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Doug Pirko, genuine amateur human. @waiwode.bsky.social · 19h

What poster did you have in your room growing up?

Doug Pirko, genuine amateur human. @waiwode.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Had a great time today at Garden City Board Game Day #boardgames Game 1 was El Grande, one of the first area control games (Came third of three). Great to get the classic game out again. (1 hr) Game 2 was Vantage. We won an epic victory (Mission and Destiny). We probably could have finished...

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Meredith McClaren @iniquitousfish.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

And illustration of Inigo Montoya from the PRINCESS BRIDE limping towards the audience. His sword in one hand, his other hand cradling his injuries. This is his key scene in the movie, yielding the line 'you killed my father, prepare to die.'

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Doug Pirko, genuine amateur human. @waiwode.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I'm basic. I like listening to sports talking-people talk about American Football while I work. (ESPN brings back Skip Bayless). Nope. Fuck that. I hate football now. Time for a new sport. I wonder if ESPN 8 "The Ocho" has Jai Alia? Maybe I'm a Jai Alai guy now?

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Doug Pirko, genuine amateur human. @waiwode.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

#boardgames Played the first of 4 games (a "campaign season") for Heat: Pedal to the Metal. (Track: Great Britain, 4 player, no NPCs). Came 2nd in a photo finish (same distance, but was on the outer line). Easy to learn, plays quickly, always enjoy playing it*. *NPC cars are the thieves of joy.

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Doug Pirko, genuine amateur human. @waiwode.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

The Discord L5R dice roller is now harder to roll, harder to read, and less gooder (sic) all around. Yay for improvement.

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Doug Pirko, genuine amateur human. @waiwode.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I had a joke about Green Oaks, but it aged poorly.

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Doug Pirko, genuine amateur human. @waiwode.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I have a joke about Star Fleet Battles, but I don’t have the energy to tell it.

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Doug Pirko, genuine amateur human. @waiwode.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I don’t know who George Formby is—he’s been all over my Bluesky today—and by this point I no longer care. Also, despite em dashes, written by a genuine amateur human.

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Doug Pirko, genuine amateur human. @waiwode.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

#boardgames Played a four-player game of House of Fado, a game of competing Portuguese music restaurants. Apparently, mechanically, a "select slice" of The Gallerist (but I've never played that). Anyway, I came away with a win. Fun, would lie to try again. About an hour. (Picture not ours).

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Doug Pirko, genuine amateur human. @waiwode.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Why I can't be an Aerospace Engineer: I can't get past that first problem. I keep answering "Yes!"

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Doug Pirko, genuine amateur human. @waiwode.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

#ttrpg If I could apply myself, I'd love to actually stat out every character on the Leaderboard from the game Dispatch in a pen and paper game. I'm in love with these names.

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Doug Pirko, genuine amateur human. @waiwode.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Elven School Lunch You: dusty old crumbly 2nd Age lembas. The cool elves: lemon lembas with cranberries. The new Noldor kid: chocolate-chip lembas.

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Doug Pirko, genuine amateur human. @waiwode.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Tonight's viewing: Planet of the Vampires (1965) in Colorscope!

Poster for 1965's Planet of the Vampires, showing monsters and crew against a big red sun.

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Doug Pirko, genuine amateur human. @waiwode.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Overlooked by the Emmys again. My chance of being the first GOTHED (Grammy/Oscar/Tony/Hugo/Emmy/Darwin) Sextet Winner is diminishing.

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Doug Pirko, genuine amateur human. @waiwode.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I am broken. My nose: this is a hot cup of mint. My tongue: No, this is coffee-flavoured coffee, and it's still too hot. Nose: let's just agree to disagree. What the hell.

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Doug Pirko, genuine amateur human. @waiwode.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Suday football is on and we're on our first Red Zone "octo-box"! Given recent insomnia, I expect to sleep through most of these games.

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Doug Pirko, genuine amateur human. @waiwode.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I didn't hate Supergirl (the movie). It was fine. Enjoyed the last 2/3rds more than the 1st. I have no idea how it fits into the greater tapestry of the MCU*, but I'm not really an expert there. *Let me have my moment.

