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Stu Popp (He/They)

@stupopp.bsky.social

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Vancouver-based Designer and Illustrator. Co-creator and host of the Dungeon Punks Podcast. Dinosaur fact giver.

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Stu Popp (He/They) @stupopp.bsky.social · Jul 24

Let's do this!

I'm Stu. I'm the Podcast Dad of the Dungeon Punks podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/dungeon-punks/id1274690793

I'm also an illustrator and designer, and I love books and cool facts about dinosaurs.

Let's chat TTRPGs and cool science things!

Stu Popp (He/They) @stupopp.bsky.social · 2d

I love them so much that we're doing a whole season of superheroes over on @dungeonpunks.bsky.social!

Stu Popp (He/They) @stupopp.bsky.social · 2d

Favourite line reading of the year.

Corey Atad @coreyatad.com · 11d

a few small beers

Stu Popp (He/They) @stupopp.bsky.social · 3d

They have big "caught out in the cold" energy!

Stu Popp (He/They) @stupopp.bsky.social · 8d

Spoilers for upcoming @dungeonpunks.bsky.social episodes...

Heitor @heitorzilla.bsky.social · 11d

Alien, 1979. (Directed by Ridley Scott)

Stu Popp (He/They) @stupopp.bsky.social · 8d

The tides are changing in this climactic battle (because the Beatles blew up the moon) to end our first foray into Daggerheart!

Dungeon Punks is an award winning TTRPG actual play podcast @dungeonpunks.bsky.social · 8d

It's the conclusion to our Daggerheart one-shot! Can Amethrust coexist and beat back Beetlemania? Or will the Fab Four fly free & f@%# up Fugazi?

www.podcastsofdoom.com/dungeonpunks...

Daggerheart: Back in the F.U.G.A.Z.I. - Episode 2 — Podcasts of Doom

Can Amethrust coexist and beat back Beetlemania? Or will the Fab Four fly free & f@%# up Fugazi? Featured Music: Tired of You (Feat. Fionn) by Fake Shark and sober up. by dead ex girlfriends

www.podcastsofdoom.com

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Stu Popp (He/They) @stupopp.bsky.social · 9d

Hell yeah! Thanks @njwebfest.bsky.social!

Dungeon Punks is an award winning TTRPG actual play podcast @dungeonpunks.bsky.social · 9d

We are stoked to announce that we won Outstanding Science Fiction Actual Play (Podcast) at New Jersey Web Fest this past weekend! Although we weren't able to attend in person, we're really feeling the love. Thanks @njwebfest.bsky.social! #NJWebFest

Large white text in the top left corner says Winner! Surrounded by white laurels, text reads: Outstanding Science Fiction Actual Play (Podcast). In the bottom right corner it says, Thank you, New Jersey Web Fest 2025! The background is a blueish teal with grey speckling.

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Wendy Xu @wendyxu.bsky.social · 10d

"single-use plastic of the mind" had me GAGGED

But a still graver scandal of AI— like its hydra-head sibling, cryptocurrency-is the technology's colossal wastefulness. The untold billions firehosed by investors into its development; the water-guzzling data centers draining the parched exurbs of Phoenix and Dallas; the yeti-size carbon footprint of the sector as a whole—and for what? A cankerous glut of racist memes and cardboard essays.
Not only is the ratio of Al's resource rapacity to its productive utility indefensibly and irremediably skewed, Al-made material is itself a waste product: flimsy, shoddy, disposable, a single-use plastic of the mind.

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Dr. Catherine Scott @cataranea.bsky.social · 14d

Canada Post “lost” 1 billion dollars last year?

How about, “it cost Canadians 1 billion dollars to have a national postal service” which works out to costing about $25 a year per person (population of Canada in 2024 = 40 million). Seems like a pretty reasonable cost to me.

Julie S. Lalonde @julieslalonde.bsky.social · 14d

"Canada Post is on track to lose money" Hum. Duh. It cost less than a toonie to send a letter across Canada.

"Canada Post is a service and not a business" was common knowledge until late stage capitalism brain rotted most people into think if it ain't making money for shareholders, it's failing.

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Julie S. Lalonde @julieslalonde.bsky.social · 14d

I am begging Canadians to understand that Canada Post, like public transit, should not be a business - it's a service.

Canada Post is a lifeline for rural, remote and Northern communities and overall, we need to re-evaluate why people think they "need" random shit delivered ASAP.

Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 14d

The government is reducing service standards and Canada Post’s biggest advantage: its nationwide network.

This plan is about cutting back the postal service instead of investing to give it new revenue tools through things like postal banking. It’s shameful.

Liberal government frees Canada Post to end home delivery, close some post offices | CBC News

With Canada Post on track to lose $1.5 billion in 2025 and contract discussions between the union and the corporation stalled, the federal government is embarking on a modernization plan it says will ...

www.cbc.ca

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Stu Popp (He/They) @stupopp.bsky.social · 15d

This is incredibly cool!

