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Daniel Zenon Klein
@danielzklein.bsky.social
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Game designer, prev. Riot, Magnopus, Respawn. Loves dogs, pretzels, absurd humor, and magnesium. Shader truther. Reads too many TTRPGs, starts too many creative projects, never finishes anyt
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Here's another fun fact about that show (Mystère)
The snail seen growing larger throughout the show is called Alice. By the end of the show, she is a giant inflatable puppet controlled by four puppeteers from the inside. The puppeteers move her around by following markings on the floor, since they can not see outside the puppet. They also control her eyes, torso, and tail.
November 23, 2025 at 9:24 PM
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I have this reminder of my job description hanging over my office desk
Me holding a big framed piece of art depicting the goose from untitled goose game honking with a caption of "I think I will cause problems on purpose"
November 9, 2025 at 12:37 AM
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The Blue Jays strand three runners in the 10th Los Angeles loaded the bases with one out in the 10th inning, but Seranthony Domínguez got two quick outs to escape. Giménez threw out Mookie Betts at home plate on Pages’ grounder to shortstop, then Guerrero fielded Hernández’s grounder to first and flipped to Domínguez covering the bag on a close play. Samuel Johnson reading this paragraph in, presumably, time traveler's monthly, and then looking directly at the yet to be invented camera like the fuck? (It's the what did I just read meme)
November 2, 2025 at 4:47 PM
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Excuse me sir, this is main
NYT headline reading "Trump and Xi Could 'Consummate' TikTok Deal This Week, Bessent Says"
October 26, 2025 at 6:11 PM
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@tkingfisher.com I finished What Stalks the Deep and it was wonderful! Whenever I think of your "What [verb]s the [noun]" series, I think of this absolutely real album cover, especially because of the subtitle under the illustration.

"Who swarms" sounds like the first half of a future title.
The cover for Sleepytime Gorilla Museum's album "of Natural History", featuring old timey "science" illustrations of plants around the edge, two insects across the vertical middle at the very left and right edges, and in between the insects an illustration of a wolf standing on a supine man's belly in front of two trees. Under the illustration is the following text: "AIMING to ANSWER COMMON QUESTIONS What does Man's best friend want from us? What happened in the past? Will the future involve wood? Can we help the lower animals? How does one stare at the sun? Do gall-makers enjoy beauty? What is a gymnosperm? What is delicious? Who swarms?"
October 20, 2025 at 10:26 PM
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Women don't like the vehicle
A burning waymo from the recent LA anti ICE protests
October 17, 2025 at 12:55 AM
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Women don't like the vehicle.
The killdozer (possibly a recreation)
October 17, 2025 at 12:01 AM
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Women don't like the vehicle.
A spaceship from The Expanse referred to as "Epstein's Yacht"
October 16, 2025 at 11:29 PM
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A screenshot from the show community with the character Jeff looking at a nitrogen cooled Thermos of Chevy Chase's sperm. Or Chevy Chase's character? I'm not sure. Anyway, point is, Chevy was giving his little seed soldiers away left and right and no one wanted them.
October 16, 2025 at 11:15 PM
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This is true! The Mercury and Apollo programs were famously so all-American they didn't have to import a single paperclip! Google "project paperclip" for more information.
Logan Hall @ @loganclarkhall • 19h Vance is so good: "The American Space Program, the first program to put a human being on the moon, was built by American citizens. This idea that American citizens don't have the talent to do great things, that you have to import a foreign class of servants, I just reject that." the quote retweet reads: “Funniest possible example to pick lol”
September 27, 2025 at 7:20 AM
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Incredible sunset Incredible sunset Incredible sunset, on fire
September 19, 2025 at 2:06 AM
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Waxing gibbous over Satwiwa
A photo of the north side of Satwiwa, a mountain in the Santa Monica mountains, with dramatic golden hour sunlight coming in from the right. There's chaparral in the foreground and a soft baby blue sky above. In the top left corner of the image, inexpertly unaligned to any thirds, you can see the moon, almost full.
