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Tom Lommel
@tomlommel.com
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Actor and tabletop RPG nerd, the order depends upon the week. I handle marketing for Evil Hat Productions. Currently playing a long game to get cast as Ned Flanders in the live action Simpsons movie.
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magpie.tips
The holidays can be so hard! Especially if you are going into your first sober holiday, have a little plan for a fancy drink you can have on hand, like bundaberg or fentimans or something like that. it makes SUCH a difference.
calculizer.bsky.social chris walla, snacks the rabbit @calculizer.bsky.social · 2h
it's almost thanksgiving

if you quit drinking – sometimes it's tough at the holidays

you know this. but you can remember that a lot of other people are in your boat. and you probably know one or two of them. and if you need help or support, please reach out to one of them / us. it's ok, truly
November 25, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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derek.bike
when we say we want more streets to be pedestrianized, this is what we mean
November 25, 2025 at 4:46 PM
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asterionhex.monster
It’s #5MinArt time! Today let’s draw a LION because they’re big and cool. Post it here when you’re done, any medium, all skill levels welcome!
November 25, 2025 at 2:59 PM
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Had three great shots at curling last night. According to my understanding of the system, I'm now eligible to run for MP of a small riding in Alberta.
November 25, 2025 at 2:53 PM
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exxzackly.bsky.social
November 25, 2025 at 9:35 AM
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iamspacegirl.bsky.social
No one at the rap battle will wait for me to type my prompts
November 25, 2025 at 12:24 PM
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matpringle.bsky.social
S is for Starve Acre in my #folkhorroralphabet a linocut series inspired by folk horror tinged books, films and music. The novel was a reading highlight of last year, a chilling story of grief and desperation in a rural setting.

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November 25, 2025 at 1:22 PM
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breelundberg.com
I’m not running special Black Friday sale this week (tbh my margins are already slim and I didn’t raise shipping costs for the USPS holiday increase anyway). I’ll keep promoting my shop regardless if you’re looking for lil gifts, thanks for the support! shop.breelundberg.com 💕 #shopsmall #artshop
Photo of several rolls of washi tape, one is rolled out to show a repeating pattern of a cute illustrated fox and bear making s’mores over a campfire with autumnal colors.
November 24, 2025 at 9:42 PM
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@magpie.tips that's our music!!
A sign that says Check out clearance tables
November 24, 2025 at 9:19 PM
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We don't have to pretend that James Carville is the herald of a new era in democratic politics. Any jackass who watched Mamdani work over the president on affordability last Friday could champion this line. Carville just did it loudly - and scapegoated minorities in the process. Real hick shit.
November 24, 2025 at 8:48 PM
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I'm firmly convinced that one of the reasons we commercial actors can't get paid fairly for YouTube and IG ads is that no one on any side of the table trusts those stats.
bostonjoan.bsky.social BostonJoan 🏳️‍🌈 🦫 @bostonjoan.bsky.social · 21h
The reason why platform companies do make it hard to find account location information is not because they believe in privacy, it's so that advertisers do not know how much is lost to low-tier engagement.

Growth, at all costs, means avoiding publishing basic metadata so that advertisers don't sue.
November 24, 2025 at 8:40 PM
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Aside from glazing over the fact that this technology enables self harm, it's an incredible fail that he doesn't pull out his phone and demonstrate the "epic roasts" grok supposedly does. Rogan is RIGHT THERE. Have grok roast Rogan! You see Elon meekly think about it and retreat.
This shit sucks.
wapplehouse.bsky.social Kristi Yamaguccimane @wapplehouse.bsky.social · 1d
Everything about this might be the saddest thing I’ve ever seen
November 24, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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magpie.tips
I feel this so deeply. As a person who likes to try crafts and talk about it people are so often like "I'd love to do that but I'm not good at it". But crafts and hobbies are about learning. There's no guaranteed way to be good right off the bat. You have to develop skills and trust yourself.
timclare.bsky.social Tim Clare @timclare.bsky.social · 1d
Of course I would say this, but we need to talk about the moral & ideological case for play & leisure more than ever. So much political discourse - especially from the super-rich - assumes we ought to construct society around forcing citizens to spend most of their one, unrepeatable life working.
November 24, 2025 at 2:14 PM
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eljaspero.bsky.social
There's leak, there's a leak, in the boiler room,
The poor, the lame, the blind!
Who are the ones that we kept in charge?
Killers, thieves, and lawyers.
God's away, God's away,
God's away on business,
Business.
tomlommel.com Tom Lommel @tomlommel.com · 2d
I'm a bitch
I'm a lover
I'm Summus Pontifex brother
I'm a sinner
I'm a saint
I do not feel ashamed
Pope Leo looks like he's crooning into a microphone on a stand as he clasps the mic with both hands and leans into it.
November 23, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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You do not go to an improv show to watch them reenact scenes from Dumb & Dumber
tekweenie.bsky.social New Years Adversarial Poet ✊ @tekweenie.bsky.social · 2d
Excellent speech by @charliejane.bsky.social about imagination in service to society. Great stuff.

