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Xeni Giardiniera

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Xeni Giardiniera @personalbeavis.bsky.social · Nov 14

Since almost everyone I follow/follows me here is now game design-related, I'll do a little thread about my stuff and (too many) works in progress...

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Xeni Giardiniera @personalbeavis.bsky.social · 16h

I don't have the level of hate some do toward D&D as a game.

But the subreddit for the game belies something deeply unwell in the player community around it.

www.reddit.com/r/DnD/s/AaqD...

From the DnD community on Reddit

Explore this post and more from the DnD community

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Nappy DOOMlemite @nappydolemite.bsky.social · 17h

Hey, #resist olds, I heard everyone was moving back to Mastodon because there are going to be a bunch of Nazis here soon and you won't be able to post Donald Trump memes and pretend you're not as weird as the far right. You better get going.

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👁🌻🦊⚙️⚓ Bob, Engineer, Pusher of Paper @navmecheng.bsky.social · 1d

> It is 2025 BC. I am a soldier from one of the outlying provinces called to defend the pyramid in Memphis

> It is 2025 AD. I am a soldier from one of the outlying provinces called to defend the pyramid in Memphis

Soldiers at the Bass Pro Shops pyramid in Memphis, TN.

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jam @socialistboat.dad · 1d

Stella Sacco
@antlervel.vet
It's really funny that The Art of War is treated as this like alpha male book when it's clearly meant to be read by ancient Chinese failsons because it's all "please don't forget you have to feed your troops" and "if someone asks if you're going to attack them consider lying about it"
April 23, 2024 at 1:28 AM © Everybody can reply
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Xeni Giardiniera @personalbeavis.bsky.social · 2d

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 2d

I like how the news will be like “while the President claiming Portland was ruled by a giant skeleton named Mr Nibbles is not strictly true, it does speak to the anxiety of many Americans”

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Xeni Giardiniera @personalbeavis.bsky.social · 2d

Of course I support a free Palestine.

But make no mistake: my freakish esoteric psychosexual obsession with one particular children's entertainer will ALWAYS come first.

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Xeni Giardiniera @personalbeavis.bsky.social · 2d

All of this would be horrible enough, but hearing it from a guy whose name is Bovino and still be required to take it seriously is just insulting.

thematthill.bsky.social @thematthill.bsky.social · 5d

Wow. Greg Bovino admits on camera that his agents can detain people if you look scared, change your demeanor, or grip a steering wheel too tight.

As his unmasked agents walk around with large guns to scare you, they may arrest you just for that — even if you're a U.S. citizen.

Xeni Giardiniera @personalbeavis.bsky.social · 3d

I'm taking shelter in a disclosed location

Xeni Giardiniera @personalbeavis.bsky.social · 3d

People really need to decide and tell me whether frogs are good or not. Ever since Hillary Clinton told me about Pepes, I've been poisoning pond after pond.

Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 3d

www.wweek.com/culture/2025...

Can you put into words what that purpose is? You and the frog have really become icons of this protest.

There’s been a nice overall whimsy that has shown up. The frog is amazing. We had a bunch of other inflatable people here last night, too. I saw people playing Twister the other day.

What they rely on is fear. So by coming out in an absurdist manner, it speaks to them, to some extent, that we’re actually not that afraid.

It also dismantles their narrative a little bit. When they try to describe this situation as “war-torn,” it becomes much harder to take them seriously when they have to post a video saying [U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security] Kristi Noem is up on the balcony staring over the Antifa Army and it’s, like, eight journalists and five protesters and one of them is in a chicken suit.

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Jake! @spriteborne.bsky.social · 3d

“If you see this post a robot” and you’re all posting Gundams, none of which are robots. Kids these days, can’t even differentiate between a robot and a mech 👴🏻 If you’re gonna post gunpla for that meme, at least do a mobile doll or a Gundnode or something else autonomous

#gunpla #ガンプラ #plamo

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T.W.Wombat (aka Jim White) @twwombat.bsky.social · 3d

Stone of a peach, it's a 2d20 random table. With an 18 and 12, I rolled "piss-sucker".

What did you roll?

