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Nathan Alderson @nathanalderson.com · 05/03/2026

@rpgbot.bsky.social Just noticed this on D&D Beyond. I feel like they're finally just embracing reality.

Nathan Alderson @nathanalderson.com · 28/12/2025

@dcbradshaw.com just got Little But Fierce for Christmas. My little ones and I have just been winging some adventures with no real system. This'll be a great intro to a rules system. Thanks for creating this! Any chance there's a printer-friendly PDF available (without backgrounds)?

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Nathan Alderson @nathanalderson.com · 08/08/2025

Apparently the presence of em dashes—like these—is a common sign of AI-generated text. Guess I'll be gettin' flagged then cuz I love my em dashes—probably more than I should—and the "compose" key on Linux makes them really easy to type. Ellipsis, too…

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Zach W. Lambert @zachwlambert.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

The Empire killed Jesus. God raised him anyway. Easter is God's protest against violence, injustice, and death. A holy uprising of love, liberation, and life. You can't legislate resurrection away. You can't crucify hope forever. Christ is risen.

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Nathan Alderson @nathanalderson.com · 14/04/2025

In Sim City 2000, when you raised/lowered taxes, it would play a "Yay!" or "Boo!" sound. If I wanted to raise taxes, I would always click the up arrow one extra time (Boo!) so I could end by clicking the down arrow (Yay!). I never imagined that would one day be actual U.S. foreign trade policy.

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James Medlock @jdcmedlock.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

I hope America is as lucky as the delta jet - everyone survives but the right wing explodes

Video obtained by CNN shows the rear landing gear of the jet buckling and the right wing shearing away in a fireball after the plane landed hard on the runway.

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Nathan Alderson @nathanalderson.com · 18/02/2025

At least the people in Ready Player One had sick VR. Our world is burning down but instead of fulfilling our fantasies in immersive virtual escapism, we get immobile, low-poly marionettes in a chair circle. That and our Oasis is just being built by the evil corporate overlord from the outset.

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Nathan Alderson @nathanalderson.com · 17/01/2025

Our company's public-safety comms app has been removed from from the Google Play store because of a spurious trademark claim. I've got basically no reach, but if yall want to like/share/whatever to try and raise visibility, I'd appreciate it. x.com/TreyToTheSha...

My company's app, Tango Tango, provides mission critical communication to 600+ public safety agencies and was suddenly pulled off the Google Play Store yesterday due to a trademark claim by TangoMe (an adult-oriented video streaming service). We strongly disagree with this claim but Google's process has been "guilty until proven innocent".

We appealed to Google which was denied overnight. Our counsel has attempted outreach to TangoMe's lawyers and I've attempted to contact their CEO directly. Those attempts have met no response. We've had no outreach from TangoMe, before or after, besides this Play Store complaint to Google.

We have operated under the Tango Tango name for 9 years. We have public safety agencies tell us every week how our app helped lead to better outcomes and saved lives. In 2022, our app was used in helping to stop a school shooting in Texas before the first shot was fired. One of our customers is Los Angeles Fire who is currently fighting a wildfire. There is a holiday weekend and Presidential Inauguration upcoming.

How can this suddenly be an emergency to pull down a first responder app *right now* that is used in life safety matters everyday?

We are reasonable people and happy to have a conversation but this is not the right way to do that. Our app should remain available on the Play Store and we are happy to have whatever conversations there are to be had with TangoMe in an orderly fashion.

If you've made it this far, and want to help us and the first responders that we serve - please consider liking, commenting, and/or sharing this for visibility. If you really want to go next level - it would also be appreciated if you message both the @GooglePlay and @TangoMe to ask them to reverse their decisions ASAP.

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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

Occurs to me that there’s a similarity between these politics grifters & fundamentalist apologetics: Their job isn’t REALLY to make an argument that holds up to reflection or scrutiny. It’s to deliver a performance of “erudite person who agrees with me” so you have permission not to think too hard.

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Joanna Stern @joannastern.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

Gather round kids and let me tell you a story about a real technology ban...

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Nathan Alderson @nathanalderson.com · 26/12/2024

I wish more things with color fading features had a so-slow-it's-imperceptible mode. Like, I want to look over at the squishy uwu-cat table light after an hour and think "oh that's a nice new color." I don't want a disco show.

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Nathan Alderson @nathanalderson.com · 12/12/2024

This ladybug was like "Brother! You've evolved!"

A ladybug next to a small toy figurine of Toad from Mario who has their normal spotted hat on which kinda looks like a ladybug.

