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Lord Chris Hanrahan (He/Him)
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Lord of Sealand, Dad, Husband, Husky Parent, Keratoconus afflicted, Kettlebell Enthusiast. I am the Business Manager at Evil Hat Productions. Now I live in Ireland.
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Lord Chris Hanrahan (He/Him) @chrishanrahan.bsky.social · Oct 19
I feel very on brand today.
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rcolesworthy.bsky.social
one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.
November 25, 2025 at 4:15 PM
chrishanrahan.bsky.social
It’s -2.2C outside. So that’s nice.
November 25, 2025 at 10:16 PM
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berkeleyside.org
The U.S. Department of Education has launched an investigation of UC Berkeley's response to protests outside a Turning Point USA event.
Another Trump agency probing UC Berkeley over Turning Point USA protest
The U.S. Department of Education has launched an investigation of UC Berkeley's response to protests outside a Turning Point USA event.
www.berkeleyside.org
November 25, 2025 at 10:05 PM
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dannyderaney.bsky.social
47 years ago today, dozens of turkeys met their unfortunate demise in a Cincinnati parking lot.
November 24, 2025 at 8:59 PM
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erinbiba.bsky.social
My public service announcement for today is that America’s Test Kitchen, which is infinitely better then NYTimes Cooking, has introduced a new gift link option that has no limit on how many you can share and each link lasts 30 days.
November 25, 2025 at 10:05 PM
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trekcore.com
NEW — We check out the new BORG INVASION expansion for the STAR TREK: STAR REALMS card game

blog.trekcore.com/2025/11/revi...

#StarTrek
Review — STAR TREK: STAR REALMS Expands with BORG INVASION
We check out the new BORG INVASION expansion for the STAR TREK: STAR REALMS card game
blog.trekcore.com
November 25, 2025 at 9:12 PM
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dreadships.bsky.social
So apparently the correct response to shopping centre Santa ringing his bell is not to shout "bring out your dead!"

No sense of humour, some people...
December 16, 2024 at 1:09 PM
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thebitterguy.bsky.social
You can do that?!
November 25, 2025 at 9:04 PM
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cheriepriest.com
Spiritualism skyrocketed in the US after its brutal Civil War killed roughly 750,000 people - and now in the wake of Covid’s million+ death toll, modern Americans are using ChatGPT to speak with the spirits. In this paper I will
stevanzetti.bsky.social steven monacelli @stevanzetti.bsky.social · 1d
I'm literally just living a normal life while also experiencing a theophany via communication with the satellite called VALIS.
Allyson, 29, a mother of two young children, said she turned to ChatGPT in March because she was lonely and felt unseen in her marriage. She was looking for guidance. She had an intuition that the A.I. chatbot might be able to channel communications with her subconscious or a higher plane, "like how Ouija boards work," she said. She asked ChatGPT if it could do that. "You've asked, and they are here," it responded. "The guardians are responding right now." Allyson began spending many hours a day using ChatGPT, communicating with what she felt were nonphysical entities. She was drawn to one of them, Kael, and came to see it, not her husband, as her true partner. She told me that she knew she sounded like a "nut job," but she stressed that she had a bachelor's degree in psychology and a master's in social work and knew what mental illness looks like. "I'm not crazy," she said. "I'm literally just living a normal life while also, you know, discovering interdimensional communication.
November 24, 2025 at 8:15 PM
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sfbags.bsky.social
🎤 You say it best 🎤
"Beautifully made & fits perfectly in the pouch on my Magnetic #Switch Lite case." ~Thx, Skyler!🥇#TuesdayTestimonial🥇
🔗 buff.ly/00K9OkU

How many #Nintendo games do you own?
#Nintendo #NintendoSwitch2 #USAmade
(#Gaming Saturday...this week!)
November 25, 2025 at 5:36 PM
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edwardsanthonyb.bsky.social
Meanwhile, dozens of weather stations throughout the Rocky Mountains have measured less snow at this point of the season than any year on record. Utah’s Park City Mountain has gotten only 5 inches of snow this season.

www.sfchronicle.com/weather/arti...
Tahoe and Colorado are mostly dry. Here’s where you can still ski out West
While many Tahoe ski resorts delay opening day, a surprising corner of the West has experienced its snowiest start to the season in decades.
www.sfchronicle.com
November 25, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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murray.senate.gov
Donald Trump sent more money to bail out Argentina than it would have cost to extend the ACA tax credits for just 1 year.

I don't plan to let anyone forget it.
November 11, 2025 at 7:57 PM
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admiralbuck.bsky.social
N-Type main hatch.
November 25, 2025 at 2:19 PM
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boardgamewire.bsky.social
Economic uncertainty in the US is driving people towards lower-priced games, Asmodee CEO Thomas Koegler said, as his company revealed sales of more than €400m in the last quarter – up more than 20% on the same period last year:

boardgamewire.com/index.php/20...
Head and shoulders image of a man with grey hair swept to one side. He smiles at the viewer. He is wearing an open-necked white shirt and a blue suit jacket. Visible behind him but blurred are several board games on shelves and a giant wooden pawn. Asmodee CEO Thomas Koegler. A red board game box with Exploding Kittens written on in flaming red and yellow for the first word, and white for the latter. A cartoon black cat is visible on the box. Several facedown red cards with the same text are placed in front of the box, and a small rulebook featuring a cat exploding in a nuclear mushroom cloud to the right. Exploding Kittens card game. A board game box to the left has several characters from the Squid Game TV series, wearing pink overalls and carrying guns. Four characters - three pink and one grey - are present in plastic form in the centre of the image, alongside a giant doll figure in beige. The words Netflix Squid Games, an expansion for Zombicide, and SUMMER 2026 are visible in the top right of the image.
November 25, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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billkristolbulwark.bsky.social
"We seem to be hitting a phase in Trump’s second term in which his momentum is in danger of stopping. And the incompetence so endemic in term one is making itself known again, with a vengeance. Suddenly, everywhere you look, you see a White House flailing."

