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Trying to remember how a normal social media app works, please be patient. Fangirl, disabled, crafter, elder millennial, ally... She/Her If you somehow recognize my username from [REDACTED], what were YOU doing at the devil's sacrament? lol

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MindOverMuses @mindovermuses.bsky.social · Nov 26

A few pretties I've crocheted for myself or others the past couple of years.

Crocheted dice bag of the Emperor from Baldur's Gate 3, shown from the front, holding a purple d20 die.

Crocheted dice bag of the Emperor from Baldur's Gate 3 from behind. Various green and black dice spill out from an open zipper at the base to show how much it can hold.

A small set of four shelves on a plain wall displaying crocheted dolls and dice bags. Characters represented are Baby Yoda, Pikachu, Cthulhu (with and without top hat/monocle), and a Mind Flayer.

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Daniel Kibblesmith @kibblesmith.com · 1d

Dude I’m calling it, Thiel is cooked. He accidentally dropped a Tangible Detail. Most people didn’t know he existed and now he’s The Billionaire Who Thinks That One Piece Is Jesus.

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 1d

thiel, man, what the fuck are you talking about

He describes the plot of Watchmen, a 1986 graphic novel involving superheroes grappling with moral questions about humanity against the backdrop of impending nuclear war:

The antihero Ozymandias, the antichrist-type figure, is sort of an early-modern person. He believes this will be a timeless and eternal solution – eternal world peace. Moore is sort of a late-modern. In early modernity, you have ideal solutions, ‘perfect’ solutions to calculus. In late modernity, things are sort of probabilistic. And at some point, he asks Dr Manhattan whether the world government is going to last. And he says that ‘nothing lasts forever.’ So you embrace the antichrist and it still doesn’t work.

Thiel later finds biblical meaning in the manga One Piece, discussing how he believes it represents a future where an antichrist-like one-world government has repressed science. He believes that the hero, Monkey D Luffy, represents a Christlike figure.

In One Piece, you are set in a fantasy world, again sort of an alternate earth, but it’s 800 years into the reign of this one-world state. Which, as the story unfolds, gradually gets darker and darker. You sort of realize, in my interpretation, who runs the world and it’s something like the antichrist. There’s Luffy, a pirate who wears a red straw hat, sort of like Christ’s crown of thorns. And then towards the end of the story, transforms into a figure who resembles Christ in Revelation.

Thiel, along with a researcher and writer at Thiel Capital, explored these ideas at greater length in an essay for the religious journal First Things earlier this month.

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MindOverMuses @mindovermuses.bsky.social · 4d

*shakes her head as she takes the filter and stores it in the Mimic chest*

MindOverMuses @mindovermuses.bsky.social · 4d

It was my introduction too! Someone needs to get him to a table and stream playing this game with him! It'd be so goooood!

MindOverMuses @mindovermuses.bsky.social · 4d

*slides this across the table nonchalantly*
www.youtube.com/watch?v=zcKR...

Mystery Flesh Pit National Park

YouTube video by Wendigoon

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MindOverMuses @mindovermuses.bsky.social · 4d

Ok, now I need to see someone GM a game of this for Wendigoon over on YouTube. For charity.

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Gillian Brockell @gbrockell.bsky.social · 6d

Claim: 10 cars rammed ICE
Truth: No cars rammed ICE

Claim: She boxed ICE in
Truth: ICE boxed her in

Claim: She shot a rifle at ICE
Truth: She did not have a rifle

Claim: ICE returned fire
Truth: Only ICE fired

Claim: She drove herself to the hospital
Truth: Paramedics found her

Chicago Sun-Times @chicago.suntimes.com · 6d

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government’s claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed.
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Attorney for woman shot by Border Patrol claims officer said 'Do something b-----' before shooting

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government's claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed. A judge ordered Martinez and a co-defendant released pending trial.

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Esther Schindler @estherschindler.bsky.social · 6d

I just saw someone use the abbreviation “AI;DR” and I’ll be laughing for a while.

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Justin Sheppherd @ahappyhiveling.bsky.social · 6d

You know someone's a really good communicator (and YouTuber) when they can carry you along for half an hour on a subject you know and care nothing about, and you don't even notice time passing.
Scott can do that.

Scott (from NerdSync) @scottniswander.bsky.social · 6d

Also on YouTube on my second channel youtu.be/74khqw6lUII

I promise you will care about this niche TikTok drama

YouTube video by NerdSync Sidekick

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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 9d

History repeats.

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5 Calls @5calls.org · 12d

FUN FACT: Social Security and Medicare are mandatory spending programs that are unaffected by government shutdowns. So, what they're telling you here is that they *voluntarily* want to stop giving you your money and health care.

