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RolledLow ☞ @rolledlow.com · 14/09/2026

1/🧵 Inspired by @colonelpanichacks.bsky.social’s work and #DEFCON talk with #EFF @cooperq.com The array goes into a RPi4 that records as I drive. Hardware details in the ALT text.

AC magnetic phone holder and Adafruit 10x5 aluminum Swirly holds everything together. HackerGadgets antenna mount across the top and their AC1200 USB-C WiFi card. Adafruit Ultimate GPS USB and a DIY OUI-Spy. To reduce the noise floor, it’s hooked up via USB2.0 cables with ferrite chokes. OUI-Spy is on the hub with a 2.4G mini-keyboard.

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RolledLow ☞ @rolledlow.com · 23/08/2026

My crew gave the clown a taste of his own medicine. They blew him up till he exploded violently, taking out a PC and making a mess of confetti and streamers. Haven’t laughed this hard for a while. Dream Shrine by @skullfungus.bsky.social and @bradkerr.net is a blast with teenagers. 🤡🎊 #osr

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RolledLow ☞ @rolledlow.com · 10/08/2026

My crew asked for a western flavor. My favorite part is perusing sources. Returning to the Crystal Frontier, expanding the world with bounties from Wages of Sin (just arrived) and pulling new locations from Karth… that could work. Right? 🤔 @joelhines.bsky.social and @ratkingrpg.bsky.social #OSR

Three books arranged in a square frame. Wages of Sin, Tomb Raiders of the Crystal Frontier, and Desert Moon of Karth.

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RolledLow ☞ @rolledlow.com · 09/07/2026

Surely I’m not the only one with a pile of books I haven’t read. This is my latest book haul, mostly from @bookmansaz.bsky.social in Flagstaff, AZ. Do you have such a pile? Or shelf? #books #reading

Stack of books, from top to bottom:

- Stand in the Light
- A Rule is to Break. A Child’s Gide to Anarchy.
- Photoshop LAB Color
- Navajo Weapon. The Navajo Code Talkers.
- Examples. The making of 40 Photographs by Ansel Adams.
- Peter Reinhart’s Artisan Bread Every Day

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RolledLow ☞ @rolledlow.com · 19/05/2026

The tattered, short cape tells me they’ve been at this a long time. Emphasizing the details across the shoulders, down the arms, and the hands resting on the sword hilt project both a challenge and confidence. The stars give it an other-worldly quality. #OSR art from @perplexingruins.bsky.social

Black and red figure of an imposing warrior warring a horned helm. A short ragged cape flaps behind him. The figure is in all black except red and white details in the shoulders, chest and arms. Hands rest on the hilt of a sword simultaneously suggesting accomplishment and challenge. The words “Tyrant Slayer” in all caps emphasizes stature.

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RolledLow ☞ @rolledlow.com · 17/05/2026

My teen crew reached stopping place, so we’re taking a break to play some sci-fi. I have some important decisions to make. They’re into liminal, creepy, SCP. May have to adapt a little for the youngest players. Should be fun. 🤩 #osr #monolith @weirdwonder.bsky.social @adamhensley.bsky.social

A hand, holding the Monolith RPG book, and Adrift, Distress Signals, and Resonant zines.

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RolledLow ☞ @rolledlow.com · 17/05/2026

🧵 Final? Dragon Town ‼️ Party attacked Trigona in three waves. Mrs. Frizzle's bees sent a swarm into the ritual, delivering a cure to cultists. The party prevously saved her in the Festering Hive. #OSR #ShadowDark @jpcoovert.bsky.social & @goblinarchives.itch.io & @bobworldbuilder.bsky.social

Game map representing the party’s final combat with Trigona. A large d20 represents Trigona, orange meeples simple cultists, white are fighters, purple are priests and black are shadow creatures who return to Trigona upon death. The shark with tennis shoes is the party’s position.