September 5, 2025 at 6:44 PM
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California sunset
A sunset in the socal hills. A power pylon is visibly in the front with a beautifully illuminated orange cloud behind it A darker shot of a different pylon. The foreground is nearly black, the sunset a layer cake of reds and oranges and yellows shading into first white-blue then a deeper desaturated blue higher up More of the same sunset. A dirt path in the foreground, that cloud, now yellow orange, in the background A panorama of the sunset featuring a foreground dog
September 3, 2025 at 3:09 AM
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You know it's gonna be a banger when the credits for the instrumentalists include "excavator"
YouTube video description that reads: Music by Gautier Serre Drums : Rémi Serafino Electric Guitars : Martyn Clément Lyric voice : Marthe Alexandre Screaming voice : JB Le Bail Piano : Guilhem Fabre Bass : Mike Leon Excavator : Jérôme Casseri Additinal choir : Martyn Clément Electronics / sound design : Gautier Serre Choir : Directed by Stephan Nicolay : Sopranos : Audrey Casotti, Alix Chuvin, Arisa Hayashi, Maëla Tallec Altos : Marie-Laure Chiquerille, Camille Hefnaoui, Léa Smith Ténors : Frédéric Diquero, Thomas Lépilliez Barytons : Nathan Artigues, Robin Fernandez de Grado, Florian Gourio Basses : Hervé Do Alto, Bruno Habert, Benoît Strauss
August 28, 2025 at 10:46 PM
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She cannot not be on my chest
A picture of Yuna, our black mutt, chilling on my chest as I recline in my office chair.
August 28, 2025 at 8:13 PM
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Sunsets in this part of the world are seriously pretty.
A sunset over a SoCal coastal community. The sky ranges from bright yellow on the right end of the horizon to a soft peachy color on the left end of the horizon. Above the yellows are various gradients running to a white-blue on the right and a deeper sky blue on the left. Wider angle of the same. There's a blue to almost pinkish salmon gradient on the left and a bright blue to bright yellow gradient on the right, closer to the sunset. A very wide stitched together panorama of the same. On the distorted dirt path in the foreground a cute black dog is visible on the right side. She seems to be watching the sunset as well, but knowing Yuna she probably heard a bird in the undergrowth. A photo from 10 minutes later. It is now night-dark in the foreground and the sky is a striking yellow to dark blue gradient.
August 19, 2025 at 8:28 PM
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These goofy ass Nazis sound like they're in a Wes Anderson movie.
In the Ozark Mountains of Arkansas, nearly an hour from the closest city, a small group of homesteaders is building an exclusive community from scratch. Applicants to the community are screened with an in-person interview, a criminal-background check, a questionnaire about ancestral heritage and sometimes even photographs of their relatives. The community’s two architects — a classically trained French horn player who has livestreamed his own sex videos, and a former jazz pianist arrested but not charged for attempted murder in Ecuador — say they must personally confirm that applicants are white before they can be welcomed in.
August 19, 2025 at 5:11 PM
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Same
These Majestic Seabirds Never Stop Pooping Streaked shearwaters keep a very regular rhythm throughout their daily foraging flights, shedding about 5 percent of their body mass every hour.
August 19, 2025 at 8:46 AM
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two movies nobody would believe are by the same director
The movie poster for babe, the pig movie Poster for furiosa
August 17, 2025 at 9:10 AM
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Our corner of the world gets incredible sunsets.
Recent sunset over Camarillo, seen from the powerline trail in Newbury Park. The sky is in improbably soft gradient from a desaturated blue at the top to a very very warm and soft orange-brown at the horizon. In the foreground are two hills, the right one featuring a pair of electricity pylons with the powerlines bisecting the image in half. In the background are multiple layers of hills separated by fields of fog, becoming lighter and lighter into the distance, like some 90s sidescroller with gorgeous parallax scrolling.
August 12, 2025 at 7:07 PM
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Me and my partner refer to this energy drink as a "Stephen Miller" because, you know, white monster.
A can of monster "zero ultra"
August 8, 2025 at 11:29 PM
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The main title screen for Sid Meier's Railroad Tycoon (1990) in glorious four color CGA (some psychopath selected white, black, cyan, and pink)
August 7, 2025 at 10:50 PM
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Here are the five Democrats who did vote YEA on this bill:
A screen from the webpage of the clerk of the house (clerk.house.gov) showing the Democratic YEAs from roll call 212 / bill H.R. 4016. It shows that the following Democrats voted for it: Davis (NC), Golden (ME), Gonzales (TX), Gray (CA), Perez (WA)
July 21, 2025 at 6:50 PM
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This is where I post from.
A picture of a random LAN party from the 90s. Awkward but cool young men, big CRT monitors, roughly half an inch of space to move your mouse.
July 19, 2025 at 9:41 PM
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Relatable
A sign in front of an old tree reading "please respect my old age and failing condition. PLEASE: - don't play in the open space - watch for falling limbs - no pets in the open space - my roots and limbs are delicate and require your care and concern"
July 16, 2025 at 1:38 AM