Ryan "Patches" Hoolehan
@patcheshoolehan.bsky.social
TTRPG/video game dad, He/Him. Amateur painter when inspiration strikes (or I have a friendly deadline 😅). USAF
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By now the broad story of USAID’s ruin has been widely told: The decree handed down by President Donald Trump; Elon Musk and Russell Vought to scuttle the agency and undo decades of humanitarian work in the name of austerity. 1/x
December 15, 2025 at 1:53 PM
By now the broad story of USAID’s ruin has been widely told: The decree handed down by President Donald Trump; Elon Musk and Russell Vought to scuttle the agency and undo decades of humanitarian work in the name of austerity. 1/x
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Yo this sounds like a DOPE idea. Please shout out some games for this! I'ma post this in my Discord too and take all the games tossed at me and toss them into an RNG to decide the 12. I'll have the entire next year to play with some being streamed, some being personal! Any platform available so GO!
I already have my own 26 game list for 2026, but happy to add another twelve if anyone has any recommendations. <3 Not really a fan of playing on PC, so anything PC-only is out. But otherwise I have hardware or software solutions for basically everything outside of Switch 2 and Wii U.
December 6, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Yo this sounds like a DOPE idea. Please shout out some games for this! I'ma post this in my Discord too and take all the games tossed at me and toss them into an RNG to decide the 12. I'll have the entire next year to play with some being streamed, some being personal! Any platform available so GO!
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We need $100 for Insurance on our car and apt Friday. We need $700 more by the first for Rent and Electric.
80 ppl with $10 saves us. It would be a kind holiday gift. ko-fi.com/farronox/goa... farronox.carrd.co #MutualAid #Helpsky 💸💕 #KoFi
80 ppl with $10 saves us. It would be a kind holiday gift. ko-fi.com/farronox/goa... farronox.carrd.co #MutualAid #Helpsky 💸💕 #KoFi
November 27, 2025 at 12:43 PM
We need $100 for Insurance on our car and apt Friday. We need $700 more by the first for Rent and Electric.
80 ppl with $10 saves us. It would be a kind holiday gift. ko-fi.com/farronox/goa... farronox.carrd.co #MutualAid #Helpsky 💸💕 #KoFi
80 ppl with $10 saves us. It would be a kind holiday gift. ko-fi.com/farronox/goa... farronox.carrd.co #MutualAid #Helpsky 💸💕 #KoFi
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“I don’t care if it’s toenail cancer,” said Kirby Lewis, a veteran who was diagnosed with breast cancer a dozen years ago and is now Stage 4. “If exposure occurs, they should take care of those people.”
Citing Trump Order on “Biological Truth,” VA Makes It Harder for Male Veterans With Breast Cancer to Get Coverage
A Department of Veterans Affairs memo obtained by ProPublica erects new roadblocks to care for veterans with the rare but deadly cancer. The agency cites no new science but relies on an executive orde...
www.propublica.org
November 5, 2025 at 1:00 AM
“I don’t care if it’s toenail cancer,” said Kirby Lewis, a veteran who was diagnosed with breast cancer a dozen years ago and is now Stage 4. “If exposure occurs, they should take care of those people.”
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Live NOW and the wonderful folks at @square-enix-games.com have provided me access so I'm diving in to Final Fantasy Tactics - The Ivalice Chronicles! One of the best games ever, now somehow even BETTER. Come hang!
On Youtube at youtube.com/live/PwXmCLt...
On Twitch at www.twitch.tv/Anoriand
On Youtube at youtube.com/live/PwXmCLt...
On Twitch at www.twitch.tv/Anoriand
The GOAT... But BETTER?? | Anoriand Previews | Final Fantasy Tactics The Ivalice Chronicles
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September 29, 2025 at 10:35 PM
Live NOW and the wonderful folks at @square-enix-games.com have provided me access so I'm diving in to Final Fantasy Tactics - The Ivalice Chronicles! One of the best games ever, now somehow even BETTER. Come hang!
On Youtube at youtube.com/live/PwXmCLt...
On Twitch at www.twitch.tv/Anoriand
On Youtube at youtube.com/live/PwXmCLt...
On Twitch at www.twitch.tv/Anoriand
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Anyone who wants a Covid vaccine should be able to get one, no matter what state you live in.
September 10, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Anyone who wants a Covid vaccine should be able to get one, no matter what state you live in.
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𝓦𝓮 𝓪𝓻𝓮 𝓪𝓵𝓵 𝓲𝓷 𝓽𝓱𝓲𝓼 𝓽𝓸𝓰𝓮𝓽𝓱𝓮𝓻, 𝓪𝓻𝓮 𝔀𝓮 𝓷𝓸𝓽~?
I’m gonna attempt to do an artshare to give back to the art community I’ve joined, as a thank you for 100 followers!
🦋 Share your art below!
🦋 Like and Reply to each other!
🦋 SFW only please!
🦋 Tag others if you’d like!
💉No AI💉
#Artshare #Artistsupport
I’m gonna attempt to do an artshare to give back to the art community I’ve joined, as a thank you for 100 followers!
🦋 Share your art below!
