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Longwing
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A pile of calcium sticks glued together by proteins and piloted by a ghost.
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Good evening Pittsburg.
An HDR photo of part of the Pittsburgh skyline under a grey sky. Seen from high bleachers at PNC park.
September 14, 2025 at 1:32 AM
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The replacement material I've been missing.

#humor #electrical #hardware #modding #maker
An amber glass jar, common in earlier eras and evoking a kind of 1970s nostalgia. The jar has an old label in white, black, and red. Which reads: REPLACEMENT WIRE HARNESS SMOKE 54953043 LUCAS Genuine Service Part POSITIVE EARTH ONLY 500 ML MADE IN ENGLAND The jar looks like some kind of real-world old supply for automotive, electrical, or machining use.
August 31, 2025 at 5:19 PM
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Lava lamp.
August 18, 2025 at 11:25 PM
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August 17, 2025 at 10:12 PM
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This is my “Very best special recipe green curry”. As in “Leave me alone, I’m trying my very best.”
July 31, 2025 at 12:46 AM
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I love think pieces that treat free bus fares like we're letting "the poors" win the sodding lottery. They're exactly the kind of thing you get from someone who's never been on a bus.

Just let people get to work man.
July 8, 2025 at 7:43 PM
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Weird weather.
May 30, 2025 at 10:50 PM
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Comps on a cigar in a brick basement under a bar lightbulb.

“Look all I’m sayin’ is someone murdered that ruleset and we’s gonna find out who.”
A whiteboard littered with dozens of notes on tiny scraps of paper, all pinned down with neon colored magnetic pins in different shapes and sizes. Major NPC’s involved in attack or defense?Opposed rules to see who loses vitality. Buildings have vitality. Towns have vitality. Refugee camps move one hex per campaign turn until they settle at least two hexes from old location. Refugees can merge with another town. The tent city becomes a new zone. This weakens is the town by three. A refugee camp is a tent city with few permanent structures. Needs upgrades to be considered a proper fraction hold. Camps happen if a hold collapses. Bigger cities = bigger scale. Districts surround important buildings. What about fire? Raid no fire, except as distraction. wants loot . Conquest, fire a favored tactic. Every building is a zone. Need a N/S/E/W zone for enemy approach. Zone zones can be set up prior to combat. Win or lose an attack reduces a hold challenge by three maybe four. Recover at one per campaign turn. Don’t track individual building health recovery. Too fiddly. Holding falls to chaos if all buildings are set ablaze. How are holdings attacked? If no PC present then single contested role faction versus holding. Good for offscreen actions. But what about PCs? Buildings can be injured injury level listed on building stat block. Unopposed enemies will attack the building in their zone. Fire! On GM turn roll for burning building. On a one add injury and the fire spreads. Villagers will try to put out fire if no enemy in zone. There’s more but frankly, this is exhausting. I’ve been typing it forever so I’m going to stop here. If you’re curious maybe I’ll publish the whole rule set someday.
May 12, 2025 at 10:35 PM
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Oh for...
Screenshot of a google search. The search term is "cthulhu's" and the auto completes (based on popluar other searches) include "cthulhu mythos", but also include "Is cthulhu real" and "cthulhu real photo".
May 10, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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Quick reminder, the Luddites were opposed to the Jacquard Loom. The Jacquard Loom was a (very clever) technology that replaced what had previously been skilled labor with an automated process that mimicked the skilled labor at scale.

Popular culture remembers them as people who "hated technology".
Punch cards tied together with strings to make long ribbons that hang in accordion patterns waiting to be loaded into a loom, looking somewhat like a technological beehive.
May 8, 2025 at 10:43 PM
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There are worse places to eat dinner than under an awning in a rainstorm.

It’s real pretty when it’s happening right _over there_ and not on my head.
A green expanse of rain soaked front yard, a magnolia tree in the foreground with an oversized wind chime hanging in its branches, a maple tree and a holly tree in the back. All leaves, slicked darker green as the gray sky drops water down on the verdancy below.
May 5, 2025 at 11:46 PM
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If you see this, quote with the energy you bring to BlueSky.
March 23, 2025 at 1:44 AM
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Orbital Bodies is a Mecha RPG with an unusual (and cool!) combat system that centers around destroying parts of a mech. I've yet to playtest, but it makes a great read, and sets off that lovely brainfizzy feeling of neat ideas made manfest in a game.

www.kickstarter.com/projects/885...

