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HobKnight

@shawnjdouglas.bsky.social
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Teacher, writer, veteran, Dungeon Master, GM, and the last Gentleman Pirate

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Maria Popova @popovaprof.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Listen to every word
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ebisback.bsky.social @ebisback.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Truth 😡
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
The richest man owns X. The second richest man owns The Washington Post. The third and fifth richest men control Google. The sixth richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. And the eighth richest man now owns both Paramount and Warner Bros. See the problem here?
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Paramount takes over Warner Bros in $110bn Hollywood merger
The merger of two of Hollywood's biggest movie studios comes after months of legal disputes and concern over competition
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
At a time when the most influential leaders of the U.S. need to stand up loudly and clearly for the rule of law, they are leading the charge in the opposite direction. But not Jack Smith. Kudos to him for continuing to be a much needed voice of clarity.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026
Jack Smith: "History teaches that the rule of law is rarely destroyed all at once. It's often weakened by attacks on the institutions and the public servants sworn to uphold it. Since January 2025, we have witnessed precisely such an effort."
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Celeste Pewter @celestepewter.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Fellow Californians: www.gov.ca.gov/contact/
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Contact the Governor | Governor of California
You can contact the Governor a few different ways. The best way is through his online form.
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The Mouthy Renegade Writer @mouthyrenegade.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Our health care system in America is disgusting. A clear indication that our government doesn't give a fuck if we live or die.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Come on this is ridiculous.
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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
“ICE agents were caught on video pulling one teen from the car and punching him repeatedly in the face while he lay on the ground. The other teen, Luis Ochoa, said he informed the ICE agents he was a citizen but was told, ‘I don’t give a damn.… Your parents can’t help you now.’”
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HobKnight @shawnjdouglas.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Lanterns episode 5 was amazing. No spoilers. #Lanterns
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Richard Kadrey @richardkadrey.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Whenever Trump posts this pitiful shit, I think of a quote from Wole Soyinka: "A tiger does not shout its tigritude, it acts." If Trump was really a tiger, the world wouldn't know the phrase TACO.
Trump's AI image of himself dressed up in a uniform like Patton
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Richard Kadrey @richardkadrey.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Happy birthday to the mother of SF, Mary Shelley
a first edition of Frankenstein
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
The richest man owns X. The second and fourth richest men control Google. The third richest man owns The Washington Post. The sixth richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. And now the seventh richest could soon take over both Paramount and Warner Bros. See the problem here?
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Patch Zircher @patrickzircher.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
BlueSky and X are very different places. This was reposted 464 times on X, and over 6500 times here. Some things, politics should not matter.
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Darrington Press @darringtonpress.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
You don't always make action rolls, but when you do you should add your ✨ experience ✨ Taliesin Jaffe explains Experiences in #Daggerheart: how to build one, when to spend a Hope to use it, and how it grows with your character in our newest GYST episode.
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Experiences in Daggerheart! | Get Your Sheet Together
Taliesin Jaffe explains Experiences in Daggerheart: how to build one that's just right (not too broad, not too narrow), when to spend a Hope to use it, and how it grows with your character over time. DAGGERHEART Daggerheart is OUT NOW, which you can di...
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James Introcaso @jamesintrocaso.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
THE CROWS BACKERKIT CAMPAIGN IS LIVE! mcdm.gg/crows-rpg
A big scary skeleton in armor raising bloody hands to the sky
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 17/08/2026
"I asked for $10 billion" -- Trump demands protection payment from South Korea
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Taylor Farms' parent company has given $2.2M to GOP PACs this election cycle. That includes $1M to Trump's own PAC, just 6 days after the FDA delayed new food tracing requirements last year. Money in politics is sickening.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
"Pete Hegseth’s appointments to a key Pentagon advisory body include two men with ties to the venture capital fund where Donald Trump Jr is a partner, which has lucrative investments in military and space technology." There's always a grift.
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Pete Hegseth’s Pentagon picks raise questions over Trump family business ties
Two advisers have links to a venture fund co-investing in US defense companies that benefit from federal spending
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Ambassador Ken Fairfax (ret) @portlandken.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Tales of everyday corruption. Pete Hegseth cancelled the $400,000 contract for making uniforms for the Blue Angels on the grounds that the contract with "The Sewing Box" was DEI since the firm is Black-owned. Instead, he awarded it to a Trump donor for $1,690,000, a 325% price increase!
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WIRED @wired.com · 08/08/2026
New AI toolbars and prompts are showing up in Google Docs and Gmail. If you don’t want Gemini’s help in writing documents and emails, here’s how to turn that stuff off. www.wired.com/story/how-to...