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Doug Pirko, genuine amateur human. @waiwode.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I really liked Mayor ZM’s message for the day, but… …I can’t see a man sitting at a desk outside without thinking….

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Doug Pirko, genuine amateur human. @waiwode.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

While you were partying, I studied the Blade. But I'm a really bad student, very easily distracted. I got expelled from Blade school after the highest I scored on three re-tests of "Guess the Sharp End" was 43%. So now that the barbarians are at the gate--can I get a ride outta here?

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Doug Pirko, genuine amateur human. @waiwode.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Apparently I've lost access to "zip-lock" technology. This damn bag will not re-seal. I suspect the US Prez. No doubt he issued an Exec Order banning "zip-lock" in Canada.

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Doug Pirko, genuine amateur human. @waiwode.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Dreams after watching the new Batman cartoon: I created a spreadsheet that tracked inputs on columns B-I, that by column J could not only accurately predict crimes in each region of Gotham but predicts the emergence of super villains. Yep. I dream of spreadsheets. Anyway. Good show.

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Jesse Locker @jessemlocker.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

How many times has Satan tempted you to neglect Learning, and follow Gaming?

Four panels from an early modern English printed broadside showing: 1) The School-master and Schollar: a teacher and student in a doorway 2) The Vertu-ous Student: a young man at his desk with books 3) Satan tempteth him to neglect Learning, and follow Gaming: Satan at a table with playing cards 4) SATAN tempteth him from his Study to evil company: satan at a table with men and women playing cards, drinking, and smoking
Source: THE YOUNGMANS VICTORY Over the POVVER of the DEVIL (London, 1672-1696?), Houghton Library, Harvard https://ebba.english.ucsb.edu/ballad/34760/album

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Doug Pirko, genuine amateur human. @waiwode.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

As an ethnic Leutonian, there's nothing like the classic Leutonian dinner, Cabbage Rolls and Coffee! Mmm, mmm, good!

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Doug Pirko, genuine amateur human. @waiwode.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

English/French Grocery day, yesterday. I don't think I noticed before that the bakery section branding for English "Farmer's Market" doesn't match the French "Delices de Marché"--market delights, in English, basically." Is it a branding choice, or axiomatic translation? I don't know.

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Doug Pirko, genuine amateur human. @waiwode.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Things at 60 that make no sense to me when I was 30: “I need a wool sock for my left hand.” (Keeps it toasty and warmer while I watch TV in a warm room, and I find it helps with the arthritis.)

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InfoWars @realinfowars.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Now in Gunmetal Grey!

A person in the background carrying a bag over their shoulder. In the foreground, a large gray cat sits beside a cardboard box labeled "CATS FOR MEN." The text above reads "Introducing CATS FOR MEN™," and below the box, it says "The first feline designed for real, masculine men."

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Doug Pirko, genuine amateur human. @waiwode.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

It's weird to see a Heritage Minute with Rick Mercer where he isn't "taking the piss." See Heritage Moment: Rye & Ginger et al youtu.be/wCjsUk7PchI?...

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NEW Heritage Minute: Gander and 9/11

YouTube video by Historica Canada

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Doug Pirko, genuine amateur human. @waiwode.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

They're in the public eye now. I was an Army Cadet, a Scouts-like organization, from 1979 to 1983, when I joined the Amry. In 1981 we canoed from Cochrane ON to Moosonee on James Bay (about 360 km up the Abitibi River, to the Moose River). Beluga whales swam beside us on the last stretch.

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Doug Pirko, genuine amateur human. @waiwode.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Come on. iron Madden was sitting right there. Is anyone even trying, anymore?

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Doug Pirko, genuine amateur human. @waiwode.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Building fire alarm while I had just awoken and was brushing my teeth. Well, better than alarm in the night. *Construction generator in parking basement is improperly ventilated and was generating smoke.* *Ugly humidity today. Everything feels damp and heavy*

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Doug Pirko, genuine amateur human. @waiwode.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

#ttrpg Bad Ideas that have consumed my imagination today. I should use marvel Multiverse RPG to run a non-Marvel superhero RPG somewhere between One Punch's C Tier and Dispatch.

