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Hunting sheep in my sleep—no I don't count them.
https://beast.blot.im/
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Remedios Varo Bot
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Electric Surprise / Sorpresa Eléctrica (1962)
https://www.remediosvaro.art/paintings/sorpresa-electrica
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#SurrealistArt
#Surrealism
#Surrealismo
#RemediosVaro
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This year, I intended to have a plan. I don't, but at least I'm starting earlier. Now's your chance too! Find yourself something good.
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Erick - smells like autumn...finally.
9 days ago
Logging on.
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tiny miracle 💖
9 days ago
there are two kinds of work day breakfasts: Healthy Breakfast and Poison Breakfast. today is a classic poison breakfast day (celsius and protein bar)
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Riker Googling
10 days ago
starship makes rattling noise at impulse speed
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Windlass
7 months ago
Roguestar Trader
#art
#roguetrader
#homestarrunner
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!!!
@firedrawnear.bsky.social
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FDN LXIII
FDN LXIII is a special episode focusing on shape note singing in the United States. It is based around two interviews conducted this year with Howe Pearson and Sasha Suczyk and looks at the history an
https://soundcloud.com/firedrawnear/fdn-lxiii
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I saw some national guard soldiers use the metro contractor gate the other day. Fare evaders!
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I don't know who might need this, but the CFPB's "Your Home Loan Toolkit" booklet looks really useful. I'd recommend reading through it before you're in the middle of it.
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Your home loan toolkit: a step by step guide | Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
Your home loan toolkit: a step by step guide
https://www.consumerfinance.gov/owning-a-home/explore/home-loan-toolkit/
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Regarding the use of LLMs by
@gutenberg.org
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More Erroneous Pictures of Whales - Benign Brown Beast
Recently, Project Gutenberg added a new feature. Can you spot it? Let’s look at Moby-Dick: Summaries! But there’s something off about them…
https://beast.blot.im/more-erroneous-pictures-of-whales
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Mark Joseph Stern
about 1 month ago
There is no constitutional reason why Congress couldn't do this, as laid out in the Harvard Law Review:
harvardlawreview.org/print/vol-13...
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leon
about 1 month ago
(mf doom voice) he threw a sandwich cheese and salami, feds couldn't indict folded like origami, afraid of subway both the chain and the train, mayo salt and pepper shake your thang, grand jury shut em down twice, coca cola on the side no ice
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Universal Hub
about 1 month ago
The new state flags are here!
www.universalhub.com/2025/new-sta...
#Massachusetts
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Whenever I buy deodorant I can't escape the suspicion that maybe the stuff with aluminum was really good and we've all been robbed.
about 1 month ago
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Siskoid
about 2 months ago
SBG/ST CCG Dream Cards AtoZ: Alixus to Alliance
siskoid.blogspot.com/2025/08/st-c...
Hitting the 100th Encyclopedia entry!
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ST CCG Dream Cards AtoZ: Alixus to Alliance
https://siskoid.blogspot.com/2025/08/st-ccg-dream-cards-atoz-alixus-to.html
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jael holzman
about 2 months ago
hi if you want to listen to a d.c. band who makes music about the resilience of our city’s queer community against fascism, may i introduce you to “pink balloons” by ekko astral
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pink balloons - YouTube
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_l8ycqkVYhEJC4i1O8KbrG2Pyl8UfyYLsI&si=VBkWGOEUAgQsl0P7
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Apologies to the tiny cockroach I stepped on. I thought you were a spotted lantern fly.
about 2 months ago
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Tom Cox
about 2 months ago
People don't talk nearly enough about how cute 16th Century Witch's Familiars were.
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New Rooms
2 months ago
5 - pleaser by
@prettybittermp3.bsky.social
Every band on Bluesky is talking about how good this album is and I’m excited for it.
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Pleaser, by Pretty Bitter
10 track album
https://prettybitter.bandcamp.com/album/pleaser
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Jez Gordon
10 months ago
Yeah nice, I should send my 1e rules essentials material, streamlines stuff a little more, some new house rules and material.
