Ray Winninger
@winningerr.bsky.social
Game Designer | Ex-head of Dungeons & Dragons | Creator of UNDERGROUND RPG | Reformed Technologist
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Images of Nicolás Maduro in a Nike Tech sweatsuit after his arrest sparked interest in menswear circles. The suit’s popularity surged, with some calling it the “Maduro gray.”
Column | Nicolás Maduro’s Nike Tech sweatsuit and the thirst for notoriety
Nicolás Maduro’s arrest sparks a frenzy over his Nike Tech sweatsuit, a $260 “relaxed fit” outfit that has become a symbol of the deposed Venezuelan leader’s style.
www.washingtonpost.com
January 6, 2026 at 2:31 AM
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I really enjoyed this short interview with maestro @vurnt22.bsky.social. www.loudersound.com/bands-artist...
Living Colour's Vernon Reid: The soundtrack of my life
"What guitar meant for everyone, he changed it, and he did it with incredible songs"
www.loudersound.com
December 31, 2025 at 2:09 AM
I really enjoyed this short interview with maestro @vurnt22.bsky.social. www.loudersound.com/bands-artist...
Well, this is some nightmare fuel.
This is an artificial mouth created by Japanese researchers. It uses artificial vocal cords, a trachea system, and a flexible silicone mouth that moves and shapes sound in real time.
It sounds so human-like!
It sounds so human-like!
December 29, 2025 at 3:28 AM
Well, this is some nightmare fuel.
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I’ll just note that the US didn’t do this to China, which outright bans US social media websites
US bars former EU commissioner Breton and others over tech rules ft.trib.al/TgoG45B
US bars former EU commissioner Breton and others over tech rules
France hits out at visa sanctions as Washington targets what it calls the ‘global censorship-industrial complex’
ft.trib.al
December 24, 2025 at 11:12 AM
I’ll just note that the US didn’t do this to China, which outright bans US social media websites
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Look if we just go around beating the absolute shit out of social media assholes there’s bound to be some sort of long-term theoretical negative externality or something
Anyway be careful out there Nate Silver
Anyway be careful out there Nate Silver
to add to the Jake Paul schadenfreude, Andrew Tate also lost a fight to some reality TV influencer. most analysis of the fight I've read described his opponent as deeply untalented but Andrew lost anyway. Tate's endurance was awful and he was gassed after the first round.
December 21, 2025 at 12:57 AM
Look if we just go around beating the absolute shit out of social media assholes there’s bound to be some sort of long-term theoretical negative externality or something
Anyway be careful out there Nate Silver
Anyway be careful out there Nate Silver
WTF is it with these weirdos?
Dr Oz: "The creation of a penis costs on average in America $150,000 per child ... if you add testicles, that's extra"
December 18, 2025 at 11:49 PM
WTF is it with these weirdos?
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Reminding everyone for no particular reason that Section 230 is one of the last things standing between free speech online and Trump having control over everything you see and say on the internet
December 18, 2025 at 10:28 PM
Reminding everyone for no particular reason that Section 230 is one of the last things standing between free speech online and Trump having control over everything you see and say on the internet
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As a reminder: Trump is rewarded for saying the most insanely hateful things if you, like sheep, simply disseminate it for him even on platforms where is largely blocked.
10 years in and he still plays you all like a fiddle.
10 years in and he still plays you all like a fiddle.
December 15, 2025 at 2:58 PM
As a reminder: Trump is rewarded for saying the most insanely hateful things if you, like sheep, simply disseminate it for him even on platforms where is largely blocked.
10 years in and he still plays you all like a fiddle.
10 years in and he still plays you all like a fiddle.
This is a very wise move on WotC’s part. @justiceraminarman.bsky.social is great designer and leader. Congrats, my friend!
I’m happy to share that I’m stepping into the role of Game Design Director for the Dungeons & Dragons TRPG. I'm immensely grateful to my team, my mentors, and everyone who has supported my career along the way.
A short 🧵 below!
A short 🧵 below!
December 11, 2025 at 10:39 PM
This is a very wise move on WotC’s part. @justiceraminarman.bsky.social is great designer and leader. Congrats, my friend!
