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Appalachian Cryptid @appalachiancryptid.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

How do you do Southern Gothic? What makes a story, a campaign, or a chronicle Southern Gothic? I am setting my next foray in the #WorldOfDarkness in Mobile, Alabama. I grew up near there & I think I got Southern Gothic, but I would love to layer on even more, kinda like humidity. What ya got?

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Appalachian Cryptid @appalachiancryptid.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

At noon, unless the power goes out, Freedom Bound continues! Last session ended with the Nosferatu spy found out & fleeing for the water. Bethany the Brujah, Blinked to beat her; today we find what happens next. How go your tables #Vamily? #RPG #TTRPG #WorldOfDarkness #VampireTheMasquerade

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Appalachian Cryptid @appalachiancryptid.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Starting a new #WorldOfDarkness chronicle and naturally I need a soundtrack to write to. This one turned out good! youtube.com/playlist?lis... I recommend starting with Black Velvet and shuffling from there.

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Blackwater Blight - YouTube

Blackwater Blight is a collaborative storytelling exercise set in the fictional World of Darkness, specifically the Mobile River Watershed and Bay circa late...

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Appalachian Cryptid @appalachiancryptid.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Arranges a time and place for a "Photo shoot for the check hand off" When I get there I am handed a check and no one will take a photo passing it from donor org to local non-profit WTF Or am I expecting too much based what a "Photo shoot for the check hand off" means to someone else?

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Appalachian Cryptid @appalachiancryptid.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

When I get mad and I get pissed I grab my pen and I write out a list Of all the people that won't be missed You've made my shitlist RIP Jennifer Finch

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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Don’t live your life so that when you die people say “oh I was hoping it’d be the other guy, but I’ll take it”

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Appalachian Cryptid @appalachiancryptid.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Keep electing septuagenarians & octogenarians This will keep happening

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Appalachian Cryptid @appalachiancryptid.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Am I doing the "told ya so" dance? Hell yeah I am doing the "told ya so" dance re: a certain candidate for Maine Senate that many of us took one look at and went, ick, and we knew, we just knew

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Appalachian Cryptid @appalachiancryptid.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

It is Sword, Snake, & Skull night! ⚔️🐍💀🩸🎲 When we last checked in with our vampires in the 1500s Caribbean, the Spanish Governor of Cuba had just requested a private Mass and Confession from the Fathers. What dark secrets will come to light and how will they handle the fallout? 1/2

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Appalachian Cryptid @appalachiancryptid.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

’Centrism’ is just performative compromise devoid of critical thinking, policy, or ideology. It’s a political vehicle that gives permission to do nothing in service of protecting a status quo that benefits large corporate donors and special interest groups who fund both parties.

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Gilles @gillesy.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Smashed three car windows already to save dogs from the heat. Haven’t found any yet but I’m not giving up.

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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 21/06/2026

"The Americans can't get the slime out of their capital's monument pool and will arrest you for touching it," sounds like the sort of lie they'd tell us in the Soviet Union so we'd stop bitching about bread lines.

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Appalachian Cryptid @appalachiancryptid.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

It's fun to bounce between drafting a non-profit newsletter and preparing for a World of Darkness Nagah chronicle session tonight

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Appalachian Cryptid @appalachiancryptid.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

How have fellow Storytellers navigated a coterie split? Lik, got on a ship and sailed away split? Any tips or tactics as I draft this sesson's plan? #VampireTheMasquerade #V5 #WorldOfDarkness #TTRPG #RPG

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Appalachian Cryptid @appalachiancryptid.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

Stopped by & asked a restaurant to join a fundraiser The owner yelled, "I’ll never work with [non-profit name]!" at me across the crowded dining room A polite "no" would’ve sufficed; I have no idea why he felt the need to make me a public punching bag You probably lost more than one patron today

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Robert Downen @robertdownen.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

My colleague Aaron Parsley just won a Pulitzer for this story, written days after he survived the July 4 floods that killed his nephew. It's one of the most gutwrenching and memorable things you'll ever read. Please do.

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“The River House Broke. We Rushed in the River.”

The July 4 Texas flooding ripped our Kerr County home from its pillars, pulling us into the water and into the night. Then morning came.

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Andrea LaFlamme @andrealaflamme.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

🚨🚨🚨Big announcement! Head over to andreaformaine.com, check out my new virtual town hall calendar, and sign up for one of my upcoming meetings. I can’t wait to talk with each and every one of you. #mepolitics #Maine #democrat #USSenate #feminist #SusanCollins #midterms #portlandmaine #augustamaine

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Ryan T. Brown 🎮🩷 @toadsanime.lostincult.co.uk · 29/04/2026

Despite creating a billion-dollar franchise - with a new $200M budget Hollywood blockbuster launching in a month - the creator of He-Man's family were unable to afford his dementia and care facility costs, and had to setup a GoFundMe. Mattel gave $5,000.

