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ColdPhaedrus

@coldphaedrus.bsky.social
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Science teacher. Former chef. Player of games both tabletop and video. Friend of plants and animals (except mosquitos). New Jersey born and raised. Husband. Father.

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ColdPhaedrus @coldphaedrus.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
Elise Stefanik is a moron. If you want further proof that educated is not the same as smart, then look no further than the Harvard grad who took one look at how Trump treats people he no longer has a use for, and thought “That won’t be me though”. Good riddance.
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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
since we're letting podcasters run the FBI now, I'd like to make it known to any future presidents that if you appoint me i will pronounce the "human" in "human trafficking" like Quark from DS9. there will be no other substantial changes thank you for your attention to this matter
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ColdPhaedrus @coldphaedrus.bsky.social · 06/09/2025
A red-tailed hawk behind my home very closely watching a squirrel nest while mama squirrel yells angrily. Nature is very dramatic sometimes.
A red-tailed hawk sitting on an evergreen tree branch.
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ColdPhaedrus @coldphaedrus.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
Cool butterflies and bees at Deep Cut Gardens in Middletown, NJ
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ColdPhaedrus @coldphaedrus.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
The anti-immigrant "do it the right way" people slay me. Our system is completely broken and the Republicans have blocked any and all attempts to try to fix it, including voting down bills THAT THEY HELP WRITE. Secretary of State Marco Rubio famously did this when he was a senator in 2013.
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ColdPhaedrus @coldphaedrus.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
Heavy crossbow specifically
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ColdPhaedrus @coldphaedrus.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
@dungeondudes.bsky.social Great new video on the general feats. Pointing something out about the Great Weapon Master feat that is easy to overlook: the damage boost works with a longbow or crossbow, so if your archer can spare the ability points to get a 13 STR, it’s a big boost to them too.
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Tier Ranking the General Feats in D&D 5e 2024 (Part 1)
YouTube video by Dungeon Dudes
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Rora! 🏳️‍⚧️🐇 @professorrora.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
trans women are women, pass it on 🏳️‍⚧️
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ColdPhaedrus @coldphaedrus.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
Yes, for my homebrew campaign I take ideas and themes from other media liberally and without shame or guilt.
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ColdPhaedrus @coldphaedrus.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
I mean, it could be that they’re doing something stupid and a nat 20 doesn’t mean they succeed, it means they very implausibly survive what was clearly doomed from the start.
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ColdPhaedrus @coldphaedrus.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
Summer in my house means summer vegetables, and summer vegetables means ratatouille.
A pot full of ratatouille with a wooden spoon to stir it.
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ColdPhaedrus @coldphaedrus.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
The dog vomit slime molds (fuligo septica) are out this morning. They are simultaneously cool and gross.
Closeup of a fuligo septica slime mold at the base of a tree with some dead leaves in the foreground.A fuligo septica slime mold at the base of a tree.Two fuligo septica slime molds making their way through some mulch.
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ColdPhaedrus @coldphaedrus.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed." Very apropos. Also, very ironic that this speech was from Dwight Eisenhower.
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ColdPhaedrus @coldphaedrus.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
He's Peter Thiel's little pet. Every success he has had after college he owes to Thiel. He *barely* scraped by to win his Ohio senate seat because he was bankrolled by Thiel. He has done absolutely nothing successfully as an adult without Thiel's backing.
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ColdPhaedrus @coldphaedrus.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
I almost ALWAYS feel like playing D&D. It's actually ruined video games for me a little bit.
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ColdPhaedrus @coldphaedrus.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
Well, being wrong about every single important issue (and a lot more besides) worked out for William F. Buckley. I think maybe some people took that as aspirational rather than cautionary.
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ColdPhaedrus @coldphaedrus.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
That's because they think the dictator is gonna be on their side. The rest of us know that the idiot in the White House is only on his own side.
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ColdPhaedrus @coldphaedrus.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
World Tree Barbarian is CRAZY. Oh, I get to attack from 15ft away with my maul? And I can push enemies away, knock them prone, and give them disadvantage on the next save at the same time while teleporting myself and the enemies using no resources? Plus the normal barb stuff? Sign me up. #DnD
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ColdPhaedrus @coldphaedrus.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
I would play the fuck out of D&D at a baby shower.
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ColdPhaedrus @coldphaedrus.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
I really don't care if they broke that law. I just don't. Just like I don't care if someone is breaking the law about smoking pot, or eating fried chicken with a fork in Gainesville County, Georgia. If someone wants to come here and pay taxes and contribute to this country, they should be able to.
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ColdPhaedrus @coldphaedrus.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
Cue the extremely obvious consequences of wannabe-strongman thuggery in 3, 2, 1…
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ColdPhaedrus @coldphaedrus.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
"Was that wrong? Should I not have done that?"
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ColdPhaedrus @coldphaedrus.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
Yakfolk. I played Storm King’s Thunder. Fuck those fuckers.
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Star Trek Minus Context @nocontexttrek1.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
Star Trek The Next Generation scene. We're in a J-Tube. (I abbreviate "Jeffries Tube" to "J-Tube" because it takes less time to type. "J-Tube" is both less characters and sounds hip and "fly".) Anyways, back to the J-Tube, and quick reminder that J-Tube is short for Jeffries Tube, we're looking at Data, who is crawling within the tube. He's stopped and looking over at someone (probably Geordi) and looks a little alarmed. Closed caption reads, "Geordi, I cannot stun my cat."
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ColdPhaedrus @coldphaedrus.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
This is my favorite Bluesky account.
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ColdPhaedrus @coldphaedrus.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
He obviously was in need of something to do.
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Christian Petersen @iwantyoustudio.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
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ColdPhaedrus @coldphaedrus.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
Everybody gangsta until they have to join the infantry.
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Smooth Dunk @smoothdunk2.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
4 panel comic

First two panels are entitled “Journalist Visits Twitter”

Panel 1: Journalist is skipping happily through Twitter. Behind them, two people shout “Black people suck!” And “gay people suck”

Panel 2: Journalist continues to skip. Two more people shout “trans people suck” and “immigrants suck!”

