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Peter

@spezbaby.bsky.social

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Tabletop gamer into trad, OSR, a little storygame. Also love bourbon, whisky & craft beer, former bookseller, lapsed baseball fan, bicycle commuter, pinko lefty, Union made, girldad, he/they, 🇨🇦. Everyone matters or nobody does. - Michael Connelly.

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Brent Jans (he/they)💜🖤🤍 @dorklordcanada.bsky.social · 11h

I still have some #TTRPG stuff for sale on eBay. With the Canada Post strike (which I support, go unions!✊) you'll have to agree to be patient after you purchase, because I'm not messing around with other shipping companies. But check it out: www.ebay.ca/usr/brenjan0

brenjan0 on eBay

Follow brenjan0 on eBay. Buying, Selling, Collecting on eBay has never been more exciting!

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Oliver Brackenbury @obrackenbury.bsky.social · 1d

Sara and I chatted for a while on her podcast about comics where the guest chooses an issue that means a lot to them, and the return of the comic which first got me into S&S certainly qualifies!

bestissueever.podbean.com/e/episode-34...

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Peter @spezbaby.bsky.social · 9h

Brewis

Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 12h

What’s the word where you’re from that, when pronounced exactly as it looks, identifies a tourist immediately?

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Stephen Kotowych 🇨🇦 @ourmankoto.bsky.social · 13h

Submissions are OPEN for Year's Best Canadian Fantasy & Science Fiction: Volume Four (the best of 2025). Send me your SFF published in 2025, you crazy Canucks! Details on my site at the link below. DON'T SELF REJECT! You can't win if you don't play ;) Subs close Feb 28, 2026. Pls share WIDELY.

Year’s Best Canadian Fantasy and Science Fiction | Stephen Kotowych

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rudy.ca @rudydotca.bsky.social · 13h

happy canadian beer day

or as it's known in my house, today

oh man, this web site! much hype! so cringe!

canadianbeerday.ca

Canadian Beer Day – Canadian Beer Day

canadianbeerday.ca

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Peter @spezbaby.bsky.social · 13h

Hey @thebitterguy.bsky.social

Dis you?

The Onion @theonion.com · 16h

Area Man Has Far Greater Knowledge Of Marvel Universe Than Own Family Tree https://theonion.com/area-man-has-far-greater-knowledge-of-marvel-universe-t-1819571080/

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 13h

tbr, but GOOD. thank you, @jimlee.bsky.social!

Comic Book Club @comicbookclub.bsky.social · 14h

Jim Lee's impassioned words about why DC will never use AI have already won New York Comic Con.

Jim Lee On Why DC Will Never Use AI: “AI Doesn’t Dream, Feel, Or Make Art, It Aggregates It”

The President, Publisher, and Chief Creative Officer of DC Comics spoke out at today's Retailer Day at New York Comic Con.

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The Beaverton @thebeaverton.com · 14h

Danielle Smith announces plans to hold her breath until she gets what she wants

EDMONTON – After meeting with Mark Carney to discuss pipeline construction, Alberta Premier Danielle Smith has vowed to hold her breath until the Prime Minister gives her absolutely everything she ask...

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Peter @spezbaby.bsky.social · 13h

I knew she was my favourite Bateman.

MiMi Aye @meemalee.bsky.social · 4d

Author and filmmaker Justine Bateman on generative AI

"They're trying to convince people they can't do the things they've been doing easily for years - to write emails, to write a presentation. Your daughter wants you to make up a bedtime story about puppies - to write that for you." We will get to the point, she says with a grim laugh, "that you will essentially become just a skin bag of organs and bones, nothing else. You won't know anything and you will be told repeatedly that you can't do it, which is the opposite of what life has to offer. Capitulating all kinds of decisions like where to go on vacation, what to wear today, who to date, what to eat.
People are already doing this. You won't have to process grief, because you'll have uploaded photos and voice messages from your mother who just died, and then she can talk to you via AI video call every day. One of the ways it's going to destroy humans, long before there's a nuclear disaster, is going to be the emotional hollowing-out of people." - author and filmmaker Justine Bateman from a piece by Emine Saner for the Guardian

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Peter @spezbaby.bsky.social · 13h

Highway prices are the same as airport prices.

