Nick
@nickjustageek.bsky.social
Indie TTRPGs Geek, found in the DMV area
Pronouns: He / Him
Profession: Programmer
Alignment: Progressive Lefty
Handiness: Lefty
Known weaknesses: spicy food, cats, dad jokes
Posts about: #TTRPG #AudioDrama #AudioBook #recipe #Cooking #AirFry
Pronouns: He / Him
Profession: Programmer
Alignment: Progressive Lefty
Handiness: Lefty
Known weaknesses: spicy food, cats, dad jokes
Posts about: #TTRPG #AudioDrama #AudioBook #recipe #Cooking #AirFry
Time for some civic education
The routine Filibuster is just bad.
The entire point of an election is, if you win, you get to do your agenda. The Filibuster is why so many people are disillusioned.
The routine Filibuster is just bad.
The entire point of an election is, if you win, you get to do your agenda. The Filibuster is why so many people are disillusioned.
What's the deal with the filibuster?
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November 11, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Time for some civic education
The routine Filibuster is just bad.
The entire point of an election is, if you win, you get to do your agenda. The Filibuster is why so many people are disillusioned.
The routine Filibuster is just bad.
The entire point of an election is, if you win, you get to do your agenda. The Filibuster is why so many people are disillusioned.
🤔 I bet I could use blender to do some interesting lensing effects.
Don't know if this one really works ... something lurks behind Professor Groenvelds office door. Inspired by #MothershipRPG #ttrpg #SciFi #horror
November 11, 2025 at 4:26 PM
🤔 I bet I could use blender to do some interesting lensing effects.
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This, but with society as the unit of analysis is basically my whole thing right now. Get out your vision boards for parallel institution building. Nope. Don’t tell me what can’t be done. Tell me how we figure out how to do it.
November 11, 2025 at 12:45 PM
This, but with society as the unit of analysis is basically my whole thing right now. Get out your vision boards for parallel institution building. Nope. Don’t tell me what can’t be done. Tell me how we figure out how to do it.
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I gripe about common media literacy and understanding the concept of story[telling] problems, but apparently I'm just an anachronistic relic because these are professional guild writers. Who can't figure out how to connect to old fuzzy continuity or grasp the concept of self-contained reboot arc.
November 11, 2025 at 11:34 AM
I gripe about common media literacy and understanding the concept of story[telling] problems, but apparently I'm just an anachronistic relic because these are professional guild writers. Who can't figure out how to connect to old fuzzy continuity or grasp the concept of self-contained reboot arc.
I should get a cat, and learn to knit
On the third hand, I'm not sure what my cat to study ancient warfare 🤔
On the third hand, I'm not sure what my cat to study ancient warfare 🤔
Maximus Decimus Meridius Snuggles was never quite the same after he had past life regression therapy.
November 11, 2025 at 6:12 AM
I should get a cat, and learn to knit
On the third hand, I'm not sure what my cat to study ancient warfare 🤔
On the third hand, I'm not sure what my cat to study ancient warfare 🤔
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If you haven’t experienced my dark sci-fi audiobook series, please take a listen.
Each episode is carefully crafted with original music, sound design, and immersive effects — more than a story, it’s a full audio experience.
Thank you for listening — and for helping bring the Heavenfield to life!
Each episode is carefully crafted with original music, sound design, and immersive effects — more than a story, it’s a full audio experience.
Thank you for listening — and for helping bring the Heavenfield to life!
November 10, 2025 at 4:43 PM
If you haven’t experienced my dark sci-fi audiobook series, please take a listen.
Each episode is carefully crafted with original music, sound design, and immersive effects — more than a story, it’s a full audio experience.
Thank you for listening — and for helping bring the Heavenfield to life!
Each episode is carefully crafted with original music, sound design, and immersive effects — more than a story, it’s a full audio experience.
Thank you for listening — and for helping bring the Heavenfield to life!
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This is one of my favorite things. The Big Bad isn't just spending 24/7 Big Badding. They got all kinds of other life going on around them.
Also even for monster motives. The ravenous beast might just need din-din or be upset because a pup is missing or even that they lost their favorite toy.
Also even for monster motives. The ravenous beast might just need din-din or be upset because a pup is missing or even that they lost their favorite toy.
