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Paul J @semitext.xyz · 11h

My favorite moment in Cloud is when the protagonist realizes exactly what kind of movie he is in

Paul J @semitext.xyz · 11h

Making deals in a smoke filled room in the back

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Paul J @semitext.xyz · 22h

HA Green is pretty easy. Mostly plug & play with a little bit of configuration work. For straight forward automations you don't even need to touch any yaml files, the web ui will work just fine.

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 2d

UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera

In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.

As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.

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Chris Person @papapishu.bsky.social · 2d

It’s true: the cities are lawless and scary, if you live here sell your property as fast as possible, particularly if you have a 2 family row house from the 1920s with those nice bay windows.

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Tuxedo Catfish @tuxedocatfish.bsky.social · 3d

caves of qud

Rob Friedman @pitchingninja.com · 4d

All 8 of the Blue Jays Pitchers from Yesterday (overlay)

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Capt. Jack Sharrow @sharrows.bsky.social · Sep 6

We’ve officially launched! Lots of ways to support this new initiative that supports street vendors from 🧊 we keep us safe!

Interest form and flyer below! #BikeChi

forms.gle/dY931Sxzs6V9...

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Paul J @semitext.xyz · 4d

Initial impression of Shadow Ticket: Pynchon writing in old timey slang with a cast of goofy midwesterners is a fun read.

Paul J @semitext.xyz · 6d

Book of the New Sun

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𝕍∃, Cyber closed shell syndrome relief fund coordinator @vortexegg.com · 6d

These disconnects always reveal how the point of algorithmic culture, recommender algorithms, and now “AI”, isn’t to give you agency or help you find more of what you want; it’s to influence your behavior and attitudes towards what the people running the algorithms want. Programmable people.

Matt Collins @mattkicks.bsky.social · 6d

Entire GDP built around algorithms and my music app still can't figure out that if I skip a song every single time it's served up I NEVER WANNA HEAR THAT SONG.

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Rhys 📼 @flemishdog.bsky.social · 9d

Someone needs to start collecting cassette copies of In Got We Trust, Inc and see what people taped over the B Side.

I've said this for years but I've not got the means to do so

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Paul J @semitext.xyz · 10d

I hadn't heard of the type of loan in this article. Sure seems like the sort of thing that could generate systemic risk and trigger a debt crisis... www.thebanner.com/community/ho...

The housing hustle igniting a foreclosure crisis in Baltimore

The foreclosures could send neighborhoods spiraling and make Baltimore America’s next great housing crisis.

www.thebanner.com

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Prismatic Wasteland @prismaticwasteland.com · 11d

Barkeep on the Borderlands is in its 2nd printing! It is now perfect bound with a spine and has much more consistent colors in the interior.

To celebrate, the next ~50 orders of Barkeep or the Barkeep Bundle will also come with a random autographed “print proof” page
#osr #rpg

Copies of the new print run on the left, the proof pages of the book (a cutaway map of a pub pictured) below and a few holographic stickers on top

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Grant Marek @grantmarek.bsky.social · 11d

"Maybe you thought the man behind the Blinking White Guy meme was a young Cary Elwes or an unknown actor from a stock video clip, but all along, he has walked among us right here in San Francisco."

via @dangentile007.bsky.social
www.sfgate.com/sf-culture/a...

The San Francisco man with one of the internet's most viral faces

It may be the most iconic blink on the internet.

www.sfgate.com

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Paul J @semitext.xyz · 12d

Not enough people do reroll HD per session imo. It might be my favorite house rule.

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Paul J @semitext.xyz · 12d

man that sucks

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Bill Orcutt @billorcutt.bsky.social · 12d

Orcutt Shelley Miller | East Coast in November. Brooklyn is now SOLD OUT.

11.4 Hamden, @spaceballroom
11.5 Philadelphia, @johnnybrendas
11.6 Kingston, Tubbys
11.7 Brooklyn, @UnionPool
11.8 Washington DC, @cometpingpong

Tix: linktr.ee/orcuttshelle...

Vid by Sheva Kafai

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Prismatic Wasteland @prismaticwasteland.com · 12d

A (not yet final) full TTRPG (top secret project) is available only for my Patrons (even those just throwing a single dollar at me monthly), along with some cover art for another project I'm slowly working on. Consider joining for this and MORE!
www.patreon.com/posts/rough-...

