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Stefan H @umbralknightx.bsky.social · 6h

The DA in the Cornell case says that in 2024 he hadn't seen the full police transcript. Which in and "odd" anomaly of the English language translates to, "it hadn't hit national news, yet."

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Stefan H @umbralknightx.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

If saying Group A should be free is inherently taken as anti group B, therein lies the problem. Can such proclamations be rooted in hate? Sure. But saying any people should be free and have self determination, without any other implications, is never wrong. All people should have 1/

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Stefan H @umbralknightx.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The news keeps reporting that Tennessee last executed a woman in 1820. However, this source and others indicate that woman, Eve Martin, was a victim of murder commited by individuals not the state. ir.law.utk.edu/cgi/viewcont...

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Stefan H @umbralknightx.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

There's a company selling AI boxes to voice your NPCs. The palyer talk to the box (one per NPC) and the box voices the NPC. Peeps voices aren't all that make good NPCs. How you play them matters. I remember well played NPC that the GM didn't bother with an unique voice. 1/

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Stefan H @umbralknightx.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

You ever notice how when there's there's a bad ass female character in films there is very often a child involved. This is no accident. Its called the Mama Bear archetype. In male gaze fiction, with rare exception, women can only be bad asses when they're protecting a child.

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Stefan H @umbralknightx.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Police agencies are quietly replacing Flock cameras with Axon cameras. The leading maker of body cams, Axon has also been accused of manipulating data that points to their Taser products having a host of dangers for a greater segment of the population than their marketing discloses.

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Stefan H @umbralknightx.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Notice who's absent in the pictures and story on Ameican lunch counters in this Fox News story. The story evokes nostalgia for a time when an entire group of Ameicans were excluded from the mainstream culture so many want to bring back. I [don't] wonder why? 🙄 share.google/IRap4itlNrHF...

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Before McDonald's and Starbucks, Americans packed these once-beloved lunch counters

Luncheonettes gave women a place to eat during the workday and thrived during Prohibition, but America's fast food and car culture have reshaped dining habits.

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Stefan H @umbralknightx.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

I remember when you had to pay for the internet by the minute. Then for a while things weren't so bad. Now, so many sites are filled with pop up ads, pop ups telling me I have to subscribe, or both. I wonder how long before it would just be better to pay by the minute again?

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Homer Simpson: Where's My Coffee?

ALT: Homer Simpson: Where's My Coffee?

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Stefan H @umbralknightx.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Target and Calloway back to back. Some on the right think they know what DEI is about, but just like who receives "welfare" (sorry GOP farm subsidies are welfare) they're wrong. These sorts are the things DEI is supposed to prevent. $10 says no Black people were involved in the Target 1/

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Stefan H @umbralknightx.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Wait, I know this one. If it involved harming people they'll be fine, but if it involved misuse of this nation's god: money, which we value above people, they're done. We even print right on our money "In God We Trust" so our values are clear. share.google/BuTWiV8OqP11...

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Three Secret Service officials have been placed on administrative leave pending investigation

Three U.S. Secret Service officials have been placed on administrative leave, pending the outcome of an investigation by the agency’s professional standards office.

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Stefan H @umbralknightx.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Ah the ever popular "I'm a white dude and I've never seen it so it must not be real" stance. 🙄 youtube.com/shorts/J-Qoj...

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Session Zero Is Overrated

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Stefan H @umbralknightx.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

WTF! Warning- shows censored images and discusses the aftermath of a K-9 attack on a child. The officer who lived next door when the dog jumped the fence was aquitted of wrongdoing. And no lawyer will take the family's civil case because of the protections police have! youtu.be/ZPRfgdmbPvk?...

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Colorado family facing $300,000 in medical debt after K-9 officer attacks toddler, maims her father

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Stefan H @umbralknightx.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Corporations are receiving billions in tariff refunds which they are not passing on theur customers. Prices remain inflated and once again, we get screwed while the Corporations stick it to us.

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Stefan H @umbralknightx.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

The CEO of Flock sounds like a cult leader, insisting his company's cameras can balance safety and privacy. Yet, the number of police fired for absuing these systems is growing like a malignant fungus. One thing I'll begrudgingly grant Flock. They 1/ youtu.be/_T8YlJ2TGqQ?...

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Georgia police officers fired after Flock camera misuse

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Stefan H @umbralknightx.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Damn! How many stories about police misusing Flock cameras do we need before people realize that there are deep concerns with how little we can trust Flock and the police to not abuse this technology?

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Stefan H @umbralknightx.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Anyone notice that the people complaining about inaccuracies in the Odyssey don't often seem to gripe about how weathered the buildings look. As if people 3000+ years ago made buildings with centuries of weathering. I'm not among them but it's interesting what people focus on.

