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Mike Ferdinando
@mikeferdinando.bsky.social
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I'm an GenX IT manager in higher education, whose passion is tabletop role-playing games. I'm also a leftist and antifascist. I'll mostly be posting about gaming and politics. Twitter refugee.

I'm also on Mastodon: MikeFerdinando@dice.camp.
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No lying or making yourself out to be a cool kid: Post the first record you bought with your own money.
Album cover of "Freeze Frame" by the J. Geils Band (1981).
November 3, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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If you see this, quote with a robot that isn't from "Star Wars," "Star Trek," or "Transformers."
A Roomba automatic vacuum cleaner on a hardwood floor.
October 31, 2025 at 7:07 PM
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A vampire that's not Dracula.
Photo of a British DeHavilland Vampire fighter jet, produced from 1946 to 1953, and in service with the Royal Air Force (RAF) until 1958. Single-seat plane with rounded nose, trapezoidal wings and a split tail. Painted silver with a yellow stripe on each wing and tait, with British RAF roundels also on the wings and tail.
October 30, 2025 at 3:00 AM
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Someone shared this four-year-old Tweet and I laughed!
Twitter post from Nov 1, 2021 by account called "Classy Warfare". Account icon is black and white photo of a 19th-century military officer. "The War on Christmas cannot end until Christmas stops its illegal occupation of November. I am calling upon the Claus regime to return to the borders established in the Black Friday Agreement."
October 20, 2025 at 1:08 PM
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Superman says that we're the heroes for marching.

#NoKings #NYC
Massive anti-Trump protest in Times Square, New York City. A man in a Superman costume stands on a platform with a sign that reads, "You are all the real American heroes!" Other signs in the crowd read, "Make Lying Wrong Again," "No Kings Since 1776," "SCOTUS = Supreme Corruption of the United States," "Trump's Ass Makes the Country Look Small," "It's Lies Corruption and Cruelty Plated In Gold," and "Nazi Trumps Fuck Off!"
October 18, 2025 at 10:44 PM
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We're marching through Times Square!
Massive anti-Trump "No Kings" demonstration marching through Times Square, New York City
October 18, 2025 at 5:09 PM
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Selfie of me (a middle-aged white guy) at the No Kings NYC demonstration on 10-18-2025. I'm wearing sunglasses, an anti-fascist action t-shirt, an I love NY hat, and a progress pride pin. Many anti-Trump signs in the background
October 18, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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Who's your favorite Jedi? (Wrong answers only)
Image of Thundarr the Barbaian from the 1980 Hana-Barbara cartoon. Muscled white man with a brown mullet, wearing skins and leather bracers. He holds a sword made of glowing energy.
September 30, 2025 at 2:25 AM
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Okay... Done.
Screenshot of confirmation that I cancelled my Disney+ subscription, effective 9/19/2025. Confirmation that I cancelled my Hulu subscription, effective 9/20/2025.
September 18, 2025 at 2:30 AM
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Yup! And I recently bought the commemerative role-playing game...
September 13, 2025 at 6:41 PM
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I bought a copy of "Black Flame" yesterday morning, a few hours before she got dropped by DC Comics.
Screenshot of my order of a copy of "Black Flame" by Gretchen Felker-Martin, purchased through the website of Buffalo Street Books of Ithaca, NY.
September 12, 2025 at 9:17 PM
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I don't know if they ever did an actual print run. It came out in 2011, and I was still in my Pathfinder phase at the time. I didn't hear of it until 2017 or so.

This is my home-printed hardcopy...
Cover of The Final Girl RPG. Illustration of a blood-spattered young woman holding a large chef's knife in two hands, standing in a room with boarded windows. She is facing down a man wearing a hockey mask holding a large hunting knife.
August 14, 2025 at 2:41 AM
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#5 - Mothership
by Scott McCoy, published by Tuesday Knight Games

An #OSR scifi/horror #TTRPG about working-class protagonists in an outer space capitalist dystopia, fighting to stay alive against alien monsters, corporate greed, and the uncaring vacuum of space. It's a very solid game.
Cover of Mothership: Sci-fi Horror RPG Core Set, published by Tuesday Knight Games. Cover shows a black-and-white line drawing of a skeleton in a space suit, seeming in the process of standing up.
August 14, 2025 at 2:10 AM
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#4 - Apocalypse World 2e
by Vincent and Meguey Baker, published by Lumpley Games

The #TTRPG that started a revolution in indie RPG spaces: the progenitor game of the "Powered by the Apocalypse" design movement. Absolutely brilliant design that Opened My Brain to a whole new way of playing. #PbtA
Cover of Apocalypse World, second edition, by Vincent and Meguey Baker. Illustration shows a human figure wearing a leather coat with long sleeves, black gloves, and a red gas mask, head tilted back and right arm adjusting the breather.
August 14, 2025 at 1:52 AM
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#3 - D&D Basic/Expert Rules
by Gary Gygax and Dave Arneson, ed. by Tom Moldvay, published by TSR, 1981

The very first #TTRPG I played when I was 11 years old. I owned the books so I was the Dungeon Master. It's a classic and is still totally playable, though it very much shows its age.
Two softcover books: Dungeons & Dragons Basic Rules and Dungeons & Dragons Expert Rules, 1981 editions. Basic Rules has a red cover with an illustration of a sorceress casting a green fire spell and a dwarf warrior with spear and shield fighting a green dragon rising from a pool of water in an underground chamber. Expert Rules has a blue cover with an illustration of a wizard conjuring the image of the cover of the Basic Rules over a fire burning in a kettle. Cover art for both books by Erol Otus.
August 14, 2025 at 1:43 AM
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#2 - Outgunned
by Rico Sirignano and Simone Formicola, published by Two Little Mice.