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juliet
2 months ago
this summer on I'll Be Pod for Castmas we've got an episode breaking down THE KNIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS (2019), the fourth of three Vanessa Hudgens netflix original christmas movies. A festive look at time travel romance, full of ritual and reward!
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It is one of the four times each year that I encourage all my internet friends (that's you!) to spend some always worthwhile time with
@follypersist.bsky.social
's delightful I'll be Pod for Castmas.
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I'll Be Pod for Castmas
Every July and December, Juliet L'mous and their co-host playwright Katherine Varga take a piece of holiday pop culture and discuss it through the lens of a piece of topical classic literature — like ...
https://ill-be-pod-for-castmas.pinecast.co/
2 months ago
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Love to see this
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2 months ago
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A
#MosaicStrict
entry into
@diyanddragons.bsky.social
's Second Summer LEGO RPG Jam, now with giant robots.
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Mechcrafting - Benign Brown Beast
A MOSAIC Strict framework for giving your character a mech suit. The size and weight of a cinderblock, all three common cores are basically
https://beast.blot.im/mechcrafting
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Sandro AD 🎲🎲🎲
3 months ago
I think the world would be a better place if people were less worried about avoiding being derivative / unoriginal, and more worried about mulling their inspirations thoroughly and thoughtfully
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A quick hole post for
@prismaticwasteland.com
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Time Capsules - Benign Brown Beast
Between the formation of earth and the birth of man, the moles built an empire. Its inverted spires plunged deep into the crust, gluttering with dim
https://beast.blot.im/time-capsules
3 months ago
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Ed Zitron
3 months ago
SCULLY: Mulder you sound insane MULDER: there’re tallboy diet cokes, I’ve seen them with my own eyes
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James Wallis
3 months ago
Interactive Fantasy, the journal of interactive storytelling that I published in the mid-1990s, is no longer available from DriveThruRPG. However it is now available from
itch.io
instead:
jameswallis.itch.io/interactive-...
for the same low price of pay-what-you-want.
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Interactive Fantasy by James Wallis
A journal of game design and narrative systems
https://jameswallis.itch.io/interactive-fantasy
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theinscrutabledr3
3 months ago
Planetary romance/Sword & Planet is good for gaming and particularly old school gaming
sorcerersskull.blogspot.com/2025/06/the-...
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The Case for Planetary Romance
Richard Hescox I feel like planetary romance (sometimes called Sword & Planet, though I think that might be better thought as a subgenre or...
http://sorcerersskull.blogspot.com/2025/06/the-case-for-planetary-romance.html
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Reynaldo
3 months ago
This week on the BREAK!! blog - Fishing, again, but also other things
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Four Famous Fishin' Holes in Outer World (Setting)
Last blog entry we talked about fishing - it seems appropriate to talk a bit about a few Fishing Sites for this one. Discussed here are so...
https://breakrpg.blogspot.com/2025/06/four-famous-fishin-holes-in-outer-world.html
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Josh Gondelman
3 months ago
Basically every new business I’ve heard of in the past five years makes me go: “That should be illegal.”
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Marcia B.
3 months ago
finally published
#CINCO
, my homebrew heartbreaker! my goal was to isolate the character-driven subculture of 5E from the mechanical cruft of that game's rules, making smth more streamlined and dare i say fun 🙂↕️💖 featuring gorgeous art by
@nornnoszka.bsky.social
!!
traversefantasy.itch.io/cinco
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CLUMP was one of my favorite pulls from SB 2024. An absurd bureaucratic drama set in an exaggerated corporate megastructure.
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theinscrutabledr3
3 months ago
Space travel in fiction tends to have the feel of other, more commonly experienced forms of travel.
sorcerersskull.blogspot.com/2025/06/what...