🦋 Like and Reply to each other!
🦋 SFW only please!
🦋 Tag others if you’d like!
💉No AI💉
#Artshare #Artistsupport
August 27, 2025 at 11:52 PM
𝓦𝓮 𝓪𝓻𝓮 𝓪𝓵𝓵 𝓲𝓷 𝓽𝓱𝓲𝓼 𝓽𝓸𝓰𝓮𝓽𝓱𝓮𝓻, 𝓪𝓻𝓮 𝔀𝓮 𝓷𝓸𝓽~?
I’m gonna attempt to do an artshare to give back to the art community I’ve joined, as a thank you for 100 followers!
🦋 Share your art below!
🦋 Like and Reply to each other!
🦋 SFW only please!
🦋 Tag others if you’d like!
💉No AI💉
#Artshare #Artistsupport
I’m gonna attempt to do an artshare to give back to the art community I’ve joined, as a thank you for 100 followers!
🦋 Share your art below!
🦋 Like and Reply to each other!
🦋 SFW only please!
🦋 Tag others if you’d like!
💉No AI💉
#Artshare #Artistsupport
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I'm a game designer with 26 years of experience, designing a new ttRPG from scratch in weekly posts. I explain both WHAT I am doing and WHY. For paying members only, on my Patreon. (Just $4/month!)
This week: Pt. 4, Target Numbers
Art by @deanspencerart.bsky.social
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This week: Pt. 4, Target Numbers
Art by @deanspencerart.bsky.social
www.patreon.com/posts/writin...
August 7, 2025 at 8:25 PM
I'm a game designer with 26 years of experience, designing a new ttRPG from scratch in weekly posts. I explain both WHAT I am doing and WHY. For paying members only, on my Patreon. (Just $4/month!)
This week: Pt. 4, Target Numbers
Art by @deanspencerart.bsky.social
www.patreon.com/posts/writin...
This week: Pt. 4, Target Numbers
Art by @deanspencerart.bsky.social
www.patreon.com/posts/writin...
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After six years of adding medical staff, the VA this year is down more than 600 doctors and about 1,900 nurses. The number of doctors has declined each month since Pres. Trump took office. The agency lost twice as many nurses as it hired between January and June.
www.propublica.org/article/vete...
www.propublica.org/article/vete...
Veterans’ Care at Risk Under Trump as Hundreds of Doctors and Nurses Reject Working at VA Hospitals
Amid concerns about the stability of the agency, records show nearly 40% of the doctors offered jobs at the VA from January through March of this year turned them down — quadruple the rate of rejectio...
www.propublica.org
August 8, 2025 at 1:52 PM
After six years of adding medical staff, the VA this year is down more than 600 doctors and about 1,900 nurses. The number of doctors has declined each month since Pres. Trump took office. The agency lost twice as many nurses as it hired between January and June.
www.propublica.org/article/vete...
www.propublica.org/article/vete...
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You need to stop using the AI ChatGPT Gemini LLM shit, even to show how bad it is.
If a tech reporter did a thing, there's no need for you to do it to try to replicate the occurrence. It's been reported on.
This is a case where, "I'm doing it ironically," still has the same effect and impact.
If a tech reporter did a thing, there's no need for you to do it to try to replicate the occurrence. It's been reported on.
This is a case where, "I'm doing it ironically," still has the same effect and impact.
August 8, 2025 at 1:19 PM
You need to stop using the AI ChatGPT Gemini LLM shit, even to show how bad it is.
If a tech reporter did a thing, there's no need for you to do it to try to replicate the occurrence. It's been reported on.
This is a case where, "I'm doing it ironically," still has the same effect and impact.
If a tech reporter did a thing, there's no need for you to do it to try to replicate the occurrence. It's been reported on.
This is a case where, "I'm doing it ironically," still has the same effect and impact.
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My brand of socialism is a fairer tax system so that public services are run as services for the public good not for private profit (includes transport, libraries, water, energy, internet access, healthcare and social care, postal services). Run the economy for society, not society for the economy.
Like the "no one gets to own anything it's all communal" stuff is out there, but it's very fringe. Most mainstream socialists want government to actually do what it's meant to do: facilitate a good life for people and run/regulate things that are too important to leave to the whims of the market.
July 5, 2025 at 10:13 AM
My brand of socialism is a fairer tax system so that public services are run as services for the public good not for private profit (includes transport, libraries, water, energy, internet access, healthcare and social care, postal services). Run the economy for society, not society for the economy.
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Freedom from kings.
Freedom from fascism.
Power to the people forever. ♥️
Happy Independence Day 🇺🇸
Freedom from fascism.
Power to the people forever. ♥️
Happy Independence Day 🇺🇸
July 4, 2025 at 9:20 PM
Freedom from kings.
Freedom from fascism.
Power to the people forever. ♥️
Happy Independence Day 🇺🇸
Freedom from fascism.
Power to the people forever. ♥️
Happy Independence Day 🇺🇸
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I hear a lot of democratic members of congress say “republicans privately tell me they hate this.”
Start naming names.
Start naming names.
