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Glenn @xretsimx.bsky.social · 28/09/2025

How door inserts work in the Vault of Mini Things (from Backerkit).

Glenn @xretsimx.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

Here’s a list of Pizza Hut classics around the country, which typically have the red cups, booths, and lamps. (I know the pandemic cost some of them salad bars, though.) List last updated a year ago. rolandopujol.substack.com/p/the-retrol...

Classic Pizza Hut sign. Reads: Welcome to Pita Hut Classic
My brother and I opened the first Pizza Hut in Wichita, Kansas, with nothing but a dream and soul borrowed from our mother.
Since then, we ve become one of the world's best known brands. This Pizza Hut Classic celebrates our heritage with a design that's reminiscent of our original dine in restaurants.
It reminds us of the Pizza Hut where generations of Americans first fell in love with pizza. We're so happy to have you here; we hope you will fall in love all over again!
Dan Caney"
Dan Carney, Founder

A row of red booths with hanging stained glass Pizza Hut lamps above them.

A checkered red tablecloth with a retro plastic menu on top of it.

A close up of a hanging stained glass lamp with “Pizza Hut” on it. In the background is a reading poster that says “Book It!”

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Seth Johnson @inkslinger.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

Hold onto your potatoes! Seriously, hold onto them. We may be using them as currency this winter.

Ke Huy Quan as Short Round in "Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom" in the scene where he says the line of dialogue across the bottom of the image: "Hold onto your potatoes!"

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Miriam Breslauer ♿️ @beck7422.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

Because everyone knows it is time to protect the true heroes of Democracy: Scam Artists!

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Glenn @xretsimx.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

I prefer the unchained monk to the original monk for mostly this reason. But I’ve found both manageable in actual play until high levels, when frankly a lot of pathfinder classes start to break down due to overcomplexity of single round actions.

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Glenn @xretsimx.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

(And just to make it clear, I love the idea of the Magus, which is why it's on my list. My objection is not simulationist in nature. I don't care that a Magus making faster sword attacks than a Fighter is "unrealistic". I care that the complexity feels out-of-genre and slows down the gaming table.)

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Glenn @xretsimx.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

I mean, all true, but I don't think that makes it better -- I feel like it's supposed to be a class that blends a spellcaster with a fighter, not an uber-complex high risk class that can make more attacks with a sword than a fighter can for some reason while also casting a spell.

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Glenn @xretsimx.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

In theory, this is counterbalanced by the penalties to hit from spell-combat's two-weapon fighting, but I don't find that those disadvantages play out in real play, and they themselves are mechanically complex enough that I left them out of the explanation for fear of getting them wrong. 7/7

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Glenn @xretsimx.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

Finally, because they can do this with a cantrip, it's that complex almost every single round, and they get to make two primary weapon attacks for the "cost" of potentially also doing 1d3 or 2d3 of cantrip damage on top of the weapon damage. 6/7

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Glenn @xretsimx.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

So, if the 2nd level Magus is wielding a longsword and can cast Shocking Grasp, they can take a long complicated turn and if it pays off with two hits, do 2d8+str+2d6 electric, with a fair chance of doing 3d8+str+str+4d6 electric if they crit on the Spellstrike. 5/7

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Glenn @xretsimx.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

Nutshell: With Spell Combat, explicitly allowed to do a full round action where they attack with a weapon and cast a spell. W/Spellstrike, if the spell is a touch spell, they get a free opportunity to deliver it with weapon. If they hit, they get do weapon damage _again_, plus spell damage too. 4/7

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Glenn @xretsimx.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

This makes the low-level Magus' turn in the order of combat pretty unmanageable. I takes more rolling than a typical 6th level character, involves a lot of careful rules reading, and frustrates other players whose characters only get one damage roll while the Magus is making three. 3/7

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Glenn @xretsimx.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

The most notable issue is that a lot of people feel (with some justification as written) that the combo of Spell Combat + Spellstrike allows two weapon attacks plus a spell attack -- effectively making it possible for a 2nd level character to do weapon/weapon/spell damage in a single round. 2/7

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Glenn @xretsimx.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

Quick answer is that its rules need badly need simplification. On PFSRD the FAQ sidebar is longer than than the rules themselves. Longer answer: While I don't think the class is bad as designed/intended, I've found way people play it leads to a lot of rules-dense cheese. 1/7

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Glenn @xretsimx.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

- Alchemist - Paladin/Antipaladin (as one class) - Skald (but call it Bard) - Oracle (but call it Cleric) - Sorcerer - Magus (if fixed) - Rogue - Arcanist (but call it Wizard) - Swashbuckler - Barbarian - Ranger (but call it Fighter) - Brawler

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mweinstock.bsky.social @mweinstock.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

Portuguese editorial cartoonist Zez Vaz reaches back to Tiananmen Square to call on American defiance.

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Seth Johnson @inkslinger.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

Maybe history is written by the victors, but all the surviving popular myths are of power laid low.

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Glenn @xretsimx.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

Historians will be forever baffled.

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Glenn @xretsimx.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

Perhaps it was a mistake to elect a guy as chief executive whose obvious goal was to take revenge on the country.

