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Please don't use unroller bots on my threads. ADHD, TTRPGs, Queer Shit, Nerd Shit, History, Animals. Will yell about Star Trek on demand. Queer, Disabled, He/Him 🐦@NomeDaBarbarian 💰 https://ko-fi.com/nomedabarbarian 📌 Denver

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Nome @nome.bsky.social · Oct 11

Time for the best first impression ever, fuck yeah. My name's Nome. I write words. Sometimes people think the words I write are good.

See below for my thread of threads of threads - things I've written that I'd like to be able to find or reference, many of them ported over from my time on Twitter.

a cartoon of stitch with the words just-a-happy-clinger underneath it

ALT: a cartoon of stitch with the words just-a-happy-clinger underneath it

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Nome @nome.bsky.social · 5h

Zohran on s3 of unsleeping city, when?

Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 2d

TONIGHT (and especially for followers outside of NYC who want to get involved):

Join @brennanleemulligan.bsky.social on a special phonebank at 6pm!

Sign up: volunteer.zohranfornyc.com/phonebank-fo...

A graphic with a photo of Brennan Lee Mulligan that says "Phone Bank with Zohran, Wednesday, October 8th at 6pm."

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Gretchen McCulloch @gretchenmcc.bsky.social · 1d

Higgledy piggledy
Timothée Chalamet
Has a name meriting
Endless design

Much like his forerunner
Benedict Cumberbatch:
Hexasyllabically,
Easy to rhyme

tweet from childish branzino @absflora:
timothée chalamet is the new benedict cumberbatch in the sense that you can say ANYTHING and we know who you mean. tiffany chevrolet. timpanogos charlemagne. symphony cabernet. jiminy castaway.

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Nome @nome.bsky.social · 21h

"Johnny Cash can seem deeply uncool," and other sentences never uttered by human lips.

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Nome @nome.bsky.social · 21h

I'm doing worse!

Nome @nome.bsky.social · 22h

My emotional well-being is tied to the Eagles not fucking this up, and right now I'm not doing great!

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Nome @nome.bsky.social · 21h

If I ever say something this wild to you, it's because it's my duress phrase, I've been kidnapped and I need your help to rescue me,

which is to say, has anyone checked on Jon Fasman? Does his editor know if he published this from the trunk of a Buick in the pine barrens?

The Wall Street Journal @wsj.com · 1d

Compared to Dylan and Springsteen, country-music legend Johnny Cash can seem deeply uncool. It took time for me to appreciate his profound, plainspoken strength, writes Jon Fasman.

Essay | Can We Finally Give Johnny Cash His Due?

Compared to Dylan and Springsteen, the country-music legend can seem deeply uncool. It took time for me to appreciate his profound, plainspoken strength.

on.wsj.com

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Nome @nome.bsky.social · 22h

My emotional well-being is tied to the Eagles not fucking this up, and right now I'm not doing great!

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Nome @nome.bsky.social · 1d

Seems only prudent! I'd go so far as to say you should remove *any* horseshoe you find nailed to a whale.

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Nome @nome.bsky.social · 1d

"Horshoes should be removed to minimize dangerous flying debris"

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Nome @nome.bsky.social · 1d

In a very narrow sense, they do.

Much like whales, one of the methods to deal with a horse carcass on a trail is to stuff it with dynamite and make it go boom, so the large carcass won't attract bears/etc.

There's even a helpful diagram for where to put it:

www.intrans.iastate.edu

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Funranium (AKA Phil Broughton) @funranium.bsky.social · 2d

UPDATE:

I absolutely did trigger my fire marshals to go through the code and grumble about it continually playing catch up. That part of the point of building the datacenters where they are isn't just cheap land and resource they can exploit, but older code with poor enforcement.

Funranium (AKA Phil Broughton) @funranium.bsky.social · 2d

I suspect I have just triggered a "Well, shit" moment regarding the building code, its to imagine datacenters facilities like this, and the potential of people just outright ignoring the code to load as many GPUs in as possible and run them at 99.999% of maximum clock speed until they melt.

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Cheshire Cat ᓚᘏᗢ, @autismsupsoc.bsky.social · 1d

Allistic people freaking out over one of the most famously Autistic people … perhaps most famous Globally known to ever exist … wearing an Autism t-shirt is super exhausting.