November 10, 2025 at 8:11 PM
This is one of my favorite things. The Big Bad isn't just spending 24/7 Big Badding. They got all kinds of other life going on around them.
Also even for monster motives. The ravenous beast might just need din-din or be upset because a pup is missing or even that they lost their favorite toy.
Also even for monster motives. The ravenous beast might just need din-din or be upset because a pup is missing or even that they lost their favorite toy.
#TTRPG campaign Pitch
Your brother joined those out of town adventurers and died. While trying to learn more about his death you come to realize, they are not human. What did you see?
Your brother joined those out of town adventurers and died. While trying to learn more about his death you come to realize, they are not human. What did you see?
"adventurers" aren't actually human. they're a type of parasitic organism that tricks human communities into feeding its young with the threat of "dungeons" and then once they reach maturity they build more
now that I have reached 10th level by delving into and clearing dangerous underground labyrinths, dungeons, temples, wizards' towers and so forth, it's time to settle down and protect my wealth by building a dangerous underground labyrinth, dungeon, temple, or wizard's tower
November 10, 2025 at 4:30 PM
#TTRPG campaign Pitch
Your brother joined those out of town adventurers and died. While trying to learn more about his death you come to realize, they are not human. What did you see?
Your brother joined those out of town adventurers and died. While trying to learn more about his death you come to realize, they are not human. What did you see?
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Withholding a vote in a presidential election over your key issue does not help your key issue gain traction *after* that election
BUT
Demanding that your current senators hold the line on your key issue *before* they're up for election can help your issue
It's not that hard to get, right?
BUT
Demanding that your current senators hold the line on your key issue *before* they're up for election can help your issue
It's not that hard to get, right?
November 10, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Withholding a vote in a presidential election over your key issue does not help your key issue gain traction *after* that election
BUT
Demanding that your current senators hold the line on your key issue *before* they're up for election can help your issue
It's not that hard to get, right?
BUT
Demanding that your current senators hold the line on your key issue *before* they're up for election can help your issue
It's not that hard to get, right?
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Having just finished @karenhao.bsky.social’s Empire of AI, I’m struck by quite how much of the current AI industry is built on groupthink and cultish ideologies. If AGI is really the threat it’s meant to be, why focus on scale at the expense of exploring other possible methods?
remember when the Roko's Basilisk concept broke nerd-crank containment and someone effortlessly dismissed it as "imagining in the future there'll be a boot of such enormous size that you have to start licking it today"
is there a speculative concept that's less scary than the Technological singularity? tech is going to escape human control and everybody dies? that's fucking stupid.
November 10, 2025 at 12:45 AM
Having just finished @karenhao.bsky.social’s Empire of AI, I’m struck by quite how much of the current AI industry is built on groupthink and cultish ideologies. If AGI is really the threat it’s meant to be, why focus on scale at the expense of exploring other possible methods?
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🎲 Making your first game! 🎱
Interested in designing a #ttrpg or just curious about game design? Join us THIS FRIDAY at twitch.tv/gnome_anne for a panel featuring some INCREDIBLE designers (👀)
You can submit questions live in chat, here in replies, or at www.patreon.com/AllMyFriendsAreStories 🧡
Interested in designing a #ttrpg or just curious about game design? Join us THIS FRIDAY at twitch.tv/gnome_anne for a panel featuring some INCREDIBLE designers (👀)
You can submit questions live in chat, here in replies, or at www.patreon.com/AllMyFriendsAreStories 🧡
November 10, 2025 at 12:52 AM
🎲 Making your first game! 🎱
Interested in designing a #ttrpg or just curious about game design? Join us THIS FRIDAY at twitch.tv/gnome_anne for a panel featuring some INCREDIBLE designers (👀)
You can submit questions live in chat, here in replies, or at www.patreon.com/AllMyFriendsAreStories 🧡
Interested in designing a #ttrpg or just curious about game design? Join us THIS FRIDAY at twitch.tv/gnome_anne for a panel featuring some INCREDIBLE designers (👀)
You can submit questions live in chat, here in replies, or at www.patreon.com/AllMyFriendsAreStories 🧡
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How is it not obvious that people need their healthcare costs to not go up more than they need a restoration of air travel?
Maybe important to note it was the disruption in air travel that Democrats couldn't stand and not, you know, 40+ million people not knowing where their next meal was coming from.
