Watching Blade Runner again. The nerd-god Tyrell tells Roy that in his short life burns so very, very brightly. 20 mins later, Roy is prancing around an abandoned building in his underpants. A film student nods sagely and whispers β€œyesss, THIS is character development”.

08.06.2025 07:29 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

And so my Alan Partridge life continued

07.06.2025 09:22 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

We’ve got wood pigeons too, of course. In the old flat I was watching a film with Ems and I said β€˜wow they’ve actually got the bird sounds right for England’ and Ems said β€˜Tom, the window’s open’

07.06.2025 09:14 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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A small Saturday morning ritual: sitting in the garden with the Merlin app on to see which birds are hanging out here today

07.06.2025 09:09 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

When Uncle Ben says β€˜with great power comes great responsibility’ I don’t think he was imagining someone becoming a sticky acrobat.

07.06.2025 07:15 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I don’t know why, but Ryan Gosling characters die the moment they realise the film isn’t about them.

06.06.2025 14:59 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Fully asleep, upside down, balls out, Charlie Brown missed the football again pose

28.05.2025 15:26 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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When you get a cat you think you’re inviting an elegant, graceful apex predator to share your home

However, in reality, you look into the front room while cooking and see something like this

28.05.2025 15:23 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

Scavengers Reign is perfect sci-fi. Exquisite animation originally exclusive to HBO and now buried in the Netflix archive. Watching again and enjoying the horror Fantasia of it

28.05.2025 07:57 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

The auto-taxi idea is actually a liberating prospect, as silly as it seems at the moment. Ideally we’d have a better public transport network of course, but that’s another story.

20.05.2025 13:55 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I’m interested in the last post because my eyesight is too poor to legally even learn to drive (lifelong 3rd nerve palsy double vision).

It is hugely limiting to rely on public transport in this country, in terms of reach and expense, especially for employment.

20.05.2025 13:52 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Car crash: Musk and Tesla Podcast Episode Β· The Slow Newscast Β· 20/05/2025 Β· 30m

Some interesting business sense-checks on Tesla’s convulsions and the EV market in the last few years podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...

20.05.2025 13:45 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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In which myself and @tomsenior.bsky.social *really* love Old Skies, and then talk about point and click adventures we've loved for ages.

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17.05.2025 10:36 β€” πŸ‘ 13    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 2

We will never know.

08.05.2025 20:39 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
A thumbnail on Disney+ advertising Star Wars: Return of the Jedi. The image prominently features Chewbacca, Jabba the Hutt and Yoda. Luke Skywalker and Darth Vader lock blades in a small silhouette beneath clumsily cropped headshots of Chewie, Jabba, and Yoda.

A thumbnail on Disney+ advertising Star Wars: Return of the Jedi. The image prominently features Chewbacca, Jabba the Hutt and Yoda. Luke Skywalker and Darth Vader lock blades in a small silhouette beneath clumsily cropped headshots of Chewie, Jabba, and Yoda.

I used to approve marketing thumbnails and now can’t stop loud questions popping in to my head as I browse Disney+ (and all other sites)

β€œWhy have you prioritised Bigfoot, Slug Monster and Cabbage Goblin over the life and death clash between the most important characters in all of Star Wars?”

08.05.2025 20:38 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

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