Reposted by Steve Riekeberg @ Dragon Con🐉Mo Ryan @moryan.bsky.social · 25/09/2026we 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" 81138186
Reposted by Steve Riekeberg @ Dragon Con🐉J. L. Westover @mrlovenstein.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Secret Panel HERE 🐄 patreon.com/mrlovenstein/posts/day-or-night-55008085 71480246
Reposted by Steve Riekeberg @ Dragon Con🐉TimBender(Straight, Honorary Bear) @timbending.bsky.social · 22/09/2026In recent years, the number of brains I have seen in factory sealed, unused condition is astounding 3578
Steve Riekeberg @ Dragon Con🐉 @steveriekeberg.com · 02/09/2026Waiting to get in to a metal tube to fly 2,000 miles from Los Angeles to Atlanta for @dragoncon.org. 010
Steve Riekeberg @ Dragon Con🐉 @steveriekeberg.com · 02/09/2026Why am I awake at so zero dark early? Only because it’s Dragon Con day! 130
Steve Riekeberg @ Dragon Con🐉 @steveriekeberg.com · 30/08/2026The 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! 🤦♂️ 020
Reposted by Steve Riekeberg @ Dragon Con🐉Bethany Brookshire @beebrookshire.bsky.social · 24/08/2026Every 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...npr.orgSupreme Court pauses lower court ruling on Trump's mail voting order as hurdles loomThe 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. 76613
Steve Riekeberg @ Dragon Con🐉 @steveriekeberg.com · 09/08/2026Am I an extroverted introvert? Or an introverted extrovert. 120
Reposted by Steve Riekeberg @ Dragon Con🐉pixelframe.design @pixelframe.bsky.social · 06/08/2026NOW 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!pixelframe.designNOW That’s What I Call Music Logo Font Cover GeneratorType 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. 1481221334
Reposted by Steve Riekeberg @ Dragon Con🐉Ayo @darrylayo.bsky.social · 04/08/2026Guys like this don’t realize that they are the freak 1023141062573
Reposted by Steve Riekeberg @ Dragon Con🐉Emily Blake @emilyblake.bsky.social · 09/06/2026It'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. 092
Reposted by Steve Riekeberg @ Dragon Con🐉Edward Newton @ewords.bsky.social · 25/05/2026So 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." 111
Reposted by Steve Riekeberg @ Dragon Con🐉The Spaceshipper 🚀 @thespaceshipper.com · 24/05/2026George 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) 422341
Reposted by Steve Riekeberg @ Dragon Con🐉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." 111
Steve Riekeberg @ Dragon Con🐉 @steveriekeberg.com · 12/05/2026First day Home at eight weeks old for little Devin. 050
Steve Riekeberg @ Dragon Con🐉 @steveriekeberg.com · 07/05/2026If there can be "romantasy," why not "science friction"? 010
Steve Riekeberg @ Dragon Con🐉 @steveriekeberg.com · 05/05/2026Saw 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. 020
Reposted by Steve Riekeberg @ Dragon Con🐉Emily Darling @radicaldreamer.bsky.social · 29/04/2026ikea 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 6043631359
Steve Riekeberg @ Dragon Con🐉 @steveriekeberg.com · 27/04/2026There are worse ways to spend a Sunday than time with ten six-week-old German Shepherd puppies. 020
Steve Riekeberg @ Dragon Con🐉 @steveriekeberg.com · 30/03/2026Got 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. 040
Reposted by Steve Riekeberg @ Dragon Con🐉David Slack @slack2thefuture.bsky.social · 13/03/2026The 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? 533300860
Reposted by Steve Riekeberg @ Dragon Con🐉C. Robert Cargill @crobertcargill.bsky.social · 27/02/2026I 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. 11728244
Reposted by Steve Riekeberg @ Dragon Con🐉Daniel Abraham @abraham.bsky.social · 26/02/2026Came across the phrase "cognitive DDOS" to describe our present culture. Understood instantly what it meant. 1027431011
Steve Riekeberg @ Dragon Con🐉 @steveriekeberg.com · 25/02/2026Pro child abuse. Pro debilitating life long damage. 030
