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Imperial Dating System @imperialdating.bsky.social · 19h

The Imperial Date is: 0 780 025.M3

++ THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: There is only the Emperor, and he is our shield and protector ++

By the old Holy Terran dates (UTC) it is 'Sunday'

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Bertoni @thebertoni.bsky.social · Aug 24

Foto meme de um tipo de efeito dominó em que as peças ficam gradativamente maiores, um homem esta prestes a derrubar a peça menor onde o texto diz em inglês "learning to draw" (aprendendo a desenhar) e na peça maior no final da fileira o texto diz "everybody knowing what your fetishes are" (todo mundo descobrindo quais seus fetiches são).

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Tara Tarantella @tarantella.bsky.social · 21h

Wow. An ad that’s a full-throated understanding and specific support of the LGBTQIA+ community. I’m impressed to the level of “Can this ad truly be coming from a Democrat?” level of impressed

Katelyn Boo-urns @katelynburns.com · 1d

I wrote a little about some of the little details you might have missed in this video and why it hit me so hard as a trans person this morning:

www.burnsnotice.com/you-have-to-...

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Marco Rogers @polotek.bsky.social · 1d

I had a lot of convos with people who said they were sympathetic, but Defund the Police was a "bad slogan". I told them it wasn't a slogan. It was an answer. It was an answer to the constant question "what can we do to actually lower crime and make our neighborhood's safer?"

Anyway. Here we are.

Jay Perk @johnathanperk.bsky.social · 1d

Should’ve defunded the police like we instructed smh

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Hellebore @helleborezine.bsky.social · 1d

British folk horror and occult characters to be on Halloween, a thread.

1. Mr Fisher from Robin Redbreast (1970).
Catchphrase: “The study of religions is one of my many interests.”
You’ll need:
- Tweed trilby
- Mutton chops
- Cracked spectacles
- A copy of The Golden Bough

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Graham Walmsley @grahamwalmsley.bsky.social · 1d

One slight difficulty I have is that, even when we try to remember "forgotten" games and cultures, we often talk mainly about the United States.

I'm personally keen to remember the Collective Endeavour (Scotland and UK) as well as The Forge. And there'll be other movements in other countries too.

Rascal News @rascal.news · 1d

Reshare: Even as TSR and D&D’s early periods receive the gold-standard treatment, there’s much more to the hobby than one game and one company. But are those histories actually important? What is at stake if we forget them?

www.rascal.news/we-cant-let-...

We can’t let the market decide what we remember and forget

Emily Friedman and Evan Torner on why gaming histories matter.

www.rascal.news

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The Japan Times @japantimes.co.jp · 1d

In 2020, Ghost of Tsushima gave life to an oft-overlooked slice of Japanese history. But in the new Ghost of Yotei, familiar samurai action-adventure thrills don’t quite live up to its new setting.

Ghost of Yotei’s bloodstained fun sidesteps Ainu identity

Set in Ezo (modern-day Hokkaido), the highly anticipated samurai action-adventure game contains familiar thrills but subpar substance.

ebx.sh

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Toby Buckle @polphilpod.bsky.social · 1d

i want a "resistance ranking" for dems that grades them on how seriously they're taking this

something like support for:

1. prosecuting gop criminality
2. court reform
3. procedural agressiveness
4. end ICE
5. trans rights
6. calling this fascism

+ points for having taken personal risks

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yorkshiremao.bsky.social @yorkshiremao.bsky.social · 1d

Yup. For one thing, DnD and US culture isn't the be all and end all and other things like the history of Fading Suns 3e are importantly illustrative events.

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The Spaceshipper 🚀 @thespaceshipper.com · 1d

"...need. I was always like, ‘Let her rest, let her recover.’ But what Walter has written seems so true to me as very much about the society that would incarcerate someone who has tried to help mankind."

I don't know how many posts I've made about Sigourney and Alien 5, but here's another one.

Sigourney Weaver Has Met With Disney About a New ‘Alien’ Script: “It’s a Very Strong First 50 Pages”

The actress also spoke at New York Comic Con about what was really behind the crew clashes with James Cameron on the sequel.

www.hollywoodreporter.com

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 1d

The Sudan Solidarity Collective supports organizations led by Sudanese civilians: including emergency response rooms, mutual aid, labor and farmers’ unions. Please give what you can and/or share.

Nisrin Elamin @nisrinelamin.bsky.social · 1d

The Sudan Solidarity Collective is doing a big fundraising push to support our partners in El Fashir to support food distribution, evacuation and medications.

Please help us boost our support. Please share and donate 👇🏾 .

sudansolidarity.com

Home - Sudan Solidarity Collective

Solidarity with Sudan! Support the Emergency Response Rooms doing life saving work in Sudan by donating to the Sudan Solidarity Fund. Workshops4Sudan is a new fundraising initiative of the Sudan Solid...

