Zoheb AKA Klow

The films really don't do justice to how down bad Gimli is

His acting like he got a 2am reply from his crush makes him the most relatable LotR character by far

Midnight in a Perfect World It is the anniversary of your country’s liberation. The struggle for independence was bloody, and left you bereft. You have a tradition of gathering for a dinner before heading to the public plaza to ...

It's GMless, on a timer, using the tarot, and even if I say so myself it's a really interesting experience that has always produced a memorable evening.

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TonyPlusOne - Twitch Here at Plus One Exp we multiclass in tabletop game design, beard & skincare alchemy and the Bardic College of Content Creation. We want to help players find games by designers they can love, and desi...

Tomorrow at 21h Europe time I'm going to stream my game Midnight in a Perfect World with the wonderful people at @plusoneexp.bsky.social

MiaPW is a dinner party for 4 players, counting down the hours until the midnight anniversary of a revolution.

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New publication!

I place Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri and Disco Elysium in conversation for their portrayal of the politics of man-made environmental disaster and mass extinction.

Available to read online, open-access to all.

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And then you have the kings of the pile obsessed with more for themselves.

I mostly interact with people who are in bottom .5% of the 'everyone else' category, and it remains remarkable how that part of the industry is mostly concerned with mutual support despite being competitors for the few dollars that are available to compete for at that level.

I admire this.

The real deep state was the friends who made us along the way

New Desperate Attune!

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The Legislation Upon winning a general election, a Reform government under Prime Minister Nigel Farage will: 1) Leave the ECHR 2.) Repeal the Human Rights Act and replace it with a British Bill of Rights. 3.) Pass The Illegal Migration (Mass Deportation) Bill: This Bill will: Create a legal duty to remove illegal migrants for the Home Secretary The Bill opens with a blunt obligation for the Home Secretary: "The Secretary of State shall ensure the removal from the United Kingdom of each person who does not have extant leave to remain and is not an Irish citizen or otherwise protected by regulations made under this Act." The following parts of the legislation are introduced on an emergency basis, with an in-built sunset clause after 5 years: Disapply the 1951 Refugee Convention, the UN Convention Against Torture, the Council of Europe Anti-Trafficking Convention (ECAT) Derogation is justified under the Vienna Convention doctrine of state of necessity: Britain faces a national emergency in which uncontrolled illegal migration undermines public order. These treaties will otherwise be used by activist judges to frustrate deportations, even after the repeals of the HRA and ECHR. Create Detention Power Without Hardial Singh Constraints This means illegal migrants can be detained until they are deported. Activist lawyers routinely use Hardial Singh to secure their client's bail, after which the client absconds. If you came to the UK illegally, you are ineligible for asylum. End of story All asylum claims will become inadmissible if made by a person within the Act's scope. If you came to the country illegally, you are ineligible for asylum in the UK. This strips the Home Office, the immigration tribunals and the higher courts of jurisdiction to even consider claims. A claim that cannot be considered cannot suspend removal and therefore, cannot delay a flight. Re-entering after deportation and destroying ID becomes a serious criminal offence Re-entry after deportation will be…

The Operational Plan We will create an enforcement unit called UK Deportation Command, including an Illegal Migrant Identification Centre - harnessing cutting edge data fusion A Reform government will create a cutting edge enforcement data centre to relentlessly identify and detain all illegal migrants in the UK. Using powers granted by the new legislation, it will automatically share data between the Home Office, NHS, HMRC, DVLA, banks and the police. It will power bulk warrants, including mandatory biometric capture during any police encounter. Each power addresses a failure mode observed over the past decade - for example, banks and GP surgeries unaware of a customer's status, or overstayers slipping through because a warrant covered only a single property. Secure Immigration Removal Centres (SIRC) will be built rapidly to detain up to 24,000 Detention capacity for up to 24,000 will be created within 18 months. The Home Office will build Secure Immigration Removal Centres. This will be modular accommodation built in remote parts of the country. Conditions are basic but not punitive: prefabricated two-person rooms, canteen catering, on-site medical suites. Robust perimeters and internal movement controls prevent escapes. This enables detention-on-arrest: no more bail. This capacity would allow for up to 24,000 illegal migrants to be deported per month. Initial Voluntary Return Window A six-month Assisted Voluntary Return window precedes large-scale raids. Illegal migrants will be offered a financial incentive to self-deport. An app will be launched to facilitate this. The Deportation Flights The Home Office will scale up charters to 5 flights per day. To guard against last-minute aircraft unserviceability, the RAF will keep one Voyager aircraft on six-hour 'hot-spare' readiness. If a commercial charter breaks down, detainees can still be flown out that night, preserving operational integrity. The legal reset will mean activist lawyers will no longer be able preven…

The UK version of “Project 2025” by the Reform party includes a British ICE, a concentration camp for 24,000 people, mass surveillance and withdrawing from refugee, anti-torture and anti-trafficking conventions.

