Carl
@visionsofcarl.bsky.social
Pointing out the obvious since 1983. Penchant for busting a move.
Design director, ttrpg person, aspiring indie game designer, weight lifter, lindy hop dancer. He/him.
Design director, ttrpg person, aspiring indie game designer, weight lifter, lindy hop dancer. He/him.
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If you need an excuse to hide from your family for a bit, you can watch the second part of our StoryBake two shot, A Haunting in Havershan! That’ll buy you almost 3 hours
@hooshakid.bsky.social @visionsofcarl.bsky.social
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@hooshakid.bsky.social @visionsofcarl.bsky.social
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An Unfriendly, Ungrateful Ghost || A Haunting in Havershan pt 2 || StoryBake TTRPG
YouTube video by Open Table Adventures
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November 27, 2025 at 12:03 AM
If you need an excuse to hide from your family for a bit, you can watch the second part of our StoryBake two shot, A Haunting in Havershan! That’ll buy you almost 3 hours
@hooshakid.bsky.social @visionsofcarl.bsky.social
youtu.be/ChU_tZt6X5o?...
@hooshakid.bsky.social @visionsofcarl.bsky.social
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The first of our StoryBake twoshot is out now! There will be baking, there will be ghosts, there will be….apple fried rice? Gotta watch to find out!
@hooshakid.bsky.social @visionsofcarl.bsky.social @almosttheojames
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@hooshakid.bsky.social @visionsofcarl.bsky.social @almosttheojames
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A Haunting in Havershan || Part One || StoryBake, a Baking Adventure TTRPG
YouTube video by Open Table Adventures
youtu.be
November 20, 2025 at 12:04 AM
The first of our StoryBake twoshot is out now! There will be baking, there will be ghosts, there will be….apple fried rice? Gotta watch to find out!
@hooshakid.bsky.social @visionsofcarl.bsky.social @almosttheojames
youtu.be/S7FP4OzqEQo?...
@hooshakid.bsky.social @visionsofcarl.bsky.social @almosttheojames
youtu.be/S7FP4OzqEQo?...
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Excited to get home to these two games landing in my mail
October 7, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Excited to get home to these two games landing in my mail
September 22, 2025 at 9:29 PM
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Tech startup idea: instead of starting your car with your key, you get in, turn on the display panel, enter your password, get your phone out, open the authenticator app, enter your pin, enter the timed passcode, then open the start menu, then helpdesk, then "request engine start", then submit a tic
September 5, 2025 at 12:31 PM
Tech startup idea: instead of starting your car with your key, you get in, turn on the display panel, enter your password, get your phone out, open the authenticator app, enter your pin, enter the timed passcode, then open the start menu, then helpdesk, then "request engine start", then submit a tic
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after a very frustrating call with Visa (US+CAN), I was told that Visa would like inquiries relating to using their bargaining power to destroy adult media to be sent, via email, to
askvisa@visa.com
they asked. to be sent. emails. you know what to do.
askvisa@visa.com
they asked. to be sent. emails. you know what to do.
Maybe we could find out.
Mastercard (US): 1-800-627-8372
Mastercard (Int.): +1-636-722-7111
Visa (US + Can): 1 800 847 2911
Visa (AUS): 1 800 125 440
PayPal: +44-0203-901-7000
Mastercard (US): 1-800-627-8372
Mastercard (Int.): +1-636-722-7111
Visa (US + Can): 1 800 847 2911
Visa (AUS): 1 800 125 440
PayPal: +44-0203-901-7000
Collective Shout, the group that took credit for bullying Mastercard into recently censoring more platforms, stated that apparently it took them ~1000 phonecalls to convince them to give them what they wanted?
We got like way more people than that don't we?
We got like way more people than that don't we?
July 24, 2025 at 11:44 AM
after a very frustrating call with Visa (US+CAN), I was told that Visa would like inquiries relating to using their bargaining power to destroy adult media to be sent, via email, to
askvisa@visa.com
they asked. to be sent. emails. you know what to do.
askvisa@visa.com
they asked. to be sent. emails. you know what to do.
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Folks, US banning any kind of AI regulation happening in the states is about to be voted on soon!! CALL your Senators ASAP!!
