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Robin D. Laws @robindlaws.bsky.social · 6h

Does checking a score online count as watching a game, for the purposes of me jinxing it?

Please answer only if you are a god or spirit in charge of jinxes

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Robin D. Laws @robindlaws.bsky.social · 1d

Since this dropped yesterday many have embraced not doing things

Robin D. Laws @robindlaws.bsky.social · 2d

Sometimes you just want to hang out on your tree branch. Proclaim your Joy Of Missing Out with the latest design from the Ken and Robin merch store.

JOMO by kenrobin

Express your Joy Of Missing Out with the latest batrachian design from the Ken and Robin merch store.

www.teepublic.com

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Dinosaur Dracula 🦖🧛 @dinosaurdracula.bsky.social · 1d

The greatest thing I own or will ever own is this old retail standee where Dracula casually reveals a coffin full of Doritos and Pepsi.

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Robin D. Laws @robindlaws.bsky.social · 1d

Vampires are traditionalists and don’t want you mucking up the classics with a bunch of cute ingredients

Dinosaur Dracula 🦖🧛 @dinosaurdracula.bsky.social · 1d

Smirnoff ad from 1972, featuring a recipe for the Vampire Gimlet. Which is just a Vodka Gimlet with a black olive added. I don't drink, but as an eater of olives and a child of darkness, I still fully endorse this.

Vampire Gimlet cocktail recipe from 1972.

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Robin D. Laws @robindlaws.bsky.social · 1d

It does for me.

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Robin D. Laws @robindlaws.bsky.social · 1d

Ken and Robin Consume Media: Wednesday, Edgar Allan Poe, and a Murky Found Footage Reveal

Ken and Robin Consume Media: Wednesday, Edgar Allan Poe, and a Murky Found Footage Reveal « Ken and Robin Talk About Stuff

www.kenandrobintalkaboutstuff.com

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priscilla page @priscillapage.bsky.social · 2d

guy got mad at me for sharing this comic on twitter back in 2017, but it's still one of my favorite exchanges. (he was not kidding, btw.)

my own tweet explaining "so in this Spanish horror comic, Frankenstein's monster knocks out a woman, and I was REALLY worried, but he just wanted to try on her clothes" with screenshot of a guy named Ziv quote-tweeting me to say "This is horrendously disturbing. I am disturbed. Honestly, Priscilla, you need to back up and look at your life and think to yourself, 'Self, is this really the person I want to be?' Posting frankensteinian erotica and shit?'" with my reply "this is exactly the person I want to be" and the followup "actually it's Frankenstein's MONSTER'S Erotica"

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Robin D. Laws @robindlaws.bsky.social · 2d

Sometimes you just want to hang out on your tree branch. Proclaim your Joy Of Missing Out with the latest design from the Ken and Robin merch store.

JOMO by kenrobin

Express your Joy Of Missing Out with the latest batrachian design from the Ken and Robin merch store.

www.teepublic.com

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Robin D. Laws @robindlaws.bsky.social · 3d

I hear it wrote the Voynich Manuscript

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Robin D. Laws @robindlaws.bsky.social · 3d

When she invited you and he forgot all about it until ten minutes ago

Matt Owen @mjowen174.bsky.social · 3d

Never a better time for the “Second prize…” punchline.

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Robin D. Laws @robindlaws.bsky.social · 3d

When really…

3I/Atlas It's a Really Fun Space Rock by kenrobin

It's not alien tech, it's just a pal from beyond the solar system. Buy it for your favorite astronomer, who will get the joke.

www.teepublic.com

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Robin D. Laws @robindlaws.bsky.social · 3d

As previously discussed in Episode 664

Episode 664: Oxford, Another University « Ken and Robin Talk About Stuff

www.kenandrobintalkaboutstuff.com

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Robin D. Laws @robindlaws.bsky.social · 3d

3I/Atlas update: Avi Loeb is now floating the theory that it emitted the 1977 Wow signal

Mysterious Comet Might Explain a Signal Beamed at Earth 48 Years Ago

Every odd behavior of the mysterious 3I/ATLAS space object is yet another example of how that thing is somehow of alien origin... right?

www.vice.com

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Robin D. Laws @robindlaws.bsky.social · 4d

I’m not an epidemiologist but I’m pretty sure that the Union Station food court has Blue Jays fever

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Robin D. Laws @robindlaws.bsky.social · 4d

Converting 13 True Ways Classes to 13th Age Second Edition

pelgranepress.com/2025/07/31/c...

Converting 13 True Ways Classes to 13th Age 2E

(necromancer art from 13 True Ways by Aaron McConnell & Lee Moyer) People have been asking me for the basic changes needed to use character classes f

pelgranepress.com

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depths of wikipedia @depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social · 5d

List of discontinued merit badges (Boy Scouts of America)

"discontinued merit badges (boy scouts of America)" wikipedia page shows "nut culture", 1928-1954

stalker merit badge 1910-1922, stalking merit badge 1911-1952

invention merit badge 1911-1917. only 10 scouts achieved it, required that they obtained a federal patent

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Robin D. Laws @robindlaws.bsky.social · 5d

I leaned into it and managed to fully clear my entire task list today in case you’re wondering why I haven’t weighed in yet Taylor

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Robin D. Laws @robindlaws.bsky.social · 5d

This article was written by my good friend, coffee

Drinking tea and coffee linked to improved cancer outcomes

High intake of the popular beverages appears to be be associated with a 24 percent reduction in cancer progression.

www.newsweek.com

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Robin D. Laws @robindlaws.bsky.social · 5d

NAMOR: I can’t help but notice that you keep looking at your phone.

DR. DOOM: [grumbles inaudibly]

NAMOR: Could it be said then that you are scrolling?

DR: DOOM: Bah. What of it?

NAMOR: In other words, you are doomscr—

DR. DOOM: CEASE YOUR EFFRONTERY FISH MAN!!

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Robin D. Laws @robindlaws.bsky.social · 5d

Ken and Robin talk Formula One roleplaying, whether Elizabeth Bathory was framed, RVIFF streaming movie highlights, and a feud over fossils.

Episode 669: His Botanist Turns On Him « Ken and Robin Talk About Stuff

www.kenandrobintalkaboutstuff.com

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Robin D. Laws @robindlaws.bsky.social · 6d

I have confirmed my hypothesis that Arrowroot cookies are an excellent delivery platform for Fortnum & Mason's Morello Cherry and Chocolate curd. LMK which Nobel prize I qualify for

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Pelgrane Press @pelgranepress.bsky.social · 6d

Why 13th Age 2nd Edition is Backwards Compatible #gaming #gamedev #podcastclips

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Dr Sean Travers @seanjetravers.bsky.social · 6d

How it feels to use the word ‘behooves’ in a sentence

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Robin D. Laws @robindlaws.bsky.social · 6d

Both its parents and uncle were killed in mugging incidents.

Discontinued FOoOoOoOods! 🎃🍫👻🍬 @discontinuedfoods.bsky.social · 6d

Burger King Dark Whopper (2007, 2008): A classic Whopper, but made with black-pepper cheese, black pepper ketchup, and a peppery steak/bbq sauce. Released exclusively in the UK to promote the films "Spider-Man 3" and "The Dark Knight" in back-to-back summers.

A hamburger on a bun sits in front of a black background. It contains tomatoes, lettuce, onions, pickles, and cheese. It reads "Dark Whopper"

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Robin D. Laws @robindlaws.bsky.social · 6d

So glad to hear that. I'm very much looking forward to getting these books out into the world.

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