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RolledLow ☞ @rolledlow.com · 03/05/2026

What happens when Fabien's Atelier, Dragon Town and Hungry Hollow are canon to the world? It means characters have a floating island, a shrink/grow portal, two marginally friendly dragons, Kingsclaw sword, and maybe some elementals at their disposal to fight Trigona. #OSR #ShadowDark

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RolledLow ☞ @rolledlow.com · 12/04/2026

I’ve been neglecting my #osr love! Just got #OSRIC 3.0. Flipping through it’s well laid out and reads well. Wide lays flat real nice. Lots of fun art. Loved seeing the stirgre, one of the first creatures I ran as a GM. @mattfinchmythmere.bsky.social & @mythmeresuzy.bsky.social #ShowAndTell

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RolledLow ☞ @rolledlow.com · 22/03/2026

This has got to be one of my favorite covers by @jpcoovert.bsky.social. The color and and sense of wild, beautiful danger. Always a breath of levity in the #osr #art scene.

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RolledLow ☞ @rolledlow.com · 15/03/2026

I 😍 mashups. Last game I added The Festering Hive in @bobworldbuilder.bsky.social’s book Delve to @jpcoovert.bsky.social’s Dragontown. It’s morphing into a Buffy + Supernatural inspired hunt for The Darkness Below. The bees are infected with The Darkness but I still call them zombees. #osr

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RolledLow ☞ @rolledlow.com · 15/03/2026

I spent the day assisting my son fixing his phone. Changed screen, back and battery using @ifixit.com kits and tools. It isn’t difficult and it’s a great skill. Worth trying for anyone who is #curious. #maker #diy

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RolledLow ☞ @rolledlow.com · 15/02/2026

#Making stuff is fun. Now that I’ve figured out the solar panel I’m building voltage dividers to monitor panel and battery output. Why all the work? 1. It’s fun 2. Holiday lights 3. #Meshtastic nodes 4. Drone monitoring Maybe I’ll identify those flying lights in town. 👽

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RolledLow ☞ @rolledlow.com · 12/02/2026

Looks like the #maker in me is back. Been repurposing a solar panel from a garden lamp to feed an #ALPR detector or a drone monitoring device. 1 🪡

Kitchen counter littered with electronics soldering equipment.

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RolledLow ☞ @rolledlow.com · 31/01/2026

If nothing else, read this.

Perhaps the Trump-administration officials had hoped that a few rabble-rousers would get violent, justifying the kind of crackdown he seems to fantasize about. Maybe they had assumed that they would find only a caricature of
"the resistance" —people who seethed about Trump online but would be unwilling to do anything to defend themselves against him.
Instead, what they discovered in the frozen North was something different: a real resistance, broad and organized and overwhelmingly nonviolent, the kind of movement that emerges only under sustained attacks by an oppressive state. Tens of thousands of volunteers—at the very least—are risking their safety to defend their neighbors and their freedom. They aren't looking for attention or likes on social media. Unless they are killed by federal agents, as Pretti and Renee Good were, other activists do not even necessarily know their names. Many use a handle …

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RolledLow ☞ @rolledlow.com · 15/01/2026

#MAGA 🖕as a #cult explains more than than MAGA as politics. How did Rump take over the right? The tactics are right here. @knittingcultlady.bsky.social, this brilliant! I haven’t finished yet, and each page is illuminating. Thank you. #WeThePeople are #TheResitance 🗽

Book in its jacket of The Culting of America, What Makes a Cult and Why We Love Them by Daniella Mestyanek Young and Amy Reed. Two partial flags in bright blue, red and yellow.

Book without its jacket titled The Culting of America, What Makes a Cult and Why We Love Them. Pink spine, blue cover and white lettering on the spine and lower right of cover b

Page from a book, tilted in the frame, text cropped out from top and bottom. Visible text reads:

“I believe a cult is both a list of qualities a group possesses and also a journey that the group and its members go on. These two cannot be easily extricated from each other. To help us assess where groups fall on the cultiness spectrum, I propose a ten-part framework, which gives a nod to both the qualities and the journey.

