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Jim Musil Painter @jimmusilpainter.bsky.social · 3h

My painting PACIFIC COAST

Obi-Tom Kenobi @popeoldham.bsky.social · 3h

The FFG Star Wars game has this with Dark and Light side points, and weirdly I never had to encourage my players to use them (and in that, if they DO use them it flips to a dark side point for the GM). I just made sure I was using mine frequently, too, and not just during big story moments.

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Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 14h

“If you don’t like public executions just don’t watch it” says the crowd trying to ban drag shows and books

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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 08/10/2026

Not sure why anyone bothers with anti-AI activism when the most effective strategy would be to just point as many microphones as possible to its most vocal champions.

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Jesse Hawken @jessehawken.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Tomorrow’s estranged parents today

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Nick Harkaway @nickharkaway.com · 08/10/2026

And, like, I don’t know if you’ve noticed, but the word “existential” has stopped meaning sexy French people smoking in dark corners and turned into a harrowing discussion about whether our children inherit a civilisation or a famine with great conference centres.

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Nick Harkaway @nickharkaway.com · 08/10/2026

I swear: on present showing, if an actual asteroid is detected on course to wipe out the UK in fifteen years, our governing apparat will spend the entire time blathering on about immigration, then proudly unveil a largely nominal affordable housing scheme at the projected impact site.

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Obi-Tom Kenobi @popeoldham.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Tax them for everything they have on the way out (other countries have a leaving tax)

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The Onion @theonion.com · 07/10/2026

Breaking: The Darkness Returns theonion.com/breaking-the-darkness-…

Breaking: The Darkness Returns
Thick Black Haze Extends Tendrils Across Nation, Draws All Into Tightening Grasp

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Obi-Tom Kenobi @popeoldham.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Sure but if people don't know what they do and don't need then they are probably going to look at what's out there and assume it's needed. It's not about resisting pressure, it's about how forward facing unnecessary elements are because "pad and pen" doesn't make green line go up.

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Obi-Tom Kenobi @popeoldham.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I think there is a lot of artificial pressure put on GM's from televised roleplaying(which is how a lot of new people come in to the game) and seeing what they all have, and how it's all then advertised, it's easy to understand how newbies can be put off by it all.

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Obi-Tom Kenobi @popeoldham.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I have a deep dislike of belly buttons (especially outies), so this has caused me great distress

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Kaye Elling @k000.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Jon and his team nail the absolute crux of the matter again.

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Rob Delaney @robdelaney.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

This isn’t AI. My cousin Braycen was torn apart by Havana syndrome which is why he’s in his coffin in “chunks”. The ugly “boy” in the (real) photo isn’t his son; it’s a full grown small intruder man who ran off with the head & ate it behind the funeral home. RT to salute 🫡 🇺🇸

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Jaunty Art @jaunty.art · 06/10/2026

Typical. One person dies and it ruins plague factories for everyone.

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Obi-Tom Kenobi @popeoldham.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

They say history repeats itself, but I would have liked a couple of decades between pandemics

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Gabe @cwgabriel.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Same energy;

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Obi-Tom Kenobi @popeoldham.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

This thing should be an Esoterrorists/Delta Green investigation

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laura - yscmab out now on steam!! @freezydorito.lol · 03/10/2026

movie about a time traveler going back to 1999 to convince everybody working in y2k prevention to just let the computers die

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Peter O’Hanraha-hanrahan @peterohanrahah.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I've added the Brexit departure to a BBC chart of boat crossings. They're reporting more racist thug unrest, although they call it a "protest". Considering Pharage was the loudest cheerleader for Brexit, the levels of boat crossing are on him more than anyone.

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Obi-Tom Kenobi @popeoldham.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

They grey in mine caused my 8yr old daughters friend to ask if I was her grandad. Absolutely savaged.

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Obi-Tom Kenobi @popeoldham.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I've had a beard for so long I can't even remember what my face looks like without it

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Dewie @judgedewie.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

OMG I had to check my work emails regarding an extra case in court tomorrow and I've just read this from an HR person. "on a knee to nose basis" A KNEE TO NOSE BASIS 😳

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Obi-Tom Kenobi @popeoldham.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Band D where I live is over £2600, and although there are affluent areas, it's definitely not an affluent city

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Dan Thomas @itsdanthomas.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The most disappointing video you’ll see today.

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Obi-Tom Kenobi @popeoldham.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

If I was a billionaire, I'd just live happily in a secluded mansion, building weird statues and buildings around the grounds for no reason. Rumours would spread about me being an occultist, and when I die, my library will be raided for forgotten knowledge and it will just be pristine TTRPG books

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MJ Spooky 🕷 | BASTARD FOREVER 🖤 @wrassletrash.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I say the word "lovely" entirely too much i am becoming a Wendy from Dronfieeeeeld 💀

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Sooz Kempner @soozuk.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I don't think Wes Streeting et al would give a standing ovation to anyone they thought would actually enact a socialist overhaul of the UK. I have evidence called: everything that's happened for the past decade.

