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Colinaut ~ Mirth Peddlers

@colinaut.bsky.social
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(he/him) Artist, designer (print/web/branding/XD/games), front-of-the-full-stack-ish developer, and shenaniganizer. My friends are rad! I also am long-time volunteer staff at the best con ever Big Bad Con. You can find my games at mirthpeddlers.com.

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Sunny Moraine @dynamicsymmetry.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
Shit like this just emphasizes for me that even more than ugly, the Trump aesthetic is so unbearably fucking *boring* This is WILD, it’s COLORFUL, it’s goddamn EXUBERANT
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Colinaut ~ Mirth Peddlers @colinaut.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
Also, it ignores the massive number of folks who rent, as the number of apartments with fast chargers is nil, or tight urban areas where you'd need street parking chargers, or even the basics that most families have more than one car so would need multiple chargers at home. I'm all for EV but yeah.
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Colinaut ~ Mirth Peddlers @colinaut.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
You'll love my new TV soap opera style ttrpg where everyone wears edible aphrodisiac coffin armor and Chuck Taylors!
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Colinaut ~ Mirth Peddlers @colinaut.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
When I bought my ticket to that 2024 Skinny Puppy concert the ticketing company followed my purchase with ads. The first ad was for AARP.
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Gremliny Nussboo @emilynussbaum.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
Virginia Heffernan wrote this shortly after the 2016 election and it still holds true
THIS is what makes my head spin: The president is not a moral figure in any idiom, any land, any culture, any subculture. I'm not talking about the liberal enlightenment that would make him want the country to take care of the poor and sick. I mean he has no
Republican values either. He has no honor among thieves, no cosa nostra loyalty, no Southern code against cheating or lying, none of the openness of New York, rectitude of Boston, expressiveness and kindness of California, no evangelical family values, no Protestant work ethic. No Catholic moral seriousness, no sense of contrition or gratitude. No Jewish moral and intellectual precision, sense of history.
He doesn't care about the life of the mind
OR the life of the senses. He is not mandarin, not committed to inquiry or justice, not hospitable. He is not proper.
He is not a bon vivant who loves to eat, drink, laugh. There's nothing he would die for - not American values, obviously, but not the land of Russia or his wife or youngson. He has some hollow success creeds from Norman Vincent Peale, but Peale was obsessed with fair-dealing and a Presbyterian pastor; Trump has no fairness or piety. He's not sentimental; no affection for dogs or babies. No love for mothers, "the common man"" veterans. He has no sense of military valor, and is openly a coward about war. He would have sorely lacked the pagan beauty and capacity to fight required in ancient Greece. He doesn't care about his wife or wives; he is a philanderer but he's not a romantic hero with great love for women and sex. He commands loyalty and labor from his children not because he loves them, even; he seems almost to hate them
— and if one of them slipped it would be terrifying. He does no philanthropy. He doesn't - in a more secular key - even seem to have a sense of his enlightened self-interest enough to shake Angela Merkel's hand. Doesn't even affect a love for the arts, like most rich New Yorkers. He doesn't live and die by aesthetics and health practices like some fascists; he'svery ugly and barely mammalian. Am I missing an obscure moral system to which he so much as nods? Also are there other
people, living or dead, like him?
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Jennifer Wright @jenashleywright.bsky.social · 13/12/2025
Michael C. Rockefeller got shipwrecked in 1963, washed up on an island, and was promptly eaten by cannibals.
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Hellbeast of Bourbon 🥃 @jenleepa.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
This is Charles Clyde Ebbets, the photographer who took the iconic “Lunch atop a Skyscraper” picture. Look at this fearless, dapper fuck wearing spats, suspenders, and a tie 850 feet above the ground. Absolute legend.
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Colinaut ~ Mirth Peddlers @colinaut.bsky.social · 13/12/2025
I also saw Lawrence of Arabia for the first time at the Castro in 70mm! Such an amazing experience. I saw the 70mm of 2001 there too. I wasn’t my first time watching 2001 but it was the first time I saw it on the big screen. Such an amazing venue for film.
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Colinaut ~ Mirth Peddlers @colinaut.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
I mean Life is Life. That’s just tautology and you can’t get less political that A = A. As to their look, they just like to play dress up! </sarcasm>
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Colinaut ~ Mirth Peddlers @colinaut.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
Love the use of “vogue” like “what is the hippest exorcism rite in 2025?” “Dude that liturgy is so 2010!”
