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Rob

@radicalhistory.bsky.social
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History-knower. Shitposter. Gamer-American. Co-host of Dungeon Master of None. History writing and videos at radicalhistory.substack.com

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United Wizards of the Coast - CWA @uwotc-official.bsky.social · 23h
This morning, the D&D team and Magic's Studio X informed our leadership of our intent to unionize. We love the games we make and the work we do, and unionizing is how we protect that work. unitedwizardsofthecoast.com/news/dnd-stu...
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Dungeons & Dragons and Studio X Join United Wizards of the Coast - CWA
Today, October 6, 2026, the designers, artists, writers, producers, and workers behind Dungeons & Dragons, Magic: The Gathering, Duel Masters, D&D Beyond, and countless other games are uniting in soli...
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Mitch Green @councilorgreen.bsky.social · 11h
I think it’s unconscionable that we are willing to move heaven and earth to find money for stadiums, but seemingly incapable of doing the same to prevent the closure of schools. My constituents are outraged. They are right to be. There’s still time to fix this, but we’re going to need to lock in.
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Rob @radicalhistory.bsky.social · 23h
GoT is the correct answer but BSG walked so the dragon show could run. I made my wife watch Game of Thrones but I can't stomach the thought of watching even a single episode of Battlestar
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pnwpolicyangel aka Angelita 👼 @pnwpolicyangel.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
The proposals that materially help small businesses while holding mega corporations accountable are from the democratic socialists. Please look past the Red Scare propaganda to assess who is doing material work for the community. Someone schmoozing you is not the same as someone serving you.
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Heat (1995) @heatfilm1995.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Because she got a GREAT ASS!
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Bookshop.org @bookshop.org · 06/10/2026
Anti-Prime Day starts…NOW! 🥳 Today through midnight on 10/7, enjoy free shipping site-wide, all while supporting local, independent bookstores.
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Rob @radicalhistory.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Cruel Angel's Frontier Thesis
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Rob @radicalhistory.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Does "ideological bias" just mean "having an ideology"?
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hikikomorphism @hikikomorphism.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
(confused) I believe LLMs are conscious, but only Deepseek LLMs, because of the Chinese Room theory
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Rob @radicalhistory.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I already tried this, bricklayers aren't hiring
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Rob @radicalhistory.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I am pretty open-minded about this but these people still can't explain to me what this technology is supposed to do for me or how it will positively impact my life in any way, much less offset the obvious and massive negative ways it has
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pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Sad news everyone. Our beloved friend the computer has now become a hated enemy
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ladies and gentlemen, the weekend 😌 @craigweekends.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
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Anni K. Comics @annikcomics.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
There is a high possibility that I will draw more Control Resonant fanart later so I'mma make a thread for it here. Starting with some silly doodles. #ControlResonant #ControlResonantFanart #annikART
Little doodle of Dylan Faden with his aberrant, looking sad.
There's text around him: I'm fucked up but I'm trying my best
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Dustin A. Chacón @lingdustin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I've heard people make claims that AI would lead to a new Renaissance, but I didn't imagine it'd happen like this:
Screenshot of a Tweet from Pope Leo XIV. It reads: 

