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Tom McCambley
@ottawatom.bsky.social
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🇨🇦 He/Him. I acknowledge that I live on the unceded indigenous land of the Kanienʼkehá꞉ka (Mohawk), Omàmìwininìwag (Algonquin), and Anishinabewaki ᐊᓂᔑᓈᐯᐗᑭ people. I thank them for that.
Geek, Husband to Vickie, Almost 50 years a TTRPG’r. GNU Greg McCambley
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ottawatom.bsky.social
“How will you enter 2026?”
December 28, 2025 at 2:48 PM
ottawatom.bsky.social
Todays my first post-Christmas fashion post. My first geeky tee, a Gunn-styled Superman tee! It stands for hope you know…
#christmas #dc #jamesgunn #Superman
A picture of a large bearded white haired bloke, who’s very happy to wear a superman tee, after the style of James Gunn’s Superman movie. The tee shirt is blue, with a yellow flat topped diamond shape, and a stylised red S on the yellow shape.
December 28, 2025 at 1:39 PM
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chrishanrahan.bsky.social
Me too :)
December 27, 2025 at 7:53 PM
ottawatom.bsky.social
Alright, let’s see what I can do with this. Oh gods I have more minis now. 😖 #Battletech #AlphaStrike
An Alpha Strike Battletech box set sitting unopened. An open boxed set, with the rules, minis and short novel in it.
December 27, 2025 at 7:51 PM
ottawatom.bsky.social
Ahh it’s the holiday time of year, where a breakfast can be savory bread stuffing and a pair of lemon tarts because, why not?
December 27, 2025 at 4:05 PM
ottawatom.bsky.social
This above all Discworld quotes is always the one that sticks around with me. It’s a philosophy that resonates strongly with me.
johnrogers.bsky.social John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 4d
Sir Terry Pratchett is best understood as one of the most interesting, deeply ethical practical (I would say Pragmatist but I cede to actual experts) philosophers of the late 20th Century who just happened to work in deconstructed fantasy literature as his medium.
rincewind.run Micah @rincewind.run · 4d
Discworld QOTD, from Hogfather
December 25, 2025 at 7:12 PM
ottawatom.bsky.social
Today I learned a friend of mine, Mark Templeton has passed away, after having been declared missing earlier in the week. I remember spending hours of gaming with him back in the 90s when the RPGA was a thing. The local gaming scene in Ottawa will be a poorer one without him. #GNU
December 24, 2025 at 8:22 PM
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delaneyking.bsky.social
Antediluvian miniatures sells she who sells sea shells on the sea shore! A wonderful Mary Anning (and Trey)

antediluvianminiatures.wordpress.com/2015/12/14/s...

#dinosaur #dinosaurmodel #prehistoric
#maryanning #28mmminiatures
December 13, 2025 at 2:00 AM
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delaneyking.bsky.social
Ammonite lesbian fans would know Mary Anning.
a couple of women are sitting next to each other and smiling .
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December 13, 2025 at 2:01 AM
ottawatom.bsky.social
Love it! Love it all. My only note is that if Space Cabbie doesn’t show up at least once in it, then WTF are we doing here folks? #Supergirl #Gunnverse #embracethestrange