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The Meggles Art @megglesart.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Bob Ross would be disappointed in your AI Generated Slop.

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Obi-Tom Kenobi @popeoldham.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I keep getting adverts for ELVTR's Professional Dungeon Masters course. 6 weeks, 14 "classes", no price on the site so I am guessing it's not cheap. Televised GMing really has enabled the grift in this hobby.

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Emily✨ @emilyoram.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Liquid Bluesky

National Trust• @nationaltrust.org.uk
Nobody has ever regretted a scone after a long walk.

Except someone with ceoliac disease

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Obi-Tom Kenobi @popeoldham.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Imagine saying this whilst stood behind a sign that says "Hope Again".

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Obi-Tom Kenobi @popeoldham.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Or people who would say "I just want a coffee" as though choice was an affront to their Britishness.

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Obi-Tom Kenobi @popeoldham.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I worked in a coffee shop for 6yrs, and I can tell you that "pretentious" coffee orders were very rare. It's more annoying when someone has been stood in a queue for 5mins, gets to the till, and hasn't decided what they want

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 26/09/2026

Whatever you do, don't smoke an entire brisket at a job interview, it's a lot of equipment to bring in, it takes a really long time to do it right and those conference rooms have notoriously poor ventilation

Someone smoking a brisket and poking it with a meat thermometer to see what the internal temperature is

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Obi-Tom Kenobi @popeoldham.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

When I was in Florida, I saw a woman who had a tattoo of a care bear who's stomach icon was a knuckle duster and I was equal parts impressed and upset.

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Rob Delaney @robdelaney.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Claude how do I “wipe my ass?”

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Obi-Tom Kenobi @popeoldham.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

The first time I moved in to a quieter area, the first time I noticed it was with the rain. No cars or trucks running over wet roads, just the sound of it hitting grass and trees. Bliss.

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Matt Ford @mford.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Ezra Klein asked Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang about AI making kids worse at math and reading. Huang’s reply: “Does it matter?” Then he said he doesn’t know his own address or phone number. “We’re going to lose some fine intellectual dexterity.” www.nytimes.com/2026/09/23/o...

So the message of this research out of China, where you were seeing a lot of kids using A.I. to help them, was that when they were using the A.I., they were getting things done faster. But it turned out that the skills they were learning were not holding, that their actual personal performance, at least in the way we traditionally measure it, was degrading.

What do you think when you hear that?

The last part — I completely agree. Try to get a kid to do long division right now. The multiplication table is starting to be forgotten. Doing square roots, my goodness. Basic math is being forgotten. Does it matter?

That’s my question for you.

Yeah. I don’t think it does. I don’t think it does.

But there must be some set of skills that matter.

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. But maybe not those. We’re going to discover new ones. Just maybe not those.

There are a lot of skills that don’t matter. My first confession, I actually don’t know my address.

And I ——

I don’t really believe that to be true.

It’s completely true. Janine will tell you and Lori will tell you.

One day I had to pump gas — it was a few years ago. They needed my ZIP code, and I panicked. I didn’t know my ZIP code. I don’t know my telephone number. I forget these things. I can live with it.

But let me take the other side because I don’t want to fall into a thing where, because some skills can be safely offloaded ——

Yeah.

I also can’t get anywhere without a mapping system now. Never could, frankly. But I’m a big reader. And one of the skills I really value, one of the capacities I have that I really value is an attention span formed on physical books.

You’re a big reader. I’ve read about the kind of reading you do. And there is, prior to A.I., a lot of concern and noticing among college professors and others that the way people use the internet has probably shortened attention spans.
Some skills can be safely given away. Others are valuable. They are capacities that are needed for that flexibility, for that creative thinking, for that focus. It can’t be the case that everything can be traded off.

Some skills can be safely given away. Others are valuable. They are capacities that are needed for that flexibility, for that creative thinking, for that focus. It can’t be the case that everything can be traded off.

Yeah. Well, I think that we’re going to lose some finer intellectual dexterity, but we’re going to be better systems thinkers.

Today’s engineers are far better systems thinkers than I was when I graduated from school. But I was a much better transistor thinker.

What do you mean by systems thinker?

They think of large systems. Today’s computers have trillions, hundreds of trillions of transistors in them. When I first graduated from school, the first chip I worked on had 200 transistors. I knew every one of them by name. No engineer does that today. Most engineers now work well above the transistor, well above the functionality, and they’re cobbling things together to do things.

So you need to think much more about systems and interactions of systems. So some of the lower-level knowledge is gone.

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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 23/09/2026

A caution! A fucking caution! Take yourself out tonight, grab a stranger and beat them with a metal stick in front of the police. Get a relative to report back tomorrow what happened after that...

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The D20 Future Show @d20futureshow.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Solid letter though.

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Obi-Tom Kenobi @popeoldham.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I thought it was one of those "we're gonna make YT unusable because you're adblocking and not paying" things but it's happening on Facebook and Instagram as well

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