BeefReeferLives @beefreeferlives.bsky.social · 3d

Intriguing...

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Alistair Coleman @alistaircoleman.bsky.social · 9d

“What draws my admiration? What is that which gives me joy? Baseball! A man stands alone at the plate. This is the time for what? For individual achievement. There he stands alone. But in the field, what? Part of a team. Teamwork” (Robert de Niro, The Untouchables, 1987)

Pope Leo holding a baseball bat like he’s going to crack an errant priest over the head during a dinner party.

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Xeni Giardiniera @personalbeavis.bsky.social · 3d

I was getting increasingly annoyed at seeing more cybertrucks on the road, but then I noticed how nearly all of them had dealer tags on.

So even though more of them are on the road, they're not fucking *selling* more.

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The Onion @theonion.com · 3d

Israel Agrees To Go Back To Killing Palestinians On Less Frequent Basis

CAIRO—As part of a historic ceasefire agreement with Hamas following two years of war, the Israeli government reportedly agreed Thursday to go back to killing Palestinians on a less frequent basis. “I...

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Xeni Giardiniera @personalbeavis.bsky.social · 3d

I can even spell your real name right, don't worry

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Xeni Giardiniera @personalbeavis.bsky.social · 3d

Women are gonna be uncomfortable with you around anyway, so you may as well

Xeni Giardiniera @personalbeavis.bsky.social · 5d

Thomas Pynchon, best known for his recurring role as 'Reclusive Author," shown here in his first of three appearances in "Diatribe of a Mad Housewife," s15e10.

Xeni Giardiniera @personalbeavis.bsky.social · 5d

This is honestly a hilarious bit

Andy @andyoregon.bsky.social · 6d

Jess Waters recycling the same guy over and over to represent “former” different enemies

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HyveMynd @hyvemynd.bsky.social · 5d

Going on record right now to say that if Gavin Newsom is the Democratic candidate for 2028, I will simply not vote.

LGBTQ Nation @lgbtqnation.com · 5d

Gavin Newsom vetoes gender education bill, declines to sign other trans protections - buff.ly/MTUAV85

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AltWatcher @altwatcher.bsky.social · Jul 13

Ok, or maybe AltNPS hasn't changed at all lol

"Photo credit to an undisclosed source." Yes, an undisclosed source who sent this photo TO PBS NEWS, not the Secret Agent Park Rangers.

Shoutout to @knives.motorcycles, who also has the most radical bsky handle I've ever seen

knives @knives.motorcycles · Jul 12

PBS newshour?

the same image in a pbs tweet from yesterday

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Xeni Giardiniera @personalbeavis.bsky.social · 5d

This is a pretty good capsule of how every Democratic party-aligned organization operates.

August J. Pollak @augustjpollak.bsky.social · 5d

As someone who worked there, the reason CAP isn't trying is because they're not a liberal Heritage Foundation devoted to generational furtherment of liberal ideals. They were a 501c3 dedicated to making Hillary Clinton and possibly her daughter president and they catastrophically failed at it

Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 5d

The very well funded Center for American Progress has been in operation since 2004. The Democrats do not have “nothing” they’re just not trying.

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AltWatcher @altwatcher.bsky.social · 5d

The video, which AltNPS will not be providing, is apparently worth watching. Thank goodness we have real activists like the Alt National Park Service to keep the public informed.

Alt National Park Service: Stephen Miller just said the quiet part out loud claiming that Trump has plenary authority when it comes to deploying troops. (Plenary means full authority.) After making the statement, he froze completely, like a deer in headlights. The video is worth watching.

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Xeni Giardiniera @personalbeavis.bsky.social · 5d

It seems the peer has become the peeee.

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flipinidaho @flipinidaho.bsky.social · 5d

southsideweekly.com/federal-agen...

The building is in a 27 million dollar foreclosure filed by Wells Fargo. The next day, Wells Fargo filed an emergency motion for receivership. The fascist regime kindly emptied the building for donor Wells Fargo.

Federal Agents Storm South Shore Building, Detaining Families and Children

Families were woken by flashbangs and helicopters as hundreds of federal agents raided their homes. Days later, neighbors are still searching for the missing.

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