Christopher Hoots
choots123.bsky.social
Christopher Hoots
@choots123.bsky.social
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RPG tip: Avoid NPC betrayal. Make NPC motivations clear.

#dnd #ttrpg
January 25, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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January 25, 2025 at 3:26 AM
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This is such a great song and being at this show was a huge highlight last year seeing Steve Rothery & Ray Wilson - I’ll post some clips.

Best show of 2024? Maybe someone saw something even better??

Have an amazing day ❤️🤗🎶🎸🎹

youtu.be/tciw7v18RbU
Steve Hackett - Firth of Fifth - Royal Albert Hall 23rd October 2024
YouTube video by oysterman55
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January 25, 2025 at 11:00 AM
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Finally put a down payment on a car 🥹🥹
January 24, 2025 at 1:53 PM
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January 24, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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Sen Mitch McConnell votes NO on Pete Hegseth
January 25, 2025 at 2:21 AM
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I haven’t yet really been feeling the rage or the fear. It’s kind of just…numbness. It’s all too big to take in at the moment. I kind of laugh when I look at the news sometimes, like…really? That too? Okay, lol, guess this is how we live now
January 25, 2025 at 3:19 AM
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Most of Europe is way too high up on the globe. Scooch down, that’s weird.
January 25, 2025 at 7:34 AM
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I've built a machine that can be Confidently Wrong. It can also make pictures that all look a bit the same, as well as make a video of you kissing any celebrity or person you know. In payment, I'd like to boil the world's oceans dry, & steal all literature. For some reason, my head is not on a spike
January 24, 2025 at 10:56 AM
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Just seen some chump smugly saying "why call it Nosferatu? Dracula is out of copyright" as if Nosferatu itself isn't now a distinct way of telling the story. When Coppola used shadowplay in Dracula he was making explicit reference to Murnau, not Stoker.
January 25, 2025 at 11:44 AM
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JUST IN: Judge MEHTA has barred Stewart Rhodes and other Oath Keepers whose sentences were *commuted* from going into Washinton or the U.S. Capitol without permission from the court.
January 24, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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Mitch McConnell, Susan Collins, and Lisa Murkowski voted against Hegseth, who will be the least qualified Secretary of Defense in the history of our nation. The world is a more dangerous place this because Pete Hegseth is the Secretary of the most powerful military in the world.

Robert Hubbell
January 25, 2025 at 2:59 PM
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"you're less fun when you're sober" wasn't the thing I needed to hear in VR chat last night.

I think I seriously need to prune my friends list there
January 25, 2025 at 2:43 PM
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It's Hard Fork Friday! This week on the show:

• TikTok is both dead and alive, Schrödinger's app
• How tech CEOs are trying to do business with Trump
• Memecoins are back, are you rich yet?
• And @chrislhayes.bsky.social joins to talk about his new book on attention

www.nytimes.com/2025/01/24/p...
Quantum TikTok + Memecoin Mania + Chris Hayes on the Attention Wars
“We are starting to see how Silicon Valley wants to do business during the Trump administration.”
www.nytimes.com
January 24, 2025 at 6:28 PM
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"Whether or not we supported Alaric in his campaign to sack Rome, it is now our patriotic duty to rally behind him. Alaric is now the ruler of all Romans, not just those who smear their faces with blood and smell strongly of dung."

(Published on the occasion of GWB's 2001 inauguration)
January 24, 2025 at 8:49 PM
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The audio edition of this week’s No Mercy / No Malice, as read by @georgehahn.com (who hammed it up for an imaginary convo betw Putin and Trump): open.spotify.com/episode/5t7w...
No Mercy / No Malice: America For Sale
The Prof G Pod with Scott Galloway · Episode
open.spotify.com
January 25, 2025 at 2:53 PM
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The Trump administration has canceled meetings and frozen hiring at the NIH.

In today’s episode, @casey_crownhart joins us to discuss this and other other big science stories of the week. Plus, what is a meme coin?

Listen here 🎧: https://buff.ly/3Mut28J
January 24, 2025 at 9:32 PM
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I get random CB radio messages from Earth all the time, “Captain, why is the world like this?” “Are we going to be ok?” “What’s the meaning of life?”

And like, I dunno, kid. FRIGGIN FIGURE IT OUT.
January 25, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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Researchers analyzed over 140,000 bird vocalizations to find out why bird sounds vary so much around the world.

Dr. Zuzana Burivalova from @uwmadison.bsky.social joins us to discuss the role that beak size and geography play in a bird’s sounds.
The Factors That Make Bird Sounds So Diverse Across The World
An analysis of 140,000 vocalizations from 77% of bird species showed that beak size and geography play a big role in the way birds sound.
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January 24, 2025 at 7:41 PM
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Saw Been Stellar tonight. They were. Stellar. And have Been.

- Ben
January 25, 2025 at 5:10 AM
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What goes on down there is none of my business
January 24, 2025 at 7:19 PM
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Still haven’t seen Wicked, but it does warm my heart to know that there is now an entire other generation that is going to attempt to read, and inevitably decide not to finish, the book it’s based on
January 25, 2025 at 2:14 AM
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Mitch McConnell joins Lisa Murkowski and Susan Collins in voting against Pete Hegseth
January 25, 2025 at 2:23 AM