She is wearing an Autism t-shirt beciase she is Autistic.

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jam @socialistboat.dad · 2d

"This website is free" No. This website comes at a terrible cost

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jeff com-BOO-ters @helldude.bsky.social · 1d

portland frog you smoke too tough. your swag too different. your rubber suit is too bad. they’ll kill you portland frog

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 2d

genuinely think they are feeding him AI videos

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Trump: "I don't know what could be worse than Portland. You don't even have stores anymore. They don't even put glass up. They put plywood on their windows."

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Bennett Tomlin @bft.wtf · 2d

That’s some dark shit

niki grayson @nikigrayson.com · 2d

the city of los angeles burned in january in part because of a man who couldn’t stop generating images of burning cities on ChatGPT, and then after he lit the fire he asked if the fire he started was his fault

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Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 2d

I wonder what was going on then that the antifascist movement was responding to. So weird I can't figure it out

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 2d

"Antifa has been around in various iterations for almost 100 years in some instances, going back to the Weimar Republic in Germany."

- Jack Posobiec at Trump's roundtable on antifa

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onion person @junlper.beer · 2d

this is an explicitely nazi administration and anyone who still supports them should be viewed as such

Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 2d

Incredible.

Jack Posobiec references the earliest version of antifa -- the anti-fascists in the Weimar Republic who were opposed to the Nazi Party -- as the bad guys.

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Aunt Ruth @auntruth.bsky.social · 2d

This is not for everybody, but a lifeline if you need it. traumbooks.itch.io/the-sad-bast... NOTE THAT THEY ARE CROWDSOURCING for two different sequels - a Vegan/Veg one, and another to cook something for yourself that SMALL CHILDREN will also eat. (Because who can manage TWO DIFFERENT MEALS?)

The Sad Bastard Cookbook by tRaum Books

by Rachel A. Rosen and Zilla Novikov || Food you can make so you don't die.

traumbooks.itch.io

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Nome @nome.bsky.social · Oct 21

You know what, this is probably as good a time as any to port over a thread that folks really asked for -

#Cooking while #ADHD.

Because it turns out, cooking is a multi-step process, that requires (often) exact timing, and is full of sensory information. SO NONE OF OUR STRENGTHS.

a man standing in a kitchen with the word dmentality on the bottom right

Alt: A scene from Fresh Prince of Bel Air, where Will is trying to put out a stovetop fire by throwing cupfulls of water from the sink across the room.

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Cezary Jan Strusiewicz @ostrichson.bsky.social · 9d

I enjoy a well-thought-out, rule-based magic system in fiction as much as anyone, BUT I also think that we should give more props to what Terry Pratchett did in the Discworld books, where it was less about rules and more about vibes and, more importantly, what fit a given story the best.

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Discworld: A disc-shaped world atop 4 elephants atop a giant turtle flying through space.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 9d

Discworld QOTD, from Making Money

“What the Iron Maiden was to stupid tyrants, the committee was to Lord Vetinari; it was only slightly more expensive, far less messy, considerably more efficient and, best of all, you had to force people to climb inside the Iron Maiden.”

Micah @rincewind.run · 10d

Discworld QOTD, from Thief of Time

She has told me everything,' Wen went on. 'I know that time was made for men, not the other way round. I have learned how to shape it and bend it. I know how to make a moment last for ever, because it already has. And I can teach these skills even to you, Clodpool. I have heard the heartbeat of the universe. I know the answers to many questions. Ask me.'

The apprentice gave him a bleary look. It was too early in the morning for it to be early in the morning. That was the only thing that he currently knew for sure.

'Er . . . what does master want for breakfast?' he said.

Wen looked down from their camp and across the snowfields and purple mountains to the golden daylight creating the world, and mused upon certain aspects of humanity.

'Ah,' he said. 'One of the difficult ones.'

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Nome @nome.bsky.social · 2d

The TSA as an organization is useless.

I am talking here about the workers, who are overwhelmingly poor folks doing their best.

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Nome @nome.bsky.social · 3d

Ive changed my profile picture, and I have a neurospicy audience with the object permanence of goldfish, so hello! A pleasure to meet you all for the first time!