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Colinaut ~ Mirth Peddlers @colinaut.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
He’s either a collector or a time traveler
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Colinaut ~ Mirth Peddlers @colinaut.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
Because everything was handmade back then. Making it look nice with flourishes is how you advertised you were a skilled craftsperson and got business.
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Gwen Snyder is uncivil @gwensnyder.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
She missed her calling, really. If anyone's encountered eldritch horrors beyond human comprehension it's Olivia Nuzzi. Hell, she's sexted with them
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Colinaut ~ Mirth Peddlers @colinaut.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
I’d love to see a Nuzzi-fied version of “The Call of Cthulhu”
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
This is exactly what the bosses who put Trump into office were trying to achieve. Crushing the tight labor market from the early Biden years that gave workers - for the first time in my adult lifetime - leverage over their bosses.
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Plus One Exp @ 🔜 Metatopia @plusoneexp.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
WE GOTTA GET THERE!
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Colinaut ~ Mirth Peddlers @colinaut.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
Relatedly, I'm thinking of jumping off of Goodreads (an Amazon company) to Storygraph, which is not Amazon and is a Black Woman owned company.
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Helen Czerski @helenczerski.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
TIL about a memorial ceremony in Iceland in 2019 to mark the end of a glacier, changing the place name from Okjökull to Ok (jökull = glacier). Uncompromising wording on the bronze plaque: "This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".
Bronze plaque saying "A Letter to the Future. Ok is the first Icelandic glacier to lose its status as a glacier. In the next 200 years all our glaciers are expected to follow the same path. This monument is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it.  August 2019. 415ppm CO2"
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Matt Wells - working on Frenzy @mattjwells.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
It's like the grey goo nanotechnology apocalypse, but for digital information.
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Colinaut ~ Mirth Peddlers @colinaut.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
Just preordered the double LP vinyl
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Colinaut ~ Mirth Peddlers @colinaut.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
Listened to the two songs released on this album and they hit me right in that strange emotional space in my heart where the original Autechre songs burrowed in decades ago, but the acoustic guitar struck with an odd emotional punch like it’s from an alternate timeline where this was the real song.
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MegueyB 🔜Metatopia @megueyb.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
Would you like a #AW3rd moniker for the season? Reply with 1 bit of apocalyptica & I’ll give you one! Because we hit $170k & I’m feeling festive about it. At $180k, all backers get the “Creator’s Guide to PBTA” pdf for free. 13 days to go! #ttrpg #pbta www.kickstarter.com/projects/lum...
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Apocalypse World: Burned Over
The 3rd edition of the groundbreaking original.
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Colinaut ~ Mirth Peddlers @colinaut.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
Peter Thiel is solidly trying to be a contender for a third Antichrist
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Matt @mbunchanumbers.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
We got Weird Al out here singing Killing In The Name, the time for moderation is over
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Colinaut ~ Mirth Peddlers @colinaut.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
Here’s medical research: Rebound chance is 21% and there is no evidence it helps reduce the risk of developing long COVID. At best, Paxlovid is an acute symptom reliever with the downside of high rebound and no long term protective benefits to Long Covid—not worth it. www.ucsf.edu/news/2024/01...
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Study Finds Paxlovid Treatment Does Not Reduce Risk of Long COVID
A team of researchers from UC San Francisco has found that Paxlovid did not reduce the risk of developing long COVID for vaccinated, non-hospitalized individuals during their first COVID-19 infection....
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Colinaut ~ Mirth Peddlers @colinaut.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
Yeah Paxlovid clears up symptoms fast but it leaves some virus around and your body isn’t ready for it as it’s already shut down normal immune response. The standard is 5 days of treatment for Paxlovid. It may work better with longer treatment but you can’t get that here in the U.S.
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Colinaut ~ Mirth Peddlers @colinaut.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
My fav
Bugs Bunny looking flirty, dressed up with winged golden helmet and blond braids, with pink eyeshadow, long eyelashes, and golden breasted tunic armor, riding on the back of a horse. From "What's Opera Doc?"
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Colinaut ~ Mirth Peddlers @colinaut.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
I wish we had fought more for legislation for better ventilation requirements here in the US, as well as more sick day guarantees for workers.
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Colinaut ~ Mirth Peddlers @colinaut.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
They really only offer Paxlovid for high-risk folks here in the US. I've got asthma that is triggered by cold/flu/covid but I don't bother asking for Paxlovid anymore as it's not worth it to have to worry about the rebound and possibly being contagious for another week after feeling better.
