ABS

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Screenshot from Merlin Bird ID app showing audio reading in grey sound waves at top then below that best suggestion pic of Tawny Owl to correspond with the hoots im hearing around Hillside Central Edinburgh
Giant Kieron Gillen head on screen of wall of lecture theatre I'm front of crowd and Emily Friedman hosting the DIE panel/workshop at Glasgow University Fantasy Presents Pasts Conference
Eclectic illustration of folk fae and otherwise dancing and revelling in colourful pastel style scheme
Old Edinburgh building with rough cut sandstone, 4 windows and white banner with blue Cymera logo hanging from building
Crowd of diverse humans on sunny Leith Walk with signs protesting against fascists and racists in solidarity against anti Muslim attacks in Edinburgh
Live stream Rookery panel , cream walls, window centre with tiled roof behind, black red and white pop up banners either side, Rookery logos, 6 seated folks all of them looking at one figure gesticulating
Café scene, glass front window, black wood frames, white sign facing, BBL Pleasance on sign, metal tables and chairs outside
Poster for Call of Cthulhu Horror in the Cisterns, Cthulhu in Byzantium, 3 headed snake creature in a pillared chamber surrounded by info and headshots of the cast
Bedlington terrier inspecting scorch marks on wooden church door with big metal hinges and lock, handles etc marks said to be from barghest ghost dog Black Shuck
Image of sunset Edinburgh overlooking Waverley station, castle and skyline to the sides of glass roof, multiple strange cuckoo silhouettes perched on buildings, green stripes of colour top and bottom and Seasons of the Sun logo with Wickerman shinigg sun 'o' and 'Hunt the Gowk' title' text, More Fun Wiht Games logo bottom left in red and black
Engraved image of grave openers in black and white with skeleton in coffin, woods and strange villagers in background revealed by the light of their torches, black border with red text for Blasphemers in the Borderlands adventure and logos down the bottom More Fun Wiht Games logo bottom left in red and black, History and Games Lab Edinburgh University and Call of Cthulhu
June 5-7th @cymerafestival.co.uk is back & once again I've helped curate our exciting #Games strand, to sign up to play https://shorturl.at/FEOrc (I'm running 2 games!) https://shorturl.at/nMqq9 has the Workshops & #game related events. Free/low priced ticket options for most, message me if price a barrier. #TTRPG
Conference theatre, lit blueish and white,, top of picture hanging screen with Welcome etc text, women presenting from podium in front of attentive audience
Male torso centre frame is black t-shirt with white text saying The Future is Accessible, glimpse of bookshelves behind him
screen grab from home page of https://jubenshacon.com/ website, yellow background with black text 'play and learn about jubensha 8-9 May 2026 at the Theatre Deli in London' centre image, below that two pictures of tables with players around then, covered with pens and paper etc
Start of big telly jam showing eponymous image of jam and with presenters standing in front and audience looking on
Bedlington terrier dog sitting on patterned rug looking up left, gray curly fur, red and black harness and big green rosette saying Scottish Greens
bald headed man with beard and blue and yellow painted face, black clothes, jacket, jeans with socks to knees and flashes and black boots dressed to steward at Beltane Festival in Calton Hill Edinburgh
Home page of https://www.gaconf.com/ white text 'Advancing Accessibility for Disabled Players ' left down image, then smaller white text 'Online (BST timezone) April ' mostly darker background in mobile version with lighter screen and coloured images to right
Yellow green hi vi's vest spray painted with Fiends in the Furrows folk horror film festival amazing logo
night time picture, illuminated sign on bus stop, 2 young guys in sports gear and pink hi vis vests saying in lettering 'I am registered to vote' with sports hall behind them and then details about how to resister to vote below in text and top left text 'The Electoral Commission' and top right, 'Your Vote Matters Don't Lose It'
4 yellow and blue face painted with folkloric colour scheme mostly baldy beardy, blokes, lit by sun standing in front of acropolis style National Monument in Edinburgh smiling and arms folded for the most part, orange hi vi's vests with Beltane Fire Society logo in black