Rebecca R Helm @rebeccarhelm.bsky.social · 15d

I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA

10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)

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Orion @oriondblack.bsky.social · 17d

Freelance work hasn't come through and this month has been expensive so I'm offering creative consulting on your ttrpg for 25 bucks flat. I'll read it, provide detailed notes and we can do a 30 min discord call to go over them.

DM me.

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Josh Gondelman @joshgondelman.bsky.social · 19d

The debate around what is or isn’t “cancel culture” really just obscures a simple truth that it’s BAD to be massively racist/sexist/homophobic/transphobic and it’s GOOD to speak out against injustice. Some things are good and some things are bad and it’s okay to say which you think are which.

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Stu Popp (He/They) @stupopp.bsky.social · 22d

Come for the return to the setting of our beloved first season and to see #Daggerheart in action (y'know, from @criticalrole.bsky.social).

Stay for everyone playing the worst people (complementary) they can imagine and learning what "Bread Voice" is.

Dungeon Punks is an award winning TTRPG actual play podcast @dungeonpunks.bsky.social · 22d

It's a Dungeon Punks Daggerheart bonus episode! Twenty years after Rust Monster saved Fugazi from the evil forces of Metal, a new band of misfits comes together to face a new threat. (If they don't kill each other first, that is).

Daggerheart: Back in the F.U.G.A.Z.I. - Episode 1 — Podcasts of Doom

Twenty years after Rust Monster saved Fugazi from the evil forces of Metal, a new band of misfits comes together to face a new threat. (If they don't kill each other first, that is). Featured Music:...

www.podcastsofdoom.com

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Stu Popp (He/They) @stupopp.bsky.social · 22d

Probably not undercelebrated in OneShot circles, but I will forever love the FFG Star Warses and continue to try to get my groups to play them with me.

Stu Popp (He/They) @stupopp.bsky.social · 23d

I remember way back in film school a professor made this exact point (also maybe about the phone editing, it was an increasingly long time ago 💀)

Stu Popp (He/They) @stupopp.bsky.social · 24d

Parasaurolophus (the only dinosaur we (might) know what sound like) and any big sauropod, but especially Brachiosaurus for the Jurassic Park lovers

A man in an aloha shirt runs from a large sauropod dinosaur. The dinosaur's neck is so ling thqt its head is out of frame

A man in an aloha shirt runs from a green Parasaurolophus. The dinosaur is walking on four limbs.

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Leigh @leigheldridge.bsky.social · 26d

If you like CfB games, there is a ton of great stuff in here (including an Odyssey tape I wrote inspired by Speaker's Corner 👀). And it's completely free!

Amanda/iamatrex @iamatrex.com · 26d

Sprigs & Kindling Volume 4 is now available! Issue 1 is themed around Public Access & Other Analog Oddities, and Issue 2 is Lost Transmissions! Download it for FREE from sprigsandkindling.com and shout out all the amazing contributors, editors and layout ppl for 250 pages of amazing creative works!

Sprigs and Kindling

An ongoing digital zine of community collected creative works for Carved from Brindlewood TTRPG games

sprigsandkindling.com

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mady castigan✨ 🏳️‍⚧️ @madycast.com · 29d

Regardless of your feelings on the shooting, there's no doubt that Trump didn't need it to continue enacting mass political violence against the civilian population.

Political violence is committed every day against protestors, immigrants, and trans people, and they rarely get any justice.

Rebecca Watson @skepchick.org · 29d

I'm genuinely confused at so much of my feed being filled with "Don't celebrate Charlie Kirk being shot **because** this gives Trump the go ahead to violently crush opposition." Did you mean to add "faster" to the end of that sentence? Like, he wasn't waiting for an impetus. It's happening already

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Dan Sheehan @dansheehan.bsky.social · Sep 9

I think if you listen to a podcast with fake AI people saying AI generated words you are functionally dead, you are basically a phone to me at that point

bnacker @bnacker.bsky.social · Sep 9

Starting to regret inventing the podcast

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Stu Popp (He/They) @stupopp.bsky.social · Sep 4

The Vancouver Tenants Union might have some resources that would be useful: www.vancouvertenantsunion.ca/contact

Contact the Vancouver Tenants Union

Uniting Vancouver's tenants to fight for our rights and safe, affordable housing

www.vancouvertenantsunion.ca

Stu Popp (He/They) @stupopp.bsky.social · Aug 28

Wake up babe, new ankylosaur just dropped: bbc.com/news/article...

'Punk rock' dinosaur with metre-long spikes discovered

The animal has come as a surprise to experts, who now have to rethink how these armoured dinosaurs evolved

bbc.com

Stu Popp (He/They) @stupopp.bsky.social · Aug 23

Chain Gang All Stars by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
The Monk & Robot series by Becky Chambers
The Wayfarer series by Becky Chambers
Zoo City by Lauren Beukes
The Binti Trilogy by Nnedi Okorafor
(I'll also second the recommendations for the Expanse books and everything NK Jemisin has written)

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Amanda Wong @amandawtwong.bsky.social · Aug 21

You know what never gets old? People in inflatable t-rex suits visiting t-rex skeletons in museums

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Stu Popp (He/They) @stupopp.bsky.social · Aug 22

He-Man's nonbinary cousin, They-Them.