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David Ridout
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Forever GM, civil engineer, TTRPG fan, Trekkie, all-around geek (he/him). Plays Lt. Ividian Te’nari in the Star Trek Preservations AP on the Tabletop Journeys podcast.
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Tell me again how magasses are NOT NAZIS...
November 21, 2025 at 11:40 AM
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phillewis.bsky.social
Sales of AI-enabled teddy bear suspended after it gave advice on BDSM sex and where to find knives
Sales of AI-enabled teddy bear suspended after it gave advice on BDSM sex and where to find knives | CNN Business
Sales of an artificial intelligence-enabled plush toy have been suspended after it was found that it engaged in conversation around sexually explicit topics and offered potentially dangerous advice.
www.cnn.com
November 20, 2025 at 3:35 AM
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Someone is buying up American starter homes and pricing you out. But it’s not who you’ve been told. #EconSky #Housing #PolSky #RonanFarrow
November 20, 2025 at 2:54 PM
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ttjourneys.bsky.social
🎲 The monsters are meaner in Tales of the Valiant!
Lewanika cracks open Monster Vault 2 to show why TOV creatures hit harder, move smarter, and elevate every 5E table.
Watch now 👉 youtu.be/jLfVLIrXV74

#TTRPG #KoboldPress #MonsterVault2 #OnTheRightPath
November 20, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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Remember: don't eat the mid tier fast food chicken, don't play the wizard game, don't shop at the hobby store run by the bad guys from Indiana Jones, and don't donate to the bigot bucket.
raynegrimm.bsky.social Rayne Grimm Vulpes Zer-Duh @raynegrimm.bsky.social · Oct 20
I know it's a tad early but I know those bitches with the buckets will be out soon. Don't gove them a penny. The volunteers may not know but the salvation army is no ally and actively combative and harmful to many queer minorities especially during the holiday season
A I age showing a typical collection bucket for the salvation army which is read with a lid holding mechanism on a tripod holder. There is a big stop/do not symbol over the hand depositing money with the words "we don't donate to the Bigot bucket" over the bottom bucket section
November 17, 2025 at 11:41 PM
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worldsbeyondnumber.bsky.social Worlds Beyond Number @worldsbeyondnumber.bsky.social · 2d
GOOD MORNING, GAME MASTERS! 🎲☀️

This week, our Patreon-exclusive fireside is Brennan and Aabria discussing any and all things GM.

Join us to get access: www.patreon.com/posts/firesi...
November 19, 2025 at 2:00 AM
adanddavid.bsky.social
When the politics get deep, the conspiracy theories fly thick!
ttjourneys.bsky.social Tabletop Journeys @ttjourneys.bsky.social · 2d
Political tension rises as the crew tries to uncover the truth without starting a diplomatic incident. Act 2 is live.
🖖 youtu.be/yU_p8NjcxmE

#TTRPG #ActualPlay #StarTrekAdventures #CallYourBoysTTJ
November 19, 2025 at 2:00 AM
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I'm as flabbergasted as Dean on this one. Unfuckingreal. First off, it's illegal but more than that, some children never get over such abuse. Some adults never get over it even with therapy. WTF is going on in this country?

#USDemocracy
November 16, 2025 at 11:18 AM
adanddavid.bsky.social
Proud of my state!
eviebauer727.bsky.social 🦋 kris🌻⋆⋆⋆ @eviebauer727.bsky.social · 5d
Border Patrol protest today in Charlotte, NC. 11/15
November 17, 2025 at 1:45 AM
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We wrote this to help you imagine how quickly a city can change under Trump…

Charlotte was once a place of slow, easy mornings, coffee cups clinking in cozy cafés, jazz drifting through open doors on Tryon Street, families stepping onto the light rail with strollers and soccer bags.
November 16, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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swhikt.bsky.social
All bad things lead back to Reagan chart
November 15, 2025 at 7:27 PM
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jmdematteis.bsky.social
I love this.
bradmeltzer.com Brad Meltzer @bradmeltzer.com · 6d
Hobbes is real and this is genius at work.
November 15, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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All of today's #CriticalRole live doodles are in the Doodle Archive: drive.google.com/drive/folder...

All previous Campaign/one shot live doodles are here: drive.google.com/drive/folder...

Enjoy!
#CriticalRoleArt #CriticalRoleSpoilers #CriticalRolefanart
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Thimble being given the toy sword, somewhat great-sword sized on her A little pixie flying to the dryad saying "Yes mama!" and the dryad sighing and saying "not your mother." Kattigan shoving berries AND leaves into his mouth, flipping off Wicander as Wicander nibbles on the berries, worried the ranger is eating leaves. Tyranny and Wicander riding on the shambling mound friend, everyone having fun
November 14, 2025 at 8:27 AM
adanddavid.bsky.social
So, I'm going from three RPG sessions last week to only one this week. I feel like I'm going through some kind of withdrawal :-)
November 13, 2025 at 1:45 AM
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Why Elon Musk Needs Dungeons & Dragons to Be Racist

www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

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Why Elon Musk Needs Dungeons & Dragons to Be Racist
The fantastical roots of “scientific racism”
www.theatlantic.com
November 12, 2025 at 6:05 PM
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thevagabondtabby.bsky.social
It's also NOT ABOUT SATAN *stomps off grumbling about 80s ridiculosity*

(h/t Ysabet)

New study: Dungeons & Dragons is good for your brain — especially if you have a mental illness
New study: Dungeons & Dragons is good for your brain — especially if you have a mental illness
New research calls the game “serious leisure,” and shows real benefits to be reaped from playing.
www.goodgoodgood.co
November 12, 2025 at 3:36 AM
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Nov 12th - The Hill Valley clock tower was struck by lightning, George decked Biff and saved Lorraine, Marty travelled Back to the Future.

