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In Otter News @in-otter-news.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

That is very enlightening, Steve. Thanks for that.

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“Steve, what has helped you not to go insane this year?”
“Nothing. I am insane.”

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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 19/09/2026

Again: "Tilly Norwood" is not a person; it is a shoddy, and also pretty gross puppet. Stop referring to it as "she," and start asking whether there might be something a bit off about wanting to promote a sexualized but also childlike "actor" that can never tell its creators or users "no."

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Emily Blake @emilyblake.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

At some point, one of his cop friends is going to try to stop Reacher from brutally murdering people, right?

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Emily Blake @emilyblake.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Imagine buying Paramount & killing Star Trek & abandoning the huge iconic lot in the heart of Hollywood because you made a stupid deal to hasten the destruction of the industry you bought into? Rich people don't deserve shit.

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Jaclyn Friedman @jaclynf.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

A huge relief, at least in the short-term

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Emily Blake @emilyblake.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Oh NBD. Just hanging out in a literal castle, about to fight Tiamat in a big caldera. #DungeonsAndDragons

A big Styrofoam set of terrain covers the floor. Bones, a huge altar, and a big hole. Feet surround it on the hardwood floor.

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Ethan Sacks @ethansacks.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

On the morning of September 11, 2001, I stood with a face full of shaving cream smearing the phone as I reassured my brother-in-law in Japan that my wife was in the other Tower. Her family were worried over the breaking news they were getting from across the Pacific. We watched together ... 1/

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Emily Blake @emilyblake.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I knew a cis girl in high school whose breast reduction at the age of 16 - with the consent of her parents - saved her life.

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Emily Blake @emilyblake.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Every Ai stan is so focused on the outcome, but the work is the point a lot of the time. Making a newspaper for my LARP is something I want to do. Writing proposals to fix a problem in the community is something I want to do. If I let the computer speak for me, what the hell am I doing this for?

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Emily Blake @emilyblake.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Tonight's episode of #AlwaysSunny is about a Ren Faire. All the bg is actual Ren Faire folk wearing our own garb. And here's me, sitting right behind Nick Kroll being cool and resisting the urge to go on about how much I love Big Mouth.

Emily sits behind Nick Kroll on sn episode of It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia

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Emily Blake @emilyblake.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

I want this fake ass MFer to name one member of the Justice League.

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Emily Blake @emilyblake.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

I didn't watch a lot of He-Man. Is Skeletor supposed to be like that guy nobody invited to the party & you're just polite to him while you desperate search for an escape plan & hope he leaves soon? Because even though I can't see or hear him, that's the energy Jared Leto is bringing.

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Justin Carter @gigawattconduit.blacksky.app · 06/09/2026

*incredibly ugly wheezing sound* Jee-sus christ theplaylist.net/paul-schrade...

But speaking this weekend with The Playlist in Venice following the premiere of “The Basics of Philosophy,” Schrader offered a much more revealing explanation for how “Three Guns At Dawn” reached that point.

“I had originally written it about three Black brothers, all of whom are bad guys: a corrupt cop, a drug dealer, and a sexual criminal,” Schrader explained. “And they were all trying to kill each other. And Antoine Fuqua was going to produce it.”

According to Schrader, he and Fuqua then approached actors with the project and ran into a fundamental problem.

“We sent it out to actors, and no Black actors wanted to play in a movie where there are no good Black people,” he said. “And it sort of died. But then AI came along, and I didn’t need Black actors.”

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Our society's unfathomable cruelty to homeless people is not just morally unjustifiable, but more expensive than housing people would be. Cruelty against the homeless is an unaffordable luxury. Abandoning homeless people to avoid offending the Protestant work ethic is an unaffordable luxury.

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Emily Blake @emilyblake.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Need some scratch & want to help Democracy? Live in LA County? Be a community election worker! You get an $80 stipend for taking a 3-hour training, $100/day for every day of the election that you work (usually 4), & another $100 if you speak a qualifying language. www.lavote.gov/home/voting-...

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Community Election Workers

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Emily Blake @emilyblake.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

I am currently in a van with 4 young coworkers, one of whom is young enough to be my adult son. We are listening to hip hop. I'm just trying hard not to say anything uncool lest they discover how old and white I am.