July 5, 2025 at 12:04 AM
I hear a lot of democratic members of congress say “republicans privately tell me they hate this.”
Start naming names.
Start naming names.
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Now in addition to no shelves surviving, my TV didn't survive, so I threw one that seems to be a good deal up on throne.com/anoriand in the longshot hope that a mysterious benefactor follows me. Until then, I can figure out streams that don't involve consoles, this whole thing just bites :/
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July 4, 2025 at 10:16 PM
Now in addition to no shelves surviving, my TV didn't survive, so I threw one that seems to be a good deal up on throne.com/anoriand in the longshot hope that a mysterious benefactor follows me. Until then, I can figure out streams that don't involve consoles, this whole thing just bites :/
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29% of my goal to replace my dead PC and get back to full work and streams. Thank you all so, so much for your help on this. I know things are rough right now, and it means a lot to me. 💙🤘💙
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July 3, 2025 at 3:02 PM
29% of my goal to replace my dead PC and get back to full work and streams. Thank you all so, so much for your help on this. I know things are rough right now, and it means a lot to me. 💙🤘💙
throne.com/artificerind...
throne.com/artificerind...
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I no longer have the reach I once did but I kind of hope y'all will help me. Share this. This isn't my game. I've nothing to do with it other than I've play tested it. I'm not getting paid. It's just the best game I've ever played and it's going live soon. www.kickstarter.com/projects/rak...
Coming soon: Witches' Quarrel: a quick 2-player legacy game
Two witches discover new magic in each 15-25 minute deckbuilding duel
www.kickstarter.com
May 3, 2025 at 10:53 PM
I no longer have the reach I once did but I kind of hope y'all will help me. Share this. This isn't my game. I've nothing to do with it other than I've play tested it. I'm not getting paid. It's just the best game I've ever played and it's going live soon. www.kickstarter.com/projects/rak...
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OMG.
“After DOGE gained access to NLRB’s systems, there was an increase in attempted logins from locations outside the US, including a user with a Russian IP address. The person with the Russian IP address appeared to have a correct username and password, created minutes earlier by DOGE engineers.”
“After DOGE gained access to NLRB’s systems, there was an increase in attempted logins from locations outside the US, including a user with a Russian IP address. The person with the Russian IP address appeared to have a correct username and password, created minutes earlier by DOGE engineers.”
Federal employee alleges DOGE activity resulted in data breach at labor board
In a sworn declaration sent to Congress, the employee said he witnessed several anomalies in DOGE’s handling of security.
www.nbcnews.com
April 18, 2025 at 9:59 PM
OMG.
“After DOGE gained access to NLRB’s systems, there was an increase in attempted logins from locations outside the US, including a user with a Russian IP address. The person with the Russian IP address appeared to have a correct username and password, created minutes earlier by DOGE engineers.”
“After DOGE gained access to NLRB’s systems, there was an increase in attempted logins from locations outside the US, including a user with a Russian IP address. The person with the Russian IP address appeared to have a correct username and password, created minutes earlier by DOGE engineers.”
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If your Rep or Senator isn't capable of doing Van Hollen-style stuff — for cowardice reasons, or because they're infirm, or they're belatedly sucking up to a dying Trump movement, or really any other reason — you should primary them. It's gonna take a lot more stuff like this. All hands on deck.
April 19, 2025 at 12:38 AM
If your Rep or Senator isn't capable of doing Van Hollen-style stuff — for cowardice reasons, or because they're infirm, or they're belatedly sucking up to a dying Trump movement, or really any other reason — you should primary them. It's gonna take a lot more stuff like this. All hands on deck.
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I subscribe to @lumpley.bsky.social game design ideas here.
Things that happen in the fiction trigger the mechanics, and things that result from the mechanics change the fiction in interesting way.
The system loop needs to be solid and have a solid circular relationship with the fiction.
Things that happen in the fiction trigger the mechanics, and things that result from the mechanics change the fiction in interesting way.
The system loop needs to be solid and have a solid circular relationship with the fiction.
Most TTRPGs have a fictional point to them, if not a solid gameplay loop. This makes it easier to create scenarios and ensure that players are moving towards a tangible goal.
November 2, 2024 at 7:56 AM
I subscribe to @lumpley.bsky.social game design ideas here.
Things that happen in the fiction trigger the mechanics, and things that result from the mechanics change the fiction in interesting way.
The system loop needs to be solid and have a solid circular relationship with the fiction.
Things that happen in the fiction trigger the mechanics, and things that result from the mechanics change the fiction in interesting way.
The system loop needs to be solid and have a solid circular relationship with the fiction.
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This is a program for teenagers with serious disabilities who are finishing high school and transitioning to their next steps in life. Trump just axed it, effective immediately, in the middle of the night, with no notice.
the richest man in the world has decided that your kids don't deserve special education programs
February 16, 2025 at 10:17 PM
This is a program for teenagers with serious disabilities who are finishing high school and transitioning to their next steps in life. Trump just axed it, effective immediately, in the middle of the night, with no notice.
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Why are politicians being content creators instead of democracy defenders
February 6, 2025 at 5:35 AM
Why are politicians being content creators instead of democracy defenders