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Robert Merkel

@tvsrobert.bsky.social
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He/Him I design and build things for a living.

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Old Sam @pdfmerchant.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
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Robert Merkel @tvsrobert.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I’ve been reading a lot about 19th century vitalist theories for a project, and I swear we’re about five minutes away from these folks talking about “vril” or “the odic force”.
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drewtoothpaste @drewtoothpaste.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
if you learn a skill or start a new hobby, it makes you a better person, not worse. nobody ever gets into calligraphy and immediately starts screeching that typefaces are useless and only the quill shall prosper. there is no "woodworking psychosis" nobody thinks they're dating their kettlebell
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Kim Dalton @kimdalton.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
A moment to hype those on the Kitten Marlowe Patreon, if I may. I literally couldn't be doing this without their support. Getting someone to listen to your show feels like a Herculean effort sometimes. Getting someone to listen AND throw you $2-7 a month? Outrageous! Awe-inspiring! Lifesaving!
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Kitten Marlowe ➡️ Shadows in the Smoke S2! @kittenmarlowe.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Kitten Marlowe cordially invites you to return to Hargrave House this Tuesday, September 1st. Please accept the following gift, a trailer for Season 2 of Shadows in the Smoke, in anticipation of our reunion. kittenmarlowe.com/episode/shad...
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Shadows in the Smoke Season 2 Trailer | Kitten Marlowe - actual play tabletop rpg podcasts, and more
It's time to return to Hargrave House, and face the shadows that stalk the foggy streets of London. Join the hunt on September 1st...
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okie (they/them) @okie.gay · 25/08/2026
Texas’s drag ban was found to be unconstitutional this morning and one of the plaintiffs who brought the suit was an Austin-based drag queen who often impersonates Dolly Dolly was named in the final judgement itself and after hearing about the lawsuit, she sent that drag queen a signed guitar
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Avery Alder, Buried Without Ceremony @lackingceremony.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Do you love any of the games that I have created? Whether it's Monsterhearts, Dream Askew, The Quiet Year, Going For Broke, or a deeper cut, now would be a great time to hit quote-tweet and tell your friends about it! It's been a slow month. 💕✨ store.buriedwithoutceremony.com
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Buried Without Ceremony
My name is Avery Alder, and for the past eighteen years I’ve been designing tabletop roleplaying games. These are games about community, relationships, doubt, queerness, and the collapse of civilizati...
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Wes Franks @carrion-comfort.com · 07/07/2026
Proud to announce I'm a featured performer in @kittenmarlowe.bsky.social next interstitial series, Flight of the KingfISSher, using a brand new CfB game designed by @tvsrobert.bsky.social. An especially great series for fans of Cowboy Bebop. pca.st/episode/59a0...
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Flight of the Kingfissher Ep 1 - "Hello Spacers"
We meet our heroes, scrambling to action, as their gig at at Camp Sophia goes all SNAFU. Another day, another crisis. --------------------------- Content Warnings: Sci-Fi Action, Innuendo, Threat of…
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Robert Merkel @tvsrobert.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Guy who just learned about the Nicene Creed: I’m getting real Nicene Creed vibes from this yard sign.
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Julia Serano @juliaserano.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
...I've held my nose and voted for centrist Dems more times than I can count because I didn't want the opposing Republican to win. centrist Dems who won't do the same when a progressive is on the ballot are giving away what side they are really on
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Robert Merkel @tvsrobert.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Athena vs Ares
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Robert Merkel @tvsrobert.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Werner Herzog: Every line on my face was put there by Grogu. He would arrive on set, unprepared, hungover from the night before, blaming everyone but himself. Interviewer: But he… Herzog: (interrupting) He is a singular actor, and I have learned more from him than any other man I have known
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Kenny Logins @kennylogins.bsky.social · 12/07/2025
Chinchillazilla

My dealer: got some straight gas 🔥😛 this strain is called "Hogfather" 😳 you’ll be zonked out of your gourd 💯

Me: yeah whatever. I don't feel shit.

