Marcus Falk (She/They)

New pinned post. I'm an historian of consumption and hobby ttrpg creator. If you want to read my academic work: portal.research.lu.se/en/persons/m... If you prefer to find my ttrpg content: attusfalk.itch.io If you just want to read about horrible 80s microwave cooking: bsky.app/profile/attu...

It's really important to pay attention to the fact that Lula beat the fascist candidate not by compromising and trying to meet fascist voters in the middle, but by sticking to his guns, promising prosecutions for election interference, and mobilising his own voters to turn out in greater numbers.

I’m not a political journalist, so was gladly surprised at the community I found here last night. To Americans anxious about the upcoming elections, a key thing we learned in Brazil that might help you: DO NOT engage with the far-right online. Don’t share rage bait. Amplify your people. Ignore them.

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dog idk how i tell you this, but "no warning label" is a warning label. i love this project has to warn people there won't be trigger warnings so they don't get triggered

Billionaire JK Rowling is to be the subject of a BBC Scotland doc. Rowling spends much of her time and part of her huge wealth funding anti-trans law suits and organisations. You can tell a lot about a person by their yacht. So let's take a look at Rowling's 300ft yacht Samsara.

Why is this student so upset about the mushroom, though? What could it have done to make her protest across the whole continent

The artists brush Awakens the evening sun Each stroke a step Towards the long night. The colours fade And the dullness Follows the dusk Towards a new day.

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Comments on a Facebook post advertising a new lesbian pub in Camberwell. In 2026.

My headphones have somehow become ever so slightly out of sync, and I must admit it is not a pleasant experience

THIS FRIDAY! Our firstst session of the #LowCountries seminar with a paper by @bobpi.bsky.social on Water, Space, & Environmental Inequality in #EarlyModern Amsterdam FRI 23 Oct, 17:30 in person @ihr.bsky.social or on Zoom -free & all welcome but register for link: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

Willem II van der Marck Lumey (1542–1578) sure had some impressive trousers.

This was a fun answer to a really interesting question about Play To Lose Games!

Metroidvania where you begin with ONLY movement tech that would customarily be "late game", and gain access to more and more "basic" tech as you explore. Initially you can only teleport between fast travel points, which all start out unlocked; the final upgrade is the ability to walk left and right.

Every time I think Valve is starting to take this whole Deadlock thing too seriously, they hit you with shit like "the Rat King's special attack where he throws a rat in your face has one hundred separately recorded voice lines for one hundred individually named rats".

i feel it is an important moment to remind you all again that Norman warhorses were the size of modern ponies. Harold lost to William's superior battle pony forces.

Today's the 960th anniversary of the Battle of Hastings, so obviously I'm reposting my scenes from the Bayeux Tapestry in Playmobil.

I flödet: · Narges kropp massakrerades på Risbergska, får indragen sjukpenning och blir återbetalningsskyldig · Halvsidesförlamade Petras assistans indragen, återbetalningsskyldig · Cancersjuka Peter får ingen sjukpenning · Centerpartiet säger "Valfrihet är en central del av svensk välfärd"

Zionists are insufferable man. Self centered, crybully fascists.

We're going to @worldslair.bsky.social in London next month, and if you grab a ticket you can play in a TTRPG session with ME, where I run players through my Orbital Blues adventure VOIDLOCK TOMBSTONE... There's a session on Friday and Saturday cos I love playing games so much

So, happy 363rd anniversary to this entry from the Diary of Samuel Pepys, who had gone to bed the three previous nights “in some pain”, “in great pain”, and “beginning to be troubled with wind as I used to be”

Jag letade på tidningarnas landningssida efter nyheten om att de rödgröna enats om att stoppa handelsavtalet med Israel. Med tanke på regeringsbildning och det politiska spelet trodde jag det skulle vara en stor nyhet. Hittade inte en notis på någon förstasida. Även om alla publicerat nyheten.

come on

www.kickstarter.com/projects/sou... We funded! Hooray!

On the one hand this is absolutely fucking Hideous on the other hand like man are you SURE you want to open the door to livestreamed executions by firing squads? Like are you ABSOLUTELY certain you want what comes after that? Moreover, ICE must be destroyed

For my ENG speaking followers Unprecedented High School blockades began in the outskirts of Paris in Créteil on the 21st of Sept. National mobilisations followed on the 29th of September, the 1st and the 6th of October. The movement is ongoing and has spread both in scope and scale. #tippingpoint

This is quite something.

Spanien: *generalstrejkar för en pensionär blev vräkt* Frankrike: *kravallar för skolorna underfinansieras* Sverige: *kan inte bilda regering för att ett ”mittenparti” inte vill stoppa aktiebolag från att slanga skattepengar från välfärden*

Well, that's a hell of a thing to leave next to a statue of Joan of Arc.😏

images that spring to mind unbidden, part 999: "trans-inclusive radical misogyny" // "women should stay out of kitchens"

back of the envelope math: a ship of the line was 100 times* more expensive than a trireme leading to the obvious question, could 100 triremes take a ship of the line?

Houses that survived the great fire of London in a photo of Wych Street from c. 1880. All demolished in 1901.

Things in Popeye, a Japanese menswear magazine: — Interview with a "freelance pie advisor" who claims to have tried every pie in London. He names the city's top three pies. — Recurring column from writer who updates everyone on his cats for some reason. — Feature on Parisian grandfather style.

#31DaysOfGraves from @annaandthedead.bsky.social Day 1: Flower Samuel, Son of Mr Jabez West- cot & Anne his Wife who died March 24th AD. 1765. Aged 11 Months and 9 Days North Burial Ground, Providence, RI

But the recording has been checked & it was a promise for the future. Vote them OUT. It costs over $200,000.00/prisoner/year. What a COLOSSAL waste of money. Maybe try to prevent people wanting/needing to join gangs in the first place. Maybe create an economy where there are jobs. Sheesh! #nzpol

Someone in my local ttrpg club's discord just posted a looking for a game that was described as a purely rp comedy game with no actual mechanics but still a gm, and I don't know how to tell them nicely that what they'te looking for is just a moderated improv comedy-session

“Free Speech” never applies to anarchists.

If we were told how much benefit our country collectively gets from people making stuff up out of their heads, a truly socially mobile option, we wouldn’t know our proper place. It’s why they’ve made the arts almost impossible to pursue for ordinary people. Get back on your trawler, prole scum.

Det här alltså. Staten tvingar Medelhavsmuseet, Östasiatiska museet och Armémuseum att stänga, på grund av höjda hyror?! Varför ska våra statliga museer ens betala hyra till staten? Vilken attraktiv stad Stockholm blir den, när all kultur är borta. Avgå alla. www.svt.se/kultur/varld...

Högern när en gammel idrottsstjärna misshandlar en komiker: ”Yeees, äntligen nån som tar lagen i egna händer och leder oss i strid mot kultureliten!” Högern när ungdomar protesterar med kraft mot nedskärningar och övervåld: ”Näe fy, lag och ordning über alles! Nu måste vi förbjuda vänsterpartiet.”