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Freedom Writers Collaborative @fwcollaborative.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Poll workers are essential to ensure that elections are a success. Check out U.S. Election Assistance Commission's webpage "Become a Poll Worker". Being a poll worker is fun! It's a great feeling to Help America Vote.

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Support our campaign to oppose MAGA extremists

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Stefan E. Jones @stefanejones.bsky.social · 9h

I've been helping with planning for one up in Beaverton, OR, and promoting many more. We've got Oregon's Secretary of State speaking, among others. A band. A march to the local ballot box so folks can get 'em off as part of the fun.

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Benjamin Dewey @benjamindewey.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

I made a website for myself this summer. There's tons of my work on there from past and current projects: www.benjamindeweyart.com

Cover of I Was The Cat 10th anniversary edition

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Stefan E. Jones @stefanejones.bsky.social · 16h

I think I knew I'd end up wearing glasses in 4th grade, and hated the idea so much I hid the problem as best as I could. I think I started wearing them in 7th grade.

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Tunnels & Trolls Game Family Fans @deluxetnt.bsky.social · 16h

Sad news, folks. Ken St. Andre posted this on Facebook.

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Stefan E. Jones @stefanejones.bsky.social · 16h

When I was in First Grade, I felt like I was missing out on social things that others saw. I imagined that others had some visual ability I lacked, and could see body parts -- something on the shoulders -- that I couldn't, that provided signals I was missing out on. NB: I was pretty near-sighted.

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Stefan E. Jones @stefanejones.bsky.social · 20h

Sleeping behind the wheel. Maybe stoned on glowing hard candy. This won't end well. www.youtube.com/watch?v=lruz...

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Bluey's Starry Sleep Journey: Glowing Piano & Space Sounds for Deep Rest 🌌

YouTube video by Bluey Piano Beats

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Stefan E. Jones @stefanejones.bsky.social · 20h

This AI generated video is over eight hours long. If it was realistic those doggos would asphyxiate in their sealed bubble. Not willing to watch long enough to see if they turn blue(er). www.youtube.com/watch?v=J9n_...

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Exploring the Ocean with Bluey & Bingo🌊 Calm Piano Music to Relax & Focus 🐢 Positive Mood Cute Vibes

YouTube video by Bluey Piano Beats

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Stefan E. Jones @stefanejones.bsky.social · 21h

Possibly. I'd love to get the starter kit that came with.

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Stefan E. Jones @stefanejones.bsky.social · 21h

Questions I hope are asked: "Katie, is there any truth to reports that the president is only able to stand upright thanks to wearing gyro-stabilized underwear?" www.theguardian.com/us-news/live...

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Katie Zacharia addresses media in first briefing as White House press secretary – live

Zacharia – who recently served as a communications adviser to parent company of Truth Social – has replaced Karoline Leavitt

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Stefan E. Jones @stefanejones.bsky.social · 21h

In a 2nd (?) season episode of Stranger Things, set in 1984, we see in Dustin's room a MPC Pioneer 1 model rocket (and its box), a kit which was only produced from 1970-71. Yeah ok maybe it was old stock but nerds like me notice such things.

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Stefan E. Jones @stefanejones.bsky.social · 23h

The 35 year rule is how the designers of Villains & Vigilantes (@JeffDee.bsky.social, @jackbherman.bsky.social) got back their game (but not the trademark to the title, sigh), and how Steve Jackson retrieved his first RPG, The Fantasy Trip, from limbo.

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Stefan E. Jones @stefanejones.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

A good description of Steve Jackson's (@sjgames.com) GURPS -- Generic Universal Role Playing System -- which I wrote several books for: www.sjgames.com/ill/archive/...

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Daily Illuminator: A Line Editor's Intro To GURPS

In the vein of A Line Editor's Intro To Fighting Fantasy, I'm here to talk about GURPS. Who are you?

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Stefan E. Jones @stefanejones.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

RT if you've never had a tab of ChatGPT open, period.

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Richard Kadrey @richardkadrey.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

If you think technology will solve your problems you don't understand technology—and you don't understand your problems. —Laurie Anderson

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Stefan E. Jones @stefanejones.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Such transparently political bullshit. Red meat for the dwindling Trump base. Do they think this will somehow intimidate us? This is going to make regime opponents all the more determined for action.

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The Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

This is bad obviously, and we shouldn’t overlook that; it’s also something that I don’t think sane, savvy, competent operatives would want to be in the news 3 weeks before an election hinging on their abuse of government power.

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Stefan E. Jones @stefanejones.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

I'd avoid the problem by distributing it to at least 100 people, on the condition that THEY split their billion up 100 ways. 10 million makes you very comfortable and secure but not a danger to the world.

