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The Public Universal James

@greatbigjames.bsky.social
171 followers 213 following 427 posts

Largely cis, mostly het, mid-fat, very left. (He/they)

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The Public Universal James @greatbigjames.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Scorn?
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The Public Universal James @greatbigjames.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
I was recently pondering the idea of a Cohen bros. type movie about Paul and Peter fucking each other over to try to gain control of the early cult
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David Gerard @davidgerard.circumstances.run.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026
henstomper

oh my god the slot machine company says i have to keep putting coins in their machine or Im Gonna Get Left Behind. thats so scary. and it has to be true because they know more about slot machines than i do

oh my god the slot machine company says if we dont give them money to build the world's biggest slot machine the chinese are gonna build it first and win all the prizes. and then there wont be any prizes anymore
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The Public Universal James @greatbigjames.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Their sibling Octohedronhead got a pretty sweet gig modeling for the Lancer RPG cover art.
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The Public Universal James @greatbigjames.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Lursa and B'Etor, the Duras sisters, from Star Trek
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The Public Universal James @greatbigjames.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Me, when I see something outlandish on the timeline
A cropped view of the book cover in the previous post, showing only the face of a snake making a dubious expression and the author's last name, "Wilde".
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The Public Universal James @greatbigjames.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
"There's literally no value in these sets because anyone can pull the rare bullshit" is an incredible Yogi Bara-ism
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The Public Universal James @greatbigjames.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Is it weird that the only sticking point for me in this was "why would he publish it through Tor instead of Bully Pulpit? Or, like, in collaboration with Rowan Rook & Deckard, maybe"?
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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
This is the most masculine video on the internet right now
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The Public Universal James @greatbigjames.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Was gonna say, PNW Stalker That Also Prominently Features A Car would just be Pacific Drive the Movie (which I would absolutely watch a dozen times)
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Gretchen McCulloch @gretchenmcculloch.com · 08/09/2026
I have received news of a perfectly named cafe located on the waterfront of Nova Scotia's capital, if you know what I mean
"Broken Man cafe" sign on a big plate glass window, through which one can see cafe tables and chairs and backs of people's heads. In the distance, a sign indicates that this is Pier 22 on the Halifax waterfront
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Alex Winter @alexwinter.com · 08/09/2026
RT if you've never had a tab of ChatGPT open, period.
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The Public Universal James @greatbigjames.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Hah, I did the vape smoke machine thing for a cosplay shoot once, though the photos have sadly been lost to time
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Uncle Duke @uncleduke1969.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
they’ll figure it out if they get hungry enough
Supermarket aisle sign with items listed top to bottom: Can Fish, Microwave, Soup.
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The Public Universal James @greatbigjames.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Side note: the namesake of D&D's Tarrasque was a folk monster from France that was a turtle-shelled lion-headed creature described as "longer than a horse" that breathed poison and shot burning sulfur from its eyes; depictions of the beastie look, imho, dorky as heck.
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The Public Universal James @greatbigjames.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Didn't know which episode exactly, but I was sure they were talking about the Intendant and not the Major
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Amy-Leigh Shaw @diveamydive.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
Actually you know what, let me just
A still of the character Chihiro in the film “Spirited Away”. A character called No Face is offering her a pile of false gold that has been edited and overlayed with the logos of Claude, OpenAI and Grok. She is saying, “I don’t want any. I don’t need any.”
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Micah @rincewind.run · 02/09/2026
it's not an exaggeration to say that jk rowling is the world's most powerful and prominent transphobe outside of elon musk it's easy to not buy a tesla and it's easy to not watch the harry potter tv show
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Tyson @lscpunk.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
If Dolly was our constant reminder that it was Good to be Good, Tim Curry was our reminder that it was Good to be Weird. Embrace your strangeness, sing with Muppets, wear your lingerie with a leather jacket, and fuck with uptight people who hate anything that makes them remotely uncomfortable.
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The Public Universal James @greatbigjames.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Got hit by a Dwarf Fortress-style strange mood and drew this
A magenta, teal and yellow illustration depicting Danny DeVito as Frank Reynolds from Always Sunny as a goblin wizard (who still has two mismatched handguns, one in each hand). Large bubble text floating behind/around him reads "so anyways I started blastin', pow pow".
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The Public Universal James @greatbigjames.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
But, crucially, are not *required* to crawl around in vents (if vent crawling is required, it's a metroidvania instead)
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The Public Universal James @greatbigjames.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
But has he ever been the scarecrow?
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The Public Universal James @greatbigjames.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
So you're suggesting it arrived precisely when it intended?
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The Public Universal James @greatbigjames.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
moooooood
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The Public Universal James @greatbigjames.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Not to mention the formula originator, the detective noir classic Who Framed Roger Rabbit
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Stellbound: Stellraiser II @antlervel.vet · 20/07/2026
When you “Like” and “Repost” my great posts here on Bluesky it is like I am a “Deer” and you are giving me a “Deer Biscuit”.
Deer with a round biscuit treat in her mouth
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The Public Universal James @greatbigjames.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
This video *is* the male parent; at the very beginning of the clip the narrator says "it's Dad"
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The Public Universal James @greatbigjames.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
I've definitely done more active music listening since I started making "if this Lancer adventure were a mid-2010s CW/SyFy original series this would be the OST" playlists to set the mood for my players
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The Public Universal James @greatbigjames.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
I do love a Righteous Anger Forrest rant
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The Public Universal James @greatbigjames.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Which is a real shame, because it's such fertile ground for worldbuilding; I wrote and helped produce a musical podcast miniseries a couple years ago, the core concept of which was strongly inspired by my Diaspora character from like a decade before
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Kingfisher & Wombat @tkingfisher.com · 24/06/2026
Get in losers, we’re goin’ whale exploding!
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The Public Universal James @greatbigjames.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Time to blast blubber beyond all believable bounds
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MegueyB 🔜Metatopia @megueyb.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Let's GO! The project is LIVE! #PsiRun2e #ttrpg #PBTA #SuperPowers
kickstarter.com
PsiRun Second Edition
Whoever was holding you captive, you're free, for now. You have superpowers & amnesia. You know they're after you. What could go wrong?
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The Public Universal James @greatbigjames.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Can't go into detail without major spoilers, but see also: Immortality
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Law of Names Media @lawofnames.com · 01/06/2026
**Casting Call** ***Dakota Gold Mysteries, Series 2: Murder at 1.28 Hertz*** **UNPAID** Seeking voice actors of all genders, accents, vocal types, and experience levels. June 1, 2026 - 8am Pacific June 15, 2026 Full info- tinyurl.com/3dkw27fb
The Dakota Gold, Murder at 1.28 Hertz show logo.

