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John Curtin

@curtinwrites.bsky.social
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Ennie-nominated game and culture writer Words @Paizo.com and sundry Projects: @starfinderfacts2e.bsky.social www.patreon.com/BearlyFactual ko-fi.com/bearlyfactualproduction Occasional musician. Built a robot once.

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United Wizards of the Coast - CWA @uwotc-official.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
This morning, the D&D team and Magic's Studio X informed our leadership of our intent to unionize. We love the games we make and the work we do, and unionizing is how we protect that work. unitedwizardsofthecoast.com/news/dnd-stu...
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Dungeons & Dragons and Studio X Join United Wizards of the Coast - CWA
Today, October 6, 2026, the designers, artists, writers, producers, and workers behind Dungeons & Dragons, Magic: The Gathering, Duel Masters, D&D Beyond, and countless other games are uniting in soli...
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Gail Simone @gailsimone.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
They should do an animated version of Moana.
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Tammi, yeah, that one. 2.1 @tammi.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Calvin, friend of Hobbes, exclaims in front of his mom, "Mainstream commercial nihilism can't be trusted?!" and his mom, leaning tiredly on her elbow at her desk replies, "'Fraid not, kiddo."
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Hell Frasier: Bloodline @babadooknukem.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Comedy Option: just kick England out
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John Curtin @curtinwrites.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Dear internet I am going to eat the Franks Red Hot Spicy Halloween gummies so you don't have to
Franks Red Hot Special Limited Halloween Edition Gummies
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John Curtin @curtinwrites.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
(this is what gets my ass cancelled by the SPCA)
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John Curtin @curtinwrites.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Don for science we need to know what the ducks do if they eat one
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John Curtin @curtinwrites.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
I would advise the Franks Red Hot Limited Edition Spicy Halloween gummies to parents attempting to wean their children off of gummies in the most extreme way, Halloween pranksters who want to trick with their treats, and gourmands who lack taste buds and/or the capacity to smell
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John Curtin @curtinwrites.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
To their credit, the gummies do contain a robust spicy flavor, and the gummy flavor is as good as I would expect from the quality control team at Frank's Red Hot. Again, it is a shame about the Odor or these would be very technically edible.
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John Curtin @curtinwrites.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
So first: the bag is nearly unopenable, one of those Forever Plastics that requires superhuman strength Once opened, you receive The Odor, which smells like someone poured hot sauce into a bag of gummies, which is as unsurprising and unpleasant as it sounds The small servings may be a blessing.
A mangled-open bag of Franks Red Hot Spicy Halloween gummies. One gummy pumpkin and 5 gummy bears, coated with strange dried residue
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John Curtin @curtinwrites.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Dear internet I am going to eat the Franks Red Hot Spicy Halloween gummies so you don't have to
Franks Red Hot Special Limited Halloween Edition Gummies
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John Curtin @curtinwrites.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
The firemen said to order takeout.
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Lua Stardust at HOME @luastardust.com · 12/09/2026
NYCC - I’m looking for a brand to work with / do an activation with. I haven’t been in a few years and I’d love to do a meet and greet as I know this is one of my biggest cities for my audience :) If that’s you email me! Info in bio :)
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John Curtin @curtinwrites.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Pinochet's free helicopter rides became a dark right-wing meme amongst some of the worst of the internet - not the same type of tragedy but the same type of humor
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John Curtin @curtinwrites.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Coming in here to crow about Scythe because even if this is a bit, Scythe is an awesome dieselpunk board game that prominently features giant war robots store.stonemaiergames.com/products/scy...
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Scythe
Scythe is an engine-building, asymmetric, competitive board game set in an alternate-history 1920s period. It is a time of farming and war, broken hearts and rusted gears, innovation and valor. It pla...
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John Curtin @curtinwrites.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Boston (well, technically Somerville) has one of these that meets at @sidequestbooks.bsky.social ! Audiobook walking club is such a great book community event!
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John Curtin @curtinwrites.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Or Brianna
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John Curtin @curtinwrites.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Massachusetts voter here. Ed Markey won because he is a real one, and he has been a real one for years, and people trust that. Principled progressives win - especially against AstroTurfed generational warfare with regressive talking points that undermine popular opinions.
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Aleksandra Vaca @transiticsnews.com · 02/09/2026
1. Anti-trans Democrat Seth Moulton just lost his Senate primary in a LANDSLIDE to outspoken trans ally Ed Markey. To Moulton, trans kids were a liability the Democratic Party needed to abandon. But to Massachusetts voters, the only liabilities are Democrats like him.
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Anti-Trans Dem Seth Moulton Loses Senate Primary to Outspoken Trans Ally Ed Markey in a Landslide
To Seth Moulton, trans kids were a liability the Democratic Party needed to abandon. But to Massachusetts voters, the only liabilities are Democrats like him.
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jon rosenberg @jonrosenberg.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Google sucks
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John Curtin @curtinwrites.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
What if it's for keeping track of the complicated relationships in the PC's polycule
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Jennifer Adcock @jenkatwrites.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
pardon? the horrors? please say more about the horrors, barbie
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Molleindustria FUTURE? NO THANKS! OUT NOW @molleindustria.org · 04/06/2026
📢Future? No Thanks! DEMO OUT NOW ON STEAM! Try the game for 30 minutes! An ecosocialist open-world utopia for our dark times. For Windows and Mac store.steampowered.com/app/3861870/...
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John Curtin @curtinwrites.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Well it can't be more than nine of them
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Steven E Schend @seschend.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Happy birthday to Jack Kirby!
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Justin LaLiberty @jlalibs.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
A fitting end to an interview Tim Curry conducted with Hollywood Reporter just last year RIP
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John Curtin @curtinwrites.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Feels a little weird, kind of like saying "We're gathering together The Beatles in order to create a new, updated version of Led Zeppelin II"
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spooky halloween txt @metaltxt.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Well, what I always say, "I just want everybody to be treated good." I try not to get into the politics of everything. I try to get into the human element of it. I have some of everybody in my own immediate family and in my circle of employees. I've got transgender people. I've got gays. I've got lesbians. I've got drunks. I've got drug addicts — all within my own family. I know and love them all, and I do not judge.

