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Adam Jury @adamjury.com · 2h

Maybe Ryan Murphy is actually from an alternate future and he's been sent back to our present day to destroy "true crime" fiction.

Holy damn was the Ed Gein season of Monster terrible, top-to-bottom.

Adam Jury @adamjury.com · 1d

I think a short overtime in most sports is pretty reasonable — and generally exciting.

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Adam Jury @adamjury.com · 1d

I firmly believe that overtime in every sport should just be The Sport. No shootouts, no changed rules.

Regular season ties are fine. "We battled for 65 minutes and it came out equal" is far better than "We battled for 65 minutes, it was equal, and then we played a subset of the game for a point."

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Adam Jury @adamjury.com · 1d

dogshit font anger society

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Adam Jury @adamjury.com · 1d

One of the true crime podcasts I listen to — I like the stories as they aren't common ones — but the host emphasizes just how terrible and violent everything is so much it becomes almost parody.

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Adam Jury @adamjury.com · 1d

Me: "Oh, this graphic is obviously 1/8th of an inch too wide, it must be fixed or this entire book will be ruined."

Microwave instructions: "Microwave this silly little burrito for 1 minute 25 seconds."

Me: "Absolutely the fuck not." *jams the 30-second button 3 times*

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Adam Jury @adamjury.com · 1d

full art pizza lands

Crystal Frasier @amazonchique.bsky.social · 1d

It’s official! I can talk about it!

I’ve spent the last 2+ years leading the narrative for the Magic: the Gathering Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles set!

I’m excited to see all of this release! TMNT is such a weird, wild franchise that meshes weirdly well with Magic

magic.wizards.com/en/news/feat...

Collecting Magic: The Gathering® | Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: A First Look

Cowabunga! It's time to explore the new cards and treatments in Magic: The Gathering | Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.

magic.wizards.com

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Adam Jury @adamjury.com · 1d

SCREAMING

Dessa @dessadarling.bsky.social · 1d

Release Day. My new single “Camelot” is now available from all the internet’s musical places. It’s the B-side of a 7-inch record slated to drop on Nov 4th, but available for preorder….right now. *Triumphantly fires cap gun towards sky, immediately apologizes to upstairs neighbor*

store.doomtree.net

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Adam Jury @adamjury.com · 2d

NFL Errata: "After a team completes the play know colloquially as "the tush push," their next play must be run from the Shotgun formation."

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Adam Jury @adamjury.com · 2d

The one I bought last year appears to be low stock/backordered, but I highly recommend that you order yourself a heated mouse pad / desk mat before we get much further into chilly season.

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HAOCOO Heated Desk Pad Large, Warm Mouse Pad Gaming, Computer Desk Mat for Desktop, 3 Levels Heating, Auto Shut Down, Leather Laptop Keyboard Mat for Home Office, Purple Blue Galaxy

Amazon.com : HAOCOO Heated Desk Pad Large, Warm Mouse Pad Gaming, Computer Desk Mat for Desktop, 3 Levels Heating, Auto Shut Down, Leather Laptop Keyboard Mat for Home Office, Purple Blue Galaxy : Office Products

amzn.to

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Thomas M, Full-time Rascal @newmadras.bsky.social · 2d

It was a real pleasure to chat with @shannonappelcline.bsky.social about his upcoming new set of books.

"Appelcline: I was delighted to write about the original edition of Palace of the Silver Princess. This is one of the most legendary products ever published by TSR because the first edition of it was destroyed. They printed it, they gave out copies to the people at TSR, they got some out to distributors, and then — this is all hearsay, but that's part of what made it exciting, trying to figure out what happened — management, apparently, got a look at it and said, oh, this is terrible, we can't send it out. They went around, they collected the copies from everyone at TSR, they tried to get whatever copies that they'd sent out back. And then they had one person in charge of bringing them out to the landfill and watch as they were bulldozed under, so that no one else got copies of them."

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Adam Jury @adamjury.com · 3d

There are so many decisions to make and potential mistakes when reprinting.

Timing. Printing too many vs too few. Matching quality — or figuring out if there's an acceptable change. Does the price stay the same or does it get bumped to match a more recent book? How many corrections are worth it?

Shawn Tomkin @shawntomkin.bsky.social · 3d

My least favorite bit about self-publishing is figuring out the right time to do a new print run. It costs tens of thousands of dollars, so I can't over-invest in stock, but I inevitably get caught off guard by a sell-through and have long gaps where items are not available at all. I suck at it.

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Adam Jury @adamjury.com · 3d

Today I flattened all the boxes that had been chilling in my closet since I moved, and threw away the really crappy ones. So much more space!!

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Adam Jury @adamjury.com · 3d

I'm wrong, correction by bsky.app/profile/shar...

Adam Jury @adamjury.com · 4d

TIL that you can't set Affinity Publisher to export the text of your choice to the Title metadata; you can only use your filename as Title.

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Adam Jury @adamjury.com · 4d

TIL that you can't set Affinity Publisher to export the text of your choice to the Title metadata; you can only use your filename as Title.

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Evil Hat @evilhat.bsky.social · 4d

Official cover reveal!
Lorne Colt did an outstanding job with all four volumes of Designers & Dragons: Origins.
We launch this mammoth collection of roleplaying history two weeks from today! Sign up here to get notified on launch: www.backerkit.com/call_to_acti...

The four covers for Designers & Dragons: Origins. Volume 1 shows an illustration of a scaly dragon egg surrounded by jewels. Volume 2 shows a young hatchling clutching a crystal. Volume 3 shows a young dragon frolicking as it breathes wisps of fire. Volume 4 shows and adult dragon stalking directly toward the viewer in a menacing prowl.

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Adam Jury @adamjury.com · 4d

Awww yeah stacking coupon + free shipping, I'm gonna have so many comic mailers!

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Adam Jury @adamjury.com · 5d

Maybe I shouldn't have given these skus human-readable names.

pro: human readable
con: these-skus-are-so-long-print, these-skus-are-so-long-pdf

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DAVE! (like "Them!" but Dave) @daveexmachina.bsky.social · 5d

normal person: i just want a place to hang out with my friends
tech weirdo: and shitheads
np: no just my friends
tw: but what about hearing alternative views on race and gender?
np: we just want to hang out and goof around
tw: so where do the shitheads fit in then
np: no shitheads
tw: not following

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Adam Jury @adamjury.com · 6d

For you foot-on-main pervs, cross your fingers for some good bruises tomorrow/tuesday.

(I'm fine!)

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Adam Jury @adamjury.com · 6d

Garbage was brilliant.

Singer Shirley Manson on stage bathed in pink and blue lights, wearing a black top, black pants, and belt that reads "Power to the People"

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Jen Vaughn @thejenya.bsky.social · 9d

It's that time of year again! Something to Dismember Me By is a one-session playable adventure with harvest, Halloweeny mini-games for your table!

Grab a copy from @drivethrurpg.com: www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/3...

Image of cover for Something to Dismember Me By: a Harrowing Hayride by Jen Vaughn. Art is a wagon full of hay in the shape of a skull and bloody ribs

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Adam Jury @adamjury.com · 7d

There were multiple sessions of church today. I picked this one, a bucket list concert: GARBAGE.

Wish I could be at the VFW hall to see the f1rst wrestling crew as well. I think they’ll understand.

Drums on stage with an octopus paints on them.

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Adam Jury @adamjury.com · 8d

Any Minnesota folks switched their phone/data over to Visible+ from a regular Verizon account?

Any hiccups?

I'm bringing a phone, don't want to upgrade it, want to keep my number.

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Adam Jury @adamjury.com · 8d

*beamz*

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