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Award-winning writer, editor, & sound designer. Creator of Once Upon a Wasteland (@onceuponawasteland.com). imdb.me/reticentduet Book me! cameo.com/reticentduet Newhouse grad. Former catalog model (shut up). He/Him🇬🇧🇺🇸

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Brad Williams @reticentduet.onceuponawasteland.com · Sep 3

The first two volumes of "Once Upon a Wasteland: The Scripts" are now available in paperback, hardcover, and eBook on Amazon!

Each book contains all the scripts from the corresponding season of the award-winning show, along with an introduction.

You can find them here: www.amazon.com/dp/B0FHYXNSBL

Once Upon a Wasteland: The Scripts

Visit Amazon's Once Upon a Wasteland: The Scripts Page and shop for all Once Upon a Wasteland: The Scripts books. Check out pictures, author information, and reviews of Once Upon a Wasteland: The Scripts

www.amazon.com

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Evan Dorkin @evandorkin.bsky.social · 8h

@teepublic.bsky.social is running a weekend sale, so get up to 35% off our House of Fun shirt and merch designs.
www.teepublic.com/user/house-o...

The "GIn Makes a Man Mean" Milk and Cheese t-shirt design currently on sale at Teepublic.

The "Behold the Blank Stare of Hate" Milk and Cheese t-shirt design currently on sale at Teepublic.

Two Eltingville CLub t-shirt designs currently on sale at Teepublic. One is of Pete DiNunzio from the Eltingville CLub, the other Jerry Stokes from the CLub.

The "Burn in Hell" Devil Puppet t-shirt design currently on sale at Teepublic.

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Brad Williams @reticentduet.onceuponawasteland.com · 11h

Ms. Roboto

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Syracuse University @syracuseu.bsky.social · 12h

What happens when AI can fake anyone—or anything?

Syracuse University ROTC cadets are developing tech that detects deepfakes, exposes bots and defends truth in the digital age.

🔗 Learn more: https://bit.ly/4h2HZ01

Person working on a laptop with coding software open, and a second monitor displaying additional code. A video editing application is visible on the laptop screen showing the same person in the video preview.

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Brad Williams @reticentduet.onceuponawasteland.com · 13h

Mastodon is the "linux on the desktop" of social media.

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Brad Williams @reticentduet.onceuponawasteland.com · 13h

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Todd Stashwick @realtoddstashwick.bsky.social · 1d

Do you love, Star Trek and Dungeons & Dragons? Head on over and take a chance to help some kids fight, pediatric cancer!

Todd Stashwick @realtoddstashwick.bsky.social · 3d

You can be part of the game! Join me and some of my Star Trek family as we play #Dungeons&Dragons to fight childhood cancer with the Pablove Foundation on Nov 9th. Go to www.pablove.org/roll to donate and enter to be one of two players at a virtual table with these amazing folks. Go now!

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Brad Williams @reticentduet.onceuponawasteland.com · 1d

That's very true. In terms of performance (IME) it goes PC -> Xbox -> Getting hit by a bus -> Getting hit by a second, larger bus -> PlayStation

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TrekCulture @trekculture.bsky.social · 1d

Continuing our run of Ups & Downs from the Star Trek pilots, next up is 'Beyond The Farthest Star'🖖

@seanferrick.bsky.social's here, 10pm BST: youtu.be/hD0c-ZJceuQ

#StarTrek #StarTrekTAS #TheAnimatedSeries

Ups & Downs From Star Trek: The Animated Series 1.1 - Beyond The Farthest Star

YouTube video by TrekCulture

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Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 2d

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

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Brad Williams @reticentduet.onceuponawasteland.com · 1d

TIL that there was a failed pilot for an American version of "Absolutely Fabulous" starring Kristen Johnson and Kathryn Hahn. And also Zosia Mamet, whom I absolutely adore, as Saffron.

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Writers Guild of America East @wgaeast.bsky.social · 1d

Our union allies at @actorsequity.bsky.social and @afm-union.bsky.social Local 802 have both been in negotiations with The Broadway League since August, and they now need our help to secure a fair contract. Sign the solidarity letter: actionnetwork.org/petitions/st...

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Brad Williams @reticentduet.onceuponawasteland.com · 1d

I wrote a 10-page paper on Arthurian legends in high school the night before it was due after work (I got off at 8PM) in about an hour and a half after mainlining Jolt Cola. I got an A.

I didn't expect to get it done so quickly and I was so amped up that I ended up shooting hoops until about 2AM.

Dane 🔜 NYCC AA L-34 @monkeyminion.com · 2d

I wrote a 15 page report on heraldic symbolism in medieval armor and weapon design for my art history class the night before it was due (8am class). Made up 90% of it (only found one book for reference) and got an A. GenAI could fucking never.

wrote 20 pages on Faulkner's The Bear four hours before final papers were due on trucker pills and coffee and cigarettes and got an A, fuck you.
You people couldn't hang with real slackers.
finn
wokeupchic • 4d
It's fuck Al till your homework due in 25 minutes

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⚞Mason Amadeus(he/him)㋬⚟ 🗱㎑㎒㎓⛐𝄞 @wickedinterest.ing · 1d

Do you want a fun show to wake up with EVERY* morning?

