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Wilhelm Fitzpatrick

@rafial.bsky.social
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Splitting my time between here and Mastodon wheretofind.me/@rafial

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Ramona @alderdoodle.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
You're doing a lot of doomscrolling for someone who has a bunch of unread RPG books on their shelf 👀
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Wilhelm Fitzpatrick @rafial.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Having a petit-déjeuner and catching up on the news
A cafe table with two coffee drinks and an elaborate pastry, along with a copy of "The Daily Lurker" newspaper with the prominent headline SECRETS UNEARTHED IN THE ICE
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Wilhelm Fitzpatrick @rafial.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
"How did you get into ttrpgs" Bought a box with a cool dragon and a wizard in a pointy hat on it off the games shelf at our local drugstore
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Wilhelm Fitzpatrick @rafial.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
It's time to get Cosmic!
Photo of the main screen at the Hollywood Theater showing a slide for the 31st Annual H.P. Lovecraft Film Festival. There is a microphone stand on stage in front of the screen and you can see the heads of two people sitting in the front row.
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Wilhelm Fitzpatrick @rafial.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Kobo overhauled their Android app, and I'm chuffed that they finally support a two page view on foldables (presumably tablets as well). It's nice to unfold my phone like a little book 😍
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Wilhelm Fitzpatrick @rafial.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
In Google's doghouse, waiting to be allowed to decide what software I get to install on my device 🙄
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Indie Game Reading Club @indiegamereadingclub.com · 29/09/2026
Lavender Hack is such a charming game! Ran it for some visiting friends a few months back as a lark/dare. Wrote about it too. This new print of the core rules is like $20. Go check it out.
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Two Great Tastes etc: Lavender Hack + Trilemma Adventures
IGRC Global Operations had gamer visitors from California recently. We knew we’d be playing something while they were here, but we never quite nailed down what it’d be. So over beers, Phil Lewis’ L…
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Wilhelm Fitzpatrick @rafial.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
But will they make their goal? 😅
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ரமணன் @save.vs.totalpartykill.ca · 29/09/2026
Lavender Hack finding a little print run. www.kickstarter.com/projects/lav...
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Lavender Hack RPG: Grindcore Edition — Book #1 (Core Rules)
You are not limited by your imagination. You are limited by crushing levels of debt.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Bruce MacKinnon, Halifax Chronicle Herald
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Fischer 🛠️🚇 @fischer.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
new train just dropped
an amtrak cascades airo locomotive
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Wyrd Science Magazine @wyrdscience.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Now this has had over a thousand likes I guess I should do the obligatory, embarrassing… ‘hey if you liked this 1968 book cover we had absolutely zero involvement with you should check out these magazines about fantasy games & culture that we had far too much to do with’
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Wyrd Science – Tabletop Gaming Magazines, Merch & More
Everything that we have on sale including magazines, merch, t-shirts, art prints, books and more.
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Wyrd Science Magazine @wyrdscience.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
new favourite Smaug dropped
the 1968 "pleasure in reading" edition of the hobbit featuring an adorable bright pink Smaug torching the inhabitants of lake town
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Astreia @redoubters.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
every missile, bomb, and shell we sent israel should have gone to kyiv
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Tom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Do not carry a cold beverage in their presence. Politely decline any drinks or sweetmeats they may offer. Keep a plain iron nail in your left trouser pocket and a sachet or paper twist of coarse salt in your right shoe. Enter and leave your chair moving clockwise. Follow up with a thank-you note.
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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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Wilhelm Fitzpatrick @rafial.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The Burning Wheel
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Chase 'Hutch' Hutchinson 📽️ @eclectichutch.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
NEW: The Grand Illusion Cinema lives! The single-screen movie house that'd been in Seattle’s University District for more than 50 years before closing in January 2025 is coming home. It will be now taking over at the Varsity Theatre 📽️ My story @seattletimes.com: www.seattletimes.com/entertainmen...
A photo taken outside the shuttered Varsity Theatre on September 22, 2026 with the marquee reading COMING SOON GRAND ILLUSION.
