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hey cam, did it hurt? ...when you climbed down off the side of that van?

had an annoying high-pitched whine in my speakers and my microphone didn't work after I set up my desk plugged the streamdeck into a different USB port and the microphone into another one and ~voila~ no issues I don't know who put the "Universal" in USB but... it was clearly someone in marketing

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Tom Lommel @tomlommel.com · 2h

sorry I took Physics for Poets. "Moe gets in his spaceship and flies at 0.9999c to his RPG Library on Alpha Centauri. Meanwhile, back on Earth, Joe is dead!"

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Brian G. aka urbanbohemian 🪩🥂💖 @urbanbohemian.com · 5h

We're on Bluesky, put the link in your post. Put the link in your post. Put. The. Link. In. Your. Post. Links in posts aren't buried or de-prioritized here. This is one of the last platforms you don't have to make interested users do detective work to find the link. Just put it in the post.

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Tom Lommel @tomlommel.com · 3h

FWIW I haven't seen a reason to mute your RPs. I mostly reserve that for people who think they're saving the republic by sharing a flood of Blue Resistance WE GOT EM NOW type stuff

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Tom Lommel @tomlommel.com · 4h

Fun fact: if you put a stick on a chainsaw you have the makings of a VW helicopter

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Tom Lommel @tomlommel.com · 4h

it's me. I'm the sicko.

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Tom Lommel @tomlommel.com · 4h

listen I don't NEED to go to a concert. I log in to Ferkz, enter a few quick prompts about my fave genres, current mood, and credit history and it spins up my own private concert! oh what about the CROWD EXPERIENCE?? well that's why I have over 300 Facebook Muse pendants who all love me

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Tom Lommel @tomlommel.com · 6h

feels like an honorable and deserving exemption to @magpie.tips blanket "no helicopters" rule

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aric @aghastronaut.com · 7h

Someone is replacing my body with a slightly worse body each night while I sleep.

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 8h

They quoted me in this New Yorker piece about AI today. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

“Let’s say there’s a world or time line I exist in where A.I. has been subject to regulation. It is ethical. It has no footprint environmentally,” the novelist Jeff VanderMeer, a prominent critic of A.I., told me over the phone. “With those guardrails in place, would I read an A.I. book? All I can say is no. And the reason is, in part, because I want to read something coming from a particular mind.” Using A.I., he said, “feels like a betrayal of the whole point of why you’re a writer.”

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Tom Lommel @tomlommel.com · 16h

Emptied eight boxes of RPG books into two bookshelves and somehow I now have less room in my office

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Huh What

Alt: John C Reilly making a series of confused faces and going Huh What

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Tom Lommel @tomlommel.com · 29/09/2026

When I worked the Saints, we gave away a 5-pound Salted Nut Roll brick every single game. People would take them to work and share them with the whole office, cut them up at home and freeze them. It was really too much for one person to eat. ngl, this really sucks!

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oh no @ili.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

💀💀💀

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Tom Lommel @tomlommel.com · 29/09/2026

In his house, in Boston deep, Great Cthulhu tries to pahk his cah at the packie

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Restoration Games @restorationgames.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The wait is over. The battle for Middle-earth begins. 𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙇𝙤𝙧𝙙 𝙤𝙛 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙍𝙞𝙣𝙜𝙨™: 𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙆𝙞𝙣𝙜’𝙨 𝙂𝙖𝙢𝙗𝙞𝙩 is live now on Kickstarter! Get the Limited Edition with the epic three-dimensional terrain available exclusively in the campaign. Back now at TheKingsGambit.com

The Lord of the Rings: The King's Gambit board game with castle model and game boxes.

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Tom Lommel @tomlommel.com · 29/09/2026

Back in LA Pippin hated the rain. We were worried how he'd adjust moving here. But mostly he's like "I get to leave the house? Put on the rain jacket. Let's go."

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Mrs. Detective Pikajew, Esq. @clapifyoulikeme.favrd.social · 28/09/2026

The snails They escaped their basket Yes YES The snails are out

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it's nate! @natescape.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Do you know how much has to have gone wrong for me to not like the internet

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AiredOnTVToday @airedontvtoday.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

35 years ago on September 28, 1991, TV show 'Star Trek: The Next Generation' aired episode "Darmok"

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taber @kvetch.gay · 28/09/2026

Here's a map of how iron ore mined in Minnesota moves (the red lines). Note the markers for where steel facilities are located, they're where they are because you have to move the stuff on ships. There are no steel mills in Iowa of any size because you can't get the fucking stuff it's made of there

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Tom Lommel @tomlommel.com · 28/09/2026

Are you sure you're not just becoming Greek?