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How to Disable the AI Features in Gmail and Google Docs
New AI toolbars and prompts are showing up in Google Docs and Gmail. If you don’t want Gemini’s help in writing documents and emails, here’s how to turn that stuff off.
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Anthony's Spinning Circles here too! @circlesspinning.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
I'd watch that!🎯 substack.com/@newsgirls/n...
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The Fired 60 Minutes Team Is Building a $50 Million Rival Show
Scott Pelley, Bill Owens and other journalists pushed out of CBS could reunite for a new investigative newsmagazine—and honestly, it may be more 60 Minutes than the show CBS will air this fall.
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Richard Kadrey @richardkadrey.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Good morning
Mysterious goat: "Are you doing okay?"
Thoughtful rabbit: "No. But I have chosen chaos."
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Adam Mallinger @bitterscriptreader.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
It was so damn depressing to watch every TV writer who was willing and eager to have open, intelligent conversations about their process get hounded off social by a combination of aggressive stans and belligerent wannabes defending the right to be a shithead to creatives
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Richard Kadrey @richardkadrey.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Today's ambient writing music suggestion: The Air is on Fire by David Lynch and Dean Hurley. The album is a series of quiet, occasionally ominous, soundscapes. It’s like walking through an old house haunting itself with dreams and half-remembered songs.
the cloudy cover of The Air is on Fire
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Tanya D. || Writer || Narrative Designer @cypheroftyr.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Deeply missing my Black Dice Society companions *most of them. Relive our adventures here with the playlist on the D&D YouTube. @bdavewalters.bsky.social @deejayknight.bsky.social @nouralogical.bsky.social (Mark Meer isn't on Bsky) @veemuse.bsky.social youtube.com/playlist?lis...
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Black Dice Society - YouTube
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Senator Ron Wyden @wyden.senate.gov · 03/08/2026
This deal solidifies the Trump family's immunity from tax audits. Under no circumstances should the American people believe that Trump‘s former personal attorney will stop his schemes to funnel taxpayer dollars to his allies and supporters.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
The effective federal corporate income tax rate: 1950: 50% 1990: 25% 2020: 13% Stop asking "but how we will pay for it?" Restore the corporate tax rate. That is how we will pay for it.
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Richard Kadrey @richardkadrey.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
We're giving away 25 copies of SANDMAN SLIM over on Goodreads! Just stop by and mash the button. (US only) www.goodreads.com/book/show/70...
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Sandman Slim (Sandman Slim #1)
Supernatural fantasy has a new antihero in Sandman Slim…
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HobKnight @shawnjdouglas.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Check out Rise of the Lazy Gamemaster by Mike Shea on @kickstarter.com www.kickstarter.com/projects/sly...
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Rise of the Lazy Gamemaster
Run great tabletop RPGs by preparing less.
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NBC News @nbcnews.com · 11/06/2026
More than half a dozen white South Africans say they applied early for the U.S. refugee program. As they wait, they say they face violent racial discrimination, a claim experts refute.
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White South African applicants say they feel forgotten under Trump’s refugee program
More than half a dozen white South Africans say they applied early for the U.S. refugee program. As they wait, they say they face violent racial discrimination, a claim experts refute.
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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
The Secretary of State attending a UFC fight while wartime diplomatic negotiations fail would generate an explosive, front-page, above-the-fold headline for any previous administration
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Tim Dickinson @timdickinson.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
The NYT calls it like it is
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Trump Revels in Threats to Commit War Crimes in Iran
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
Four-byline alert: 🚨 “.. A broker for Pete Hegseth, the US defence secretary, attempted to make a big investment in major defence companies in the weeks leading up to the US-Israeli attack on Iran, according to three people familiar with the matter.” www.ft.com/content/744e...
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Ben Byrne @thebenbyrne.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
If you want to add grim factions to your dark fantasy D&D campaign, I gotchu! www.youtube.com/watch?v=UGIV...
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5 BRUTAL Factions to Darken Your D&D Campaign!
YouTube video by Ghostfire Gaming
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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
torrents are undefeated: www.404media.co/the-removed-...
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The Removed DOGE Deposition Videos Have Already Been Backed Up Across the Internet
On Friday a judge ordered those who uploaded the videos to YouTube to remove them. By Saturday, a backup of the videos was available online as a torrent and on the Internet Archive.
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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
BREAKING: The US has bombed Tehran’s main refinery and burning oil is now flooding down the streets into the city’s sewers. This is a vision from hell, unleashed by the US tonight. (🎥 Vahid Online)
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Drives Like a Dream @urban-achiever.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
Orwell at his very best could never come up with some of this. Proactively in a defensive way is basically a line from a coen bros film.
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Evil Hat @evilhat.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
sometimes you have to be clear about your values
A screenshot of an email from an ad agency to Evil Hat Marketing:

Hey Evil Hat team, 

Promised this is the last time you’ll hear from me.

We are wrapping up generating content on the house. The AI studio is starting to get fully booked with our paying clients, and I have strict orders to stop promoting this come the weekend.

I figured Evil Hat might as well get some work out of us at no cost while you can.

Want in before we close it up? 

Best,
[redacted]

And then our reply:

Hi [redacted],

We will never use AI for our games or for our marketing. It's toxic to our customer audience and it's an ethical violation of the hard work put in by the human artists we hire to illustrate our books and the human writers who design our games.

In short, it's not "free work" it's theft.

Feel free to take me off your mailing list. Hope you turn around your business model because frankly, your current approach sucks shit.

-Tom
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Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
New: As David Ellison prepares to take control of CNN, legendary CBS News producer Mary Walsh, who is exiting, sent a goodbye note to colleagues. In the note, Walsh writes, "We’ve been told to aim our reporting at a particular part of the political spectrum. Honestly, I don’t know how to do that."
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
This is amazing. www.getyourfuckingmoneyback.com
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Andy Diggle @andydiggle.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
Replace the word "AI" with "SkyNet" and headlines start making a lot more sense.
newscientist.com
AIs can’t stop recommending nuclear strikes in war game simulations
Leading AIs from OpenAI, Anthropic and Google opted to use nuclear weapons in simulated war games in 95 per cent of cases
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HobKnight @shawnjdouglas.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
Proud to be the 61st backer 😎 on @BackerKit Crowdfunding for Last Light Station for Mothership RPG! www.backerkit.com/c/projects/j...
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Last Light Station for Mothership RPG
A shore leave location with new cybermods, recovery mechanics, black market items + more
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Nerd Immersion @nerdimmersion.com · 11/02/2026
My Eberron: Forge of the artificer giveaway is live! Check it out here: gleam.io/qwQcP/eberro... Giveaway runs until 2/28/26 at 11:59PM Eastern! Good Luck! #dnd #nerdimmersion
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Eberron: Forge of the Artificer Giveaway
1st Place - A copy of the Eberron Forge of the Artifier limited edition cover 2nd Place - A copy of Eberron Forge of the Artificer 3rd Place - A copy of Eberron Forge of the Artificer This giveaway ru...
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Rebel with a Cause @rebelwithacause2.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
Says the guy who auctioned off little girls Says the guy who trafficked little girls Says the guy who raped little girls Voter cheating, or electoral fraud, is extremely rare in the USA Only 39 cases of voter fraud were ID'd in a recent election, a mere 0.000039% of over 100 million ballots cast
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 15/02/2026
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Dr. DaShanne Stokes @dashannestokes.com · 10/02/2026
Shut down the DHS. Shut down the DOJ. Shut down ICE. No funding for terrorism. Shut it all down. Shut down everyone responsible for their crimes, too.
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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
You know what they’re going to store in those warehouses? People
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 30/01/2026
the answer is that jennings performance of smug dishonesty reliably generates viral clips, so they continue to have him on even though he is a shameless liar
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