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Comfortably Numb @numb.comfortab.ly · 1d

They're literally installing Racism Dial bsky.app/profile/numb...

Comfortably Numb @numb.comfortab.ly · Jan 15

vox populi

Altman: thanks a lot for these! some common requests:

AGI (a little patience please)
GPT-5
better voice mode
higher rate limits
better GPTs
better reasoning
control over degree of wokeness/behavior
video
personalization
better browsing
'sign in with openai
open source

Quoting:
what would you like openai to build/fix in 2024?

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X-Men Don't Need Britches 💙💛 @rphutch1975.bsky.social · 1d

Shouldn't have cackled as hard as I did at this, but here we are...

By Ed Harrington

Storm trooper giving candy to a Halloween jawa trick or treating and missing the bag completely

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yorkshiremao.bsky.social @yorkshiremao.bsky.social · 1d

I accept those terms.

youtube.com/shorts/l5CAw...

Former Labour leader Neil Kinnock makes a plea to the Conservative Party #ukpolitics

YouTube video by PoliticsJOE

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yorkshiremao.bsky.social @yorkshiremao.bsky.social · 1d

This is just the War On Terror in orange bronzer.

pissed-off-g.bsky.social @pissed-off-g.bsky.social · 1d

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Elliot 🥕 @nameoftheyear.bsky.social · 1d

LOSING MY MIND AT THE PHONE NUMBER ON THIS BUS IN FRONT OF ME

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america.is.not.free @antifapatriot.bsky.social · 1d

🔥🔥🔥😄😄

#donaldtrump #dictatordon #fdjt

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 2d

In theory the kitchen should be the easiest space on the planet to clean and it's not because it's designed by men who don't use kitchens. That's it.

Don't get me started on how if I'm not careful my fish slips into a corner of my freezer that requires me to remove the freezer basket to reach

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Chaosium @chaosium.bsky.social · 2d

Today, October 10th, marks the seventh anniversary of @chaosium.bsky.social company founder Greg Stafford's passing.

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 2d

What happened to anyone who seriously threatened to reverse any part of the Thatcherite revolution? Who was it that enforced those penalties. There’s your answer, and there’s who is to blame.

The Guardian Y @theguardian.com
Follow
Thatcher was born 100 years ago and her reign feels a lifetime away. Why is her effect on the country still so huge? |
Martin Kettle

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Imperial Dating System @imperialdating.bsky.social · 2d

The Imperial Date is: 0 775 025.M3

++ THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: The rewards of tolerance are treachery and betrayal. ++

By the old Holy Terran dates (UTC) it is 'Friday'

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Travis @someforeignfield.bsky.social · 3d

For context, several thousand US military personnel have rotated through Israel during this genocide. Whether THAAD battery personnel or working on the JLOTS (the "pier") or helping build out Israeli Air Force bases, our boys have been involved in the day to day operation of the genocide machine

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 3d

“The United States is sending about 200 troops to Israel to help support and monitor the ceasefire deal in Gaza…”

US sending about 200 troops to Israel to help support and monitor ceasefire deal in Gaza

The United States is sending about 200 troops to Israel to help support and monitor the ceasefire deal in Gaza as part of a team that includes partner nations, nongovernmental organizations and privat...

apnews.com

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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 2d

The foreign secretary says the UK has been contributing to the peace process.

No. What the UK govt has been contributing to is the extermination of the Palestinian people.

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 2d

www.wweek.com/culture/2025...

Can you put into words what that purpose is? You and the frog have really become icons of this protest.

There’s been a nice overall whimsy that has shown up. The frog is amazing. We had a bunch of other inflatable people here last night, too. I saw people playing Twister the other day.

What they rely on is fear. So by coming out in an absurdist manner, it speaks to them, to some extent, that we’re actually not that afraid.

It also dismantles their narrative a little bit. When they try to describe this situation as “war-torn,” it becomes much harder to take them seriously when they have to post a video saying [U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security] Kristi Noem is up on the balcony staring over the Antifa Army and it’s, like, eight journalists and five protesters and one of them is in a chicken suit.

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yorkshiremao.bsky.social @yorkshiremao.bsky.social · 2d

Good horror material - I still think about the early Supernatural ep with Fred in it.

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Listen to Ologies with Alie Ward - Haunted Hydrology (SPOOKY LAKES) with Geo Rutherford by Alie Ward on Podcast Addict. Mudbank bones. River wrecks. Salty seas. Pink ponds. Poison dust devils. Steamy streams.. It’s Haunted Hydrology with your favorite Spooky Lakes ambassador, the artist and author Geo Rutherford who is widely known as Geodesaurus. Geo covers the dark history of The Great Lakes, a stump that controls the weather, the what and why of a good lagoon, the field excursions she’s been

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