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Darryl Mott 💀

@gamerstavernshow.com

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Freelance writer on tabletop roleplaying games (credits: EN World, Ain't It Cool News, Zombie Orpheus), video producer/streamer (Gamer's Tavern Media), and podcast editor/producer (EN Live, Scary Basement, Gamer's Tavern). Opinions are my own.

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Darryl Mott 💀 @gamerstavernshow.com · Aug 2

In Oct 2024, I was hospitalized. I have kidney failure and require dialysis, and it was months before I learned to walk again. Before I got Medicaid, I maxed out every credit card I have to pay for medical transport and groceries. Any help you can offer to pay down the debt is appreciated.

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Darryl Mott 💀 @gamerstavernshow.com · 5m

"He's in a pissing contest with a wall and blaming the guy minding his business in a coffee shop across the street he's getting splashed."

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grimm ☀️ @mugrimm.bsky.social · 30m

A good time to remind people that Clinton was gearing up to run in 2020, and the only thing that stopped her was people were so uninterested in seeing her on her tour with Bill that one of the Clintonland people got her to realize she'd lose and it'd be humiliating:

www.foxnews.com/politics/bil...

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Oku ΘΔ @oku.mow.haus · 1h

Just an FYI it has been explicitly confirmed that Newsom has bot farms on his payroll astroturfing discussion about him with this exact set of claims “he’s the only one protecting queer people” “the left is to extreme for its own good” “not supporting Newsom is supporting MAGA”

Bye-Bye Mars @bye-byemars.bsky.social · 1h

He's the only one willing to protect them but you're too busy pushing extreme narratives that you'll let MAGA win again.
The left is too extreme for its own good

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Brandon Williams @stupidartpunk.bsky.social · 4h

When the water runs out from AI the first people we are going to pump the body water out of like in Tank Girl are all the AI boosters. “We forgive you for your ignorance, come here its okay…”

Malcom Mcdowell embracing a woman about to stab her in the back with a water extraction device

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Marf @marf.dog · 6h

Spencer's furry T-shirts are Stolen Valor.

Spazzy 📎 @spazzy.bsky.social · 6h

Between this and the Spirit Halloween masks, it's amusing but also the nightmare of furry going mainstream. 💀

Gross furry shirts at Spencer's. s: @R0rek (X)

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Crystal Frasier @amazonchique.bsky.social · 6h

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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Saki 🦄🪶✦Fae NTVtuber✦【NTVN】【V-Chunky】 @nightmaresakito.bsky.social · 16h

A beautiful native woman flipping the bird in response to Monday, Oct. 13th, Columbus Day. “Fuck Christopher Columbus.” Happy Indigenous People’s Day!

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Darryl Mott 💀 @gamerstavernshow.com · 10h

Here comes the attempts to debate their way out of controversy.

You sold out and took the blood money. Everybody knows. You can't talk your way out of it. You are forever branded as "Person who took money from a murderous totalitarian regime in an attempt to legitimize it in the eyes of the world."

Nash @radiodeadair.com · 10h

Just to sum up the things he doesn't address:

- the contract forbidding him from saying things like criticizing the royal family
- who paid him
- and murder journalists
- he doesn't say how much he was paid

It comes across as very oblivious, which is a poor trait for a stand-up comic.

I have been criticised for being part of the Riyadh comedy festival. This is why I did it | Omid Djalili

The headlines focus on money, but the gigs were great and I think there are different ways to achieve progress. Art, especially comedy, can be part of that, says stand-up comedian, Omid Djalili.

www.theguardian.com

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Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 7h

Remember how people lost their minds when I said go to a protest but don't rsvp to one

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Disney Prime Video + @disneyprimevideo.bsky.social · 6h

Hell Comes to Frogtown (2025)

Portland Frog (Roddy Piper Jr) takes on the minions of Satan

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✨ Zandra Illustration ➜ Shop Open @shop.zandraillustration.com · 5h

This is not a call for pity but more to put into perspective how 2025 has been impacting a lot of artists:

Between losses of sales, wholesale, tariffs, and fewer corporate clients, I have lost 50% of my gross income this year as a full-time graphic designer and artist.

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Cats with Jobs ⚒️ @catworkers.bsky.social · 5h

Tiny employees.

📸 Ers_ezgi

A small ginger and white kitten looking over a pharmacy counter.

A small brown and white kitten looking over a pharmacy counter.

