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Snark (And Occasionally Bourbon)

@snarkandbourbon.bsky.social

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He/him. Writer of the fiction and TTRPG varieties. Silly goose prone to making dad jokes. Forever GM by choice. Book Dragon.

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Snark (And Occasionally Bourbon) @snarkandbourbon.bsky.social · May 6

One of my favorite things to do is hype up the amazing people I’m lucky to count among my friends, and because I’ve been awfully negative lately (hard not to in the ceaseless hell of USA politics and so on) I’m going to get back to that.

This is entirely arbitrary. Pardon the typical chaos. 1/???

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Snark (And Occasionally Bourbon) @snarkandbourbon.bsky.social · 7h

Note that I am fully aware I should’ve gotten that shit done sooner, by the way, but life has a way of fucking up the best plans so I opted to not sleep and work my ass off on something.

At the end of the day I created something I was proud of, and that I actually created. It wasn’t AI excrement.

Snark (And Occasionally Bourbon) @snarkandbourbon.bsky.social · 7h

I did the final revisions of my undergrad capstone course the night before it was due, stumbled blearily to my professor’s office to drop it off, and got an A on the damn thing. And it became part of the course’s textbook.

Shortcuts are for people who want results without any effort.

cip✨ Sevika's Gap Tooth Fan Club Manager @cipritine.bsky.social · 10h

My first semester in college after 10 years out of school, I wrote my first essay of the class the night before it was due and got recommended to be a writing tutor off that piece alone. Necessity breeds creativity or whatever they say

Dane 🔜 NYCC AA L-34 @monkeyminion.com · 1d

I wrote a 15 page report on heraldic symbolism in medieval armor and weapon design for my art history class the night before it was due (8am class). Made up 90% of it (only found one book for reference) and got an A. GenAI could fucking never.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 10h

BlinkRX, an online prescription drug delivery company, stands to benefit from proposed changes by Trump that would allow pharmaceutical companies to sell drugs directly to patients.

His son, Eric Trump, is on the company’s board.

Always follow the money.

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404 Media @404media.co · 17h

BREAKING: A catastrophic breach has impacted Discord user data including selfies and identity documents uploaded as part of the app’s verification process, email addresses, phone numbers, approximately where the user lives, and much more.

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The Discord Hack is Every Users’ Worst Nightmare

A hack impacting Discord’s age verification process shows in stark terms the risk of tech companies collecting users’ ID documents. Now the hackers are posting peoples’ IDs and other sensitive informa...

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Snark (And Occasionally Bourbon) @snarkandbourbon.bsky.social · 11h

I have a bunch of ideas pinging around my skull but also need to make time to write so that’s certainly something.

It’s also hard to focus on art when work-life-ceaseless hell in the news don’t balance out too well.

Snark (And Occasionally Bourbon) @snarkandbourbon.bsky.social · 11h

I’m still exhausted from my work trip, but some thoughts I may end up deleting:

- Trying a new tie knot on 2 hours of sleep isn’t a good idea
- Finding magic in everyday things will help soothe burnout, but the over-romanticizing of doing that will do the opposite
- I’m on the fence about Olipop

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Snark (And Occasionally Bourbon) @snarkandbourbon.bsky.social · 1d

Back to the airport, eager to be home.

More work travel on the horizon but still not as much (and if the forecasted winter weather expected this year comes to pass then I’m certainly not making it out much; what a pity).

Snark (And Occasionally Bourbon) @snarkandbourbon.bsky.social · 2d

The best part of this work event is being allergic to shellfish and getting to repeatedly say “no thanks” to every damn person offering me shrimp or crab.

Snark (And Occasionally Bourbon) @snarkandbourbon.bsky.social · 4d

Back at it with work travels.

Running on 3 hours of sleep, already thinking about breakfast and morning caffeine.

So it goes. And so on.

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Plus One Exp | Staying Home For PAXU (cause we live in Philly) @plusoneexp.bsky.social · 6d

When you go to print your #TTRPG remember that you need to charge at least about 6x the cost to print for sustainability.

Small to midsize publishers can take advantage of scale & you can't.

You are not Wizards, Evil Hat, Exalted Funeral, or Modiphius.

Ideally charge 10x an pay a bill.

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Snark (And Occasionally Bourbon) @snarkandbourbon.bsky.social · 6d

Just saw a TikTok compilation of people taunting mountain lions.

You fuckers want your faces eaten off? Because that’s how you achieve it.

