Nye

Animal Facts Knower. Streamer. Writer. Podcaster. TTRPG Maker. He/Him

[Kingfisher & Wombat @UrsulaV]

Portrait Of A Creature With A Chicken On His Head.

[Timbo The Wizard @TimboTheWizard]

Its #Selfpromosaturday Guilders! What project have you been working on? 👀

🧙‍♂️Tell us about your awesome TTRPG projects!
🪄Like, comment, and share other folks works!
🛑 No A/I or N/F/T projects!

#ttrpgfamily #ttrpgcommunity #actualplay #dnd5e #ttrpgs

[Lena V. Groeger @lenagroeger]

📣 Graphics gig alert!

@ProPublica is hiring a graphics editor to make data viz and other graphics for a 6-month position (this August to next Feb). $66/hour. Can be totally remote. Happy to answer any questions, DM me! https://t.co/KEqLHoNz4q

[Read Raising Expectations (and Raising Hell) @JPHilllllll]

The onion keeping it real

[Darryl J @DJordatron]

@EmmaTolkin My favourite is his first take.

It's used in Raiders when a Nazi falls off the cargo truck and in Empire Strikes Back when a Rebel satellite gun is his during the Battle of Hoth.

https://t.co/T1Ou7ja3zP

[𝕯𝖎𝖑𝖉𝖔 𝕭𝖆𝖌𝖌𝖎𝖓𝖘 @EmmaTolkin]

Oh my god they found the tape with the original Wilhelm Scream recording session — INCLUDING ALT TAKES!!!

[Starshine Scribbles @Starshinescrib]

Every Twitter user this week.

[Rebecca Sear @RebeccaSear]

I once desk-rejected a paper which used national IQ data. The authors promptly accused me of political-correctness, while defending the idea that entire nation states could have IQs of 70 or below, because such IQs still allow people "to have children & do physical labour" 🤷‍♀️

[Gnome Depot @gnomedepot]

Love Hurts #gnomedepot

[Tam not Lin @WriteTam]

@JayHulmePoet I once asked a Muslim friend what she thought paradise was like, and she said, “I think it’s where tomatoes will taste like real tomatoes, and strawberries will taste like real strawberries”, and this is still one of the best imaginings of heaven I’ve ever heard.

[Ragged Trousered Philanderer @RaggedTP]

My Mum grew up in the slums of 1930s Edinburgh. There was no free healthcare. Her brothers died during a measles epidemic. Her Mum had to bury her boys and the following week she received the funeral bill one day and the doctor’s bill the next.
Thank God Nye Bevan gave us the NHS

[KC Davis @KCDavisSays]

What is a random piece of micro-advice your parents gave you? Not advice on big or significant things, but nevertheless something you’ll never forget.

My mom used to say “One dog is a pet. Two dogs is dogs.”

[Nye @ErsatzExpert]

Proud to be named after this man

[Tides of History @labour_history]

#OTD 1948. Nye Bevan launches the NHS at Park Hospital in Manchester.

"No society can legitimately call itself civilised if a sick person is denied medical aid because of a lack of means"

A thread on his battle to introduce it 👇

[Lucy @LMAsaysno]

you boy, what number post is this?

[SpiderQueenLong (She/They) @long_spider]

Happy Colonial Merchant Oligarch Tax Evasion Day.

[Wargamer @WargamerCom]

Hobbyist @greenstuffnglue has an inspired way to use up your #Warhammer40k bits box! https://t.co/jjt6CqPakh