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Colinaut ~ Mirth Peddlers @colinaut.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
$100K per detainee? Yow! It makes more sense that the cost is more then CA costs but that much is incredible
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Colinaut ~ Mirth Peddlers @colinaut.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
See also www.npr.org/2025/06/03/n...
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The true cost of prisons and jails is higher than many realize, researchers say
A new report tries to capture the true cost of incarceration to families of people behind bars. It found it costs them around $350 billion every year — almost four times the government's estimate for ...
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Colinaut ~ Mirth Peddlers @colinaut.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
Source for CA costs: lao.ca.gov/policyareas/...
lao.ca.gov
Legislative Analyst's Office
This Google™ translation feature provided on the Legislative Analyst's Office (LAO) website is for informational purposes only.
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Colinaut ~ Mirth Peddlers @colinaut.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
Honestly surprised their costs aren't higher considering they likely need to ship all their food in and GitMo electricity is mainly diesel gen. GitMo is doing $200 a day per detainee compared CA's cost per inmate which is $350 per day. From a purely financial stance we should do prison abolition.
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Colinaut ~ Mirth Peddlers @colinaut.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
We need to shutdown capitalism until we can figure out what is going on… and then once we find out keep it shutdown.
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Colinaut ~ Mirth Peddlers @colinaut.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
Japan had a different antiviral but I know someone who rebounded from that too. What we need is studies on if a longer course of Paxlovid stops the rebound problem or if there is a better antiviral treatment but there doesn’t seem to be any research there that I’ve seen.
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Colinaut ~ Mirth Peddlers @colinaut.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
Unfortunately Paxlovid is not a great for any strain since Omicron as the rebound chance is at least 1 in 5. Prior to Omicron, the rebound chances were lower. I’ve personally been infected from someone who took Paxlovid, felt fine, then unknowingly rebounded.
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Colinaut ~ Mirth Peddlers @colinaut.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
I walked away from that game with a lot of feelings and a lot of friends—some new and some people that became better friends because of it. Games can really be a bonding experience.
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Colinaut ~ Mirth Peddlers @colinaut.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
It was quite the intense and amazing game! @jmstar.bsky.social and I facilitated and set the stage but it was the players that really made it.
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Colinaut ~ Mirth Peddlers @colinaut.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
I’ve got my copy if you can’t find it.
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Ninargh 🐈‍⬛ 🎃 👻 @ninawils.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
Relatable Corvid
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Colinaut ~ Mirth Peddlers @colinaut.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
Yeah the song is a banger but it’s really hard for me to listen to any of her music any more without remembering this
M.I.A. endorses Donald Trump after Robert F.
Kennedy Jr. backing
"Trump is going to ride America through the most challenging 4 years coming," the controversial rapper tweeted
By Daniel Peters | 24th August 2024
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Brian Hughes @bmhughes.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥
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Brian Merchant @bcmerchant.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
Seems like a good time to drop this here www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/a-complete...
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How to quit Spotify
This Black Friday, here's a guide to finding the best Spotify alternative
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Colinaut ~ Mirth Peddlers @colinaut.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
The two main podcasts where you’d fit right in are either @gilduran.com ‘s Nerd Reich or @xriskology.bsky.social and @katewillett.bsky.social ‘s Dystopia Now
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Colinaut ~ Mirth Peddlers @colinaut.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
ReoLink is great. Highly recommend if you are in the market for home security that is not being fed to some corporate databank
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Mike Stabile @mikestabile.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
With SCREEN Act and KOSA on the legislative block this week, there couldn't be a better time for Fight's "Stop Online ID Checks" Week of Action. Today's action: Share and sign the petition. Find out more here: www.stoponlineidchecks.org
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ONLINE ID CHECKS WILL RUIN THE INTERNET
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Colinaut ~ Mirth Peddlers @colinaut.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
This pairs with my analogy that this admin is just a bucket of grifter crabs. The play space is the bucket and to join you are committing to stepping on others, but it is highly likely you’ll be stepped on yourself. Not to mention all the pincers.
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Colinaut ~ Mirth Peddlers @colinaut.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
The players in my game loved the Slugblaster random sticker/patch table. It set such a tone for their characters personally.
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Colinaut ~ Mirth Peddlers @colinaut.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
Dry erase works best for one-shots, like CBR+PNK, as if you leave it on too long it gets harder to wipe off. I could totally see a “one last run” SLG+BLST as a brochure fold being great! It could use something like revised turbo edition rules.
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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
capital believes it has invented a mill which turns the labor of their workers into more capital, and that they can own it
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