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Storyteller, knitter, Factorio-player, parent
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I’ve decided my “dream D&D group” is now The Muppets. I want to DM the muppets playing D&D/TTRPG of choice.
I want Miss Piggy to get mad at me for rolling a Crit against her. I want Kermit to bust out a lil’ bardic ditty when he uses Bardic Inspo. I want Gonzo to cast Fireball.
I want Miss Piggy to get mad at me for rolling a Crit against her. I want Kermit to bust out a lil’ bardic ditty when he uses Bardic Inspo. I want Gonzo to cast Fireball.
December 24, 2025 at 10:35 PM
I’ve decided my “dream D&D group” is now The Muppets. I want to DM the muppets playing D&D/TTRPG of choice.
I want Miss Piggy to get mad at me for rolling a Crit against her. I want Kermit to bust out a lil’ bardic ditty when he uses Bardic Inspo. I want Gonzo to cast Fireball.
I want Miss Piggy to get mad at me for rolling a Crit against her. I want Kermit to bust out a lil’ bardic ditty when he uses Bardic Inspo. I want Gonzo to cast Fireball.
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Elon found a way to make his Nazi cesspool worse. Amazing.
If you still for some reason post your art on Twitter - they added "edit" button to every image, which opens AI prompt letting anybody to modify it and post as their own.
December 25, 2025 at 1:25 AM
Elon found a way to make his Nazi cesspool worse. Amazing.
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5/ Don’t ask if your Christmas service was as good as someone else’s or even better than the one you had last year.
Ask: were people welcomed? Did they hear the good news? Were people appreciated for whatever they contributed?
Then they saw Jesus and you celebrated Christmas beautifully.
Ask: were people welcomed? Did they hear the good news? Were people appreciated for whatever they contributed?
Then they saw Jesus and you celebrated Christmas beautifully.
December 21, 2025 at 9:09 PM
5/ Don’t ask if your Christmas service was as good as someone else’s or even better than the one you had last year.
Ask: were people welcomed? Did they hear the good news? Were people appreciated for whatever they contributed?
Then they saw Jesus and you celebrated Christmas beautifully.
Ask: were people welcomed? Did they hear the good news? Were people appreciated for whatever they contributed?
Then they saw Jesus and you celebrated Christmas beautifully.
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Annual reminder to clergy and ministers of all kinds:
The first celebration of Jesus’ birth involved a handful of people in a stable - not a packed cathedral or stadium.
The first Christmas choir only had one song, and their only audience were rough shepherds, who found it terrifying.
/1
The first celebration of Jesus’ birth involved a handful of people in a stable - not a packed cathedral or stadium.
The first Christmas choir only had one song, and their only audience were rough shepherds, who found it terrifying.
/1
December 21, 2025 at 9:09 PM
Annual reminder to clergy and ministers of all kinds:
The first celebration of Jesus’ birth involved a handful of people in a stable - not a packed cathedral or stadium.
The first Christmas choir only had one song, and their only audience were rough shepherds, who found it terrifying.
/1
The first celebration of Jesus’ birth involved a handful of people in a stable - not a packed cathedral or stadium.
The first Christmas choir only had one song, and their only audience were rough shepherds, who found it terrifying.
/1
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My other annual reminder:
“Don’t Keep Christ in Christmas”
Don’t keep Christ in Christmas.
Let him out.
Let him out of the box of decorations stored in the attic
Let him out of prayers you only say at Midnight Mass
Let him out of carols as background to your shopping. /1
“Don’t Keep Christ in Christmas”
Don’t keep Christ in Christmas.
Let him out.
Let him out of the box of decorations stored in the attic
Let him out of prayers you only say at Midnight Mass
Let him out of carols as background to your shopping. /1
December 21, 2025 at 9:18 PM
My other annual reminder:
“Don’t Keep Christ in Christmas”
Don’t keep Christ in Christmas.
Let him out.
Let him out of the box of decorations stored in the attic
Let him out of prayers you only say at Midnight Mass
Let him out of carols as background to your shopping. /1
“Don’t Keep Christ in Christmas”
Don’t keep Christ in Christmas.
Let him out.
Let him out of the box of decorations stored in the attic
Let him out of prayers you only say at Midnight Mass
Let him out of carols as background to your shopping. /1
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Uhh, the existence of concentration camps and the torture happening there IS the input from the Trump regime.
December 22, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Uhh, the existence of concentration camps and the torture happening there IS the input from the Trump regime.
