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JohnRunsGames

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Storyteller, Narrator, dad, dog-walker, human. Love storytelling in all forms. || Mastodon: vyrse.social/@john | Home on the web: johnrunsgames.com

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JohnRunsGames @servingworlds.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
Careful, BlueSky's AI and VC's will steal your idea :)
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Dr. Kiki @drkiki.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
Turn off location permissions for the apps in your phone.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
AOC: What we saw today was a criminal murder a woman while she was trying to flee for her life. What we saw today was a manifestation of every American’s worst nightmare: their government turning into a tyranny.
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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
For those keeping score, Bellingcat, The New York Times Visual Investigation Team, & Washington Post's Visual Forensic team have all published analysis showing the ICE shooter wasn't in the path of Renee Nicole Good’s vehicle when he shot her, contradicting statements by the President & his cronies
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 20/11/2025
Kaitlan Collins to Leavitt as she walks off: "Karoline, you misquoted Democrats in that video. That's actually not what they said."
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
The President of the United States just called for Democratic members of Congress to be executed. "HANG THEM", he posted. If you're a person of influence in this country and you haven't picked a side, maybe now would be the time to pick a fucking side.
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JohnRunsGames @servingworlds.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
My constant refrain expect a kill switch baked into Every router, infrastructure component Every EV Every Drone Every Vacuum cleaner Every tractor unless nations insist of auditable open source software/firmware/drivers. It's a war for profit and soverignty: voters against oligarchs and fascists.
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Randahl Fink @randahl.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
Wild: A Norwegian bus company wants to know if their buses could be abused by China in the case of war. So they drive two buses deep into a limestone mine to isolate them from the internet, and discover a Chinese kill switch. (In Danish, use autotranslate:) www.zetland.dk/historie/svN...
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Dybt i et norsk fjeld blev en kinesisk bybus splittet ad. En status på vores frygt
En kinesisk bus blev nøje analyseret for mystiske signaler.
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Randahl Fink @randahl.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
Trump sanctions multiple human rights organisations, forcing YouTube to delete their accounts, erasing 700 videos documenting Israeli war crimes. As a youtuber, this news is profoundly troubling for me. I clearly need a plan B. theintercept.com/2025/11/04/y... @tveskov.com @anderspucknielsen.dk
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YouTube Quietly Erased More Than 700 Videos Documenting Israeli Human Rights Violations
The tech giant deleted the accounts of three prominent Palestinian human rights groups — a capitulation to Trump sanctions.
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JohnRunsGames @servingworlds.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
www.cosmopolitan.com/uk/love-sex/...
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One app, 60 men, 26 dates: my adventures in alt-right dating
There’s no question that we’re living — and looking for love — in contentious times, where extreme political ideologies have all but divided parts of the dating pool. Or have they?
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Alan Baxter @alanbaxter.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
Thanks to @mogadontrenchcoat.bsky.social for reminding me it's Devil's Night. I'll be watching this absolutely formative classic this evening to celebrate. I like the pretty lights. It can't rain all the time.
The Crow movie poster.
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JohnRunsGames @servingworlds.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
“Hakeem & Chuck should have been front & center, introducing the next mayor of New York City...But no, they wouldn’t show up—because they’re pussies. They’re pussies...beholden to the same corporations that helped [President] Donald Trump get elected.” www.commondreams.org/news/jennife...
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Podcaster Jennifer Welch Denounces 'Dipsh*ts' Schumer and Jeffries for Not Riding Mamdani’s Progressive Wave | Common Dreams
With Election Day approaching, Democratic leaders like Schumer and Jeffries are failing to support progressive candidate Mamdani. When will establishment Dems stop cozying up to corporations and start...
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 28/10/2025
Trump: "I said, 'put it all into one bill and if we get it done, we're done for four years.' We don't need anything more from Congress."
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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
The world's worst people are about to have an epic meltdown after Mamdani's win. Their tears will be sugar for my chai.
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Emma Evans @trance.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
and then something happened
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a bunch of stuffed animals with their mouths open in front of a window
Alt: Muppets lead by Miss Piggy, dancing in period costumes in a French ballroom and gasp and run as a guilotine is revealed.
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JohnRunsGames @servingworlds.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
Screencap of social media postings describing the various ways 'fentanyl from venezuala' is like the 'WMD's from iraq'. Hashtag snake oil, in other words.
Screencap of social media postings describing the various ways 'fentanyl from venezuala' is like the 'WMD's from iraq'.

Hashtag snake oil, in other words.
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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 25/10/2025
Publishers need to learn that when they don't work with researchers to do the right thing, scholars find their own solutions—legal or otherwise. #OAWeek www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...
