Blaine
@blainem.bsky.social
The kind of nerd that teaches themselves computational geometry for fun. Into ttrpgs, gaming, sci-fi and fantasy, crafty stuff, and so, so many ADHD "enhanced" hobbies. He/him, they/them is fine too.
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Blaine
@blainem.bsky.social
· Oct 24
Just realized I don't have a pinned post on bsky yet. *Smiles awkwardly at the camera*
Hello, I'm Blaine.
I'm mostly on here for (indie)game dev stuff and ttrpg stuff, but I've got the ADHD so I'm also interested in basically every art or crafting hobby ever, and a million other things besides.
Hello, I'm Blaine.
I'm mostly on here for (indie)game dev stuff and ttrpg stuff, but I've got the ADHD so I'm also interested in basically every art or crafting hobby ever, and a million other things besides.
I just had a probably cursed idea:
A Les Miserables fanfic where it's reimagined in a cultivation setting.
Jean Valjean is a (reincarnated) body tempering loose cultivator, obviously.
Javert is the enforcement elder of the top Orthodox faction.
A Les Miserables fanfic where it's reimagined in a cultivation setting.
Jean Valjean is a (reincarnated) body tempering loose cultivator, obviously.
Javert is the enforcement elder of the top Orthodox faction.
November 27, 2025 at 2:30 AM
I just had a probably cursed idea:
A Les Miserables fanfic where it's reimagined in a cultivation setting.
Jean Valjean is a (reincarnated) body tempering loose cultivator, obviously.
Javert is the enforcement elder of the top Orthodox faction.
A Les Miserables fanfic where it's reimagined in a cultivation setting.
Jean Valjean is a (reincarnated) body tempering loose cultivator, obviously.
Javert is the enforcement elder of the top Orthodox faction.
I think I just learned how to make my own scripting language? This changes things.
November 25, 2025 at 4:56 AM
I think I just learned how to make my own scripting language? This changes things.
Side note tho, I think I made a breakthrough on the game I'm working on today. Fingers crossed.
November 21, 2025 at 1:15 AM
Side note tho, I think I made a breakthrough on the game I'm working on today. Fingers crossed.
If I got mutes that want to make a game with me, you have to let me know or else you're a cop. It's the law. Or something.
November 21, 2025 at 1:14 AM
If I got mutes that want to make a game with me, you have to let me know or else you're a cop. It's the law. Or something.
Just stewing in a preemptive rage today for no apparent reason.
November 20, 2025 at 11:20 PM
Just stewing in a preemptive rage today for no apparent reason.
At work I had an obscure math question and asked an expert if he was familiar with it.
He said I should try the ai thing.
I politely told him I was looking for help understanding the thing from a person and relayed the full question. 1/2
He said I should try the ai thing.
I politely told him I was looking for help understanding the thing from a person and relayed the full question. 1/2
November 19, 2025 at 10:47 PM
At work I had an obscure math question and asked an expert if he was familiar with it.
He said I should try the ai thing.
I politely told him I was looking for help understanding the thing from a person and relayed the full question. 1/2
He said I should try the ai thing.
I politely told him I was looking for help understanding the thing from a person and relayed the full question. 1/2
"how did you get into ttrpgs?"
I went to the library during a storm and got eaten by a players handbook.
I went to the library during a storm and got eaten by a players handbook.
"how did you get into ttrpgs"
i got hit by a truck and woke up here
i got hit by a truck and woke up here
"how did you get into ttrpgs"
Oh, ttrpgs killed my parents so i swore to play as many as i can to absorb their power
Oh, ttrpgs killed my parents so i swore to play as many as i can to absorb their power
November 19, 2025 at 10:43 PM
"how did you get into ttrpgs?"
I went to the library during a storm and got eaten by a players handbook.
I went to the library during a storm and got eaten by a players handbook.
One of these days I'm going to memorize the ievan polka and I'll be unfathomable at karaoke for good or ill.
November 19, 2025 at 5:44 AM
One of these days I'm going to memorize the ievan polka and I'll be unfathomable at karaoke for good or ill.
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We don’t need to reform ICE.
We don’t need alternatives to ICE.
We don’t need to engage in dishonest debates wondering what the U.S. would do without ICE.
ICE isn’t even 23 years old. Most adults know a world without ICE. And the billions used to fund ICE can be used to meet people’s basic needs.
