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James D'Amato 🔜 NYCC @oneshotrpg.bsky.social · 7h

Hell yeah @systemmastery.bsky.social @jeffstormer.gobirds.online, these shelves look great!

👻Captain SLAY-os🎃 @captainchaos.myatproto.social · 7h

Haven't been to this game shop in a while damn @oneshotrpg.bsky.social got a whole section

Several RPG guides written by James D'Amato on a shelf

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James D'Amato 🔜 NYCC @oneshotrpg.bsky.social · 8h

When he gets home I just KNOW Toad is going to suck his dick.

Danny K @dannykpolitics.bsky.social · 3d

WATCH: ‘Portland Frog’ pepper balled by ICE agents

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James D'Amato 🔜 NYCC @oneshotrpg.bsky.social · 1d

Kinda fucked up what they are doing to Luigi for bucking tradition in how he chose to pay his insurer.

NPR @npr.org · 1d

President Trump is bucking tradition and legal precedent in pushing to deploy the National Guard to Democratic-led cities like Portland, Oregon, and Chicago due to what he says is rampant crime and to support his crackdown on illegal immigration.

Trump's power to deploy National Guard, explained

President Trump is bucking tradition and legal precedent in pushing to deploy the National Guard to Democratic-led cities like Portland, Oregon, and Chicago due to what he says is rampant crime and to support his crackdown on illegal immigration.

n.pr

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James D'Amato 🔜 NYCC @oneshotrpg.bsky.social · 1d

Everyone should be required to read Blood Rites by Barbara Ehrenreich before they dare speak to me.

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James D'Amato 🔜 NYCC @oneshotrpg.bsky.social · 1d

Counterpoint: War is a parasitic disease to civilization

Psychology today article titled "Peace is a Modern Invention"

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James D'Amato 🔜 NYCC @oneshotrpg.bsky.social · 1d

I totally forgot the bananas panel we are doing at NYCC this year.

To fit the horror theme for the show, @systemmastery.bsky.social @gurglespasm.bsky.social and I are going to do a Worldbuilding panel where we create new elder gods and then perform a ritual to summon one.

SUMMON NEW ELDER GODS

NYCC Panel and Signing featuring
James D'Amato, Jef Aldrich, and Jon Taylor

Saturday, October 11th 11:00 AM
1E Comm Stage

Book signing at 12 PM, Hall 1A Tables 39-48

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Superdillin (Mirror your pronouns) @superdillin.bsky.social · 1d

CONGRATULATIONS TO @shaghik.com ON HER NEW ROLE AT ONE SHOT!!!

Shaghik is now our Senior Producer and Marketing Manager and genuinely, we couldn't be in better hands.

www.rascal.news/the-one-shot...

@oneshotnetwork.bsky.social

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James D'Amato 🔜 NYCC @oneshotrpg.bsky.social · 1d

I think I might "buck tradition" by refusing to pay taxes.

NPR @npr.org · 1d

President Trump is bucking tradition and legal precedent in pushing to deploy the National Guard to Democratic-led cities like Portland, Oregon, and Chicago due to what he says is rampant crime and to support his crackdown on illegal immigration.

Trump's power to deploy National Guard, explained

President Trump is bucking tradition and legal precedent in pushing to deploy the National Guard to Democratic-led cities like Portland, Oregon, and Chicago due to what he says is rampant crime and to support his crackdown on illegal immigration.

n.pr

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James D'Amato 🔜 NYCC @oneshotrpg.bsky.social · 1d

Go to therapy and consider an anxiety medication, you are embarrassing yourself.

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James D'Amato 🔜 NYCC @oneshotrpg.bsky.social · 1d

My YouTube algorithm suddenly got infested with videos about quantum immortality and it pisses me off so much.

I have never seen more science words used to justify magical thinking.

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Rory Blank @roryblank.bsky.social · May 10

rise of the machines

Fred Flentstone stands, hands on his hips, looking incredulously at Barney Rubble, who is at the corner of the panel barely visible. He appears to wearing tiny sunglasses.
"C'mon Barn, what's with the getup? and what is that on your head?" Fred asks.
"oh this, Fred?"
We now see Barney is also wearing a black trench coat and smoking a cigarette. A small bird is taped to the side of his head. "Just the latest in cybernetic enhancement technology- wired right into my brain."