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Stefan E. Jones @stefanejones.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Oregon's Democratic party is implementing an "Adopt a Ballot Drop Box" monitoring program. Volunteers will observe, from a distance, the final nightly pick-up of ballots by officials.

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Paul Graf @paulginva.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

This is the most articulate and impactful piece I've read regarding the Pentagon's planned livestreamed execution of Nidel Hasan. Please read it.

The Space Coast Rocket @CoastRocket

WE COUNT THE ENEMIES WE KILL. WE RARELY COUNT THE ONES WE CREATE.

Nidal Hasan was a patient on my floor in the surgical trauma ICU at Brooke Army Medical Center.

I wasn't there when he arrived. I had just left for my deployment to Mosul, Iraq. But the nurses and doctors who cared for him were my peers and my friends, and I know exactly what that required of them, because every one of us had done some version of it before. Before anyone tells me what strength looks like, understand what that work demands.

I have cared for a drunk driver who wiped out an entire family and landed in our ICU himself. I have cared for gang members who shot up a block while children were stepping off a school bus, then ended up on our unit with bullets of their own. I have kept alive people who murdered their own families and failed at taking their own lives. And in Iraq, I saved the lives of the very enemy fighters who had just tried to kill us and miraculously survived our response.

Every one of those patients got our best. Not because we felt anything for them, but because of who we were. You set aside anger, grief, prejudice and every personal feeling you have, because a life in front of you is a life in front of you. That's the oath. That's the duty.

So when Hasan came through those doors, my colleagues did what we had always done. They preserved the life of a man who murdered thirteen people and would have killed them too, given the chance. He killed those men and women in one of the very same buildings many Soldier's like myself have been in when I was stationed at Fort Hood.

He is alive today because they did their jobs. That was not sentiment. It was a hard, tangible expression of the values this country claims to stand for. Our principles had to mean something even when the person benefiting from them had violated everything we believed in.

Now the Pentagon plans to livestream his execution by firing squad on Dec. 3, and our leaders apparently believe turning his death into a public spectacle will demonstrate American strength. I think it demonstrates how little they understand the enemy they claim to be fighting. We kept Nidal Hasan alive, now our leaders want to make him a martyr.

Hasan walked into Fort Hood expecting to die. He believed his death would be rewarded. At his trial, he called no witnesses and offered no defense, and his own court-appointed lawyers worried he was seeking execution. He failed at martyrdom once. Now we're about to hand it to him, in high definition, for every extremist with an internet connection to replay, manipulate and celebrate.

We supply the footage. They supply the meaning.

Long after the politicians finish congratulating themselves, that video will still exist. Their moment of bravado becomes somebody else's recruiting material for decades. And this failure to think past the immediate display of power reaches far beyond one execution. We count the enemies we kill. We rarely count the enemies we create.

Look at the school in Minab, Iran, where multiple investigations attributed the strike that killed more than 100 children and their teachers to us. You cannot bury people's children beneath the rubble of their classrooms and expect a speech about American intentions to decide how they remember you. No denial brings those children home. No claim of good intentions makes their parents forget whose weapons killed them.

If those were our children, we would remember for the rest of our lives.

We would demand accountability. Many of us would want vengeance.

We would tell their stories to the next generation. We know this because we did exactly that after September 11.

Why do we imagine other people love their children less, grieve less deeply, or remember less clearly?

We have developed a horrifying talent for creating more terrorists than we will ever stop. We inflict suffering, evade responsibility, and then act as though the anger that follows came out of nowhere.

Think back to the first time you saw one of those al Qaeda videos of an American being beheaded. Remember the sickness in your stomach.

Remember the rage. Remember thinking that only savages would film a killing and send it out for the world to watch. Now ask yourself what the rest of the world will see when the camera is ours.

Terrorist organizations stage executions for the cameras. Authoritarian regimes make death a public spectacle to feed fear and rage. Watching our own leaders reach for those same tools should force us to confront how much of ourselves we are surrendering in the name of defeating them.

The line separating us from the people we condemn has to live in our conduct. A flag cannot hold it for us. Neither can a uniform, a title, or a declaration that we are the good guys.

On that ICU floor, on a bloody street in Mosul, and in trauma bays across this country, people like my colleagues hold that line every day under circumstances most will never face. They keep monsters alive because their duty and their humanity are bigger than their hatred of what those monsters have done.

Execute him if that's the sentence. But do it the way a confident nation does; quietly, lawfully, and without giving him the stage he always wanted. Let him be forgotten.

I expect our leaders to show at least as much discipline as the nurses who had to care for him.

They keep telling us they are defending what makes America different. Every day, they make that difference harder to see.

