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Nick Duguid @tumerboy.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Some of you will read this and think it's funny. It's not funny.

A text image broken into 6 boxes. Titled "How to avoid sexual assault! a quick and easy guide*" by the "sexual violence centre cork"

The 6 boxes say:
1) Don't put drugs in people's drinks
2) Use the buddy system! If you can't stop yourself from sexually assaulting someone, ask a trusted friend to accompany you at all times to stop you.
3) When you come across someone who is drunk or asleep, the best thing to do is not rape them.
4) When you see a woman walking by herself, leave her alone.
5) If you are in a lift and someone steps in, remember to not sexually assault them.
6) Carry a whistle. If you think you might rape someone, blow the whistle until someone comes to stop you.

(in tiny print:)
*for perpetrators

Nick Duguid @tumerboy.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

When I was planting my yard last year, I picked up a handful of flagstones someone was getting rid of nearby, and then left them in a pile in the yard, hoping it'd become a lizard hotel. Now every day I walk out there, I see at least one of these guys basking on top.

A zoomed in photo showing a pile of a few reddish flagstones, surrounded by bark mulch. On the top of the pile is a Western Fence Lizard basking, and at the bottom of the photo is another sticking its head up from between a couple of rocks.

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Nick Duguid @tumerboy.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Here's concept art for when they planned to land the Enterprise in Las Vegas.

Concept of a Star Trek themed casino/hotel in Las Vegas that never happened. It's literally the size and shape of the Enterprise A, lit from below against a blue/purple evening sky, with lots of lasers and search lights and fireworks going off around it. A long escalator with tiny human figures can be seen going from the ground up to the docking port on the side of the hull.

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Nick Duguid @tumerboy.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

TOS Enterprise never landed on planets AFAIK. In fact, that was the whole reason they invented the transporter. It was just to save money on VFX shots. We do see the NCC-1701 in atmospheric flight at least in Tomorrow is Yesterday.

Screenshot from Tomorrow is Yesterday showing the Enterprise flying among the clouds

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Nick Duguid @tumerboy.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Quote post this with a picture of the aircraft you’ll accept as a bribe.

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Nick Duguid @tumerboy.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Just posting a random book for no reason. . .

Book cover for The Jungle by Upton Sinclair.

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Nick Duguid @tumerboy.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Post a picture of you from another era.

Me in the mid 90s sometime, camping with my dad in Rhyolite, CA.

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Nick Duguid @tumerboy.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

“If Ivanka weren’t my daughter, perhaps I’d be dating her.”

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Nick Duguid @tumerboy.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

“Nobody has more respect for women than I do.”

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Nick Duguid @tumerboy.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

“I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody and I wouldn’t lose voters.”

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Nick Duguid @tumerboy.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

God, I hope it’s made from his flesh. . .

A package of Mr. Beast branded Jack Links beef jerky I saw in line at the store.

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Nick Duguid @tumerboy.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Don’t have any of my own, but here’s one of the neighbors that hangs out in my yard.

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Nick Duguid @tumerboy.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

To emphasize my point, here's me dressed as the protagonist, Eddie Riggs, at Halloween in 2009, just after the game came out.

Me dressed as Eddie Riggs, in black, metal band shirt, roadie passes around my neck, in a big black wig with a fake soul patch glued on my chin. I'm holding a big double headed axe by the top, with my right hand, and the bottom of the handle resting on the ground. My left hand is giving the devil horns.

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Nick Duguid @tumerboy.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Yo! You probably aren't playing enough games about frogs climbing mountains. Good news! Valley Peaks exists to solve that. Even better news! @thegameclub.bsky.social can help you find things like this so you don't have to do all the work yourself. Join before 9/1 to get in on next month's game!

A small graphic showing the key art for this month's game, Valley Peaks, with photos of the three members of Best Coast Gamers who met up to talk about the game last night. We rated Valley Peaks 7.5/11 Radio Towers.

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Nick Duguid @tumerboy.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Give me a single image from a film that immediately makes you hear the song from the soundtrack in your head

Go Ninja! Go Ninja! Go!

The Ninja Turtles dancing in TMNT 2: The Secret of the Ooze.

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Nick Duguid @tumerboy.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Some phenomenal fan creations brought back from TGC’s SkyFest in Japan last month. Unreal what players will make for games they love. <3

A table spread with cards and booklets and stickers and such, all focused on Sky: Children of the Light, and all made by fans of the game.