Turquoise roofed stall, banner in front of it for Less Miserables game and 4 game development in front of stall, police box behind them
Conpulsion 2026 logo white background, black outline circle, inside a stylised Eagle swooping down onto a d20 inside a trans rainbow themed lighting bolt style background
Game Talks Live Logo with text of the name in orange on a purple background, 'I'm attending' in white text, at top, at bottom, Edinburgh March 24th See you there and gamestalks.live in orange bottom right
Dark blue background with white text, to leftEdinburgh University text and crest with History and Games Lab teext to right
Purpleish popup banner in front of wooden wall saying Hello World in speech bubble with QR code and info text below that left pic gent in red and black gesticulating towards banner slightly taller than another gent to right with arms crossed
Blue shades and grey solid background with map of Scotland showing colour image of protesters superimposed on image right, protestors are on sewage pipe going into sea holding up surfboard saye Tell the Truth, both figures in their wetsuits. White test says Scottish Election Manifesto to image left, text asls says published Winter 2025 and has surfers against sewage logo bottom left
Greeny yellow background graphic for Level Up Scotland, with outline of Scotland on background with black text announcing the launch of Level Up Scotland: A National Action Plan for the Scottish Games Sector.
Screenshot black background white text of amusing fake game premises from British 80s games generator
Picture of poster for Bridging Worlds exhibition by David Oxley, 2 x molecular planets style images with 2d rockets and text info
https://www.ghostsociety.co.uk/post-apocalyptic-christmas-party/ screenshot white figures with red santa hats overlaid with titular text and explanation text below, white background with black text
Screenshot of Crossover with Creative Tech Scotland Gathering The Royal Conservatoire of Scotland’s Innovation Studio, in partnership with the Creative Tech Scotland Gathering (CTSG) White backg
Dragonmeet logo, gold dragons on brown background, text Dragonmeet in centre and behind 2 stylised dragons curling around heads facing away
Screen grab from Push the Boat Out Poetry Festival website, purple banner top with white background the rest, 4 head shots centre left and text info for the 'Gaming the System' panel with the aforementioned head shots Calum Rodger, Krishan Coupland, Luci Holland &ABS' Sunday 23rd Nov 5:00 pm - 6:15 pm
Picture of Edinburgh from drone overlooking Canongate Kirl towards Pentland stylised to look like an inverted photo negative, all white with purple accents. Text top left say Temporary Autonomous Poetry Zone in cutout kidnap note style letter with similar text saying - A Flotsam Flourish top right. Botton left is black rectangle with red zx spectrum style pixel text saying morefunwith.games and an X in aforementioned font then the blue and whiteish Push The Boat Out poetry festival logo
Digitally altered image of Edinburgh in the future, a flooded area is straddled by the North Bridge which has a Lighthouse, wind ship, wind mill etc text says 'Next stop Nor' Bridge followed by New Nor' Loch. Disembark here for The Castle, Half Mile and The Remnants.. Mind the gap between Ferry and Lighthouse
Cropped detail image of black and white drawing View of the North Bridge and Robert Adam's Register House, c.1800 J Donaldson and J Phillips - scanned from a facsimile of an old print A Perspective View of the Bridge and Register-Office Edinburgh, c.1800 it has detail of the side of the bridge with arches, small human figures in bottom right and a digitally added giant tambourin playing monkey in one of the arches in the centre
Gilt picture frame edge to pic with hackground pattern repeated image of The old North Bridge,bfrom the west, with Calton Hill in the background, in 1829 Thomas Hosmer SHEPHERD (c.1810 to c.1842) "NORTH BRIDGE CALTON HILL &c FROM THE BANK OF SCOTLAND", from Modern Athens then a title of Absacus Universale Ludus Mutante then 3 columns % Argaxian and Bridge Bricolage with numbers and words depending on column acting as an rpg rosetta stone style translation device