Rough Draft of Into the Odd(ish) and New Cover Art | Prismatic Wasteland

www.patreon.com

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Paul J @semitext.xyz · 13d

yessss!

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Paul J @semitext.xyz · 13d

Reposting for all the well-adjusted people not looking at social media on the weekend :-)

Paul J @semitext.xyz · 14d

I just released a science-fantasy adventure for the tabletop RPG Vaults of Vaarn. Explore the wreckage of a spaceship deep below a toxic sinkhole. 16 page zine where I did it all: writing, art, layout, design.

semitext.itch.io/beneath-the-...

Beneath the Ikor Quag Sinkhole by semitext

A dangerous adventure for Vaults of Vaarn

semitext.itch.io

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Paul J @semitext.xyz · 14d

I just released a science-fantasy adventure for the tabletop RPG Vaults of Vaarn. Explore the wreckage of a spaceship deep below a toxic sinkhole. 16 page zine where I did it all: writing, art, layout, design.

semitext.itch.io/beneath-the-...

Beneath the Ikor Quag Sinkhole by semitext

A dangerous adventure for Vaults of Vaarn

semitext.itch.io

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Binary @binarystar.games · 15d

It's here! It's today! It's in 2 hours!

Come join us basically anytime today! We've got games to play, we've got games to buy, we've got panels to check out! It's free!

I'll be at a panel in the early afternoon, vending later, and probably buzzing around like a hornet in the morning. Come say hi!

Indie Tabletop Day
Free Event - September 28, 2025
Pure Panic Comics & Games, Silver Spring

Play a game, 10am to 1pm
Tales of Ellastra w/ Jeff
Together We Rise, Together We Fall w/ Nico Arcana w/ Level Zero Games
Project Puppeteer w/ Liam
May I Enter: A Vampire Game w/ Josh

Panel: Designed in the DMV, 2pm to 3pm
Chris (Junk Food Games)
Gene Koo (StickerDoodle)
Binary (Binary Star Games)
Dominic (North Star Games)

Play a Game, 3pm to 6pm
Nature w/ Dominic
Tiny Mall Wizards w/ Green Intern Games BREAK!! w/ Naldobean Games
Teocalli w/ Allen
Nightbringer w/ Hartly

Panel: A discussion on game mechanics, 6pm to 7pm
Deb (Big Puffin Games)
Josh Heath (High Level Games)
Hartly Llosa (Mystic Hart Publishing)

Vendors, 10am to 3pm
Green Intern Games
Hartly
Samovar Games
StickerDoodle Games

Vendors, 3pm to 8pm
Big Puffin Games
Binary Star Games
High Level Games
Junk Food Games
McCricket Publishing

Preregister for games at https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSe4pZIIzKDcS5lLec3P_sFJIiTG3VIf7UdoC56093qFdzkD2Q/viewform?usp=header

Walk-ins welcome as space allows.

designedinthedmv.org

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Paul J @semitext.xyz · 15d

everyone is like "oh, evangelion deconstructed the mech genre" but gundam also did that while it was inventing it

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Brandon Kennedy @bicycleidiot.bsky.social · 15d

RIP Kaleb Horton
kalebhorton.ghost.io/2025-so-far/

I also have advice. Everybody loves reading advice on the computer, so I'll share it: the best thing you can do right now is log off as hard as you can. Go outside, talk to people in real life where it's actually kind of rude to talk about the news, try to actually see the friends you usually just text message. Go for a long drive and turn the phone off while you do it. Get back into your hobbies or pick one and learn it for a while. Watch one of those studio movies that reviews called "wildly miscalculated" and you haven't seen since high school. Play an album you like but find embarrassing. Go to free community events even if they sound stupid. If you take the freeway, try the surface streets. Go to a bad diner and just order some bad coffee because even bad coffee is good coffee.
You can't help anybody when you're exhausted and keep posting one million college-educated rewordings of "I would love to be dead right now" on the computer. Walk away from the thing and try out some of those normal things you hear about and if you get bored that's wonderful because we're not supposed to get bored anymore. It turns out boredom is the Cadillac of feelings.

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Paul J @semitext.xyz · 16d

Any cool ideas you wanted to include but ended up being out of scope?

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