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Illoumalnati @illoumalnati.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

There's a brief 60s X-Men plot where Jean leaves the team for college and has a normal guy boyfriend. He gets sorta forgotten about but I like to think years later Dark Phoenix is hovering over NY screaming that she is fire and life incarnate and he's like "oh that's crazy, I used to date that girl"

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Dungeonbuster @dungeonbuster.bsky.social · 04/03/2024

A 1983 ad for Advanced Dungeons & Dragons: Treasure of Tarmin, a dungeon crawling RPG for the Intellivision by APh Technological Consulting The text warned players that "These dungeons are going to give you the creeps. Getting rid of them is your problem."

Treasure of Tarmin was a dungeon crawler for the Intellivision, a console in the early 80s. It featured quite a few, relatively sophisticated features such as an inventory, randomly generated dungeons with multiple floors, and real-time combat.

The ad notes that "This new Intellivision video game has 4539 tunnels, 256 dungeons, 1 hidden treasure and no room for error."

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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 27/09/2026

Seward Cafe is the oldest cooperatively run restaurant in the United States, and they’re still about 12k short of the funds they need to stay open. It’s such a special place, and that’s honestly not that high a number! Let’s all pitch in to save the community center!

ko-fi.com

Buy Seward Cafe a Coffee

Become a supporter of Seward Cafe today!

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Tom Lommel @tomlommel.com · 27/09/2026

Proud and privileged to say I have a fun role as Dr. Zeidy in Chris & Dori Carter's new feature film, Queens For A Day, which is currently making the rounds of the Canadian film festival circuit. Real pleasure to work with them on this very personal, heartfelt project.

A selfie of me wearing plack horn-rimmed glasses and a shirt and tie under white cotton surgical scrubs from the 1950s.

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victoria mcnally @vqnerdballs.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Start by offering little miniature vans to warhammer enthusiasts and then slowly give them bigger ones over time

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Tom Lommel @tomlommel.com · 27/09/2026

Uncanny. It's like Doctor Octopus took his nephews on vacation to Tampa

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Tom Lommel @tomlommel.com · 27/09/2026

"But they were all of them deceived, for another disk was made..."

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Tom Lommel @tomlommel.com · 26/09/2026

No, running an unregistered lighthouse is a common, time-honored tradition here on Vancouver Island

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Tom Lommel @tomlommel.com · 26/09/2026

@magpie.tips hear that? I'm only 14 flashlights away from running an unregistered lighthouse!

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Michael Lobel @mlobelart.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Gustave Caillebotte's partial study for his iconic painting "Paris Street, Rainy Day," circa 1887

Painting of figures with umbrellas on a rainy cobblestone street

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Lord Chris Hanrahan (He/Him) @chrishanrahan.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Mikey has it tough and he has been doing his best. He is going to lose wages if he can't get help. Please repost or donate if you can.

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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Along these lines: Doubt anyone needs a reminder, but Gumroad is owned/run by profoundly shitty ppl. They booted Iron Circus from the platform years ago after an unsuccessful Smut Peddler applicant began demanding all adult material be removed from Gumroad, despite there being no rules against it.

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Tom Lommel @tomlommel.com · 25/09/2026

need some Zima love in this thread or it's just not serious man listen they still sell it in Japan

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Tom Lommel @tomlommel.com · 25/09/2026

whoa whoa whoa, we have two different discourse threads going today and it's really getting confusing. let's consolidate things: What are the Top 100 Beverages of the 21st Century You'd Take To A Job Interview?

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Tom Lommel @tomlommel.com · 25/09/2026

bsky.app/profile/toml...

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Tom Lommel @tomlommel.com · 25/09/2026

Did you read that Paste Magazine story? The bit about Dr Worm is so funny to me. "Oh that's based on a real person." damn dude.

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Tom Lommel @tomlommel.com · 25/09/2026

I hate to break it to you, but: he's not a real doctor.

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Tom Lommel @tomlommel.com · 25/09/2026

Internet installer: Can you help me out by pulling that coax plug a little farther out? Me: Of course! No problem. *jiggles cable and it immediately falls down into the wall*

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Tom Lommel @tomlommel.com · 25/09/2026

Make sure to cheer loudly when they finally defeat Sinestro

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