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Norin 🦈 🔜 Twitchcon @mahoukarp.com · 3h

Im just a shark
#art #sharks

illustration of a shark working on a laptop. Second image is them crying on their desk

Text: "Why do cute people (me) have to suffer so much"

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Huckleberry RPG 🔜 BackerKit 10/7 @huckleberryrpg.com · 1d

The Wyrd cannot be contained… Huckleberry is LIVE NOW on BackerKit. We funded in under 30 minutes! This bespoke system is built for quick learning and cinematic action. Back now and score a free dice tray!

www.backerkit.com/c/projects/h...

Huckleberry: A Wyrd West RPG

Huckleberry is a TTRPG about tragic cowboys in a world doomed to calamity… unless you save it. Take on the profession of a Maverick: a grizzled bounty hunter who rides out beyond the bounds of civiliz...

www.backerkit.com

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Midge & Susie @midgeandsusie.bsky.social · 17h

CorgiSharks are extremely dangerous, but can be bribed with treats to prevent any real harm.
Also they tire easily and are safe to approach when they are snoozing.

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The Spaceshipper 🚀 @thespaceshipper.com · 19h

"Piloting a podracer at wild speeds through a Holotable that only becomes as large as your arms can stretch is a deeply flawed idea. I can’t see far enough ahead to plan turns, and it's never as thrilling as actually sitting in the cockpit."

That's what I feared from the first look.

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🖤🐦‍⬛⚫𝑭𝒆𝒅𝒆⚫🐦‍⬛🖤 @fsohns.bsky.social · 1d

If you wanna see indie creators succeed, remember you can always write reviews, talk about your play experience, do shoutouts, plenty of stuff that helps so much since there's only so many places that offer us outreach, especially if we are outside of the D&D/OSR space

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Andarta 🏳️‍⚧️🍁🏳️‍⚧️ @deuteriumice.bsky.social · 1d

... like seriously
purely amazing

🎃 Xero Reynolds 🎃 @artificerind.bsky.social · 1d

Still some final details to paint, but here's today's progress on the Clockwork Dragon encounter build. Then it's on to painting the star of the show! #ttrpg #minipainting

A 3D printed display made up of what appears to be tiered Clockwork gears painted in shades of bronze, copper and gold. On top of the display sits and unpainted Clockwork Dragon from Wiz kids.

The same display without the Clockwork Dragon miniature

A shot of the largest gear on its own, rendered in brass, copper and gold.

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Andarta 🏳️‍⚧️🍁🏳️‍⚧️ @deuteriumice.bsky.social · 1d

I had forgotten about this game. It had been on my list to get and read but I kept forgetting.

I need to research a little into the whole shipping of a moderately sized processed tree into the frozen north, but it's jumped up on my list of ones to get.

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Andarta 🏳️‍⚧️🍁🏳️‍⚧️ @deuteriumice.bsky.social · 1d

I saw this in my recommendations, and thanks to @agentshades.bsky.social I was thinking of WarGames.
After watching it, it's a pretty good recounting of the story

www.youtube.com/watch?v=rQdU...

The 80s Film That Took Research Too Far

YouTube video by Frame Voyager

www.youtube.com

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Andarta 🏳️‍⚧️🍁🏳️‍⚧️ @deuteriumice.bsky.social · 1d

then there's the different encryption types...

The fun of languages also turns into what can be for the researchers, just imagine they're needing to decipher a COBOL database to find a clue.

Programming in some ways is a skill, in some ways is a version of magic, or in some even close to a prayer.

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Andarta 🏳️‍⚧️🍁🏳️‍⚧️ @deuteriumice.bsky.social · 1d

Getting inside the encryption/firewall is one thing. Even having something akin to a VPN might have different security around it vs a hardwired computer.

but the amount of 'hacking' that's social engineering... it's always forgotten.

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Andarta 🏳️‍⚧️🍁🏳️‍⚧️ @deuteriumice.bsky.social · 1d

There's an old saw that mostly holds up, a station wagon has a higher data transfer rate than fiber.

If you need to deny plans you might just need to find the hard drive that they're on and steal that drive to hold ransom.

or it could be on air gapped hardware.

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Andarta 🏳️‍⚧️🍁🏳️‍⚧️ @deuteriumice.bsky.social · 1d

It's all hacking from the Hackers/Tron school of hacking at any rate.

Even getting something up to the Sneakers level of hacking would be a whole adventure that could include the whole party.

But having to know networking structures is something very over the head of most programmers let alone GMs

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Andarta 🏳️‍⚧️🍁🏳️‍⚧️ @deuteriumice.bsky.social · 1d

I'll finally start listening then, probably.
For no reason at all it was brought up in the out takes of a Heroes show that was recently recorded/edited

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Andarta 🏳️‍⚧️🍁🏳️‍⚧️ @deuteriumice.bsky.social · 1d

I'd love to find a good weird west style game that isn't Deadlands... that setting... yeah, nah.

