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Carl

@visionsofcarl.bsky.social
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Pointing out the obvious since 1983. Penchant for busting a move. Design director, ttrpg person, aspiring indie game designer, weight lifter, lindy hop dancer. He/him.

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
Once, technology solved problems. People liked having problems solved, so they liked technology. Tech execs started to think of that sentiment as their due. So when they stopped solving problems, and people stopped liking them, they became outraged. "How dare you not love whatever we give you?"
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Dan the Baker ➡️ PAXU @dan-is-baking.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
If you need an excuse to hide from your family for a bit, you can watch the second part of our StoryBake two shot, A Haunting in Havershan! That’ll buy you almost 3 hours @hooshakid.bsky.social @visionsofcarl.bsky.social youtu.be/ChU_tZt6X5o?...
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An Unfriendly, Ungrateful Ghost || A Haunting in Havershan pt 2 || StoryBake TTRPG
YouTube video by Open Table Adventures
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Carl @visionsofcarl.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
Not from the AP but got this one from the panel
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Carl @visionsofcarl.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
Sad I missed seeing this. Would totally have come by for it.
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Dan the Baker ➡️ PAXU @dan-is-baking.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
The first of our StoryBake twoshot is out now! There will be baking, there will be ghosts, there will be….apple fried rice? Gotta watch to find out! @hooshakid.bsky.social @visionsofcarl.bsky.social @almosttheojames youtu.be/S7FP4OzqEQo?...
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A Haunting in Havershan || Part One || StoryBake, a Baking Adventure TTRPG
YouTube video by Open Table Adventures
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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
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Carl @visionsofcarl.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
Excited to get home to these two games landing in my mail
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Carl @visionsofcarl.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
Hey @mta.info Stop having Brooklyn bound C trains go express at Hoyt, you’ve got A trains for that.
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Hampus Flink 🐷💢 @hampus.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
Tech startup idea: instead of starting your car with your key, you get in, turn on the display panel, enter your password, get your phone out, open the authenticator app, enter your pin, enter the timed passcode, then open the start menu, then helpdesk, then "request engine start", then submit a tic
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🏳️‍⚧️ Bog Witch Girl 🏳️‍⚧️ @bogwitch-girl.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
after a very frustrating call with Visa (US+CAN), I was told that Visa would like inquiries relating to using their bargaining power to destroy adult media to be sent, via email, to askvisa@visa.com they asked. to be sent. emails. you know what to do.
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Carl @visionsofcarl.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
Gah I should have gone by yesterday to get one
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Karla Ortiz @kortizart.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
Folks, US banning any kind of AI regulation happening in the states is about to be voted on soon!! CALL your Senators ASAP!! Zach gave us a great break down bellow so check out his thread and lets do it! It’s GO TIME!
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 26/06/2025
The American Academy of Pediatricians bluntly telling us the current CDC can't be trusted, and of course they are absolutely correct publications.aap.org/aapnews/news...
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AAP will continue to publish its own vaccine recommendations after CDC advisers sow distrust
The CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices plans to form a work group to review child and adolescent immunization schedules despite them undergoing constant review in real time.
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Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof @evanbernick.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
So, these people are white supremacists of a very specific, American kind. The idea that the right to govern belongs only to a select, racially defined group was *the* political theory of the antebellum and redeemed south. Ask who is being replaced and why that’s a problem, you’ll see it.
This is correct. They tell us that the great replacement is a "conspiracy theory, yet we can look at New York City and see it happening right in
front of our eyes.
Stephen Miller @ @StephenM • 10h The commentary about NYC Democrats nominating an anarchist-socialist for
Mayor omits one point: how unchecked migration fundamentally remade the NYC electorate. Democrats change politics by changing voters. That's how you
turn a city that defined US dominance into what it is now.
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Mississippi Free Press @mississippifreepress.org · 25/06/2025
OPINION: "Since the Ku Klux Klan’s resurgence in 1915, white supremacists … have long advocated violence to establish a white ethnostate, a proposed political entity or nation-state where residency and citizenship are exclusively limited to whites," Art Jipson writes. buff.ly/ZMXSEhn
A gathering of demonstrators wearing shields and goggles, others carrying the Confederate flag behind them
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
Seems like Trump’s most powerful advisor being a white nationalist should inspire greater alarm than the possible mayor of new york being pro palestinian rights
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Carl @visionsofcarl.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
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Carl @visionsofcarl.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
Deeply disappointing move by @roll20.net
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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
Cable news suddenly keeps mentioning “sleeper cells” in Iran. Heard it at least 3 times on CNN. Unbelievable 2003-style reporting malpractice, just spitballing ways of making Iran seem like a threat to Americans sitting at home watching tv
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
EXCLUSIVE — The Onion has a full-page ad in today’s NYT featuring part of an editorial calling out congressional fecklessness towards Trump. They also sent a copy of their latest issue to every lawmaker. My report, with an excerpt from the full editorial: www.thehandbasket.co/p/exclusive-...
The Onion NYT ad. The headline of the editorial says “CONGRESS, NOW MORE THAN EVER OUR NATION NEEDS YOUR COWARDICE”
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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 22/06/2025
Given all that we know about Clinton, I hope his endorsement makes you MORE likely to vote for Mamdani and LESS likely to include Cuomo ANYWHERE on your ballot. Mamdani, Lander, Adrienne Adams, Blake, and Myrie. Those are the five. Your choice of order. But #NoCuomo, #NeverCuomo, friends. vote.nyc
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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
Congress has not formally declared war since 1942, 83 years ago. Look at all the war the US has done in the past 83 years. Very obviously, it long long ago stopped requiring congressional approval for war according to its own constitution.
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Carl @visionsofcarl.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
We did, my first time there and definitely going to go back. Played Flamecraft which was very cute and fun.