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Nick Duguid @tumerboy.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Not carrier launched AFAIK, but . . .

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Nick Duguid @tumerboy.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

I thought you might appreciate my dedicated chip bowl.

It’s an obviously hand made ceramic bowl with large pink and white stripes, and blue dots, and it has the words “Chips Make Me Happy” around the base in black.

A view of the now empty inside of the bowl. Pink and white stripes, with blue dots. And around the center of the inside is more writing “more chips please”

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Nick Duguid @tumerboy.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Want to play cool, weird games you probably wouldn't normally, and then get to talk about them with cool, weird people you probably wouldn't get to talk to normally? Come join @thegameclub.bsky.social ! We played Welcome to Elk this month, and rated it 7.5 Questionable Beers out of 10!

A Welcome To Elk promotional image, showing the quirky line art map of the island, filled in with bright blues, yellows and pinks, with the Best Coast Gamers and The Game Club logos in the upper corners, and circular photos for the two of our members who joined in the conversation this month.

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Nick Duguid @tumerboy.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

I was talking about that skin (more specifically the swimsuit) with some friends yesterday, and ended up saying something like “he would be so much more interesting and fun if they’d modeled this after literally any one of these guys.”

A vintage, black and white photo of 5 men in a row, all wearing vintage style swim suits with horizontal black and white stripes, while a young woman in a white bathing suit stands among them. The men’s poses are all old timey strong man poses, but look like they’re being overdone for comedic effect.

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Nick Duguid @tumerboy.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Best Coast Gamers rated @snekflat.com's Wuppo 94 out of 109 undelivered newspapers! Come join @thegameclub.bsky.social ! We're starting on a new game tomorrow (Welcome to Elk)

Our clubhouse (Best Coast Gamer) group photo for the month, featuring the game Wuppo. Rated 94/109 Undelivered Newspapers. There are six portraits for the folks who attended, each with a different Wuppo item on their heads. The background is an expanded image from the game, showing a small island in t he ocean, with two wums blowing bubbles beside a palm tree, under a starry night sky.

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Nick Duguid @tumerboy.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Ok, but that got my brain going. . .

A Venn Diagram based on Xavier's trinity proposal, with the three large circles being: 1) "Being a Little Guy" (Among Us), 2) "Shooting all the Little Guys" (Aliens: Fireteam Elite), and 3) "Care and Feeding of a Little Guy" (Oxygen Not Included)

The three double overlaps are: 1+2=Worms, 1+3=Animal Crossing, 2+3=Rimworld

And the center is Cult of the Lamb.

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Nick Duguid @tumerboy.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Microscopy Night! Clarkia amoena - Farewell to Spring Grindelia camporum - Great Valley Gum Weed

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Nick Duguid @tumerboy.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

Every time I see a Cybertruck, I think 'that thing is so fucking ugly.' And then like every other week I run into someone who has managed to make it even uglier. . .

A photo I took in the lot at the grocery store recently, of a Tesla Cybertruck with a bunch of uh. . . enhancments. It's got some big cage covering the upper back windshield, some kind of extra horizontal panels added on the tailgate, some weird square antenna attached to the back left edge, and a giant, over complicated adjustable tow hook. Dunno.

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Nick Duguid @tumerboy.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

Is it a good sign or a bad sign when you order boba often enough that they start writing you messages . . . ?

The top of my boba cup with a handwritten message, "Have a good day, Nick - Pham" with a smiley face.

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Nick Duguid @tumerboy.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Another month, another game, thanks to @thegameclub.bsky.social! Anyway, if playing a game a month, and then talking about it with a bunch of other nerds who just played the same game you did sounds fun, you should join us! Sign up by the evening of May 31st to get in on next month's game!

A sepia toned pixel art image, featuring the cover image for the game Roadwarden on the left, with portraits of four people on the right, stylized to be pixelated and colored like the left image. Featuring Gerritt, Steve, Troy and Nick.
A strip at the bottom lists "Best Coast Gamers" on the left, "- May 2026 -" in the middle, and "The Game Club" on the right.
Our group rated this game "9.5/10 Fresh Shells"

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Nick Duguid @tumerboy.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

How I feel making games VS How I look making games

Ralph Wiggum (The Simpsons) with his head glued to his shoulder during arts and crafts.

Ralph Wiggum (The Simpsons) holding a melting popsicle in his left hand. He is stuck in a finger trap between his right index finger and his tongue.

