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Peter
@spezbaby.bsky.social
Tabletop gamer into trad, OSR, a little storygame. Also love bourbon, whisky & craft beer, former bookseller, lapsed baseball fan, bicycle commuter, pinko lefty, Union made, girldad, he/they, 🇨🇦.

Everyone matters or nobody does.
- Michael Connelly.
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OMG NOW I'VE SEEN IT ALL
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So Time Magazine did an article on Hoekstra and what an a$$hole he is, and used a quote from THE BEAVERTON because they THOUGH IT WAS REAL.
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Like, how awful do you have to be that your own country thinks you're as bad as satire?
November 27, 2025 at 9:24 PM
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Happy Thursday, Canada 🍁
November 27, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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Carney isn't a climate change denier. He manages to be worse: he's a climate change shrugger, someone who acknowledges that climate change is a serious problem but steadfastly refuses to do anything about it. At least the deniers try to have a position that makes sense.
Notable that Carney gets nothing in return: this will hurt the liberals in BC, they won't make any gains in Alberta, Smith won't stop and of her bullshit, and it will likely tear apart the Liberal caucus.

The only reasonable conclusion is that Carney is a climate change denialist and a fool.
The federal-AB agreement is a love letter to fossil fuels

-cancelation of critical policies (OG emissions cap & clean electricity rules)
-public $$ for a pipeline (via Indigenous loan program)
-more $$ for CCS, incl. enhanced oil production
- only mention of electricity is for fossil fuels
November 27, 2025 at 9:11 PM
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Libraries aren't just books. They provide gathering places, free internet, and programs like story hours and classes and films. Using your library demonstrates to your local government its importance to your community and can affect funding decisions.
November 27, 2025 at 12:30 AM
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Sometimes when I’m feeling down on myself I’ll think, “I’m a stupid idiot,” but then I’ll read something like this and realize that even if I AM a stupid idiot, I’m not this deeply stupid.
Amazing. Absolutely fucking amazing.
November 26, 2025 at 10:48 PM
Had to pull an old pair of Docs out of the cupboard because my Blundstones died.

Is this some sort of regression?
November 26, 2025 at 9:49 PM
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Anybody who is like “Piracy is activism!”—trust me, supporting your local library is about 1000% more effective activism, and it’s still free for you and authors still get paid!
November 26, 2025 at 8:02 PM
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Spent the last month mapping the blogosphere by its links. The graph is finally ready

Communities clump into a big hex and the whole thing looks like a star map

What are blogs anyway but stars in the sky?

elmc.at/mapping-the-...

To check out the graph directly follow this link:

graph.elmc.at
Mapping the Blogosphere
An interactive graph of TTRPG blogs, showing who links to whom, how communities change over time, plus stats and how it all works.
elmc.at
November 26, 2025 at 7:43 PM
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Because my children are Gen Alpha monsters, they want to know if I've sold 67 copies of Year's Best Canadian F&SF Vol 3 this month--get it? 6-7 * makes flailing juggling motion and despairs * I'm about 20 copies shy. For Black Friday, want to help an indie publisher pull one over on his kids?
Year’s Best Canadian Fantasy and Science Fiction: Volume Three
Year’s Best Canadian Fantasy and Science Fiction: Volume Three: Kotowych, Stephen: 9781738187539: Books - Amazon.ca
a.co
November 26, 2025 at 8:53 PM
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914,000 arts and culture workers in Canada nodding in agreement.
I will believe in the end of identity politics when steel and lumber (28,000 jobs and 105,000 jobs respectively) stop getting bailouts, while higher education (310,000 jobs) collapses in front of our eyes because it's full of ivory tower elites
November 26, 2025 at 9:06 PM
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Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
November 26, 2025 at 1:04 PM
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In light of the recent tariffs and economic landscape, we are going to be increasing our prices, starting from 26th November. We hope you understand that this is a necessary step to keep bringing you games from the worlds you love, in a way that both maintains our quality and remains sustainable.
November 26, 2025 at 12:01 PM
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Black Friday Sale! Get 50% OFF everything at Darker Hue Studios! Dive into award-winning worlds:

Haunted West – Supernatural horror meets the Wild West
Harlem Unbound – Lovecraftian horror in the Harlem Renaissance

Everything is HALF OFF through December 2nd!
November 25, 2025 at 9:50 PM
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Bluesky not addictive to teens but definitely a crutch for elder millennials who know too much about the Bajoran war.
cnn.com CNN @cnn.com · 1d
Meta, YouTube, TikTok and Snapchat know how addictive their platforms can be to teens.

Those are allegations a group of school districts is making against the social media giants, according to a newly unsealed legal filing that quotes the companies’ own internal documents. https://cnn.it/3Xjq5x5
November 26, 2025 at 6:38 AM
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Paul is s brilliant artist
November 26, 2025 at 12:31 AM
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i think tech and ai positive people are going to be in for a big shock when anti tech and anti ai sentiment becomes a major part of leftwing politics going forward especially as datacenters continue to destroy communities and raise electricity bills
Is this platform still massively against AI or has it moved more towards acceptance?
November 26, 2025 at 5:34 AM
Remember when Cyber Monday was a thing?
November 26, 2025 at 12:19 PM
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I’ve used ChatGPT twice: once to generate subtitles for a podcast video that I then spent hours proofreading because they had non-stop errors, and then I asked it to take a list of 400 book titles and tell me their genres. It could not. So no, I don’t believe it can think or run a government 😡
one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.
November 25, 2025 at 9:29 PM
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This week it's Black Friday at Lulu!
30% off with code: 2025VIP30

It's the perfect opportunity to get your hands on my #RPGs (for yourself or as a gift ;) )

Sonja and Conan vs. the Ninjas

www.lulu.com/fr/shop/guil...

if you prefer pdf:
guillaumejentey.itch.io/sonja-conan-...
Sonja and Conan versus the Ninjas
Ninjas flying and flipping through the air, sorcerers talking in your mind, nefarious plots and colossal monsters, deserts of ice and fire, slashin' swords and sparklin' spells, big damn heroes and bi...
www.lulu.com
November 24, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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wanderer in wild places

#digitalart #fantasy #rpg #d&d
November 24, 2025 at 8:23 AM
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Need to make a #Dragonmeet shopping list

So who has new shiny zines (or bigger books) I should check out
November 25, 2025 at 9:32 AM
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Sam Sorensen wrote a beautiful, albeit complex, roleplaying wargame called Cataphract, and I took the rules and mashed them into a sheer monstrosity. Set loosely in Britain in the Dark Ages, you play as competing warlord households in real time.

I'm looking for people bad enough to play.
November 25, 2025 at 10:10 AM
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Test paint to see if my color mixing and matching fit with the inspiration
November 24, 2025 at 10:59 PM