"In this era of artificial intelligence, it is becoming urgen to distinguish human art from what machines produce. There is an ontological difference, even before an aesthetic one, between art and what a machine can generate through statistical calculation based on millions of images created by others. Algorithms lack the spark of humanity. For this reason, the Church wishes to renew an alliance with artists and cultural institutions to safeguard our humanity."
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Rob @radicalhistory.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I would simply defeat the killer robot in the marketplace of ideas
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
some descriptive statistics here on the civility industrial complex on college campuses that I haven’t seen analyzed before www.uncivilcollective.org/resources
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Aftermath @aftermath.site · 28/09/2026
A remastered Witcher 3 means a new bathtub Geralt aftermath.site/witcher3-remas...
The Witcher 3's Geralt in a bathtub
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Rob @radicalhistory.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
And yet you have used writing to express this opinion. Curious!
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Rob @radicalhistory.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Into each generation a pajama boy is born
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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 29/09/2026
Norway has solution to this actually, stay at home parents can get their share of the public daycare subsidy as cash, that way parents are not pushed one way or the other. the problem of course is virtually no one on the center or right actually gives a shit about parents
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Rob @radicalhistory.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Not only is there no reward, other men will not like you for doing this. It sucks. You have to do it anyway.
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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
One of the Cornell students accused of gang rape, Scott Kretzschmar, denies it and says through his attorney that they are going to “confront” the survivor through the court system. I can already tell you that means victim-blaming, DARVO, and smears. She is going to need a lot more of our support.
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Caræsten 🇵🇸 @cara.city · 28/09/2026
Meme of the two guys in a bus, one looking at a rock upset, the other looking at a landscape, with the text “mean nonbinary barista”
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Rob @radicalhistory.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Control: Resonant is good
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Will 🌱 @willmesilane.com · 02/08/2026
Control Resonant knows what's up
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Luke Plunkett @lukeplunkett.com · 25/09/2026
i went into resonant upset it wasn't another brutalism exploration sim and that disappointment lasted about 90 seconds, it rules
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evacide @evacide.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The most important thing I learned in my 20s is that being smart doesn't make you special. Eventually you need to learn to try hard and to enjoy learning to do things you're not immediately good at. It turns out that the people who didn't learn this lesson were reading Harry Potter fanfic.
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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 25/09/2026
"china is charging their cars in less time than it takes you to fill up your F-150" is the kind of banal jingoism i always assumed would get us finally kicking it up a notch on serious infrastructure buildout but we were a lot more directly addicted to gasoline in addition to racism than i thought
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Rob @radicalhistory.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Awful pull quote but also you're kind of telling on yourself there homeboy
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 26/09/2026
Hey, ProPublica reporter Jake Pearson here. I’m taking over the account to tell you about my new story. For months, I posed as a problem gambler on DraftKings to test the company's "responsible gaming" safeguards. Spoiler alert: They made me a VIP — and I lost $10K. Here's how it all went down. 🧵
Selfie taken by ProPublica reporter Jake Pearson, a man wearing a backwards baseball cap and an orange T-shirt.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 26/09/2026
i feel like everyone is being quite unreasonable toward zendaya’s character in THE DRAMA
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Rob @radicalhistory.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
This is true but I also want to remind people that you shouldn't take Yudkowsky seriously because he wrote a 1.7 million word erotic isekai fanfic about a rationalist being dropped into Golarion, the world of the Pathfinder TTRPG
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AP Stylebook @apstylebook.com · 23/09/2026
Artificial intelligence systems do not think, feel, want or understand. Avoid language that gives them human characteristics.
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Liberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com · 23/09/2026
"AP US Government and Politics teachers received an email indicating that four new documents would be added to its list of 'required foundational documents' in order to 'strengthen alignment with college-level courses,' [including] 'core principles from the writings of Adam Smith.'"
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Jefferson, Madison, Hamilton, and Smith: The College Board Adds a New Founding Father
On the politics of canonization in academia.
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The Onion @theonion.com · 23/09/2026
American Medical Association: ‘Huge Biceps Are Only Thing That Matters’ theonion.com/american-medical-assoc…
American Medical Association: ‘Huge Biceps Are Only Thing That Matters’
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Retro Tech Dreams @retrotechdreams.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Unreal Tournament (1999)
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 22/09/2026
NEW: OpenAI took 20 million ChatGPT responses and had one of its experts search for chunks of text—specifically chunks of 25 words in a row- that were identical between ChatGPT’s responses and a news article. They found more than 400,000 of these 25-word overlaps between ChatGPT and our articles.
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AI exec: We may have pulled off “the largest theft of labor in human history.”
Documents from our lawsuit reveal how tech leaders talk when they think no one is listening.
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Rob @radicalhistory.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
THE CANARY IS A WORKER TOO, AN INJURY TO ONE IS AN INJURY TO ALL
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muscular baby jeb lund @mobute.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
you could make a lot of this mania vanish by making college free. the worst parents think they're working a new market inefficiency by making their kid out-hustle the "lazy" kids. but even chill parents are holding a psychological lotto ticket that their kid puts up numbers that end in scholarships
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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
In the final weeks of 2019, a top fundraiser for Sen. Susan Collins walked into a perilous meeting at a Corner Bakery in Washington, D.C. For the first time in her two-decade Senate career, the Republican lawmaker from Maine was in danger of losing her seat. www.propublica.org/article/fbi-...
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The FBI Anti-Corruption Squad Was Circling Susan Collins — Until Trump Got in the Way
After the FBI caught a defense contractor’s CEO making illegal campaign contributions, it sought to launch a sweeping political bribery probe involving Collins and others. Then the second Trump admini...
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Rural Indexing Project @ruralindexing.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Water tower Friend, NE
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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
a lot of people act like there's a trade being offered where we give up trans athletes in sports and in exchange fascism is defeated forever
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Rob @radicalhistory.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
I am not saying anything new but everyone involved with the Tilly Norwood situation should be deeply ashamed. You created a subservient, nubile female simulacrum to promote the interests of the worst people on the planet and then a bunch of media people gamely "interviewed" it
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Rob @radicalhistory.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
I bet if we all get together and put on the best talent show the country has ever seen that we can save the Kennedy Center from mean old Mister Truml
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The Onion @theonion.com · 18/09/2026
Trans Teen Hatches Nefarious Plot To Undergo Years Of Medical Treatments And Counseling To Win At Swimming theonion.com/trans-teen-hatches-nef…
Trans Teen Hatches Nefarious Plot To Undergo Years Of Medical Treatments And Counseling To Win At Swimming
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Rob @radicalhistory.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
With friends like these etc.
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Rob @radicalhistory.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I agree sir, we should treat Israel just like we did post-war Germany and Japan
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Portland Mercury @portlandmercury.com · 18/09/2026
EDITORIAL OPINION: In 2020, Portland protesters exercising their First Amendment rights faced rubber bullets, batons, and tear gas from the Portland Police Bureau.
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Knee-Jerk Reactions to Councilor Green’s Tweets Are Hypocritical and Dangerous - Portland Mercury
The police are supposed to keep protesters safe as they exercise their rights to free speech—not retaliate by shooting them with rubber bullets, striking them with batons, or spraying tear gas at more...
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Rob @radicalhistory.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
We had a great conversation with @fsohns.bsky.social about TTRPGs, world building, the social sciences and more, check it out (and check out Zephyr too, it's something special) dmofnone.libsyn.com/420-zephyr-n...
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Dungeon Master of None: 420 - Zephyr & Nibiru with Federico Sohns
Howdy Ophoi-heads, game designer Federico Sohns joins DMs Rob and Matt to chat about social science as game and world-building inspiration and the two brilliant TTRPGs they have designed: Zephyr and N...
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