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Man, I'm done with the days getting shorter! I am talking to MANAGEMENT. I will GET RESULTS. If the days get longer here on out, you'll know who to thank.
December 21, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Man, I'm done with the days getting shorter! I am talking to MANAGEMENT. I will GET RESULTS. If the days get longer here on out, you'll know who to thank.
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This is rule fucking one of research and documentation. Read. The. Things. You. Cite.
(How the fuck else will you know if they are relevant to your argument if you don’t at least GLANCE at them?)
(How the fuck else will you know if they are relevant to your argument if you don’t at least GLANCE at them?)
Do not cite an academic paper unless you’ve read it
AI Is Inventing Academic Papers That Don't Exist -- And They're Being Cited in Real Journals
Academic articles from authors using large language model are creating an ecosystem of fake research that threatens human knowledge itself.
www.rollingstone.com
December 21, 2025 at 6:58 PM
This is rule fucking one of research and documentation. Read. The. Things. You. Cite.
(How the fuck else will you know if they are relevant to your argument if you don’t at least GLANCE at them?)
(How the fuck else will you know if they are relevant to your argument if you don’t at least GLANCE at them?)
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This is fantastic news, a triumph of medicine! And the overall cervical cancer rate in Oz is dropping, too, almost certainly due to HPV vaccinations.
And exactly the sort of progress RFK Jr. is trying to kill. Along with killing our citizens.
And exactly the sort of progress RFK Jr. is trying to kill. Along with killing our citizens.
Congrats to Australia, this is really cool!
report.cervicalcancercontrol.org.au
report.cervicalcancercontrol.org.au
December 21, 2025 at 7:17 PM
This is fantastic news, a triumph of medicine! And the overall cervical cancer rate in Oz is dropping, too, almost certainly due to HPV vaccinations.
And exactly the sort of progress RFK Jr. is trying to kill. Along with killing our citizens.
And exactly the sort of progress RFK Jr. is trying to kill. Along with killing our citizens.
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When so many names and faces are blacked out in the Epstein Files, the only ones left to face public scrutiny are the victims who have already been abused enough.
All names or no justice.
All names or no justice.
December 20, 2025 at 4:26 PM
When so many names and faces are blacked out in the Epstein Files, the only ones left to face public scrutiny are the victims who have already been abused enough.
All names or no justice.
All names or no justice.
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Pondering the Incarnation in an age of AI is especially moving.
God chose to dwell with us as one of us.
Not as a “replication” who told us what the algorithm determined we’d want to hear, but as a flesh and blood human who specifically broke with the algorithm and showed us something new.
God chose to dwell with us as one of us.
Not as a “replication” who told us what the algorithm determined we’d want to hear, but as a flesh and blood human who specifically broke with the algorithm and showed us something new.
December 20, 2025 at 4:44 AM
Pondering the Incarnation in an age of AI is especially moving.
God chose to dwell with us as one of us.
Not as a “replication” who told us what the algorithm determined we’d want to hear, but as a flesh and blood human who specifically broke with the algorithm and showed us something new.
God chose to dwell with us as one of us.
Not as a “replication” who told us what the algorithm determined we’d want to hear, but as a flesh and blood human who specifically broke with the algorithm and showed us something new.
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You didn't do the work of *rewiring your brain* that is required to build ANY skill, motor or cognitive.
December 20, 2025 at 2:40 PM
You didn't do the work of *rewiring your brain* that is required to build ANY skill, motor or cognitive.
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I keep wanting to say something, and I keep not knowing what to say.
The trans community does not harm cis people by existing. They are just trying to live their lives, same as anyone else. That life doesn't look exactly like mine; my life doesn't match anyone else's. That's okay.
The trans community does not harm cis people by existing. They are just trying to live their lives, same as anyone else. That life doesn't look exactly like mine; my life doesn't match anyone else's. That's okay.
December 19, 2025 at 10:57 PM
I keep wanting to say something, and I keep not knowing what to say.
The trans community does not harm cis people by existing. They are just trying to live their lives, same as anyone else. That life doesn't look exactly like mine; my life doesn't match anyone else's. That's okay.
The trans community does not harm cis people by existing. They are just trying to live their lives, same as anyone else. That life doesn't look exactly like mine; my life doesn't match anyone else's. That's okay.
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This is a great article by my pal and former American Meteorological Society president Marshall Shepherd. I was not aware of some of these, and shows just how this current regime is destroying the things that really do make our country great.
