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Aimee Cozza Illustration @aimeecozza.com · 10h

Bone wreath bone wreath bone wreath

#Repostober #BandW #Bone #DarkArt

A black and white ink drawing of a bunch of bones organized into a wreath-like shape.

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SeroRPG @serorpg.com · 1d

We have 491 titles on the #SoloRPG List and it's only been one week, baby! Go and check them out!

SoloRPGList @solorpglist.com · 1d

It's our 2nd week in existence! Big thanks if you submitted Solo and Duet #TTRPGs, joined the mailing list or spread the word.
Did you notice the themed showcase on the front page of our site? It changes weekly and is Halloween flavoured! Check it out solorpglist.com

#soloTTRPG #TTRPGsky #GMless

Solo RPG List - Find Solo and Duet TTRPGs

Discover amazing solo and duet tabletop role-playing games that can be played with—or without—dice, tarot cards, playing cards, pen and paper, etc.

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Matthew Terrill @matthewterrill.bsky.social · 1d

I was already a hard AI-skeptic but this cements my long suspicion that there is no feasible path to anything close to return on invested capital for these data centers. Tech would need 15 to 25 times current AI revenues within the next 2-3 years just to break even. Not financially viable.

"I clearly hit a nerve in the industry, when judging by the number of individuals who reached out to chat," he wrote in an followup blog post. "In total, l've spoken with over two-dozen rather senior people in the datacenter universe, and there was an interesting and overriding theme to our conversations: no one understands how the financial math is supposed to work. They are as baffled as I am, and they do this for a living."
Kupperman's original skepticism was built on a guess that the components in an average Al data center would take ten years to depreciate, requiring costly replacements. That was bad enough: "I don't see how there can ever be any return on investment given the current math," he wrote at the time.
But ten years, he now understands, is way too generous.
" had previously assumed a 10-year depreciation curve, which I now recognize as quite unrealistic based upon the speed with which Al datacenter technology is advancing," Kupperman wrote. "Based on my conversations over the past month, the physical data centers last for three to ten years, at most."
In his previous analysis, Kupperman assumed it would take the tech industry $160 billion of revenue to break even on data center spending in 2025 alone. And that's assuming an incredibly generous 25 percent gross margin - not to mention the fact that the industry's actual Al revenue is closer to $20 billion annually, as the investment manager noted in his previous blog.

"In reality, the industry probably needs a revenue range that is closer to the $320 billion to $480 billion range, just to break even on the capex to be spent this year," Kupperman posited in his updated essay. "No wonder my new contacts in the industry shoulder a heavy burden - heavier than I could ever imagine. They know the truth."
Kupperman called that gulf between tech industry spending and actual revenue in 2025 "astonishing."
However, it doesn't even begin to scratch the surface. For example, how does it all shake out when we account for 2026, when hundreds of new data centers are expected to pop up?
"Adding the two years together, and using the math from my prior post, you'd need approximately $1 trillion in revenue to hit break even, and many trillions more to earn an acceptable return on this spend," he writes.
"If the economics don't work, doing it at massive scale doesn't make the economics work any better
- it just takes an industry crisis and makes it into a national economic crisis," he concludes.
Overall, the pessimists broadly agree: it's no longer a matter of if Al is massively overhyped, but when the whole thing comes crashing down.
More on Al hype: Data Shows That Al Use Is Now Declining at Large Companies

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Tomas Gimenez Rioja - LOOKING FOR WORK 💼 @tgimenezrgm.itch.io · 14h

With only 20 days to surprise your friends with a #Halloween game, why not go full GOTH BORG? #morkBorg

A whole gothic horror setting filled to the brim with exciting monsters, and a whole land to explore?

