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Norin 🦈 🔜 Twitchcon @mahoukarp.com · 10h

some electric pokemon ⚡️
#art #pokemon

Pokemon fanart featuring shinx, luxray, alolan raichu, mareep, flaaffy, ampharos, and emolga

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Krista D. Ball: Canada's Snarky Potato @kristadb1.bsky.social · 14h

Want to avoid chores this weekend and curl up with a book under a blanket? I got that for you.

Need an audiobook to entertain you while you do chores? Also got that.

Buy direct! All proceeds go directly to feeding two dogs and three cats.

payhip.com/kristadball

Krista D. Ball

Krista D. Ball is an award-winning Canadian author who hasn't met a potato she didn't like.

payhip.com

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Andarta 🏳️‍⚧️🍁🏳️‍⚧️ @deuteriumice.bsky.social · 1d

There's 46 MLA's to mess up everything and they're doing a very good job of corrupting all they touch.

Individually it's mind numbingly overwhelming.

That's the reason for community building so others can deal with those attacks for us in our name as well as us carrying our own fights in theirs.

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Andarta 🏳️‍⚧️🍁🏳️‍⚧️ @deuteriumice.bsky.social · 1d

Oh good, it's not just me thinking it's sounding more sus as time goes on.

Ann Petersen-Kane @anniegirl.bsky.social · 1d

Still waiting on Gander to open up it's beta and got an email from them this morning asking for money. "Invest so we can open the beta to the public!" Except there is no beta. And now they want money. Okay. Nothing sus about that. #cdnpoli

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Ozzy @karohemd.bsky.social · 1d

Various people told me not to be paranoid when I said I'm not going to do the verifcation but use a VPN instead.
Looks like I was right in my assumption it was going to be a shitshow.

John Scott-Railton @jsrailton.bsky.social · 5d

NEW: breach of Discord age verification data.

Including some users passports & DLs

Age verification is a badly implemented data grab wrapped in a moral panic.

Mark my words, as age verification mandates expand, we'll end up more surveilled and less secure. 1/

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Andarta 🏳️‍⚧️🍁🏳️‍⚧️ @deuteriumice.bsky.social · 1d

This is in keeping with everything they've been doing and wanting
How is this a distraction?
The dismantling of public health care has been very close to job 1 of the UCP
breaking public unions is another part of the same privatization of it all.
private schools & private hospitals = same pile

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Jason Cordova @jasoncordova.bsky.social · 1d

The French-language edition of Brindlewood Bay is crowdfunding!They are at nearly 400% funded, with 5 days remaining in their campaign. Check out the campaign if you game in French, or if you know someone who would be interested, let them know about it! www.gameontabletop.com/cf5531/brind...

Brindlewood Bay (Storyline)

Crowdfunding: Brindlewood Bay (Storyline)

www.gameontabletop.com

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FreeLinkophant sHELLey B Woke - Living Saint of Purity🏳️‍⚧️🖤💜🤍 💛 @shelleybwoke.bsky.social · 1d

"Genspect itself has no expertise or legitimacy" - which makes them a perfect vehicle for the anti-science, anti-human bullshit they're pushing.

Assigned Media @assignedmedia.org · 1d

A fringe group wants the field of psychiatry to regress back to the days when stereotypes and prejudices resulted in mental illness diagnoses for marginalized populations.

In a new reported piece, @evanurquhart.bsky.social examines Genspect's call for the re-psychopathologization of trans identity.

Hate Group Calls for Re-Labeling Transness as Mental Illness — Assigned

A fringe group with no expertise pushes the field of psychiatry to regress to a pre-scientific, prejudice-soaked view of trans people. It coincides with the far-right political agenda.

www.assignedmedia.org

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Norin 🦈 🔜 Twitchcon @mahoukarp.com · 2d

Im just a shark
#art #sharks

illustration of a shark working on a laptop. Second image is them crying on their desk

Text: "Why do cute people (me) have to suffer so much"

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Huckleberry RPG ➡️ BackerKit is ALIVE! @huckleberryrpg.com · 3d

The Wyrd cannot be contained… Huckleberry is LIVE NOW on BackerKit. We funded in under 30 minutes! This bespoke system is built for quick learning and cinematic action. Back now and score a free dice tray!

www.backerkit.com/c/projects/h...

Huckleberry: A Wyrd West RPG

Huckleberry is a TTRPG about tragic cowboys in a world doomed to calamity… unless you save it. Take on the profession of a Maverick: a grizzled bounty hunter who rides out beyond the bounds of civiliz...

www.backerkit.com

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Midge & Susie @midgeandsusie.bsky.social · 2d

CorgiSharks are extremely dangerous, but can be bribed with treats to prevent any real harm.
Also they tire easily and are safe to approach when they are snoozing.

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The Spaceshipper 🚀 @thespaceshipper.com · 2d

"Piloting a podracer at wild speeds through a Holotable that only becomes as large as your arms can stretch is a deeply flawed idea. I can’t see far enough ahead to plan turns, and it's never as thrilling as actually sitting in the cockpit."

That's what I feared from the first look.

