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Lack(ey)-o'-Lantern @riotlackey.bsky.social · 17h

Thiel summed up in four words:

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VinegarMike @vinegarmike.bsky.social · 1d

Chicago October 2025: "Are the helicopters over my house this evening because of the Cubs playoff game or is it the federal government doing extrajudicial kidnappings?"

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Lack(ey)-o'-Lantern @riotlackey.bsky.social · 1d

Let me get this straight: the California National Guard has been federalized and deployed to Illinois.

Who will be submitting the articles of impeachment?

Lack(ey)-o'-Lantern @riotlackey.bsky.social · 2d

"Chillax" needs to be stricken from the entire language and never uttered again

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Evil Hat @evilhat.bsky.social · 2d

Some great tips here - not just for Blades GMs but for GMs of any system. 👍

Ronan@Thedicepool @thedicepool.bsky.social · 3d

New post on the dice pool dot com! Our new Blades in the Dark campaign starts tonight! I’m so excited that I wrote another blogpost about the game. This time its the GM best practices and bad habits described by @johnharper.bsky.social. #ttrpg #rpg #bladesinthedark

thedicepool.com/2025/10/08/b...

Blades in the Dark Best Practices and Bad Habits

The bad habits that are listed here are fewer in number but oh so much greater in the size and capitalisation of their headings

thedicepool.com

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Lack(ey)-o'-Lantern @riotlackey.bsky.social · 3d

“Bucking tradition and legal precedent?” Don’t you mean “breaking the law?”

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HBO MaXXXinoparsnip @dekkoparsnip2.bsky.social · 3d

Let's do the fucking news

Kevin McCarthy in UHF, finding out what happens when you mess with Weird Al

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Lack(ey)-o'-Lantern @riotlackey.bsky.social · 3d

“Bucking tradition and legal precedent?” Don’t you mean “breaking the law?”

NPR @npr.org · 4d

President Trump is bucking tradition and legal precedent in pushing to deploy the National Guard to Democratic-led cities like Portland, Oregon, and Chicago due to what he says is rampant crime and to support his crackdown on illegal immigration.

Trump's power to deploy National Guard, explained

President Trump is bucking tradition and legal precedent in pushing to deploy the National Guard to Democratic-led cities like Portland, Oregon, and Chicago due to what he says is rampant crime and to support his crackdown on illegal immigration.

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Lack(ey)-o'-Lantern @riotlackey.bsky.social · 4d

"Hey, here's some deepfakes I made of your dead father"

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Lack(ey)-o'-Lantern @riotlackey.bsky.social · 4d

"Hey, here's some deepfakes I made of your dead father"

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Lack(ey)-o'-Lantern @riotlackey.bsky.social · 4d

Lizard people, dear listeners

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Lack(ey)-o'-Lantern @riotlackey.bsky.social · 4d

I have finally stumbled upon the hairdo I should have had as a teenager

Lack(ey)-o'-Lantern @riotlackey.bsky.social · 5d

Frog unto thee

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Lack(ey)-o'-Lantern @riotlackey.bsky.social · 5d

Sometimes it's a good idea to give karma a little push

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Elizabeth Sandifer @eruditorumpress.com · 5d

Honestly my view is kind of that if someone curses you to experience karma and it goes badly for you, that’s not really on them.

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Drewcifer DIEtsch 🎃 @drewdietsch.bsky.social · 5d

I'm not being the least bit facetious: imagery like this is vital to rebellion. Absurdity is an incredibly powerful tool. Because you know what happens when you see this?

You realize the cartoon frog ISN'T the absurd element. It only illuminates the actual ridiculousness going on.

Mark Russell @manruss.bsky.social · 7d

“How can Portland POSSIBLY stand against the might of the federal government?!”

“Let me introduce you to our frog.”

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competentposter @competentposter.bsky.social · 6d

wizard frog is insane

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Lack(ey)-o'-Lantern @riotlackey.bsky.social · 5d

I'm so profoundly disconnected from mainstream culture that I don't even know what my blind spots are anymore, but I can say that I've never seen either version of The Office

Guck-o-lantern @gucky.bsky.social · 5d

Never seen a full episode of Breaking Bad, Mad Men, Firefly, Succession, Parks and Rec, Abbott Elementary, 30 Rock, Walking Dead, Battlestar Galactica reboot (but watched all the original), Schitts Creek, Dexter, Lost, Chernobyl, Rick and Morty, True Detective, West Wing

Never seen Schindler’s List

Hannah Fearn @hannahfearn.bsky.social · 6d

Inspired by a post I just saw in which someone admitted they hadn’t seen a single episode of Friends nor the film Love Actually… what cultural hole do you have that’s a bit weird for your generation?

I’ll go first: I haven’t seen Dirty Dancing.

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Lack(ey)-o'-Lantern @riotlackey.bsky.social · 6d

Is this actually something people are seriously arguing? That people can be racist for not liking *a computer program*?

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Sandy Ernest Allen @sandyernestallen.bsky.social · 7d

I'm realizing a grim exercise/prompt may be in this ...

If others want to share, I'm curious:

Why aren't *you* leaving america (yet)?

Asking for trans folks in particular, especially those of us on HRT and/or other very directly threatened in terms of our healthcare ...

Reposts welcomed. Sigh.

Sandy Ernest Allen @sandyernestallen.bsky.social · 7d

If i were 22, I'd maybe just bail on america. I'm 38 is the problem and I love my life here. My house, my gardens, my dogs. This is where I built my adult existence ...

Sandy Ernest Allen @sandyernestallen.bsky.social · 7d

as with all of this stuff, everybody's situation is going to be different. What moving abroad "means" ... what you're leaving. What you have. What you're able to leverage to do so. Whether you can even consider it, given your financial position and much else.