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🔪🔪🔪bryan 🔪 🔪 🔪 @murderxbryan.bsky.social · 24m

I wish I was getting satans money from Hollywood

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Dr. Emily Friedman @friede.bsky.social · 30m

Putting out a call: if you were part of WOTC’s late-2010s live events (Stream of Many Eyes, D&D Live, The Descent), I would love to talk to you as part of the Actual Play book.

[email protected] will reach me, either to schedule a chat or to share your memories.

Please feel free to share.

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Blaise Ulysse Bernard Collins @wittywebhandle.bsky.social · 47m

Narrator: "That was a lie."

Current monopolies held by China -
- Gallium: >95%
- Geranium: ~80%
- Natural Graphite: ~70% (Mining) / ~90% (Refining)
- Antimony ~80%
- Tungsten ~80%
- Bismuth ~80%
- Magnesium ~85%
- REE Refining ~85%

Vance Says US Holds More Cards in Escalating China Trade Spat

Vice President JD Vance called on Beijing to “choose the path of reason” in the latest spiraling trade fight between the US and China, claiming that President Donald Trump has more leverage.

www.bloomberg.com

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dolittlemd.bsky.social @dolittlemd.bsky.social · 59m

GAZA ‘TRUCE’ = LIE! Three days, NO medicine allowed in! No food! Children without milk! No basic supplies! This is DELIBERATE STARVATION! Blocking aid during ceasefire is WAR CRIME! Kids dying while aid sits at borders! This is UNCONSCIONABLE!

Its ruaa @itsmeio.bsky.social · 2h

Three days into the truce no medicine has come in, no meat or any other kind of food for the people, no milk for the children, no basic supplies.

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Alex Winter @alexwinter.com · 1h

Bluesky deletes the accounts of the very real Gaza civilians here. But their plight isn't over and they rely on our donations to survive.

Please give to my friend Tasneem so she can feed her family. And find and help others. We’re their only voice and means of survival. ❤️ 🙏

tinyurl.com/Tasneemo

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Civil Discourse Blob. Not Creeps, or Leaps or Slides. Very Nice. @brandonocles.bsky.social · 48m

Alright fine. Let's get sprout pilled. youtu.be/VAVER-QBEyI

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rob dunson @wormsgreenrealm.bsky.social · 2h

I know we’re in a subjective business, but the truth is, I’m really in pursuit of greatness. So it was an honor to join Jesse Hawken on Junk Filter to discuss Prefab Sprout coming out swinging with one of the best albums of the 80s, Swoon, and, as is my wont, M. Night Shyamalan and Stephen Sondheim

Jesse Hawken @jessehawken.bsky.social · 13h

On the new @junkfilterpod.bsky.social: the start of the Prefab Sprout miniseries. Rob Stammitti (@wormsgreenrealm.bsky.social) joins me to discuss Sproutmaxxing, Tha God Paddy McAloon, the band's Galaxy Brained early singles and their stunning debut "Swoon".
www.patreon.com/posts/221-pr...

221: Prefab Sprout: Swoon (with Rob Stammitti) | Jesse Hawken

Get more from Jesse Hawken on Patreon

www.patreon.com

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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 1d

"well what are the Democrats supposed to do" I don't know! They're supposed to know! I'm not the one who sought and obtained a political position that would require me to know what to do when the ruling party attempts to install the President as a dictator!

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 1h

I say no to almost all speaking engagements these days because I'm too busy working and also I have nothing much to say but the cheat code for getting me to say yes is def zines, archives, etc... lol

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onion person @junlper.beer · 15h

this subreddit is insane i’m obsessed

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Remi Kanazi @remikanazi.bsky.social · 2d

If a ceasefire holds, you boycott Israel HARDER, you divest, you push for sanctions. You don't perform for apartheid. You don't whitewash genocide. You don't pretend like Israel isn't still a violent occupier stealing land and collectively punishing Palestinians daily

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Samantha is the spectre haunting bluesky 👻 @bolshevikmilf.bsky.social · 2h

a prize he didn't deserve because he was the president of a country at war at the time and the president of a country operating a torture prison on illegally occupied foreign soil.

trump deserves one just as much as he did

BrooklynDad_Defiant! @mmpadellan.bsky.social · 1d

FACT CHECK: STILL TRUE😎

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 1h

The Anonymous hacking group used to be a real thing. Then a bunch of them got arrested in 2012-14 and anyone claiming to operate as Anonymous over the past decade has largely targeted US adversaries. I’ll let you add that one up.

Bobby @bobbyspumoni.bsky.social · 1h

They’re now blocking everyone that liked your post, I believe.

Absolutely intentional disinformation.

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Natalie P (is not a vampire) 🦇 @sashette.bsky.social · 1h

From tabletop, to crpgs, to the big screen, "it's about historical accuracy" is just never about historical accuracy.

For context, see Chloé's post further up the thread.

Be forewarned of ridiculous tits.

Chloé Stawski (Spooky Edition 🎃🦇) @chlowski.bsky.social · 2h

it's almost as if said historical accuracy isn't their issue here, strange right

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Jesse Hawken @jessehawken.bsky.social · 1h

Glad some people got around to watching Looking For Mr. Goodbar yesterday in honour of Diane Keaton. RETVRN to when a deeply dark, depressing (and angrifying) movie could be a box office smash (in 1977, when this was still possible). Keaton nails the difficult and complex part.

