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Starry Knight Press provides roleplaying aids & supplements for tabletop gaming! starryknightpress.com #DungeonsandDragons #OldSchoolGaming #ClassicDnD #D&D #DnD #OSR #ADnD #5E #OSRIC #RPG #TTRPG #Writer #IndiePublisher #CatDad #SlavaUkraini #Resist ✊️

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Starry Knight Press @starryknightpress.bsky.social · 8d

I'm please to announce my new #OSR book: "Sunken Halls of the Demi-Lich"! This challenging adventure (levels 8-10) has your PCs invading the submerged & shattered tomb of an ancient demi-lich, in search of treasure & a good story! 💀 #dnd #d&d #osr #osric

LINK: www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/5...

Cover of the Starry Knight Press book "Sunken Halls of the Demi-Lich", featuring the demi-lich Dimarius, holding his staff of withering.

SYNOPSIS: You are enjoying some down time at the Golden Harp Inn, in the seaside village of Dùn Mara, along the western border of the nation of Dùn Bhriste. You’ve just been treated to a rather stirring tale by the skald-in-residence, one Justin Rakes, who sang of the doomed archmage Dimarius, who tried and failed to gain immortality. It comes as somewhat of a surprise when Justin approaches you after his show, and asks to join you. Intrigued, you offer him a seat, whereupon he tells you he pegged you as adventuring heroes from your gear and demeanor, and he chose to sing the “Ballad of Dimarius” tonight, because he has a proposition for you. He tells you Dimarius’ tale is real, that the demi-lich still lives and that he knows the location of this unspoiled tomb! Here is his pitch: Justin will give you his information and a magic sword, but he gets the exclusive artistic rights to record the tale of your taking on the demi-lich.

Are you ready at your own shot at immortality, being preserved in prose for all time for, ironically, taking down a deathless demi-lich?

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Tate Collection @tate.bsky.social · 1h

John Piper, 15. St Nicholas, Liverpool: Smoke-black Dockland Church, 1964
https://botfrens.com/collections/14375/contents/1118570

Presented by Curwen Studio through the Institute of Contemporary Prints 1975

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Starry Knight Press @starryknightpress.bsky.social · 2h

"the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 3h

'Halcyon Days' by Anna Pugh, contemporary British folk artist #womensart

Painting featuring a white man and woman as if dancing joyfully in a lush garden amongst washing hanging on a clothesline and in front of a small hut and bird houses

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Rachel Deering @racheldeering.bsky.social · 3h

🦊 🐦 Egerton MS, c.1430.

The fox plays dead to catch the raven. The raven takes a look, but senses the fox’s cunning. The raven notices that the fox’s heart is beating and drops a stone on his head. The fox drops his act.

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Robert “The Bobby Yaga” McNees @mcnees.bsky.social · 3h

It sounds like she’s okay but here’s a thread about the greatest living childhood literacy advocate.

Robert “The Bobby Yaga” McNees @mcnees.bsky.social · Jan 19

Entertainer, childhood literacy advocate, and *scientific philanthropist* Dolly Parton was born #OTD in 1946.

Mostly known for singing and songwriting, Dolly's Imagination Library program has distributed over 100 million free books to kids around the world. 🦋 📖 🎶

dollyparton.com/imagination-...

A black and white photo of Dolly Parton, taken when she was in her twenties. She has long, wavy blonde hair, and is wearing a denim shirt and large hoop earrings. Dolly is looking at something off to the side.

A promotional color photo of Dolly Parton reading the book "llama llama red pajama" to three children. She has blond hair, a tan jacket, and her mouth is open as she reads from the book. Three children around her look at the book as she reads.

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Rachel Deering @racheldeering.bsky.social · 3h

Autumn Morning, Adolf Kaufmann, 1918.

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Hourly Cosmos @hourlycosmos.bsky.social · 3h

W1775402066 - From Gordan Ugarković (ugordan.bsky.social) - https://flic.kr/p/rUDkJ9

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 6h

Two big GOP activists from Oregon were in DC last month for meetings with Trump admin officials. On their podcast they talk about a plan they discussed to nullify the results of Oregon's 2026 federal elections. Pass federal voter ID law, then refuse to seat OR delegation because OR didn't comply.