Zach gave us a great break down bellow so check out his thread and lets do it! It’s GO TIME!
Zach gave us a great break down bellow so check out his thread and lets do it! It’s GO TIME!
The US ban on state AI regulation may be voted on in the senate very soon. If you live in one of these states - FL, MO, TX, TN, WI, AK, ME - please call your senators & ask them to remove the "state AI regulation ban" in the budget reconciliation bill NOW! Link to call & what to say in next post 1/
June 26, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Folks, US banning any kind of AI regulation happening in the states is about to be voted on soon!! CALL your Senators ASAP!!
Zach gave us a great break down bellow so check out his thread and lets do it! It’s GO TIME!
Zach gave us a great break down bellow so check out his thread and lets do it! It’s GO TIME!
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The American Academy of Pediatricians bluntly telling us the current CDC can't be trusted, and of course they are absolutely correct
publications.aap.org/aapnews/news...
publications.aap.org/aapnews/news...
AAP will continue to publish its own vaccine recommendations after CDC advisers sow distrust
The CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices plans to form a work group to review child and adolescent immunization schedules despite them undergoing constant review in real time.
publications.aap.org
June 26, 2025 at 12:35 PM
The American Academy of Pediatricians bluntly telling us the current CDC can't be trusted, and of course they are absolutely correct
publications.aap.org/aapnews/news...
publications.aap.org/aapnews/news...
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So, these people are white supremacists of a very specific, American kind. The idea that the right to govern belongs only to a select, racially defined group was *the* political theory of the antebellum and redeemed south. Ask who is being replaced and why that’s a problem, you’ll see it.
June 25, 2025 at 5:34 PM
So, these people are white supremacists of a very specific, American kind. The idea that the right to govern belongs only to a select, racially defined group was *the* political theory of the antebellum and redeemed south. Ask who is being replaced and why that’s a problem, you’ll see it.
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OPINION: "Since the Ku Klux Klan’s resurgence in 1915, white supremacists … have long advocated violence to establish a white ethnostate, a proposed political entity or nation-state where residency and citizenship are exclusively limited to whites," Art Jipson writes.
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June 25, 2025 at 6:30 PM
OPINION: "Since the Ku Klux Klan’s resurgence in 1915, white supremacists … have long advocated violence to establish a white ethnostate, a proposed political entity or nation-state where residency and citizenship are exclusively limited to whites," Art Jipson writes.
buff.ly/ZMXSEhn
buff.ly/ZMXSEhn
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Seems like Trump’s most powerful advisor being a white nationalist should inspire greater alarm than the possible mayor of new york being pro palestinian rights
June 25, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Seems like Trump’s most powerful advisor being a white nationalist should inspire greater alarm than the possible mayor of new york being pro palestinian rights
Deeply disappointing move by @roll20.net
Roll20, which owns DriveThruRPG, told Rebel Scum's designer (@9thlevelgames.bsky.social) that allowing their "hateful content" and political speech on its platform constituted a "slippery slope."
DriveThruRPG delisted a tabletop game about revolutions over “hateful” politics
Rebel Scum's censorship reveals the limits of Roll20's apolitical guidelines.
www.rascal.news
June 23, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Deeply disappointing move by @roll20.net
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Cable news suddenly keeps mentioning “sleeper cells” in Iran. Heard it at least 3 times on CNN. Unbelievable 2003-style reporting malpractice, just spitballing ways of making Iran seem like a threat to Americans sitting at home watching tv
June 22, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Cable news suddenly keeps mentioning “sleeper cells” in Iran. Heard it at least 3 times on CNN. Unbelievable 2003-style reporting malpractice, just spitballing ways of making Iran seem like a threat to Americans sitting at home watching tv
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EXCLUSIVE — The Onion has a full-page ad in today’s NYT featuring part of an editorial calling out congressional fecklessness towards Trump. They also sent a copy of their latest issue to every lawmaker.
My report, with an excerpt from the full editorial: www.thehandbasket.co/p/exclusive-...
My report, with an excerpt from the full editorial: www.thehandbasket.co/p/exclusive-...