Diane Keaton getting her mug shot in Looking For Mr. Goodbar

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 2h

If some group of laid off *good* journalists launched a news group that only covered immigration related news, I would subscribe for sure.

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Allie Briggs @alliebriggsart.bsky.social · 1d

If you want to use ANY artwork an artist has made. Many of us are very happy to license an image for your use.

Artist's know that you like it.

Thank them with payment.

Artist's know you found it on the internet.
No, it's not fair use.

Reverse image search. Email them. PAY THE ARTIST.

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Rayne Grimm ➡️Furpocalypse @raynegrimm.bsky.social · 1d

Fresh fucking christ! Yeah yall in case it was not eminently clear if your making stuff like this you Cannot be doing this!

Hell even when making A show with maps that have put out for fair use your really supposed to check in

You cannot be trying to just yoink shit like that!

Allie Briggs @alliebriggsart.bsky.social · 1d

NO. IT. IS. NOT.
#art #ttrpg

Screencap from reddit.

"sorry I caught you off guard with the post. In the dnd homebrew space it isn't standard practice to gen in contact with artists for incorporation their work, provided that they are adequately credited and that the homebrew work is available for free, both of which are the case here."

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good hyuck, babe! @markpopham.bsky.social · 2h

I truly believe a big reason why Democrats are failing to appropriately respond to the moment is a pathological refusal to admit that there were aspects of the American status quo pre trump that were extremely fucked up and unjust

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The Ass is the father of the legs @internethippo.bsky.social · 2h

Christ

C. Buckthorn @cbuckthorn.bsky.social · 8h

This is amazing. I laughed out loud www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

As 32-year-old Rich points out, though, "it's not like using ChatGPT guarantees success".
When he met someone in a bar one Friday night and swapped social media handles, he asked AI what his next move should be.
ChatGPT discerned that sending an initial message on Monday midmorning would set the right pace. "Then it gave me some options for what the message could be," says Rich.
"Keep it light, warm, and low-stakes so it reads as genuine interest without urgency," the bot advised. "Something like: Hey Sarah, still laughing about [tiny shared moment/reference if you've got one] - good to meet you!" Rich went back and forth with ChatGPT until he felt they'd hit upon exactly the right message ("Hey Sarah, it was lovely to meet you") but sadly she never replied, he says. "It's been two weeks now."

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Winnie Madikizela’s boo @dre-withwithout.blacksky.app · 1d

The juvenile:

“I’m not the president..”

response again creates a void where job as the vice president is deemed as a powerless vestigial position.

Uniparty shit.

Resist 🕎🍉 @antizionistjew.bsky.social · 1d

“YOUR LEGACY WILL ALWAYS BE GENOCIDE”

Last night, multiple protestors called out former Vice President Kamala Harris during her book tour stop in D.C.

Kamala Harris says she isn’t the president, but she was vice president while bombs rained on Gaza and got $5 MILLION from AIPAC

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Street Sharks Explained 🇨🇺🇵🇸 @gaykwon.bsky.social · 2h

He remains the only Nobel Peace Price recipient to commit a war crime against another Nobel Peace Prize recipient.

BrooklynDad_Defiant! @mmpadellan.bsky.social · 1d

FACT CHECK: STILL TRUE😎

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the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 3h

In 2004, Parisian police were conducting a training exercise in the french catacombs and found, after moving past a desk and a tape playing audio of snarling dogs, a fully functional movie theater and bar. When they returned 3 days later, the equipment was gone, with a note: “Do not try to find us.”

Members of the force's sports squad, responsible
- among other tasks - for policing the 170 miles of tunnels, caves, galleries and catacombs that underlie large parts of Paris, stumbled on the complex while on a training exercise beneath the Palais de Chaillot, across the Seine from the Eiffel Tower.
After entering the network through a drain next to the Trocadero, the officers came across a tarpaulin marked: Building site, No access.
Behind that, a tunnel held a desk and a closed-circuit TV camera set to automatically record images of anyone passing. The mechanism also triggered a tape of dogs barking, "clearly designed to frighten people off," the spokesman said.
Further along, the tunnel opened into a vast 400 sq metre cave some 18m underground, "like an underground amphitheatre, with terraces cut into the rock and chairs".

There the police found a full-sized cinema screen, projection equipment, and tapes of a wide variety of films, including 1950s film noir classics and more recent thrillers. None of the films were banned or even offensive, the spokesman said.
A smaller cave next door had been turned into an informal restaurant and bar. "There were bottles of whisky and other spirits behind a bar, tables and chairs, a pressure-cooker for making couscous," the spokesman said.
"The whole thing ran off a professionally installed electricity system and there were at least three phone lines down there."
Three days later, when the police returned accompanied by experts from the French electricity board to see where the power was coming from, the phone and electricity lines had been cut and a note was lying in the middle of the floor: "Do not," it said, "try to find us."

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The Marriage Braggart @bombsfall.bsky.social · 3h

Columbo is an anagram for "Cum Lobo" which is never addressed as far as I know

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Civil Discourse Blob. Not Creeps, or Leaps or Slides. Very Nice. @brandonocles.bsky.social · 3h

Not posting the thing I want to say about this monstrous loser.

Paul Eric Scannell @pauleric70.bsky.social · 10h

Harris slams protestor during book tour.

“You want to talk about legacy? Let’s talk about the legacy of mass deportations, of not voting, and Donald Trump.”