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Gordon McAlpin

@gmcalpin.bsky.social
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Freelance graphic designer, mostly books and TTRPG related things (Beadle & Grimm’s, Brotherwise Games) | animation multiplex10.com/watch | portfolio gordonmcalpin.com 🇵🇭🇺🇸

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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 21h
Rod Serling was a king. WWII paratrooper in “The Death Squad,” TV pioneer, LOUD critic of McCarthyism who knew his status as a war hero put him in a privileged position to call shit out. Wrote critiques of racism into his scripts, created The Twilight Zone to escape the censorship that brought on.
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Comics in the Spooky Age 🧛‍♂️🧟‍♀️🎃 @comicsinthega.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The first Peanuts strip by Charles M. Schulz was published on October 2, 1950.
Four black and white panels of a boy and girl sitting on steps.
1st panel: Charlie Brown is approaching and the boy says:
"Well! Here comes ol' Charlie Brown!" 
2nd panel: As Charlie Brown passes, he says "Good ol' Charlie Brown...yes, sir!" 
3rd panel: "Good ol' Charlie Brown..." 
4th panel: Once Charlie is gone, "How I hate him!"
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Cole Haddon @colehaddon.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
What's “narrative unreliability” — sometimes called “narrative instability” — in cinema? This curated screenplay collection from 5AM StoryTalk helps you better understand this narrative approach so you can use it in your own screenwriting. Link to start reading in the first comment!
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J. L. Westover @mrlovenstein.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
get the fun book ❤️ kickstarter.com/projects/mrlovenstein/mr-lovenstein-presents-fun guaranteed to smell better than your phone
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Gordon McAlpin @gmcalpin.bsky.social · 4h
like if you agree
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Anime The Ramparts Of Ice
Alt: Koyun from Ramparts Of Ice does a little happy dance
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Dustin A. Chacón @lingdustin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I've heard people make claims that AI would lead to a new Renaissance, but I didn't imagine it'd happen like this:
Screenshot of a Tweet from Pope Leo XIV. It reads: 

"In this era of artificial intelligence, it is becoming urgen to distinguish human art from what machines produce. There is an ontological difference, even before an aesthetic one, between art and what a machine can generate through statistical calculation based on millions of images created by others. Algorithms lack the spark of humanity. For this reason, the Church wishes to renew an alliance with artists and cultural institutions to safeguard our humanity."
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Gordon McAlpin @gmcalpin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
i guess i passed 3000 followers pretty sure mind are mostly bots 😂 but idk anyway hi, i talk a lot of shit on here. i mostly talk about about TTRPGs, book design & type, and media history (film and movie theater, comics, D&D/RPGs). I have been on a manga/anime bender for the last two years Sup?
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Kieron Gillen @kierongillen.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
"Damn! Are you the danger room? Because I'm not sure I would last very long inside you, but I think I could improve with practise."
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Constantine @ajaxsinger.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
This merger is just the tip of the iceberg!!!
David Ellisonannounces the Paramount WB merger with a promise of "a more powerful engine" and a still  image from TITANIC.
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Gordon McAlpin @gmcalpin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
anyone who thinks current LLMs even *could* be conscious, let alone ARE conscious, is an utter fool. At best.
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That's Not How It Works! That's Not How Any Of This Works!
ALT: That's Not How It Works! That's Not How Any Of This Works!
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evan dahm @evandahm.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
i dislike the whole project but his paintings have always overwhelmingly struck me as NAIVE in a way that he doesnt seem to intend-- he's treating the illo as lowbrow and authorless and making a joke of putting it into Fine Art, but all i can see is man this fucker had no grasp of drawing at all lol
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Chris Samnee @chrissamnee.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
BATOBER 2026 Day 2: BURY
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 02/10/2026
not that you should expect anything more than rank idiocy from this pair of racists, but the idea that whiteness means a "high trust" society of "social cohesion" is some of the stupidest shit i have ever heard. these people live in a fantasy land that you could dispel by simply opening a book.
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Chris Rufo — Known For ‘DEI’ and ‘CRT’ Panics — Tries to Make ‘the Indian Question’ a Thing
To the degree that a “respectable” or “moderate” right exists today in...
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Comics Jobs @comics-jobs.com · 01/10/2026
✨ New job: Senior Designer (Graphic Novels) ✨ 🏢 ABRAMS 💼 Full-time 📍 New York City, NY, United States
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Comics Jobs - Senior Designer (Graphic Novels) at ABRAMS
Full-time | New York City, NY, United States
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Jess Fink🍉🌈 @jessfink.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
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A 7 panel comic by the artist. First panel: The artist is running from a distance towards a group of people playing basketball in the park. The artist is holding a pumpkin above their head and screaming "AAAAAAAAA". Second panel: The artist has leapt up and is in position to slam dunk the pumpkin into the basketball hoop. Panel three: the pumpkin splatters violently against the backboard of the basketball hoop, sending orange pumpkin goop everywhere. Panel four: the players stand staring, covered in pumpkin goop and shocked. Panel five: the artist stares at them wide-eyed, also covered in the goop and says "it's October FIRST". Their hand reaches towards their face. Panel six: the artist rips off their own face like a rubber mask to reveal a skeleton beneath. Panel 7: the group of players stand shocked and horrified, watching as the skeleton falls to the ground in a pile of bones, the sound effects says "CLATTER".