A cinematic action-movie #TTRPG that seeks to emulate big, action-packed, explosion-fueled films like John Wick, Mission: Impossible, and Fast & Furious. Uses a Yahtzee-like dice mechanic. Very, very fun!!
Cover of Outgunned: Cinematic Action Roleplaying Game. Cover shows a young woman with auburn hair wearing broken sunglasses and a torn leather jacket looking at the camera with a wry half-smile. Her face is streaked with dirt and a trickle of blood comes from the corner of her mouth. More than a dozen arms holding various sorts of pistols point at her from all edges of the cover.
August 14, 2025 at 1:25 AM
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#1 Swords of the Serpentine by @kevinkulp.bsky.social and Emily Dresner.

A #GUMSHOE sword & sorcery #TTRPG that really feels like you're playing in a Fafhrd & Grey Mouser story. Highly recommended!
Cover of Swords of the Serpentine role-playing game. By Kevin Kulp and Emily Dresner, publishec by Pelgrane Press. Art shows a woman dressed in black leather scaling a brick wall, hundreds of feet above a city with extensive canals. Seabirds fly below her.
August 14, 2025 at 12:51 AM
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#TTRPG mail call!
Star Trek Adventures: The Roleplaying Game Second Edition Core Rulebook. Cover shows 8 Starfleet personnel of various species standing on the surface of a dry and rocky planet. They are wearing Starfleet uniforms from various eras of the series. Left to right: female Vulcan in a blue DS9-era uniform, older male humanoid in a 23rd century civilian formal suit, androgynous Human in yellow TNG-era uniform, female Trill in yellow SNW-era uniform, male Tellarite in Enterprise-era uniform, male Andorian in Dominion War-era Starfleet battle uniform, female Human in blue TOS-era uniform, male human in movie-era uniform. A Constitution-class Federation starship hovers overhead.
August 8, 2025 at 10:20 PM
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Fuck Harry Potter.

Go read The Worst Witch!
Covers of the eight books in Jill Murphy's children's book series "The Worst Witch," published between 1974 and 2018. Cover of the first book shows a solid purple background with an illustration of a young woman dressed as a witch wearing a black cape and black pointed hat, riding a flying broomstick, with a gray tabby cat hanging on to the broom end for dear life.
August 8, 2025 at 2:16 PM
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If you see this, post a vampire.
A DeHavilland Vampire jet fighter (1946) flies through the air. It has blunt wings, a split tail, and New Zealand Air Force wing roundels.
July 17, 2025 at 1:18 AM
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Share the 4 most recent TTRPGs you've played...

The Ultraviolet Grasslands
Ex-Capes
The Between
Daggerheart
Cover of "The Ultraviolet Grasslands and the Black City" 2nd edition, by Luka Rejec. Art is of a massive spherical red turnip-like vegetable sprouting from rocky ground, with large purple tree-like foliage sprouting from the top. Three human figures and a camel stand in front of the massive tuber, which towers 20 feet over their heads. Strange birds roost in the foliage. Tents and an evergreen forest stand in the distance behind the massive tuber. Cover of "Ex-Capes: First Draft Edition" by Jim Crocker. Titles are in a comic-style sans-serif font. On the cover is a middle-aged woman dressed in jeans and a green winter jacket. Behind her is an image of her much-younger self dressed in a blue-and-white superhero costume, flying through the air, firing beams of energy from her hands. Cover of "The Between: Preview Edition" by Jason Cordova. Cover art is a street scene of Victorian London at night: A dark-skinned woman in a fancy blue dress stands in the street, looking back toward the viewer, umbrella in one hand and candle in the other. Down the street is a man in a black frock coat and black top hat. Farther down the street, standing in a doorway facing the viewer is a woman wearing an iridescent green gown, her hand beckoning. Cover of "Daggerheart Core Rulebook" by Darrington Press. Image is a movie-poster style montage of an elf woman with wiite hair, a humanoid frog, a winged humanoid, a burly human man with an axe, and a horned humanoid with sword and shield. They face a giant crablike monster.
July 14, 2025 at 1:20 AM
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Post the same actor in two roles that show their range...
Actor Patrick Stewart as gay interior decorator Sterling in "Jeffrey" (1995). He wears a floppy pink beret, a pink t-shirt, and black leather jacket, and talks on a pink cell phone. Patrick Stewart as murderous neo-Nazi gang leader Darcy Banker in "Green Room" (2015). He has a goatee, wears hornrim glasses, and wears a tan collared shirt, green crewneck sweater, and leather bomber jacket.
June 25, 2025 at 11:38 PM
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I used to run with a pretty tough gang when I was younger.
Still of the main cast from "The Goonies" (1985)
June 23, 2025 at 12:33 PM
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🎵 Punk ain't no religious cult
Punk means thinkin' for yourself
You ain't hardcore 'cause you spike your hair
When a cop still lives inside your head

Nazi punks, Nazi punks, Nazi punks
FUCK OFF!
Nazi punks, Nazi punks, Nazi punks
FUCK OFF! 🎵
Maria von Trapp (Julie Andrews) holds an acoustic guitar and sings to a group of children on a grassy hillside in the Austrian Alps. Still from the film "The Sound of Music" (1965).
June 15, 2025 at 7:33 PM
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#NoKngsDay NYC

Way better than a military parade!
Anti-Trump protesters march down Fifth Ave in NYC on a rainy day
June 14, 2025 at 6:24 PM