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Aram ➡️ PaxU

@aramvartian.com

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Co-producer of @killeverymonster.com, co-founder of @deadghostpro.com, editor of @unpreparedcasters.bsky.social, photographer. He/him 🎲 Join my games at startplaying.games/gm/vartian 🏳️‍🌈 Find my photography, appearances, socials, and shows at aram.gay

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Aram ➡️ PaxU @aramvartian.com · Oct 17

Hi, new people!

My name is Aram. I am a queer Armenian who has played TTRPGs for 40 years and produced gaming podcasts for the last decade.

I am the co-producer of @killeverymonster.bsky.social and the co-founder of @deadghost.bsky.social.

I also played a "malicious twink" on Unprepared Casters.

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Aram ➡️ PaxU @aramvartian.com · 49m

Turning off comments instead of deleting the video proves you cannot be trusted as a source for anything, @jennbudd.bsky.social.

Aram ➡️ PaxU @aramvartian.com · 51m

Jenn is posting fake AI slop as news and turned off comments when confronted over it.

Block and ignore everyone who does this.

Jenn Budd @jennbudd.bsky.social · 6h

Seems like they are going after reporters who are women. They hit one w/pepper spray ammo in her car, the WGN reporter and now this.

Aram ➡️ PaxU @aramvartian.com · 1h

Why haven't you removed this obvious AI slop? Why are you limited comments on it? bsky.app/profile/jenn...

Jenn Budd @jennbudd.bsky.social · 6h

Seems like they are going after reporters who are women. They hit one w/pepper spray ammo in her car, the WGN reporter and now this.

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Lauren McKenzie @themckenziest.gay · 14h

Seeing Ms. Rachel say exactly what needs to be said to Obama is so damn refreshing

Dear President Obama,
I saw in your statement you said "Israeli families" & "the people of Gaza."
Palestinians have families, too.
This kind of language contributes to dehumanization. Dehumanization is part of what caused so many to stay silent as 20,000 children were killed in this genocide.
I've sat with wonderful Palestinian families from Gaza. They look at their children just like we look at ours - with all the love & hope in the world.
Love,
Ms Rachel

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 18h

The Center for Investigative Reporting—home to Mother Jones and Reveal—has a long track record of responsibly reporting sensitive stories and breaking high-impact news. We fact-check the hell out of our reporting, and we respect and protect our sources.

Have a tip? Drop us a line, confidentially.

How to Leak to Us

The Center for Investigative Reporting—home to Mother Jones and Reveal—has a long track record of fairly and responsibly reporting sensitive stories and breaking high-impact news that changes the…

www.motherjones.com

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Kieron Gillen @kierongillen.bsky.social · Aug 8

DIE: Loaded has just been announced, where @stephaniehans.bsky.social and myself are back at @imagecomics.com and doing our goth jumanji thing to its fullest effect.

Out November 12th.

Lots more info over at Rascal: www.rascal.news/exclusive-di...

The basic advert for DIE: Loaded - a big ol' bear witha. woman crawling out of its mouth, with a fox at her feet.

Out November 12th.

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Aram ➡️ PaxU @aramvartian.com · 1d

I love this show. youtu.be/1mwRyYK_4As?...

Well There's Your Problem | Episode 186: The Quintinshill Wreck(s)

YouTube video by Well There's Your Problem Podcast

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Aram ➡️ PaxU @aramvartian.com · 1d

I want that Oscar.

preternia @preternia.com · 1d

NECA Sesame Street on display at NYCC.

Aram ➡️ PaxU @aramvartian.com · 1d

“Battleships were last truly useful the year before the first one was made.”

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🎃Scary Vampire Austin🧛🏿‍♀️🔜PAXU @sailorsctaustin.bsky.social · 1d

Libraries rule

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Rowan Rook and Decard @rowanrookanddecard.bsky.social · 1d

Time to storm into your local comic store and demand NOTHING BUT THE BEST (the new DIE Quickstart) and REFUSE ANYTHING LESS (than the new DIE Quickstart) because YOU'RE BETTER THAN THE REST (and so deserve the new DIE Quickstart)

Graphic reminding you to pre order DIE RPG. It's a black paper texture background, with red graffiti sprayed on it. The cover of the quickstart is centered, with the text DIE RPG quickstart edition at the top, and PRE ORDER NOW in all good comic stores*. In small text at the bottom the asterix is completed with *and probably some shite ones but that's not our fault.

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Aram ➡️ PaxU @aramvartian.com · 1d

There are no Republicans.

There are only white supremacists.

Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 1d

It is simply accurate to call this regime segregationist.