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Stefan H @umbralknightx.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

I was humbled to be a part of this. Everyone I was lucky enough to work with was amazing!

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Stefan H @umbralknightx.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Being even a small part of the cast of a stream that was among the 3 Black Halflings BHM was amazing, and if they nominated the Trulls too, then they must be making good choices.

Community related charity events or orgs crit awards nominees

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Stefan H @umbralknightx.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Peeps! This amazing set of streams for charity during Black History Month over on @3blackhalflings.bsky.social that I was honored to be a part of, was nominated for a Crit Award! The people both in front of and behind the camera were all amazing to work with/watch. youtube.com/playlist?lis...

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CRIT Awards - Three Black Halflings Black History Month - YouTube

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Stefan H @umbralknightx.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

AI might help cure cancer, which will be nice for the cancer free people living in the barren world stripped of resources to feed AI, and where memory is $1000/gig.🙄

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Morpheus in the Real World - Matrix Welcome

Alt: Morpheus in the Real World - Matrix Welcome

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Stefan H @umbralknightx.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

My state has mutiple devastating fires and has banned fireworks of all kinds due to the high fire danger. Yet here I sit listening to the go off all around me. I saw many in the sky across the city as I drove home. I wonder how many of these are from the "law and order" crowd

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Stefan H @umbralknightx.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

While I agree historical balance and mutiple perspectives are vital sometimes you have to focus on the more marginalized, less told stories. How many museums only tell of the very real horrors inflicted upon Jews without any Palestinian perspective? Take a look 1/ share.google/fAA4aTghxjeq...

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Why I resigned from the Canadian Museum for Human Rights

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Stefan H @umbralknightx.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

There are many reasons why Reddit is a poor place to educate yourself on academic issue, but here's a very key one. Knowledge evolve. Today it evolves faster than at any point in history. Even in the humanities we learn new things, rediscover documents that shed new 1/

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Stefan H @umbralknightx.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

Wow. This ad says a lot about where we're headed. I'm both frightened and interested to see what big tech does when no one can afford to access the internet and use all of their "spiffy" tech because most of us lack jobs that pay enough to survive let alone access the net.

A man walks past an ad fkr artisan that reads Artisans won't complain about work-life balance. The era of AI employees is here.

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Stefan H @umbralknightx.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

A great reminder that what people write and say in private doesn't always align with what they do regardless of what he said, our first President was an unabashed slave owner who used loopholes to prevent his slaves' freedom. He also went to 1/ www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/o...

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Ona Judge Escaped From Slavery While George Washington Was Busy Eating Dinner Inside. Now, a New Mural Honors Her Legacy

The artwork in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, shows Judge arriving in the city after her journey from Philadelphia in May 1796. She remained a free woman until her death in 1848

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Stefan H @umbralknightx.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

Non-historians doing history.🤦🏿‍♂️ This article claims that in 1968, "America was going through the most tumultuous year in its existence." Funny, I seem to remember this Civil War thing between 1861-65, where far more Americans 1/ nofilmschool.com/john-wayne-q...

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The John Wayne Quote From a 1968 War Movie Classic That Redefined the War Genre (In a Bad Way)

When movies shift over into propaganda, they usually lose their soul.

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Stefan H @umbralknightx.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

Just finished a two year campaign, of D&D playing and evil PC. The players knew he was evil because I made sure they had full buy in, but the PCs never knew until today. He never betrayed them, though he did some dark things the players were party to, that met the party goal. 1/

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Stefan H @umbralknightx.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

You suppose we should tell the self appointed arbitiers of what defined masculinity 3000 years ago, based on them watching a Brad Pitt movie, that their "facts" based on a film are akin to basing history on a bit of historical fiction. Like, I dunno l, 1/ #TheOdyssey

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Stefan H @umbralknightx.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

Copaganda heard on TV. "If it's legal it's ethical." -DA Jack McCoy Law and Order Season 21 Episode one. What a horrid statement. By that logic the Nuremberg Racial Law were ethical, Japanese American internment was ethical, slavery and segregation were ethical.

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Stefan H @umbralknightx.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

I tell students all the time that the reason such a large percentage of law school applicants are history majors is because the core skills of the two fields are the same, critical thinking, constructing and defending evidence based arguments, etc. By mkst estimates I've seen over 50% of law 1/

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Stefan H @umbralknightx.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

I was caught off guard by the dialouge at first, too, but I agree with this article. All this talk of accurate dress, language, etc. For what is historical fiction (unless anyone thinks Sirens and Cyclopses are real) misses some key ideas. 1/ share.google/Ulk3OgKciVA4...

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Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey and Why It's OK Everyone’s Speaking Plain Old American in It

What's up with Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey and all the American accents in the trailer?

