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Caias Ward

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Pro Writer, CDCTP, Master HVACR Tech, He/Him I write working class speculative fiction. Fascists get nothing. Header art by James Denton @jamesdenton.bsky.social Buy my games. https://www.drivethrurpg.com/en/publisher/4960/talespinner-holdings

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Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 3d

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

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Caias Ward @caias.bsky.social · 1h

Also, do not discount that this man is also a werewolf.

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Caias Ward @caias.bsky.social · 1h

Dude, you are telling on yourself so hard. For your own sake, delete your browser history and destroy your hard drives.

Caias Ward @caias.bsky.social · 1h

Lotta people giving cover to a child sex trafficker...

Am I talking about Columbus or someone else?

Caias Ward @caias.bsky.social · 2h

Groomers always gotta protect themselves...

Caias Ward @caias.bsky.social · 2h

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand.

"Loss of business continuity"

Marjorie James Keenan @unenthusiast.com · 18h

In honour of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand.

rm -rf ~/

hammancheez @hammancheez.bsky.social · 18h

"The chancellor approved it"

Caias Ward @caias.bsky.social · 3h

I am a Street Fighter fan so this is exciting.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 3h

This two-parter below is exactly why it's hard to make clothes in the United States.

Let's look at how much it costs to produce a button-up shirt in the US. 🧵

Someone on Twitter replies to me: "meh. buy american or stfu."

Two hours later, in a separate thread, the write: "$30 for a single button-up is ridiculous unless it is decent quality silk."

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Caias Ward @caias.bsky.social · 8h

"You didn't answer the question I asked" works wonders. Follow up with pointing out they are lying and-if disparaging someone with a lie-bearing false witness.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 9h

STEPHANOPOULOS: I didn't insinuate anything. I asked you whether Tom Homan accepted $50k as was heard on an audio tape recorded by the FBI in September 2024. You did not answer the question. Thank you for your time.

VANCE: No, George, I sai--

STEPHANOPOULOS: We'll be right back

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the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 11h

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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Caias Ward @caias.bsky.social · 8h

There may be others who were confused so best to get it clarified.

Caias Ward @caias.bsky.social · 10h

Jake is the one who donates to charity and supports liberal causes, Jared is the one who engages in workplace harassment and has sexual misconduct allegations piling up.

Caias Ward @caias.bsky.social · 22h

The only time I engage reviewers is if they end up being materially incorrect in something ("there was no index" when there is an index)

I had one of those, and I corrected it, and the reviewer still didn't want to change their rating of the game despite being incorrect in everything they said.

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Caias Ward @caias.bsky.social · 23h

All I know is it blew the Transylvania Twist out of the water.

Caias Ward @caias.bsky.social · 23h

Hey @ericraglin1992.bsky.social did you know about this?

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Orville Peck Wraps ‘Street Fighter’ Filming In Australia: “Back To My Music”

As Orville Peck wraps his first onscreen role in director Kitao Sakurai's 'Street Fighter', he's ready to get back to making music.

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Caias Ward @caias.bsky.social · 23h

Pope Leo has a terminal degree in said laws, I'm sure he could figure out a reason to speak Ex Cathedra and remind Vance that he's not a very good Catholic, frex.