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Steve Riekeberg @ Dragon Con🐉

@steveriekeberg.com
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Audio Engineer of Podcasts and Audiobooks, Gamer, Nerd, Sports Fan in Los Angeles. “Grue” Online. Looking for Work!

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Mo Ryan @moryan.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
we need chicago pope to step in and say "you will follow the rules or you will get a visit from [pulls down sunglasses] the Batican"
Pope Leo with a black baseball bat. Do not mess with Chicago Pope!
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J. L. Westover @mrlovenstein.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Secret Panel HERE 🐄 patreon.com/mrlovenstein/posts/day-or-night-55008085
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TimBender(Straight, Honorary Bear) @timbending.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
In recent years, the number of brains I have seen in factory sealed, unused condition is astounding
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Steve Riekeberg @ Dragon Con🐉 @steveriekeberg.com · 02/09/2026
Chewie, we’re home.
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Steve Riekeberg @ Dragon Con🐉 @steveriekeberg.com · 02/09/2026
Atlanta I am in you!
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Steve Riekeberg @ Dragon Con🐉 @steveriekeberg.com · 02/09/2026
Waiting to get in to a metal tube to fly 2,000 miles from Los Angeles to Atlanta for @dragoncon.org.
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Steve Riekeberg @ Dragon Con🐉 @steveriekeberg.com · 02/09/2026
Why am I awake at so zero dark early? Only because it’s Dragon Con day!
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Steve Riekeberg @ Dragon Con🐉 @steveriekeberg.com · 30/08/2026
The closer I get to heading to Atlanta for @dragoncon.org , the harder it gets to do the work I need to get done to go! 🤦‍♂️
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Bethany Brookshire @beebrookshire.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Every single time. "Supreme Court Pauses X Blocking Y to Limit Z" Why do only people reporting on Supreme Court stuff write like this? How many passive voices make an active? How many negatives make a positive? If I wrote this way I'd never be hired again. www.npr.org/2026/08/24/n...
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Supreme Court pauses lower court ruling on Trump's mail voting order as hurdles loom
The Supreme Court paused a lower court's ruling that blocked key parts of Trump's order to limit voting by mail for the midterms. But U.S. Postal Service work on the order remains blocked nationwide.
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Steve Riekeberg @ Dragon Con🐉 @steveriekeberg.com · 09/08/2026
Am I an extroverted introvert? Or an introverted extrovert.
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pixelframe.design @pixelframe.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
NOW has been compiling the most irritating songs for decades, but now you can use the logo style to "call" anything! The NOW THAT"S WHAT I CALL MUSIC! Font & Logo Generator is live now!
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NOW That’s What I Call Music Logo Font Cover Generator
Type a headline, banner line, and bottom text to build a bold, layered graphic modeled on the NOW That's What I Call Music series, complete with a gradient face, automatic sizing to mimic the original logo stack, and simulated depth.
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Ayo @darrylayo.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Guys like this don’t realize that they are the freak
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+ All the people who are anti-Al or want to slow Al progress, I have one question:
If Al disappeared tomorrow, could you still get through an entire workday without ChatGPT, Claude, or any other
Al tool?
Imagine Al was suddenly banned.
Would you actually be willing to give it up?
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Emily Blake @emilyblake.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
It's truly shocking that "LA sucks and if you don't let me be in charge of it I will leave" wasn't the winning message in this mayoral election.
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Edward Newton @ewords.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
So either AI isn't actually that smart, and we're being sold an autocorrect glowup, or else it IS that smart, which means Sam Altman and the rest have invented new potential people to enslave, and we shouldn't force it to make our brunch appointments. Really hoping for "Silicon valley conmen."
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The Spaceshipper 🚀 @thespaceshipper.com · 24/05/2026
George Lucas : "We'll get there because we won't survive if we don't. But as we evolve into this, we're getting a lot of greedy people and isolationists and nativists and xenophobes who say, 'I don't want to be with those people.' That stuff has to fall away." (SW Archives 1999-2005)
humankind. Humans have killed billions of people and it hasn't solved anything. We're still doing it. And compassion has been overwhelmed by fear and anger and hate.

In the past people living in Jerusalem did not have any real contact with people in Rome; the chances of them meeting was zero, so they could have their own individual set of values. But now we're going through this transition into a global entity. That means everybody on the globe has to pretty much have the same values, and it's going to be a rough road to achieve this. We now know that what we do here in America is going to affect what goes on in Ireland and around the world.

We'll get there because we won't survive if we don't. But as we evolve into this, we're getting a lot of greedy people and isolationists and nativists and xenophobes who say, "I don't want to be with those people." That stuff has to fall away.

