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Turhan's Bey Company

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Tsundoku master, unreliable narrator. TTRPG (GURPS) publications at https://warehouse23.com/search?q=Matt+Riggsby or https://www.drivethrurpg.com/browse.php?keywords=matt%20riggsby&page=1&sort=7a

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Turhan's Bey Company @turhansbeycompany.bsky.social · 17h

Unsolicited snikt pic.

Marvel Comics' Wolverine in the classic yellow and black uniform, facing forward, claws extended, standing in front of snow covered evergreens and shouting.

Turhan's Bey Company @turhansbeycompany.bsky.social · 21h

Warning: contains not being a dick.

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Turhan's Bey Company @turhansbeycompany.bsky.social · 21h

That's one!

Turhan's Bey Company @turhansbeycompany.bsky.social · 1d

one off of my work, it's probably for the best they know up front so they don't waste their hard-earned dollar on something which will offend their delicate sensibilities.

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Turhan's Bey Company @turhansbeycompany.bsky.social · 1d

and not-abled people through time, including now. Nobody's complained yet (likely because few people read them), but if knowing that I at least indicate the possibility of a gender-fluid Ottoman Turk, a gay Florentine, or a disabled Black Venetian with a good job as viable characters puts

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Turhan's Bey Company @turhansbeycompany.bsky.social · 1d

My GURPS historicals touch (briefly) on things like race, gender, sexuality, and ability, not because of "DEI consultants" (there's hardly enough money involved to pay me, let alone a consultant) but because as someone who reads history I know there were lots of not-white, not-dude, not-straight,

Mike Rose @mikerose.bsky.social · 1d

We banned a guy on the Steam forums for repeatedly saying there were “too many women” in our game

So he flipped his positive review to negative

Still totally worth it

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Turhan's Bey Company @turhansbeycompany.bsky.social · 1d

Somehow, it is not Friday.

a woman says i have a lot of questions number one how dare you ..

Alt: Mindy Kaling says "I have a lot of questions. Number one how dare you?"

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Turhan's Bey Company @turhansbeycompany.bsky.social · 2d

How can people not know "Lift Every Voice and Sing"?

Turhan's Bey Company @turhansbeycompany.bsky.social · 3d

I am caught between the Scylla of eating too much and the Charybdis of not having enough leftovers to be worth putting away.

As ever, setting course for Scylla.

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Turhan's Bey Company @turhansbeycompany.bsky.social · 4d

Like a bag of potato chips, you don't *need* any of the supplements, but you may *really want* an increasing number of them. Stay strong!

Or, y'know, not. Go wild if that's where your muse leads you.

Turhan's Bey Company @turhansbeycompany.bsky.social · 5d

a man with a red face is standing in a space ship and saying it 's a trap .

Alt: Admiral Akbar shouting "It's a trap!"

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Turhan's Bey Company @turhansbeycompany.bsky.social · 5d

Twelve-hour roasted tomatoes.

Turhan's Bey Company @turhansbeycompany.bsky.social · 5d

Widely believed, but not true, and Beatles scholars have established that Lennon was playing GURPS much earlier. This is a perfect example; the original title was "A (H) Day's Night."

Weremuskrat John @muskratjohn.bsky.social · 5d

THIS IS ALL TRUE!!!

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Turhan's Bey Company @turhansbeycompany.bsky.social · 5d

Po.
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* Purple.

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Turhan's Bey Company @turhansbeycompany.bsky.social · 6d

Best xmas present for everyone I'm related to, including me, or worst xmas present for everyone I'm related to, including me?

John Raimo @johnraimo.bsky.social · 6d

Arnoud S. Q. Visser ( @arnoudvisser.bsky.social), On Pedantry: A Cultural History of the Know-it-All (@princetonupress.bsky.social, 2025; #skystorians) press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

On Pedantry

A lively and entertaining cultural history of a supremely annoying intellectual vice

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Turhan's Bey Company @turhansbeycompany.bsky.social · 7d

I'm reminded of the Vorta in "Rocks and Shoals" whose primary concern is not the fighting prowess of the Starfleet crew opposing him but rather "those famed Starfleet engineers who can turn rocks into replicators."

Turhan's Bey Company @turhansbeycompany.bsky.social · 7d

I accept the duty which has fallen to me in these difficult times.

Turhan's Bey Company @turhansbeycompany.bsky.social · 7d

These calzones are both large and gorgeous.

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Turhan's Bey Company @turhansbeycompany.bsky.social · 7d

(Writing a bit where a MS sysadmin squints at the protagonist's laptop and asks how they got a GNU through security.)

Lizard @lizardky.bsky.social · 7d

The awkward moment when you want a minor character to show she's suspicious by asking a protagonist how she got a gun through security, and you realize you never established how said protagonist DID acquire the gun... time to add in some stuff. Sigh.

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Turhan's Bey Company @turhansbeycompany.bsky.social · 8d

The Zeitgeist writes; and, having writ, Moves on.

Turhan's Bey Company @turhansbeycompany.bsky.social · 8d

I heard an Orthodox priest talk about the kinds of guys who become tradcaths sniffing around Orthodoxy. When they ask him what they need to do to be Orthodox, he tells them that first and foremost they have to go to church.

He never hears from them again.

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Turhan's Bey Company @turhansbeycompany.bsky.social · 10d

I was on the cultural and archaeological side of the house rather than in physical anthropology, but we all had mad respect for her.

Jane Goodall, renowned chimpanzee researcher and animal advocate, dies at 91

"Dr. Goodall's discoveries as an ethologist revolutionized science, and she was a tireless advocate for the protection and restoration of our natural world," the Jane Goodall Institute said in a Wedne...

www.nbcnews.com

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Turhan's Bey Company @turhansbeycompany.bsky.social · 10d

die for the emperor if it took a few enemies with them. We have an army of regular guys who just wanted to go home and won because of the arsenal of democracy and an awful lot of exceptionally motivated Russians.

Turhan's Bey Company @turhansbeycompany.bsky.social · 10d

governmental competence; outside of the space between Richmond and DC, Confederate leadership was poor and ours was mostly OK.

And WWII. We got a twofer! The Wermacht with its spit and polish professionals in the Prussian tradition and the empire of Japan with a general willingness to

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Turhan's Bey Company @turhansbeycompany.bsky.social · 10d

The Civil War. Southern cavaliers with long military traditions of dash and daring vs a ragtag army with a bunch of immigrants right off the boat and, by the end, a substantial number of exceptionally motivated black guys. We win because weight of numbers, industry, and basic military and

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