5 minutes later: dude I swear I just had a full conversation with a rat skeleton

My buddy Teatime pacing: the tooth fairy is lying to us
December 23, 2023 at 5:41PM
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Jack Tindale @jacktindale.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Turned on just in time for the Bosnia goal. A multi-ethnic country riven by internal division and with an impenetrable linguistic divide, Canada is a country in North America.
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Robert Merkel @tvsrobert.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
So, we’re all blaming Trump for game three, right?
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Jacob Oller @jacoboller.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
sorry the only "real" new yorkers are the rats who work in the kitchen in Muppets Take Manhattan
rizzo and the sick one causing a ruckus
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Denali @denali.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
I really enjoy EB White's take on New York and New Yorkers.
An excerpt from EB White's Here is New York
There are roughly three New Yorks there is first the New York of the man or woman who was born here who takes the city for granted and accepts its size and its turbulence is natural and inevitable second there is the New York of the commuter the city that is devoured by locusts each day and spat out each night third there is the New York of the person who was born somewhere else and came to New York in quest of something of these three trembling cities the greatest is the last the city of final destination the city that is a goal it is this third city that accounts for New York's high-strung disposition it's poetical deportment it's a dedication to the arts and it's incomparable achievements commuters give the city its title restlessness natives give it solidity and continuity but the settlers give it passion and whether it is a farmer arriving from Italy to set up a small grocery store in a slum or a young girl arriving from a small town in Mississippi to escape the indignity of being observed by her neighbors or a boy arriving from the corn belt with a manuscript in his suitcase and a pain in his heart it makes no difference each embraces New York with the intense excitement of first love each absorbs New York with fresh eyes of an adventurer each generates heat and light to dwarf the consolidated Edison company
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Radiant G🌈 @radiantg.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
Due to the changes at Kickstarter no longer launching our campaign next week. Please RT this statement and encourage other studios and devs to speak up too.
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Robert Merkel @tvsrobert.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
Slightly increase a band They Are Probably Giants
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Manisha Sinha @profmsinha.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
Historian of abolition here, history tells us how we got here, to put it succinctly “John Brown was hanged for treason and Robert E. Lee was not.”
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Robert Merkel @tvsrobert.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
In honor of both this anniversary and May the Fourth, here’s one of the patches I made for a punk Han Solo vest:
A patch based on the self-titled MDC album. The riot police have been replaced with stormtroopers and the text in the upper right corner reads MDS.
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Robert Merkel @tvsrobert.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
I think it’s pretty telling that Trump thinks it’s mob slang instead of what it actually is, kitchen slang. He definitely hangs out with more criminals than service workers.
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 11/04/2026
I don't know how to explain to the people who pop up when creatives complain about "AI" to say there are legit uses for it just how much they sound like someone saying "Well actually fire is used to make bread" when people are talking about an organized arson ring burning down their fucking houses
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Robert Merkel @tvsrobert.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
You need to make sure it’s real mayo though (Dukes is my preference). If it has too much added sugar it will burn too quickly!
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Dia Lacina @dialacina.com · 08/03/2026
Happy International Women's Day to the original International Woman
Carmen Sandiego from the 90s cartoon
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Edmond Tran @edmondtran.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
We cannot and should not let generative AI take away these tiny, insignificant, but probably fun as hell jobs from artists
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Robert Merkel @tvsrobert.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
Oof, I don’t think FBI and con-man are going to win me any primaries. But it does describe one of my favorite Spielberg movies!
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Robert Merkel @tvsrobert.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
Apparently, when Stanford was retiring their old (read: racist) mascot, they held a vote amongst the student body for what it’s replacement should be. Cardinal (the color) was chosen by the administration, because they thought the winner was too controversial: the Stanford Robber Barons.
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Robert Merkel @tvsrobert.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
Beyond this, AI actually makes the financial barriers to a career in the arts worse by seeking to eliminate most of the (already scarce) entry-level jobs that exist in the field.
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𝙽𝚊𝚜𝚑 𝙸𝚜 𝙷𝚎𝚛𝚎 𝙵𝚘𝚛 𝙸𝚝 @nashishereforit.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
Wow.
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Adam Mallinger @bitterscriptreader.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
There are some Star Trek fans weirdly obsessed with “decorum” and they really fixate on how Holly Hunter sits in the captain’s chair on STARFLEET ACADEMY. One guy left a comment on the official FB whining about it and so Captain Janeway herself responded to drop the hammer
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Vidiots @vidiots.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
Vidiots is here for you.