Oh...
Eat the Reich

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Andarta 🏳️‍⚧️🍁🏳️‍⚧️ @deuteriumice.bsky.social · 1d

Most of @cannibalhalfling.bsky.social 's works are ones I want to get to the table.
I want to get Cyberpunk Red to the table more, though that's mostly because it's smashing the powerful.
Heck I've even turned a Star Wars AP into a pseudo Cyberpunk style adventure.

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Mina Virtua 💾🐻 (Digi Desktop Buddy VStreamer) @minavirtua.bsky.social · 1d

Please do invoices!!!

I've been working on an invoice basis for a good few years and it helps a lot to keep track of your stuff
I'm definitely gonna be changing what goes in my invoice note going forward though if this is triggering it

Gilbert #NewDeal4Animation @discord12395.bsky.social · 6d

This is a warning to every artists and clients using PayPal: Leave the note blank or send invoices. Apparently even saying "commission" makes them trigger happy. #SaveSpeech #StopPaypros

And continue the pressure by calling PayPal. Helpful link here: anti-censorship-campaign.carrd.co#phonescript

@Inker_comics: I JUST GOT FUCKED UP REAL BAD [shared a screenshot of his suspension from PayPal]

@MrQuessos: [quote tweeting @Inker_comics] If you are going to pay an artist via PayPal, please DO NOT include ANYTHING related to commission or nsfw in the payment description. Whether out of ignorance or innocence, you could screw up someone's job.

Mastercard

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Jennifer Sweets | 🍭😈 | Vtuber Model Giveaway In Pinned! @jennifersweets.bsky.social · 1d

WE HIT 380 ON YOUTUBE, to make it easier for yall COMMENT ON THIS POST TO ENTER THE 2d VTUBER MODEL RAFFLE, ILL DO THE PULLING THIS WEEKEND

#vtuber #envtuber #giveaway #raffle #artraffle

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Andarta 🏳️‍⚧️🍁🏳️‍⚧️ @deuteriumice.bsky.social · 1d

seriously this is impressive and amazing

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Mike Sowden @mikeachim.bsky.social · 2d

Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy:
www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...

Post from Threads user rodneyowl: "Ireland has declared the Basic Income for Artists scheme permanent. This will be officially announced in tomorrow’s budget. Details to follow. Congratulations to all who fought for it and the present and future artists of all sorts in Ireland. That includes me 👌We’re just comin to the end of a 3 year pilot scheme. It’s been a roaring success. For every €1 paid out to the 2000 participants, the government got €1.46 back. Can’t argue with that. Other countries are already taking note."

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Bentley @bigclimate.bsky.social · 1d

#abpoli #Nenshi #ClimateChange #MarkCarney #EnergyTransition #cdnpoli bsky.app/profile/bigc...

Bentley @bigclimate.bsky.social · 2d

For your attention, Messrs @naheednenshi.bsky.social & @mark-carney.bsky.social:

#Pipelines are a BAD DEAL, stop pretending they're not. Show some courage. Tell the truth. Build for Canada's future not the already wealthy foreign Oil Bosses.

#abpoli #cdnpoli #ClimateChange #EnergyTransition #yyc

Pembina Institute @pembina.org · 2d

“If a new pipeline promised to be really profitable and had a really strong business case, there would be a private sector proposal in development and this point.”

Janetta McKenzie tells BNN Bloomberg why a new pipeline is bad for taxpayers and the climate.

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Erin 🇨🇦 @spicyerin.bsky.social · 1d

I want to see some real prison time. The damage these two caused is extraordinary

JeffTrnka @jefftrnka.bsky.social · 1d

Throw the book at these two traitorous scumbags.

www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Freedom Convoy figures Tamara Lich and Chris Barber to be sentenced today | CBC News

Tamara Lich and Chris Barber — two major figures of the 2022 "Freedom Convoy" — will find out Tuesday if they will receive prison time after being found guilty of mischief earlier this year.

www.cbc.ca

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Esther Schindler @estherschindler.bsky.social · 2d

I just saw someone use the abbreviation “AI;DR” and I’ll be laughing for a while.

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Jeff Day @thejeffday.bsky.social · 2d

Line of Sight....
The Old Strathcona railway tracks sometimes glow at dawn; mostly in autumn. It's short lived and beautiful. When it happens, it's like being in a painting. It gives my eyes a feeling like a runners high.
#photography #railways #autumn #sunrise #eastcoastkin #fineartphotography

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David Weiskopf believes in you @dave.bzky.team · 1d

Offsets can't cut carbon *even in theory*

The whole point of offsets is to create permission to *not* cut carbon.

So when they don't even live up to their own standard, they are so much worse.

David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 1d

News that shocks no one: Carbon offsets do nothing for climate.

Carbon offsets fail to cut global heating due to ‘intractable’ systemic problems, study says

Analysis of 25 years of evidence shows most schemes are poor quality and fail to lower emissions

www.theguardian.com

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Andarta 🏳️‍⚧️🍁🏳️‍⚧️ @deuteriumice.bsky.social · 1d

I mean, both good on them and what teachers are paid and have to put up with is near criminal.

Western Hemlox @westernhemlox.bsky.social · 2d

Edson, Alberta.

#albertateachers #abpoli #ableg #abed

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