June 22, 2025 at 1:32 PM
EXCLUSIVE — The Onion has a full-page ad in today’s NYT featuring part of an editorial calling out congressional fecklessness towards Trump. They also sent a copy of their latest issue to every lawmaker.
My report, with an excerpt from the full editorial: www.thehandbasket.co/p/exclusive-...
My report, with an excerpt from the full editorial: www.thehandbasket.co/p/exclusive-...
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Given all that we know about Clinton, I hope his endorsement makes you MORE likely to vote for Mamdani and LESS likely to include Cuomo ANYWHERE on your ballot.
Mamdani, Lander, Adrienne Adams, Blake, and Myrie. Those are the five. Your choice of order. But #NoCuomo, #NeverCuomo, friends.
vote.nyc
Mamdani, Lander, Adrienne Adams, Blake, and Myrie. Those are the five. Your choice of order. But #NoCuomo, #NeverCuomo, friends.
vote.nyc
Former President Bill Clinton is endorsing former Gov. Andrew Cuomo, his former HUD secretary, as the Democratic establishment tries to attempt to ensure Zohran Mamdani does not win the Democratic primary for NYC mayor. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/22/n...
Bill Clinton Endorses Andrew Cuomo for New York City Mayor
www.nytimes.com
June 22, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Given all that we know about Clinton, I hope his endorsement makes you MORE likely to vote for Mamdani and LESS likely to include Cuomo ANYWHERE on your ballot.
Mamdani, Lander, Adrienne Adams, Blake, and Myrie. Those are the five. Your choice of order. But #NoCuomo, #NeverCuomo, friends.
vote.nyc
Mamdani, Lander, Adrienne Adams, Blake, and Myrie. Those are the five. Your choice of order. But #NoCuomo, #NeverCuomo, friends.
vote.nyc
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Congress has not formally declared war since 1942, 83 years ago.
Look at all the war the US has done in the past 83 years. Very obviously, it long long ago stopped requiring congressional approval for war according to its own constitution.
Look at all the war the US has done in the past 83 years. Very obviously, it long long ago stopped requiring congressional approval for war according to its own constitution.
Fun fact: the US has been at continual war since 1945 and *not a single one of these wars*, from the Korean War to Vietnam to Iraq to Iraq again, was ever declared war by Congress.
The last time the US Congress declared war was 1942. 83 years ago.
The last time the US Congress declared war was 1942. 83 years ago.
A lot of people are talking about whether Trump is going to go to war with Iran but not enough people are talking about the fact that Trump has no legal authority to do so without Congressional authorization
June 22, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Congress has not formally declared war since 1942, 83 years ago.
Look at all the war the US has done in the past 83 years. Very obviously, it long long ago stopped requiring congressional approval for war according to its own constitution.
Look at all the war the US has done in the past 83 years. Very obviously, it long long ago stopped requiring congressional approval for war according to its own constitution.
Stopped off at a board game cafe last night in Portland to play for a bit and low and behold @goosepoopgames.com had a stand of little games so I obviously had to get one
June 18, 2025 at 11:27 AM
Stopped off at a board game cafe last night in Portland to play for a bit and low and behold @goosepoopgames.com had a stand of little games so I obviously had to get one
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The idea that the progressive left used the internet to bully institutions into accepting unpopular, far-left positions is the exact opposite of what has actually happened. The alt-right used the internet for ideological capture and they are now in the White House bragging about it daily
June 11, 2025 at 1:21 PM
The idea that the progressive left used the internet to bully institutions into accepting unpopular, far-left positions is the exact opposite of what has actually happened. The alt-right used the internet for ideological capture and they are now in the White House bragging about it daily
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I don't care if these monstrous ICE raids are a "federal operation". This is authoritarian violence, plain and simple.
Just because Stephen Miller has kidnapping quotas for brown people he doesn't want to see on the street doesn't mean we have to think it's okay.
Just because Stephen Miller has kidnapping quotas for brown people he doesn't want to see on the street doesn't mean we have to think it's okay.
June 8, 2025 at 12:53 AM
I don't care if these monstrous ICE raids are a "federal operation". This is authoritarian violence, plain and simple.
Just because Stephen Miller has kidnapping quotas for brown people he doesn't want to see on the street doesn't mean we have to think it's okay.
