Writer of queer and pulpy sci-fi and fantasy books (https://www.amazon.co.uk/stores/Francis-Gaskin/author/B0BBJPK3YN) and tabletop roleplaying games (https://robotfrancis.itch.io/). He/himhttps://bsky.app/profile/robotfrancis.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/robotfrancis.bsky.social/post/3mtgslf6plc26We're all the cantina bartender telling the AIs to get the hell out, rather than the credulous rube farmboy who's got droid psychosis because they keep giving him very bad advice about how to get a hot hologram girlfriend. [contains quote post or other embedded content]19 Aug 2026 13:11 +0000at://did:plc:f5btp55xltf4v76jth7v7smm/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtgslf6plc26https://bsky.app/profile/robotfrancis.bsky.social/post/3mrvlje5cvc2uHaving a surprisingly great time in my first ever Vampire: The Masquerade campaign. GM keeps trying to do plot, though, and we're all just like, "excuse me, we're actually very busy being MOODY and SEXY, and actually don't have time to advance whatever story you carefully crafted for us."30 Jul 2026 23:24 +0000at://did:plc:f5btp55xltf4v76jth7v7smm/app.bsky.feed.post/3mrvlje5cvc2uhttps://bsky.app/profile/robotfrancis.bsky.social/post/3mqwwbohrvc2pPrediction: Burnham is going to end up even less popular than Starmer, and he’s going to get to that point quicker. There’s a moral void at the heart of the Labour Party, and changing the accent of the man at the top isn’t going to make that any less obvious.18 Jul 2026 18:44 +0000at://did:plc:f5btp55xltf4v76jth7v7smm/app.bsky.feed.post/3mqwwbohrvc2phttps://bsky.app/profile/robotfrancis.bsky.social/post/3mkukkffvvs2sHa, Instagram now giving special notifications when people you follow post content made with Meta Pervert Glasses, as if that would be anything but a good reason to unfollow and block them.02 May 2026 11:37 +0000at://did:plc:f5btp55xltf4v76jth7v7smm/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkukkffvvs2shttps://bsky.app/profile/robotfrancis.bsky.social/post/3mkqvghfpzs24God damn, I could have watched a whole episode that was just Firecracker.01 May 2026 00:41 +0000at://did:plc:f5btp55xltf4v76jth7v7smm/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkqvghfpzs24https://bsky.app/profile/robotfrancis.bsky.social/post/3mgpz5jgdi22tHad business writing training today which was actually useful, except that it used a very hilarious passage by Charles Dickens as an example of bad, dry writing. How do you turn to DICKENS, one of the greatest ever stylists in English, as your bad example?? (And when Melville was right there)10 Mar 2026 18:35 +0000at://did:plc:f5btp55xltf4v76jth7v7smm/app.bsky.feed.post/3mgpz5jgdi22thttps://bsky.app/profile/robotfrancis.bsky.social/post/3mb7ogd5xcs2mTTRPG New Year’s resolutions! Had lots of great games in 2025. Of the many highlights, this included: running a fabulous and groovy crew in the Blades in 68 playtest, and getting stuck into a full-on Impossible Landscapes campaign in Delta Green. Goals for next year:30 Dec 2025 15:34 +0000at://did:plc:f5btp55xltf4v76jth7v7smm/app.bsky.feed.post/3mb7ogd5xcs2mhttps://bsky.app/profile/robotfrancis.bsky.social/post/3mb2k3ivr222wEnergy to take into '26 [contains quote post or other embedded content]28 Dec 2025 14:33 +0000at://did:plc:f5btp55xltf4v76jth7v7smm/app.bsky.feed.post/3mb2k3ivr222whttps://bsky.app/profile/robotfrancis.bsky.social/post/3lw3ejgl5fs24This is a good take. Alternatively, the hire car I had recently made an interminable, shrill beeping sound every time I nudged even 1mph over the limit. The centrist view would be that at least this could be compulsory in all vehicles! [contains quote post or other embedded content]10 Aug 2025 22:49 +0000at://did:plc:f5btp55xltf4v76jth7v7smm/app.bsky.feed.post/3lw3ejgl5fs24https://bsky.app/profile/robotfrancis.bsky.social/post/3lvlsmv4tsk27@jmstar.bsky.social Hi Jason, are you aware that your Itch.io storefront has been blocked from being accessed in the UK? I can't believe that anything on there should fall under the Online Safety Act, even as draconian as it is!04 Aug 2025 18:19 +0000at://did:plc:f5btp55xltf4v76jth7v7smm/app.bsky.feed.post/3lvlsmv4tsk27https://bsky.app/profile/robotfrancis.bsky.social/post/3loxupckyx22aElder Millennials who came of political age under the last Labour government, and remember Jacqui Smith and Charles Clarke and David Blunkett and Jack Straw:12 May 2025 11:32 +0000at://did:plc:f5btp55xltf4v76jth7v7smm/app.bsky.feed.post/3loxupckyx22ahttps://bsky.app/profile/robotfrancis.bsky.social/post/3lojvkfqhjc2tGoogle is at the stage where its AI is suggesting weight conversions from US to Imperial that are off by a factor of three. I nearly made a lot more waffles than I was expecting.06 May 2025 22:10 +0000at://did:plc:f5btp55xltf4v76jth7v7smm/app.bsky.feed.post/3lojvkfqhjc2thttps://bsky.app/profile/robotfrancis.bsky.social/post/3lo2njr6luk25Andor is amazing of course, but particularly enjoying that I cycle past Coruscant and Ghorman on my way to work every day. You kind of feel like, wow I was just on that alien planet earlier!30 Apr 2025 20:36 +0000at://did:plc:f5btp55xltf4v76jth7v7smm/app.bsky.feed.post/3lo2njr6luk25https://bsky.app/profile/robotfrancis.bsky.social/post/3lipgoe7i7k2hOf all the sci-fi I’ve read, why does it increasingly feel like we’ve slipped into @annodracula.bsky.social’s Dark Future timeline? And without even badass Elvis to rescue us.21 Feb 2025 18:28 +0000at://did:plc:f5btp55xltf4v76jth7v7smm/app.bsky.feed.post/3lipgoe7i7k2hhttps://bsky.app/profile/robotfrancis.bsky.social/post/3lh354chfmc2lSo psyched to play #Blades68 that I’m rewatching the psychedelic 1967 Casino Royale as GM prep. https://media.tenor.com/1L2xVJ5C8zsAAAAC/help-gif-peter-sellers.gif?hh=153&ww=32831 Jan 2025 23:19 +0000at://did:plc:f5btp55xltf4v76jth7v7smm/app.bsky.feed.post/3lh354chfmc2l