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Blood River Flow

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Blood River Flow @pearlriverflow.com · Jul 30

Enough with "I'm running on COMMON SENSE values." I want absurd values. Clowns on every train. Possum cops. The government pays in live goats. Worms in every gas tank. A war on clouds. It can't go any wronger than what we've already got going on, here.

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Shady Inference 🩸 @blot.city · 1d

The Dillinger Escape Plan -> Mike Patton -> Mr. Bungle -> Secret Chiefs 3 -> Timba Harris -> Team Fortress 2 soundtrack

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Pizza Logs @shadesofoffside.bsky.social · 16h

Has Kansas City ever been the BBQ capital of America?

Pizza and Pasta the Homemade Way @pizzacook.bsky.social · 16h

JFC. Tell me you've never been in Memphis without saying that you've never been in Memphis.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/d...

Is Kansas City Still the Barbecue Capital of America?

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 8h

AI has lost the dunce vote. It’s over

Nate Silver
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I'm just one person, and my programming needs are somewhat unusual (building various kinds of statistical forecasting models). But I'm just not seeing the consistent productivity gains from LLMs that I would have expected if you'd asked me 6 months ago.

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clyde bruckman's ghost's final repost says free link @ultralaser.bsky.social · Mar 12

rip to the giant sloth from the middle to late pliestocene and extinct since the arrival of early man at the end of the last ice age, you would have loved mixed use urban redevelopment districts

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Blood River Flow @pearlriverflow.com · 2h

Telling english speakers "It's an Indian dialect, I think?"

Blood River Flow @pearlriverflow.com · 4h

I always think it's funny that Portugal only has the third largest population of Portugese speakers in the world. Behind Brazil and Angola.

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👁🌻🦊⚙️⚓ Bob, Engineer, Pusher of Paper @navmecheng.bsky.social · 14h

> It is 2025 BC. I am a soldier from one of the outlying provinces called to defend the pyramid in Memphis

> It is 2025 AD. I am a soldier from one of the outlying provinces called to defend the pyramid in Memphis

Soldiers at the Bass Pro Shops pyramid in Memphis, TN.

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Blood River Flow @pearlriverflow.com · Jul 5

The cultural equivalent of hypergraphia where we keep making more corn

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Blood River Flow @pearlriverflow.com · Nov 7

The Mississippi delta, mapped for population, but the blue blocks are census blocks where NOBODY lives. Maybe cotton or corn.

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Blood River Flow @pearlriverflow.com · Jul 2

FDR's second vice president (he had three), was Henry A. Wallace. He also founded the famous (to corn farmers) Hi-Bred Corn company, now Pioneer. Get it? Hybrid? Hi-Bred? Eh? Yeah it's the kind of joke a guy who looks like Henry A Wallace would make.

B&W photo, Henry Agard Wallace, in 1940, in a grey wool herringbone suit with diamonds on a black tie, he has a serious chin, swept parted hair, and a serious look

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Blood River Flow @pearlriverflow.com · Jul 27

They really need to make a bloody American style martial arts movie where all the fight scenes take place on a big farm with all the gruesome ways to die out there. Punch open a corn silo to drown a guy in corn. Throw someone into a thresher. Thrown plow disc. Chemical drums. Welding fight.

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Blood River Flow @pearlriverflow.com · Nov 10

my accent: a chart

chart with two curves, one red, one black. Red goes up, black goes down. X axis is "my accent," ranging from "Guy asking abotu corn prices" to "Imcomprehensible dude warning you about something in Port Fourchon." Y axis is 100 (top) to 0 (bottom) Black line is "distance from police," red is "how drunk I am."

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Blood River Flow @pearlriverflow.com · Feb 16

My enjoyment of his books waxes and wanes but today I've been thinking about Neal Stephenson's future internet in "Fall, or Dodge in Hell." There, a disgrunted tech mogul gives the world a tool that lets them make perfect social media fakes of real events. The world that comes out of it is familiar.

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Blood River Flow @pearlriverflow.com · 9h

From 2007-2012 or so I ran a GURPS campaign. The setting was basically "Shadowrun in the 1880s." One of the many side plots involved a time-traveling Richard Nixon commanding clones of future professional wrestlers, ONLY so I could say "Dusty Rhodes took my gnome, to a place where he don't belong."

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Matthew Mercury @matthewmercury.bsky.social · 10h

If you’ve ever played in a band and you’d like to talk with me about a tabletop RPG project, shoot me a DM.

a man is playing a guitar in a dark room with purple lights behind him

Alt: This is Spinal Tap

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me, y’all @velvetditch.bsky.social · 11h

“Mississippi” and “gain national attention” gets an immediate head tilt, but “use scholarships for tuition at approved schools,” is where I start to narrow my eyes

Mississippi Free Press @mississippifreepress.org · 14h

Mississippi was one of the first states to gain national attention for its approach to dyslexia. The state requires every kindergarten and first-grade student to be screened for dyslexia, provides ongoing training for teachers and allows parents to use scholarships for tuition at approved schools.

Dyslexia Scholarship Helps Mississippi Families Access Therapy

Five schools across Madison, Ridgeland, Petal, Hattiesburg and Ocean Springs are approved to accept students using Mississippi’s Dyslexia Therapy Scholarship. But large areas of Mississippi,…

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Blood River Flow @pearlriverflow.com · 11h

"in 2009 games from major publishers had to be 3d and they had to be brown and by god did dragon age understand both those assignments" is the best way to explain the Gears of Baldur's Gate bloodspatter look I've ever heard, thank you

Blood River Flow @pearlriverflow.com · 11h

I distinctly remember at the time thinking (hoping) "This is gonna be Mass Effect but with Baldur's Gate!" but it felt like they went all the way back to KotOR, and forgot all about Jade Empire

Blood River Flow @pearlriverflow.com · 11h

The government has switched sides on the War on Disease. Now we're fully in the embrace of Papa Nurgle.

Pam Herd @pamherd.bsky.social · 16h

RFK fired the CDC official (w/decades of experience) leading the measles outbreak response. It's been decades since we've had such a large outbreak. And just to ensure they they can spread the measles outbreak even farther, they also fired the leadership for the center focused on immunization.

Figure showing the largest measles outbreak in the US in decades. There are over 1500 cases as of October 7 2025

Blood River Flow @pearlriverflow.com · 11h

so yeah unless they really fail a roll, or aren't as fit (low scores), they can jump around, climb ropes, lug stuff, and ride a horse (or whatever equivalent your game has)