Do you like to have moderately pleasant, humorous rabble in the background of your breakfast ritual??

Do you want to hear YOUR OWN** voice on a podcast?

Check out The Bug & Moss Morning Telephone Show!

bugandmoss.com

A stylized, shiny blue beetle atop a blurry mottled green background. Orange cartoonish text reads "BUG" at the top and "MOSS" at the bottom. The blue beetle intersects the text. In the bottom right corner is a classic "parental advisory, explicit content" label like one might find on a slipknot CD circa 2009.

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✪ Jonathan H. Gray: “Professor of Halloweenery” ✪ @jongraywb.bsky.social · 1d

Its like looking at an entire gaggle of rejected Doctor Whos

Jonny Morris @jonnymorris.bsky.social · 2d

Is this real or am I in a coma?

Young Conservative with a Doctor Who question mark pullover.

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Brad Williams @reticentduet.onceuponawasteland.com · 1d

As someone who also owns that vest I am similarly offended.

Brad Williams @reticentduet.onceuponawasteland.com · 1d

There's nothing in the rulebook that says there can't be an "Air Bud" sequel in 2026.

'Air Bud' legacy sequel cast set for 2026 theatrical release

Vince was a producer on all of the original films (including franchise spinoffs like “Santa Paws”) and wrote and directed ten of them.

awfulannouncing.com

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CharoMiami @charomiami.com · 2d

Some of my favorite Emotes I made for us on Phasmo stream nights, and a few of them were animated. I really really had a blast with these.

You can tell these were made before a few game updates lol

#Phasmophobia #CharoMiamiART

emotes for the Phasmophobia game. EMF5, Doll, Spirit Box, Orbs, Ghost writing, Potato, Ouiji, Dots, Cup, Summoning candles, UV/Bones, Burned Crux

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Brad Williams @reticentduet.onceuponawasteland.com · 1d

If my math is right, about 3p.

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Fallout @fallout.bethesdastudios.com · 2d

Ohio is bringing the 🔥

We can't wait for you all to join the Ghoul on his next head hunt in #Fallout76 Burning Springs!

Steam players can enter the arena right now on the Fallout 76 PTS.

Promotional image for Fallout 76: Burning Springs featuring a ghoul cowboy, various press quotes praising the game, and scenes of post-apocalyptic action.

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Joel Zombied 🎃🦇 @velodus.bsky.social · 2d

I would like to wish everyone, including all haters and losers (of which, sadly, there are many) a truly happy and enjoyable International Lesbian Day

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Elizabeth Boyle @thecelticist.bsky.social · 2d

Reminds me of this excellent sign that I saw at the Tubman African American Museum in Macon, Georgia.

Piano, which once belonged to Little Richard, with a sign on it saying "Do not attempt to play Little Richard's piano. He will know."

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Brad Williams @reticentduet.onceuponawasteland.com · 2d

throne.com/vitriolplays...

VitriolPlays - My Wishlist | Throne

Send VitriolPlays gifts via Throne. Browse VitriolPlays's wishlist and support your favorite creator safely.

throne.com

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Wario64 @wario64.bsky.social · 2d

Fallout Day broadcast stream announced for Oct 23rd, 10 AM PT

includes latest news on existing Fallout games, community celebrations, and upcoming fan events

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Chloé Stawski (Spooky Edition 🎃🦇) @chlowski.bsky.social · 3d

hades gals 💀🌸

fanart of Melinoe from Hades 2, wearing a modern outfit (dark jeans, orange top), she has a big tattoo on her right arm, and is about to tie her hair with a hair band (is this how it's called in english ?)
her eyes are closed, she has nice arm muscles and looks extremely lesbian

fanart of Nemesis from Hades 2, wearing a modern outfit (red jeans, black crop top with the Hades sigil as a pattern on it), moon shaped necklace, tattoos on her left arm and pecs, as she's about to tie her hair using a green hairband, her eyes closed
(green light on her right side cause she's standing next to Melinoe's glowing arm, off camera)

fanart of Eris, from Hades 2, she's sitting, right leg with her knee bent, in front of her
right hand on her right foot, left hand on her face, framing her left eye between two fingers
she's wearing big sneakers, micro shorts, some sort of sweater with stripes showing her shoulders
she has apple tree branch tattoos on her thigh and left shoulder

fanart of Medea from Hades 2, but wearing modern clothes (tiny leather shorts with double belt, red/purple leather crop top), a nose ring, necklaces, also big tattoo covering the entire left arm (a snake, a moon crescent, flowers and leaves)
She's sitting, resting on her left hand, her right hand next to her face, conjuring some plague magic that bathes her in green light

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Barnaby Edwards @barnabyedwards.bsky.social · 2d

I'm very much enjoying this book I'm currently reading. It has a young boy with magical powers he knew nothing about, being taken away from his dull life in suburbia after accidentally creating mayhem by casting spells.

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