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Robin Gibson

@metalsnail.bsky.social
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Writer, Illustrator, and Mushroom Photography Enthusiast working on the West Coast of Canada. metalsnail.bearblog.dev ko-fi.com/metalsnail metalsnail.itch.io

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Jeremy Kun @jeremykun.com · 29/09/2026
3rd circuit rules AI training on copyrighted material is NOT fair use. Wow! chatgptiseatingtheworld.substack.com/p/breaking-n...
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BREAKING News: Third Circuit affirms summary judgment rejection of fair use defense by ROSS Intelligence in AI training
Opinion under seal for now.
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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 8h
Going to be honest this might be my favourite headline of the AI bubble
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Brian Actors Guild @spocksbrian.worstpossible.world · 30/09/2026
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 21h
Tech industry is laser focused on solving the problem of humans enjoying each other’s company bsky.app/profile/down...
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Lydia! ⭐ @lydiastaremoji.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
"Lydia you sound like you have a religious psychosis against AI" yeah because it's very literally a fucking holy war for the life of our only planet
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Yochai Gal @yochaigal.bsky.social · 19h
I have lots of exciting Kettlewright features coming in the next few weeks, including complete discord integration, shared map (including fog of war + tokens), pointcrawl generation (with map), campaign tools (lore, items, NPCs, notes and so on) and a bunch of UI tweaks!
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Rami Ismail (رامي) @ramiismail.com · 30/09/2026
Mamdani is 100% right here, despite some people reading into this things that are not said here. Antisemitism is a scourge upon the world. Doesn't need any qualification or quantification or caveats or what-abouts. Any antisemitism is too much antisemitism.
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The Emotion Engine @emotion-engine.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I think it’s fun that all of the core id guys are now normal charming dorky dad types (Romero, Hall, Adrian Carmack) or ontologically evil freaks (John Carmack, Sandy) with American McGee, an ardent libertarian that now lives on a boat and makes plushies, somehow straddling the line.
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gamera obscura @ohrobin.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Google earth has updated its satellite images of Gaza. The destruction is almost incomprehensible.
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Robin Gibson @metalsnail.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
30 Old OSR Blog Posts You Should Read: metalsnail.bearblog.dev/30-old-osr-b...
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30 Old OSR Blog Posts You Should Read
My next Fat Bear Week thing is taking a minute so I'll put up a backburner post instead. Some of these are too obvious. There's probably some glaring om...
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Robin Gibson @metalsnail.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The Snack Witches: metalsnail.bearblog.dev/what-are-the...
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What are the Snack Witches Selling at the Fall Fair?
Taking a break from Fat Bear Week posting because I was inspired by a grocery store flyer ... Sage Butter Corn, 13sp. Cooked in husk over embers, ...
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Zhu Industries @zhuindustries.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Blarks! random chart for determining the effectiveness of the Haemogoblin defensive Kön-kah shield.
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Robin Gibson @metalsnail.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Recently, things I've said have come to light and I wanted to take a moment to apologize. I don't expect to be forgiven. I was in a dark place when I said what I said. I know better now, I should have known better then.
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Tim Gaedke @timgaedke.com · 26/09/2026
talent is a lie
a cartoon picture of a frog throwing a crooked looking clay vase with the words “talent is a lie, just do it anyway”
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Robin Gibson @metalsnail.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Big Bear Cave: metalsnail.bearblog.dev/big-bear-cave/
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Big Bear Cave
I said I'd do the cave next, so here's the cave. Again it needs a map, maybe I do the map tomorrow? ... Encounters 1-3. 2d6 Bugbear Posers (HD 3, ...
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Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Put it in the @apstylebook.com [not that they'd ever listen to me. but it's a good idea.]
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Zhu Industries @zhuindustries.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
A serious upgrade for the classic Outdoor Survivalist.
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Circ @tinyicecat.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
This news is important because all the fucks out there actively attempting to wreck the world want you to think that the work is hopeless and just mitigating the worst case scenario. It's not. Fucking keep going.
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Lord Diana 🇺🇦 @lordsovorn.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Theogony #pixelart #украрт
A candle on a windowsill of an open window to an evening scene, along a framed image beside it. A lightning emerges from the candle instead of smoke - on the top of the picture, an upside down desert is depicted, lit by sunset and a burning stylized tree, and the lightning merges into that fire. Dense smoke from the fire "rises" to the bottom of the drawing, merging into the starry sky above the roofs and tree gardens.
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wrən @dirtsecret.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
andddd some organic and abstraction doodles. i love shape relationships
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✪ Gray Skies Ahead ✪ @jongraywb.blacksky.app · 26/09/2026
They are bound and determined to be non-consensual perverts by any means necessary
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ktrey @ktrey.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Great Minds! I whipped up this Encounter Table the other day just as a "proof of concept" and a bit of a joke:
d12 Encounter Table for the Ursine Woods with 8 day entries, and 4 night entries. Every encounter features Bears.
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Julie S. Lalonde @julieslalonde.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The literacy crisis is not just referring to people's ability to literally read and write. It's also people's inability to read for context. I've been a public educator for over 20 years and I have never, ever seen it this bad.
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Robin Gibson @metalsnail.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Big Bear Mountain: metalsnail.bearblog.dev/big-bear-mou...
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Big Bear Mountain
It's still Fat Bear Week! Backpack is doing pretty good with 123,416 votes today (A number that almost looks made up). Around these parts you get a whol...
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Tío Diego 🗯‼️ @monodi.latinsky.app · 04/05/2026
Gonna start a thread of weird YouTube thumbnails too I guess.