We don’t need alternatives to ICE.
We don’t need to engage in dishonest debates wondering what the U.S. would do without ICE.
ICE isn’t even 23 years old. Most adults know a world without ICE. And the billions used to fund ICE can be used to meet people’s basic needs.
November 18, 2025 at 11:40 PM
We don’t need to reform ICE.
We don’t need alternatives to ICE.
We don’t need to engage in dishonest debates wondering what the U.S. would do without ICE.
ICE isn’t even 23 years old. Most adults know a world without ICE. And the billions used to fund ICE can be used to meet people’s basic needs.
We don’t need alternatives to ICE.
We don’t need to engage in dishonest debates wondering what the U.S. would do without ICE.
ICE isn’t even 23 years old. Most adults know a world without ICE. And the billions used to fund ICE can be used to meet people’s basic needs.
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It turns out that the folks at Anthropic used two of my books to train their Large Language Models. I've gone and submitted my claim via the class action settlement. If you're an author whose work has been stolen, you should too
November 19, 2025 at 12:57 AM
It turns out that the folks at Anthropic used two of my books to train their Large Language Models. I've gone and submitted my claim via the class action settlement. If you're an author whose work has been stolen, you should too
If anyone tells me I'm not doing my best, I dare them to do better.
November 15, 2025 at 8:52 AM
If anyone tells me I'm not doing my best, I dare them to do better.
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If you’re looking into novellas during awards season, I humbly put forth my own, from @neonhemlock.bsky.social?
Gay archeologists, academic footnotes, alt history shenanigans, giant robots, hot superheroes, and hard-to-cook samosas are all plot points!
www.neonhemlock.com/books/iron-b...
Gay archeologists, academic footnotes, alt history shenanigans, giant robots, hot superheroes, and hard-to-cook samosas are all plot points!
www.neonhemlock.com/books/iron-b...
The Iron Below Remembers by Sharang Biswas — neon hemlock
Publication date: March 25, 2025. An 8” x 5” novella. Set in an alternate version of the British Isles where South Asian imperial interest colonized much of the globe thanks to their advanced techno...
www.neonhemlock.com
November 14, 2025 at 3:41 PM
If you’re looking into novellas during awards season, I humbly put forth my own, from @neonhemlock.bsky.social?
Gay archeologists, academic footnotes, alt history shenanigans, giant robots, hot superheroes, and hard-to-cook samosas are all plot points!
www.neonhemlock.com/books/iron-b...
Gay archeologists, academic footnotes, alt history shenanigans, giant robots, hot superheroes, and hard-to-cook samosas are all plot points!
www.neonhemlock.com/books/iron-b...
Gonna do some old fashioned computational geometry at work to show the boss man I don't need no fuckin AI.
November 15, 2025 at 8:27 AM
Gonna do some old fashioned computational geometry at work to show the boss man I don't need no fuckin AI.
I think they should get more. Fuck it why not?
"That'll mean you pay more in taxes"
Bitch, like you kept good account of my taxes before? You let fucking Intuit tell you what my taxes are, fuck off unless you want to actually do something useful for a change.
"That'll mean you pay more in taxes"
Bitch, like you kept good account of my taxes before? You let fucking Intuit tell you what my taxes are, fuck off unless you want to actually do something useful for a change.
If GOP senators think they deserve 500K minimum for having their phone privacy invaded how much should citizens and legal residents detained by ICE for being Brown get? 10 million? 100 million?
November 15, 2025 at 7:16 AM
I think they should get more. Fuck it why not?
"That'll mean you pay more in taxes"
Bitch, like you kept good account of my taxes before? You let fucking Intuit tell you what my taxes are, fuck off unless you want to actually do something useful for a change.
"That'll mean you pay more in taxes"
Bitch, like you kept good account of my taxes before? You let fucking Intuit tell you what my taxes are, fuck off unless you want to actually do something useful for a change.
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Every single person who thinks "defund the police is bad and stupid" should have to explain exactly how they plan to enact their 12-step list of US police reforms to demilitarize and weed out "the bad cops" that somehow preserves all the same infrastructure and funding at the same time
Okay, enlighten the class then, what levers of power do you expect to use in order to coerce the domestic right-wing paramilitary gang of rapists, robbers, and murderers to submit to these reforms? What is the stick that is expected to be used in order to enact these changes?