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Appalachian Cryptid @appalachiancryptid.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

I have a very specific idea for NPC or character for one of my historical #VampireTheMasquerade #V5 chronicles. If you have Wednesday evenings free USA Eastern 7:00 PM to 10:00 PM and are interested in playing a Storyteller idea in an online game, DM me. #WorldOfDarkness #VtM #WoD #TTRPG #RPG

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Appalachian Cryptid @appalachiancryptid.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

fuck guns, fuck people who shouldn't have guns having them, fuck young people dying because of guns fuck!

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Appalachian Cryptid @appalachiancryptid.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

Every Friday EV dot com does a headline theme thing were they put a secret theme or word play into the headlines, Usually I ignore it but this time I got it w/o trying. I bet ya'll do too.

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Appalachian Cryptid @appalachiancryptid.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

another day another communication break down

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Appalachian Cryptid @appalachiancryptid.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

Yikes, I have always thought of myself as someone who doesn't drink. I have two cocktails for an online TTRPG sessions and that is it (I don't drink in public). I am averaging 3 sessions a week. 4-8 cocktails/week is WAY more alcohol consumption than I had previously thought.

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Abra / Jessica Conwell, Carmella Creeper's Gender Doula🏳️‍⚧️ 🇲🇽🌼 @pairofclaws.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

SO WEIRD that this never happened before I transitioned, huh?

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The Technocratic Union @thetechnocracy.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

//Me when people start correcting me on World of Darkness lore:

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Simon Marks @simonmarksfsn.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

Quite a moment: Melania becomes the first member of the administration trying to distract the public’s attention back to Epstein in order to get them to stop talking about Iran.

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Appalachian Cryptid @appalachiancryptid.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

feeling maliciously misunderstood, unheard, and fucking unsupported one of those days that ends in y

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HouseTremere @housetremere.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

Be like Worf "Our gods are dead. Ancient Klingon warriors slew them a millennia ago. They were more trouble than they were worth"

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✪ Beware the Gray Ghost ✪ @jongraywb.blacksky.app · 28/03/2026

They want us all to accept and like the nazi tattooed man so damn badly and the main question I have is why? Who benefits from his placement? Why continue to place him as this wonderful gent who “just so happens to have nazi paraphernalia on him” as if “its no great shakes” I hate this place

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Gore Vidal Sassoon @jimmyjazz1968.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

I’m at ICE HQ

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kay taylor rea @kaytaylorrea.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

"How does one hate a country, or love one?" Ursula Le Guin always out there expressing my exact feelings in trying times.

“How does one hate a country, or love one? Tibe talks about it; I lack the trick of it. I know people, I know towns, farms, hills and rivers and rocks, I know how the sun at sunset in autumn falls on the side of a certain plowland in the hills; but what is the sense of giving a boundary to all that, of giving it a name and ceasing to love where the name ceases to apply? What is love of one's country; is it hate of one's uncountry? Then it's not a good thing. Is it simply self-love? That's a good thing, but one mustn't make a virtue of it, or a profession... Insofar as I love life, I love the hills of the Domain of Estre, but that sort of love does not have a boundary-line of hate. And beyond that, I am ignorant, I hope.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness

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Zoe TunnHELL ➡️ NYCC @zoewithasword.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

Even putting aside the other issues with the show and franchise The Last of Us Season 3 casting Kyriana Kratter, a cis actress, as Lev, the trans boy who is a massive part of Abby's storyline, is wildly insulting in 2026 and immediately undercuts anything they might try to do or say

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Damien Owens @damienowens.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

The latest White House thinking on the Strait of Hormuz.

Screenshot from 1960s Japanese movie Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster. A serious-looking man in a suit is explaining his latest idea. Subtitle reads 'It may sound primitive and unscientific, but through the fairies, we could ask Mothra to help.'

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MapQuest @mapquest.com · 12/03/2026

MapQuest is NOT forcing AI down your throat like Big Tech. Our directions are like grandma's recipes. They've worked for decades and nobody’s asking a robot to optimize her mac & cheese.

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Appalachian Cryptid @appalachiancryptid.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

I, for one, welcome our new transwomen overlords

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Appalachian Cryptid @appalachiancryptid.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

Woke (teehee) up to the news that Ruben Gallego (D-AZ) & Martin Heinrich (D-NM) endorsed Graham Platner in the Maine Senate primary. So naturally I drafted messages to both asking them why the fuck they endorsed a Nazi.

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pretty BOO!!!👻👻🎃🎃😈😈🎃👻!!!😈g @inyourculture.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

i cannot believe we are into year 2 of the groyper regime, the camps are open and the state is revoking id's, and we are still getting "oppressed minorities are kinda rude on the internet :/" hand-wringing yeah we're a little tense right now, believe it or not. fucking shut the fuck up about it

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

The NYT style guide

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🔪🔪🔪bryan 🔪 🔪 🔪 @murderxbryan.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

Not a single one of these psychos cares even a little bit about the people being bombed. I hate them all

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