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Civil Disobedience of Copyright Keeps Science Going
Creating and sharing knowledge are defining traits of humankind, yet copyright law has grown so restrictive that it can require acts of civil disobedience to ensure that students and scholars have
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JohnRunsGames @servingworlds.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
What do you think is editorially driving this headline? "I was proud to never have any financial debt but it came at a high price" www.cbc.ca/radio/noworn...
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FIRST PERSON | I was proud to never have any financial debt but it came at a high price | CBC Radio
Danica Nelson grew up watching how quickly money could run out, and she made the commitment to never fall into debt herself. She even paid off credit card bills before the monthly statement came. When...
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Liz Pollock: bookseller, non-fiction writer. @lizpollockbooks.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
1,000,000% agree @mollyjongfast.bsky.social
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
So they didn’t like the ad. Let’s just post Reagan’s 5 min speech against tariffs as it appears on YouTube. Over and over. On all platforms (some of y’all are still on X). *1981 Sherrilyn horrified by 2025 Sherrilyn saying “let’s post Reagan’s speech.” youtu.be/5t5QK03KXPc
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President Reagan's Radio Address on Free and Fair Trade on April 25, 1987
YouTube video by Reagan Library
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Phil PlAIt @philplait.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
Women are too emotional to be President
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Matt Ford @mford.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
First Trump administration story in a while that genuinely shocked me:
washingtonpost.com
Rubio promised to betray U.S. informants to get Trump’s El Salvador prison deal
To secure U.S. access to President Nayib Bukele’s notorious CECOT prison, Rubio agreed to turn over several MS-13 leaders central to a long-running Justice Department investigation.
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JohnRunsGames @servingworlds.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
Hard disagree with the cynicism in that article :). I am among other things a professional GM and I run games online. Star Trek Fans -even Republicans who don't know it- almost universally understand and respect Star Trek for being a hope-punk setting about raising up the weak & standing for all.
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JohnRunsGames @servingworlds.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
If ... #epsteinballroom
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Liz Neeley @lizneeley.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
Solidarity!! Last week, Indiana University fired the director of student media & halted print on the Indiana Daily Student newspaper. Yesterday, Purdue’s student paper printed the banned edition & drove two hours to deliver it. Incredible www.heraldtimesonline.com/story/news/l...
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Purdue student journalists deliver special 'solidarity' newspaper to IU Bloomington campus
The special edition blasted across town features columns from IDS and Exponent editors, alongside QR codes to support both student papers.
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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 18/10/2025
If the government wanted to spy on Bluesky users they wouldn't need official accounts to do that, those are only here to get people in trouble for posting dumb shit at them
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
Kristi Noem confronts enemy combatants in the Portland war zone today.
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Micah @rincewind.run · 04/10/2025
if Kash can go back years and fire people for kneeling or displaying a pride flag the absolute least the next Dem admin can do is fire every one of these assholes who are assaulting people on camera (and then prosecute them)
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JohnRunsGames @servingworlds.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
@thefinalfm.bsky.social "use your values, throw them up against the wall, explode them!" You get to heart of differences btwn STA and other systems re character advancement. Well done! I shared this on a discord server for STA gm's & players here, f you want to follow up at all: discord.gg/ATbgDzyh
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Join the JohnRunsGames: STA 2E Discord Server!
A server for new and skilled Players and GM's. Interested in Star Trek Adventures, Second Edition? This might be the place for you! | 16 members
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JohnRunsGames @servingworlds.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
Listen up:
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JohnRunsGames @servingworlds.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
The end of America would destroy Canada. The occupation of Canada would destroy America. www.theatlantic.com/international/a…
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https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2025/05/canadians-fear-war-trump/682674/?gift=iybh47auwixrOQRLfFxpriIudlaACuiLOr1voFIl7rc
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JohnRunsGames @servingworlds.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
In case you still need reason to doubt Conservatives aren't interested in voters, only profiting off of them: "As Poilievre targets tax havens, Conservatives rack up big business endorsements" www.cbc.ca/news/politics/pierre-poi…
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As Poilievre targets tax havens, Conservatives rack up big business endorsements | CBC News
A political scientist says Pierre Poilievre's open resentment toward offshore tax havens and corporate jets likely isn't enough to sever his Conservative Party's relationship with business leaders.
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JohnRunsGames @servingworlds.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
Oligarchy: "high-tech private domains...fortressed escape pods...giving them... an edge in an increasingly barbarous future... preparing for the end of the world (they are) accelerating." www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-inte…
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The rise of end times fascism | Far right (US) | The Guardian
The governing ideology of the far right has become a monstrous, supremacist survivalism. Our task is to build a movement strong enough to stop them
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JohnRunsGames @servingworlds.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
“When wealth becomes concentrated... if power is not shared with the people, society collapses..." Yunus won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2006 for pioneering microcredit & microfinance. www.bangkokpost.com/thailand/genera…
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Bangkok Post - Nobel Laureate touts ‘Three Zero’ theory
The “Three Zero Theory” is a path for the younger generation to a sustainable new civilisation, says Professor Muhammad Yunus , a Nobel Laureate economist and chief adviser to the government of Bangladesh.
