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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

At least as of 30 minutes ago, people were saying he was being held at the ICE HSI field office at 620 Frelinghuysen Ave, Newark.

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — New Jersey mayor is arrested at ICE detention center where he was protesting its opening, acting US attorney says.

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Robert Bernhardt @thechillquil.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

“We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare…” This administration has achieved nothing but destroying the America promised to my generation and each thereafter

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Robert Bernhardt @thechillquil.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

Does anyone have recommendations for “drip-feeding” a WIP book online before physical publishing? Are there risks of plagiarism? How do you protect yourself?

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Robert Bernhardt @thechillquil.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

Yeah my D&D final boss is a complex synthesis of themes and details from the games and literature I consume. I’m not ashamed to admit that among the greatest skills of an author is to borrow good ideas.

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Robert Bernhardt @thechillquil.bsky.social · 26/12/2024

First Christmas of my life where we didn’t decorate, didn’t do the whole grandparents trip, didn’t do any of it. We stayed inside, celebrated with dinner together, spent all day playing board games. It wasn’t Christmas, but more so than any year I felt like we fulfilled the actual Christmas spirit.

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Robert Bernhardt @thechillquil.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

TTRPG Question: do you enjoy good spirited moments in final moments of a major campaign arc where the players have a “Civil War” moment, where the moral consequences of their possible actions divides the party enough to battle over it?

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Robert Bernhardt @thechillquil.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

The phrase “touch grass” is so limiting. Drink water. Smell the air. Watch the wispy trails of steam from coffee machines. Listen to the hum drum of the bees as they survey sweet smelling flower beds. Life is in the small things.

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Robert Bernhardt @thechillquil.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

Graduation Day with @drharmony.bsky.social !! Thank you for everyone who’s helped me get this far. Looking forward to the next chapter in life :)

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Robert Bernhardt @thechillquil.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

“Derelict” is a hella of a fun word to say

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Robert Bernhardt @thechillquil.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

Whomever I date needs to realize I am a quasi-sane dude. I’m just writing all the time. I eat, sleep, and am always designing TTRPG stories or pondering my book. While talking I’m having five conversations in my head about it. In the words of Toby Ziegler (Richard Schiff): “Only losers use paper”.

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Robert Bernhardt @thechillquil.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

Gotta say, despite the weirdness and verbosity of Honkai Star Rail relative to the stories it tells, I am INTO how they’ve handled Sunday. I think he is probably up there in among my favorite supports, right with my main man Gallagher

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Robert Bernhardt @thechillquil.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

The spectrum of opinions on the guy’s social media profiles are fascinating. I’m reading through and noting down this cultural moment. I’m curious to know more specifics of his messaging and whether people will be influenced by it. For documentation purposes, I hope his writing is made public.

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Robert Bernhardt @thechillquil.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

“Dude, I’m helping” - Luna, who was in fact not helping me, circa 2024.

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Robert Bernhardt @thechillquil.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

It’s okay to be happy when not everything is fixed yet. Don’t lose that anger, it is your drive against injustice, but don’t abandon your right to live your life.

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Robert Bernhardt @thechillquil.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

Need me an updated Fallout New Vegas radio as my alarm. Man I wish I could play it for the first time again…

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Robert Bernhardt @thechillquil.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

Legacy’s in the love and the memories you give others.

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Robert Bernhardt @thechillquil.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

I am become tired, the consumer of coffee.

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Robert Bernhardt @thechillquil.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

“Speak” from the Parasyte OST is one of those really overly simple repetitive tracks that scratch the brain in such a way that soothes when you listen on loop. I’m likely biased though, since the show is one of my favorites.

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Robert Bernhardt @thechillquil.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

Watching some Terrifier 3… it’ll be interesting for sure

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Robert Bernhardt @thechillquil.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

As music is a primary motivator for my particular brand of writing and cognition, I tend to name each chapter towards a particular song. Sometimes it has symbolic parallelism with the chapter’s themes, other times it just has this *feeling*. Hard to describe.

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Robert Bernhardt @thechillquil.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

When you’re writing your story, what do you want it to mean to you, beyond the outburst of words on paper?

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Robert Bernhardt @thechillquil.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Difference of opinion is totally okay. I for one don’t like cereal. You might. That’s cool. But on human rights? If you try to deny that, or restrict a human’s ability to be themselves and live peacefully, there is no compromise there. There is no “opinion” there. You are just spreading evil.

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Robert Bernhardt @thechillquil.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

In my TTRPG group (dark fantasy homebrew with 5e 2014 content), one of my players made a binding vow to not speak aloud, a cultural tradition from her homeland for warriors of her discipline. It has since become incredible party bonding for her to tutor each member in her dialect of sign language :D

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Robert Bernhardt @thechillquil.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

You can get so caught up in the plot you forget to give your characters personalities. Let them breathe and just be sometimes.

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Robert Bernhardt @thechillquil.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Nothing gives you a dopamine hit like finishing a chapter of your draft or making cool experimental homebrew spells/items for your tabletop players based on their requests.

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Robert Bernhardt @thechillquil.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Watch Dandadan. If you think you will like it, watch it. If you don’t, watch it. The manga and anime adaptation are among the most well-crafted pieces of media I’ve ever had the privilege to enjoy.

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ALT: a poster for absolute cinema shows a girl sitting in a chair with her hands in the air

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Robert Bernhardt @thechillquil.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

This is your reminder to drink water. Look around the room. Appreciate the beauty even in a mundane tree leaf, or how the light of the sun shines through your curtains. Taking a meditative moment to just contemplate can do wonders for reminding one what they are grateful for.

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Robert Bernhardt @thechillquil.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Victor LaValle’s “The Ballad of Black Tom” represents everything I believe the cosmic horror genre is designed to communicate. It is thoughtful, esoteric, and speaks to many struggles we live through. “I’d take Cthulhu over any of you monsters” goes HARD. I may be misremembering the line though XD

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Robert Bernhardt @thechillquil.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Regarding Honkai Star Rail, I just saw drip marketing for The Herta. I don’t think I’ve ever seen a character outside of D&D and seriously thought I could “main” them, but her story, design, and I presume her mechanics will be peak. I’m excited!!

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Robert Bernhardt @thechillquil.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Watching the show Severance feels as though I’m searching for rainbows in the mist of spilled coffee in a 70s corporate office after dark. Rod Serling’s going to come out any moment.

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Robert Bernhardt @thechillquil.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

I have a befuddling blend of love and distaste for having written a damaged, edge-lord protagonist hellbent on vengeance. I dislike how common the trope is, but GODS is she so cool ❤️

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Robert Bernhardt @thechillquil.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Feels so nice to have a good feed filled with positivity again.

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Robert Bernhardt @thechillquil.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

The most troublesome aspect of writing for a highly intelligent, witty villain is having to come up with the clever, evil plan and personality yourself…

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Robert Bernhardt @thechillquil.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Do not bind your heart to the depths of the abyss. Allow yourself to soar across the line of the horizon and fly ever higher still.

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