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Dylan
@invoicingkarma.bsky.social
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25 | He/Him | DMsGuild Creator | Youth Dungeon Master

Find my stuff at https://dylan-bockelman.carrd.co/
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Dylan @invoicingkarma.bsky.social · Nov 7
Now that we're all here, I feel the need to advertise my stuff more. But I don't know how to do that so instead I'm going to drop a link to my carrd and walk away slowly...

dylan-bockelman.carrd.co
Dylan Bockelman Carrd
Dylan Bockelman Carrd Portfolio for TTRPG Writer and Designer
dylan-bockelman.carrd.co
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stasanie.com
Unicorns where the horn is a sword is one of my favourite concepts so I had to try that with my newest OC. 💙
A reference sheet depicting a Fowldyr Fowldyr are a closed species created by Stasanie (me) A character design featuring a unicorn with a rapier for a horn. The unicorn has a long flowing white mane and long ethereal feathering. Her torso, legs, and tail are covered in golden scales. In her human form, she is depicted as a woman with white hair wearing a dark blue dress with long dagged sleeves. Her legs are covered in the same golden scales as her unicorn form, and she has the same tail. Both forms have 3 small wings on each side of the head where the ears would normally be, and both forms have one golden eye and one white eye. #Fowldyr #Stasanie
December 1, 2025 at 9:11 PM
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hard-drive.net
Video game award shows aren't really about video games. They're about saying, "I may have no actual talent and am devoid of charisma, but I sure do have some famous friends."
Here are some of the presenters you'll see next week at the Hard Drive Game Awards. (12/2 7PM ET)
www.twitch.tv/harddrivemag
Twitch
Twitch is the world
www.twitch.tv
December 5, 2025 at 10:56 PM
invoicingkarma.bsky.social
I was talking to someone about how cool the Horizon series must be for it to have grown so big in just a few years.

He told me Horizon Zero Dawn came out in 2017 and I shriveled up like Matt Damon in Saving Private Ryan.
December 5, 2025 at 11:09 PM
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brendelbored.bsky.social
If Stranger Things was remade today and set the same number of years ago as S1 it would be in 2003 and instead of a resurgence of a Kate Bush song it would be Hoobastank, the kids would dress up for Halloween like Neo and Trinity. No I can’t prove this is actually correct I am not going to do math.
December 2, 2025 at 7:18 PM
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calacademy.bsky.social
It's with heavy hearts that we share that Claude, our beloved albino alligator, has passed away at the age of 30. Claude brought joy to millions of people at the Academy and across the world during his 17 year tenure. We will miss him dearly. 🤍
Claude, an American alligator with albinism, lounging on his favorite heated rock.
December 2, 2025 at 10:22 PM
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radiodeadair.com
Reminder that Tim Sweeney has been at the forefront of every failed tech hype bubble of the last decade.

NFTs, crypto, the Metaverse ... right on the barricades, our Tim.

But I'm sure this time will be different.
ign.com IGN @ign.com · 10d
"Why stop at AI use? We could have mandatory disclosures for what shampoo brand the developer uses" — Epic boss Tim Sweeney says Steam should ditch its AI generated content disclosure. https://bit.ly/4a193vt
November 30, 2025 at 11:14 AM
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goldengateblond.bsky.social
trump: “no see we HAVE to blow up those boats in the caribbean, they could be carrying drugs!”

also trump:
NYT headline: Trump Announces Pardon for Honduran Ex-President Convicted in Drug Case President Trump said he would pardon Juan Orlando Hernández, who prosecutors said partnered with cocaine traffickers as Hondurass president and is serving a 45-year sentence.
November 29, 2025 at 12:01 AM
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aplante.com
i know WHY this is but that just makes it even more of a kick in the pants lmao
screenshot of a tumblr post from user “wildmansters” The thing that really boils my potatoes about Al in general is that I have been a creative professional for over a decade now and the devil has ALWAYS been in the details. Big and small, I've had single-person businesses rip me to shreds over how their colors turned out on newsprint, and have worked with huge companies with THICK brand guidelines with every detail of their brand identity laid out and enforced with an iron fist. But I guess all of that stuff doesn't matter anymore? Who gives a fuck if this Al generated baby has six fingers, that mom-and-pop shop is still going to use it. That rug from Temu says Happy Thanksgivirg? Oh well haha it's just a silly funny thing now (nevermind that you never would have given a B-grade item from a craft show the same consideration). I don't actually care that the Al Coca-cola ad has a truck that changes size every scene, but I can't help but think about how, if it had been some poor underpaid artist, they would have been laughed out of the building. I don't really know how to put it in a succint way but it just feels all the more obvious how much more grace and flexibility has always been possible but never offered.
November 28, 2025 at 3:28 AM
invoicingkarma.bsky.social
Is it too arrogant to say I'm too humble to write a good cover letter?
November 26, 2025 at 5:54 PM
invoicingkarma.bsky.social
The wind tried to shove my car off the road this morning so it's going pretty good so far.
November 26, 2025 at 4:21 PM
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ernie.tedium.co
If you have been sharing that Malwarebytes article on the Gmail thing, you should note the giant correction up top.