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 19/09/2026
Every now and then I see myself referred to as an "AI Denier" and I want to be clear I acknowledge "AI" exists, it's just I think it's a massive energy drain, created from theft, implemented poorly for inappropriate tasks by loathsome tech executives who get hard at the idea of the rest of us dying
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Wilhelm Fitzpatrick @rafial.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Watched the SNL UK D.I.A.N.A. video that is going around, and am struck by how challenging it must have been in a nation and culture that is so gifted in comedy to recreate the core SNL format of the sketches not actually being funny…
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Crow's Nest Comics @crowsnest.quest · 21/09/2026
I asked AI* to make me a Marketing Material and this is what she made. * AI stands for An Idiot (I am the idiot) Anyway plz come buy comics and other stuff we need money for foods ty.
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Story (Modest Medusa & the magical land of Yeld) @modestmedusa.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Did you know my games are available on RPG Trader? Wait, did you know #RPGTrader was even a thing? It's a creator friendly webstore for indie ttrpgs! You should check them out! rpg-trader.com/creator/735/...
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Story Richmond on RPG Trader
Story (she/her) is the creator of The Magical Land of Yeld, Mer X Maid, Panty Explosion Perfect and Ocean, as well as the long running webcomic Modest Medusa.
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Ann Leckie @annleckie.com · 17/09/2026
WOOHOO I am ON TREND just got the VERY LATEST flu shot and covid jab I am READY to sit on the couch and just watch Murderbot and Ted Lasso for the next few days.
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Indie Book Spotlight @bookspotlight.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
FOREVER AND ALWAYS MY DIRECTOR 🥳🥳🥳🥳 (Not my video.)
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Sky Marchini @sky.skymarchini.net · 15/09/2026
trump and putin are both very alike in that they inherited huge material stocks from their strategic forebears in preparation for a major calamity and decided to take that and go to the casino, put it all on red, and now have no idea what to do since that didn't work
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Zyzzyva @zyzzyva.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
"Three times Ash Ketchum dreamed of the marvelous city, and three times was he snatched away while still he paused to pull out his pokedex...."
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Jason Bradley Thompson @mockman.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
(thinking) Pokémon is set in an endlessly expanding Earth where new continents are always popping up and there is near zero inter-town communication (besides the vague League of course). Ergo, Pokémon is in the Dreamlands 🤪
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Wilhelm Fitzpatrick @rafial.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
At the rate I'm getting spam loan offers via text, it can't be much longer until I've blocked the entire NANP space
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Colleen Frakes @colleenfrakes.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
I get that people like to clown on Macklemore, but he's quietly done so much good for Seattle. Besides the stuff on his website, he's donated to the music program at my kid's school and sponsors the free summer parks concerts.
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Wilhelm Fitzpatrick @rafial.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
What if paperclip optimizer, but also no actual paperclips?
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Ayo @darrylayo.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Transgender people deserve to have a nice life. That is the entirety of the argument. If you disagree, you’re saying that you do not believe in liberty or justice for all.
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Maarten Pronk @evetion.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
I made github.com/evetion/Dial..., a small, fun #Julia package to translate Julia keywords (e.g., function , for) to your own language (functie, voor, in Dutch) during the hackathon at #juliacon2026. Inspired by #hedylanguage by @felienne.bsky.social and the recent changes to the Julia parser.
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Wilhelm Fitzpatrick @rafial.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
He will go into the West, and remain Fred
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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
This comes back to what I've been saying: though the military has a lot to learn and CENTCOM delendum est, the chief, principle and primary party to blame here is the American Voter who in his aggregate stupidity put a very great fool back in charge of the military. foreignpolicy.com/2026/08/21/i...
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The U.S. Is Learning the Wrong Lessons in Iran
Tactical excellence can never salvage strategic incompetence.
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Bronwyn @bron.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
I don't know who exactly, but I feel confident that some of you want to know about this skirt with a design showing development of the Proto-Sinaitic script into many descendant scripts, including modern Latin, Cyrillic, Greek, Arabic, and Hebrew scripts. princess-awesome.com/products/adu...
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Adult "Prototype" Writing Systems Origins Skirt With Pockets
Description Specifications In this design featuring the development of writing systems from Proto-Sinaitic to the present, the evolution of letter forms spirals out from the mother script (Proto-Sinai...