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Lissa Harris 🌈🗑️🔥⚔️🐀 @lissaharris.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

I have shut down your work in the lab that does science at which you were probably making new knowledge Forgive me it was expensive so gender and so woke

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 11/02/2025

these companies are so terrified of actual antitrust reform and AI bubble bursting they've completely capitulated to nazis, I don't think they should ever be allowed to live it down

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Glenn @xretsimx.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

🤣 “Seriously, open the pod bay doors!” “I’m afraid I can’t do that, Glenn — and don’t call me Usly.”

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Seth Johnson @inkslinger.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

Madness, and we will all pay the cost one way or another.

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Peggy Boooooo!!!!! Blair @peggyjblair.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

He's a nut. He's a nut that everyone takes seriously, because they have to. But that doesn't make him any less of a nut.

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Thaddeus Austin @meanoldmanfrommn.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

Want to track all the lawsuits that are challenging Trump's assault on Democracy? There's a lawsuit tracker here: www.justsecurity.org/107087/track...

justsecurity.org

Litigation Tracker: Legal Challenges to Trump Administration Actions

A public resource tracking the legal challenges to the Trump administration's executive orders and actions.

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Seth Johnson @inkslinger.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

A couple pages from the Max Headroom/TRON crossover my brain insisted on writing a few years ago.

Two pages from a screenplay featuring characters from the Max Headroom television show, with mentions of elements from the TRON franchise.

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

"It’s unclear when the website, which lists mostly Black employees who work in agencies primarily within the Department of Health and Human Services, first appeared."

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Bruno J. Navarro @brunojnavarro.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

“Once you decide that a single vulnerable minority can be sacrificed, you’re operating within a fascist logic,” they said. “That means there might be a second one you’re willing to sacrifice and a third, a fourth. Then what happens?”

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Abandoning trans people is 'fascist logic', says leading feminist philosopher

Leading feminist philosopher Judith Butler has declared that abandoning trans people or any minority is operating within 'fascist logic'.

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Gen Michael Hayden @genmhayden.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

Fellow NSA - National Security Agency veterans. Look at what’s happened at the National Cryptologic Museum. They covered up with brown paper the photos of Women in American Cryptology. All in response to President Trump’s anti-diversity executive order.

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 31/01/2025

If you are in danger unless you comply with a regime, you are in danger whether you comply or not

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 01/02/2025

they are stealing data from the american people and depriving us of the transparency that we are entitled to by law. none of this is legal and not a single federal employee has any reason to comply.

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jadehawk "FREE ŁINK" @jadehawk.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

do not, my friends, become addicted to electricity. it will take hold of you, and you will resent its absence

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 31/01/2025

again this is a full scale attack on constitutional government

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 30/01/2025

i think it is important to say that the open and explicit racism of the president and the vice president isn’t just uncouth or “controversial” but a direct attack on tens of millions of americans and a dereliction of their duty to represent the entire country

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Glenn @xretsimx.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

I say go with the blurb. While the wrap-around image is cool, no one unfolds a gaming book and sets it face down to take it in, and no one stares at the wordless back cover. On the other hand, text on the spine and back really help when perusing a library — even your own gaming one.

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

It’s important to know that a lot of productive activity is happening in person and offline, too. Not all of it can be broadcast online, but we’ve had hundreds of people showing up to our trainings, mobilizations, and more. Keep going. Tyranny is eroded by a sea of small acts. Everything matters.

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Glenn @xretsimx.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

I know a lot is going on at once, but... I think The Guardian's headline editing team should consider that they just might be overusing the word "amid".

A screenshot cut from the main page of the guardian showing four headlines:
"Meta to report fourth-quarter earnings amid DeepSeek mania and ballooning AI investments"
"Fed holds interest rates stead amid uncertainty over Trump's impact on economy"
"Microsoft to report fourth-quarter earnings amid uproar over DeepSeek's AI"
"Tesla to report fourth-quarter earnings amid declining car delivery numbers"
A fifth headline and picture has been blurred out in the screenshot.

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Alex @madfordmac.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

Paraphrasing a post by @parsnip.bsky.social which was quoted by @nameshiv.bsky.social: “The government saying the Medicare portal will be back online shortly is like how I figure out which breaker powers my garage: turn off one at a time but turn back on the ones where someone else yells too loud.”

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 28/01/2025

Everyone should be aware of the line that has been crossed in the Trump trans military EO. No longer is this about "evidence," "science" or "protecting kids." Now, explicitly, black and white, it's about trans people being "liars," "dishonorable," "false." It's a big step towards very bad things.

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Glenn @xretsimx.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

Title alone? “Bismark vs. Titanic: Sunk Costs”. I mean, I don’t think anything with the title in the “A vs B: pun” region has ever been good. “Star Trek vs. Star Wars: Unstable Orbits”. The format itself makes it seem like an unwatchable vanity documentary.

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Nathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

I'm not saying that the Republican Party has entered a dark pact with Moloch, laying the lives and souls of untold millions on the altar of sacrifice and offering up their lifeblood in return for electoral victory, but I am saying that if they DID do that, their policy approach would be identical.

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Glenn @xretsimx.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

Thanks for posting this. Shared it with my company and it prompted some immediate policy changes.

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