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Jen Fifield @jenafifield.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

1/ Just in: An anonymous federal worker has filed a whistleblower disclosure warning that the U.S. Postal Service's attempt to create a system to regulate mail voting for the midterms has been "rushed, chaotic, and fundamentally flawed." @propublica.org has the details 👇

Screenshot of the top of a whistleblower disclosure titled "USPS Rushed Implementation of New and Untested IT Systems Threatens U.S. Ballot Mail Delivery." Addressed to Senator Blumenthal, the first point details how the whistleblower has "significant concerns about the USPS's secretive, rushed, chaotic, and fundamentally flawed process for the creation and implementation of an entirely new and untested set of IT systems" intended for the 2026 midterms.

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Emily Blake @emilyblake.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Be careful out there, LA. I was tabling for Echo Park Neighborhood Council at Echo Park Rising today, but we had to pack it in at 3:30 when I got heat exhaustion.

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Emily Blake @emilyblake.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

I just got to the Project Runway ep where the judges force the designers to shit on each other. I am on book 5 of Dungeon Crawler Carl. Y'all should have heard the beautiful sermon I preached about not turning on each other at the behest of the powerful in a reality fashion competition.

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Emily Blake @emilyblake.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Almost every single person I know is currently eyeballs deep in Dungeon Crawler Carl. I work with about 70 people, & not a single one has heard of these books. But after hearing me talk about it, a lot of those people have put it on their lists. I've learned some things about bubbles.

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Emily Blake @emilyblake.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

I'm an election worker trainer now, so stay tuned for lots of election season tips as we creep up on Nov 3. Feel free to ask questions about elections in LA County. If I can answer, I will.

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Emily Blake @emilyblake.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

I volunteer with an otherwise capable person who uses Ai to compose every single thing she writes. It's so bad she sounds like Ai in person, too. The human inside seems gone. The robots are brain parasites.

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Emily Blake @emilyblake.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Did you know? In LA County, you can watch election workers close the polls. You can follow the ballots all the way to where they're counted & stand in front of a window & watch the count. The whole process is completely transparent.

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Emily Blake @emilyblake.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

My new adult human job is to train election workers in advance of the mid-terms. Want to become an election worker? You get a little stipend & a sense of satisfaction. www.lavote.gov/home/voting-...

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Community Election Workers

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Chad Loder @chadloder.dev · 02/08/2026

The diarrhea lettuce company, Taylor Farms, uses slave labor contracted from the Arizona Dept. of Corrections. The backbreaking labor is often performed by imprisoned Mexican nationals who would be otherwise ineligble to work in the US. They are paid $1.50 an hour.

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The Diarrhea Lettuce Company Has Been Linked to Forced Labor

The lettuce-producing Taylor Farms was linked to the widespread use of prison labor before its involvement in a cyclospora outbreak.

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Emily Blake @emilyblake.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

We planned a major D&D event for today - all Husband's brain child. Yesterday he tested positive for Covid. So the team did it with him as the Guy In The Chair, & y'all, we nailed it. Everybody had a goddam blast. I never want to do that without him again, & I am very tired, but what a coup.

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Emily Blake @emilyblake.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Film you’ve watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Star Trek, Star Wars, Marvel, Disney, or Ghibli.

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Man Smiling and Winking

Alt: Guy from Galaxy Quest winks at the camera

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Emily Blake @emilyblake.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Now that we're launching all kinds of projects into the world over the next year, I have to get good at marketing. So lookit! I made a video to promote our event Saturday. If there's one thing we know how to do, it's make #DnD into a LARP with a thousand props. www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ySO...

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Corruption in Kryptgarden - an immersive D&D event

YouTube video by Tales From The Brass Dragon

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Emily Blake @emilyblake.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

For a job interview this week, I had to give a presentation on how to do something. I chose to teach them how to play D&D. In 5 minutes. And I nailed it. Yes I got the job. Your girl will spend the next 4 months training election workers in advance of the midterms.

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Emily Blake @emilyblake.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Fresh off our successful SDCC panel and the debut trailer for our Actual Play, dropping this fall, we're about to give 30 D&D players the game of their lives this Saturday in North Hollywood. Come play with us! Tickets: events.humanitix.com/corruption-i...

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Emily Blake @emilyblake.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

The most recent episode of #ProjectRunway had them all base designs on football teams. Aaron got the Panthers & based his design on a culture from South Carolina because he said it was important to respect the place where the team is from, which is NORTH Carolina. Nobody pointed this out.

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Will Borger @edgarallanbro.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

I worked at Disney a while ago. Do you know why theme parks are so safe? Because OOSHA reps can walk the track on any ride at any time and any safety violation they see is a $10,000 fine. Each. Theme parks are not safe because the company cares. They're safe because it's cheaper to comply.