In solidarity with the National Shutdown, 
we’re encouraging you to keep 
your hearts open and your wallets closed. 

On Friday, January 30th:
🎬 All previously scheduled screenings will now be free and open to the public*
🍿 Free popcorn for all moviegoers
📼 Free video store rentals

We believe in the power of film, physical media, and shared space to hold us, remind us who we are, and help us imagine what comes next.

*Get your 🎟️🎟️ in our 🔗🔝
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pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
I am gonna make it through this year if it kills Smee
Disney Captain Hook
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Jay Kuo @nycjayjay.bsky.social · 29/12/2025
The arts under MAGA fascism.
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Robert Merkel @tvsrobert.bsky.social · 28/12/2025
post a perfect album from the 90s that isn't nirvana, soundgarden, pearl jam, or alice in chains.
The album cover for Odelay by Beck. It features one of those dogs that looks like a living mop, jumping over an impressively high hurdle in the middle of a field. The words “BECK!ODELAY” cut through the middle of the image in a typeface reminiscent of the lettering on a letterman jacket.
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Robert Merkel @tvsrobert.bsky.social · 26/12/2025
You've just opened up a Star Trek themed restaurant. What are you calling it? Bar beyond the Stars
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Jeff Yang @originalsp.in · 26/12/2025
Dean Martin, born Dino Paul Crocetti, son of Italian immigrant Gaetano Crocetti Frank Sinatra, son of Italian immigrants Antonino Sinatra and Natalina Garavanta Merry Christmas to everyone except Stephen Miller and his enablers and handlers
Stephen Miller • @St... • 13m Ø
Watched the Dean Martin and Frank Sinatra Family Christmas with my kids.
Imagine watching that and thinking America needed infinity migrants from the third world.
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Stella Sacco @antlervel.vet · 26/12/2025
SELL IT TO WHO, BEN?? FUCKING PUMAMAN??
Cougar poking its head through wrapping paper
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Nick Duguid @tumerboy.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
A drawing of the Enterprise E from behind, with a pinky/purpley space backdrop including a large planet just poking into frame from above.

Text says: "Much like the Federation, I too have lofty ideals and no money."
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odinmercer.bsky.social @odinmercer.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
Glad Star Trek now exists in LEGO form so I can do dumb things such as recreate scenes like this. #iykyk #definitelyfuckedaghost #subrosa
Lego Beverly Crusher holding a candle to summon a Lego ghost she’s been boning.
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daniel sieradski @self.agency · 14/11/2025
patton oswalt has been suspended from bluesky for saying that megyn kelly should be fed to a woodchipper for justifying the sexual abuse of minors
not found, account has been suspended
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Jules Suzdaltsev @jules.su · 10/11/2025
this is literally never not accurate
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Robert Merkel @tvsrobert.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
My wife and I, when we went to Miku on our honeymoon.
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Christian 🍂🏫 @vidalporter.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
I see a lot of people posting about supporting local businesses, local food banks, etc. I completely agree, but will add: If your city has any sort of local arts scene, throw them some $. Buy some art. See a local theater production. Tip your hometown drag queen.
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Dave Jorgenson @davejorgenson.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
Why does everyone keep calling it “The Epstein Ballroom?” Please stop repeating “The Epstein Ballroom” because it is not called “The Epstein Ballroom!” Don’t tell the news that it’s called “The Epstein Ballroom” and please don’t repost this!!!!!
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
Take note of all these people turning out for protests in small towns in red states. Remember them the next time you’re inclined to write an area off because “they voted for this.”
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Jessica Ritchey @jmritchey.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
If I had explain American history in one sentence, I could do worse than "John Brown was hung for treason, but Robert E. Lee was not."
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matthew @pahuski.com · 13/10/2025
Happy Columbo’s Day
Screenshot from Columbo. He his talking to his dog, which is sitting is the drivers seat of a car. “Okay, I’m gonna put you in charge. You take care of the car. You’re a responsible dog. When I get back, if the car’s okay, I’ll give you another cookie.”“If the car’s gone,”“I’ll give you another cookie anyway”“because I love you.”
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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion. As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.
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