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It's Me, Mike Olson @devlin1.bsky.social · 5h

"Nerve-WRACKING"! I'm not meant for this world.

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Spencer Hibnick | Pesto Publications @pestoenthusiast.bsky.social · 12h

MCDM just released the symbols they use in stat blocks under a free license.

mcdm.gg/DrawSteel/Dr...

If you've never worked with a CC-BY-SA license, check out the thread for some guidance.

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ceej @ceej.online · 11h

damn. hoping it at least signifies something

William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 11h

It is a tale
Told by an idiot

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It's Me, Mike Olson @devlin1.bsky.social · 10h

Big Belly Burger serves *shots*?

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😷 Cheeky8 (*e/h*/h*s) 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @cheeky8.bsky.social · 5d

We told you this would happen.

We told you this would happen.

WE TOLD YOU THIS WOULD HAPPEN

The Verge @theverge.com · 6d

Discord customer service data breach leaks user info and scanned photo IDs

An “unauthorized party” may have accessed the names of users, the last four digits of credit card numbers, and more.

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It's Me, Mike Olson @devlin1.bsky.social · 15h

Damn, Andy. He doesn't miss.

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The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 18h

The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.

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Doc Revan @docrevan.bsky.social · 1d

It takes 67 Senators to impeach a SCOTUS justice but only 51 with sufficient will to add 6 more justices

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It's Me, Mike Olson @devlin1.bsky.social · 15h

I know things are really rough right now, but: This week's Taskmaster is an all-timer.

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CollinCountyDems @collincountydems.bsky.social · 20h

This is terrifying!

ICE breaks into this woman’s car in the pick-up line at West Loop Elementary school in Chicago and detains her before she can pick her kids up from school. (They were eventually let go after showing their documents)

This is Trump’s America.

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 1d

In some ways this is the government now

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I'm sick and tired of seeing these thugs terrorize big events and am worried that they will try to interrupt Limp Bizkit's set. My gf (F19) and I (M31) are going to our first Lollapalooza and are concerned about the growing threat around the city

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Paul F. Tompkins @pftompkins.bsky.social · 16h

I’ve been thinking for so long that we desperately need to build a bridge between America and Saudi Arabia, it’s the most pressing thing I can think of these days. I wish someone would be brave enough to do it. If such heroes exist, they deserve to be handsomely rewarded!

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Adam Gurri @adamgurri.liberalcurrents.com · 1d

Read @aselrod.bsky.social today on how there’s no amount of real crime fighting that will win a political battle over fake crime

Liberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com · 1d

“There is no degree of acquiescence to Trumpism that will satisfy this administration or MAGA at large. All there is is a choice between offering a faint echo of the false reality they’re selling and creating dissonance by speaking the reality of the situation to the public.”

All In Our Heads: On Losing Our Democracy and Life Beyond Our Imaginations

Our language has to meet the moment, and we have to be relentless about dispelling the fiction MAGA is selling.

www.liberalcurrents.com

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It's Me, Mike Olson @devlin1.bsky.social · 21h

Our family plays a game like this at summer camp, where we've spread it like a virus to the counselors. It's sort of like Going on a Picnic, except instead of memorizing items in alpha order, the "GM" has secret criteria for what can and can't be brought that the other players try to guess.

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It's Me, Mike Olson @devlin1.bsky.social · 21h

Also, like... get your shit together, Finn. Twenty-five minutes?

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The Onion @theonion.com · 22h

Bored National Guard Goes Door To Door Asking If Chicagoans Have Any Order They Need Restored https://theonion.com/bored-national-guard-goes-door-to-door-asking-if-chicagoans-have-any-order-they-need-restored/

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Dan Olson @foldablehuman.bsky.social · 3d

Started a fresh Hollow Knight save, and the first Hornet fight is like a child's crayon drawing of what would become the Lost Lace fight.

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Spice8Rack (Marxist) @spice8rack.bsky.social · 1d

I wrote my first ever play after my scriptwriting lecturer bumped into me at the uni library, & reminded me that the deadline was midnight that night. I thought I had a whole extra month.

I blasted a 90 min 2 hander out in 6 hrs, with no prep, & got my first 1st when it was marked. Fuck "AI".

Dane 🔜 NYCC AA L-34 @monkeyminion.com · 1d

I wrote a 15 page report on heraldic symbolism in medieval armor and weapon design for my art history class the night before it was due (8am class). Made up 90% of it (only found one book for reference) and got an A. GenAI could fucking never.

wrote 20 pages on Faulkner's The Bear four hours before final papers were due on trucker pills and coffee and cigarettes and got an A, fuck you.
You people couldn't hang with real slackers.
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It's fuck Al till your homework due in 25 minutes

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It's Me, Mike Olson @devlin1.bsky.social · 22h

The West Coast Adventurers Guild's first Dice Online convention starts tomorrow! This new online con will feature the premieres of the first trilogy of Wild Coast adventures for D&D's Legends of Greyhawk organized play campaign PLUS four NEW AL adventures set in Neverwinter. JOIN US. #dnd5e #ttrpg

Dice Online Games

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Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈 @maxdubler.com · 1d

Huge support to the inflatable frog costume person in Portland for both embarrassing the regime and reclaiming frog imagery from the internet right.

pumpkin spice amb 🎃 @amb.fyi · 1d

The Portland protest frog has done more to protect American democracy and fight fascism than all but the tiniest handful of elected officials

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Seanan McGuire @seananmcguire.bsky.social · 1d

We are one week closer to the release of OMENS OF CHAOS, and the glorious return of Magic the Gathering long-form fiction!

A book cover against a blue background reading COMING FEBRUARY 17, 2026. The book cover shows a blonde-haired human New Capenna shield mage in the robes of a first year Strixhaven mage-scholar, casting a domed shield around herself. The school is behind her. The text on the cover reads "STRIXHAVEN | OMENS OF CHAOS | SEANAN MCGUIRE | New York Times Bestselling Author."

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Amanda (OnionBug) @onionbug.bsky.social · 1d

Are you trans in the Magic the Gathering space? Are you creating, supporting, even just playing and having fun!?
Sound off. Celebrate yourself here. Find each other. We're stronger together.

Are you an ally? Boost us. Show support. Help us feel safer out here.

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Alt: Magic the Gathering character Miles Tails Prowler says trans right

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Meghan O'Keefe @megsokay.bsky.social · 1d

Just learned POLDARK is now streaming on Netflix. In addition to being a very silly, sexy soap opera featuring a shirtless Aidan Turner scything in a field, it's also got a fun ANDOR connection. Where else can you watch a young Kyle Soller play the feckless nephew of the O.G. Mon Mothma?

Caroline Blakiston (aka OG Mon Mothma) as Aunt Agatha at dinner with Kyle Soller (aka Syril Karn) as Francis Poldark in POLDARK

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John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 1d

The modern GOP is just bad at running things. Modern conservatism as a whole - you can’t put a party that doesn’t believe in the very concept of a public good in charge of public goods.

Travis Mason-Bushman @snarkranger.bsky.social · 1d

This is delusional. You can't support a hospital on only an ER - they're not the profit center of a hospital! ERs take enormous charity care losses due to EMTALA and have to be cross-subsidized by more profitable service areas.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

SCARBOROUGH: The Nebraska Rural Health Association says at least 6 rural hospitals would have to close bc of the big beautiful bill

FLOOD: Here's the deal: Some hospitals that are rural hospitals are going to eventually have to transition from being acute bed hospitals into being an ER model

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