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Chris Samnee @chrissamnee.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
BATOBER 2026 Day 1: GLIDE
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Sa-ilent Hill Bajaj @sahilbajaj.dev · 30/09/2026
The Bronx zoo has a Himalayan Snow Leopard cub and her name is Sarka 🥹
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Gordon McAlpin @gmcalpin.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
me with a cat on my face. (you can see about half of my face, because a small brown tabby is sitting on it. she looks pretty chill.)
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Gordon McAlpin @gmcalpin.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I just watched an episode of Ghost in the Shell and for whatever reason the app assumed I wanted the same audio settings for the NEXT TV show I decided to watch in the same app and, you guys Reacher in Japanese RULES
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J. Emory Parker 🏳️‍🌈 @jaspar.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Meta muse saying why would I deceive you?
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Dr.Butcher M.D., Medical Deviate @drbutchermd.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Glass half full: We have decided to be on the right side of history. Glass half empty: But not on the right side of taste.
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Paste Magazine @pastemagazine.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Macklemore's "Free Palestine" tour sells out immediately
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Macklemore's "Free Palestine" tour sells out immediately
The rapper's three-day tour includes stops in Dublin, Paris, and London, all scheduled for the last week of October.
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Gordon McAlpin @gmcalpin.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
discussing a work thing in the Brotherwise discord, and I keep typing "helment" H-E-L-M-E-T helment
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Modiphius @modiphius.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Star Trek Blog! Over the years we have accumulated both paid and free content for players to fully immerse themselves in our Star Trek Adventures RPG. This week Jim Johnson goes over where you can find some of the best free content Modiphius has to offer buff.ly/cQNk1Vc #Startrekadventures #TTRPG
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Gordon McAlpin @gmcalpin.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
me thinking about why i have various people muted “wait, am *I* a timeline-killing know it all…?”
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Han's Iconic 'Nah' Moment from Fast X
Alt: Han from Fast X says 'Nah'
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Geek Native @geeknative.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
UK Games Expo has banned generative AI art, text, and merchandise across all NEC exhibition halls, bringing the convention in line with broader British tabletop standards. Standholders face removal or bans if their products aren't made by humans. #UKGE
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UK Games Expo bans generative AI art and text across all trade halls
UK Games Expo has introduced a mandatory policy prohibiting generative AI art and text across all NEC trade halls, requiring exhibitors to sell only human-made games.
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Gordon McAlpin @gmcalpin.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
one of the most simultaneously infuriating and hilarious things is when people get mad at you for focusing on semantics… when the discussion is entirely semantic. meaning, logic, and categorization (is art, is not art; is true, is not true) are in point of fact semantic discussions.
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Gordon McAlpin @gmcalpin.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
computers can’t think. “but what about if you have an LLM do math?” …no. computers can’t think. “but what if it makes an image of my waifu” WHAT FUCKING PART OF *COMPUTERS CANNOT THINK* DO YOU NOT FUCKING GET
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Gordon McAlpin @gmcalpin.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
<mute thread>
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Shawshank Redemption: Iconic Rain Scene
ALT: Shawshank Redemption: Iconic Rain Scene
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Gordon McAlpin @gmcalpin.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
@zachweinersmith.bsky.social man i like disagreeing with you but some of your reply guy followers are dooooooooooooouchebags.
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Just Security @justsecurity.org · 30/09/2026
The 2001 AUMF was not supposed to be a blank check for any president to wage war, writes Wells Dixon. "The only way to ensure greater transparency and restore an appropriate balance of power among co-equal branches of government is for Congress to repeal the AUMF," he writes.
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It's Time to Repeal the 2001 Authorization for Use of Military Force
Successive administrations have stretched the AUMF beyond any reasonable interpretation to wage worldwide war, without foreseeable end.
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Gordon McAlpin @gmcalpin.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
this was a delightful curveball of an article.
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Thomas Ha @thomasha.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
i should clarify, when i write people doing bad things, it's because i am bad. they are me. more importantly, when you read about those bad things, they also become you. that's how story works. in fact, you are going to think about murder before this skeet ends. how's that feel, sicko.
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Emily Cheeseman @emcheeseman.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Commissions are OPEN! Fill out this form to submit a request: forms.gle/DFqyziLkkvHF...