A tarnished gold background with an angular pattern, over it in black and white is a picture of a man in a trench coat with the collar up, a fedora, and a gas mask facing to the left, a picture of a man in a WWIIstyle military uniform and helmet and gas mask facing to the right, and between them, a stylized scifi city. They are all connected by clouds and smoke. Printed in the center in white on black is "Murder at 1.28 Hertz, a Dakota Gold Mystery"
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Barry Deutsch @barrydeutsch.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Good News About Work and A.I.! Read more cartoons! --> #PoliCartoon Support our cartoons! --> patreon.com/barry
TRANSCRIPT OF CARTOON

This cartoon has six panels, each of which shows a different scene. The first five panels all feature cheerful robots in office environments.

PANEL 1

A shiny golden robot talks to the viewer.

GOLDIE: Good news! Here are just some of the ways AI saves you time and makes your job better!

PANEL 2

A robot - which seems to be a suit and tie with a smartphone sticking up out of the collar - talks to us. He's carrying a huge stack of papers.

PHONE: Good news! Because your new AI agent is expected to save you so much time, the company is providing you with extra work!

PANEL 3

A tiny robot that looks like a ball with hands is bouncing on a desk.

BOUNCY: Good news! The AI agent makes lots of mistakes, so you get to do proofreading and debugging! Yay!

PANEL 4

A robot with a head shaped like a Telsa Cybertruck talks to us. A bunch of other robots are in the background.

TELSA: Good news! The company has determined you'll get more work done with more AI agents doing more bad work for you to check and correct!

PANEL 5

A coffee machine with a screen with a happy face on it talks to us.

COFFEE: Good news! More of your colleagues are letting AI do their jobs, so now you get to fix that work, too!

PANEL 6

A human with a shellshocked look is walking on a sidewalk, carrying a cardboard box full of desk stuff in classic I've-just-been-fired iconography. A caption is shaped like a memo on paper.

CAPTION: Good news! We've determined that bad work done by A.I. is more cost-effective than better work done by humans.
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The Public Universal James @greatbigjames.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
It's the most Linux experience possible
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Isaac COMMISSIONS OPEN!!! @retromonkeyart.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
Pick it up
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The Public Universal James @greatbigjames.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
And the Pear Wiggler as Itself
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The Public Universal James @greatbigjames.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Fully agreed. Expertise schmexpertise; they made a billion dollars so they must be wicked smaat, put 'em on the rocket.
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The Public Universal James @greatbigjames.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Undiagnosed lactose intolerance might also have something to do with it, at least in the case of Taco Bell
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The Public Universal James @greatbigjames.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
Given how frequently they get infiltrated by genestealer cults, the Imperium would get owned by the Dominion inside of a year
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The Public Universal James @greatbigjames.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
Top panel: a space marine Terminator, captioned "Greetings, Imperial Citizens, what is going on in this thread?"

Bottom panel: a close up on the helmet of the same Terminator, the shape of which gives them a somewhat alarmed expression; the caption reads "By The Emperor"
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Amy Young @achill3a.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
In Breathing Space tradition, I'll post one behind the scenes fun fact per like or reblog on this post! It may be late, but I promise I have neat stuff to share!
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The Public Universal James @greatbigjames.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
Oh, my favorite Bible verse (wrong answers only)? "By Grabthar's hammer, by the suns of Wharvan, you shall be avenged!"
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The Public Universal James @greatbigjames.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
A tall order, one of the only poems I've read that has anti-scansion
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scary angel drags you to heaven @shiningangelx.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
i simply find it a little hard to believe that shortly after every website implemented ai code and fired a bunch of engineers they all started breaking constantly every single day but its not related to the ai code or the skeleton crew
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The Public Universal James @greatbigjames.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
I traded a case of self-sealing stem bolts for an alpitronic hypercharger once
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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
I know it's april fools day but I can't emphasize enough how much I need everybody to not fuck around today
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Rowan Rook and Decard @rowanrookanddecard.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
We're doing our own Children of Time! To enter: tag the person to whom we should send your personal effects
Graphic that says giveaway - we will send you to space with a cartoon rocket. In tiny text at the bottom it says we are also sending 3000 spiders. we will not bring you back.
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