And I just see how broken-hearted they get over certain things and I know how real they are. I know how important this is to them. That's who they are. They cannot help that any more than I can help being Dolly Parton, you know, the way people know me. If there's something to be judged, that is God's business. But we are all God's children and how we are is who we are.
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the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
in heaven she will finally get the respect she deserves
dolly parton: NOBODY NOTICES I'VE GOT a GREAT ASS TOO
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Jill Lightner @jilllightner.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Street art in her honor from SE Seattle
A glittery tinsel-fringed illustrated portrait of Dolly Parton on a telephone pole. There's a cartoon voice bubble with a quote from her that says "find out who you are and do it on purpose."
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ComedIan MTG: cEDH Coach 🥳 @comedianmtg.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Tomorrow I'll be live on Youtube at 2pm eastern trying to build around WHTZ 🥳
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John Curtin @curtinwrites.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Your honor, I love him
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Microplastics Sommelier @leastactionhero.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
i smurfed myself today to see if i still feel i focus on the smurf the only thing that's real
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jess @jessfrom.online · 22/08/2026
optimist: the cup is half full pessimist: the cup is half empty ttrpg editor: here you refer to the cup as half full, but in the next chapter, you refer to it as half empty. for clarity, we should standardize on one of them in the rules text, even if players might use both descriptions at the tabl
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Rise Up (From the Grave) Comus @riseupcomus.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Perennial reminder that the big corporation does not care about you and there are better alternatives.
Chick tract saying that D&D is Mid
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CocoEagle @cocoeagle.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
I cannot express this any better.... the frustration is real
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John Curtin @curtinwrites.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
It honestly just sounds like you've started making your pesto, just pour this directly into a food processor
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Clockwork Creature @clockworkcreature.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
URGENT! We just got a tip - someone saw a person carrying what looked very much like Tierney's head. The person boarded the 54 bus Southbound in Baltimore City. PLEASE boost this post! We might have any chance of recovering her if this post gets seen enough!
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Michael's reanimated corpse @thepmann.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
This is a pretty good overview of what a crapfest Valnet is, came out last year: www.thewrap.com/valnet-labor...
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Valnet Blues: How Online Porn Pioneer Hassan Youssef Built a Digital Media 'Sweatshop'
The owner of entertainment websites Screen Rant, Collider, CBR and MovieWeb faces a lawsuit over exploitative work conditions.
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Rigby! @rigbees.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
I'll be on the Find the Path Twitch streaming running the PFS special The Kaiju Crisis! Watch me run one of my adventures, LIVE! twitch.tv/findthepathpod
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findthepathpod - Live on Twitch
The Littlest Con 2026 Charity Livestream! | Streaming just chatting.
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John Curtin @curtinwrites.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Everybody cut, everybody cut
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Gordon Ramsay Sharpening a Butcher Knife
ALT: Gordon Ramsay Sharpening a Butcher Knife
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John Curtin @curtinwrites.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Now: deliver it into the sea
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Ash Parrish, Kotaku's LeBron James @adashtra.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Hey! Did/Do you work at Saber Interactive? Were you replaced by AI (or do you suspect you were?) Wanna talk about it? Please get in touch. You can do so via discord @adashtra or Signal @adashtra.87 or even email aparrish@kotaku.com Reposts greatly appreciated
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Kieron Gillen @kierongillen.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Being far from a classist, I do think of one of the things I have read - Aristotle's Poetics where (among other things) he defends the new kid tragedy from the bullying of fans of austere Epic Verse, noting the many things it does which Epic Verse doesn't, and how neat they are. This stuff is old.
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John Curtin @curtinwrites.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
I like watching my friends get retweeted by Gail Simone
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Quinn murphy @gamefiend.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
OK Gail, I have to be uncouth and recommend one of mine to you...l I feel like Community Radio would be absolutely your vibe. Rules light, gonzo improv comedy and fake radio broadcasts! thoughtcrimegames.itch.io/community-ra...
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Community Radio, Second Edition by Thoughtcrime Games
An improv TTRPG about a strange, strange place and the community radio station that supports it.
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John Curtin @curtinwrites.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
But this is just all the film that crusts around the bottle opening, just flattened into a Government Cheese fascimile
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Chris Hutton - TTRPG Insider @ PAX Unplugged @newsnerd.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
It appears Paizo and Green Ronin Press have reached a settlement w/ Diamond Comics over its holding hundreds of thousands of dollars in books during bankruptcy filings.
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Dominic @domoffinland.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
this guy gets it
Listen to this king at a Huntington City Council meeting on Flock Cameras:

"I'm not gonna waste your time, I'm kinda hungry, but one last thing. Every single Flock camera has about 2-3 lbs of copper and about 1-2 grams of gold. Do with that information what you will."
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