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JohnRunsGames @servingworlds.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
Canada's public broadcaster to get $150M funding boost if Libedals win election. Also a vote to change or dismantle. "Canadians themselves and their entire Parliament must decide on the future of...CBC — not ideologues" www.cbc.ca/news/politics/mark-carne…
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Carney pledges $150M boost to 'underfunded' CBC | CBC News
Liberal Leader Mark Carney said on Friday that his government would provide an initial $150-million annual funding increase to CBC and Radio-Canada as part of a new mandate for the public broadcaster.
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JohnRunsGames @servingworlds.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
All said that Marine Le Pen was too important a figure to be removed from the political scene at the stroke of a judge's pen... The law had in fact recently been toughened – by the very politicians ..now let politicians suck up their own medicine." www.bbc.com/news/articles/cy0ylgjew…
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Shock Marine Le Pen verdict rocks French far right
The far-right figurehead has been barred from running for public office for five years, throwing her plans into disarray.
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JohnRunsGames @servingworlds.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
What a time to be alive in Trump’s America—a...belligerent drunk...waving its nukes & screaming about “America First” while... UK, Australia, Canada & NZ...discuss...ghosting America (in intelligence)" substack.com/home/post/p-158801186
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Four Eyes are Better Than Five: Canada, UK, Australia and NZ Discuss Excluding US From Intelligence Sharing
Now this is a GREAT Idea...
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JohnRunsGames @servingworlds.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Manufacturing lithium batteries generates 15–20 tonnes of carbon dioxide. Around 1/3 of all raw material consumption since 1900 took place in the short time between 2002 and 2015. theconversation.com/the-end-of-capi…
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The end of capitalism – or the end of civilisation? The choice could be that stark
Ulrike Herrmann argues we no longer have the time to wait for technological breakthroughs that might solve the climate crisis.
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Cara Martin (C. K. Kelly Martin) @caramartin.ca · 08/03/2025
If there's anything more Canadian than a Canadian band (Our Lady Peace) covering another Canadian band (The Tragically Hip) in an arena called the Canadian Tire Centre in the nation's capital it's starting a singlalong of the national anthem which happened last night too.
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JohnRunsGames @servingworlds.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
Epic dog flump.
My dog Addison sleeping on the couch. A portrait of elegance and charm. And derpitude.
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JohnRunsGames @servingworlds.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
Hat tip to Alex whobreminds us all that destroying Britain and destroying the US were closely tied. They also both occurred with funding from Russia. @yaxu.post.lurk.org.ap.brid.gy @yaxu@post.lurk.org
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JohnRunsGames @servingworlds.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
time.com/7212675/tariffs-canada-ame…
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Using Tariffs to Try to Annex Canada Backfired in the 1890s | TIME
Instead of compelling Canada to become an American state, the 1890 McKinley Tariff drove Canada into British hands.
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Elizabeth Bear @matociquala.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Gonna need a new FEMA in the long run to clean up the destruction of FEMA. And all the other stuff we, you know, use on a regular basis.
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JohnRunsGames @servingworlds.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Daredevil!
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JohnRunsGames @servingworlds.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
Say more! :) What are your favr RPG plugins?
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Tobias S. Buckell @tobiasbuckell.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
The other reason I've put serious time into this is that Obsidian uses plain markdown files, which are just text. So if I leave Obsidian, the folders and text files are still accessible with any basic Markdown program and so the data is portable. I'm tired of closed programs holding my words
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 05/03/2025
If you’ve got $20,000 a month to spend on a “PhD level” ai agent, just hire a person.
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OpenAI reportedly plans to charge up to $20,000 a month for specialized AI 'agents' | TechCrunch
OpenAI may be planning to charge up to $20,000 per month for specialized AI 'agents,' according to The Information.
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JohnRunsGames @servingworlds.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
mstdn.ca/@thegreenpagesBC/114111864…
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JohnRunsGames @servingworlds.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
Sometimes writers really get into our heads... but what would it be like if it were the other way around? Read my #flashfiction 'Necessary Fictions' over at my free #newsletter: serial.servingworlds.com/necessa... #sciencefiction #fantasy
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JohnRunsGames @servingworlds.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
"Musk...seized control of #Treasury...he & #Trump can enforce...draconian cuts. (that) should require #congress approval (making it) a spectator to a coup." roberthubbell.substack.com/p/the-co… #ElonMusk #Musk #Authoritarianism #Coup #Politics #USPol #US #USA
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The coup rolls on, but we will prevail.
February 2, 2025
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