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Scott

@swbrewer.bsky.social
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Fan of sci-fi, fantasy, hiking, DnD, board games, and good beer. Pretending to know things about data and marketing during the day.

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Suprdee2 @suprdee2.com · 04/10/2026
The Funny Pages exhibition is a celebration of cartooning. It’s the largest collection of cartoonists and featured art spanning over 100 years of works from those with ties to Indiana. This is one of the biggest projects I have worked on.
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BrianMcLachlan @brianmcl.com · 02/10/2026
I was going over some of the trends/eras of illustration with my students today and Corporate Memphis created the most conversation. It was compared to a business man in a happy face mask, Arial & pop music. Good in contexts like brightening up a train station, bad in masking the cruelness of tech.
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John Bilodeau Illustrations @servsci.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
tiny dracolich #dnd #dragonart #fantasyart
a small ink and prismacolor drawing of an undead dragon
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Off Color Brewing @offcolorbrewing.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Really nice article from David Nilsen for Pellicle takes a look at the Mischief we’ve been making the last 13 years. www.pelliclemag.com/home/2026/9/...
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Beer for Mischief — Off Color Brewing in Chicago, Illinois — Pellicle
A group of mice is known as a mischief . This fact strikes me as appropriate as I stare at the line-drawn mouse on a can of Off Color Brewing’s Beer for Lounging. The mouse is one in a menagerie of c...
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Half Acre Beer @halfacrebeer.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Breweries require a lot of juice to keep moving. Over the last year, we’ve been tightening up what happens behind the walls at Balmoral -- finding ways to recover heat, reduce grid demand and make the brewery more efficient to operate. 1/2
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High Priestess, Low Patience @cheriepriest.com · 16/09/2026
ooh, I like this take - all the elements are present, so call it what it is: not liminal (which was never quite right, tbh), but gothic for a new generation of people who don’t remember why we built that shit in the first place, or what it was supposed to be *for*
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LEE GATLIN @neilaglet.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Haven’t drawn too many Thors
Rough procreate sketch of Thor looking down at something and smiling intensely, possibly yelling or cheering
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Colin @colin-fraser.net · 11/09/2026
This is a good article
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zøë wolfe @glitchwolfe.studio · 05/09/2026
I love hardware so much
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Jason Bradley Thompson @mockman.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Someone needs to make a horror movie about mess. Just like about a really messy house situation that doesn’t get better
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Richard Kadrey @richardkadrey.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Sunset 7-26-26 Pittsburgh, PA
a black and white photo of a radio antennae on a hill in the distance as rays of sunlight break through heavy clouds
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Scifi Art @scifiart.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Art by Barbara Remington for the 1965 Ballentine edition of the Lord of The Rings trilogy by JRR Tolkien
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Falco SkyWolf @falcoskywolf.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
I wrote an Eris joke, but they only understood it on Discord.
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Tristan is painting spookily @tristanwelsh.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Getting pretty good at making stuff outta sculpey and then painting it!
Rocky from Project Hail Mary doing a thumbs down The eyeball alien from Alien Earth Turbo chook, Tasmanian native henOatchi from Pikmin 4
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Jeremy Yoder says no war @jbyoder.org · 13/07/2026
Holy COW. Text analysis of comments on the OMB rule: overwhelming opposition, overwhelmingly not form letters. (But 9 in 10 comments supporting the rule ARE form responses, LOL) Whatever happens next, folks have stepped up.
Screenshot text: Between May 29 and July 9, roughly 51,000 comments were posted to regulations.gov (and over 200,000 more had been received but not yet published). The verdict on public sentiment is clear and lopsided: about 94 percent oppose the proposed rule and only 6 percent support it, with fewer than one percent marked as unclear. The opposition is overwhelmingly grassroots rather than orchestrated. Form letters make up only about 16 percent of all comments (roughly 8,400 comments across 210 distinct campaigns), and only about one in eight opposing comments came from a form-letter campaign. Support for the rule, by contrast, was almost entirely organized: nearly nine in ten supportive comments (about 2,500) came from a single form-letter campaign. Opponents mostly wrote their own comments; supporters mostly signed the same form-letter.
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the hills have vrunt @vrunt.social · 03/07/2026
nyc friends be careful outside today. its even worse than yesterday, the 2019 film about a man who remembers the beatles
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Scott @swbrewer.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Free book idea: As above so below: from Alchemy to AI. It covers the historical context of both 'A's practioners striving for knowledge mixed with the charlatans exploiting the credulous.
