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Kevin Olmstead

@oasisob1.bsky.social

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Retired Navy making my way through life. Here for ttrpgs, dice. he/him Black Lives Matter Trans Lives Matter 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

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Kevin Olmstead @oasisob1.bsky.social · Mar 6

Man, I do NOT remember making d66 complex backstories, but I did:

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d66 complex back stories

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Kevin Olmstead @oasisob1.bsky.social · 3h

stemgateway.nasa.gov/s/course-off...

STEM Gateway

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Kevin Olmstead @oasisob1.bsky.social · 3h

Maybe if they’d been able to fill their intern positions it wouldn’t have happened (see second post)
apnews.com/article/nasa...

She saw a car-sized object above a Texas farm and found a wayward hunk of NASA equipment

A West Texas woman saw something unusual on a recent morning, a massive parachute drifting slowly across the sky.

apnews.com

Kevin Olmstead @oasisob1.bsky.social · 14h

I guess I took him at his word.

Kevin Olmstead @oasisob1.bsky.social · 14h

How is this not obvious?!

Close up of old style lays chip bag showing a potato slice thing with a fried potato chip leaning against the potato slices

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Kevin Olmstead @oasisob1.bsky.social · 16h

You’ve got stock concentrate, no problem!

Kevin Olmstead @oasisob1.bsky.social · 16h

Probably processed potatoes, potato starch, salt, oil. They don’t believe they are just sliced potatoes, deep-fried, and salted

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Kevin Olmstead @oasisob1.bsky.social · 17h

Fuck Columbus and every shitty lie in this ‘proclamation’

www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

Columbus Day, 2025

BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA A PROCLAMATION Today our Nation honors the legendary Christopher Columbus -- the original American hero,

www.whitehouse.gov

Kevin Olmstead @oasisob1.bsky.social · 18h

I am in this tweet and I don’t like it

rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 19h

This is a really, really good act of protest that uses a protest language that has a chance of reaching people who would otherwise dismiss the issue. You can tell by how many former Catholics are seeing it here and having like entire full-body shudders despite having left the church decades ago.

Kevin Olmstead @oasisob1.bsky.social · 18h

It’s a little misleading, because it really says they don’t know they are made directly from fresh whole potatoes, but still, there’s definitely a problem with how folks understand the world

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Kevin Olmstead @oasisob1.bsky.social · 18h

People DO wed it spelled out:

news.designrush.com/lays-biggest...

Lay’s Biggest Rebrand in 100 Years Reminds the World What’s Inside the Bag

Lay’s launches its first major rebrand in a century, with a new logo, packaging, and visuals celebrating real, farm-grown potatoes.

news.designrush.com

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Kevin Olmstead @oasisob1.bsky.social · 22h

You’re in the drive-thru lane of idk, Arby’s or in-n-out during your lunch break and a cop pulls in behind you running lights and sirens, just laying on the horn for you to move. What do you do?

Kevin Olmstead @oasisob1.bsky.social · 1d

Next up, Tower of Zanid by L. Prague deCamp - the description makes it clear that this could easily be a Dungeon Crawl Classic or even a Mutant Crawl Classics adventure

Cover of Tower of Zanid, featuring a fantastic world of barren rock and towering spiders, an armed pair of helmeted men, one astride a thin-legged, dragon-headed ‘horse’, armed with a long spear. The other, green-skinned wielding a bow. In the distance are a pair of gray metallic angular tents

Back cover blurb featuring b&w art from the front, the rearing mounted ‘dragon horse’ with text in black over yellow:

It is the Year 2168-and men
have become star-rovers.
The agreed-upon code is that
sciences and gadgets beyond the cultural level of the peoples inhabiting the other planets will not be introduced by Earthmen, or other visitors.
Such is the situation on the planet of Krishna, most Earthlike in physical attributes, climate, and inhabitants, when adventurer Anthony Fallon decides to take the risk of winning a kingdom. With enough money, perhaps he can raise a private army...
But there is one risk that Anthony Fallon hesitates to take. Only under pain of death will he explore the mysteries of the dreaded TOWER OF ZANID!

Kevin Olmstead @oasisob1.bsky.social · 1d

I had no right to win this battle. But holy carp! Valkyrie and Vines MVP
(2x speed to keep the video ‘short’)

Kevin Olmstead @oasisob1.bsky.social · 1d

It was below $2 during his last term, when a thousand Americans were dying each day from covid, so maybe that’s coming back

Kevin Olmstead @oasisob1.bsky.social · 1d

It’s the sun, which will disappear when the sun sets

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Kevin Olmstead @oasisob1.bsky.social · 1d

No. The compassion pills she’s taking only cause empathy towards her own family

Kevin Olmstead @oasisob1.bsky.social · 1d

Try this one weird trick to make unsightly chin pimples vanish overnight

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Kevin Olmstead @oasisob1.bsky.social · 1d

Dumbest timeline. Just embarrassing

Kevin Olmstead @oasisob1.bsky.social · 1d

Came home this evening to find our dog had thrown up in at least three different parts of the house. I think she barks herself sick.

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Kevin Olmstead @oasisob1.bsky.social · 2d

He and his family were able to leave on a later flight but that had to have felt very threatening, regardless of any actual cause for the cancellation

Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 3d

“Someone” cancelled my family’s flight out of the country at the last second.

We got our boarding passes. We checked our bags. Went through security. Then at our gate our reservation ‘disappeared.’

Kevin Olmstead @oasisob1.bsky.social · 2d

I tried to sit down and read this a couple nights ago but I kept getting sidetracked. Distractions off, gonna burn through as much as possible before bed

Photo of Anthony Burgess’ A Clockwork Orange book

Kevin Olmstead @oasisob1.bsky.social · 2d

American democracy ceases to move forward as a living force, seeking day and night by peaceful means to better the lot of our citizens, fascism will grow in strength in our land.” Freedom and liberation are an unending task.

Kevin Olmstead @oasisob1.bsky.social · 2d

Our duty is to uncover it and to point our finger at any of its new instances—every day, in every part of the world. Franklin Roosevelt’s words of November 4, 1938, are worth recalling: “I venture the challenging statement that if

Kevin Olmstead @oasisob1.bsky.social · 2d

if there appeared on the world scene somebody saying, “I want to reopen Auschwitz, I want the Black Shirts to parade again in the Italian squares.” Life is not that simple. Ur-Fascism can come back under the most innocent of disguises.