Ep. 18: September to Remember
October 6 • S1 E18 • 44 min
Also, we proposed a idea how to do a end run on vote by mail. Concept is based on what Trump proposed. When you vote, you check everyone's citizenship as well as voter ID.
In a vote by mail state, you might be able to check citizenship during voter registration. You can send copies of your passport and your birth certificate in.
How in the world are you going to check our voters?
Voter ID, right? Vote by mail. So that creates a problem for Oregon.
But if federal government new requirement is to check both, and if Oregon can comply with the requirements, what would happen to our election result? I'm talking about the entire federal delegation.
For federal elections, we're talking about only federal elections.
COMMON SENSE
Vascluar

Ep. 18: September to Remember
October 6 • S1 E18 • 44 min
So entire federal delegation, congressmen and senators could be challenged, could be unseated because you didn't follow federal requirements to elect them. So I said the trade-off is worth it. You know why?
Democrats control two Senate seats out of six congressional seats. We only control one. They control five.
You talk about trade-off, right?
COMMON SENSE
Sanctuany

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Starry Knight Press @starryknightpress.bsky.social · 3h

##ReleasetheEpsteinFiles

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 14h

Johnson: Miss Grijalva has not yet had a scheduled date because she was elected after the house was out of session,

Gallego: You don't want her to be on the Epstein discharge.

Johnson: You guys are experts at red herrings.

Gallego: This is an excuse

Starry Knight Press @starryknightpress.bsky.social · 3h

Oooooh! That's so intriguing...

Natee (they/them) @himmapaan.bsky.social · 3h

I know it's much too early to mention _that_ holiday, but this is an ultramarine watercolour paint made from genuine lapis lazuli, and I may as well drop the hint as not. 👀😇

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A tube of De Mairo ultramarine watercolour paint.

Starry Knight Press @starryknightpress.bsky.social · 7h

Same! Related very much.

a man wearing sunglasses sits on a couch and says you just casually cited immanuel kant

Alt: a man wearing glasses sits on a couch and says you just casually cited immanuel kant

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Starry Knight Press @starryknightpress.bsky.social · 7h

This is defo making it into the Ken Burns documentary!

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All In with Chris Hayes @allinwithchris.bsky.social · 7h

WATCH: @chrislhayes.bsky.social explains precisely why Mike Johnson is stalling the new Dem rep's swear-in over the Epstein vote: "Right now, Johnson can pressure the four Republican signers to change their minds. He has time to do it—as long as he keeps Adelita Grijalva out of Congress."

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 14h

McGovern: Republicans love to advocate for more work requirements for poor people… Let's have a work requirement for Republicans to show up to congress and do your god damn job.

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Lady4Freedom @sassylassiein2024.bsky.social · 7h

Jacob Soboroff @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social · 8h

Michigan Avenue right now.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7h

Schiff: "You begin to wonder -- do they believe they have the authority by putting some groups on a list, even domestic groups, to use lethal force against them, with no trial, no due process, no nothing? The reality is we can't rule that out."

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Starry Knight Press @starryknightpress.bsky.social · 7h

🐕 woof!

Eric Alper @thatericalper.com · 7h

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Starry Knight Press @starryknightpress.bsky.social · 8h

Yes, I've used Linux off and on since it was first released, with varying degrees of success. Triple booted with OS X, Windows and Linux for several years. I've tried recent versions of Linux Mint and Ubuntu, and they are fine. But I have a workflow process for my writing I really hate to disrupt.🤔

Starry Knight Press @starryknightpress.bsky.social · 8h

Thanks for the tips! I'm slowly working my way through it all. 🤪

Starry Knight Press @starryknightpress.bsky.social · 8h

This is America under the absurdist, fascist GOP regime; armed military forces of the US government attacking costumed protesters. WTAF?! #Resist ✊️

Danny K @dannykpolitics.bsky.social · 3d

WATCH: ‘Portland Frog’ pepper balled by ICE agents

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 8h

Yet another incident that would’ve gotten any other president immediately impeached that is only the 127th worst thing Trump has done in 2025.

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Jimmy Kimmel Live @jimmykimmellive.bsky.social · 13h

Did Trump write the infamous Epstein birthday letter? You decide.

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Rossellini @creative-alchemist.bsky.social · 8h

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All In with Chris Hayes @allinwithchris.bsky.social · 8h

WATCH: "People at a deep level understand that what they are seeing in Chicago is wrong. They know that they are free citizens of a free country," says @chrislhayes.bsky.social on the backlash to Trump's takeover in Chicago.

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