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🖤🐦‍⬛⚫𝑭𝒆𝒅𝒆⚫🐦‍⬛🖤 @fsohns.bsky.social · 3d

If you wanna see indie creators succeed, remember you can always write reviews, talk about your play experience, do shoutouts, plenty of stuff that helps so much since there's only so many places that offer us outreach, especially if we are outside of the D&D/OSR space

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Andarta 🏳️‍⚧️🍁🏳️‍⚧️ @deuteriumice.bsky.social · 3d

... like seriously
purely amazing

🎃 Xero Reynolds 🎃 @artificerind.bsky.social · 3d

Still some final details to paint, but here's today's progress on the Clockwork Dragon encounter build. Then it's on to painting the star of the show! #ttrpg #minipainting

A 3D printed display made up of what appears to be tiered Clockwork gears painted in shades of bronze, copper and gold. On top of the display sits and unpainted Clockwork Dragon from Wiz kids.

The same display without the Clockwork Dragon miniature

A shot of the largest gear on its own, rendered in brass, copper and gold.

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Andarta 🏳️‍⚧️🍁🏳️‍⚧️ @deuteriumice.bsky.social · 3d

I had forgotten about this game. It had been on my list to get and read but I kept forgetting.

I need to research a little into the whole shipping of a moderately sized processed tree into the frozen north, but it's jumped up on my list of ones to get.

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Andarta 🏳️‍⚧️🍁🏳️‍⚧️ @deuteriumice.bsky.social · 3d

I saw this in my recommendations, and thanks to @agentshades.bsky.social I was thinking of WarGames.
After watching it, it's a pretty good recounting of the story

www.youtube.com/watch?v=rQdU...

The 80s Film That Took Research Too Far

YouTube video by Frame Voyager

www.youtube.com

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Andarta 🏳️‍⚧️🍁🏳️‍⚧️ @deuteriumice.bsky.social · 3d

then there's the different encryption types...

The fun of languages also turns into what can be for the researchers, just imagine they're needing to decipher a COBOL database to find a clue.

Programming in some ways is a skill, in some ways is a version of magic, or in some even close to a prayer.

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Andarta 🏳️‍⚧️🍁🏳️‍⚧️ @deuteriumice.bsky.social · 3d

Getting inside the encryption/firewall is one thing. Even having something akin to a VPN might have different security around it vs a hardwired computer.

but the amount of 'hacking' that's social engineering... it's always forgotten.

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Andarta 🏳️‍⚧️🍁🏳️‍⚧️ @deuteriumice.bsky.social · 3d

There's an old saw that mostly holds up, a station wagon has a higher data transfer rate than fiber.

If you need to deny plans you might just need to find the hard drive that they're on and steal that drive to hold ransom.

or it could be on air gapped hardware.

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Andarta 🏳️‍⚧️🍁🏳️‍⚧️ @deuteriumice.bsky.social · 3d

It's all hacking from the Hackers/Tron school of hacking at any rate.

Even getting something up to the Sneakers level of hacking would be a whole adventure that could include the whole party.

But having to know networking structures is something very over the head of most programmers let alone GMs

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Andarta 🏳️‍⚧️🍁🏳️‍⚧️ @deuteriumice.bsky.social · 3d

I'll finally start listening then, probably.
For no reason at all it was brought up in the out takes of a Heroes show that was recently recorded/edited

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Andarta 🏳️‍⚧️🍁🏳️‍⚧️ @deuteriumice.bsky.social · 3d

I'd love to find a good weird west style game that isn't Deadlands... that setting... yeah, nah.

Oh...
Eat the Reich

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Andarta 🏳️‍⚧️🍁🏳️‍⚧️ @deuteriumice.bsky.social · 3d

Most of @cannibalhalfling.bsky.social 's works are ones I want to get to the table.
I want to get Cyberpunk Red to the table more, though that's mostly because it's smashing the powerful.
Heck I've even turned a Star Wars AP into a pseudo Cyberpunk style adventure.

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Mina Virtua 💾🐻 (Digi Desktop Buddy VStreamer) @minavirtua.bsky.social · 3d

Please do invoices!!!

I've been working on an invoice basis for a good few years and it helps a lot to keep track of your stuff
I'm definitely gonna be changing what goes in my invoice note going forward though if this is triggering it

Gilbert #NewDeal4Animation @discord12395.bsky.social · 8d

This is a warning to every artists and clients using PayPal: Leave the note blank or send invoices. Apparently even saying "commission" makes them trigger happy. #SaveSpeech #StopPaypros

And continue the pressure by calling PayPal. Helpful link here: anti-censorship-campaign.carrd.co#phonescript

@Inker_comics: I JUST GOT FUCKED UP REAL BAD [shared a screenshot of his suspension from PayPal]

@MrQuessos: [quote tweeting @Inker_comics] If you are going to pay an artist via PayPal, please DO NOT include ANYTHING related to commission or nsfw in the payment description. Whether out of ignorance or innocence, you could screw up someone's job.

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Jennifer Sweets | 🍭😈 | Vtuber Model Giveaway In Pinned! @jennifersweets.bsky.social · 3d

WE HIT 380 ON YOUTUBE, to make it easier for yall COMMENT ON THIS POST TO ENTER THE 2d VTUBER MODEL RAFFLE, ILL DO THE PULLING THIS WEEKEND

#vtuber #envtuber #giveaway #raffle #artraffle

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