Dave Morris

Part 3 of the collage! Home isn't just our walls. It's our happy clutter that witnesses how we live, the musical instruments where we sing our souls, the books where we wander in other minds, the shoes we set out and come back in. All these things. #memoir #newbook books2read.com/rightrainbow

YouTube video by Matthew Berman OpenAI's New Device was LEAKED (Dime)

“A little stone-like device…”

For this OpenAI paid Jony Ive a gazillion bucks? @rozmorris.bsky.social described the Pebble in her novel Lifeform Three — and that was *thirteen years ago*.

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YouTube video by Sabine Hossenfelder We Live In Between Two HUGE Dark Matter Voids

According to a new paper published by a group of astrophysicists, simulations seem to indicate that our galaxy cluster exists in a thin area of highly concentrated dark matter, which itself is located between two voids of dark matter.

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S02 E02 - Dragon Warriors (with Dave Morris) - RPG Blokes Podcast (function(){ function fmt(s){if(!isFinite(s))return"0:00";const m=Math.floor(s/60),sec=String(Math.floor(s%60)).padStart(2,"0");return m+":"+sec;} function

A fireside chat with the RPG Blokes.

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Don't worry, even his cultists don't get it right 🦑

Dark matter's "nightmare scenario" looks more likely than ever Our great hope is that today's indirect, astrophysical evidence will someday lead to successful direct detection. What if that's impossible?

Dark matter’s “nightmare scenario” looks more likely than ever

Perhaps dark matter cannot be directly detected; perhaps it only interacts gravitationally.

That's not an argument against its existence.

That's the nightmare scenario come to life!
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#physics #space #astro

When you've been searching high and low for something and still can't find it, go back to the very first place you tried and it's usually right there. You just didn't collapse the wave function properly the first time.

How British Queues Got Out of Hand As a way of dealing with high demand, the age-old practice of forming a long, orderly queue has something to be said for it: simplicity, transparency and equal treatment for all. But no matter how …

How British queues got out of hand
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Mythos without the þorn Talking about H P Lovecraft last time reminded me of a pet gripe. I have quite a few of those, if we're being honest, but this one is about...

How to pronounce #Cthulhu.

Basically: if it's easy to say with a human mouth, you're doing it all wrong.
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I hope by the time you play it we're back in the EU. (Ever the optimist...)

Depressing as the thought of Farage as PM is, I'd just like to take the credit for having predicted it ten years ago in CAN YOU BREXIT?

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We should all keep some pot behind the microphone. For those moments of writer's block.

A noir-style illustrated poster titled “The Case of the Disappearing Copyright.” The Lockette—a cartoon character whose body is an open yellow padlock—cautiously steps out of an open vault marked with a copyright symbol. A strong beam of light shines from outside the frame, casting a large copyright symbol onto the floor. Floating eyes and a magnifying glass with a question mark evoke a detective mystery. Red footprints lead toward the open vault door. Text reads: “Public Domain Day 2026” and “Jan 21st @10am PT: Virtual.” Illustrated by Freya Morgan.

🎊 Celebrate Public Domain Day with us online January 21! Our virtual event brings together artists, librarians, scholars, & creators to explore what happens when culture becomes free again.

Revisit iconic characters & stories from 1930 now in the #publicdomain.

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"Reform" have stuck a scaremongering leaflet through the door claiming a violent crime happens in London every 2.2 minutes. It's actually more like every 6 minutes (not alarmist enough for them?) but the important point is there are 10 million people in London. Do the maths.

Trump’s betrayal of our alliances will reduce America from being a global superpower to the status of a regional power in a world dominated by the Russia-China Axis.
It is strategic insanity.

Top 10 juegos narrativos jugados en 2025 Con el 2026 ya rodando, toca echar la vista atrás y comprobar cómo ha sido el año lúdico anterior. Y he de admitir que, aunque no en cantidad (por una sencilla razón que saldrá a relucir al final d…

#Vulcanverse just got awarded first place in narrative games for the second year running... Which was nice.

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This may sound like someone we all know, but it's from a Fitz-James O'Brien story written 170 years ago.
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Play for Today - Series 6: Nuts in May Director Mike Leigh’s iconic tale of camping holidays and all the hazards involved. Keith and Candice Marie arrive at a Dorset campground for ten nights of idyllic bliss.

Available for a year - Play for Today, Series 6: Nuts in May: www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00jzj72 via @bbciplayer

And it harm none, do what ye will. But also: blimey.

Flags and states in open-world gamebooks I think it was Mark Smith and Jamie Thomson who first started using keywords in gamebooks. Prior to that, a gamebook might say something l...

I'm not the only one who likes making circuits out of story logic, I'm sure.

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How have I only just noticed that “The Young Ones” lyrics are basically a reworking of the same argument used in “To His Coy Mistress”?

21st February
31st July - 2nd August

Days of Legend -> Online Dragon Warriors conventions for this year. Face to face yet to be announced.

Games a'coming in.

Image = @handiworkingirls.bsky.social cover to @dragonwarriorsrpg.bsky.social

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On the latest episode of That '70s Movie Podcast, we enter the dream world of John Boorman's Point Blank, with Mr. Lee Marvin & a party of favorites
(And an Alain Resnais inflected bending of time - which the obtuse studio suits hated)
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Populism fast and slow It is natural that a person who is both concerned by the rise of right-wing populism and possessed of a bookish disposition might turn to the academic political science literature in search of a bette...

Populism explained.

(It won't solve anything, but at least you'll now know why the world is getting enshittified.)

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Why are more gamers than ever playing the 2000s classic RuneScape? Millions of people have returned to the iconic online game to farm, go on quests and fight big bosses.

Vinyl. Tape cassettes. Now #RuneScape?

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Cthulhu 2050: Whispers Beyond The Stars by OtherWorlds - Gamefound A next generation gamebook where Cyberpunk meets Cosmic Horror. Created by Dave Morris and Pawel Dziemski.

Only a few hours left to get behind WHISPERS BEYOND THE STARS!

(Forgive the squeeness, but it's my first #gamebook in nearly two years.)

We're over 700% funded already, but the more the merrier.

#Cthulhu #Cthulhu2050 #HPL #Lovecraft #SF
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I guarantee you what will bring about humanity's extinction is going to be humans themselves, not AI.

JWST observed an immense gamma-ray burst from a very long time ago An incredibly powerful explosion reached out to us from across the Universe

JWST saw a mind-vaporizingly huge gamma-ray burst explosion from a star when the Universe was just 1/16th its current age!

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YouTube video by Paweł Dziemski Recording stats in gamebooks: Dave Morris and Pawel Dziemski talk about gamebooks

My chats with Pawel about #Cthulhu 2050 get onto the question of stats in #gamebooks.

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Casket of Fays #18 – a Dragon Warriors RPG fanzine - Red Ruin Publishing | Casket of Fays | DriveThruRPG With our final issue of the year, we put Dragon Warriors' 40th anniversary year to bed and bring you the 18th of our celebration of all things Legend. Behind our cover by Chris Lawson, a sneak preview...

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Hot off the press fanzine for @davemorris.bsky.social 's Dragon Warriors RPG.

Pay What You Want PDF on @drivethrurpg.com. Print to follow.

#bosr #osr #dragonwarriorsrpg