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Vernon Miles @corbie.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Every time “separation anxiety” comes up in discussions at my kid’s Montessori school I nod sagely and fight to keep from being distracted thinking about the 1994 Venom series

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Vernon Miles @corbie.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Very cool conceit at the start of a Warhammer book I'm reading. A demon intervenes to save the life of a Nostradamus-type from the Inquisition to find out more about someone he'll need to use years later as a pawn (the main character)...

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Vernon Miles @corbie.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I've been on a kick reading James Baldwin stuff. Watched his debate with William Buckley and it's just this

Hydrogen bomb Baldwin vs Coughing baby Buckley

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Vernon Miles @corbie.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Introduce yourself with 4 mechs

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Vernon Miles @corbie.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Found out this morning that one of my friends was hit by a car while he was walking alongside a road and died. I was like "how could that happen" and then you Google Maps the spot and you're like "yeah, that looks like somewhere people die on the road"

Woodbourne Rd & Quincy Dr in Levittown, PA

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Vernon Miles @corbie.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Playing a Warlock in Diablo IV and I love fantasy stuff where people are like "the other idiots tried to bind a demon and it killed them. Fools. Not me though, it'll work for me" [Found on corpse of warlock]

Diablo "others dead, I'll be the one to bind the demon" text

Arrested Development: "But it might work for us" meme

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Vernon Miles @corbie.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Reading James Baldwin and this passage was so moving

For this is your home, my friend, do not be driven from it; great men have done great things here, and will again, and we can make America what America must become. It will be hard, James, but you come from sturdy, peasant stock, men who picked cotton and dammed rivers and built railroads, and, in the teeth of the most terrifying odds, achieved an unassailable and monumental dignity.

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Vernon Miles @corbie.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Halloween is my favorite holiday but this is the week I feel most represented

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Vernon Miles @corbie.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Someone in the elevator was wearing Commanders gear so I started small talk with "Shame about Jayden Daniels!" because I saw the Washington Post alert, but it made me feel like an alien pretending to be human

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Vernon Miles @corbie.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

My dad got Morrowind for free in a PC gaming magazine and had no interest in it so he let me have it. Changed my whole world. I'm still amazed looking back I was able to handle the archaic mechanics as a little kid, but I absolutely adored it and it shaped my interest in both gaming and fantasy.

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Vernon Miles @corbie.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Just remembering that Star Trek Discovery has the brass-fucking-balls to name an episode 'Unification III' as a follow-up to the classic Next Generation two-parter. In NO way earned that shit but you kind of have to admire the unmitigated gall. It's like if I put out 'Les Misérables 2'

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Vernon Miles @corbie.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Catching up on the ‘Krakoa Era’ of X-Men and it rules that they have a big crossover event that’s not a giant punch up, it’s a high-fashion soirée

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Vernon Miles @corbie.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Really trying to enjoy “On Basilisk Station” because on paper it feels like everything I want in a book but the page after page of technobabble and exposition dumps are wearing my patience down.

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Vernon Miles @corbie.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Couple days ago started watching 'Ted' on a whim. Hadn't seen the movies but the show looked funny from clips and I had the NBC streaming free trial. Now I'm on the last episode and I'm so bummed because it got cancelled and I'm absolutely in love. www.youtube.com/watch?v=8YDY...

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My favorite scene from "Ted"

YouTube video by AlphaTheGodofDarkness

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Vernon Miles @corbie.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

My sister and I played a street racing game called Midnight Club but my mom made us turn off pedestrians so we didn't hit them. My parents were usually in lockstep on stuff but a rare exception was my dad getting me GTA IV in secret and I kind of treasure that memory.

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Vernon Miles @corbie.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

I have a very Icarian approach to modding. I’ll spend a week getting a stable modlist together and then right as everything’s fixed and ready to go I have this incurable itch to go “well maybe just one or two more…”

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Vernon Miles @corbie.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Not to amp myself up but I’m very proud of my Fey Realm city in my D&D campaign. I’m sure these ideas are done elsewhere, but the only way to get there is to be lost and this city is filled with forgotten things like shipwrecks and ancient ruins. Occasionally it rains socks.

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Vernon Miles @corbie.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

One of my pet peeves are forwards and introductions to book that assume you’ve already read them. I started “Carrie” and I have a general idea of what happens at the end of the story, but neither wanted nor needed that spelled out in the introduction.

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Vernon Miles @corbie.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Every night when I get home, Hugo is sitting under my desk waiting for me like Argos

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Vernon Miles @corbie.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

It's funny that I've been in multiple industries filled with cool, advanced tech all held up by sites like "Free YouTube Downloader"

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Vernon Miles @corbie.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

The only Stephen King books I've read are the Dark Tower series and Salem's Lot. Anyone have any favorites they'd recommend?

