Alex
@endymon.bsky.social
Last night I had an amazing opportunity to introduce two players to #CandelaObscura at my local game store. Everyone had a great time. Even with the dice being mean at the start, they succeeded in their assignment!
Hopefully will be running more games there soon.
@darringtonpress.bsky.social
Hopefully will be running more games there soon.
@darringtonpress.bsky.social
December 13, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Last night I had an amazing opportunity to introduce two players to #CandelaObscura at my local game store. Everyone had a great time. Even with the dice being mean at the start, they succeeded in their assignment!
Hopefully will be running more games there soon.
@darringtonpress.bsky.social
Hopefully will be running more games there soon.
@darringtonpress.bsky.social
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Heads up for all my art friends that have an online store.
December 9, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Heads up for all my art friends that have an online store.
Friday: Internet outage in town.
Not ideal but can be managed.
Saturday: town gets internet back, my house doesn't because of an unknown issue.
This... this is now bad. I have things that can't be handled on a phone, and don't have a laptop. 😐 I now have calls to make. 😵
Not ideal but can be managed.
Saturday: town gets internet back, my house doesn't because of an unknown issue.
This... this is now bad. I have things that can't be handled on a phone, and don't have a laptop. 😐 I now have calls to make. 😵
December 7, 2025 at 1:09 AM
Friday: Internet outage in town.
Not ideal but can be managed.
Saturday: town gets internet back, my house doesn't because of an unknown issue.
This... this is now bad. I have things that can't be handled on a phone, and don't have a laptop. 😐 I now have calls to make. 😵
Not ideal but can be managed.
Saturday: town gets internet back, my house doesn't because of an unknown issue.
This... this is now bad. I have things that can't be handled on a phone, and don't have a laptop. 😐 I now have calls to make. 😵
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If you live in the US, you may be more concerned than ever about what happens when law enforcement shows up at a telco and demands information about your account.
A new anonymous phone carrier startup Phreeli, launching today, will let you sign up for cellular service with almost no personally identifiable information—not even your name. All it asks for is a ZIP code, the minimum info legally required for tax purposes. www.wired.com/story/new-an...
A New Anonymous Phone Carrier Lets You Sign Up With Nothing but a Zip Code
Privacy stalwart Nicholas Merrill spent a decade fighting an FBI surveillance order. Now he wants to sell you phone service—without knowing almost anything about you.
www.wired.com
December 4, 2025 at 5:56 PM
If you live in the US, you may be more concerned than ever about what happens when law enforcement shows up at a telco and demands information about your account.
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i know WHY this is but that just makes it even more of a kick in the pants lmao
November 28, 2025 at 3:28 AM
i know WHY this is but that just makes it even more of a kick in the pants lmao
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Various Animations of Clippy, the MS Office Assistant (2001)
November 27, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Various Animations of Clippy, the MS Office Assistant (2001)
Further proof Webster dictionary is no longer holding back.
November 24, 2025 at 9:19 PM
Further proof Webster dictionary is no longer holding back.
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ARTISTS!
I need your help!
In collab. w/the Society for Integrative & Comparative Biology, I'm organizing a group of artists to come to our Jan. meeting! We're looking for artists to create based on what they learn at the conference. $1000 stipend.
Application is V short! forms.gle/ah1i8KwNJinZ...
I need your help!
In collab. w/the Society for Integrative & Comparative Biology, I'm organizing a group of artists to come to our Jan. meeting! We're looking for artists to create based on what they learn at the conference. $1000 stipend.
Application is V short! forms.gle/ah1i8KwNJinZ...
November 22, 2025 at 3:51 PM
ARTISTS!
I need your help!
In collab. w/the Society for Integrative & Comparative Biology, I'm organizing a group of artists to come to our Jan. meeting! We're looking for artists to create based on what they learn at the conference. $1000 stipend.
Application is V short! forms.gle/ah1i8KwNJinZ...
I need your help!
In collab. w/the Society for Integrative & Comparative Biology, I'm organizing a group of artists to come to our Jan. meeting! We're looking for artists to create based on what they learn at the conference. $1000 stipend.
Application is V short! forms.gle/ah1i8KwNJinZ...
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Control of your own devices is temporary, but surveillance is forever.
Google stopped letting owners of early Nest themostats remotely control their devices last month. But it's still remotely collecting extensive surveillance data from them: https://www.theverge.com/news/820600/google-nest-learning-thermostat-downgraded-data-collection #privacy
Google is collecting troves of data from downgraded Nest thermostats
The thermostats may no longer connect to Google’s app, but they still transmit your data.
www.theverge.com
November 17, 2025 at 11:19 PM
Control of your own devices is temporary, but surveillance is forever.
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If you’re at Rhode Island Comic Con, stop by 727 for prints, playmats, books and creatures!
November 8, 2025 at 7:23 PM
If you’re at Rhode Island Comic Con, stop by 727 for prints, playmats, books and creatures!
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"I asked ChatGPT" "I asked Grok" ok well I asked Gandalf and he said he has not passed through fire and death to bandy crooked words with a witless worm
June 19, 2025 at 12:42 PM
"I asked ChatGPT" "I asked Grok" ok well I asked Gandalf and he said he has not passed through fire and death to bandy crooked words with a witless worm
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Here’s Nick Cave replying to a correspondent called Valerio who was asking him about how to respond to a growing sense of cynicism - here. www.theredhandfiles.com/do-you-still...
October 24, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Here’s Nick Cave replying to a correspondent called Valerio who was asking him about how to respond to a growing sense of cynicism - here. www.theredhandfiles.com/do-you-still...
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ChatGPT’s new Atlas browser doesn’t just see what you read — it remembers it.