Peter @spezbaby.bsky.social · 13h

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Diogo Nogueira - Old Skull Publishing @diogooldskull.bsky.social · 1d

🚨 L(ea/i)ving the Dream SALE!🚨

Hey everyone! I am leaving to live!

Moving all the way around the world to finally live creating games and art!

All my work is 50% OFF on itch and you can help me get there!

Thanks for everything everyone! Love y’all!

itch.io/s/161529/lea...

#TTRPG #IndieGame

L(ea/i)ving the Dream! by Diogo Nogueira - Old Skull Publishing

A bundle by Diogo Nogueira - Old Skull Publishing, $65.00 for 23 games

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Norm Wilner @normwilner.bsky.social · 18h

Been waiting for this to launch for a while. Keep a notepad handy, you're going to want to make a list of places to visit.

Food critic Suresh Doss celebrates local restaurants that bring the flavours of home to Canada | CBC Television

New CBC series Locals Welcome looks at hidden gems in Toronto, Montreal and Richmond, B.C. Watch it now on CBC Gem

www.cbc.ca

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Lincoln Michel @thelincoln.bsky.social · 18h

Bookshop.org (the best Amazon alternative) is having an anti-prime sale today. Free shipping on books including mine :P bookshop.org/a/88357/9781...

The Anti-Prime Sale at bookshop.org. 17 more hours.

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Eddy Webb - Pugsteady @pugsteady.com · 18h

Quick shout out to @jameswallis.bsky.social and their column in the latest issue of @wyrdscience.bsky.social. Nice to see people continue to not only talk up the major contributions trans folks have made to RPGs, but also highlighting the real dangers they're facing right now.

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Daniel Kibblesmith @kibblesmith.com · 1d

I’ve been circling a cursed thought for a while and it’s time to let it out: These guys are Disney Adults for fascism.

the corgi from cowboy bebop @realqrampage.fightins.online · 2d

LMAO LOOK AT THIS PHOTOGRAPH
EVERY TIME I DO IT MAKES ME LAUGH

Kash Patel in his own merch looking fucking embarrassing as hell lmao

he’s so fucking ugly

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Peter @spezbaby.bsky.social · 18h

And some wildlife

A red fox basking in the sunlight surrounded by heavy ground cover and pine trees

An arctic fox running past a chain link fence over some long grass and dead leaves

Peter @spezbaby.bsky.social · 18h

Scenes from a hike around a wildlife preserve.

Densely packed thin pines with much undergrowth and old dead trees mixed throughout.

Still lake in the foreground with dense growth of green pines topped with a partially cloudy blue sky

Well grown marshy pond with lily pads in the midfield with dense pines of various sizes under a blue sky with some clouds

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Peter @spezbaby.bsky.social · 19h

Burn, baby, burn!

Peter @spezbaby.bsky.social · 19h

Scenes from a hike and some worship of the North Atlantic.

My daughter walking on a crushed stone trail through a heavily wooded thin pine forest with sunlight shining down.

Long shot of Torbay Point. Bedrock and grass jutting out into a wide expanse of the North Atlantic.

We shot of two bays in Torbay, Newfoundland with bedrock and grass at the forefront and a wide expanse of Atlantic ocean and rocky low coastline in the background.

Peter @spezbaby.bsky.social · 20h

Are these the ones from Hyperborea website?

If so, I've had some fun experiences with those.

One player was so chuffed to lose all the money he carried in exchange for the deed to a tavern in a faraway city.

Peter @spezbaby.bsky.social · 20h

My mother used to make a dish entitled "tuna buns" which I'm sure sprouted from a 1960s starving student experience.

I've yet to convince anyone from my generation or my progeny to enjoy them.

Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 2d

What foods do you love that you fully acknowledge make you a pervert for loving them?

Peter @spezbaby.bsky.social · 20h

Cans would be a quarter of the size if they removed the salt.

But I still support your yum yums

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Yakult Crescent @hiyg.yurifc.gay · 1d

I think this might just be the way I need to do this:
I am looking to connect w/ an old friend from a play-by-post RPG forum called Mythweavers. They went by the name "Renzel" back then, used to talk all the time before drifting away in college. I'd love to try and get in touch with them again.

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Peter @spezbaby.bsky.social · 20h

I was getting weird old results with very little new on straight searches