#ttrpg #rpg
Adrift Among the Bodies of the Dead After the calamity, the infinite dark between the stars felt crowded by refugees on ships meant for fewer people and finite trips. They drifted out, directionless, past the fractured settlements on the moon and Mars. Still too close to what was, and too much risk given what happened. In the second generation, those who survived in their home-ships now cannibalized the skeletons of the less fortunate vessels. The great luxury-gardens that centered themselves on these cruisers now burst with food, air, and their own weather patterns. Military mecha were dusted off, and they scavenged and fought on any moon and scattered space debris large enough to hold them. Anything for celestial superiority, to build their homes and their machines bigger, stronger, better. The third generation expanded their ships; their mecha, and their operations. They fled to farther stars, populations in space stations and on planets booming while lives were lost in petty disputes. The further they fled from the devastation of their home, the faster they built settlements and claimed territory. Mechs were destroyed, and from the ashes they were reborn from the parts that remained. Pilot and mech merged as one and became more than war heroes; they became celebrities, explorers, pioneers who lit up the dark so that everyone else may see the way. They became Lamplighters. The fourth generation discovered the titans. No probe had yet reached these dead gods whose frozen bodies spanned hundreds of miles, and all soon discovered the strength of their bones for weaponry. Strange dreams plagued the home-ships near to these titans, but it did nothing to push them away. Rare pieces of titan-bone were integrated into the mechs, but it was a difficult material to work with. Some pilots reported odd behavior from their mech. Most did not notice a difference between bone and steel. You are the fifth generation.
March 7, 2025 at 11:46 PM
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I'm reading Celestial Bodies, a mecha RPG of far future combat.
Adrift Among the Bodies of the Dead After the calamity, the infinite dark between the stars felt crowded by refugees on ships meant for fewer people and finite trips. They drifted out, directionless, past the fractured settlements on the moon and Mars. Still too close to what was, and too much risk given what happened. In the second generation, those who survived in their home-ships now cannibalized the skeletons of the less fortunate vessels. The great luxury-gardens that centered themselves on these cruisers now burst with food, air, and their own weather patterns. Military mecha were dusted off, and they scavenged and fought on any moon and scattered space debris large enough to hold them. Anything for celestial superiority, to build their homes and their machines bigger, stronger, better. The third generation expanded their ships; their mecha, and their operations. They fled to farther stars, populations in space stations and on planets booming while lives were lost in petty disputes. The further they fled from the devastation of their home, the faster they built settlements and claimed territory. Mechs were destroyed, and from the ashes they were reborn from the parts that remained. Pilot and mech merged as one and became more than war heroes; they became celebrities, explorers, pioneers who lit up the dark so that everyone else may see the way. They became Lamplighters. The fourth generation discovered the titans. No probe had yet reached these dead gods whose frozen bodies spanned hundreds of miles, and all soon discovered the strength of their bones for weaponry. Strange dreams plagued the home-ships near to these titans, but it did nothing to push them away. Rare pieces of titan-bone were integrated into the mechs, but it was a difficult material to work with. Some pilots reported odd behavior from their mech. Most did not notice a difference between bone and steel. You are the fifth generation.
March 7, 2025 at 11:42 PM
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Dice made of bouncy silicone! These bounce like childhood bouncy balls and they’re an absolute DELIGHT to roll. #ttrpg #rpg #dnd
A collection of 7 polyhedral dice, the traditional set used when playing RPGs, sitting on a worn leather mat. The dice are striped in bright colors but oddly matte, giving the distinct visual impression of the texture of rubber bands.
March 5, 2025 at 4:33 PM
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Dystopias have marketing departments too.
March 1, 2025 at 1:42 PM
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So our thermostat can play Spotifiy… I GUESS!?
February 27, 2025 at 6:53 PM
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Wow, is this Monday on fire or is it just me?

…oh.
Thermometer with a glowing orange screen displaying a temperature of 100.0 degrees Fahrenheit.
February 10, 2025 at 7:59 PM
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I'm sorry to hear about your loss, but I've just got to say: There are day's I'm feeling pretty accomplished, but not "100 books" accomplished. The combined creative and logistical effort absolutely boggles my mind.
Popular meme format of a surprised looking woman smiling with text superimposed that says "The What", in an attempt to impart shock and surprise. This version is modified with a screenshot from a Bluesky post that says "Nora Roberts first 100 books" with the overlay text of the meme adjusted to say "Her. What."
January 23, 2025 at 8:22 PM
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Heads up, this questionnaire is going to take a weird left turn in the 3rd act.

1) Do you live near Montgomery County Maryland (or can get to somewhere on the Red Line)?
2) Are you LGBTQ+?
3) Do you like boardgames/RPGs?
4) Would you be interested in participating in an epic HeroQuest campaign?
Photo of a sprawling dungeon complex littered with figurines and dice, all at miniature/DnD scale, hand painted and occupying an entire table. Photo of a sprawling dungeon complex littered with figurines and dice, all at miniature/DnD scale, hand painted and occupying an entire table. Photo of a sprawling dungeon complex littered with figurines and dice, all at miniature/DnD scale, hand painted and occupying an entire table. Photo of a sprawling dungeon complex littered with figurines and dice, all at miniature/DnD scale, hand painted and occupying an entire table.
January 23, 2025 at 7:31 PM
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What kind of monster
A photo of a pack of pliers including a pair of knipping pliers held together with a zip tie.
January 18, 2025 at 7:35 PM
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First truly successful 3D print using wood fiber filament. Previous attempts did NOT a come out this clean.
Photograph of a 2-part shell for a mechanical device, clearly 3d printed, but using a wood-fiber filament that gives a distinct matte finish.
January 15, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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An old-school informational or warning poster that reads: Know your nearest numbers station, it could save your life. The poster depicts a stylized radio tower in a pine forest with radio waves emanating from it and a subtle random number background. The style evokes an older era and a kind of earnest caution we don't see in the modern age.
January 2, 2025 at 2:04 PM
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A warning/informational sign that reads: "Lycanthropy is not a joke. It CAN happen to you! Schedule your boosters today. The sign is designed to look like an old-school warning poster, like something you'd find literally in an old school.
January 2, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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These are a delight. Posters from the Office for the Preservation of Normalcy. They're hilarious and there's dozens of them.

You can find them here:
preservationofnormalcy.tumblr.com/post/7239243...

And get posters here:
ko-fi.com/officepn/shop

(I've no affiliation, I just think these are neat).
Warning sign in old WW2 style depicting two hands and some dialog: "May I have your name" "N.O." Followed by informational text saying: Remember Nomenclature Opsec (with N and O underlined). When dealing with suspected Fae NAMES HAVE POWER. The poster is black text on a faded green background meant to evoke subtle age, like something you'd find in a disused facility or installation.
January 2, 2025 at 1:59 PM