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Vernon Miles @corbie.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

So excited for the @totalwar.bsky.social expansion coming out later this month so this is my lo-fi music for work today. Yes-yes! youtu.be/FrRW7gFmRcM

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Lofi Skaven 🐀🎵 | Relaxing Rat Beats 🐀| Pactsworn Ambience 🗡️📜

YouTube video by Fatshark

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Vernon Miles @corbie.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I’d never seen this concept at from Guillermo Del Toro’s vision of The Hobbit (truly one of the great tragedies of never-made movies) but this is sick as hell

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Vernon Miles @corbie.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Dragon Age Inquisition gets a lot of shit but the mission where you have to charm your way through a ball, fight assassins in the gardens, and decide the fate of a kingdom is peak RPG and my arc in any Dragon Age game. More fantasy games need ballroom sequences

Ballroom mission in Dragon Age: Inquisition

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Alex Goyette @alexgoyette.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

These maps from James are really excellent, and pretty damning IMO And to get on my perpetual soap box: there's a reason these maps also closely resemble our zoning map and, consequently, almost every other data map of the city

Maps of flock camera locations compared to income and reported crime rates, showing that there are lots of cameras in low income areas regardless of crime rates, while high income & high crime areas like Old Town and Potomac Yard have relatively few cameras

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Vernon Miles @corbie.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Me tweeting this right before the story comes up and people around the newsroom start talking about how stupid it is

Carrie right before the pig's blood comes down

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Vernon Miles @corbie.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

There's a song on the Assassin's Creed Origins soundtrack called "Dead Kings and Living Gods" which has always stuck with me as just such a badass description of Ancient Egypt

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Vernon Miles @corbie.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

My story pitch led to a reporter covering a Warhammer 40k tournament today. Dreams do come true.

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Vernon Miles @corbie.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

I'm digging Lanterns but always think making John Stewart military instead of focusing on him as an architect is always a bummer because the architect informs his cool, unique way of building constructs and makes him more distinct from all the other military characters (like Hal)

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Vernon Miles @corbie.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

I'm still getting used to being in front of the camera for interviews like this (can you tell I've spent my entire career behind a keyboard?), but it was an absolute delight getting to talk to the folks at the NOVA Open about the big Warhammer 40k tournament this week youtu.be/5Nr9SubOK8c

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OPEN DMV Tournament!

YouTube video by Vernon Miles

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Vernon Miles @corbie.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

If only there was a unit of time we could simplify 216 months into

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Vernon Miles @corbie.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Commander in Chief shared his Presidential tier ranking (omitting JFK, hilariously) which is as good a reason as any to share mine, as someone who LOVES ranking Presidencies. Some folks in 'meh' I honestly don't know enough about to judge.

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Vernon Miles @corbie.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Baseball? The sport from that one episode of Deep Space Nine?!

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Vernon Miles @corbie.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Watching a 'The Marvels' to finish up the MCU movies I haven't seen and there's nothing more painfully cringe in these than when a character comes on screen with a built in pause for audience cheering and you're just sitting there watching it alone.

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Vernon Miles @corbie.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Nice that the flags are at half-mast for Tim Curry today

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Vernon Miles @corbie.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

RIP to one of the engaging performers to light up a screen. Every Tim Curry role, no matter how straight-faced or goofy, absolutely steals the scene.

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Vernon Miles @corbie.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

It’s always funny when a microwave instruction goes “cook between 3 1/2 - 4 1/2 minutes” So… 4 minutes

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Vernon Miles @corbie.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

I'm not 100% sure why the Maryland Renn fest pays for advertising. There's a waitlist for tickets. My friends got them on release because we were hitting refresh like getting Taylor Swift tickets, and even then we were capped on how many we could get.

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Grozz @grozz.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

there are no 'correct' grounds for being a socialist to people with a vested interest in defending the capitalist order. if you're poor, you're lazy. if you're middle class, you're envious. if you're wealthy, you're hypocritical. it's all a goalpost-moving shell game.

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Vernon Miles @corbie.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

I just started "The Infinite and the Divine" and I love it. First chapter starts with the story of the creation of a world, the evolution of life, the development of religion, the reverence of a sacred relic -- and then this asshole alien collector shows up and yoinks it just for fun.

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Vernon Miles @corbie.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Finally started watching The Sopranos on a whim and just realized I'm only one year younger than James Gandolfini (35) in the pilot this show.

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Vernon Miles @corbie.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Me: The National Book Festival is this weekend in DC Family: Oh, who is going to be there? Me: Cynthia Erivo, Martin Scorsese... Family: Those are movie people. That's sad. Me: Okay fine, Ann Patchett and Frank Miller are also there. Family: I don't know who those are. Me: THAT'S WHY I-

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Man flips desk in anger (Succession)

ALT: Man flips desk in anger (Succession)

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Vernon Miles @corbie.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Comics friend sent this to me and I’ve been chuckling about it off and on all morning

Prof X: what’s your super power?
Me: Hindsight
Prof X: that’s not going to help us
Me: I see that now

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Vernon Miles @corbie.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

It's funny any time we get a package from the national desk about Iran and the clips are like Rep. James Walkinshaw (D) VA: I think we need to find an end to this war that provides some stability for the region. Gen. Jack Keane (ret): Blood. BLOOD. BLOOOOOODDDD!!!

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Vernon Miles @corbie.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Praying this flops so we can start shifting back to telling earnest (if cheesy) stories and we can leave the self-referential quip-fests like this and Lower Decks as dark relics of the early 2020s.

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