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Patrick O'Duffy @patrickoduffy.bsky.social · 5h

Today’s solo RPG: Princess with a Cursed Sword. A journaling game, just one page long but with exactly the right amount of solidity and flavour to make a satisfying meal. This metaphor got away from me. It’s really good and you should play it.

w.itch.io/cursed-sword

Princess with a Cursed Sword by Anna Anthropy

A solo journaling game

w.itch.io

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Patrick O'Duffy @patrickoduffy.bsky.social · 15h

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Patrick O'Duffy @patrickoduffy.bsky.social · 1d

Horsefeathers!

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Patrick O'Duffy @patrickoduffy.bsky.social · 1d

Tell it to the Marines, buster.

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Patrick O'Duffy @patrickoduffy.bsky.social · 2d

I do! Which is why I was so disappointed with his HB run!

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Patrick O'Duffy @patrickoduffy.bsky.social · 2d

It's genuinely the worst run of the whole series.

Azzarello may have dropped the N-word 12 times during his run (I counted), but at least he had a direction.

The Milligan run is just flailing, start to finish.

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Patrick O'Duffy @patrickoduffy.bsky.social · 2d

I agree on Diggle, but for the rest... we have different opinions, that's allowed.

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Patrick O'Duffy @patrickoduffy.bsky.social · 2d

I read the entire Constantine corpus last year and the Jenkins run is mediocre-to-poor with occasional highlights.

So it’s far better than Azzarello or Milligan. Not a patch on Delano, Ennis or Carey.

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Beccas can't be choosers @beccanical.bsky.social · Jul 27

"this website is free" perhaps, but it exacts a terrible price

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 3d

twice a year the entire U.S. press becomes a marketing extension of a single billionaire-owned retailer, and nobody in any position of editorial power thinks it's weird or gross

photo of Google News search results for Amazon Prime Day (the second this year)

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Patrick O'Duffy @patrickoduffy.bsky.social · 4d

<Kyle Reese looks up from the scanner>No AI could have written this. Pass, friend.

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Patrick O'Duffy @patrickoduffy.bsky.social · 4d

Embrace your heritage. Swear more and talk about the AFL.

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Olivia Hill @machineiv.bsky.social · 5d

Conservatives romanticize the Confederacy because no matter how much time passes, the Confederacy will never be 18 years old.

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Greg Stolze @gregstolze.bsky.social · 6d

I’m running a Kickstarter for DISCOMFORT FOOD.

www.kickstarter.com/projects/gre...

It’s 275-ish pages, fourteen stories of various lengths and tones, mmmmostly scary or downbeat but not all.

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DISCOMFORT FOOD

A collection of Greg Stolze's recent science fiction, fantasy and horror. Contains love potions, cursed art and telepathic speed dating

www.kickstarter.com

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Daniel Kibblesmith @kibblesmith.com · 6d

Blocked another person who unironically tweeted “why doesn’t Batman just use his money to build mental hospitals”

I get it, you hate superhero comics and you don’t read them, but you love 90s SNL level observations

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Patrick O'Duffy @patrickoduffy.bsky.social · 7d

Today's solo RPG is Time to Kill, in which a hitman plans and reminisces while waiting for a target. It's okay - solid prompts and a card tableau that shapes their interpretation a little - but there's nothing exceptional about it. A decent outing for journaling fans.
gilarpgs.itch.io/time-to-kill

Time To Kill by Gila RPGs

You've got time to kill, before it's time to kill.

gilarpgs.itch.io

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Vajra Chandrasekera @vajra.me · 8d

Currently at:
— only buy tech too old to have AI built in
— painstakingly disable AI every time they add it to something that used to work perfectly well
— if it can't be switched off, abandon the platform or tool
— if there are no good alternatives, avoid the AI parts
— patiently wait for the crash

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 8d

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How to Turn Off AI Tools Like Gemini, Apple Intelligence, Copilot, and More - Consumer Reports

AI features are crowding into Google search, Gmail, iPhones, Windows laptops, and other products. If you're suffering from AI overload, these settings can help.

www.consumerreports.org

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Patrick O'Duffy @patrickoduffy.bsky.social · 8d

oh my god Greg it's face up on the armoire PAY ATTENTION

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Patrick O'Duffy @patrickoduffy.bsky.social · 8d

I’ll just miss the window, but I start volunteering for the local trans support org on the 15th.

Oh and I gave plasma again.

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Patrick O'Duffy @patrickoduffy.bsky.social · 8d

I'll glass the cunt

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Comics in the Spooky Age 🧛🧟‍♀️👻 @comicsinthega.bsky.social · 10d

The first Peanuts strip by Charles M. Schulz was published on October 2, 1950.

Four black and white panels of a boy and girl sitting on steps. 1st panel: Charlie Brown is approaching and the boy says “Well! Here comes ol’ Charlie Brown!” 2nd panel: As Charlie Brown passes, he says “Good ol’ Charlie Brown…yes, sir!” 3rd panel: “Good ol’ Charlie Brown…” 4th panel: Once Charlie is gone, “How I hate him!”

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 10d

who among us has not hacked up a journalist with a bone saw or hung a college activist from their ankles until death

Bill Burr Defends Performing at Controversial Riyadh Comedy Festival: “They’re Just Like Us”

The actor-comedian details his experience at the event: "Definitely one of the top three experiences I've ever had ... I think it's going to lead to a lot of positive things."

www.hollywoodreporter.com

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Grant Howitt @gshowitt.bsky.social · 11d

We're up to ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY NINE participants in our upcoming kitbash game jam. You should join them!

It costs you nothing and will probably lose me money in the long run. I'm not even 100% sure why I'm doing it.

itch.io/jam/one-hund...

One Hundred One Page Games Jam

A game jam from 2025-10-01 to 2025-12-01 hosted by gshowitt. HELLO MY NAME IS GRANT HOWITT AND I HAVE WRITTEN ONE HUNDRED OF GAME. Below is a list of my one hundred one-page games. Some of them are lo...

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alex䷰trismegistus @technihilism.bsky.social · 10d

spam killed email, landlines and then answering phones all together, because marketing will masquerade as every form of human interaction it can up to and even past their destruction

and now they've built machines to spam culture

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Patrick O'Duffy @patrickoduffy.bsky.social · 11d

a black and white cartoon of a man holding a sign that says ' sickos ' .

Alt: an animated black and white cartoon with a man in a 'sickos' shirt looking through a window and saying 'ha ha ha yes'

media.tenor.com

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