November 10, 2025 at 1:44 AM
How is it not obvious that people need their healthcare costs to not go up more than they need a restoration of air travel?
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i think this is key. taking the deal would amount to taking the blame. it would turn a clear political victory into an unambiguous defeat.
If the Dems blink after all of this, for a deal that all but ensures no ACA subsidies in 2026 anyway, then what was the purpose of letting the shutdown go for 40 days in the first place?
November 10, 2025 at 12:56 AM
i think this is key. taking the deal would amount to taking the blame. it would turn a clear political victory into an unambiguous defeat.
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The average SNAP benefit per month is $177 a person.
The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person.
People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives.
And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.
The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person.
People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives.
And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.
November 10, 2025 at 1:49 AM
The average SNAP benefit per month is $177 a person.
The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person.
People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives.
And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.
The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person.
People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives.
And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.
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Here are the senators to kick out for the next senate primaries. They successfully negotiated nothing. Oh, and Schumer, whose lack of leadership let this happen.
November 10, 2025 at 4:57 AM
Here are the senators to kick out for the next senate primaries. They successfully negotiated nothing. Oh, and Schumer, whose lack of leadership let this happen.
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If @markwarner.bsky.social can’t convince his colleague to do the right thing then he needs to go in 2026. This is not the time for cowards.
November 10, 2025 at 2:59 AM
If @markwarner.bsky.social can’t convince his colleague to do the right thing then he needs to go in 2026. This is not the time for cowards.
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Vote and get involved because you're going to like the alternative to being asked to participate in a political group even less
November 10, 2025 at 4:12 AM
Vote and get involved because you're going to like the alternative to being asked to participate in a political group even less
My Dudes, someone needs to primary @kaine.senate.gov
He is hoping that we forget in 2030 that he caved in to this administration
He is hoping that we forget in 2030 that he caved in to this administration
Kaine Statement on Funding Deal to Reopen Government, Protect Federal Employees, and Vote to Protect Health Care | U.S. Senator Tim Kaine of Virginia
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senator Tim Kaine (D-VA) released the following statement announcing he will vote to advance legislation to reopen the...
www.kaine.senate.gov
November 10, 2025 at 5:43 AM
My Dudes, someone needs to primary @kaine.senate.gov
He is hoping that we forget in 2030 that he caved in to this administration
He is hoping that we forget in 2030 that he caved in to this administration
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Tim Kaine is a traitor
Sen. Tim Kaine statement "on the funding deal to reopen government, protect federal employees, and vote to protect health care"
bluevirginia.us/2025/11/sund...
bluevirginia.us/2025/11/sund...
November 10, 2025 at 1:32 AM
Tim Kaine is a traitor
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Oh and The Black Hole! I finally watched it last week and I'm firmly on team "this is fantastic, actually."
I've watched so many movies already this year, and only two of them came out in 2025 (The Naked Gun and Frankenstein).
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I've watched so many movies already this year, and only two of them came out in 2025 (The Naked Gun and Frankenstein).
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So I finally watched THE BLACK HOLE after it came up on and thought it was...great! No joke!
I had no idea it was a blatant space adventure retelling of 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea which is both one of my favourite books and movies of all time, and I think TBH did right by both of them! 🧵
I had no idea it was a blatant space adventure retelling of 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea which is both one of my favourite books and movies of all time, and I think TBH did right by both of them! 🧵
November 9, 2025 at 11:17 PM
Oh and The Black Hole! I finally watched it last week and I'm firmly on team "this is fantastic, actually."
I've watched so many movies already this year, and only two of them came out in 2025 (The Naked Gun and Frankenstein).
bsky.app/profile/almo...
I've watched so many movies already this year, and only two of them came out in 2025 (The Naked Gun and Frankenstein).
bsky.app/profile/almo...
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Sounds like the squishes in the senate caucus are ready to pull the plug with no ACA changes. This is real. If you want to register your opinion you shld call yr senator in the next hour. They not only want to reopen w/nothing. They want cover from their colleagues who still want to hold out.
November 9, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Sounds like the squishes in the senate caucus are ready to pull the plug with no ACA changes. This is real. If you want to register your opinion you shld call yr senator in the next hour. They not only want to reopen w/nothing. They want cover from their colleagues who still want to hold out.
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