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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 25/09/2026
Check out the full list: www.theguardian.com/books/2026/s...
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Feeling overwhelmed by the AI doom loop? Here’s the essential reading list to make sense of it all
It’s a chaotic time in an industry that’s reshaping our lives – Guardian reporters and experts recommend the books that help explain how we got here, and where we’re headed
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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 25/09/2026
An individual in Canada used ChatGPT for eight months to plan one of the country’s worst mass shootings. Yet, if you listen to politicians and media, the real threat of AI is a fantastical scenario where it might wipe out humans in ten years. They need to stop getting fooled by tech deceivers.
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The media has the AI threat all wrong
Generative AI is harming people today. We don’t need to waste time fantasizing about science fictional scenarios.
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Lydia! ⭐ @lydiastaremoji.bsky.social · 25/05/2024
drank a coke and a pepsi within an hour of each other now i have to roll on the potion miscibility chart
the Potion Miscibility Table from Advanced Dungeons & Dragons, too large for alt text, but representing a range of d100 dice scores and the effects of mixing potions assigned to each range of scores
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Tyler, from the Internet @tylerfromtheinternet.com · 23/09/2026
vibes
a sign that says THIS IS A (burned triangle) AREA. Who knows what it used to say. it's been burned with acid and fire or maybe magic
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Munkao @munkao.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Killer Kites Possessed by wayward wind spirits, these untethered kites hide in clouds, preying on birds and lone travellers.
Southeast Asian Fantasy: A girl running away from a Wau-type of kite, but morphed into looking pretty demonic, with evil eyes and fangs.
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Scribble M. Horror @scribblemhorror.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
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Dungeon Maps That Ask Questions « Scribbles and Horrors
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🌬Breeze @cool-summer-breeze.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
This is the Stolen Neighbors Quilt. Each of the 11,000 squares represents a person taken by ICE in Minnesota.
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Robin Gibson @metalsnail.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Bear Monsters: metalsnail.bearblog.dev/bear-monsters/
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Bear Monsters
Fat Bear Week continues! Everyone loves an owlbear (hoot-roar etc.), but I think there is plenty of space yet to explore in the bear-flavoured monster ...
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Jerry Chen @jcsalterego.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
(guy inventing mayonnaise) yoooo i'm bored let's whisk some things
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Busiaco @busia.co · 04/06/2025
No weapon formed against me shall prosper. Oh wow, that's a big weapon.
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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 23/09/2026
I wrote about how Trump is treating presidential power like it's his own possession and using it to punish blue states — but also about how at least he's promised lots of cash for all of us. www.ctinsider.com/columnist/ar...
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Sarah Andersen @sarahseeandersen.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
The image is of a four panel comic.
In the first panel we see Sarah, the protagonist, next to a stick figure labeled “AI”. The stick figure says, “my outputs look just like yours now.”
The second panel zooms in on Sarah’s face. Above her we see text reading “I think”.
The third panel zooms in closer on Sarah’s face. Text above her reads “you missed”.
The fourth panel shows Sarah drawing happily in a sunlit room. The text above her reads “the point”.
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MIT Technology Review @technologyreview.com · 22/09/2026
Timnit Gebru and Emily Bender say the latest AI breakthroughs and hacking scares aren’t what they seem.
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Don’t be fooled by this summer of AI hype
Breathless claims about AGI and new capabilities fall apart pretty quickly under scrutiny.
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The Fake History Hunter @fakehistoryhunter.net · 22/09/2026
Love this little drawing Michelangelo did on a poem full of complaints about how much he hated painting the Sistine chapel and how it made him hurt all over.
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Haus of Decline @hausofdecline.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Carney is truly the Reagan of Canada. A calming, paternalistic figure in a period of apocalyptic uncertainty who galvanizes the economy with short-sighted right wing fiscal policies. And like Reagan, every disaster that Canada encounters in the future will be traceable to his administration.
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𝔾𝕆ℝ𝔸ℕ @gorangligovic.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Get Bruce Dickinson to sing it over a galloping guitar
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Robin Gibson @metalsnail.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Bear Hirelings: metalsnail.bearblog.dev/bear-hirelin... #osr #odnd #fatbearweek
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Bear Hirelings
Fat Bear Week! Fat Bear Week! FAT BEAR WEEK! FAT BEAR WEEK!!! ... Bear HD 4, AC as Chainmail, Attack as Claw ×2. If both claws hit the same targe...
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REwadent Evil @ewacat.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
i still remember my mum just looking at me flatly and saying "well, they didn't go to church" as if that answers THAT but instead it got me following her around going "so why does church cause ghosts"
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Robin Gibson @metalsnail.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Dear bear scientists: maybe chill about Marshmallow having kids this year. She's only three. Did you ever consider that she might be focusing on her career? #girlboss #fatbearweek
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Charlemagne Grove @charlemagnegrove.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
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Robin Gibson @metalsnail.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
*He's just like me for real*
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Robin Gibson @metalsnail.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Lord Problems metalsnail.bearblog.dev/lord-problems/
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Lord Problems
After a Lord compels you to a joust, he may offer you hospitality and send you on a quest. If the quest is accepted, he will supply your whole party with hor...
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THE CODEX NOIRMATIC @thecodexnoirmatic.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Aumnvoemnrvamn Urszul, Golvorg Arch Carnopriest 2023
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5uki5en5or @5uki5en5or.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
This aired just the once in 1998 on the live SNL show for which McKay wrote it. It was effectively banned as it never aired again. I wonder why. MEDIA-OPOLY
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