To the woman or the gun?
December 11, 2025 at 1:45 AM
To the woman or the gun?
Next thing you know, he’ll start posting random opinions to Bluesky multiple times a day.
Quentin Tarantino wants to make you aware of every single opinion of his, whether you actually want to or not.
December 7, 2025 at 1:48 AM
Next thing you know, he’ll start posting random opinions to Bluesky multiple times a day.
I co-sign the sentiment, but “bitch” is never ”gender neutral.” Yes, the epithet is applied to males too, but the clear context is *always* “bitches“ are weak and inferior—like women. The insult only works because “bitch” means “female” (or worse, “female dog”). Let’s forget this terrible slur.
In the immortal words of the great 21st century poet Ludacris:
“Move, bitch (gender neutral), get out the way,
Get out the way, bitch (gender neutral), get out the way”
“Move, bitch (gender neutral), get out the way,
Get out the way, bitch (gender neutral), get out the way”
For some reason Democratic leaders seem to prefer telling voters what they won’t be able to do, rather than what they’d like to do.
If Hegseth ordered a war crime and lied about it, shouldn’t Ds try for impeachment? Put Rs on the spot. They might get a few defections.
www.axios.com/2025/12/01/j...
If Hegseth ordered a war crime and lied about it, shouldn’t Ds try for impeachment? Put Rs on the spot. They might get a few defections.
www.axios.com/2025/12/01/j...
December 2, 2025 at 2:24 AM
I co-sign the sentiment, but “bitch” is never ”gender neutral.” Yes, the epithet is applied to males too, but the clear context is *always* “bitches“ are weak and inferior—like women. The insult only works because “bitch” means “female” (or worse, “female dog”). Let’s forget this terrible slur.
My years at Northwestern University were the happiest of my life. Sad to see a once great institution capitulate to two-bit authoritarians. Removing NU from my will this week.
November 29, 2025 at 2:33 AM
My years at Northwestern University were the happiest of my life. Sad to see a once great institution capitulate to two-bit authoritarians. Removing NU from my will this week.
1. STAR WARS
2. EMPIRE STRIKES BACK
3. THE LAST JEDI
4. RETURN OF THE JEDI
5. ROGUE ONE
6. THE FORCE AWAKENS
7. SOLO
8. ATTACK OF THE CLONES
9. PHANTOM MENACE
10. REVENGE OF THE SITH
5-10 are bad; 7-10 are unwatchable.
2. EMPIRE STRIKES BACK
3. THE LAST JEDI
4. RETURN OF THE JEDI
5. ROGUE ONE
6. THE FORCE AWAKENS
7. SOLO
8. ATTACK OF THE CLONES
9. PHANTOM MENACE
10. REVENGE OF THE SITH
5-10 are bad; 7-10 are unwatchable.
November 24, 2025 at 9:20 PM
1. STAR WARS
2. EMPIRE STRIKES BACK
3. THE LAST JEDI
4. RETURN OF THE JEDI
5. ROGUE ONE
6. THE FORCE AWAKENS
7. SOLO
8. ATTACK OF THE CLONES
9. PHANTOM MENACE
10. REVENGE OF THE SITH
5-10 are bad; 7-10 are unwatchable.
2. EMPIRE STRIKES BACK
3. THE LAST JEDI
4. RETURN OF THE JEDI
5. ROGUE ONE
6. THE FORCE AWAKENS
7. SOLO
8. ATTACK OF THE CLONES
9. PHANTOM MENACE
10. REVENGE OF THE SITH
5-10 are bad; 7-10 are unwatchable.
This is so fucking sad. The world’s richest man spent a fortune to create a robot to bathe him in the specious praise he so obviously needs. He’s such a sociopath that the much cheaper option of hiring a Wormtongue or a JD Vance or a Mike Johnson just wouldn’t cut it.
oh my god i take it back, grok is amazing
November 20, 2025 at 2:53 AM
This is so fucking sad. The world’s richest man spent a fortune to create a robot to bathe him in the specious praise he so obviously needs. He’s such a sociopath that the much cheaper option of hiring a Wormtongue or a JD Vance or a Mike Johnson just wouldn’t cut it.
