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Noah Grand

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Social science PhD. 3x ENnie nominee D&D designer. They/He. Bi.

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Noah Grand @noahgrand.bsky.social · Aug 25

Getting ready for my last gaming convention of the year, it's worth looking at what I did since the last convention:

* Wrote an adventure for the con.
* Project manaaged and edited 9 other adventures for the con.
* Wrote a first draft of a novel. Yes, a whole novel.

kermit the frog is typing on a typewriter in a dark room .

Alt: kermit the frog is typing on a typewriter in a dark room.

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Alexander Clarkson @aphclarkson.bsky.social · 22h

If this was happening in any other country you'd have journalists and analysts discussing risks of state failure

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Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · 14h

Also: if you work for ICE, even if you’re not one of the ones arresting citizens or tackling 15-year-olds or zip-tying kids together and segregating them by race, you’re part of the mechanism making it happen, and you should suffer long-term social and post-regime-change consequences.

Ari Cohn @aricohn.com · 15h

Some weirdo on Twitter has been absolutely melting down for like 36 straight hours because I posted:

When this is over, do not forget what ICE did, and what ICE is. And do not make room for them in society. Make sure they know that they are, and will continue to be, reviled and beneath contempt.

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Sickos Committee @sickoscommittee.org · 11h

I will not use ChatGPT to plan a road trip with my bestie.

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 16h

Nixon’s crimes look like harmless high school pranks compared to the now-daily unprecedented illegal & unconstitutional crimes being committed daily by this president & his staff

Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 17h

Unconstitutionally taking money that the law says must be spent on one purpose & using it for something else—when it's to establish personalist control over the FUCKING MILITARY—is about as dangerous a constitutional crisis/failure as you can imagine

Via: www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...

The Office of Management and Budget sent a notification to Congress about their intent to use research and development funds to pay members of the military, two sources with direct knowledge tell NBC News.

A spokesperson for the OMB confirmed to NBC News that it plans to use the research and development funds and that there are two years' worth of funds available within the Department of Defense.

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Allison 🧬⚾️ @petitephd.bsky.social · 1d

Remember, baseball fans: this is what the ghost runner took from you.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 1d

Breaking the law so he can endanger the nation, Russ Vought arches an eyebrow as he strokes a white Persian cat on his lap.

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 1d

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 1d

Huh: TikTok took down my 8-second video featuring this image of Debbie Brockman — the news producer just detained by Trump’s CBP agents — saying it violates the “joy of TikTok”

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Ryan "Spirit Halloween of '76" Randall @ryanpatrickrandall.com · 1d

Not only are the highly addictive, truth-agnostic output generators polluting our information ecosystems and degrading our knowledge practices, they're also materially exacerbating the ongoing effects of climate change in order to accomplish the above at scale.

Heck of a job.

Mél Hogan / The Data Fix @melhogan.bsky.social · 1d

theconversation.com/openais-newl...

OpenAI’s newly launched Sora 2 makes AI’s environmental impact impossible to ignore

As AI shifts from text to video, its appetite for power and water soars, presenting a climate-policy issue.

theconversation.com

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Senator Scott Wiener @scottwiener.bsky.social · 1d

MAJOR NEWS: @GavinNewsom signed SB 79, my bill allowing more housing near public transit — rail, subway, rapid bus.

It’s a huge step for housing in California. It’ll create more homes, strengthen our transit systems & reduce traffic & carbon emissions.

Thank you, Governor!

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Mark Histed @markhisted.org · 1d

Russell Vought has announced that "mass firings [RIFs] have begun."

Lawless. The RIFs in the spring were illegal, as Judge Illston outlined. Yes, the conservative SCOTUS supermajority lawlessly signed off. But the Calvinball Court is not doing law.

Congress can stop this. A thread: 1/

'RIFs have begun.' Vought announces start of mass firings during government shutdown

The White House budget office said Friday that mass firings of federal workers have started in an attempt to exert more pressure on Democratic lawmakers as the government shutdown continues.

www.pbs.org

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Liz Dye @lizdye.bsky.social · 2d

They make up lies about paid agitators doing violence, and attach them to the name of a prominent Jewish person. This is antisemitism, and it infects every part of the GOP.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Sen. Roger Marshall: "October 18 is when the protest gets here. This will be a Soros paid-for protest for his professional protesters. The agitators show up. We'll have to get the National Guard out. Hopefully it will be peaceful. I doubt it."

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Micah @rincewind.run · 2d

this is absolutely my favorite protest innovation of 2025

"my opponents are violent antifa extremist terrorists"

"your opponents are dressed as giant inflatable frogs"

solid fuck you to the pepe crowd too

The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 2d

Things are happening at Portland's ICE facility tonight.

Read more of our protest coverage here: www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...