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Nick Duguid @tumerboy.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

Microscopy Night! Been way too long, but blooms still abound. Tonight's samples are Achillea millefolium (Common Yarrow) and Clarkia unguiculata (Elegant Clarkia)Clarkia unguiculata - the jewel (pollen) encrusted stigma

Achillea millefolium - a single flower from the larger flower head.

Achillea_millefolium - a single grain of yellow pollen on the surface of a petal.

Clarkia unguiculata - a few grains of pollen stuck to the side of the claw of a petal.

Clarkia unguiculata - the jewel (pollen) encrusted stigma

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Nick Duguid @tumerboy.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

Right, but it doesn’t have to take the eye out. It can just be a scar on the skin nearby. . .

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Nick Duguid @tumerboy.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Best Coast Gamers just met up to go over this month's @thegameclub.bsky.social game: Farewell North! Would you like to join a book club for games, play a new game every month, and then get together with cool folks to talk about how you didn't play the game while drinking wine? This is the place!

A compilation image showing a promo image for the game Farewell North, featuring a grey landscape, with a woman backpacker dressed in yellow, sitting with a black and white border collie, surrounded by a circle of colorful coral colored grass. The same border collie stands in the corner of the frame, on the right, looking at the camera (and very cute).

The center line says Best Coast Gamers - April 2026 - The Game Club

The bottom is 4 photos of our participants tonight, Gerritt, Nara, Nellie and myself.

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Nick Duguid @tumerboy.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

Ok, but can we get the graph editor window view of this?

Maya's Graph Editor window, showing a timeline, and the three curves (red, green, blue) for the different axes of a given animation.

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Nick Duguid @tumerboy.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

Also caught this little friend on a stalk of my Yerba Mansa.

A side view of a bright red ladybug (with no spots?!), walking along the pale green stalk of my Yerba Mansa plant. The stalk grows from the lower left to the upper right, with the ladybug on the top side of the stalk, but heading down to the left. The background is entirely blurred in whites and greens.

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Nick Duguid @tumerboy.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

My garden is in bloom, so I broke out the macro lens again. Elymus glaucus (Blue Wildrye) Gilia capitata (Globe Gilia) Eriogonum nudum (Nude Buckwheat) Grindelia camporum (Great Valley Gumweed)

Elymus glaucus (Blue Wildrye)

A close up photo of the seed head of a stalk of Rye grass. It moves diagonally through the frame, starting in the lower left and growing toward the upper right. Only the portion in the upper right is in focus, showing the seed coverings in a mix of white, tan, green and purple colors. The background is entirely blurred and is a patchwork of blues purples and pinks.

Gilia capitata (Globe Gilia)

A close up of the flower head of a Globe Gilia, which is actually made up of a bunch of small, 5 petaled periwinkle flowers. Their oval petals flop over each other and their 5 stamens each reach out and are topped with little clusters of blue pollen at the ends of the anthers. Only the closest flowers are in focus, and the entire background is a blur of pinks, purples and greens.

Eriogonum nudum (Naked Buckwheat)

A close up photo of the flowerhead of a Nude Buckwheat. It looks like a little white pom pom, and is a cluster of tightly packed white flowers. Their stamens reach beyond the petals, giving it a kind of hairy look. Only the closest part of the puff is in focus, and the rest is a blur of blues, whites and pinks.

Grindelia camporum (Great Valley Gumweed)

A close up of the closed flowerhead of the gumweed. We odn't see any petals or stamens or pollen here, just the green spikey sepals looking like a tiny medieval mace. The surface is smooth and glossy, but the darker pores of the sepals are visible. The flower is lit by sunlight from the upper right, and the background is a dark blur of desaturated blues and purples.

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Nick Duguid @tumerboy.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

I want to open this up and find the Milton Bradley game but the pieces are all ladders and fire hydrants and such.

A metal door inset into a metal panel on the wall of an elevator, closed with a keyed lock. There are red letters on the door: “FIREFIGHTERS’ OPERATION”

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Nick Duguid @tumerboy.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

What are the odds that two direct neighbors both rented dumpsters at the same time?

A photo taken across the street from two houses in my neighborhood. We can see the two driveways and two garages. The left house has a white truck, and a big, rented, black, metal dumpster. The house on the right has a Cybertruck.

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Nick Duguid @tumerboy.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

Hey @deswalsh.bsky.social - I might have you beat on the random birb fren front. This dude showed up in my backyard yesterday and has been struttin’ around ever since.

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