A cult is a group that:

1. has a defined, charismatic leader
2. requires a shared "sacred assumption"
3. pursues a transcendent mission so big it justifies sacrifice
4. demands continual sublimation of individuality
5. limits members' access to outsiders
6. creates a private vernacular
7. programs an us-versus-them mentality
8. exploits members' labor
9. enforces high exit costs
10. justifiese extreme behavior as their endgame nears

At a certain tipping point in the cult journey, with the aid of inflexible group norms and strong systems, the leader practices nearly complete, and often coercive, control over its members. The "endeame" <missing text> include acts of violence, even on a mass scale, which <end of connected text >

What a lovely book mark. The planets, stars and galaxies contrast nicely against the dark blue background.

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RolledLow ☞ @rolledlow.com · 15/12/2025

We haven’t played since Thanksgiving so I get to work in my map of Windsong Wood. @jpcoovert.bsky.social map zines really help with little icons and such. #OSR #TTRPG

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RolledLow ☞ @rolledlow.com · 24/11/2025

The Republican Party’s crisis as an opportunity to be a voice of measured concern amid the maelstrom of violent political rhetoric. A letter to #VinceFong (R. CA-20), #Visalia #Bakersfield #Hanford #Fresno #Clovis open.substack.com/pub/rolledlo...

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RolledLow ☞ @rolledlow.com · 18/11/2025

We won't accept nothing now, and we won't accept nothing later. My letter to Vince Fong about The Epstein Transparency Act. #NoHoax #Epstein Call your Rep @5calls.org #WeThePeople are #TheResitance 🗽 #Fresno #Bakersfield substack.com/inbox/post/1...

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RolledLow ☞ @rolledlow.com · 05/11/2025

#FeastForASpinx is the most beautiful zine I possess. @evlynmoreau.bsky.social your work never ceases to evoke unexpected thoughts, memories and feelings.

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RolledLow ☞ @rolledlow.com · 04/11/2025

Could it be? Yes! It’s #TheShrike, and only one day after Dia de los Muertos. Looking forward to reading this and having it ruin my plans in any campaign. @infrabeige.bsky.social #OSR

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RolledLow ☞ @rolledlow.com · 02/11/2025

In the Windsong Wood we saved a pack of wolves and and found a geyser spewing Darkness. A giant snail is trying to contain it with cleansing slime trails. Its shell decays when the geyser explodes dark ooze. Another day in @jpcoovert.bsky.social‘s #Dragontown.

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RolledLow ☞ @rolledlow.com · 01/11/2025

I write my rep in The House regularly. This is a tame letter. I should publish them all. FWIW Republicans will never create a health plan bc they don’t want one. Still, I dare them to try. @padilla.senate.gov & @schiff.senate.gov #WeThePeople are #TheResitance 🗽

Letter to Rep. Vince Fong
California's 20th district.

October 31, 2025

Mr. Fong,

Eleven things you could do if The House was in session:

1. Stand up for California ranchers and stop the $40
Billion Dollar Argentina Bailout.
2. Move to release $6 Billion Dollars earmarked for
SNAP emergencies.
3. Investigate allegations of child abuse by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents.
4. Vote to stop tariffs that are decimating the economy.
5. Propose a Republican-approved plan for health
care.
6. Write a bi-partisan Continuing Resolution to fund the government.
7. Propose a bill to fund Air Traffic controllers.
8. Support any bill to pay federal employees.
9. Draft legislation to piecemeal government funding.
10. Swear in Congresswoman Adelita Grijalva and respect The Will of The People.
11. Put your name on the discharge petition to release the Epstein Files.

Working twenty of 120 days is called grifting on the taxpayer dime. Stop with the cheap excuses and go to work.
Have a day!

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RolledLow ☞ @rolledlow.com · 28/10/2025

This is what I’m reading. I gotta keep up for my current games, pitch the other two and read the one that doesn’t get picked for fun. #OSR #GMProblems

Four books on a wooden coffee table. Left to right, top to bottom: Tomb Raiders of the Crystal Frontier, Dolmenwood Player’s Boog, The Valley of Flowers, and Dragon Town.