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Stefan H @umbralknightx.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

When all criticism of any State or, political or religious entity, or other organization is disallowed what follows from said entity is, historically speaking, rarely good. Nothing here should be taken to mean SOME criticisms can be wrong headed or bigoted.

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Stefan H @umbralknightx.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Texas Tech History will remember. 26-4-9-Memorandum-Chancellor-Creighton.pdf share.google/5Ri0LCHvyavZtE…

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Stefan H @umbralknightx.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

For a nation not targeting journalists, Israel sure has killed a lot of them in the last two years Israel has killed 260 journalists in Gaza, Lebanon, Yemen and Iran | International | EL PAÍS English share.google/wO4pB4Y9YbFX...

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Stefan H @umbralknightx.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

It saddens me to live in a world where someone can name their company after the device used by one of the most famous villains in all of fiction to spy on & corrupt the leaders of Middle Earth. Everyone things the name is clever, rather than the rattle on a snake telling us "this thing's dangerous."

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Stefan H @umbralknightx.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

Hot take: I'm not a Christian, but I am a historian who has done a tiny bit of study in the period where Just War doctrine came about. Wars are sometimes necessary (Hitler was not going to be stopped short of conflict), but they are never just. Wars are inherently unjust because even in 1/

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Stefan H @umbralknightx.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

This is so reminiscent of those who want to erase Black history because "it might make someone feel bad." We're supposed to feel bad when awful things are done to other humans, it's called empathy. Much as MAGAs hate that word empathy is an anthropological response to hopefully reduce the 1/

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lex luddy needs a nap @lexluddy.xyz · 17/04/2026

BAFTA pulling a trailer for an autobiographical game about surviving sexual assault only hours before it was said to be a part of a showcase is an exceptionally bad look.

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Stefan H @umbralknightx.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

Let's be honest, women and people of color have to fight to be heard by medical professionals on a regular basis. I'm glad she got a diagnosis, but ChatGPT as a medical aid is concerning at best. When I was a lad we used to say a broken clock is right twice a 1/ share.google/svhnvuEkbMA2...

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Woman, 23, Self-Diagnosed Her Rare Genetic Disorder Using ChatGPT After Years of Being Misdiagnosed by Doctors

A woman experienced worsening seizures and mobility issues for years. She said doctors repeatedly misdiagnosed her condition as anxiety. She then turned to ChatGPT, which suggested hereditary spastic ...

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Stefan H @umbralknightx.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

"The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command." -Orwell, 1984 This image of Dr. Trump applying the new "light hands" medical technique, posted for no particular reason. 😉 🤔🙄

Images of Trump in a robe with light coming from his hands, as one hand rests onnthe forehead of a bed ridden man. He is surrounded by people looking up to him.

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Stefan H @umbralknightx.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

So here a fun little critical thinking exercise I use in class. For those who dont know what Barn Stars are look them up. These symbols appear commonly across the mid and eastern US. They also appear in the video game Fallout 76. You can find mutiple discussions on Reddit and other fourms 1/

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Stefan H @umbralknightx.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

Air D&D! My co workers and I are renting cabin in the mountains for our first TTRPG retreat weekend this summer.

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Stefan H @umbralknightx.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

It fascinates me when something fundamentally misunderstands basic things. Take this shirt, which is sad, misguided, and ignorant. Orwell leaned democratic socialist. 1984 and Animal Farm were against the type of totalitarian government found in the USSR of his life time. 1/

T shirt with the words
Demsoc
War is peace
Freedom is slavery
Diversity is strength

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Stefan H @umbralknightx.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

News would be something Congress was not divided on.

New York Times Headline "Members of Congress Are Divided on U.S. Strikes on Iran."

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3 Black Halflings @3blackhalflings.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

Our final incredible #BHM table, Journey to Obsidian Isle, is a one-shot of @darringtonpress.bsky.social's #daggerheart set in the afrofantasy world of The Wagadu Chronicles! Catch us live this Saturday the 28 at 1pm EST. All proceeds support #SadGirlsClub. twitch.tv/tbhalflings

3 Black Halflings and Candace the Magnificent Present
A charity one-shot to benefit Sad Girls Club
Using the Daggerheart system
Journey to Obsidian Isle
Starring
Jeremy Cobb as Your Very GM
B. Dave Walters (bdavewalters)
Bee Zelda (beezelda)
Madam Ava (madamavacouture)
Stefan (umbralknightx)
Saturday February 28th at 1pm EST
Twitch.tv/tbhalflings

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Stefan H @umbralknightx.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

Speaking of "tradition" and the use of they as a singular gender neutral pronoun. New Jersey's constitution used they as a gender neutral pronoun between 1776 and 1807, thus allowing anyone, regardless of ethnicity or gender, to vote so long as they 1/ www.amrevmuseum.org/virtualexhib...

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