I've mostly been talking about the Trump regime's plan to dismantle NCAR, but you might be asking yourself, wtf is NCAR and why should I care? @drshepherd2013.bsky.social has got you covered here.
www.forbes.com/sites/marsha...
www.forbes.com/sites/marsha...
December 19, 2025 at 1:07 PM
This is a great article by my pal and former American Meteorological Society president Marshall Shepherd. I was not aware of some of these, and shows just how this current regime is destroying the things that really do make our country great.
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A WORD (two words) FOR MY HATERS. Watch #NightThoughts on Hulu.
December 19, 2025 at 3:10 PM
A WORD (two words) FOR MY HATERS. Watch #NightThoughts on Hulu.
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The “Anglican Church of North America” (ACNA) - broke away from the Anglican Church of Canada and the Episcopal Church of the USA because they were horrified by the “sexual immorality” of churches that treated LGBTQ people as equals.
Glad they got their sexual morals in order.
Glad they got their sexual morals in order.
Anglican archbishop to be tried for sexual immorality
An inquiry finds probable cause Anglican Archbishop Steve Wood violated vows, recommending the ACNA leader face trial for alleged misconduct.
julieroys.com
December 17, 2025 at 6:56 PM
The “Anglican Church of North America” (ACNA) - broke away from the Anglican Church of Canada and the Episcopal Church of the USA because they were horrified by the “sexual immorality” of churches that treated LGBTQ people as equals.
Glad they got their sexual morals in order.
Glad they got their sexual morals in order.
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No, there isn’t a way. There just isn’t. GenAI is poisoning the water supply of Oregon. It’s boiling inland seas.This tech, at scale, is an anti life equation, and all to spit out stolen collages of other people’s work to plug into a pipeline that has to be fixed by an underpaid real human later.
December 16, 2025 at 10:30 PM
No, there isn’t a way. There just isn’t. GenAI is poisoning the water supply of Oregon. It’s boiling inland seas.This tech, at scale, is an anti life equation, and all to spit out stolen collages of other people’s work to plug into a pipeline that has to be fixed by an underpaid real human later.
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For me the NT and incarnation is not God scrapping the OT but coming down to live among us to show us what he has always meant and how we were getting it wrong (and continue to).
December 17, 2025 at 1:04 PM
For me the NT and incarnation is not God scrapping the OT but coming down to live among us to show us what he has always meant and how we were getting it wrong (and continue to).
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Hey locals, I got a live person on Rep Budzinski’s DC office line. They are counting calls (the staffer was inputting live), so if you want to encourage her to vote AGAINST banning gender-affirming care for transgender kids, please do the thing.
December 17, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Hey locals, I got a live person on Rep Budzinski’s DC office line. They are counting calls (the staffer was inputting live), so if you want to encourage her to vote AGAINST banning gender-affirming care for transgender kids, please do the thing.
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This is the sort of contract that if you were entertaining signing it, your friends should smash through a window, do roll on the floor, leap up in a feral pounce and slap it out of your hands
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December 17, 2025 at 1:50 PM
This is the sort of contract that if you were entertaining signing it, your friends should smash through a window, do roll on the floor, leap up in a feral pounce and slap it out of your hands
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This literally made me angry as a child. I remember telling my mother than Cookie Monster was EVIL for wasting all these good cookies.
December 12, 2025 at 3:05 AM
This literally made me angry as a child. I remember telling my mother than Cookie Monster was EVIL for wasting all these good cookies.
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Remember when your premiums go up by factors of 2 or 3 or *more* in January that this is entirely 100% pure through-and-through the fault of the GOP.
Strange that House Republicans weren't able to solve this problem in a two hour meeting after procrastinating for all of 2025 and generally failing to come up with a health care plan for the last 16+ years
December 10, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Remember when your premiums go up by factors of 2 or 3 or *more* in January that this is entirely 100% pure through-and-through the fault of the GOP.
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Wow! I hope this makes progress. RFK Jr. is a plague upon our house.
After months of work in DC, @rephaleystevens.bsky.social has, with the support of @standupforscience.bsky.social, introduced articles of impeachment against RFK Jr.
But...the press thinks it can't be done. We aren't buying it.
WE NEED YOUR HELP!!!!
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/10/u...
But...the press thinks it can't be done. We aren't buying it.
WE NEED YOUR HELP!!!!
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/10/u...
House Democrat Seeks to Impeach Kennedy for Undercutting Public Health
www.nytimes.com
December 10, 2025 at 12:25 PM
Wow! I hope this makes progress. RFK Jr. is a plague upon our house.