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Adrian Smith

@thefon.bsky.social
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Techie, reader, gamer, traveler, Dad.

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Dominic Tarason @dominictarason.com · 07/06/2026
If you haven't been following development of this one, it's a spiritual successor to King Of Dragon Pass. Similar prose-meets-hidden-dice mechanics (decades before Disco Elysium) only instead of managing a mythic bronze age tribe, you're assembling a crew to pull of audacious heists in hell.
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Kate from Kharkiv @kateinkharkiv.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
Birds in Donetsk are using fiber-optic drone wire to build their nests...
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livesarah @livesarah.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Let’s be clear: no amount of money can undo the damage done- wilfully-by Alcoa in this instance. Alcoa should be kicked out of the country and its assets seized and nationalised, as an example of how seriously Australia takes this kind of grand theft and vandalism.
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Alan Baxter @alanbaxter.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
9 coffees and one bacon sandwich, please.
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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Shanghai on the path to becoming a zero-waste city. Shanghai is moving toward a citywide circular economy, with industrial recycling rates now approaching 98% and household recycling rising from 35% to 45.3% since mandatory sorting began in 2019. buff.ly/yLJ1M8e #ShareGoodNewsToo
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Shanghai on path to becoming zero-waste city
Circular economy spans from residential communities to industrial sectors
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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 04/05/2026
"For this focus group, conducted shortly before a sustained green glow began emanating from the station’s superlaser array, we spoke with residents who said they had backed Emperor Palpatine but now felt conflicted."
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“They Would Never Use the Death Star on Us”: Alderaan Residents Reflect on Their Support for the Empire as a Large Imperial Installation Enters the System
“For this focus group, conducted shortly before a sustained green glow began emanating from the station’s superlaser array, we spoke with residents who said ...
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fesshole 🧻 @fesshole.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
I am unable to stop at services on the motorway as I am secretly racing everyone and stopping would mean they would re-overtake.
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Adam Becker @adambecker.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
Quote of the day, from a friend who founded a software startup: "You can’t use an LLM in any context where being wrong is a problem."
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Marcus Hutchins @malwaretech.com · 14/02/2026
It’s so funny to think about the fact that there’s people out there deferring every life decision to this
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Alan Baxter @alanbaxter.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
Hypothetically if someone was accused of having sex with goats by over 30 different people and regularly denied it, but also dropped very public hints about how much he liked to have sex with goats for decades, and ran a goat pageant to find the best looking goats, and was best friends with someone who got convicted of fucking goats and trafficking goats to friends all over the world who also liked to fuck goats, and his name was in the classified goat fucker chronicles 
5,000 times, and he wished other goat fuckers well in prison, what do you think the odds are that person is also a goat fucker?
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The Australia Institute @australiainstitute.org.au · 13/01/2026
Chevron's Gorgon CCS project is the biggest and ‘best’ carbon and capture project in the world. Gas processed there emits 36x more than the CO2 stored. @ketanjoshi.co #auspol
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brightshadow (regular) @cuil.world · 18/11/2025
Personally, I’d pay for a button I can press that issues an increasingly strong electrical shock to whoever added the “try ai!” buttons to things I use
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Sooz Kempner @soozuk.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
This looks like I made it with AI but no, when the sumo wrestler won the big tournament today at the Royal Albert Hall he was gifted a gigantic bottle of soy sauce.
sumo wrestler is handed a giant bottle of soy sauce
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Michael Derby @michaelsderby.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
“An FBI agent was relieved of duty for declining to arrange a ‘perp walk’ of the bureau's former director, James Comey, in front of news media cameras.” Via Reuters
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FBI agent relieved of duty over refusing Comey perp walk, four people familiar say
An FBI agent was relieved of duty for declining to arrange a "perp walk" of the bureau's former director, James Comey, in front of news media cameras after Comey was federally charged last month, four people briefed on the matter said on Friday.
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Thomas Fortenberry @thomasfortenberry.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
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Gerard Cunningham @faduda.eurosky.social · 30/04/2025
I've heard LLMs described as automated mansplaining, so this doesn't surprise as much as it might. BBC needs to fix itself though
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Graham Walmsley 🎲 @grahamwalmsley.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
There are less than 48 hours in the Cosmic Dark Kickstarter! We've got stretch goals from @gshowitt.bsky.social , @kierongillen.bsky.social and @juliansimpson.bsky.social and we're heading towards @mytholder.bsky.social , @rossignol.bsky.social and more. Back it while you can. #kickstarter #ttrpg
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Cosmic Dark
Cosmic Dark is a tabletop roleplaying game of weird space horror, from the award-winning author of Cthulhu Dark.