The background dissolves and Barney stands next to a free floating diagram of a human body with several small birds going into it and says "we're entering a new age, Fred- the synthesis of man and machine as one flesh. This is the future. It's hack or be hacked."
Fred looks incredulous.

The bird pecks Barney.

Barney puts his hands on his head and screams "the machines are turning against us! We have built God only for him to destroy us!" as the bird continues to peck at him.

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Ryan Boelter🔜GameHoleCon @lordneptune.com · 5d

Who else is going to be at GameHoleCon in a couple weeks? Would love to meet some folks and hang out between events.

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Possible Worlds Games @possibleworlds.bsky.social · 8d

Want to hear how much I pay Possible Worlds Games designers (and why I think other TTRPG publishers should pay theirs more too)? Listen to part 2 of my @ultimaterpgpod.bsky.social interview w/ @oneshotrpg.bsky.social & stick around for some CCK worldbuilding after! oneshotpodcast.com/interview-di...

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Keith Ammann 🔜 Gamehole Con @themonstersknow.com · 7d

Dear @support.bsky.team:

It's a longstanding custom in the tabletop roleplaying game #TTRPG community to change display names to "spooky" variations during the month of October. (For instance, I always change my display name to "Keithulhu Fhtammann.") 1/11

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James D'Amato 🔜 NYCC @oneshotrpg.bsky.social · 8d

I do think Peter Griffin is substantially worse than Homer Simpson. The are both bad tho.

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The Ultimate RPG Podcast @ultimaterpgpod.bsky.social · 8d

NEW EPISODE! Part 2 of James's conversation with Tyler Crumrine, in which they discuss the inner workings of @possibleworlds.bsky.social, and the publishing industry at large. Later, they create an artist commune in which everything is dictated by engineered ant colonies and goo!
Links Below 🔗

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James D'Amato 🔜 NYCC @oneshotrpg.bsky.social · 10d

I couldn't possibly tell you which of my games had an evil horse in it because almost every horse that appears in my games is evil

Ryan W Enslow @ryanwenslow.bsky.social · 10d

I don’t usually like to tag people into things, but I am literally listening to a @oneshotrpg.bsky.social run RPG where this happens

Heitor @heitorzilla.bsky.social · 10d

Alien, 1979. (Directed by Ridley Scott)

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 10d

UK's Labour Party abandoned transgender people. The gambit to pursue rightwing voters by abandoning a targeted minority failed, and now they're facing the prospect of a historic loss.

US Dems could learn a lot from their failure.

Great piece from S. Baum.

Subscribe to support our journalism.

UK's Labour Party Abandoned Trans People. Here's What American Dems Can Learn.

Democrats: There is no “middle ground” on equal rights. Take it from UK Labour.

www.erininthemorning.com

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James D'Amato 🔜 NYCC @oneshotrpg.bsky.social · 11d

Jesus, you have a combination of Avery and Woo syndromes??

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Plus One Exp | Staying Home For PAXU (cause we live in Philly) @plusoneexp.bsky.social · 11d

These sickos love indie #TTRPGs

Hanging out on south street today slinging zines from local and global creators including @gatheraroundpjcts.bsky.social @jdragsky.bsky.social @robbiaburns.bsky.social @bastionland.bsky.social @quinnblackwell.bsky.social @oneshotrpg.bsky.social & more!

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James D'Amato 🔜 NYCC @oneshotrpg.bsky.social · 11d

I honestly think associating ICE with doughnuts is giving them too much credit.

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James D'Amato 🔜 NYCC @oneshotrpg.bsky.social · 11d

Sadly, this is palliative care.

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Possible Worlds Games @possibleworlds.bsky.social · 12d

hell yeah gamers

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James D'Amato 🔜 NYCC @oneshotrpg.bsky.social · 12d

One hour left and we already did so well I couldn't hope for more! But if you haven't seen any of these games, I want you to have one last chance to discover them.

www.kickstarter.com/projects/cru...

PWG Presents: Cosmic Century Knights, Homecoming, and Chuck

Three TTRPGs: one hundred swords, five missing matriarchs, and a very little lover.

www.kickstarter.com

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