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Joseph Fink @planetoffinks.bsky.social · 4h

this is how I, a resident of LA, found out that the Palisades fire was arson, that they caught the guy, and that he used gen AI to work his way up to doing the crime

niki grayson @nikigrayson.com · 5h

the city of los angeles burned in january in part because of a man who couldn’t stop generating images of burning cities on ChatGPT, and then after he lit the fire he asked if the fire he started was his fault

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1h

genuinely think they are feeding him AI videos

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2h

Trump: "I don't know what could be worse than Portland. You don't even have stores anymore. They don't even put glass up. They put plywood on their windows."

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CrispyPandoughBoi @crispyporkboi.bsky.social · 3h

I am loving the caravan vibe of Delver's Guide to Beastworld. Ali and Ryder better not buckle the roof under them though...

Big tiddied lion man and fat elk buck in fantasy getups sitting on top of a wagon

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Ziggy, Tabletop Taurus @ziggybull.bsky.social · 2h

Paleontologically accurate Jurassic Park scene with the brachiosaurs would have been the most terrifying part of the movie.

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Ziggy, Tabletop Taurus @ziggybull.bsky.social · 2h

Decamping the dialog was an offense that cannot be forgiven

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Ziggy, Tabletop Taurus @ziggybull.bsky.social · 2h

Don't know how they did it but the PSX version of SotN looks just as good on a flatscreen as the actual PS4 port. Those pixels just do not age.

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Ziggy, Tabletop Taurus @ziggybull.bsky.social · 2h

If you do go, I should warn you: he is a sweetheart who gives amazing hugs

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Dominic Tarason @dominictarason.com · 3h

We are at the 'whole AAA games cancelled for fear of offending rabid racists' stage of this clusterfuck now.

Stephen Totilo @stephentotilo.bsky.social · 3h

SCOOP: Last year, Ubisoft cancelled an Assassin's Creed game set during Reconstruction. Was to feature a Black Assassin who, among other things, fought the rise of the Klan

Sources: Leadership nixed it over concerns re: U.S. political climate, backlash to Yasuke

www.gamefile.news/p/scoop-ubis...

Scoop: Ubisoft cancelled a post-Civil War Assassin’s Creed last year

Company leadership deemed the project too controversial for the moment, sources tell Game File

www.gamefile.news

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Ziggy, Tabletop Taurus @ziggybull.bsky.social · 2h

New name for a bard/monk class just dropped.

Grandiloquent Word of the Day @grandiloquentwords.bsky.social · 2h

Goliard [GO-lee-ard]
(n.)
- One of a class of scholarly medieval wandering monks who amused their superiors with Latin poetry and merry jests.

Origin uncertain.

Sentence:
“When the goliard sang of Eve’s apple and Adam’s ale, even the nuns behind the screen did giggle through their veils.”

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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 14h

Highland cattle are famous for their ability to "disco nap". Normally these brief, efficient sleeps will last between three and twenty minutes, deploying a variety of objects as pillows, including moorland boulders, cars or any particularly large dog or sheep who happens to be nearby.

A highland cow having a little nap on a boulder on Dartmoor (ok, it was actually scratching its head)

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サメとメンダコ🦈🐙namelessmm2 @namelessmm2.bsky.social · 1d

Day 7 Tropical Shark
sing with the tropical forest 🌴🥥
熱帯の森のサメ
#Sharktober2025 #Sharktober

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 7h

A genre of reply that is truly wretched is when you post “I didn’t care for this movie” and the reply will be “maybe you just realized this, but Hollywood studios are there to serve their MONEY MASTERS, not YOU”, like ok I thought Aliens vs Predator was about the beauty of art

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Ziggy, Tabletop Taurus @ziggybull.bsky.social · 7h

Hippos, the pudgy apocalypse

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Ziggy, Tabletop Taurus @ziggybull.bsky.social · 7h

Camels have to be the worst because their energy store is right there on their back. And they know it.

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Ziggy, Tabletop Taurus @ziggybull.bsky.social · 7h

I do believe that all mammals with horns are, in fact, herbivores.

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Ziggy, Tabletop Taurus @ziggybull.bsky.social · 7h

I also think it's because having a fursona creates this kind of inner anchor of the self that fascism just can't easily dislodge and replace.

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HearthFox ΘΔ @hearthfox.bsky.social · 7h

Maybe the reason Furries largely reject fascism easier than the average person is because the ideology preys on the lonely and insecure and we embrace community and self love.

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Ziggy, Tabletop Taurus @ziggybull.bsky.social · 7h

Herbivores are like "Unlike a carnivore who has to do a risk/reward calculation in spending energy, I am always surrounded by food. I can smash intruders because I want to, not because I have to, and can easily recoup the lost energy afterward."

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Ziggy, Tabletop Taurus @ziggybull.bsky.social · 7h

It's like, no one is forcing them to include these elements in their own games but they have to be vocal about opposing anyone using them. I think they really fear the day some D&DEI squad is going to confiscate their dice for not having enough queer characters in their campaign.

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Ziggy, Tabletop Taurus @ziggybull.bsky.social · 7h

The stereotypical rogue stealing everything, or the default bard trying to bang everything, to even just the wizard's quirk being really into bugs and takes time out of the battle to study the beetles infesting the mummy's wrappings.

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Ziggy, Tabletop Taurus @ziggybull.bsky.social · 7h

Sounds like it to me!

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Ziggy, Tabletop Taurus @ziggybull.bsky.social · 7h

The monk who flips down to do handstands and turns the chair into the weapon!

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Ziggy, Tabletop Taurus @ziggybull.bsky.social · 7h

"But I don't want to adventure with a character with such an obvious drawback!"

Compared to the obviously not chaotic neutral rogue who derailed the campaign no fewer than 5 times due to their uncontrollable kleptomania?

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Ziggy, Tabletop Taurus @ziggybull.bsky.social · 7h

Give me a barbarian using a wheelchair who dual-wields mauls to swing themself around and slices foes with bladed wheels.

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Ziggy, Tabletop Taurus @ziggybull.bsky.social · 8h

"But if you make it so characters using aids aren't any different from the other characters, why bother including them?"

If they don't affect gameplay in any way, where's the problem in including them?

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