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Aaron Fritschner @fritschner.bsky.social · 5h

A few minutes ago in the House:

- Speaker Mike Johnson officially cancels votes next week, extending the House recess through a fourth week

- House Republicans block Democrats from passing a bill to pay the troops during the shutdown, ensuring they will miss paychecks next week

House Press Gallery: During today's pro forma session, the Clerk read a message from the Speaker designating Tuesday, October 14 through Sunday, October 19 as a district work period.

Punchbowl's Briana Reilly: House gaveled in and out of its pro forma just now w/o recognizing Rep Elfreth, who was seeking to UC a mil pay bill from Rep Sykes.

Elfreth told reporters after that House Dems stand “ready and willing to take” up standalone legislation to pay troops.

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Dani @daniexists6.bsky.social · 8h

I think it's funnier that someone got this signed by the original Turtles.

the ad from above, but signed by Renee Jacobs (April O'Neil, with a "guess not...", Barry Gordon (Donatello, with a "YEAH RIGHT!"), Townsend Coleman (Michelangelo, with a "Still here!"), Rob Paulsen (Raphael) and Cam Clarke (Leonardo, with a "Crystal Ball, anyone?")

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bewill @bewill.bsky.social · 8h

i find 90s pokemon fear fascinating because a lot of the time it came so close to genuine critique of capitalism and consumerism and then immediately fumbled into racism

Amanda Wong @amandawtwong.bsky.social · 8h

New Yorker cover art from 1999 with a Pikachu dragging a bag of money during trick-or-treating

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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 7h

"Wealthy New Yorkers who take the bus" might be the most astounding seven words any NYC mayoral candidate has ever spoken.

Colin Dickey @colindickey.com · 7h

[Me, a poor, on the subway, glowering jealously at all those fat cat, fancy pants rich people on the public bus]

Andrew Cuomo tweet:

@ZohranKMamdani's "plan" provides no relief for working families who take the subway, and unnecessary benefits to wealthy New Yorkers who take the bus and can afford the fare.

I focus on working families, while @ZohranKMamdani the mansion boy focuses on helping the rich.

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John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 7h

A billion dollars is the socio-political equivalent of a loose nuke, and we should work as ruthlessly and diligently to prevent the acquisition of the former as we do the latter.

Liberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com · 12h

“The problem with billionaires isn’t that they’re hoarding money that would otherwise pay for a Scandinavian social utopia. It’s that their money has become a source of wildly distorted political power that allows a few men with extremist views to wreak havoc on the rest of us.”

Billionaires Are Hoarding Power, Not Money

Billionaire money has become a source of wildly distorted political power that allows a few men with extremist views to wreak havoc on the rest of us.

www.liberalcurrents.com

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 10h

I've noticed the opposing team's fans only cheer when the opponents score on us. To win those fans over, I recommend we score on ourselves repeatedly; that will surely make them so happy they'll start supporting us. And I'm sure all our fans will keep cheering for us—who else is there to cheer for?

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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 7h

Portland is doing well making clear the ridiculousness of the military takeover.

dr. caitlin m. green @caitlinmoriah.bsky.social · 18h

there are SO many more inflatable costumes tonight. clearly we have settled on a motif

Wide shot of many people in inflatable costumes

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Shadowrun @sixthworld.bsky.social · 7h

Runners have to stick together. The Sixth World will chew you up if you aren't prepared. With Shoot Straight get all of the advice you would need to make sure your first run ain't your last, chummer.

Get your copy of Shoot Straight today!

bit.ly/SR-Shoot-Straight

#ttrpg #Shadowrun

Here's some free advice, pal. Listen to experienced runners. Shadowrun: Shoot Straight is a great resource to make sure you don't go dyin' on your first gig.

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AmeriKraut @inchargeofthegirls.bsky.social · 21h

sherman, for the love of god!

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Micah @rincewind.run · 7h

this is absolutely my favorite protest innovation of 2025

"my opponents are violent antifa extremist terrorists"

"your opponents are dressed as giant inflatable frogs"

solid fuck you to the pepe crowd too

The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 18h

Things are happening at Portland's ICE facility tonight.

Read more of our protest coverage here: www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...

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Darryl Mott 💀 @gamerstavernshow.com · 7h

Ditto

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Seth Rudy @sethrudy.bsky.social · 8h

Meanwhile in #Portland

Kermit faces off with Hopper in The Muppet Movie

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Darryl Mott 💀 @gamerstavernshow.com · 7h

What are the chances of them not cashing out in time and thinking the bubble will exist forever like they did with crypto after the NFT market crashed and demand cratered? It feels like they only survived because another bubble was around the corner with "AI".