m.youtube.com/watch?v=YqdA...
Supergirl | Official Teaser Trailer
YouTube video by DC
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December 11, 2025 at 6:14 PM
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spezbaby.bsky.social
You will be visited by three spirits...
Don Rickles, Clint Eastwood and Donald Sutherland in a scene from Kelly's Heroes
December 9, 2025 at 10:13 PM
ottawatom.bsky.social
You will be visited by three spirits..
Spike Milligan, Peter Sellars, and Harry Seacomb (the writers and performers of the BBC radio show called The Goon Show) pretend to light their cigarettes using three leaks like lighters. Spike is dressed in a cable-knit sweater and is unshaven. Peter and Harry are in dark suits and clean shaven. They appear to be in a recording studio. This is a black and white picture
December 9, 2025 at 8:49 PM
ottawatom.bsky.social
Movie you’ve watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Stars (Wars nor Trek), LOTR, or Marvel, Disney Animated or Pixar
A scene from the movie The Andromeda Strain. Four scientists have a meeting in a secret government base where they examine a satellite that seems to have brought back a dangerous extraterrestrial microscopic life form.
December 8, 2025 at 1:25 AM
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thespaceshipper.com
I am very honored and proud to receive the Spaceshipper Award for the best Spaceshipper, that I just invented. Thank you, myself. 🙏
a close up of chewbacca 's face with a few buttons on the wall behind him
Alt: a close up of chewbacca 's face with a few buttons on the wall behind him
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December 5, 2025 at 6:24 PM
ottawatom.bsky.social
What’s been my favourite part of #dccomics KO event? Well it was the well deserved return of a fan favourite…
In the foreground, the alien mercenary Lobo is strangling another alien with his hooked chain, behind a few paces running for his life the wacky Ambush Bug runs through the battlefield saying “LOOK OUT! Obscure character in a massive Line-Wide event coming through! I’m extremely high risk of death!”
November 27, 2025 at 12:43 AM
ottawatom.bsky.social
Well I think this is the earliest I’ve ever been Whamageddoned. Ah well wasn’t really feeling it this year. #whamageddon
November 21, 2025 at 12:12 PM
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artbymoga.bsky.social
TRANS RIGHTS ARE HUMAN RIGHTS!!! 🏳️‍⚧️✨
My trans friends are beautiful - panel shows my friend Mar holding his book “Demon Engine”. An arrow points to him saying Artist, Author and Historian. The next panel says “They bring so much love into the world.” Panel shows my friend Reed tossing a D20 in the air. An arrow points to her saying “therapist and amazing dungeon master”. Final panel shows me and my friends holding a trans flag that says “trans rights are human rights”. Meg says “and I proudly stand with them.”
June 4, 2025 at 7:05 PM
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November 15, 2025 at 11:30 PM
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penguinsushi.bsky.social
Same, though I wasn't a huge fan of the song in and of itself. I do really admire Lightfoot's sincerity in his efforts though, and as someone w/ a soft spot lake freighters and shipwrecks in general, I've come to appreciate it even if it wouldn't otherwise wouldn't grab me.
November 12, 2025 at 2:59 PM
ottawatom.bsky.social
Two days and fifty years ago, a tragedy on Lake Superior occurred, killing 29 men. It was immortalized in song, and lives rent free in my mind this time of year.

"...The lake, it is said, never gives up her dead
When the skies of November turn gloomy..."

www.youtube.com/watch?v=osAv...
Music Making History: Gordon Lightfoot & The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald
YouTube video by Minnesota Historical Society
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November 12, 2025 at 2:43 PM
ottawatom.bsky.social
How does one country entrust the tiniest bit of power to the most craven and despotic among them?
muskratjohn.bsky.social John Kovalic @muskratjohn.bsky.social · Nov 10
Schumer’s office just released a photo of him with the deal to reopen government.
November 10, 2025 at 4:09 PM
ottawatom.bsky.social
It was his birthday last Sunday, and it was our mom’s a few days ago. So this has been a long week, but I wanted to say thanks to you for mentioning him. 🕯️

GNU Greg McCambley
My brother, the irreplaceable Greg McCambley. RIP brother, there are none like you anymore.
November 9, 2025 at 12:44 AM
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spottedgiraffe.bsky.social
I have been here 10years and it’s the first time I’m not totally terrified for the future (?) What a brand new feeling.
a man in a captain america costume stands next to another man
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November 5, 2025 at 7:21 AM
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spottedgiraffe.bsky.social
I was raised by Ethiopian aunties.They fed me when my father passed. They taught me how to survive all the pains. They taught me how to dance and how to cook. And I never ever heard them being acknowledged in a political speech before. That really touched me.
November 5, 2025 at 6:46 AM
ottawatom.bsky.social
Eric you have Vickie’s and my deepest sympathies for your loss.
November 4, 2025 at 1:19 AM