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Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 1d

“We’re all being DOGE’d,” a CBS News journalist told The Independent. “And she’s also looking out to see who will kiss up to her.”

The source pointed out that Weiss has made it clear “she wants to bring her own people in,” all while “layoffs are coming.”

www.the-independent.com/news/world/a...

Bari Weiss evokes Musk, demands CBS staff tell her ‘how you spend your working hours’

‘We’re all being DOGE’d,’ a CBS News journalist told The Independent. ‘And she’s also looking out to see who will kiss up to her.’

www.the-independent.com

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🔩Joan @screwedjoan.bsky.social · 2d

nonbinary bob marley: no woman, no guy

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James Medlock @jdcmedlock.bsky.social · 2d

“I’ll declare war on you if you don’t give me the peace prize” is an incredible bit

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Dr. Rebecca J. Epstein-Levi @rjelevi.bsky.social · 2d

NO SERIOUSLY I DIDN'T NEED YOU TO SO OBVIOUSLY DEMONSTRATE THE LINK BETWEEN ANTI-JUDAISM AND NEUROABLEISM. AT LEAST LEAVE ME A *LITTLE* WORK TO DO.

nb: there is actually a serious conversation to be had re: circumcision and bodily autonomy (that I DON'T WANT in my relplies). This...ain't it.

Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 2d

Besides linking Tylenol in pregnant women to autism, RFK Jr. now says circumcision is part of the reason why kids are autistic.

"Children who are circumcised early have double the rate of autism, and it's highly likely because they're given Tylenol. None of this is positive..."

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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 2d

New from 404 Media: the Discord hack is every users' worst nightmare. Yesterday the hackers started posting Discord users' selfies, identity documents, email addresses, phone numbers, more. I watched in real time. This is risk of tech storing ID for age verification
www.404media.co/the-discord-...

The Discord Hack is Every Users’ Worst Nightmare

A hack impacting Discord’s age verification process shows in stark terms the risk of tech companies collecting users’ ID documents. Now the hackers are posting peoples’ IDs and other sensitive informa...

www.404media.co

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Maureen Jice @jane.meangirls.online · 3d

he was actually having a flashback to the time he saw The Birdcage on the netflix menu

Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 3d

Kershaw couldn’t retire before one final postseason blowup

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Chris Russo @c23roo.bsky.social · 3d

Fuck you Kershaw that was the gayest home run I’ve ever seen

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🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social · 3d

AI has a lot of issues but a big one is the way it’s used to :

- demonize basic real emotional desires and needs
- the inability to just straight up and say

“ there is something maladaptive and ill intentioned about wanting to have a digital slave “

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 3d

“The more ways that a student reports that their school uses AI, the more likely they are to report things like 'I know someone who considers AI to be a friend,' 'I know someone who considers AI to be a romantic partner.'"

1 in 5 high schoolers has had a romantic AI relationship, or knows someone who has

A national survey of students, teachers and parents shines a light on how the AI revolution is playing out in schools – including when it comes to bullying and a community's trust in schools.

www.npr.org

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GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 3d

i am not sure mike johnson’s plan of abandoning the capitol to a bunch of snarky house dems (of which there are many) with nothing to do was a smart strategic move

Rep. Ted Lieu @reptedlieu.bsky.social · 3d

We are in the second week of the Republican shutdown.

Where are House Republicans? On vacation.

Went looking around the Capitol to see if any Republicans had the common sense to come back. Featuring @mcbride.house.gov.

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Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 4d

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

buff.ly

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 3d

repost this if an editor has ever saved you from yourself

violent alien @blipstress.bsky.social · 3d

An actual hot take: Too many authors are afraid of editors watering down their voice or whatever and not afraid enough of editors letting you put any old slop on the page.

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Renee DiResta @noupside.bsky.social · 3d

The Macedonian Teenagers, all grown up! 10 yrs later it turns out that tapping the right wing rage machine remains extraordinarily lucrative! Who could’ve guessed?

(I wrote a book about it lol and researched some of this guy’s prior art)

Meanwhile, the capacity for investigations has diminished.

Jacqueline Sweet @jsweetli.bsky.social · 4d

NEW: A MAGA X account often shared by Senator Mike Lee and House Republicans like Nancy Mace--that often alleges Democrats encourage voting fraud-- is run by a man who not only has never stepped foot in the US, he also illegally donated to an American campaign.

www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

The Viral MAGA Accounts Run by a Man Who Has Never Been to America

Two influential MAGA social media accounts are run by Rumen Naumovski, a Macedonian who may have illegally donated to a U.S. election.

www.rollingstone.com

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Noah Grand @noahgrand.bsky.social · 3d

I met the inspirational folks I needed to come out in my mid 30s

Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 4d

Has anything great happened in your life because of social media?