Bob Irving

Retired teacher of kids and coding, lifelong learner, author of Hard Fun: Supercharge Your Middle School CS Classroom with Project-based, Hands-on, Just-in-time Learning! Minecraft Global Mentor, Raspberry Pi Certified Educator, blues afficianado, and getting back into DMing DnD. N00b #emacs and #orgmode convert.

2025-12-07

I don't share a whole lot that's super personal on my socials. But this one is super personal to me. I am so grateful to know Jim Phipps. He's my blues mentor and one of the closest friends I've been blessed to have in my life. I don't know if there is such a thing as karma, but there's no one I know more deserving of this gift than Jimmy Blue. And he will do with it as he has always done -- take that gift of life and enrich the lives of those around him.

Link to kidney site NKR.ORG/wae384

2025-11-30

@lextenebris Thanks so much! Can't wait to dig into this, and will add your RSS feed to my vivaldi reader.

And I'm a confirmed #shadowdark DM and fanboy.

2025-11-30

@foolishowl Wish I had the hardback of the core rulebook of #ironsworn

But try it first solo and then maybe your partner will become curious and join you.

2025-11-30

@lextenebris Thanks for the reply, and yes, I'd love to see the vast numbers of examples! It's helpful to think of #ironsworn as the inversion of OSR. I do love old school gaming, but I also love to imagine and write. Thus my interest in IS.

2025-11-30

@foolishowl I'm investigating #ironsworn for that. You can get the pdf free at ironswornrpg.com!

2025-11-29

Doing my last deep dive in #ironsworn and hoping it sticks this time. Reading Delve and "envisioning" how things might develop. Open for tips, as I'm coming from a very OSR-like mindset. But I do love writing and literature, so I think Fiction First might somehow work for me.

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2025-11-23

Just turned off "smart" stuff on #gmail. Whew. So tired of AI intrusions on everything. Glad I'm on #linuxmint.

2025-11-05

Just becoming enamored of #mazerats and wondering if anyone has run it solo? What worked, what didn't? I'm thinking of using #mythicgme for the oracle. Trying to wrap my head around the lite rules. Loving what I see, though I'm tempted to run #shadowdark as my system because that's my jam. #solorpg

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2025-11-04

It’s Election Day! Millions of us have a chance to elect leaders (lawmakers, judges, school boards, and more) who are vital to defending and rebuilding democracy. Please make a plan to vote if you haven’t already.

And ignore the hot takes — our one goal is to electorally crush the Trump regime. vote411.org/

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2025-11-02

Trump filed lawsuits over jokes, tweets, and news articles, but not once over any of the countless allegations of child rape. I feel like more people should mention that.

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2025-10-24

We’re keeping all these receipts. Corrupt officials get away with things until they don’t.

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2025-10-21

SEVEN MILLION STRONG AND RISING

No Kings 2, the largest protest in US history is over, but the movement has just begun. Seven million Defenders of Democracy took to the streets to say this country belongs to We The People. 7,000,000 Americans! Young and old, rich and poor, black, brown and white, demanding our future will not be lived under tyranny.

We The People. Defenders of Democracy. Seven Million Strong And Rising.

@renewedresistance @indivisibleteam
#NoKings #7MillionStrong #WeThePeople

No Kings 2 image collage showing aerial crowd shots from major cities and individual protest pictures including people holding signs and marching.
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George Takei :verified: 🏳️‍🌈🖖🏽georgetakei@universeodon.com
2025-10-21

We all knew it wasn’t limited to just one rogue GOP group. The white supremacists are everywhere within their ranks. Like a fish, the rot starts at the head.

A tweet from Bill Madden reads: “How long are we going to keep pretending that the fascist Trump regime is not a cabal of Nazis? Texts from Paul Ingrassia, Trump’s nominee to lead the Office of Special Counsel, reveal vile pro-Nazi and racist messages targeting Black people, Chinese people, and Indian people.” Below, a retweeted post from Kaivan Shroff says: “BREAKING: new racist Republican group chat has been leaked to Politico featuring texts from Paul Ingrassia, Trump’s nominee to lead the Office of Special Counsel. Ingrassia’s texts include vile pro-Nazi & racist messages targeting Black people, Chinese people, and Indian people.”
2025-10-20

@marteloschwarz looks interesting! I’d love to hear more about it.

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2025-10-20

@birv2 I am working on publishing a setting called Kaung Pi, inspired by south- and south-east Asian culture. Map attached, I will keep it system-neutral and plan to have rules extensions for multiple systems, including #Shadowdark. Current version of the map attached.

2025-10-20

@irgndsondepp Thanks so much for checking on that and getting back to me. I still am wishing that more 3rd party Shadowdark material had the same quality and fun that a lot of OSE stuff does. Maybe we're just new at this.

2025-10-19

@irgndsondepp Thanks! I have heard of people using SD ruleset with DW, but not sure how to convert stats.

2025-10-19

@thelinuxcast Go Birds!

2025-10-19

@irgndsondepp I'm curious how you've translated to SD stats. I've looked into it and decided to just go with the OSE/Dolmenwood stats for simplicity's sake.

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