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Ernie Smith @ernie.tedium.co · 02/07/2026
Let me pose an existential question: Would we have been better off if we never had a single place where we could all post snarky quips, but instead used a bunch of shitty web forums that barely worked? Mayhaps. tedium.co/2026/07/01/o... new @tedium.co
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What We Lost When We Quit Using Crappy Old Web Forums
Old web forums were poorly coded and rough around the edges, but maybe we gave up on them too quickly in the social media era.
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a team of bumblebees @saramchenry.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
found a good website www.animatedknots.com
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Animated Knots is the world's leading site for learning how to tie knots of any kind. From Boating Knots, Fishing Knots and Climbing Knots to how to tie a Tie, or even Surgical Knots — we’ve got it co...
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Scott @swbrewer.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Nice Beer Temple night as a ttrpg night off, keeping vibe going with this guy, nice whisky, and Trace.
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Aftermath @aftermath.site · 19/06/2026
The art of Marathon: aftermath.site/marathon-bungi...
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Erin Kissane @kissane.myatproto.social · 19/06/2026
HOLLERING START TO FINISH this is so good
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Kimberley Mok 莫靖熹 @kimberleymok.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
“The rapid physiological damage to teeth among heat-exposed workers is visible and measurable. But because it’s a dental issue — because it doesn’t kill people quickly like heatstroke does — it’s been largely ignored by the medical establishment.” More unexpected effects of the #climatecrisis
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Elena Kononenko @kononenko.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Hello, today is my Birthday! ✨And the best gift for an artist is a retweet of their artworks 🍃🌿
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Scott @swbrewer.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
Seems that pinch zoom on images has stopped working. Maybe part of recent photo update?
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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 04/06/2026
I have a longer thing I'm working on about this, with more data and stuff, but the key thing folks need to know: anyone on the left *CANNOT WIN* with any kind of content on platforms where the right owns the algorithm. Not just in politics — in entertainment media, or anything else.
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Brian Phillips @brianphillips.lol · 28/05/2026
And we are live! Massive thanks to everyone who contributed to this. Reading your posts made me so much madder than I ever knew was possible
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The 40 Most Rage-Inducing Problems in Tech
The bugs, broken apps, and nightmare customer-service bots we can't escape, presented as a blessed and sacred addendum to Pope Leo XIV’s new encyclical on AI
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Faith @faithschaffer.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
About a year ago I pitched a children's book series about three goblin sisters. While it sadly didn't get picked up for publishing this time around, I'm sure I'll tell their stories someday in one form or another. In the meantime I wanted to finally share some art of three wee goblins. : )
Illustration- 3 goblin sisters who are very cute!! One is carrying bowls, one is hanging pennants, and one is stirring a big soup.
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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
It's anchored on two pieces. I could honestly write 1000+ words about each one. The first one is by @baldurbjarnason.com about the disintegrating hegemony of US technopoly (and the conditions that served as the foundation for the VC-funded SaaS bullshit that funds 6-7 figure programmer salaries)
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The old world of tech is dying and the new cannot be born
Writing at the end of the world, from Hveragerði, Iceland
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Marc Fischer @marc-fischer.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
Chicago! AVONDALE! Avondale is one of the few neighborhoods in the city that does not have a Chicago Public Library branch so a petition is going around to push for one. If you live here or nearby, please sign and share! We need this so badly.
library.avondaleneighbors.org
Petition - A Library for Avondale
Join neighbors is asking the City of Chicago to open a new library branch in Avondale.
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Ross Floate @rossfloate.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
Oh my. This is spectacular. sinceyouarrived.world/taken
sinceyouarrived.world
taken.
A web page that tells you what your browser gave away the moment you arrived. No login, no form, no permission. Most pages do this. None of them tell you.
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Ersatz @ersatz.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
Celestial rays
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Simon MacEwan @theblastedheath.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
Beast of the day - log
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Brian Grubb @briancgrubb.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
i realized a long time ago that setting this video to the nfl primetime music would be the best thing i ever do on the internet i'm okay with that
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cinemarecall.bsky.social @cinemarecall.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
With Speed Racer coming back to IMAX theaters. This is a great time to watch this incredible video essay about this landmark cinematic achievement from @patrickhwillems.bsky.social youtu.be/vwh9ETdhrf4?...