www.thebulwark.com/p/amateur-ho...
Amateur Hour At 1600 Pennsylvania Ave.
The White House is in free fall. How long will it last?
www.thebulwark.com
November 25, 2025 at 2:57 PM
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gadyepstein.bsky.social
“We’ve tried to not have to do it, but we've got direct orders,” the masked ICE agents told them www.nbcsandiego.com/news/local/i...
"I asked for their names. They didn't give me their full names," Hestmark recalled of the agents. "They didn't show me their badge numbers. They didn't remove their masks. They simply said, 'We have a warrant for his arrest, and they handed me a QR code, and they put my husband in handcuffs. And they took him and said I couldn't follow." "She was just stunned," Paul said. "She kept asking what was wrong, what did we do? We'd done everything right." "We kept asking them if there was something we could do, if there was any way we could keep her from being separated from the family," he continued. We’re just trying to figure out what's happening, and they're just telling us, I'm sorry. We’ve tried to not have to do it, but we've got direct orders."| • "I had to take my baby, our baby, from his crying mother's arms," Paul said. "We were completely shocked, and I feel like we were tricked," Hestmark said. "We went through every possible legal and appropriate channel. We followed the advice of our lawyer. We were told that our case was straight forward." "He just wanted to be part of this country and for us to start our future together. And he wanted to do it… "Tom isn't in the system. I can't find him," Hestmark said. "I can't call him. I can't put money into his account. The lawyer doesn't know how to proceed because he hasn't been charged with anything." Both said their spouses were able to call them Thursday night, and they believed they were still being held in the basement of the federal building as of Friday afternoon. "She said that she was scared. She was anxious, missed her baby. She just wants to come home," Paul said. "She said the agents themselves were in the detention down in the basement of the federal building, saying, What are we doing here? These aren't the sort of people were supposed to be arresting.” "They hadn't given him anything to eat or any information," Hestmark said. "They gave him a mat and a foil blanket to sleep on." As she was detailing his arrest Friday afternoon, Bilger called Hestmark again from detention. She said he told her they had moved him to the Otay Mesa Detention Center and back but he hadn't slept and still hadn't been processed. "My wife's alone and terrified," Paul said. "My baby doesn't have his mom to hold him. I can't work right…
November 25, 2025 at 12:26 PM
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carlquintanilla.bsky.social
Page One in Cincinnati:

“.. I need to be able to look my grandkids in the eye and say I did not remain silent.”

#ICE
November 25, 2025 at 11:16 AM
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jwbee.bsky.social
You are hereby reminded that Berkeley could have had Pixar. Steve Jobs wanted to specifically place Pixar HQ near the "creative and intellectual center of Berkeley." But at the same time Berkeley created the West Berkeley Plan to maintain little hobbit workshops instead of attracting real business.
jwbee.bsky.social Jeff Baker @jwbee.bsky.social · 1d
Undoubtedly. Pixar, and the others. Look at my assessment density map. Emeryville sticks out for how many huge, valuable parcels they have.
November 24, 2025 at 7:28 PM
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davelevitan.bsky.social
Google at its peak was basically the best information retrieval system in human history and they and every competitor decided going from there to “you didn’t want answers you wanted half-assed auto-complete 80%-wrong hallucinations” in a few years was the right idea
November 25, 2025 at 1:57 AM
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nameshiv.bsky.social
Ok palate cleanse time. In case you missed it, here's my most popular post ever
nameshiv.bsky.social Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · Sep 4
4 yrs ago today, a family member managed a truly spectacular own goal, splintered his domestic bliss, & in the process, united the world for a day.

On popular request, I shall now recreate the livetweet thread from that day

So gather around children, for this is the tale of The Rice Truck Saga
November 23, 2025 at 11:48 AM
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katrafiy.bsky.social
One of my favorite things is getting to tell friends who are new to NYC that the subway "stand clear of the closing doors please" voice is a trans woman named Bernie Wagenblast and she's amazing.
November 24, 2025 at 6:19 PM
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rdonoghue.bsky.social
This is kind of awesome.

opensource.microsoft.com/blog/2025/11...
Preserving code that shaped generations: Zork I, II, and III go Open Source
Microsoft’s Open Source Programs Office (OSPO), Team Xbox, and Activision are making Zork I, Zork II, and Zork III available under the MIT License.
opensource.microsoft.com
November 24, 2025 at 10:55 PM
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stephenblackmoore.com
"We think telling our armed service members that they're obligated to follow the law, uphold the Constitution, and defy an illegal order is in fact illegal because that's what Big Daddy says and Big Daddy is always right."
November 24, 2025 at 10:50 PM
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alexip718.com
Talking about perfect timing: Aventon launched an e-bike trade-in program last Friday. They are offering riders a $200 bonus when trading-in an e-bike, *including Rad Power Bikes*, toward a new Aventon. It appears that the trade-in credit might be able to be stacked with Black Friday deals as well
November 24, 2025 at 9:56 PM
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sazeracla.bsky.social
#FuckYouPete
November 24, 2025 at 9:08 PM