Shimmin Beg (he/him)

shimminbeg@masto.ai

Brit, enjoys learning things. ESOL, academia, writing games, proofreading and editing.Trans men are men, trans women are women.Cymraeg/Deutsch/Gaelg OK, 中文 & 日本語 shaky.'the gentleman who had the complicated Excel sheets'

Posts

Post #3967044
Started a forum topic for bouncing around incomplete adventure ideas to try and get them unstuck. https://discussion.tekeli.li/t/adventure-brewing/6823 @DarkestKale@mastodon.social @worthlessbums@mastodon.social go on, you know you want to...
Post #2538227
After a fortnight&#39;s stick leave, returning to having to prepare five hours of lesson material about nothing in particular with no learning objectives is A Lot. That is a lot of time to fill at the best of times!
Post #2538225
Mildly curious whether this stinking cold is a result of spending many hours on repeated visits to hospitals etc. over the last fortnight (I was the only person to wear a mask at all), a side-effect of the post-surgical infection, or entirely unrelated.
Post #2538224
Come on Labour, you have one candidate talking about watering down the xenophobia, you can ditch the transphobia too. Just relax the death-grip on the Cass report and you&#39;ll feel so much better, also a single person I know might consider voting for you.
Post #2517200
RE: https://masto.ai/@Miro_Collas/116554361197860584 In a reasonable world, it would be possible to confiscate food from Israel to compensate, but alas.
Post #2517199
Managed to schedule podcast eps daily for the next three weeks in an attempt to break through some backlog. I mean we&#39;re still years from real-time but it&#39;s progress of a sort. I don&#39;t think anyone&#39;s actually listening to this but that&#39;s, what, 30 hours of Pathfinder 1e. About 200 hours altogether so far, I think. I&#39;ve tried to keep it at 2-2.5 hours per episode.
Post #2517198
Probably ought to work out a way to remove all these unnecessary localization files from my Debian install. I suspect I also still have an older version of LibreOffice knocking around somewhere, despite my efforts to remove it...
Post #2517197
Chat is it good when the nurse removes your dressings and exclaims &quot;Oh god&quot;?
Post #2517196
A hazard of preparing NPC notes for in-character discussions in that it&#39;s relatively easy for me to end up deeply moved by my own emotional thinking and sniffling gently, tears rolling down my cheeks, as I imagine some entirely fictional person arguing with another fictional person played by my mate.
Post #2476644
Here&#39;s that bit about how the retrial of Palestine Action activists was secretly a terrorism trial, information the jurors were not allowed to know, and they can now be sentenced as terrorists despite the jury not having convicted them on that basis. The people responsible for this policy should absolutely spend time behind bars for this. It is an outrage against the concept of justice. https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/may/12/palestine-action-activists-elbit-protest-terrorist-c...
Post #1928424
Anyone want to have a look at the GURPS mini-location I wrote up while I was in the hospital? Spoilers: it&#39;s an A&amp;E waiting room. Probs needs more info on a couple of things.
Post #1672094
Randomly-timed reminder for any GURPS fans that I made a supplement full of Earth magic and related stuff, which you can get entirely free here: https://archive.org/details/earth-spells-for-gurps-magic #GURPS I am pretty proud of this one.
Post #1623485
If anyone uses the Arriva UK app, heads up that today the app is discontinued. You need to download a new one and log in again with the account details we all naturally have readily to have at the fucking bus stop. No, of course they didn&#39;t tell us it was getting discontinued today (there was an email last week celebrating their new app existing and that&#39;s it, no &quot;switch over now&quot;, no deadlines, no mention of discontinuing at all). #arriva
Post #1286051
I once again mysteriously find myself writing a scenario involving a physics department. If you work in a physics department or have any effing idea what is in one, please do let me know. Bonus points if you have some kind of floorplan that indicates function (the ones I can find just have room numbers, with no info about whether Q748 is a server room, a nitrogen store or a portal to the netherworld).
Post #568355
Have been donating to https://www.gofundme.com/f/a8jzz-help-me-and-my-family-get-out-of-the-gaza-strip for a while, and they&#39;ve just lost their Twitter and TikTok accounts, so circulating this in hopes of partly compensating.