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What it's Like to Travel The Stars
Presumably no one on Earth has yet experienced interplanetary space travel. When the creators of space travel-related media go to describe i...
http://sorcerersskull.blogspot.com/2025/06/what-its-like-to-travel-stars.html
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Mondo Mascots
3 months ago
The mascot for the Czech pavilion at the Osaka 2025 Expo is René, a creature of crystal glass, born in the fiery furnace of a glass factory in Bohemia.
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Pleased with how this dithering worked out & happy to finally finish off this draft.
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Afterlives - Benign Brown Beast
I’ve been thinking about afterlives as places, and especially how they show up in games. In this momentary obsession, I’ve at least partially
https://beast.blot.im/afterlives
3 months ago
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ゆうたONE / YutaONEfont™︎
6 months ago
🚨Look at this! A new YutaONEfont™︎ has been created. We will launch when the number of reposts reaches 2000. Please spread the word!
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An old post, with old comments preserved.
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Recovered: Cathedrals - Benign Brown Beast
Construction on York Minster Cathedral was finished in 1472, having begun c. 1220. For two-hundred and fifty years, the unfinished cathedral was a
https://beast.blot.im/recovered-cathedrals
3 months ago
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New slushposting.
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Slush 2025-06 - Benign Brown Beast
The earworm in my nostrils. The ringing in my fingertips. I ran into these game design experiences around the same time, and couldn’t shake the
https://beast.blot.im/slush-2025-06
4 months ago
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Dan Schkade
4 months ago
Happy 90th anniversary to the most iconic spread in Flash Gordon history. This takes place during the original Kira arc, brainwashed Heel Flash and all, a potent example of why this comic more or less kicked off the entire superhero genre
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theinscrutabledr3
4 months ago
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Weird Revisited: The Moving Pointcrawl
The original version of this post appeared in July 2015. I never did finish writing In Doom's Wake, but it got playtested twice I believe....
http://sorcerersskull.blogspot.com/2025/06/weird-revisited-moving-pointcrawl.html
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I picked up Minecraft again a little while ago, and was listening to a lot of
@gonzohistory.bsky.social
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The Minecraft Monster Palette - Benign Brown Beast
The overland monsters of Minecraft are a memorable bunch. They blend familiar and unfamiliar and behave in interesting emergent ways. Be warned, if
https://beast.blot.im/the-minecraft-monster-palette
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@bigstuffedcat.bsky.social
I can't tell if this was you or not, but if it is, I've never stopped thinking about it and wanted to thank you. I made a mini-cube of the format, and it's the only reason I still pay any attention to new releases. If not, apologies & thanks for your time.
4 months ago
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Clayton
4 months ago
This video by
@alfredvalley.bsky.social
rules. It might be the coolest trailer, diary, design walkthrough, process video thing I've seen in weeks.
www.youtube.com/watch?featur...
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This is not how you play Magic the Gathering
YouTube video by Alfred Valley
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=shared&v=TzyLIiFXRKo
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Lorde Stan Account
4 months ago
Almost exactly a year since posting the Big List of Initiative Methods, I've updated it. About 20 new methods (some quite major!), and a lot of restructuring. Here's an addendum addressing common responses and some decisions I made.
knightattheopera.blogspot.com/2025/06/ever...
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EVERY Initiative Method, Addendum
This is a follow-up to that one previous post . I'm glad to see it's been received pretty positively, and that I've gotten lots of suggestio...
https://knightattheopera.blogspot.com/2025/06/every-initiative-method-addendum.html
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Four years later, I still think this works.
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Recovered: 36 ABY: The End of History - Benign Brown Beast
(Spoilers below for various Star Wars properties.) With the final death of Emperor Palpatine, history was ended. The Skywalker destiny doubly or
https://beast.blot.im/recovered-36-aby-the-end-of-history
4 months ago
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We're so back
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4 months ago
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Can't sleep, so I'm sharing my new post, about daylight, at midnight.
#OSR
#initiative
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Daylight Initiative - Benign Brown Beast
This ‘lead suit’ varies according to the type of pack, and also according to whether the game is played during the day (between sunrise and sunset)
https://beast.blot.im/daylight-initiative
4 months ago
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