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The Most Important Movie Of The 21st Century
YouTube video by Patrick (H) Willems
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Josephine beckbook.com Riesman @josie.zone · 17/04/2026
this is fucking nuts:
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Robert Johnson - Cross Road Blues (take 2, test pressing)
YouTube video by Nick Dellow
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Gareth Hanrahan @mytholder.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
People over on Facebook/YouTube/elsewhere on bluesky/reality have been mocking this, but these are all totally genuine and highly advanced GMing techniques pioneered in obscure corners of indie rpg design in the early 2000s. Let's go through them one by one and learn together.
An AI slop image showing the '12 steps to masterful game directing", including 'Connectiarg' and 'Porkon Cows'
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 14/04/2026
Gather, my friends, and you shall learn the esoteric history of fridge magnets, and how they function as tacky little references for human memory:
little-flying-robots.ghost.io
Fridge Magnets and Memory: Part 1
Fridge magnets are more than tacky souvenirs. They're vessels for our memories.
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𝕯𝖚𝖓𝖌𝖊𝖔𝖓𝖑𝖚𝖘𝖙🌙🦇 @dungeonlust.com · 03/04/2026
Art by • Luke Eidenschink
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Andrew Granola @mourningcake.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
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Scrambled Still @scrambledstill.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
(18/?) Miyajima - Daisho-in - statues
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Simon Späti 🏔️ @ssp.sh · 01/04/2026
30+ years of proven patterns. Both still relevant. Inmon (1990): "A subject-oriented, integrated, time-variant, non-volatile collection for management decision-making." www.ssp.sh/brain/data-...
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Data Warehouse
A Data Warehouse (DWH), also known as an Enterprise Data Warehouse (EDW), represents the traditional approach to data collection, a practice established over 30 years ago. The DWH is crucial for integrating data from numerous sources, serving as a single source of truth, and managing data through processes such as cleaning, historical tracking, and data consolidation. It facilitates enhanced executive insight into corporate performance through management dashboards, reports, or ad-hoc analyses.
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glass embroidery @glassembroidery.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
Thanks for all the marathon orders so far everyone, shipping will start tomorrow and all orders up till now will be out the door by Friday. Every order is getting a 1.25" marathon patch that's Sekiguchi flavored.
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Randy Au @randyau.com · 31/03/2026
This week on Counting Stuff, mostly an observation about how large graveyards of unused dashboards are just a symptom of organizational attention (more like the lack thereof) for long term stuff #dataBS www.counting-stuff.com/dashboard-ro...
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Dashboard rot as org attention grave markers
Dysfunction is still dysfunction, regardless of how it got there.
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Emily Riederer @emilyriederer.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
Talking to some undergrads tomorrow about the why no one actually pays us to type model.fit() and asked them ahead of time to submit answers to a "trivially easy" data problem Fun to see the results come it, wild to know how many business run with a not dissimilar fog of war
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Ian Danskin @innuendostudios.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
Part Two of my Overdetermined Adventure Game Tier List, in which we re-review 10 years of AdventureGamers GOTYs and tell you how right/wrong they are. ft. @questingrefuge.bsky.social, @lvlwon.com, @socratetris.bsky.social, @ludohistory.bsky.social, and @zyllable.bsky.social! youtu.be/0h1rXsJa5Po
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Extremely Overdetermined Adventure Game Tier List | Part 2: Games of the Year
YouTube video by Innuendo Studios
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garin | comms open @garin.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
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Jordan @jordanpfot.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
Might be the greatest opening paragraph of anything ever.
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wiremother.bsky.social @wiremother.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
I've been playing a lot of Caves of Qud lately and wanted to attempt some character portraits, using both sprites and descriptions for inspiration. More to come soon...
Tussocks of fur dress skin stretched over taut muscle. Upright they stand, but they look ready to drop onto fours. Their snout snarls and their ears twitch. They bark, and their hyena tribeskin answer.Shot ink decorates the dulla on their long neck in one of the thousand patterns of the camelfolk. Their ears are arrayed with gilded rings, and eyelashes flow down their face like watervine fronds. Across their back, a hump of moistured and healthy fat pushes their center of mass skyward.A warm smile spreads over an old face freckled by time and a million crumbs of salt. He shrinks under a hunched back and drums the ground beneath him with a short and barb-crowned tail. A second pair of arms rise over the slump of his shoulders, where hands meet and fingers lace to form another face, this one vacant and prehistoric, no mouth and eyes desert-white.Big Yrame shifts her weight between hind and forelegs. She shakes a storm of rust dander from the tines of her great horns, and she blows a halo of freezing air from her rime-veined hands.
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