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Nathan Alderson @nathanalderson.com · 14/03/2026

This place in South Huntsville gives me fits every time I drive past.

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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.

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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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Nathan Alderson @nathanalderson.com · 01/06/2025

Add about 5% glycerine for ultimate giant bubbles!

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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 · 12/02/2025

Personally recommend Firefox+DuckDuckGo. Firefox's Enhanced Tracking Protection is very robust and in rare cases where it causes issues it can be easily turned off for a domain from the address bar. support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/enh...

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Enhanced Tracking Protection in Firefox for desktop | Firefox Help

Enhanced Tracking Protection in Firefox automatically protects your privacy while you browse.

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Nathan Alderson @nathanalderson.com · 05/02/2025

Been trying to introduce my little ones (4 and 6) to some video games recently and the amount of ceremony needed to start playing a game for the first time these days is so painful.

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Nathan Alderson @nathanalderson.com · 25/01/2025

Swiping. Android. Had the original Swype app and wish I could still use it.

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Nathan Alderson @nathanalderson.com · 25/01/2025

Incredible. Is this visible light? Are the colors "real"?

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Nathan Alderson @nathanalderson.com · 18/01/2025

If a public safety org you know would like to use their smart phones to extend their radio network or if you'd like to set up a reliable push-to-talk system at your church or business so you can use your phone like a walkie talkie, reach out! We've got a phenomenal team. tangotango.net

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The best PTT app for Public Safety – Tango Tango

Get the best PTT app for public safety & connect your agency's dispatch channel to phones & other devices. Secure, encrypted, made in the USA.

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Nathan Alderson @nathanalderson.com · 18/01/2025

Update: we're back on the Play Store! Unclear at this point which of the numerous strings pulled, favors asked, and legal threats sent actually did the trick, but I'm very grateful for all of the effort on every front, including everyone who boosted this here. Thanks!

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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 · 04/01/2025

Do it. You can also change the difficulty at any time. I mostly play on medium or whatever they call it but frequently drop to easy to replay a battle that went badly.

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Nathan Alderson @nathanalderson.com · 04/01/2025

This showed up in my dungeons & dragons feed lol

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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 · 02/12/2024

Ooo thanks for reminding me that Piranesi has been on my reading list for a while. I would never have remembered that name 😅.

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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

I've tried organizing my own groups more than once, but no one in my circle is really into it so it always sort of fizzles and I end up frustrated. I'd like to try a group where everyone there sought it out. Official game discords are probably a good suggestion. Might try that.

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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 · 13/05/2024

I like this a lot! One of my PCs is a satyr (they/them) who also experiences emotions other than unbridled joy. Great pic!

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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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Nathan Alderson @nathanalderson.com · 24/03/2024

This is so cool! I love the usage of half-tone dots and raking and the lighting draws your focus perfectly.

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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 · 20/03/2024

Hang in there! I appreciate you and your art.

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Nathan Alderson @nathanalderson.com · 13/03/2024

Story here: www.al.com/news/2024/03...

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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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Nathan Alderson @nathanalderson.com · 10/03/2024

Right. They work like a jet ski.

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Nathan Alderson @nathanalderson.com · 10/02/2024

This is really cool! Following! 🤜

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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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