The second two panels are titled “Journalist Visits Bluesky”

Panel 3: Journalist skips into bluesky and someone immediately shouts “YOU suck”

Panel 4: Journalist is crouched on the floor, absolutely devastated. In the foreground is a piece of paper that reads “Today, I went to hell”
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ColdPhaedrus @coldphaedrus.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
This is just the beginning. They are going to come after healthcare for trans adults next.
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Brad T. Jonas @bradtjonas.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
library research
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ColdPhaedrus @coldphaedrus.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
She made the mistake of thinking the idiot in the White House wouldn't immediately contradict himself and forgot to wait for his new brain vomit to show up on social media.
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ColdPhaedrus @coldphaedrus.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
The Grifter in Chief. Selling a shitty phone from the White House would be impeachment territory in a sane country, and it’s probably the LEAST egregious thing he’s done so far.
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ColdPhaedrus @coldphaedrus.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
Well I have some very strong words for reality’s manager. They are doing a shit job.
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ColdPhaedrus @coldphaedrus.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
Wow. I did not know that Ted Cruz was on the list of people that I would enjoy seeing Tucker Carlson dunk on (it’s a very short list, and it includes Tucker Carlson). You learn something new every day.
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ColdPhaedrus @coldphaedrus.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
I mean, I agree that Iran should not have nukes. But only because I don’t think anyone else should have them either, including the countries that already do.
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ColdPhaedrus @coldphaedrus.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
And he should know, he was their top propagandist.
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ColdPhaedrus @coldphaedrus.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
Such a good session in the necropolis last night. My players got past the rolling ball trap, unwisely decided to try to loot the sarcophagi and managed to (barely) deal with the undead guardians, and successfully answered all the gypsosphinx's riddles. I love this game. #dnd
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DrDinD.bsky.social @drdind.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
of our family’s life in this country." Yes, this was seven years ago. Miller is the same cruel xenophobe now that he was then. www.politico.com/magazine/sto...
politico.com
Stephen Miller Is an Immigration Hypocrite. I Know Because I’m His Uncle.
If my nephew’s ideas on immigration had been in force a century ago, our family would have been wiped out.
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Kye @gxldsociety.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
BREAKING: Federal agents in plain clothes and unmarked cars tried to snatch 1st graders from LA elementary schools—told staff they had “parental consent.” They lied. When pressed, they HID THEIR IDS. DHS admits they sent them. This wasn’t a welfare check. It was a test run for a police state.
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ColdPhaedrus @coldphaedrus.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
Just a reminder that Trump has been credibly accused of raping a child along with Jeffery Epstein. After he was done, in response to his victim’s tearful question about what would happen if she gets pregnant, he told her to “get a fucking abortion”.
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ColdPhaedrus @coldphaedrus.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
Reflecting on all this Musk/Felon 47 nonsense, a quote from the Discworld novels comes to mind: "And no practical definition of freedom would be complete without the freedom to take the consequences. Indeed, it is the freedom upon which all the others are based." GNU Terry Pratchett
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ColdPhaedrus @coldphaedrus.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
Take a look at the cowards who run Columbia University and let this be a lesson for everyone about what happens when you bend the knee and expose your neck to fascists: You get your head cut off.
reuters.com
Columbia failed to meet accreditation standards, US government says
The U.S. Department of Education said on Wednesday it has notified a university accreditation body that Columbia University had violated federal anti-discrimination laws by its alleged failure to protect Jewish students on its campus.
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ColdPhaedrus @coldphaedrus.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
True. A few of my players are impish and will 100% engage my NPC's with useless nonsense for no other reason besides that they love roleplaying. It's amusing for a minute or two, but then I have the NPC's either react like normal people and disengage or just shift the spotlight to another player.
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ColdPhaedrus @coldphaedrus.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
Came upon a quote from CVS Health (a pharmacy benefit manager) saying that the company's “top priority is to make health care more affordable.” If a public company (besides maybe a B corp) says that their "top" priority is anything except maximizing shareholder value, they are lying, full stop.
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ColdPhaedrus @coldphaedrus.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
I will never understand people who travel to a new place and then complain that it's not like the old place. It's like... yes? Different places are different. If it was the same as the old place there would be no reason to go there. Isn't that the whole point?
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ColdPhaedrus @coldphaedrus.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
Learning by doing! Technically, first by undoing, then by doing. But still.
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ColdPhaedrus @coldphaedrus.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
A well-built Armorer Artificer feels fucking invincible sometimes and it's awesome. Between the huge AC, Flash of Genius, and spells like Blur and Mirror Image you're incredibly hard to touch. Add a race like halfling or harengon and feats like Fey-Touched and enemies are officially in trouble.
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ColdPhaedrus @coldphaedrus.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
Lots of ladybug pupae on the oak trees today.
A closeup of two ladybird beetle pupae attached to some white swamp oak leaves.
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