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Carl @visionsofcarl.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
Stopped off at a board game cafe last night in Portland to play for a bit and low and behold @goosepoopgames.com had a stand of little games so I obviously had to get one
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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
The idea that the progressive left used the internet to bully institutions into accepting unpopular, far-left positions is the exact opposite of what has actually happened. The alt-right used the internet for ideological capture and they are now in the White House bragging about it daily
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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
I don't care if these monstrous ICE raids are a "federal operation". This is authoritarian violence, plain and simple. Just because Stephen Miller has kidnapping quotas for brown people he doesn't want to see on the street doesn't mean we have to think it's okay.
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Chris Morran @themorrancave.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
New: A DOGE staffer developed an AI tool to review Veterans Affairs contracts. But there was a slight hitch. It hallucinated the size of those deals. For example, it concluded that more than a thousand contracts were each worth $34M, when in fact some were for as little as $35,000.
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DOGE Developed Error-Prone AI Tool to “Munch” Veterans Affairs Contracts
We obtained records showing how a Department of Government Efficiency staffer with no medical experience used artificial intelligence to identify which VA contracts to kill. “AI is absolutely the wron...
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Carl @visionsofcarl.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
This weeks newsletter from @monteiro.bsky.social hits so fucking hard. I struggle to pull any one quote out amongst so many so here’s one: “When decisions are cheap we can take risks that become almost impossible otherwise.” And now go sign up and read the rest of it…
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Meredith Shiner @meredithshiner.com · 03/06/2025
Look this is pathetic but instructive because it’s not just about this lame creep it’s about the Overton window continuing to be moved so quickly by Trump’s criminality and lawlessness that bad people have reassessed their previous actions against the metric of “you can get away with anything.”
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THEJordonBrown @thejordonbrown.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
If the government had paid Elon Musk and his cronies $134 million to do nothing, it would’ve saved more money than having DOGE actually attempt to cut the budget.
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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 24/04/2025
Authoritarians love "Gen AI" because it - Sounds confident even when factually wrong - Broadly conforms to & reproduces their biases, off the shelf - Lets them create bespoke realities (text, audio, moving & still image) which agree w/ their biases - Degrades trust in knowledge/evidence/expertise…
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Carl @visionsofcarl.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
Look amazing. Can’t wait :)
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Elliot Davis | Pre-Save To Feel Your Warmth @moreblueberries.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
I made a game and seeing these proofs made me shake so bad I could barely open them
Preproduction copies of The Time We Have in standard and deluxe editions
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austin_walker @austinwalker.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
Bring it back!!!
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Internet Archive @archive.org · 17/04/2025
📢 The Internet Archive needs your help. At a time when information is being rewritten or erased online, a $700 million lawsuit from major record labels threatens to destroy the Wayback Machine. Tell the labels to drop the 78s lawsuit. 👉 Sign our open letter: www.change.org/p/defend-the... 🧵⬇️
Defend the Internet Archive.
Protect the Wayback Machine.
Tell the music labels: Drop the 78s lawsuit.
Sign our open letter on change.org
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Call me Ishmaboo @billjank.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
This. For autistic kids For our trans friends For immigrants For people of color For women For cis white dudes like me Everyone deserves to live, even if they can’t work, pay taxes, or get laid.
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Eileen Guo (is on leave for rest of 2026) @eileenguo.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
SCOOP: sources tell me that the State Dept plans to eliminate its only office to counter foreign disinformation, as soon as today, delivering a win to foreign governments like Russia, Iran, and China—and the office's mostly conservative critics. www.technologyreview.com/2025/04/16/1...
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US office that counters foreign disinformation is being eliminated, say officials
Conservative critics have long accused the department of helping to censor the American right.
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Kylie Ariel @kuwisdelu.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
They’re burning the Library of Alexandria.
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Social Media Lab @socialmedialab.ca · 18/04/2025
What some people fail to understand is that fascism isn’t just a local or national issue—it’s an inherently expansionist and parasitic ideology. It doesn’t respect borders, and it doesn’t stay contained.
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Carl @visionsofcarl.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
Absolutely this
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
They’ve persecuted immigrants, transgender people and scientists. They’ve targeted the rule of law and free speech. Now, they’re coming for your three-year-old, too. wapo.st/4jcUg2f
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Opinion | Donald Trump’s war on children
The administration is divesting from future generations. It will cost America dearly.
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Comfortably Boo @numb.comfortab.ly · 28/03/2025
None of these morons knows COBOL, so they will be asking Grok to do the translation. What could possibly go wrong. Side note: I like how Wired calls DOGE "the so-called Department of Government Efficiency" I wish all media would do this.
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August J. Pollak @augustjpollak.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
Seriously: arrest him. The governor should have state police arrest him and charge him with election fraud. Then immediately hold a press conference explaining you arrested someone for committing election fraud and will continue to do so. Just fucking arrest him already. You can actually do this
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Jewish Voice for Peace @jvp.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
The Israeli military killed Mohammed along with his wife and child in an airstrike targeting his home in Khan Younis. Less than an hour later, Hossam Shabat was also killed in an Israeli airstrike while reporting on Salah al-Din Street in Jabalia, North Gaza.
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Jewish Voice for Peace @jvp.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
This morning, the Israeli military deliberately targeted and killed beloved Palestinian journalists Hossam Shabat and Mohammed Mansour.
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emily blight 🐦‍⬛ @threnody.northsky.social · 22/03/2025
i have a conservative in my life i can’t fully escape. cis, het, white, well-off. kinda guy who’s been calling refugees “cultural suicide” since 2015 & loves atlas shrugged to bits. he was melting down about something & i asked “when was the last time you were told ‘no’ & had to live with it?” 🧵
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