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Doug Pirko, genuine amateur human. @waiwode.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

So apparently I have Marmots here. Where the hell are my shoes?!

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Doug Pirko, genuine amateur human. @waiwode.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

The Skydiggers Spirit of the West Lowest of the Low NQ Arbuckle The Spoons Five bands I’ve seen at least five times

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Doug Pirko, genuine amateur human. @waiwode.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Just wait until *the Prez* finds out about the Canadian (and North Canadian) Rivers! #NamingWaterbodies

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Doug Pirko, genuine amateur human. @waiwode.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

I think the thing we're really going to miss out on with the collapse of Saudia Arabia's Neom Mega-City project is the potential for a 170km long all year indoor sled dog track.

Neom, the planned Saudi Arabian mega-city and indoor sled dog facility.

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Doug Pirko, genuine amateur human. @waiwode.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

"No, well, I'm not surprised you didn't get that. It is in fact a trick question: Coventry City have never won the English Football Cup." (Except they would go on to win it in 1987).

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Doug Pirko, genuine amateur human. @waiwode.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Name one villain that lowkey had a point. Mr "I am France" himself.

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Doug Pirko, genuine amateur human. @waiwode.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Embarrassing Memory Time! I'm 11. Mom says: we can read one of your comics together so I can see there's nothing objectionable in it. I skip over Son of Satan (my mom is Pres of the CWL, seems risky) and grab The Human Torpedo! Then: He picks up his wife and carries her into the bedroom...

Cover of comic: Marvel Premiere: The Torpedo

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Doug Pirko, genuine amateur human. @waiwode.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

#ttrpg L5R5 Session 8 Matsu Agetoki abandons the Yoriki in the care of a senior Imperial Magistrate, Yogo Fushiyo. She has the unenviable task of trying to cram six months of legal training into a week. She is skeptical, demanding, and always acerbic. A 'bridge" episode of sorts.

Aging scholar studies scroll by candle-light

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Doug Pirko, genuine amateur human. @waiwode.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Post a comic cover you love. (And the first X-Men comic I ever bought).

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Doug Pirko, genuine amateur human. @waiwode.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

#TradeWar 🍁 Since the Cajuns used to be Acadians, is it okay if we still use Cajun Seasoning, occasionally?

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Doug Pirko, genuine amateur human. @waiwode.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

The point where Locke, Hobbs, and many other political thinkers all agreed: The ideal government is one which creates conditions for lots of really entertaining Science Fiction shows to be created and widely distributed. Adam Smith wrote: "I love B5, but it's been 30 years. Why aren't we on B10?"

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Doug Pirko, genuine amateur human. @waiwode.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

When I'm in charge, things will be different. Everyone gets an eclair. You earned it. "A coffee" will be the panacea for 90% of medical woes. AI will get spots off plates, and clean the yard after Bowser does his business. And Mrs Beverly Molestrangler is banned from the PTA. You know why, Bev.

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Doug Pirko, genuine amateur human. @waiwode.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

#ttrpg "The first rule of Italian driving. What's behind you no longer matters." - Gumball Rally. (Or maybe Cannonball Express--same movie, different actors) Past is Prologue. Listening to an Actual Play (I won't throw them under the bus, they're fine) for research on a campaign I might run. 1/x

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Doug Pirko, genuine amateur human. @waiwode.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

#PortmanteauReport The old pre-CADPAT Cdn Forces issued field cap--ugly, but I liked them. On the label it had the word "Quarpel"--we all assumed it was a brand or style (or lack-of-style, given the hat in question). But TIL it is a portmanteau for a "Quartermaster Water Repellent" treatment.

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Doug Pirko, genuine amateur human. @waiwode.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

We used to be a nation that baked things!

Coffee Breaks cookies, long discontinued.

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Doug Pirko, genuine amateur human. @waiwode.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

If I ever needed art for Sasha, the Old Margreve Druid from back in the day? This would be it. Right down to the colour of the shirt.

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