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Rob Donoghue @rdonoghue.bsky.social · 23h

That is definitely not going to be in my head all day.

Rob Donoghue @rdonoghue.bsky.social · 23h

Oh, god dammit, I just discovered that there's a sequel. One more thing that is going to take me forever to read, because OF COURSE I picked it up instantly.

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Rob Donoghue @rdonoghue.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

She is a font from which honor flows.

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Rob Donoghue @rdonoghue.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

That came back to me with this because the thing about Gail Simone is that as much as I love her writing, there are lots of other comic book writers whose work I also love, but who I do not hold in such esteem. She makes the world bigger and better by sharing. She is not stingy or protective.

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Rob Donoghue @rdonoghue.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

At one point Aral, the military one, tries to explain this, and describes her as a font from which honor flows. I always loved that explanation. It spoke to the idea that there was a good thing that all this honor was supposed to help with, and to her it was as natural as breathing.

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Rob Donoghue @rdonoghue.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

They’re a joy to watch, at least in part because Bujold does such a wonderful job of letting you see characteristics in them which are reflected in their kid. But, relevant to this, she does a really great job of showing WHY each is so smitten, and have NO IDEA why the other one is.

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Rob Donoghue @rdonoghue.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

They are wonderful characters, and it’s absolutely an Opposites Attraction sort of thing. She is brilliant, creative, progressive and orthogonal thinking. He is rigid, principled, military to his bones, from a warrior culture with a strong ethos of “honor”.

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Rob Donoghue @rdonoghue.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Lois McMaster Bujold is one of my favorite authors, and this just made something she wrote, which has sat in my head for decades, snap into relief. Her Vorkosigan books have two prequels that revolve around how the parents of Miles, the MC, met.

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Rob Donoghue @rdonoghue.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

One of GS’s many stories includes one of comics dudes meeting her and telling her they should be writing her stories/characters - that they deserve to OWN them. This comes to mind as I see her celebrate someone else writing something spun off her own work. It’s generous and wonderful.

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Gail Simone @gailsimone.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Lady Henrietta was the breakout star of this run of UNCANNY X-MEN. Now her story continues with the brilliant @karnythia.blacksky.app writing! And George Jeanty killing it on the art!

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Sarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Always RT American Gentry (h/t @patrickwyman.bsky.social & follow him if you don't already!)

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Rob Donoghue @rdonoghue.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Unrelated upside of the supermarket- because I have not been commuting, I am way behind on my Audiobooks, so it gave me a chance to make some progress on @mytholder.bsky.social’s really delightful _The Sword Defiant_, which is why I had talking swords on the brain.

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Rob Donoghue @rdonoghue.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

That’s it! Thank you, I knew I remembered a game of magic weapons, but I was blanking on the name so hard that I was starting to wonder if I was imagining it.

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Rob Donoghue @rdonoghue.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Or the ULTIMATE CHALLENGE - Costco, Trader Joe’s and Aldi’s without leaving the parking lot!

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Rob Donoghue @rdonoghue.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

As a bonus, I’m now working on a mental model of economics as a cult, and it’s holding up annoyingly well.

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Rob Donoghue @rdonoghue.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

And when I then think about how perfectly LLMs allow us to not care faster, at greater and greater scale, for more and more important things? I genuinely fear for the sustainability of anything which requires attention and care. Grocery shopping is fun!

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Rob Donoghue @rdonoghue.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

I used to think “By Thor, how stupid can people get?” but over time it’s really become “Great Hera, how little of a shit do some people give?” And, sure, in and of itself it’s a small thing, but if taken as an example of how little people can be arsed when they don’t care? It’s scary.

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Rob Donoghue @rdonoghue.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

They have these huge signs clearly saying that the large carts go on the right and the small ones on the left. When this is done, the whole system works really smoothly. I walk past maybe 2 to 4 bays each trip, and despite the small sample, someone has almost always screwed that up.

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Rob Donoghue @rdonoghue.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

It is a rare trip to the supermarket that does not leave my faith in humanity shaken. Sometimes it’s in the store, but usually it’s in the parking lot, when I go past the bays where people return shopping carts.

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Rob Donoghue @rdonoghue.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Never thought I’d actually use it for anything, but such is the nature of gaming.

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Rob Donoghue @rdonoghue.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

I actually have some notes for that, predicated on the 5e Hexblade as a warlock and an idea that, because D&D is bonkers, there exists somewhere a council of the greatest weapons in the multiverses the ones whose shards and shadows are wielded by legends.

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Rob Donoghue @rdonoghue.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Making a note to someday run a game where everyone plays someone else’s talking weapon.

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Rob Donoghue @rdonoghue.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

As a GM, I absolutely love talking swords and smartass familiars, but if I used them as much as I wanted, I would be more or less running a violent, magical version of the muppet show. Which honestly sounds great, but exhausting.