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Nathan Alderson @nathanalderson.com · 12/12/2024

In case anyone else needs to know... Nickel Creek has a secret Christmas track. It's a pretty nice cover of "I'll Be Home For Christmas" from, of all things, a 2001 direct-to-video movie sequel called Prancer Returns. tidal.com/browse/track...

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Nickel Creek - I'll Be Home For Christmas

Listen to I'll Be Home For Christmas on your streaming service

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Mindy Weisberger @laminda.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

Maybe music alone can't fix broken things, but also maybe it can. I feel a little less broken after listening to Jon Batiste's absolutely mindblowing cover of Für Elise, and I hope you will, too

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Jon Batiste - Für Elise - Batiste (Official Music Video)

YouTube video by JonBatisteVEVO

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Nathan Alderson @nathanalderson.com · 21/11/2024

Not affiliated, just a fan, but brain.fm is having a 50% off sale through black friday I believe. $35/yr was a good enough deal for me to finally pull the trigger. Pretty great for creative work. www.brain.fm/blackFridayD...

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Black Friday 2024

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Nathan Alderson @nathanalderson.com · 04/11/2024

Pretty serious about: * Software development * Fundamentalist/evangelical Christian theology and it's deconstruction * Connected parenting I play at: * D&D * Gymnastics * Piano * Drawing

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Nathan Alderson @nathanalderson.com · 15/10/2024

I played this game so much. The music is also great.

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Nathan Alderson @nathanalderson.com · 17/09/2024

Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #161,547! I like it here.

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Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 06/09/2024

“I don’t like that (school shootings) is a fact of life,” “We don’t have to like the reality that we live in. But it is the reality that we live in. We’ve got to deal with it.” — JD Vance, a U.S. Senator with the power to make sure school shootings aren’t a “fact of life.”

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Nathan Alderson @nathanalderson.com · 21/06/2024

What's the best way to find a TTRPG group? I really want to find a group, but it needs to be a good fit. I don't even really care what game we're playing. Has anyone had any luck with rpgtablefinder.com? Is there a discord server? How does this happen?

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Rachel Lense is Professionally Curious @rachellense.bsky.social · 14/06/2024

I made this Pride flag using only NASA images and our team thought it would be cool to share on social (I work on the NASA heliophysics communications team), but it's getting all sorts of hate on the bird app and Fbook. Thought y'all might be more appreciative of it here. ☺️🏳️‍🌈💖

A pride flag with every color band represented by a NASA image. White is Earth clouds, pink is aurora, blue is the Sun in a specific wavelength, brown is Jupiter clouds, black is the Hubble deep field, red is the top of sprites, orange is a Mars crater, yellow is the surface of Io, green is a lake with algae, blue is Neptune, and purple is the Crab Nebula in a specific wavelength.

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Nathan Alderson @nathanalderson.com · 11/05/2024

bluesky more like pinksky today amiright

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Nathan Alderson @nathanalderson.com · 11/04/2024

Molly is being forced to relocate because of this and is looking for financial assistance. Let's help send her off well. gofund.me/5ec01063

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DJ Boozy Brunch @griph.bsky.social · 21/03/2024

The Three Buddy Problem

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Nathan Alderson @nathanalderson.com · 11/03/2024

@almirgusic.bsky.social I love all your little people in great big places.

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Rick CarBOOso’s Private Fire Crew @amandasmith.bsky.social · 08/02/2024

As someone raised in the fires of early 00s forums, seeing furry art in feeds where I least expect it is like seeing wolves thriving in Yellowstone again. A healthy furry population is the sign of effective rewilding efforts.

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Encephalophatass (Any pronouns) @encephalophatass.bsky.social · 05/02/2024

I'm worried about Gen Alpha.

A screenshot of a Tumblr post by user yokowan:

I taught programming to middle school kids last summer and I don't think you understand how bad it's getting.

a lot of these kids don't know what a "folder" is. some of them don't even know how to right click. I asked my class to put a folder on their desktop and half of the students did not know how. these are like, 11-13 year olds who's parents thought they were tech literate enough to sign them up for a programming class. most of them did not know how to add a bookmark on their browser. most of them could not touch type.

basic computer literacy is evaporating because everyone does everything on their phone now, but schools are getting rid of any computer classes because "all the kids are using computers all the time anyways!"

I hope they'll learn more as they get older but many of them wont. the divide between "basic user" and "advanced user" is quickly shifting towards knowing the most simple functions of a computer, and the more

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Nathan Alderson @nathanalderson.com · 14/12/2023

One of my favorite games is Guess Who, but you're not allowed to use physical characteristics. "Has your person ever committed tax fraud?" "Do they talk more loudly than others?" "Do they have a preferred flavor of Mountain Dew?" It's a co-op game. You win if you're both successful.