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Gordon McAlpin @gmcalpin.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
the Mousetrap game sounds cool, but i hope they have an IP lawyer in their Contacts because Mouse Trap is a registered trademark of Hasbro.
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Retro Mouse Trap Board Game
ALT: Retro Mouse Trap Board Game
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Asa Donald | Backwards Tabletop @backwardsttrpg.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
COMING SOON: In prelaunch w/ Violent Delights, another game inspired by Shakespeare: Mousetrap is a cursed game-within-a-game that won’t go back into its box. It’s game night. You and your friends have gathered to play a Hamlet-inspired game manuscript from 1983. But there’s a catch…
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Coming soon: Mousetrap & Violent Delights
A cursed game-within-a-game that won't go back into its box, and a chess-based RPG about Shakespeare's Romeo & Juliet.
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JB Pritzker @jbpritzker.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I'm JB Pritzker and I approve this message.
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Tiny Onion @readtinyonion.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Today is the day! Big Huggable Octo is LIVE on Kickstarter. Take home your very own Octo, back today.😈🐙 www.kickstarter.com/projects/tin... #TinyOnion #SomethingIsKillingtheChildren
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Gordon McAlpin @gmcalpin.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Buried in this excerpt is that fact that Kyle McLachlan was signed for FIVE Dune movies (and three non-Dune movies). Talk about overconfident. 😂 www.hollywoodreporter.com/lifestyle/ar...
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Kyle MacLachlan, Star of David Lynch’s ‘Dune,’ Was the Only One on Set Who Knew What ‘Dune’ Was About
In an exclusive excerpt from his new memoir, MacLachlan recalls the sweat, tears and toxic smoke on the set of the sci-fi epic (his first film, which turned out to be an epic bomb) and realizing that ...
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Gordon McAlpin @gmcalpin.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
hurry up, liberal women. end it already.
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Gianmarco Soresi @gianmarcosoresi.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The feeling of questioning whether or not something is AI as part of its destruction of all visual art
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Alasdair Beckett-King @misterabk.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Is it me, or does Michaelmas start earlier every year?
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TPM @talkingpointsmemo.com · 29/09/2026
The White House is steamrolling Congress' power of the purse — its constitutional power to decide how taxpayer money is spent — zeroing out programs that legislators wrote into law while pouring money into airing Trump campaign ads on television
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Russ Vought Takes a New Path Toward Overriding Congress
Programming Note I’ve been gone for two days! I forgot to say...
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Gordon McAlpin @gmcalpin.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
not getting a Duo but this idea is kitschy, pointless, and pretty neat. www.macrumors.com/2026/09/29/i...
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iPhone Duo Gets a Virtual Walkman App Ahead of Launch
An indie developer has built an app that turns Apple's upcoming iPhone Duo into a virtual Sony Walkman by using the foldable's hinge to mimic the classic cassette player's flip-open door. Creator Vidi...
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Gordon McAlpin @gmcalpin.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
indie game designer in 2026 challenge: “don’t call a tabletop game an RPG unless the players actually have a *role*… to *play* (not just a game to play)” challenge rating: impossible
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Dustin Volz @dustinvolz.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
New: FBI in internal memo says it believes ShinyHunters may have stolen private data on all employees. Fears of longterm consequences of breach magnify as hackers threaten to leak everything online by end of Tuesday. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/28/u...
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Embarrassing Breach at F.B.I. Fuels Fears of Harm to Its Employees (Gift Article)
In an internal memo, the F.B.I. said it believed the hackers may have stolen sensitive information on all of its employees.
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Gordon McAlpin @gmcalpin.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
@buehlmeister.bsky.social i just realized I was literally trying to count the days until my copy of Thrice-Bound Fool arrives and figured i would share that 😅
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Hannah Harris Green @whatsitlike.me · 28/09/2026
When I set out to fact check “The Cities That Said Yes to Drugs” which argues that harm reduction may increase overdoses, I expected some cherry picking and misdirection. But not to find basic math errors and debunked right wing talking points asserted as fact in the Atlantic’s print edition.
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Atlantic's anti-harm reduction screed riddled with errors
A close read of "The Cities That Said Yes to Drugs" found errors in basic arithmetic as well as more deliberately misleading elements
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Gordon McAlpin @gmcalpin.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
when the publisher emails you to say the last copies of the manga you’ve been trying to collect are on their way
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Mitsumi from Skip and Loafer's Funny Dance
Alt: Mitsumi from Skip and Loafer's holds her arms up to intimidate a larger creature (it’s from an episode, it doesn’t make sense; am just being silly)
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Imani Gandy @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 28/09/2026
fucking really
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Education Department formally rescinds Title IX protections for LGBTQ students
The Education Department announced Monday it has formally rescinded the Biden-era Title IX interpretation that gave sex-based discrimination protections to students on the basis of sexual orientati…
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