Jacob Bogage @jacobbogage.bsky.social · 13d

👀 Just Now -- President Trump in the Oval Office said a government shutdown gives his administration the power to cut benefit programs, which include Social Security and Medicare.

www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

“We can do things during the shutdown that are irreversible, that are bad for them, and irreversible by them, like cutting vast numbers of people out, cutting things that they like, cutting programs that they like. And, you all know Russell Vought. He’s become very popular recently because he can trim the budget to a level that you couldn't do any other way. So they're taking a risk by having a shutdown. Because of the shutdown, we can do things medically and other ways, including benefits. We can cut large numbers of people. We don't want to do that, but we don't want fraud, waste and abuse.”

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MindOverMuses @mindovermuses.bsky.social · 11d

@creepcast.bsky.social - This is something that is 100% applicable to Wendigoon.

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 12d

Oh yes, this is clearly now.

A post on X by Mehdi Hasan (@mehdirhasan
) expresses frustration, asking how anyone can read a definition of fascism and not be alarmed, emphasizing that it is happening now. The post includes a quote from Cody Johnston (@drmistercody
) from one day ago, defining fascism as a form of political behavior marked by an obsessive preoccupation with community decline, humiliation, or victimhood, and compensatory cults of unity, energy, and purity. The definition describes a mass-based party of nationalist militants working with traditional elites, abandoning democratic liberties, and pursuing redemptive violence for internal cleansing and external expansion without ethical or legal restraints.

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MindOverMuses @mindovermuses.bsky.social · 11d

If you can't find a Kravitz scarf, you should look into a Fourth Doctor one. They even come in a couple different patterns!

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 12d

This is the best elevator pitch I've seen from Dems on the shutdown.

Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 12d

Good morning.

The government is shut down because Trump wants to act like a king and steal from you.

Democrats have no obligation to support a budget that funds the destruction of our democracy - and DOUBLES health premiums to fund a tax cut for billionaires.

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MindOverMuses @mindovermuses.bsky.social · 11d

Oh, to be universally hated AND not get paid for however long the shutdown looms too boot... And if they don't make their quotas while not getting paid, they'll lose their bonuses and loan forgiveness, right?

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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 12d

We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.

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Burrito Justice @burritojustice.bsky.social · 12d

quick while the government is shut down let’s all switch to metric

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MindOverMuses @mindovermuses.bsky.social · 13d

(the target can choose to fail), or the target is teleported to an unoccupied space of your choice that you can see within range. The chosen space must be on a surface or in a liquid that can support the target without the target having to squeeze.

MindOverMuses @mindovermuses.bsky.social · 13d

Vortex Warp
Source: Strixhaven: A Curriculum of Chaos
2nd-level Conjuration

Casting Time: 1 action
Range: 90 feet
Components: V, S
Duration: Instantaneous

You magically twist space around another creature you can see within range. The target must succeed on a Constitution saving throw

MindOverMuses @mindovermuses.bsky.social · 13d

Finally had a chance to watch the last episode of 'Cloudward Ho!' on @dimension20.bsky.social nsion20.

I can't tell you how much I wish Emily would have read the full description of Vortex Warp with the realization that lava is a liquid in DnD. Special note that it says "in" a liquid, not "on" one.

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MindOverMuses @mindovermuses.bsky.social · 16d

On top of that, she defeated Bowser. She's earned this.

MindOverMuses @mindovermuses.bsky.social · 17d

Now, this is the Chicago redemption story I'm here for.

MindOverMuses @mindovermuses.bsky.social · 18d

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I Analyzed Dimension 20 On A Bus. It Broke Me.

YouTube video by Bonus Reaction

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MindOverMuses @mindovermuses.bsky.social · 19d

@dimension20.bsky.social & @katiemarovitch.bsky.social

Have you seen this breakdown of Katie's "On a Bus" session, lauding it as "The Perfect RPG Session!"?

www.youtube.com/watch?v=9bO6...

Katie Marovich's "On a Bus": The Perfect RPG Session! Dimension 20 Demystified

YouTube video by SupergeekMike

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Briar in Blue @auroraworeblue.bsky.social · 22d

You guys, so many Romance girlies are reading "On Tyranny" that they've broken the Goodreads recommendations algorithm. 10/10; no notes.
#romancelandia

A grainy screenshot of the sidebar of the desktop version of Goodreads. It says:

RECOMMENDATIONS:
Because you enjoyed A Wedding to Protect Her Fortune:
On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century by Timothy Snyder
A historian of fascism offers a guide for surviving and resisting America's turn towards authoritarianism. On November 9th, millions of Americans woke up to the impossible...

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