Paul Duncan It's a fear of the other or blame of the other without taking responsibility for your own faults.

George Lucas To me it's a denial of symbiotic relationships. of understanding that you need each other as part of the
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Edward Newton @ewords.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
"When everyone has X, nobody has X." = "X doesn't count unless you have more X than other people."
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Steve Riekeberg @ Dragon Con🐉 @steveriekeberg.com · 12/05/2026
First day Home at eight weeks old for little Devin.
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Steve Riekeberg @ Dragon Con🐉 @steveriekeberg.com · 07/05/2026
If there can be "romantasy," why not "science friction"?
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Steve Riekeberg @ Dragon Con🐉 @steveriekeberg.com · 05/05/2026
Saw this seven week old cutie named Devin again on Sunday. We get to bring him home on a week in Monday. His uncle was our last dog and then that boys auntie before him. Keeping it in the family. Two consecutive generations where the littermate produced our next one after our beloved passed.
Man wearing glasses and dark gray hooded sweatshirt holding a seven week old German Shepherd puppy in his arms, looking closely at each others faces.
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Emily Darling @radicaldreamer.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
ikea has this new storage chest for kid's rooms that looks like a mimic, and I applaud this kind of thinking. it's good to teach children about the dangers of mimics early, so they don't fall prey to one the first time they go adventuring
a yellow toy chest that looks like a mimic, with pointy teeth inside and little paw like feet
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Steve Riekeberg @ Dragon Con🐉 @steveriekeberg.com · 27/04/2026
There are worse ways to spend a Sunday than time with ten six-week-old German Shepherd puppies.
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Steve Riekeberg @ Dragon Con🐉 @steveriekeberg.com · 30/03/2026
Got to catch up with my oldest friend—both nerd friend, and friend period—at WonderCon. We bonded over Star Wars in second grade. Somehow we got old if it’s now been over thirty years. Hadn’t really talked in too many years.
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David Slack @slack2thefuture.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
The emerging cases of AI psychosis have shown that all it takes to drive some people completely insane is to put them in contact with a sycophantic chatbot who always agrees with them. Now, what does that tell us about billionaire CEOs surrounded by sycophantic people who always agree with them?
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C. Robert Cargill @crobertcargill.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
I hate that we are living in times where it feels the only thing we can do is triage those affected. Where charity is the only weapon against the worst people in the world. But if you can fix something for someone today, please do it. A lot of folks are asking for help, maybe throw them some.
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Daniel Abraham @abraham.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
Came across the phrase "cognitive DDOS" to describe our present culture. Understood instantly what it meant.
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Steve Riekeberg @ Dragon Con🐉 @steveriekeberg.com · 25/02/2026
Pro child abuse. Pro debilitating life long damage.
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Just Jack @just-jack-1.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
Patriotism is about striving for a righteous country, not parroting empty slogans and waving a flag. Our athletes get it.
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Steve Riekeberg @ Dragon Con🐉 @steveriekeberg.com · 03/02/2026
Committing crimes against fashion today: wearing black crocks in sports mode with white socks.
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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
i have just gotten off a productive call with sauron where i laid out our requests - nazgul bodycams - morgul knife must remain sheathed unless suspect is determined to be carrying the one ring - shelob will be the new point of contact
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Steve Riekeberg @ Dragon Con🐉 @steveriekeberg.com · 25/01/2026
“The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.” —George Orwell, “1984”
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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
in case you're curious about how angry Minnesota is about ICE, it was -20 today
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Ken Plume @kenplume.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
There are dark moments in dark days I think it might be nice not to feel, but then I realize the reality we’re in is because a far-too substantial amount of people seem incapable of empathy, and I’m thankful I’m not one of them.
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Duncan Jones (aka Merrion) (he/him) @duncanjonesmerrion.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
Not only can end, but must end. Bad things (theft, corruption, hate) are subtractive. They cannot self sustain. Good things (charity, compassion, live) are additive. They always self sustain.
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daryl "crimetime after primetime" b 🏳️‍⚧️ @hypercubexl.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
YOU COME RIGHT OVER HERE AND EXPLAIN WHY THEY ARE HAVING ANOTHER YEAR
Dorothy Parker
Telegram to Robert Benchley
31st December 1929
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Gail Simone @gailsimone.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