www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/20...
Update November 22. We’ve updated this article after realising we contributed to a perfect storm of misunderstanding around a recent change in the wording and placement of Gmail’s smart features. The settings themselves aren’t new, but the way Google recently rewrote and surfaced them led a lot of people (including us) to believe Gmail content might be used to train Google’s AI models, and that users were being opted in automatically. After taking a closer look at Google’s documentation and reviewing other reporting, that doesn’t appear to be the case. Gmail does scan email content to power its own “smart features,” such as spam filtering, categorisation, and writing suggestions. But this is part of how Gmail normally works and isn’t the same as training Google’s generative AI models. Google also maintains that these feature settings are opt-in rather than opt-out, although users’ experiences seem to vary depending on when and how the new wording appeared. It’s easy to see where the confusion came from. Google’s updated language around “smart features” is vague, and the term “smart” often implies AI—especially at a time when Gemini is being integrated into other parts of Google’s products. When the new wording started appearing for some users without much explanation, many assumed it signalled a broader shift. We’ve revised this article to reflect what we can confirm from Google’s documentation, as it’s always been our aim to give readers accurate, helpful guidance.
November 22, 2025 at 9:44 PM
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bendobrown.bsky.social
X rolled out a new feature overnight showing where accounts are based. This network of “Trump-supporting independent women” that claimed to be “real Americans” are based in Thailand.

The photos were stolen from European models & posts pushed pro-Trump lines while targeting Islam and LGBTQ people.
November 23, 2025 at 12:55 PM
invoicingkarma.bsky.social
I was good, she was hot, stealin' everything she got
I was bold, she was over the worst of it
Gave me gear; thank you, dear, bring your sister over here
Let her dance with me just for the hell of it

Do-do-do, do-do-do, do-do-do-do-do-do-do
Do-do-do, do-do-do, do-do-do-do-do
Do-do-do, do-do-do
November 23, 2025 at 3:31 AM
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latiajacquise.com
Dame da ne
Dame yo dame na no yo
Anta ga suki de sukisugite
Dore dake tsuyoi osake demo
Yugamanai omoide ga baka mitai
Pope Leo is dressed in white and speaking into a microphone while other people dressed in black surround him
November 23, 2025 at 2:25 AM
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angrystaffer.bsky.social
Coast Guard will no longer classify swastikas, nooses, as hate symbols.

The fuck?

wapo.st/3Mbd9a6
U.S. Coast Guard will no longer classify swastikas, nooses as hate symbols
The military service, which falls under the Department of Homeland Security, has drafted a new policy that classifies such items “potentially divisive.”
wapo.st
November 20, 2025 at 6:33 PM
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angrystaffer.bsky.social
“Epstein donated to Democrats prior to 2015!!”

So did Donald Fucking Trump.
November 19, 2025 at 11:34 PM
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mckelvie.bsky.social
The "Frieren angle" thing, apart from just being delightful, also completely demolishes the pathetic "AI is democratising art" argument. Someone struggling with a difficult drawing received advice from hundreds of strangers who just wanted to help them improve their art.
November 18, 2025 at 8:58 PM
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arstechnica.com
AI advocates have warned that if every author in the class action filed a claim, it would "financially ruin" the entire industry.
Authors celebrate “historic” settlement coming soon in Anthropic class action
Advocates fear such settlements will “financially ruin” the AI industry.
arstechnica.com
August 27, 2025 at 3:53 PM
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neolithicsheep.bsky.social
authors you have the chance to do the funniest thing right now
arstechnica.com Ars Technica @arstechnica.com · Aug 27
AI advocates have warned that if every author in the class action filed a claim, it would "financially ruin" the entire industry.
Authors celebrate “historic” settlement coming soon in Anthropic class action
Advocates fear such settlements will “financially ruin” the AI industry.
arstechnica.com
November 18, 2025 at 4:35 AM
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hausofdecline.bsky.social
You are not unclean. You are not a vessel for sin. You are not the creation of others. You create yourself.
August 19, 2024 at 3:41 PM
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freydraws.bsky.social
Hate the argument of "Well you can boycott for now, but soon every game studio is going to use genAI and you won't be able to tell or avoid it anymore!!"

dude there are already more videogames in existence than I'm ever going to be able to play in my lifetime. this boycott shit is easy.
October 28, 2025 at 9:08 AM
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antlervel.vet
3 years ago today, Riot Games offered me a job making more money than I ever thought I’d make in my life. I had 19 interviews over 2.5 months to get it. Partner and I were moving to LA for it. I put in notice at my job and apartment.

2 weeks later they rescinded the offer due to “headcount issues”.
Facebook memory. On this day 3 years ago Stella Sacco Nov 15, 2022 I am happy beyond words to say that Riot has told me the job is mine. 289 comments 2 shares
November 15, 2025 at 2:07 PM
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culturecrave.co
‘The Owl House’ creator Dana Terrace responds to Disney+ looking to add AI-generated short form content

“Unsubscribe from Disney+. Pirate Owl House. I don’t care. Fuck gen AI"
November 14, 2025 at 10:17 PM
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jocat.net
I like girls, but there's one I like the most. And last month we got married

Full album: www.jocat.net/echo-jo-wedd...
Echo in a red wedding dress, black shawl, and black witch hat, holding a bouquet of red roses Jo in a vest and fluffy white sleeves, yellow cape, and fancy feathered hat with a bouquet of various yellow flowers Jo and Echo share a kiss Echo and Jo's cake toppers
November 15, 2025 at 1:47 AM
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datadrivenmd.social
To recap: Jeffrey Epstein offered a NY Times reporter photos taken in Epstein's kitchen of Donald Trump and girls in bikinis *and* implored the NYT reporter to put this information in the public discourse in 2015

What did the NY Times editors know about this offer?
aridrennen.bsky.social Ari Drennen @aridrennen.bsky.social · 25d
“would you like photos of donald and girls in bikinis in my kitchen?” -Jeffrey Epstein
November 12, 2025 at 8:05 PM