November 15, 2025 at 4:31 AM
Every single person who thinks "defund the police is bad and stupid" should have to explain exactly how they plan to enact their 12-step list of US police reforms to demilitarize and weed out "the bad cops" that somehow preserves all the same infrastructure and funding at the same time
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November 15, 2025 at 2:33 AM
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Remember: The richest 1% evade over $160 billion in taxes every year.
That amount would fund SNAP for a year with money to spare.
Ask yourself who the real freeloaders are.
That amount would fund SNAP for a year with money to spare.
Ask yourself who the real freeloaders are.
November 14, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Remember: The richest 1% evade over $160 billion in taxes every year.
That amount would fund SNAP for a year with money to spare.
Ask yourself who the real freeloaders are.
That amount would fund SNAP for a year with money to spare.
Ask yourself who the real freeloaders are.
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our govt can threaten and brag about murdering people on here but we cannot joke about bad people deserving bad things
November 14, 2025 at 3:05 PM
our govt can threaten and brag about murdering people on here but we cannot joke about bad people deserving bad things
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this is a far more explicit death threat from people with the actual means to carry it out
November 14, 2025 at 3:04 PM
this is a far more explicit death threat from people with the actual means to carry it out
Honestly I am completely uninterested.
Even the Star Trek people doing new Star Trek don't understand Star Trek, you want me to think the people Hasbro picked do? Lol.
Consider me skeptical at best.
Even the Star Trek people doing new Star Trek don't understand Star Trek, you want me to think the people Hasbro picked do? Lol.
Consider me skeptical at best.
A Brand New 'Star Trek' Movie Is Coming From the Team Behind 'Dungeons & Dragons'
A Brand New 'Star Trek' Movie Is Coming From the Team Behind 'Dungeons & Dragons'
Jonathan Goldstein and John Francis Daley have been hired to make a whole new 'Star Trek' film.
gizmodo.com
November 15, 2025 at 12:33 AM
Honestly I am completely uninterested.
Even the Star Trek people doing new Star Trek don't understand Star Trek, you want me to think the people Hasbro picked do? Lol.
Consider me skeptical at best.
Even the Star Trek people doing new Star Trek don't understand Star Trek, you want me to think the people Hasbro picked do? Lol.
Consider me skeptical at best.
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"I wrote a TV show, so I think I know a LITTLE more about police reform than you do, pal"
November 14, 2025 at 10:17 PM
"I wrote a TV show, so I think I know a LITTLE more about police reform than you do, pal"
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I do have a label printer but this is a great resource if you don't and also pirateship.com is my favorite!
November 15, 2025 at 12:13 AM
I do have a label printer but this is a great resource if you don't and also pirateship.com is my favorite!
Wait. I think I got it. I know how they fix the bond thing.
M holds a meeting with a bunch of agents, the culmination of which is M saying. "Somehow, 007 returned."
Q goes on a rant about how impossible and unrealistic that is.
M is like, "And yet, here he is."
Then it's never mentioned again.
M holds a meeting with a bunch of agents, the culmination of which is M saying. "Somehow, 007 returned."
Q goes on a rant about how impossible and unrealistic that is.
M is like, "And yet, here he is."
Then it's never mentioned again.
November 12, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Wait. I think I got it. I know how they fix the bond thing.
M holds a meeting with a bunch of agents, the culmination of which is M saying. "Somehow, 007 returned."
Q goes on a rant about how impossible and unrealistic that is.
M is like, "And yet, here he is."
Then it's never mentioned again.
M holds a meeting with a bunch of agents, the culmination of which is M saying. "Somehow, 007 returned."
Q goes on a rant about how impossible and unrealistic that is.
M is like, "And yet, here he is."
Then it's never mentioned again.
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This is what I try to always tell people: food banks can do way more with your money than you can, due to bulk buying deals. And they can do way, way more with your money than with the canned goods you didn’t want to eat
spoke with the executive director of my local food bank today and got this really incredible line: "if you donate 1 can of green beans, we can give away 1 can of green beans. but if you donate a dollar, we can give away 6 cans of green beans"
November 11, 2025 at 9:21 PM
This is what I try to always tell people: food banks can do way more with your money than you can, due to bulk buying deals. And they can do way, way more with your money than with the canned goods you didn’t want to eat