Sepia toned image of old Edinburgh likely City of Edinburgh Thomas Annan, c. 1856 - in or before 1866## with Scott Monument, National Art Gallery, North Bridge and Waverley Bridge etc, digitally added to picture is monsters and magical creatures around various places and diagonally across picture in black typewriter font is Fir Fae Eyes Only
Image of headshots of story authors and readers for North Bridge Edinburgh anthology launch event
Image for event at Ancient Robot Workshop,, mechanical hand top left in black on orange, then diagonal text banner bottom left saying Monthly Meetup, centre and right is the name Alysa Thomas and text in white saying Building Accessibility into each stage of tabletop design and picture of white female with glasses, greenish fringe and smile
Bright green pile of posters with VOTE GREEN in black text, Scottish Greens lanyard on top with name ABS circular stickers in background saying Tax the Super Rich in multi colours and green and white stickers saying Scottish Greens Party anti racist anti facist
Pic of stage at Games talks live, screen front centre, overhead ornate scrollwork on ceiling, speaker and lectern to picture right, white popup banner with sponsors logos to the far right, orangey reddish lighting
Pictures from immersive art exhibition hooded figure with white cross mask in front of altar with crucifix, candles on it and stained glass behind it, graffiti on altar
Flyer from night club 'Pure' name in black font top centre of red flyer, text in black surrounded by black spiky circle and info at bottom on extra special live set from Mono Junk, times 10.30pm to 3 am etc
Web page for the Scottish Games Developers Association Games Day in Dundee as part of DICE Europe purple background with text saying Games Day at the Big Real and information about attending mostly white text with some colour and mixed font sizes https://www.sgda.co.uk/gamesday
Graphic for Andor TV show, weathered cream metal effect background with rust red text saying Star Wars Andor in centre
Tabletop Scotland banner in entrance, hand drawn art style dragon left and elf right, meeples and board game artwork all around, blue and white balloons all around artwork with large blue soft toy dice with white spots interspersed around, me with black jeans and sneakers, red tabletop Scotland t-shirt, thumbs up, baldy beard with face mask and sunglasses, red tiles under foot, white tiles overhead and glimpse of trade hall in background
Poster from X Files, UFO floating in sky above trees, text says 'I Want To Believe'
Home page for https://tabletopscotland.co.uk/ 2025 blue logo of tri corner d6 dice with 2025 in white, all else in blue with meeple and a d20 and cards adorning top dice face and white text on blue background with details of the event in front of a full colour photograph of the trade hall with exhibitors and patrons wandering around TExt '5th to 7th September 2025 @ Royal Highland Centre Tabletop Scotland is a board game, card game and roleplaying game convention. Our convention is open to everyone, whether you are exploring the worlds of tabletop gaming for the first time or you are a long term tabletop gamer looking to celebrate your hobby at our convention. Our goal is to have something that interests everyone.' https://tabletopscotland.co.uk/product/liminal-worm-moons-and-mad-hares-and-mayhem-oh-my/ & https://tabletopscotland.co.uk/product/game-jam-friday-to-sunday/ are my events
Grey Bedlington Terrier dog lounging in Grey beanbag staring at camera
Beautiful clear water burn stream flowing over stones and down rocks with green moss and foliage around the banks and trees in the background
White paper sign held up in front of blurred background of streets paved with setts and indistinct crowd, black line art is Donald Trump caricature with Hitler moustache saying AGolf Hitler at bottom of sign
Signs waving in air at anti Trump rally as well as flags, street is filled up witj folks facimg away from camera, blue sky overhead, trees in green leaf either side, pale sandstone Georgian terrace buildings stretch away left of picture to foreground
Image of England place name generator 'Cuntencer' as a welcome to sign in front of a viaduct town with buttons to generate another name and use rude words
Edinburgh skyline with Mad March Hares and sunset plus picture of ABS dressed as a vampire hunter
Illustrated apocalyptic cityscape and John Hedge headshot
Random dice and character sheet picture and Phil Harris
Random board game picture and Robert Gelb headshot