All the self-preservation of a Popsicle on a hot sidewalk. Christ.

Snark (And Occasionally Bourbon) @snarkandbourbon.bsky.social · 6d

Any time I post things related to fitness, diet, or body dysmorphia, you can bet it is just as much a post for me.

My core isn’t as tone as I’d like but I’m a lot healthier than I was a year ago (and with a shitload more muscle tone - like a woah amount, and I’m proud of that).

Snark (And Occasionally Bourbon) @snarkandbourbon.bsky.social · 6d

Gentle reminder: part of why your stomach rests the way it does when you are at rest, not flexing and trying to look a certain way, is because you’ve got internal organs and they occupy space.

Stop letting detrimental diet culture bullshit fuck you up.

Snark (And Occasionally Bourbon) @snarkandbourbon.bsky.social · 6d

Happy @sparkbird.bsky.social Music Release Day to all who celebrate it!

(But also you should all celebrate it because After The Ball is yet another incredible track. Go listen to it. It’s whimsy and storytelling set to music and I love it.)

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DisMoviePod @dismoviepod.bsky.social · 6d

My last boss seemed to think it was a waste of my time to add Alt Text on the website and caption videos. The overall ableist attitude was a big part of me leaving the workforce entirely since it was clear my disabilities were not understood or respected.

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Snark (And Occasionally Bourbon) @snarkandbourbon.bsky.social · 6d

I’ve got today and tomorrow to pack for my work trip, finish getting the house ready for while I’m gone, and handle a few other odds and ends.

Can I do it? Probably.

Am I already exhausted and is just thinking about all of it enough to make my eye twitch? Yes.

Snark (And Occasionally Bourbon) @snarkandbourbon.bsky.social · 6d

Tomi Lahren continues to age like a glass of raw milk left in a car on an especially hot day, which is far less shocking than the fact she has somehow managed to continue clawing her way back to relevance.

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Snark (And Occasionally Bourbon) @snarkandbourbon.bsky.social · 7d

Trying to really get in sick burns on the AI bros by slopping together AI-shat videos of the AI bros saying things is some pretty head-ass behavior.

Snark (And Occasionally Bourbon) @snarkandbourbon.bsky.social · 7d

Not-so-gentle reminder: it isn’t that cosplayers are sexualizing everything so much as it is cosplayers having bodies that people are objectifying.

Chill the fuck out and let people cosplay without making it weird.

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maple cocaine @maplecocaine.bsky.social · 7d

Between this, the epstein list, obsession with trans kids playing sports, & neverending conspiracy theories about what's going on in schoolsin general, you realize that the primary concern of the Republican party and its supporters is their deep desire to abuse children

Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 7d

The inhumanity is accelerating.

There are multiple reports of ICE agents laughing as kids scream and cry, and one in this raid saying literally “fuck them kids.”

Anjali Enjeti @anjalienjeti.bsky.social · 7d

My god.

“Watson said she saw agents dragging residents, including kids, out of the building without any clothes on and into U-Haul vans. Kids were separated from their mothers…’It was heartbreaking to watch…seeing kids coming out buck naked and taken from their mothers, it was horrible.’”

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Makkon @makkon.bsky.social · 7d

a flow-chart with 2 islands. "Do I need AI?" that flows into a final island saying "No"

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Snark (And Occasionally Bourbon) @snarkandbourbon.bsky.social · 7d

Today is a slow, tired, sluggish thing, filled with detours and side quests.

I am allowing myself a small measure of grace despite having a lot to do before Sunday.

Because if I run myself into the ground now, next week will be very interesting indeed.

Snark (And Occasionally Bourbon) @snarkandbourbon.bsky.social · 7d

The idea of AI “actors” is enough to give me a migraine, but I’m focusing on silver linings here.

There will finally be a caliber of performance worse than the acting in obvious TikTok shop slop ad-posts.

Snark (And Occasionally Bourbon) @snarkandbourbon.bsky.social · 8d

I promise you don’t need a Smart Water Bottle with one more battery you’ll forget to charge.

You need a reliable water bottle and reminders in your phone to refill it and to drink periodically, or strategically placed Post-It notes.

Stop creating e-waste under the thin veil of convenience.

Snark (And Occasionally Bourbon) @snarkandbourbon.bsky.social · 8d

I find myself dwelling on how we need to support independent smaller studios and publishers so much now more than ever as everything is gradually consolidated and sanitized (and this is for sure preaching to a well-versed choir for many of you).

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