Killing Bond at the end of the Craig era was a *favor* to these new writers. Now they’re free to start over and not have to pretend they’re connected to the older movies. They have sixty years of Bond villains they can reimagine and reintroduce.
James Bond’s death in No Time to Die is causing a nightmare for the next film. Writers are stuck because Bond “was blown to pieces.”
Anthony Horowitz, author of three 007 novels, says:
“You can't have him wake up in shower and saying it was all a dream."
radaronline.com/p/james-bond...
Anthony Horowitz, author of three 007 novels, says:
“You can't have him wake up in shower and saying it was all a dream."
radaronline.com/p/james-bond...
November 13, 2025 at 12:54 AM
Killing Bond at the end of the Craig era was a *favor* to these new writers. Now they’re free to start over and not have to pretend they’re connected to the older movies. They have sixty years of Bond villains they can reimagine and reintroduce.
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D&D fans, I’m told Cynda Callaway has passed away. Cynda was the production expert who worked with various printers and manufacturers to get D&D books and boxes on shelves, on time, through the 5E era and beyond. She was a genuine unsung hero and all of us fans owe her a lot. RIP. #dnd
November 5, 2025 at 3:35 AM
D&D fans, I’m told Cynda Callaway has passed away. Cynda was the production expert who worked with various printers and manufacturers to get D&D books and boxes on shelves, on time, through the 5E era and beyond. She was a genuine unsung hero and all of us fans owe her a lot. RIP. #dnd
Uh, didn’t Senators Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock win statewide races just a few years ago?
November 5, 2025 at 3:24 AM
Uh, didn’t Senators Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock win statewide races just a few years ago?
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/3 Notice also how thankfully Heritage accepts the gift that people like Ezra Klein give them: if you can frame bigotry as a “debate,” if it’s done in a friendly chat or a podcast or some other stylized forum, then it’s just uncouth and intolerant to call it out. Works out swell for bigots.
October 30, 2025 at 11:27 PM
/3 Notice also how thankfully Heritage accepts the gift that people like Ezra Klein give them: if you can frame bigotry as a “debate,” if it’s done in a friendly chat or a podcast or some other stylized forum, then it’s just uncouth and intolerant to call it out. Works out swell for bigots.
Whoa, that’s an interesting pairing.
“I Saw the TV Glow” writer-director Jane Schoenbrun is doing a series at Netflix based on Charles Burns’ “Black Hole” comics (which also have a long on-off history with movie adaptations). Details here.
Netflix Lands ‘Black Hole’ Series From ‘I Saw the TV Glow’ Filmmaker Jane Schoenbrun
Co-produced by New Regency, the drama is based on a graphic novel by Charles Burns.
www.hollywoodreporter.com
October 23, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Whoa, that’s an interesting pairing.
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there’s a subset of people who, if you point out something bad happening now, will basically reply “it was always like this and anyone who disagrees is just privileged.” it parades as savvy but nine times out of ten it’s just an ahistorical oversimplification.
"they've always been like this" is always a tempting savvy take but it is just not true that Republican staffers were 100 percent open Nazis back in 2004, or hell even 2014. they just weren't
there have been a lot of responses to this arguing that young Republicans were motivated by such feelings but didn't express them openly
and I think a crucial lesson of the Trump era is that there is great value in people not expressing these things openly! that's a big and decisive change!
and I think a crucial lesson of the Trump era is that there is great value in people not expressing these things openly! that's a big and decisive change!
October 15, 2025 at 8:40 PM
there’s a subset of people who, if you point out something bad happening now, will basically reply “it was always like this and anyone who disagrees is just privileged.” it parades as savvy but nine times out of ten it’s just an ahistorical oversimplification.
Holy shit. Maybe AI *can* be a real artist. This is lit. ”Forgigato Blow” and special guest “Measles” are just . . . mwah.
dying at rightwingers falling for what looks like an ai generated turning points USA half time show with special guest “measles”
October 13, 2025 at 2:53 AM
Holy shit. Maybe AI *can* be a real artist. This is lit. ”Forgigato Blow” and special guest “Measles” are just . . . mwah.