@eff.org’s Lena Cohen showed me it even logged “memories” of her looking for *abortion care* and her doctor’s name. Out-surveils even Chrome.
My @washingtonpost.com column: wapo.st/49bOcVC
@eff.org’s Lena Cohen showed me it even logged “memories” of her looking for *abortion care* and her doctor’s name. Out-surveils even Chrome.
My @washingtonpost.com column: wapo.st/49bOcVC
Column | ChatGPT just came out with its own web browser. Use it with caution.
OpenAI’s Atlas promises AI-powered convenience. The price? Letting ChatGPT track and store “memories” of what you do online.
wapo.st
October 22, 2025 at 4:19 PM
ChatGPT’s new Atlas browser doesn’t just see what you read — it remembers it.
@eff.org’s Lena Cohen showed me it even logged “memories” of her looking for *abortion care* and her doctor’s name. Out-surveils even Chrome.
My @washingtonpost.com column: wapo.st/49bOcVC
@eff.org’s Lena Cohen showed me it even logged “memories” of her looking for *abortion care* and her doctor’s name. Out-surveils even Chrome.
My @washingtonpost.com column: wapo.st/49bOcVC
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This is old and it's not even the first time I've seen it but I need to stress to everyone that I am the reincarnation of this teenage girl
October 11, 2025 at 7:31 AM
This is old and it's not even the first time I've seen it but I need to stress to everyone that I am the reincarnation of this teenage girl
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Thirty paintings created by the bushy-haired, soft-spoken Bob Ross will soon be up for auction to defray the costs of programming for small and rural public television stations suffering under cuts in federal funding. https://to.pbs.org/4nEQMrw
Bob Ross paintings to be auctioned to support public TV stations after federal funding cuts
All profits will help public TV stations with licensing fees for popular programs that include "The Best of Joy of Painting" and "America's Test Kitchen."
www.pbs.org
October 8, 2025 at 12:02 AM
Thirty paintings created by the bushy-haired, soft-spoken Bob Ross will soon be up for auction to defray the costs of programming for small and rural public television stations suffering under cuts in federal funding. https://to.pbs.org/4nEQMrw
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Found this on the AO3 subreddit, and I'm about to let it change my whole life (or at least work really hard to internalize it wrt my writing).
October 2, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Found this on the AO3 subreddit, and I'm about to let it change my whole life (or at least work really hard to internalize it wrt my writing).
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Samsung has rolled out a software update to its smart fridges that will display ads, despite saying they had "no plans" to do so. We're headed for a future where you will have to pay extra for appliances without ads.
Samsung brings ads to US fridges
Samsung’s ‘screens everywhere’ initiative is morphing into ads everywhere.
www.theverge.com
September 18, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Samsung has rolled out a software update to its smart fridges that will display ads, despite saying they had "no plans" to do so. We're headed for a future where you will have to pay extra for appliances without ads.
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In short, we need more Archaeologists again. The First Lego League squads just keep rolling in. Spread the word among Archaeologists!
I run @skypeascientist.bsky.social which matches scientists w/classrooms, libraries, etc for Q&As.
We match First Lego League teams too. This tends to wipe out one category of scientist bc so many teams sign up for the same category (this year, archaeologists). We're almost out of archaeologists.
We match First Lego League teams too. This tends to wipe out one category of scientist bc so many teams sign up for the same category (this year, archaeologists). We're almost out of archaeologists.
September 12, 2025 at 8:35 PM
In short, we need more Archaeologists again. The First Lego League squads just keep rolling in. Spread the word among Archaeologists!
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The thing about digital archives is that it's important you don't spend too much time thinking about the devastatingly ephemeral nature of digital material or it feels like watching a pixelated Library of Alexandria burning before your eyes
September 11, 2025 at 4:05 AM
The thing about digital archives is that it's important you don't spend too much time thinking about the devastatingly ephemeral nature of digital material or it feels like watching a pixelated Library of Alexandria burning before your eyes
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Think its stupid that VISA and Mastercard think something as innocent as Cat Ear accessories are a bannable offense?
Then heres something you can do about it. Complain to visa and MC, call your representatives.
Advocate for porn, whole heartedly.
Then heres something you can do about it. Complain to visa and MC, call your representatives.
Advocate for porn, whole heartedly.
September 10, 2025 at 3:56 AM
Think its stupid that VISA and Mastercard think something as innocent as Cat Ear accessories are a bannable offense?
Then heres something you can do about it. Complain to visa and MC, call your representatives.
Advocate for porn, whole heartedly.
Then heres something you can do about it. Complain to visa and MC, call your representatives.
Advocate for porn, whole heartedly.
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Israeli spyware company Paragon Solutions has been bought by US private equity so a contract with ICE is cool and good now.
I wonder how much of this meant to make up for brain drain from inside of the US govt. USGs biggest advantage for many years was that it built its spying tools in-house.
I wonder how much of this meant to make up for brain drain from inside of the US govt. USGs biggest advantage for many years was that it built its spying tools in-house.
ICE reactivates contract with phone spyware company Paragon Solutions, which drew criticism this year after Italian activists and journalists were hacked. Free version here: wapo.st/45O1WE8
ICE reactivates contract with previously banned spyware vendor
The Biden administration had barred Paragon Solutions from U.S. government use after finding that the company’s software had been used unethically elsewhere.
wapo.st
September 2, 2025 at 9:50 PM
Israeli spyware company Paragon Solutions has been bought by US private equity so a contract with ICE is cool and good now.
I wonder how much of this meant to make up for brain drain from inside of the US govt. USGs biggest advantage for many years was that it built its spying tools in-house.
I wonder how much of this meant to make up for brain drain from inside of the US govt. USGs biggest advantage for many years was that it built its spying tools in-house.