Robert W. Burns III is the editor and publisher of The Space Coast Rocket, an Army veteran and a retired trauma nurse. The views expressed in this column are his own.

CBS News @CBSNews

The U.S. military plans to livestream the execution of Nidal Hasan, the ex-Army major who was convicted of the 2009 killing of 13 people at Fort Hood, when he faces a firing squad on Dec. 3, a Pentagon official said.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said earlier Thursday the Pentagon planned to make the execution public.

Hasan's case could mark the military's first execution of an American service member since 1961.

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Stefan E. Jones @stefanejones.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

"Daisy, Daisy, give me youuurr rrr rr answer t t t true . . . ."

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All-Devouring* Scourge of Terra (Mrs.) @martianempress.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Pop Arena just did a video on that! It's timely, isn't it. www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_et...

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The Monkees: "Monkee Vs Machine" - Nick Knacks Sample Platter

YouTube video by Pop Arena

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Stefan E. Jones @stefanejones.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Hah! I just happened to watch because I'm beginning a re-watch.

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Stefan E. Jones @stefanejones.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Something that would have horrible consequences, but . . . you know . . . I'd totally understand if it happened.

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Stefan E. Jones @stefanejones.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Just started watching an episode of "The Monkees" in which one of the boys applies for a job and is interviewed by a talking computer. www.imdb.com/title/tt0650...

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AffirmationCoyote.bsky.social @affirmationcoyote.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Changing the names of other bodies of water worked SO WELL to change his ratings. This will turn things around for sure. Affirmation Coyote to Angry Orange Grandpa: GO FOR IT!

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Stefan E. Jones @stefanejones.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

A few years back the local Used Food Store* was selling little cans of mackerel in tomato sauce. Two cans for a buck! I bought more than a dozen. Good on rice. I'm down to three cans. One is going on a batch of ravioli. Just enough sauce; some protein. *(Look it up. I'm tired of explaining.)

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Mei 🪽 @meidotwav.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

treat your body like a data center. consume as much water, art and literature as possible. upset local municipalities with your existence.

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Stefan E. Jones @stefanejones.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

I've come to really appreciate dollar store plastic bins.

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Stefan E. Jones @stefanejones.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

4/ And to go along with that, you can designate National Parks in you territory. They generate some Culture, and some science-research lightbulbs. Every city along the park's borders gets a happiness boost.

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Stefan E. Jones @stefanejones.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

3/ Also: Your civ has a Biodiversity rating, based on un-exploited lands in your territory. A road, railroad, mine or irrigation / farmland messes up a hex's rating; it might recover after decades of tearing out the infrastructure. Contiguous unexploited hexes scale up the hexes' ratings.

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Stefan E. Jones @stefanejones.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

2/ I'd like to see freeciv make procedurally generated new Wonders of the World. Similar powers to the originals, but with new names and some unique spin. Just to shake things up.

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Stefan E. Jones @stefanejones.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

1/ I've been playing "freeciv," a decent recreation of Sid Meir's Civilization II (with a bit of III). I play on a huge world with one AI player per continent. My civilization rarely runs into another. I just want to play in a sandbox. My cities do have to fight off tenacious bandits and pirates.

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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

All these years later.... I'm STILL a member of The Resistance.

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Stefan E. Jones @stefanejones.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

How do you do the white highlights?

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Patrick Sean Farley @foxymoron.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Inktober. day ten: shelter

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Stefan E. Jones @stefanejones.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

7/ * And let cool for an hour. It will still be warm inside. I let the dough rise in a bowl in an oven with the door open a little, so the light bulb stays on and warms up the interior a little. The ingredients are cheap, so don't feel bad if you need a few tries to get a nice loaf.

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Stefan E. Jones @stefanejones.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

* Before you put dough in Dutch oven, cover the bottom of pan with corn meal (this prevents bread from sticking to pan). Cover and bake for 30 minutes. * After 30 minutes remove top and bake an additional 15 minutes to brown. Sometimes I leave it in for 5 more minutes depending how it browns.

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Stefan E. Jones @stefanejones.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

5/ * Put corn meal on a dish towel (enough so the dough doesn't stick to the towel). Fold the edges of the towel over the dough and let set for 2 hours. * Preheat oven and Dutch oven pan at 425 (not top).

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Stefan E. Jones @stefanejones.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

4/ * Lightly fold by taking the edges of the dough and pulling them into the center of dough. Fold approximately 6 times to get the dough covered with flour. NO KNEADING.

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Stefan E. Jones @stefanejones.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

3/ * After the 18hrs, spread a bed of flour on a counter top (or large "bread board") so you can lightly fold the flour into the dough. The dough should be wet when poured onto countertop.

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