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wasdmatter.bsky.social
Lorcan Murphy
@wasdmatter.bsky.social
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Game Designer, Dad, Bibliophile, and Gamer. Lover of puns both witty and appalling. Abounding in songs and legends. He/them. Words and remarks are my own.
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The mantis is our yard says have a nice day to Bluesky folks and @seananmcguire.bsky.social in particular.
A mantis perched on an ornamental sage plant, flowers and sky in the background A mantis perched on an ornamental sage plant, closeup A mantis perched on an ornamental sage plant, from behind while the mantis climbs A mantis perched on an ornamental sage plant, full closeup of the mantis’s back and body.
October 7, 2025 at 1:12 PM
wasdmatter.bsky.social
Tagging @seananmcguire.bsky.social because a mantis came to visit me by the garagetoday.
A dark brown mantis on white siding A dark brown mantis on white siding, looking directly at the camera A dark brown mantis on white siding, beginning to climb up the garage wall away from the viewer
September 16, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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Better late than never!
A confirmation from gofundme of a $100 donation to the Wildfire Relief Fund 2025 made via #booksky
January 28, 2025 at 2:17 AM
wasdmatter.bsky.social
“You’ll be visited by three sprites.”

The three spirits:
An informational illustration of which types of liquor to use for preparing egg nog. “Which Liquor to Include in Eggnog Brandy: sweet; almost floral flavor with depth Rum: subtle flavor that may go unnoticed Whiskey: makes for the most flavorful eggnog”
December 25, 2024 at 12:37 AM
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Kilauea casually offering a triple rainbow for Pride.
A photograph taken today from Uēkahuna overlooking Kilauea volcano. Mist from clouds and steam vents creates a strong double spectrum rainbow and a fainter third rainbow surrounding.
June 2, 2024 at 8:05 AM
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A still from Blues Brothers matching the caption: “We got both kinds. We got country *and* western.”
May 15, 2024 at 1:41 AM
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And this despite having photographic evidence of meeting with him.

Sad.

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An image of an Xitter post by user Let it Ride captioned “Kristi Noem with Kim Jong Un…” and a picture of Noem with notorious liar and biographical fraud George Santos.
May 7, 2024 at 3:35 AM
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A still from an episode of Ted Lasso. Roy Kent derogatorily says, “Vanilla vodka. Such a child.”
October 25, 2023 at 7:46 AM
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I also was just pricing out the mini-expansion for delightful map exploration game, “Guild of Merchant Explorers”

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An example board from Guild of Merchant Explorers, with trails of exploration cubes, villages, and other pieces places over a hex-map of a fantasy world.
October 9, 2023 at 11:52 PM
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If finalizing shipping excuses pointing out this gem: www.backerkit.com/call_to_acti...
Cover art for the RPG “Girl by Moonlight” featuring a magical girl reaching for the heavens. Slogan: Magical Girls. Tragic Struggles. Defiant Triumphs.
October 9, 2023 at 11:46 PM
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Animated image of a girl asking “Why not both?”
September 28, 2023 at 8:04 PM
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Current status? Feeling called out by @naominovik.bsky.social .
A snippet from Naomi Novik’s book ‘The Golden Enclaves” reading, “If we were going to do an exhaustive search, we ought to have gone back up and started at the library, but we didn’t, I’m the same way you know perfectly well you ought to stop reading and go to bed and you’ll feel hideously groggy in the morning if you don’t, and yet you keep going.” The portion about reading late into the night has been highlighted for emphasis.
August 11, 2023 at 11:22 AM
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Poultry humans is the AI content future to resist.
August 2, 2023 at 11:42 PM