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RolledLow ☞ @rolledlow.com · 27/10/2025

I’m going to pitch #ValleyOfFlowers and #Dolemenwood to my adult group. I wonder if they’ll go with Arthurian or Folktale fantasy. Whatever they choose I’ll be heartbroken to not play the other. I want to get into these realms and live in them for a while. #OSR

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RolledLow ☞ @rolledlow.com · 27/10/2025

This foray into the #CrystalFrontier left us at the doorstep of the throne room. Party returned to town to heal and plan. We played a combined online/IRL session. Read on for some thoughts on that. #OSR

A combined IRL/online session. GM screen in the foreground, tv in the far corner, player with tablet at left edge. Valley Flowers on coffee table in the foreground.

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RolledLow ☞ @rolledlow.com · 21/10/2025

Need a chuckle? Here I am running in a chicken suit. 🐓 🌮 #NoKings #taco

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RolledLow ☞ @rolledlow.com · 21/10/2025

A tangent, the Navajo are reappropriating Star Wars. Some really cool art is coming out of that scene. Here’s a poster I saw a couple years ago in Arizona promoting a screening dubbed into Navajo. Leia’s hair is traditional. So is their story of twins that bring balance to the cosmos.

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RolledLow ☞ @rolledlow.com · 21/10/2025

#Dragontown landed on my doorstep today. Been running it with my teen group for a while. They’re gonna love the treasure cards. I love the screen! So sleek, low profile and useful info inside. Thank you @jpcoovert.bsky.social! We are having a blast. 🐉🏘️ #OSR #ItHasArrived #HappyGM

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RolledLow ☞ @rolledlow.com · 21/10/2025

I had so much fun at the #NoKings2.0 parade! Hope everyone had IRL time with friends. 🎶Get up. Stand up! Don’t give up the fight. 🎶 #WeThePeople are #TheResitance 🗽

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RolledLow ☞ @rolledlow.com · 10/10/2025

It’s here! It’s here! My #Dolmenwood books are here! 😍🥰

Dolmenwood books: Campaign Book, Monster Book, Player’s Book.

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RolledLow ☞ @rolledlow.com · 18/08/2025

⚰️ T.P.K. Day 1, Room 4 If touching the crystal gave you a migraine, then smashing it with a war hammer triggers the whole room and everyone’s brain explodes. I swear I gave them all the warnings. So goes it in Gus L.'s Crystal Frontier. This #osr module by @ratkingrpg.bsky.social is ruthless.

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RolledLow ☞ @rolledlow.com · 16/08/2025

Sweet! Been prepping #CrystalFrontier for tomorrow from the pdf. The book arrived just in time! Four players new to the game, one GM stoked to get started. The anticipation is killing me. I’ll be channeling my best @ratkingrpg.bsky.social Running this will be epic. #osr

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RolledLow ☞ @rolledlow.com · 02/08/2025

Opened my mailbox to find a nifty yellow label from @themerrymushmen.bsky.social Its my copy of #Knock5 🎉 Now, the big question… do I want to collect them all? 🤔 #osr

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RolledLow ☞ @rolledlow.com · 28/07/2025

Turns out, if you put a pad on the table with drawing tools you get art. #osr #gameday

Drawing pad and character sheets on a table.

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RolledLow ☞ @rolledlow.com · 25/07/2025

My note to #VinceFong, rep for #CA20 (Nunez and McCarthy legacy). I ask him about the #Epstein files. #WeThePeople are #TheResitance 🗽

Today's note to Fong.

Hello intern, hope you're okay. It's hard to learn our leaders protect child rapists. It's okay to walk away.

Mr. Fong,

The DOJ should release the FBl's compilation of Trump mentions in the Epstein files. Clearly this would exonerate him. They can do it without seeking judicial approval, unlike the pacifier of the grand jury documents.

Are you a leader or a politician? Politicians seek reelection over justice. What's your legacy going to be. Have you been swallowed up by the swamp?