It’s on their website. That’s how comfortable fascists are in the UK today.

I currently have a full-time job at a university so that could limit my availability for additional work (in case you consider me at all), but I'm pretty passionate about depictions of colonialism in TTRPGs and can make time for projects in my wheelhouse.

Sunmirror: Reflecting U'duasha by Desperate Attune An unofficial setting rework for Blades in the Dark

Soumithri and I also collaborated on a fan rework of Blades in the Dark's setting of U'duasha and set an AP called @desperateattune.bsky.social in our take on the setting

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I'll link my thesis if you want to glance through

kar.kent.ac.uk/101595/

Thanks, Soumithri

@phophos.bsky.social short credentials pitch --

My PhD was on the racialized recruitment of Indian soldiers in the colonial British army and how these racist tropes were used by Europeans to understand the Indian Army in Europe during WWI.

this has 18k views over on TikTok and people are really making their voices heard in the comments

Desperate Attune has been a joy to build from the ground up with my weird little guys

I Liked this before you posted any of the rest because I want to see you cook

New cfp for a special issue of Eludamos!

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Is Starmer’s reluctance to criticise Trump smart tactics – or the sign of a man without a plan? | Rafael Behr The PM won’t call out Trump over Venezuela, and won’t commit to Europe. His refusal to choose leaves vital choices for Britain to be made by others, says Guardian columnist Rafael Behr

Is Starmer’s reluctance to criticise Trump smart tactics – or the sign of a man without a plan? | Rafael Behr

Very similar to the old boss

New Convergence Valley episode!

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OF THE EMPIRE We will be known as a culture that feared death and adored power, that tried to vanquish insecurity for the few and cared little for the penury of the many. We will be known as a culture that taught and rewarded the amassing of things, that spoke little if at all about the quality of life for people (other people), for dogs, for rivers. All the world, in our eyes, they will say, was a commodity. And they will say that this structure was held together politically, which it was, and they will say also that our politics was no more than an apparatus to accommodate the feelings of the heart, and that the heart, in those days, was small, and hard, and full of meanness.

Ever relevant, this poem by Mary Oliver, especially today.

This reminds me of my dream oneshot where Fredo Puffins hires the gang to convince his uncle Pinto Puffins to retire and leave the family jewel behind - - but beware the protection of Galway the Grandpa!

The US can destroy a European's life with the swipe of a pen This week's US sanctions against European lawmakers and privacy activists is a major escalation. And it shows the dangers of Europe relying on American economic infrastructure.

The outrageous sanctioning of EU lawmakers and citizens in order to pressure democratically-elected European governments to change their laws shows just how intent the US government is on controlling Europeans' lives.

We must go into 2026 with eyes open.

This is only time we derailed a session by being too silly to continue

In this episode we do high stakes negotiations and Ahiri is mostly occupied with the boiler that she had nonconsensually installed

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Bangladesh on edge after killing of 2024 uprising activist triggers unrest Security forces fan out nationwide after violent demonstrations follow the shooting of an election candidate.

I used to work there.

Lady Iskandaric gets run over by a car in this episode

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As to whether I care - - I care about definitions if they produce interesting insights and discussions on the thing being defined. I think it's dangerous to act as though the definition actually contains the reality being described.

A distinction I'm unattached to because I just thought about it on the bus --

Rule: something discrete. "Your Blades in the Dark playbook starts with three action dots, in x and y" is a rule. It means little in isolation.

Mechanic: a process made up of rules. E.g. Blades' action roll.

Why the title 'Burned Over'?

The art lover who stole The Love Letter for Bangladesh’s freedom The condition: money must be used for refugees suffering in the war in East Pakistan

Today is the anniversary of the Pakistani army's surrender in Bangladesh, 1971. It marks the end of the genocide. Every year I learn about acts of international solidarity that break my heart.

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