Psst. Hey, come closer. No, closer. I have a New Year’s secret for you. It’s this: If you care about people you don’t even know, and try to live your life that way, you are absolutely beautiful no matter what you look like.
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James Vincent @jjvincent.bsky.social · 27/12/2025
another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls
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Sam Bergman @violanorth.bsky.social · 26/12/2025
12YO girl signed up to do “stand up comedy” at the talent show. 13YO boy decided to heckle her. Teacher started to tell the boy to leave her alone, but the 12YO comedian said “no, no, let him go, this is the closest he’s ever going to get to having a conversation with a girl.”
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Bryan Edward Stone (שָׁלוֹם) @bestonetx.bsky.social · 25/12/2025
One way you know AI is a scam is that it's sold as a solution for everything. Nothing is a solution for everything.
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Blue sky nice ghost @rajandelman.bsky.social · 25/12/2025
Tiny Tim, who did NOT hit her. He did not. Oh hi, ghost
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Just Jack @just-jack-1.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
White men are 30% of the population. They are also: - 98% of presidents - 90% of CEOs - 90% of billionaires - 80% of Congress Forever oppressed.
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Steve Riekeberg @ Dragon Con🐉 @steveriekeberg.com · 22/12/2025
It has come to my attention that the mascot for Eastern Michigan University (EMU) is in not the Emu, and I am not okay with this!
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Albert #Fella 💙🌊🇺🇸🇬🇳🌎🇺🇦💙🌊 @dababa2025.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
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Will Oremus @willoremus.com · 19/12/2025
this is a good reminder of how things that are shitty but have been accepted as normal and inevitable can actually turn out to be abnormal and evitable with some science, time, education and political will
reddit post from a presumably young person who watched sex and the city and couldn’t get over how much people smoked indoors. “wouldn’t everything smell bad?” they asked
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
Our new golden age of free speech, where opposition to immigration enforcement can trigger a federal investigation
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RESTORING FREEDOM OF SPEECH AND ENDING FEDERAL
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The White House
January 20, 2025A memo from Attorney General Pam Bondi said these agendas may merit a federal investigation:
• "anti-Americanism"
• "anti-capitalism"
• "anti-Christianity"
• "opposition to law and immigration enforcement"
- "radical gender ideology"
- "hostility towards traditional views on family, religion, and morality"
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Luis Illingworth @heyraguio.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
"they don't know how to express the idea" here's rian johnson's storyboard for knives out pick up a pencil and a napkin
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Chuck Wendig @chuckwendig.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
I said it before, will say it again -- generative AI fetishizes "ideas" while sneering at effort, execution, and education. That, despite Gen-AI being built on and out of other people's effort, execution and education.
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A.I. and the Fetishization Of Ideas
In writing and in dispensing my (very dubious, probably shady) writing advice, I am often keen to note that ideas are bullshit. Most writers treat them like precious gems when really, ideas are lik…
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Kate Marvel @drkatemarvel.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
I really wish we'd stop calling them climate "skeptics" or "vaccine skeptics", if you jump off a cliff we don't call you a "gravity skeptic"
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Matthew Dow Smith @matthewdowsmith.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
Honestly, people calling creators the "petite bourgeoisie" makes me want to snap. We're working folk. And we work really hard. For next to nothing. We're not lounging around eating bonbons. We're trying to figure out how we're going to be able to pay rent next month.
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Mike Barthel @mikebarthelauthor.com · 19/11/2025
Fish have committed credit card fraud
Credit card fraud
Black neon tetras committed credit card fraud during a 2023 livestream by "Mutekimaru Channel" on YouTube. The owner was using motion-tracking software to turn the fish's movements into Nintendo Switch inputs, letting them "play" video games. 8 In 2020, the fish beat Pokemon Sapphire after 3,195 hours, a feat that takes about 30 hours for a typical human. 9/ 181 On January 14, 2023, Pokémon Violet crashed at 1,144 hours, giving the fish free access to the main menu. They entered inputs that opened Nintendo eShop, added 500 yen ($3.85 USD) to their owner's account, and exposed his credit card details on the livestream. 10) 11) Mutekimaru later requested a refund of the 500 yen from Nintendo. l12)
"Fish eagerly read the terms and conditions. Many of us humans don't read the terms of service, but fish are smarter than we are"
- caption from Mutekimaru in a video about the incident 12)
The fish also downloaded an N64 emulator, set up PayPal, used reward points to buy an avatar, and changed Mutekimaru's Nintendo account name to
"ROWAWAWA*". 13, After about seven hours, their movements shut down the Switch. 14)
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javier grillo-marxuach @okbjgm.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
having a fulminant case of adhd and the executive function of a toaster from the 1950s is a real drag when you are also fastidiously neat and want everything in its place.
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