📽️📅 Back to the Future (1985)
3 Screenshots from the movie "Back to the Future" (1985): First, a close-up of a young man and woman dressed in 1950s attire, gazing affectionately at each other on a dance floor, evoking a pivotal romantic moment. Second, a digital display showing "Nov 12, 1955" as the destination date, central to the film's time-travel plot. Third, an image of the town clock tower at night, with a dramatic lightning bolt striking the clock
November 12, 2025 at 12:13 PM
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For anyone who is like “the creature is also named Frankenstein”; Mary Shelley went to see a play version of Frankenstein and was tickled that they listed the creature as “———“ in the dramatis personae:

“this nameless mode of naming the unnameable is rather good”

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But lo and behold! I found myself famous. Frankenstein had prodigious success as a drama, and was about to be repeated, for the twenty-third night, at the English Opera House. The play-bill amused me extremely, for, in the list of dramatis personce, came "———, by Mr. T. Cooke." This nameless mode of naming the unnameable is rather good. On Friday, 29th August, Jane, my Father, William, and I went to the theatre to see it. Wallack looked very well as Frankenstein. He is at the beginning full of hope and expectation. At the end of the first act the stage represents a room with a staircase leading to Frankenstein's workshop; he goes to it, and you see his light at a small window, through which a frightened servant peeps, who runs off in terror when Frankenstein exclaims "It lives!" Presently Frankenstein himself rushes in horror and trepidation from the room, and, while still expressing his agony and terror, "———" throws down the door of the laboratory, leaps the staircase, and presents his unearthly and monstrous person on the stage. The story is not well managed, but Cooke played ———'s part extremely well; his seeking, as it were, for support; his trying to grasp at the sounds he heard; all, indeed, he does was well imagined and executed. I was much amused, and it appeared to excite a breathless eagerness in the audience. It was a third piece, a scanty pit filled at half-price, and all stayed till it was over. They continue to play it even now.
November 12, 2025 at 9:56 AM
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The players are afraid… #dungeonsanddragons
November 12, 2025 at 12:12 AM
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Found the tweet that Joyce Carol Oates bodied Elon Musk with and it's so beautiful in its eloquent, simple take down. So much so he's crashing out trying to prove he reads books now. Put this in the Louvre.
Screenshot of a tweet from Joyce Carol Oates posted on Sunday, November 9th that reads "so curious that such a wealthy man never posts anything that indicates that he enjoys or is even aware of what virtually everyone appreciates--scenes from nature, pet dog or cat, praise for a movie, music, a book (but doubt that he reads); pride in a friend's or relative's accomplishment; condolences for someone who has died; pleasure in sports, acclaim for a favorite team; references to history. in fact he seems totally uneducated, uncultured. the poorest persons on Twitter may have access to more beauty & meaning in life than the "most wealthy person in the world."
November 10, 2025 at 8:26 PM
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Black American soldiers literally dug these WWII graves. Traumatic. To acknowledge that fact at a cemetery they helped construct is something the Heritage Foundation cannot accept. As Veterans Day approaches, never forget that this country both compels and disrespects Black military service. Always.
chriso-wiki.bsky.social ChrisO_wiki @chriso-wiki.bsky.social · 12d
1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️
November 9, 2025 at 1:20 PM
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emilyhughes.bsky.social
pre-writing a devastating obituary for your enemy is god-tier hating of a kind you don’t often see anymore. renaissance haterism. beautiful stuff.
brittanytrang.com Brittany Trang @brittanytrang.com · 13d
A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death.

Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."

Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
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James Watson, dead at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers
James Watson, the co-discoverer of the structure of DNA who died Thursday at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers.
www.statnews.com
November 9, 2025 at 12:55 AM
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God, I'm old. I remember having this as a kid.
bcholmes.org BC Holmes @bcholmes.org · 12d
I’m so old, this was my first cell phone.
An image of the 1978 Merlin.
November 9, 2025 at 12:12 AM
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Why is fascism right-wing?
4 frame comic. a guy with a red cap asks Stephie : stop saying that fascism is a right- wing thing. what about stalin or mao? checkmate, leftist. she replies : authoritarianism isn't a synonym of fascism. fascism is ultra-nationalist, whereas communism, with or without the authoritarianism, is against any form of nationalism. fascism is a conservative ideology obsessed with national purity that teams up with big businesses to maintain itself in power. that's why it's considered far-right. but why do you care so much? do you think fascism would suddenly become acceptable to left-wingers if it had a leftist spin to it? sounds like something that someone who finds fascism acceptable would think.
November 8, 2025 at 2:48 PM
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Head's up there is a Bluesky ban scam going around. This account just joined 40 mins ago and send me this DM.

DO NOT CLICK THE LINK.

Bluesky would NEVER send a DM like this and make you scared. This would come through email and would have a more professional email than this.

Stay safe!
A fake Bluesky suspension DM. "Bluesky @blueskyguard3453.bsky.social We regret to inform you that your Bluesky account has been temporarily suspended due to security-related restrictions. To prevent the permanent termination of your account, it is imperative that you complete the verification process within the next 24 hours by using the following link: (REDACTED) If the link does not open directly, please copy and paste it into your browser's address bar. ▲ Important: Failure to complete the required verification within the specified time frame will result in the irreversible and permanent ban of your account. We appreciate your immediate attention and cooperation in this matter. Sincerely, Bluesky Support Team 10:49 PM"
November 8, 2025 at 3:54 AM