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 09/10/2026

There are many ways in which every billionaire is a policy failure, but the most corrosive and destructive way in which billionaires are policy failures is this: billionaires, despite being unelected and unaccountable, possess the power to control - and ruin - millions of peoples' lives.

The Warner Brother tower posed against a vintage map of Burbank, keeling over, tearing up a huge clot of sod and concrete. Standing atop of the tower, forcing it down, is a sad, spavined donkey in Democratic Party livery. Being crushed under the tower is the California flag bear, with blood pouring out of its eye and mouth.

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John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

This is not just an AI problem but a general tech/private equity management vibe problem we began to encounter when those guys moved into Hollywood due to either money or streaming dominance. Small top-heavy staffs who don't go to set don't make future show runners.

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Elizabeth Bear @matociquala.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Listen to John. John is wise.

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Ghostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 10/10/2026

This is the part that feels like going insane daily. "lol oh no we can't stop our product from doing crimes aren't we cheeky?" FUCKING JAIL FOR THE CEO THEN

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Rumpledcrow @rumpledcrow.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

IT'S COMPLETE📜 115 hand drawn illustrations to complement your next fantasy TTRPG 🗡️ 20% off for the first week on RPG Trader rpgtrader.com/products/102... #ttrpg #indiettrpg #dnd #ttrpgart

Cover art for my fantasy ttrpg stock illustration collection. A series of fantasy drawings surround the words, "115 Fantasy TTRPG Stock Illustrations. Hand drawn traditional art. Royalty free."

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P H Lee 🪬 @p-h-lee.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

she said "you can do anything in fiction as long as the situation afterwards is more interesting that the situation before." since then i have been keeping an eye on character death in fiction. many writers seem to think that character death "raises the stakes" but actually just makes things boring

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Doug Pirko, seasonally spooky human. @waiwode.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I don't want to scare you all away by being all "horny on main"--but it's been quite a while since I've posted a trace italienne/star fort! #NotSafeForWarfare Here's Fort Bourtange, in the Netherlands.

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2000 AD Comics @2000ad.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

MAKE JUDGE DREDD FICTION AGAIN! Take the message to the streets with the best-selling design on a hoodie shop.rebellion.com/products/mak...

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Dennis Detwiller @drgonzo123.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

This is like Prince dunking on you at a funk concert.

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matty @mattio.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

This is wild - somebody did a deep dive into the real stories behind this famous XKCD: sheets.works/data-viz/hol...

an XKCD comic showing a precariously assembled tower of blocks. much is labelled "all modern digital infrastructure." a thin leg down at the bottom is labelled "A project some random person in Nebraska has been thanklessly maintaining since 2003."

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Rob Donoghue @rdonoghue.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

At this point I have very nearly given up being mad about AI because I need all my rage for people using AI to be their worst possible selves.

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Rob Donoghue @rdonoghue.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

“Claude suggested something and I wanted to share it” is an amazingly vapid starting point of a message. Oddly, not because what Claude says is bad, but rather because it makes it clear that they haven’t THOUGHT about it at all, but would like credit for thinking anyway.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

me, an immigrant, watching people who said immigrants are corrupting america engage in actual corrupt behavior

An Asian man looks out the window with binoculars.

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Funranium (AKA Phil Broughton) @funranium.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Object Permanence cannot be taken for granted in the electorate.

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Rob Donoghue @rdonoghue.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I continue to stare are people who have never measured any element of delivery assuring me of how much faster AI is making everything, and if the “numbers” suggest otherwise, I should just ask Claude.

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I Liv, I Die, Oliviagain Hill @machineiv.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Oh god I hit one of the Really Important Milestones on the #iHunt film. Like, I wish I could talk about it. But, um, there will be press releases. SPEAKING OF THAT, if you know anyone in gaming or film media that would like a press release, um yeah connect us.

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Rob Donoghue @rdonoghue.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

It’s “just come up with stuff” but the way it handles scaling and zooming in does a really good job of letting people dig into what grabs them and create interesting synergies. That said, even if it’s not played straight, it’s a great basis for hacks. Ben has a knack for setting level mechanics.

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Rob Donoghue @rdonoghue.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

If you know what this is, I expect you want it. If you don’t know what this is, you deserve to find out.

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🍁 Levi Kornelsen @levikornelsen.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Still arguing on this one elsewhere, so: "We own your off-hours creative product" approaches "We do strip searches because people might steal office supplies, maybe amounting to tens of thousands of dollars". It's an obscene level of overstepping. If you're used to it, you *shouldn't be.*

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Chuck Wendig @chuckwendig.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Henry Thomas (ET, various Flanagan projects) too. wtf.

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