Just because Stephen Miller has kidnapping quotas for brown people he doesn't want to see on the street doesn't mean we have to think it's okay.
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another hidden/externalized cost and form of theft in AI is the bots for Meta etc are blowing up site hosting charges of pages they're looting for information to take credit for. profits go to meta and others, made possible by costs spread to all the operators of sites they're crawling to steal from
Last month AI crawlers generated 90% of my site's traffic, forcing me to pay penalties
Problem solved after moving nameservers to Cloudflare+turning on AI crawler blocking.
Site monthly outbound data back to ~40GB per month, down from 800GB (!!) No impact on human visitors
Problem solved after moving nameservers to Cloudflare+turning on AI crawler blocking.
Site monthly outbound data back to ~40GB per month, down from 800GB (!!) No impact on human visitors
June 6, 2025 at 6:57 AM
another hidden/externalized cost and form of theft in AI is the bots for Meta etc are blowing up site hosting charges of pages they're looting for information to take credit for. profits go to meta and others, made possible by costs spread to all the operators of sites they're crawling to steal from
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New: A DOGE staffer developed an AI tool to review Veterans Affairs contracts.
But there was a slight hitch.
It hallucinated the size of those deals.
For example, it concluded that more than a thousand contracts were each worth $34M, when in fact some were for as little as $35,000.
But there was a slight hitch.
It hallucinated the size of those deals.
For example, it concluded that more than a thousand contracts were each worth $34M, when in fact some were for as little as $35,000.
DOGE Developed Error-Prone AI Tool to “Munch” Veterans Affairs Contracts
We obtained records showing how a Department of Government Efficiency staffer with no medical experience used artificial intelligence to identify which VA contracts to kill. “AI is absolutely the wron...
www.propublica.org
June 6, 2025 at 9:41 AM
New: A DOGE staffer developed an AI tool to review Veterans Affairs contracts.
But there was a slight hitch.
It hallucinated the size of those deals.
For example, it concluded that more than a thousand contracts were each worth $34M, when in fact some were for as little as $35,000.
But there was a slight hitch.
It hallucinated the size of those deals.
For example, it concluded that more than a thousand contracts were each worth $34M, when in fact some were for as little as $35,000.
This weeks newsletter from @monteiro.bsky.social hits so fucking hard.
I struggle to pull any one quote out amongst so many so here’s one:
“When decisions are cheap we can take risks that become almost impossible otherwise.”
And now go sign up and read the rest of it…
I struggle to pull any one quote out amongst so many so here’s one:
“When decisions are cheap we can take risks that become almost impossible otherwise.”
And now go sign up and read the rest of it…
In this week’s newsletter (which is not on substack because I don’t drink at nazi bars) we talk about how capitalism destroys opportunity, and also airplane graveyards. buttondown.com/monteiro/arc...
How to live off the rails
Sometimes you end up where you started. And that is beautiful. Enjoying the newsletter? Gimme $2, you freak. This week’s question comes to us from Tyler...
buttondown.com
June 5, 2025 at 8:32 PM
This weeks newsletter from @monteiro.bsky.social hits so fucking hard.
I struggle to pull any one quote out amongst so many so here’s one:
“When decisions are cheap we can take risks that become almost impossible otherwise.”
And now go sign up and read the rest of it…
I struggle to pull any one quote out amongst so many so here’s one:
“When decisions are cheap we can take risks that become almost impossible otherwise.”
And now go sign up and read the rest of it…
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Look this is pathetic but instructive because it’s not just about this lame creep it’s about the Overton window continuing to be moved so quickly by Trump’s criminality and lawlessness that bad people have reassessed their previous actions against the metric of “you can get away with anything.”
“If I had to do it again, I wouldn’t have resigned,” Mr. Cuomo said in a sit-down interview Monday with The New York Times.
If Andrew Cuomo Has a Regret, It’s Resigning as Governor
www.nytimes.com
June 3, 2025 at 12:48 PM
Look this is pathetic but instructive because it’s not just about this lame creep it’s about the Overton window continuing to be moved so quickly by Trump’s criminality and lawlessness that bad people have reassessed their previous actions against the metric of “you can get away with anything.”