The perfect gift for any GM friend at an all time low price!
tgimenezrgm.itch.io/goth-borg

Goth Borg - A Gothic Mork Borg Supplement by Tomas Gimenez Rioja

Explore the forbidden uncharted lands of Druekar, rules by a spawnof hell: a Vampyr

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The Ghost of Morgan Eilish 🧡💜 @morganeilish.bsky.social · 21h

I think I like Hades 2 as much as the original. It was fun. My hands might hate me tomorrow from spending too long with a controller in them but tomorrow I can let them "rest" and instead clean the kitchen, run some errands, go to the gym, and finish at least one of my writing assignments. 2 ideally

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The Ghost of Morgan Eilish 🧡💜 @morganeilish.bsky.social · 21h

I've completed the initial plot of the game and am now doing all the things that I didn't get to before solving the Chronos problem. Like smooching Nemesis and helping Dora, Narcissus, and Echo. Also I still have the Fates to manage.

I did romance Moros and omg he's adorably sweet. And so pretty.

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The Ghost of Morgan Eilish 🧡💜 @morganeilish.bsky.social · 21h

Spent the day with bf. There's a massive navy ship parked at the river and they're letting civilians just walk on board and wander around so we did that after stopping at the farmer's market. Then we spent the afternoon playing Hades 2 together. It was a lot of fun.

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Mary Gillis @marygillis.bsky.social · 22h

I did this, took like 30 min.
Points I kept hammering: domestic cloud, regulations around copyright and likeness rights, focusing on machine learning with concrete, real world uses (creating new drugs, etc), the damage done by slop, the need to listen to AI experts who are realists, not boosters.

Nico Mara-McKay 🦇 (they/iel) @nicomaramckay.com · 4d

Canadians: The federal government is seeking public input on how AI should be developed and used in business, research, and the military.

If this scares the shit out of you, please let them know:

Help define the next chapter of Canada's AI leadership

Current status: Open from October 1 to October 31, 2025 Canada helped invent modern AI. To stay a leader—and protect our digital sovereignty—we're running a 30-day national sprint to shape a renewed...

ised-isde.canada.ca

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The Ghost of Morgan Eilish 🧡💜 @morganeilish.bsky.social · 23h

I think the instructions that came with the dish were just incorrect. Either they needed thawing first, 350 wasn’t the correct temperature, or 30min wasn’t the correct time.

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The Ghost of Morgan Eilish 🧡💜 @morganeilish.bsky.social · 23h

The water in the dish they were sitting over boiled off so I’m assuming it’s not the oven.

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The Ghost of Morgan Eilish 🧡💜 @morganeilish.bsky.social · 23h

The water in the dish boiled off and had to be refilled more than once so I don’t believe so. I think 350 was just not the correct temperature or 30min wasn’t the correct time.

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The Ghost of Morgan Eilish 🧡💜 @morganeilish.bsky.social · 1d

I put the frozen tamales in at 5:30. Instructions said they'd be ready in 30mins. They were finally ready at 9pm.

The Ghost of Morgan Eilish 🧡💜 @morganeilish.bsky.social · 1d

The instructions on the frozen tamales said “cook from frozen. Cover and steam 30min”

They’ve been in the oven for an hour and a half and are still frozen. I’m very grumpy now cuz I’m so hungry.

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The Ghost of Morgan Eilish 🧡💜 @morganeilish.bsky.social · 1d

The instructions on the frozen tamales said “cook from frozen. Cover and steam 30min”

They’ve been in the oven for an hour and a half and are still frozen. I’m very grumpy now cuz I’m so hungry.

The Ghost of Morgan Eilish 🧡💜 @morganeilish.bsky.social · 1d

At least it’s only a few drips right after using it. And also there’s a trash can to catch it til I have a minute to get my life together.

The Ghost of Morgan Eilish 🧡💜 @morganeilish.bsky.social · 1d

The bidet deciding it’s time to start leaking into the trash can when all my tools are still on the balcony buried under laundry I cannot afford to do this month is uhhh not ideal. Don’t love that for me.

I’m tired. I need a break. And I need itch to finally send the payout from last months’ bundle

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The Ghost of Morgan Eilish 🧡💜 @morganeilish.bsky.social · 1d

Ok so I think I can maybe turn it into a zine game instead once I decide what I want the mechanics to do. I have to finish my 3 current projects first tho (kobold dungeon, silly 1pg goats, and baldurs gate jam group project) so it’s a November project probably.