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Jim Rossignol @rossignol.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
Satire is the undoing of AI.
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Anthony B, @swearyanthony.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
Isn't there a footpath star for Trump that's in LA and accessible with a jackhammer?
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ColdChef @coldchef.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
Give the photographer the Pulitzer Prize
Stormtrooper-ass looking cops standing in front of a giant donut.
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fesshole 🧻 @fesshole.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
My cat taught herself how to turn off my morning alarm. This has made me late for work at least three times recently and I don't think my boss believes me that it's because of my cat turning the alarm off.
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fesshole 🧻 @fesshole.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
In the car and my kid would say "when can I have a sweet?" and I'd say "In 10 mins when the clock says 2.50". When she was distracted I would go in the settings and move the time back a few minutes. Managed a record of 29 minutes once before she twigged something was up.
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
While the gospels say that Judas led the Romans to Jesus, a new theory is gaining traction with some Biblical scholars. There is evidence, some say, that Judas merely shared Christ's location on an insecure group chat that accidentally included several Roman officials and journalists.
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Jon Hancock @bigjackbrass.social.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 17/04/2025
Spotted while out walking by my niece in Queensland. #Dogs #Australia
An open front wooden frame with a box of assorted sticks at ground level and an ordered row of sticks with names on above. A sign labels it as a DOGGIE STICK LIBRARY, with CHEW STICKS below and CLASSICS on the upper shelf.
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Pelgrane Press @pelgranepress.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
Big news! 🎉 Robin D. Laws—designer of GUMSHOE, The Yellow King, DramaSystem, and more—is now Pelgrane Press’s Creative Director! After 20+ years shaping our games, he’s officially leading the charge into the future. We couldn’t be more excited! #TTRPG #PelgranePress
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liz duck-chong @lizduckchong.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
New from me. Would really love if you shared with your loved ones, colleagues, or anyone who has expressed they'd like to do something but are not sure what x heterosexualnonsense.substack.com/p/how-can-i-...
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How can I be a good ally to trans people right now?
On our new Queer & A column, Liz walks us through how to be a good cis ally in a dangerous time
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Charlotte Moore-Lambert @charlottereads.com · 22/03/2025
being an indie bookseller in the helltimes has felt both very stable and very stabilizing, and part of me wishes everyone could be on my side of the counter for a little while, because I think it would help some of you be a little less cynical and doomy right now. so here is my VERY anecdotal data:
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Damien Walter @damiengwalter.com · 24/03/2025
This meme was censored from Facebook that's why I'm on Bluesky
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Graham Walmsley 🎲 @grahamwalmsley.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
Here's the crowdfunder for Cosmic Dark, my game of weird space horror. It'll launch shortly. Please sign up. And I really appreciate it if you share this post! www.kickstarter.com/projects/gra...
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Coming soon: Cosmic Dark
Cosmic Dark is a tabletop roleplaying game of weird space horror, from the award-winning author of Cthulhu Dark.
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Gareth Hanrahan @mytholder.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
GALADRIEL, PORTENTOUSLY: The Ring-bearer has passed from my sight. HALDIR: They’re over there. GALADRIEL: Who now can say where how the Quest fares? HALDIR: Right over there. GALADRIEL: Though Eru hath sent the White Wizard renewed, the RIng is beyond our help HALDIR: I’m right now waving at Aragorn
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Lee Brimmicombe-Wood @leebwood.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
Finally published my own roleplay world setting: 'SPEC-OPS MAGICA CRISIS', a game of High School Wizard Secret Agents in a world of intrigue, counterterrorism, and kaiju monsters!
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Spec-ops Magica Crisis by airbattle
Anime-inspired genre pack for the QuestWorlds tabletop RPG.
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Alice Averlong 🏳️‍⚧️ @alice.averlong.com · 30/01/2025
Remember to spread a little joy, even if it will be fleeting
A hard drive labeled "BAD" in sharpieThe hard drive has "BAD" scribbled out A sharpie writing "bitcoins" on a hard driveThe same hard drive thrown into the trash
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