Reposted by Steve Riekeberg @ Dragon Con🐉Just Jack @just-jack-1.bsky.social · 07/02/2026Patriotism is about striving for a righteous country, not parroting empty slogans and waving a flag. Our athletes get it. 16773991868
Steve Riekeberg @ Dragon Con🐉 @steveriekeberg.com · 03/02/2026Committing crimes against fashion today: wearing black crocks in sports mode with white socks. 010
Reposted by Steve Riekeberg @ Dragon Con🐉Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 27/01/2026i 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 108101442906
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” 000
Reposted by Steve Riekeberg @ Dragon Con🐉Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 24/01/2026in case you're curious about how angry Minnesota is about ICE, it was -20 today 9534967814278
Reposted by Steve Riekeberg @ Dragon Con🐉Ken Plume @kenplume.bsky.social · 09/01/2026There 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. 118645
Reposted by Steve Riekeberg @ Dragon Con🐉Duncan Jones (aka Merrion) (he/him) @duncanjonesmerrion.bsky.social · 04/01/2026Not 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. 2779
Reposted by Steve Riekeberg @ Dragon Con🐉daryl "crimetime after primetime" b 🏳️⚧️ @hypercubexl.bsky.social · 08/12/2025 21211474
Reposted by Steve Riekeberg @ Dragon Con🐉Gail Simone @gailsimone.bsky.social · 01/01/2026Psst. 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. 432904595
Reposted by Steve Riekeberg @ Dragon Con🐉James Vincent @jjvincent.bsky.social · 27/12/2025another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls 9444684414406
Reposted by Steve Riekeberg @ Dragon Con🐉Sam Bergman @violanorth.bsky.social · 26/12/202512YO 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.” 28151662702
Reposted by Steve Riekeberg @ Dragon Con🐉Bryan Edward Stone (שָׁלוֹם) @bestonetx.bsky.social · 25/12/2025One way you know AI is a scam is that it's sold as a solution for everything. Nothing is a solution for everything. 26659127
Reposted by Steve Riekeberg @ Dragon Con🐉Blue sky nice ghost @rajandelman.bsky.social · 25/12/2025Tiny Tim, who did NOT hit her. He did not. Oh hi, ghost 252784627
Reposted by Steve Riekeberg @ Dragon Con🐉Just Jack @just-jack-1.bsky.social · 23/12/2025White men are 30% of the population. They are also: - 98% of presidents - 90% of CEOs - 90% of billionaires - 80% of Congress Forever oppressed. 28155502033
Steve Riekeberg @ Dragon Con🐉 @steveriekeberg.com · 22/12/2025It 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! 130
Reposted by Steve Riekeberg @ Dragon Con🐉Albert #Fella 💙🌊🇺🇸🇬🇳🌎🇺🇦💙🌊 @dababa2025.bsky.social · 20/12/2025 015524
Reposted by Steve Riekeberg @ Dragon Con🐉Will Oremus @willoremus.com · 19/12/2025this 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 305158303963
Reposted by Steve Riekeberg @ Dragon Con🐉Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 18/12/2025Our new golden age of free speech, where opposition to immigration enforcement can trigger a federal investigation 16233121145
Reposted by Steve Riekeberg @ Dragon Con🐉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 207205077406
Reposted by Steve Riekeberg @ Dragon Con🐉Chuck Wendig @chuckwendig.bsky.social · 09/12/2025I 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.terribleminds.comA.I. and the Fetishization Of IdeasIn 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… 191307395
Reposted by Steve Riekeberg @ Dragon Con🐉Kate Marvel @drkatemarvel.bsky.social · 25/11/2025I 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" 14354741366
Reposted by Steve Riekeberg @ Dragon Con🐉Matthew Dow Smith @matthewdowsmith.bsky.social · 25/11/2025Honestly, 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. 111857366
Reposted by Steve Riekeberg @ Dragon Con🐉Mike Barthel @mikebarthelauthor.com · 19/11/2025Fish have committed credit card fraud 6243851451
Reposted by Steve Riekeberg @ Dragon Con🐉javier grillo-marxuach @okbjgm.bsky.social · 07/11/2025having 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. 2171