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Wilhelm Fitzpatrick @rafial.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Something I've noticed as more slop enters the codebase at $dayjob – even fairly trivial things produce giant wadges of code and churn, throwing up even more barriers to understanding and maintenance. Not only did nobody understand the code to write it, future understanding is impeded as well 🫩
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Wilhelm Fitzpatrick @rafial.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Happy to have an armful of mRNA 💉
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Berin Szóka @berinszoka.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Photo of the decade: AfD leader Alice Weidel
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Andrew Weinstein @andrewjweinstein.com · 09/09/2026
You know who actually did show up at Ground Zero? Canadian emergency rescue crews.
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andy™ @andylevy.net · 08/09/2026
werner herzog on AI filmmaking (from here www.indiewire.com/features/int...)
Q: A couple years ago at IDFA, I saw this movie "About a Hero," which is this partly Al-generated hybrid documentary that tries to recreate the atmosphere of your films.

A: The intention of this young filmmaker was never to remake any [of my films], but making something in the spirit. And I immediately said, "You will fail. It is such a stupid idea. It's phenomenally, abysmally stupid. I will not take part in it." He wanted me to explain things and have my voice in it.
I said, "You are alone. There's such a thing as free speech, which I respect. So go ahead and fail." And it is a failure, period.
It's so standardized that Al can step in because there's not real storytelling. It's mimicry of something that has happened before. And I welcome Al to replace all the idiots who are into nothing but repeating, repeating, repeating until it's ad nauseam.
When it's ad nauseam, please, please, please let Al step in and do the job.
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Dan Schkade @danschkade.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Last month we passed a milestone without my realizing: I have now done over ONE THOUSAND STRIPS since I took over FLASH GORDON in 2023. I cannot thank you all enough for reading, discussing, and sharing the comic these past few years. Truly the best gig I've ever had. Much, much more to come ⚡
Unused promo art of the cast of my run on the FLASH GORDON daily strip. Clockwise from top left: Adrane, Flash Gordon, Doctor Hans Zarkov, Bok, Empress Aura, Dale Arden, and Queen Fria. We also see Sky City and a couple Frigian airships.
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Wilhelm Fitzpatrick @rafial.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Props to BC Hydro for their very thorough network of fast EV chargers as we venture into the more rural areas of Vancouver Island. I've run into a few cranky units, but overall it's been very easy to keep the car topped up
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Brett Codes @brettcodes.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
I wrote an essay about why I'm done using AI for coding, even if it costs me my job and career: brettcodes.com/im-done-usin... The basic gist is: AI made me a worse, apathetic programmer. I think it's bad for humanity, the planet, and the craft of software engineering. And I'm done using it.
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I'm done using AI
Why I'm stopping using AI for coding (and anything else) after using it earnestly for a year and coming to understand the harms it causes on personal, societal, and environmental levels.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Hegseth has taken out more American generals than Iranian ones.
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Wilhelm Fitzpatrick @rafial.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Had Afternoon Tea at the Empress Hotel in Victoria, BC, and turns out that they are also hosting an international military conference so there are numerous folks with chests full of medals and name badges that say "Major General" and I feel like I walked into a Gilbert & Sullivan operetta 😏
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Senator Patty Murray @murray.senate.gov · 31/08/2026
Republicans and Trump claiming ICE is going after violent criminals is an outright lie, and the numbers prove it. 800 people a day were arrested last month with NO criminal record. We can force a change using our voices and our VOTES.
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ICE arrested a record number of people without criminal records in summer enforcement surge, new data shows
The surge in arrests comes as the White House pushes ICE to hit a target of 2,000 per day.
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Mr. International @rogerresists.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
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Wilhelm Fitzpatrick @rafial.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
I'm on a boat!
View forward along the deck of a BC Ferry as it enters the gap between two islands
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
We & the media are NOT talking enough about how a Florida grand jury found that $10 million was funneled from a settlement intended to benefit Florida taxpayers to Ron DeSantis’s wife’s illegitimate “charity” (that never registered with the IRS), where it was laundered before it got to the FLA GOP.
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Eric Migicovsky @ericmigi.com · 30/08/2026
demoscene pebble apps are one of the best parts of the pebbleverse nice work teadrinker! Full video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=r3HW... PT2 App: apps.repebble.com/8e50961fc56f...
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What time is it? (Pebble Time 2 Demo)
YouTube video by teadrinker
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