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Anne Kosseff-Jones @annekosseffjones.bsky.social · 05/12/2023

Current copyeditor here to confirm that vibes are, in fact, the best way to approach comma usage! (Unless you’re a potential client, in which case it is a complex science😅!)

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Jaime Crespo @jynus.com · 23/10/2023

Hi, I'm Jaime and I've been working for 8 years for the Wikimedia Foundation. The following are personal views and do not represent in any way the position of the Foundation (I don't and cannot speak on behalf of it). However, you may have seen this question by Mr. Musk and I wanted to respond A 🧵:

Elon Musk answers to the Foundation Drive "Wikipedia is not for sale" asking "Have you ever wondered why the Wikimedia Foundation wants so much money? [...] So, what's the money for?"

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Nathan Alderson @nathanalderson.com · 15/10/2023

How come I can swipe a little piece of plastic or wave my phone over a little box and magically pay for things and then the credit card statement says something like 99PARENT*CMPYCC1 000NY?

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Nathan Alderson @nathanalderson.com · 14/10/2023

My heart breaks for these refugees, hostages, and all those whose lives and families will be broken by war. May these enemies find mercy for one other and may our shared humanity always trump violence and tribalism.

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Johanna T 👻 📚 @johannamation.bsky.social · 10/10/2023

Here’s a proper #PortfolioDay post! I’m Johanna, a fantasy illustrator for TTRPGs, games, books, & comics! My debut YA graphic novel THE GHOSTKEEPER comes out next year 👻 I’m available for: ⚔️ Spot/splash illustrations 🕺 Char designs 📕 Covers 🎮 IP work 🎨 Comic colors & interiors 📚 Anthology art

An illustration of six magic school teenagers in a dungeon escaping from a man eating plant.

A water genasi bard piratess singing to a Kraken and sea monsters amidst a shipwreck.

A comic page montage of two Victorian men baking and eating scones with the ghost of an old woman sitting in the empty chair next to them

A crossover illustration of the kids from over the garden wall meeting shmendrik, Amalthea and Molly from the last unicorn.

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Nathan Alderson @nathanalderson.com · 07/10/2023

If kitties are the cute baby version of cats, then zombies imply the existence of what? Zambs? Zumbs?

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Nathan Alderson @nathanalderson.com · 02/10/2023

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Johanna T 👻 📚 @johannamation.bsky.social · 14/09/2023

Hi comics fam! I’m Johanna, I am a writer, artist and colorist and my debut YA graphic novel, THE GHOSTKEEPER comes out in 2024 🎨 ✨ johannamation.com ✨ (1st panel: colors only— inks by Sonia Liao)

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Nathan Alderson @nathanalderson.com · 15/09/2023

Does anyone else's brain incessantly try to decode regular old (non-personalized) license plates as 1337-speak and then invariably segfault because it doesn't spell anything?

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Nathan Alderson @nathanalderson.com · 15/09/2023

Wizards of the Coast used Unity for a bunch of stuff. That feels poetic right now.

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Nathan Alderson @nathanalderson.com · 13/09/2023

There is no dignified way to scooch forward in a rolly chair.

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Hurmly (he/him) 🧙‍♀️Character art comms open!🤟 @hurmly.bsky.social · 22/08/2023

Ok, nerdy people - It's a GREAT time to get some inexpensive character art for your DnD or TTRPG character THE PUMPKIN SPICE SKETCH SALE. $30 a piece! And every one earns a raffle entry AND if I get 30 reskeets, I'll give away a free sketch to the reskeeters AND one more ever 10 after!

$30 sketch sale promo poster with examples

contact: hurmly.art@gmail.com

RAffle poster! Every commission between aug 1 and sept 30 wins a chance at a free full body, full color piece!

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Nathan Alderson @nathanalderson.com · 31/08/2023

Does every SaaS company have a support person in charge of explaining internet connectivity to people?

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Nathan Alderson @nathanalderson.com · 17/08/2023

Is there a conference for conference swag makers?

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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 02/08/2023

THE SNEECH STORYLINE 💀

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Nathan Alderson @nathanalderson.com · 15/07/2023

If I were a competitive athlete and my coach told me the one thing I needed to do to take my career to the next level is get in this ice bath I would be like welp I guess it's athletic obscurity for me.

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Nathan Alderson @nathanalderson.com · 14/07/2023

I desperately miss having a robust type system when working with Elixir. Very curious--and more than a little skeptical--about how successful retrofitting a type system will be. elixir-lang.org/blog/2023/06/22/typ…

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