Disrespectfully,
Mr. ____ _______

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RolledLow ☞ @rolledlow.com · 23/07/2025

Fun idea. How about using this tarot deck to play 👑🪱 #HMtW in Thra, the world of The Dark Crystal? Might have to try it. 😎 #osr

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RolledLow ☞ @rolledlow.com · 22/07/2025

My adult group chose #OSEadvanced, houseruled to match #Dolmenwood. Start setting, Tomb Robbers of the Crystal Frontier by @ratkingrpg.bsky.social. Players are new to #TTRPG and felt that OSE exposed them to old and new system ideas. I thought it was a compelling point. #osr

OSE Player’s Tome and Referee’s Tome on a wooden surface.

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RolledLow ☞ @rolledlow.com · 20/07/2025

#SessionZero problems. Starting a second group today, hoping they’ll be game for playing a 3-4 session module with each system before settling into something. #osr #dnd #ttrpg

Table spread including White Box Cyclopedia, Blueholme, OSE, OSRIC, 5e,Mythic Bastionland, Dragonbane, OSE Advanced, Cairn 2e, His Majesy the Worm and Mork Borg.

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RolledLow ☞ @rolledlow.com · 14/07/2025

👑🪱 Over the weekend we played our first session of #HMtW. We enjoyed the Challenge phase, it engaged throughout combat. 🧵 #OSR #1stImpression

Table set for playing His Majesty the Worm. Grid cloth with tarot cards and printed map on top. Character sheets strewn around.

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RolledLow ☞ @rolledlow.com · 02/07/2025

The Disastrous #BudgetBill is back with the House. My Rep, Vince Fong is Republican. This is my letter to him. It isn't great, or nice. I do what I can. Contact your representatives! Use @5calls.org. #senate #congress @padilla.senate.gov @schiff.senate.gov #WeThePeople are #TheResitance 🗽

Letter to Congressman Vince Fong
20th District of California
Dear Mr. Fong,
Once again you have an opportunity to use your super power to stand up for democracy when it matters. Have you independently researched the reconciliation bill?
Take a page from Mr. Tillis, he spoke his mind and stood his ground. I teach special education at a Title I elementary school. We need courageous leaders who will stand for children. These children need you. The grand parents of our community need you.
This bill is so terrible that Senator Murkowski carved out exemptions for her state.
I truly hope you are not more afraid of Trump than your voters. Please show us you have courage, and are not willfully ignorant, or a cuck watching his constituents get fucked.
Hoping you show courage,
Roy May

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RolledLow ☞ @rolledlow.com · 01/07/2025

I got my Father’s Day gift today! From 2024. Super stoked to spend some time with my nose in these books.

Mythic Bastionland and Electric Bastionland on a wood floor.

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RolledLow ☞ @rolledlow.com · 28/06/2025

The table is set. Today, PCs face the infected cleric in the basement of the Sub Rosa. I’m looking forward to seeing what they do! #DragonTown #ShadowDark #N1 #HungryHollow #osr

Table set with 3 room dungeon built with Jenga blocks. Scattered figures, coins and a yellow d20.

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RolledLow ☞ @rolledlow.com · 17/06/2025

Most beautiful thing I heard in a long time. #SqeakyWheels #NoKings

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RolledLow ☞ @rolledlow.com · 17/06/2025

Even Vladdy Daddy thinks Rump is silly. #birthday #parade #NoKings

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RolledLow ☞ @rolledlow.com · 14/06/2025

My kit. Rarely do I need more than this. The half painted minis work just fine. They’ll get painted. #osr

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RolledLow ☞ @rolledlow.com · 10/06/2025

Check out the violent protesters that 4000 National Guard and 700 marines were called in to fight. #🧊beGone #LA #protest #WeThePeople are #TheResitance 🗽 Via @jesscraven101.bsky.social Instagram.

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RolledLow ☞ @rolledlow.com · 10/06/2025

#Peaceful protester exercises his first amendment in #LA #🧊 #immigration #WeThePeople are #TheResitance 🗽 @briantylercohen.bsky.social Instagram account.

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RolledLow ☞ @rolledlow.com · 08/06/2025

National Guard to be mobilized in LA against ICE provoked protests. Via: @aaronparnas.bsky.social Share it. Spread it.

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