Ian Cooper

The danger is the UK policy is going to be decided by fear and ignorance as it was in Australia

I know, there was some talking head on the BBC talking about dumb phones and she clearly had zero idea about parental controls or that kids are not using their phones during lessons.

Always remember Haidt relies on correlation and has no causation. His lack of evidence for the claims in his book galvanising Westminster politicians is troubling.

Ignore anyone using Haidt’s book to support their arguments

We have to educate children for the world we live in. Sex education lowers rates of pregnancy. Social media education should make them safer.

Otherwise we will have hell at 16.

Empower parents, don't create a government digital nanny state.

Britain should raise the digital age of consent | Letters Letters: Where Denmark is going, the UK must follow, says Daniel Kebede of the National Education Union

Instead of banning social media on devices, as Australia has done, a better step for the UK would be to raise the digital age of consent to 16 from 13, allowing parents to make decisions about which apps their children can use for longer.

www.theguardian.com/media/2025/o...

Wow, I have been become @ossihiekkala.bsky.social’s new muse! Think of the great works he will now create from my Excalidraw efforts.

Shameless.

Honestly, I should have been an artist for my career. Look at the quality. @matthewmercer.bsky.social is probably in awe of my GM skills at this point

Franklin is an experiment, built with Claude's aid, to create Skills for Brighter and Darker. We will iterate on it, as we test it out, to improve it. Feel free to try it and give us feedback.

github.com/BrighterComm...

If I predict that developers read Brighter and Darker's documentation less than agents, one question is how to help agents work with our documentation. Whilst GitBook supports llms.txt, my supposition is that Skills may be more important as a mechanism.

Wait, there is more than one of us.

I will. Not really a problem Scott, it amused me more than anything :-)

Monday: Someone at MS gifts me a VS Subscription. Guessing it might be OSS work, and that's nice, helps with the Azue bill
Thursday: Someone at MS removes my VS Subscription.

I mean, easy come and easy go, but a fellow could become paranoid about the conversations happening right now :-D

You were welcome. Lovely to have you.

We are well. The long dark tea-time of the soul that is UK winter is upon us. Dreaming of spring.

And you?

Good morning. It’s been a while.

Came back from #Grogmeet last night to avoid Sunday rail chaos. It’s a shame as I didn’t get to catch up with a lot of folks post-con. Still lovely to catch up with those I did.

Still, I played some excellent games of WFRP1e, Bushido and Everywhen. I also ran a QuestWorlds Glorantha game.

Eek

I'm hoping the snow allows some of us to make it...

Brighter Team Meeting

For anyone interested, the Brighter team meeting is live now at: www.youtube.com/watch?v=G33Q...

I like Warhorn or an equivalent, and hate the scrum on the day. With the scrum on the day, I don't feel comfortable being assertive about the games I want to play, so end up just seeing what is "left over". So Warhorn, particularly with rules that some folks (GMs, first timers) get to sign up first

So in House of Ashur (and Spartacus) one joy is the English with a pseudo-Latin syntax and word choice.

But what happens in TV markets where English is not the language? If they dub or translate, how do they handle it?

Now available to play on Wikisource: 'Consider the Consequences!' (1930) by Doris Webster and Mary Alden Hopkins.

My New year project has been transcribing this newly out-of-copyright game book, the first one ever published [1/2]

D&D’s spell list is the most essential part of the D&D setting. The spells exist between editions, and a key expression of those rules is how those spells will work THIS TIME. They implicitly tell a story of *how* magical the world is, and approximately set the bounds of magic.

We must play again soon. Perhaps I should run a short campaign for you and some others shortly

I have Legends of the Mist to look through. Not picked up Daggerheart yet. Curious to know which one you picked?

So we do we call you “Sir” now?

How clean is the floor?