The Ghost of Morgan Eilish 🧡💜 @morganeilish.bsky.social · 3d

I hate when I get an idea for a project that is so beyond the scope of what I’m capable of making. Like no we are not going to drop everything and write an entire dnd campaign. We’re still struggling through one shot adventures and having to pull up a reference doc for magic items.

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Oliver Darkshire @deathbybadger.bsky.social · 1d

when someone says "my dice are cursed" you sort of have to agree with them because if you say "marius you are a grown man and I know you know that's not how probability works" they won't say anything but they'll treat you like you are in league with the cursed dice

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Tomas Gimenez Rioja - LOOKING FOR WORK 💼 @tgimenezrgm.itch.io · 1d

WHAT IS IT THAT LIES BEYOND THE IMMENSENESS OF THE DARK?

GOTH BORG

It's not an answer to the question, but actually the titles for my two successfully crowdfunded horror products, now bundled and ready for your #halloween 🎃 game!

itch.io/s/161396/got...

#rpg #morkBorg #horror

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Super Nintendo Chalmers @snchalmers.bsky.social · 2d

Obviously Canadian thanksgiving

Luke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 2d

Walked into a Canadian Tire and no longer know what holiday season we’re celebrating anymore

Grim Reaper plays heavy metal guitar next to a display of Christmas trees

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Ness 🎃🇨🇦 @vriccithode.bsky.social · 2d

hey canadian friends you can tell the govt what you think about AI (🚮)! survey closes at the end of the month. it's a tad long but worth it. #CanPoli
ised-isde.canada.ca/site/ised/en...

Help define the next chapter of Canada's AI leadership

Current status: Open from October 1 to October 31, 2025 Canada helped invent modern AI. To stay a leader—and protect our digital sovereignty—we're running a 30-day national sprint to shape a renew...

ised-isde.canada.ca

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The Ghost of Morgan Eilish 🧡💜 @morganeilish.bsky.social · 2d

Spent the morning doing most of my leg day routine and then biking all over just to do my amazon returns. Now I can't get my brain to make words go despite trying for 4 hours so I think it's walkies time followed by pakidge time and then dinner. Maybe after dinner the words will go.

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Genderflux Superfluid @rewhan.bsky.social · 2d

The questions are all very leading, but each answer can be up to two thousand characters, so feel free to tell AI Minister Solomon -exactly- how you feel about Canada's relationship with AI.

In polite, but excruciating detailed terms, of course; you don't want to be summarily discarded as a troll.

Nico Mara-McKay 🦇 (they/iel) @nicomaramckay.com · 4d

Canadians: The federal government is seeking public input on how AI should be developed and used in business, research, and the military.

If this scares the shit out of you, please let them know:

Help define the next chapter of Canada's AI leadership

Current status: Open from October 1 to October 31, 2025 Canada helped invent modern AI. To stay a leader—and protect our digital sovereignty—we're running a 30-day national sprint to shape a renewed...

ised-isde.canada.ca

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The Ghost of Morgan Eilish 🧡💜 @morganeilish.bsky.social · 2d

I'm eyeing yet another quilt pattern as if I need a fifth blanket (I absolutely do not)

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Pantsless Tables @pantslesstables.bsky.social · 2d

Are you a BIPOC and/or LGBTQIA+ TTRPG game designer? Do you have a new game/kickstarter launching soon? Would you like to be featured on "BUT WHY?" our TTRPG talk show where we
1. interview a game designer
2. play a one-shot with their game/setting
3. have chill fun vibes?

If this is you, DM us!

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OrbWitch @wildwoodgames.bsky.social · 2d

There are just 6 tickets left to my mask chain making workshop on October 20th in Toronto!!

Come learn skills and tips & meet likeminded folks 😷

www.eventbrite.ca/e/masked-eve...

Tell all your covid conscious friends!

Jupiter modelling an elaborate beaded mask chain in autumnal colours on a white Aura mask.

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