Trump Fires Black Officials From an Overwhelmingly White Administration

www.nytimes.com

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Dave Jorgenson @davejorgenson.bsky.social · 2d

The Post laid off seemingly the remaining of their liberal-leaning staff members on Opinion last Thursday, when some of them were observing Yom Kippur.

from @oliverdarcy.bsky.social for Status
status.news/p/washington-post-opinion-cuts-adam-oneal

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Transplanar RPG 🏳️‍⚧️✨ @transplanarrpg.bsky.social · 3d

What news on the winds? 🐉

We are so proud to share that GODKILLER: Last Hope picked up the wins for Best Actual Play Video and the festival-wide LGBTQIA+ Diversity Award at the Sydney Web Fest! It means the world that our story of rage, love, and becoming resonates across the globe. Thank you SWF!

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Aram ➡️ PaxU @aramvartian.com · 3d

I had to immedtalty call my brother after producing this one shot of "The Time We Have" for @unpreparedcasters.bsky.social. youtu.be/dgambqWrTEk?...

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Aram ➡️ PaxU @aramvartian.com · 3d

I had to immedtalty call my brother after producing the @unpreparedcasters.bsky.social one.

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Balatro @balatro.bsky.social · 4d

Yamir, The Mammoth Fortress. It towers on the back of a giant Royal Mammoth filled with Primal and murderous fallen elves ready to swing down to any unlucky settlement in the path of their titanic living battlement.

#dnd #dungeonsanddragons #ttrpg

get this map by visiting: patreon.com/balatroart

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Sky Marchini @sky.skymarchini.net · 3d

Supreme Court: of course states can regulate, and restrict access to, medical procedures if there’s a compelling public interest

Colorado: (bans conversion therapy for minors)

Supreme Court: no not like that, we only meant abortion

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Aram ➡️ PaxU @aramvartian.com · 5d

A portrait I took of Doug (Dorro) when we shared an apartment in DC.

A high-contrast, black and white studio portrait of a man's face. He has a mohawk hairstyle with shaved sides and a short beard. He is looking up and to the right, his face illuminated by a strong light from above that creates deep shadows and highlights the texture of his skin and his serious, contemplative expression.

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Aram ➡️ PaxU @aramvartian.com · 5d

Quote with your pink art 🦄

An artistic, close-up photograph of a tower of Dungeons & Dragons-style dice. At the bottom is a large, translucent die glowing with a glittery pink and purple light. A smaller, metallic-black D20 is stacked in the middle. At the very top, another tiny die is captured with long-exposure light streaks, creating the effect of it falling onto the stack. The background is a solid, vibrant yellow.

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 6d

history teacher in 50 years: So in September, that’s when the president signed an executive order criminalizing anti-fascism and saying all resistance would be crushed

student: oh so that’s when the whole country realized they were living under fascism

teacher: haha what? oh no lol not at all. no.

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Aram ➡️ PaxU @aramvartian.com · 7d

I just noticed the spiders for eyes.

Men will literally do anything aside from getting therapy.

Aram ➡️ PaxU @aramvartian.com · 7d

Aside from the pre-teen ideas of masculinity going on here, it is hideously over designed. The textures, the lettering, the two revolvers forming the teeth, the logo, the name and signature, the absurd Tommy Gun relief on the back.

It is all so painfully juvenile.

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Aram ➡️ PaxU @aramvartian.com · 7d

Literally this.

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 7d

BREAKING: Federal judge in Kilmar Abrego Garcia's criminal case finds that "there is a 'realistic likelihood of vindictiveness' that entitles Abrego to discovery" in response to his motion to dismiss the case for vindictive or selective prosecution. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

MEMORANDUM OPINION
By way of context, a federal prosecutor is the representative not of an ordinary party
to a controversy, but of a sovereignty whose obligation to govern impartially is as
compelling as its obligation to govern at all. The obligation to govern impartially
concerns, above all, the state’s exercise of coercive power—meaning its power to
deprive its subjects of life, liberty, or property . . . As a representative of the state,
a prosecutor’s exercise of coercive power must be impartial . . . [in] that
prosecutorial power may not be exercised vindictively—meaning that the
prosecutor may not punish a defendant for exercising a protected statutory or
constitutional right.
United States v. Zakhari, 85 F.4th 367, 384–85 (6th Cir. 2023) (Kethledge, J., concurring)
(citations and quotations omitted). This context frames review of Defendant Kilmar Armando
Abrego Garcia’s (“Abrego”) motion to dismiss his indictment for vindictive and selective
prosecution. (Doc. Nos. 104–05). The Government opposes the motion (Doc. No. 121), and
Abrego has replied (Doc. No. 127). Abrego’s motion is not ripe for decision because he seeks
discovery and an evidentiary hearing because there is some evidence of vindictiveness here. For
the reasons that follow, the Court holds that the totality of events creates a sufficient evidentiary
basis to conclude that there is a “realistic likelihood of vindictiveness” that entitles Abrego to
discovery and requires an evidentiary hearing before the Court decides his motion. United States
v. Andrews, 633 F.2d 449, 457 (6th Cir. 1980) (en banc), cert. denied, 450 U.S. 927 (1981).

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