buttondown.com/charliejane/...
Generative A.I., the thing that drives our whole economy right now, is a perfect metaphor for the abject failure of imagination on the part of the powerful. Generative A.I. has no imagination and offers no new insights. It's a mere predictive engine that uses statistics to find the most likely next thing. What's the next word in a sequence, the next pixel in a picture? This is the opposite of imagination, which is so often about finding the least likely thing, the startling incongruity. I worry that so many of us are outsourcing our imaginations and our whole creative selves to these stochastic parrots.
November 23, 2025 at 3:08 PM
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tomlommel.com
I'm a bitch
I'm a lover
I'm Summus Pontifex brother
I'm a sinner
I'm a saint
I do not feel ashamed
Pope Leo looks like he's crooning into a microphone on a stand as he clasps the mic with both hands and leans into it.
November 23, 2025 at 6:37 AM
tomlommel.com
I'm a bitch
I'm a lover
I'm Summus Pontifex brother
I'm a sinner
I'm a saint
I do not feel ashamed
Pope Leo looks like he's crooning into a microphone on a stand as he clasps the mic with both hands and leans into it.
November 23, 2025 at 6:37 AM
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robotviking.bsky.social
I took a few decent photos at this local wrestling show, but this one is definitely my favorite
November 23, 2025 at 4:51 AM
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helldude.bsky.social
these people basically just take luxury government jets and go to fancy events like make a wish kids while their minions flashbang your elderly neighbors
November 23, 2025 at 4:26 AM
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ernie.tedium.co
If you have been sharing that Malwarebytes article on the Gmail thing, you should note the giant correction up top.

www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/20...
Update November 22. We’ve updated this article after realising we contributed to a perfect storm of misunderstanding around a recent change in the wording and placement of Gmail’s smart features. The settings themselves aren’t new, but the way Google recently rewrote and surfaced them led a lot of people (including us) to believe Gmail content might be used to train Google’s AI models, and that users were being opted in automatically. After taking a closer look at Google’s documentation and reviewing other reporting, that doesn’t appear to be the case. Gmail does scan email content to power its own “smart features,” such as spam filtering, categorisation, and writing suggestions. But this is part of how Gmail normally works and isn’t the same as training Google’s generative AI models. Google also maintains that these feature settings are opt-in rather than opt-out, although users’ experiences seem to vary depending on when and how the new wording appeared. It’s easy to see where the confusion came from. Google’s updated language around “smart features” is vague, and the term “smart” often implies AI—especially at a time when Gemini is being integrated into other parts of Google’s products. When the new wording started appearing for some users without much explanation, many assumed it signalled a broader shift. We’ve revised this article to reflect what we can confirm from Google’s documentation, as it’s always been our aim to give readers accurate, helpful guidance.
November 22, 2025 at 9:44 PM
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ili.bsky.social
For the cottagecore dwarf in your life: a petite handmade teacup and saucer

(DM me if interested!)
light blue teacup with dimpled pebbly carvings sitting on a matching saucer light blue teacup with dimpled pebbly carvings holding a clothespin for scale sitting next to a matching saucer teacup sitting on saucer, this angle shows the fern pattern carving in the saucer
November 22, 2025 at 8:56 PM
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That plow really tied the roads together.
November 22, 2025 at 3:29 PM
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tabathasouthey.bsky.social
Massive shoutout out to whoever handles the Royal Canadian Air Force’s social media account. They responded to every single comment on their already very solid Trans Day of Remembrance post and they responded like this…
A screenshot of a Facebook post where a person named Andy ask the Well now “What the hell is transgender?” The Royal Canadian Air Force account response with “That’s a pretty big question asked in a pretty small way, Andy. ‘Transgender’ putting describes someone whose gender – who they know themselves to be – doesn’t match the sex they were assigned at birth. It’s not new, and it’s certainly not a fad. People have lived this experience for as long as people have existed; we’re just finally talking about it openly. You don’t have to fully understand it right away, most learning takes time, but we can always start from a place of respect. That’s how decent folks handle things they’re still getting used to.”
November 22, 2025 at 1:03 AM
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abstracttruth.bsky.social
Happy anniversary to the Max Headroom incident, the greatest example of signal hijacking.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Hea...
screen grab from video of the incident. Dude dressed up like Max Headroom wearing sunglass is laughing.
November 22, 2025 at 1:17 PM
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crushbort.bsky.social
imagine walking down the beach and seeing jesus carrying some guy
November 22, 2025 at 1:04 AM