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Emily Blake @emilyblake.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

We played Dungeons & Dragons today in front of a live audience at #SDCC. Then we released the trailer for our new actual play, dropping in October. What a day. youtu.be/GhLfoV210i8?...

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Tales from the Brass Dragon SDCC Trailer

YouTube video by Tales From The Brass Dragon

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Emily Blake @emilyblake.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Husband & I posted up at the Hasbro DnD booth at #SDCC & spent an hour encouraging people to roll a D20. If they got over 10, they got free dice. Everyone got a flyer for our panel tomorrow. We gave out 30 sets of dice and 90 flyers. This may have been the single greatest day of my life.

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Emily Blake @emilyblake.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Sending my sympathies to every poor bastard who went online today to figure out how to get a Comic Con badge and parking and also a hotel.

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Emily Blake @emilyblake.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

I trust Taco Bell right now because they were the first to act over this lettuce thing. You know who I don't trust? ANYTHING that comes from Taylor Farms. I now ask where the lettuce comes from before I order food. I won't buy salads at Vons. Seems like bad business to keep lying to us.

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Emily Blake @emilyblake.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

I am from North Carolina, and this makes my heart hurt. There are a lot of rural areas & military bases full of conservatives, but the cities/big towns are full of universities and technology hubs and people who vote more liberal. They want to disenfranchise like 90% of the people I grew up with.

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Emily Blake @emilyblake.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

I just cashed a 30-year bond my sister bought me as a gift when I was very young. The bank manager was amazed I kept a single small piece of paper that long so I could get $63 that I will now spend at Comic Con.

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Emily Blake @emilyblake.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

People of #SDCC! You're going to be tired Sunday morning. Don't walk around on those exhausted feet. Come sit in the cool Omni ballroom & watch 5 hot people play D&D! I'm one of them!

Watch these babies fight monsters! It's the hottest thing going at 10am on Sunday at San Diego Comic Con.
Omni Grand Ballroom
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With pictures of 5 sexy needs in a variety of poses

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Emily Blake @emilyblake.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Registration for an SDCC offsite event for Lanterns opened at 9am. At 9am it was completely sold out. Companies, I am begging you to put up defenses against bots. I don't think a single human being was able to get tickets.

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Emily Blake @emilyblake.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

As a script supervisor, I always preferred to use "Montana" when "M" came up on the slate, and I liked to pronounce it like Sam Neil did in Hunt for Red October when he says "I would like to have seen Montana."

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Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

The snarking is delightful, but remember: there is a democratic nominee to replace Lindsey Graham in the senate. Give her money.

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Emily Blake @emilyblake.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

You spend more time dead than you do alive, you dandy bitch. All that's left now is your reputation as a bootlicker.

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Emily Blake @emilyblake.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

This weekend, come out to Echo Park for our annual Lotus Festival, a celebration of Asian culture in America! I'll be out there most of the time both days, tabling for the Echo Park Neighborhood Council. Come say hi and let me convince you to get involved. www.lotusfestivalla.com

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Los Angeles Lotus Festival

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DougExeter @dougexeter.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

*meredith brooks voice* im a mitch im mcconnell i help trump comma donald ive a turtle for a head im probably really dead

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Emily Blake @emilyblake.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

We're running this game in NoHo Aug 1. The ticket pays for the use of Spellbound, the catered food, & the DMs. We're paying local businesses & talented people who've been struggling. In return, you get the raddest D&D of your life. All levels welcome. Tickets: events.humanitix.com/corruption-i...

A flyer for our event: Corruption in Kryptgarden at Spellbound LARP and Games at 11300 Magnolia Ave in North Hollywood CA, Saturday Aug 1 from 12pm-6:30pm. Live costumed NPCs, 6 DMs, 36 players, and the best D&D you'll ever have.

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Ben Paddon 🎃 @benpaddon.net · 08/07/2026

If you miss Doctor Who, my friends and I did five seasons of The Game of Rassilon, an actual-play podcast where we ran the officially-licensed Doctor Who Roleplaying Game. Across the show we had two regular Doctors, five companions, and a handful of guest Doctors. Find us in your podcasting app!

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The Game of Rassilon – A Doctor Who Roleplaying Game Podcast

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Emily Blake @emilyblake.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Not only are they ugly and unoriginal, but AI flyers almost never meet standards for accessibility. Visually impaired people use readers to tell them what flyers say, but AI crams so much crap on a page that it makes it difficult for the readers to work.

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