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🦇 💀 justin achilli 💀 🦇 @jachilli.bsky.social · 3h

Good for your Hunter: The Reckoning / Night’s Black Agents/ Delta Green delectations.

Call me Al … @atnylinuxadmin.bsky.social · 2d

www.popularmechanics.com/science/a690...

Under the ice, they left waste from a nuclear reactor that they thought would stay frozen forever. They never thought the ice would recede …

NASA Found a Secret Military Base Buried 100 Feet Deep in Greenland’s Ice Shelf

The base is abandoned, but the U.S. Army left some waste behind.

www.popularmechanics.com

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Mr. Joshua @pantspants.bsky.social · 10h

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🦇 💀 justin achilli 💀 🦇 @jachilli.bsky.social · 14h

Privately-owned news isn’t news, it’s editorial.

Alex Halpern @halpernalex.bsky.social · 14h

The New York Times has been complicit for a long while now, but this goes beyond complicity to intentional disinformation.

Front page of the NYT, with two pictures of the biggest protests in American history below the fold and with a story page 23.

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🦇 💀 justin achilli 💀 🦇 @jachilli.bsky.social · 14h

There are three kinds of TTRPG: wargame, horndog, and heist.

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 18h

Louvre closed after robbery, French culture minister says

Rachida Dati announces robbery had taken place at world’s most-visited museum The Louvre in Paris, the world’s most-visited museum, has suddenly closed for the day after the French culture minister said there had a been a robbery. “A robbery took place this morning at the opening of the Louvre Museum,” Rachida Dati wrote on social media. She used the French word braquage, which can mean robbery or hold-up. Continue reading...

www.theguardian.com

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🦇 💀 justin achilli 💀 🦇 @jachilli.bsky.social · 1d

It’s also why everyone is always mad at storefronts. How to effectively sort among eight million different things in a catalog, and how to make that work across a number of UI + device formats? So you get stuff like preferential attachment — stuff most people already know gets “found” repeatedly.

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🦇 💀 justin achilli 💀 🦇 @jachilli.bsky.social · 1d

Discovery is your biggest challenge in entertainment media, period, beyond even the making of the thing, because you’re sharing the same finite attention space w/ everything from this exact second all the way back the beginning of entertainment media. “Everything is a fight for the audience’s time.”

Matt Wallace @mattfnwallace.bsky.social · 2d

I’ve said this before, a lot, but when you’re an author and your book doesn’t sell your feelings can default to the premise, “Everyone in the world was offered my book and they all personally rejected it.” The truth is most people don’t know it exists. Awareness is the problem, not you or your book.

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🦇 💀 justin achilli 💀 🦇 @jachilli.bsky.social · 1d

They actually did two sets, one as Death Cult and one as the Cult.

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🦇 💀 justin achilli 💀 🦇 @jachilli.bsky.social · 1d

Good energy. Set list was way heavy on older stuff, mostly from Love and Electric, which is A-OK for me. Notable that they did literally nothing from the last two albums (I like Under the Midnight Sun).

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🦇 💀 justin achilli 💀 🦇 @jachilli.bsky.social · 2d

The last time I saw the Cult live was April of ‘95, the night before I drove to Atlanta to start my new job at White Wolf.

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🦇 💀 justin achilli 💀 🦇 @jachilli.bsky.social · 2d

Seeing the Cult/ Death Cult in Charlotte and its in an entertainment complex where there’s also a minor-league hockey team playing tonight and the mixed crowd is reminding me of a story my dad used to tell about a movie theater playing two midnight shows: Easy Rider and Rocky Horror.

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🦇 💀 justin achilli 💀 🦇 @jachilli.bsky.social · 3d

I think I have only half as many kids as Chad does, tho.

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🦇 💀 justin achilli 💀 🦇 @jachilli.bsky.social · 3d

The days when behavior like that escaped comeuppance are long gone.

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🦇 💀 justin achilli 💀 🦇 @jachilli.bsky.social · 4d

Somebody outside has an EV and in reverse it sounds like "Uranium" by Kraftwerk.
youtu.be/ePW52C5YBbA?...

Kraftwerk - Uranium

YouTube video by scatmanjohn3001

youtu.be

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🦇 💀 justin achilli 💀 🦇 @jachilli.bsky.social · 4d

My cousin had this. I remember being afraid of it but it was in the basement where I learned to play D&D, so it was a question of trade offs.

Somebody wake up Hicks @jonmarkhicks.bsky.social · 4d

ALIEN! You know! For kids!!!!

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🦇 💀 justin achilli 💀 🦇 @jachilli.bsky.social · 4d

Working upstairs today. This guy found his patch of sunlight and is oblivious to the world’s troubles.

Vinny Badcat asleep in his patch of sunlight, in front of a chair, next to a table, near a bag.

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🦇 💀 justin achilli 💀 🦇 @jachilli.bsky.social · 5d

what most people don't know is that Pep Boy on the left is actually Ronald Mael from Sparks

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🦇 💀 justin achilli 💀 🦇 @jachilli.bsky.social · 5d

Drew Struzan’s art made promises to the viewer and told them about amazing things they could come join. Generational talent.

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🦇 💀 justin achilli 💀 🦇 @jachilli.bsky.social · 6d

We made them play “Sandstorm” at Chad’s wedding reception. Someone brought a cheaply produced stolen faux-marble sculpture as a date to that wedding. The bartender refused to serve me eight shots of whiskey.

ceej @ceej.online · 6d

any culture, at any point in history, could have invented darude’s sandstorm. the fact that they didn’t is just further proof that old times were busted generally

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🦇 💀 justin achilli 💀 🦇 @jachilli.bsky.social · 6d

Figuring out what exactly one's limits are and how they fit the fledgling's concept of self — and how they overlap with other neophyte creatures of the night — is a fantastic bit of chronicle substance.

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🦇 💀 justin achilli 💀 🦇 @jachilli.bsky.social · 6d

That episode of What We Do in the Shadows where the familiar/ ghoul pretends she's been made a vampire and her sire is, uh, away on important vampire sire business is top-notch. They play it for laffs, but that's a stellar VTM chronicle premise right there.

The familiar Celeste in a furry coat, pretending to be a vampire, surrounded by other familiars, who revere her because they believe she's a full vampire. Sweater-clad Guillermo in the foreground.

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Catsuka @catsuka.bsky.social · 7d

"The World of the Dark Crystal" documentary (1983, 1 hour) is available for free on Youtube.
>> www.catsuka.com/breves/2025-...

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🦇 💀 justin achilli 💀 🦇 @jachilli.bsky.social · 6d

The advice: When someone is writing down what you say so that it's "on record," say that thing in as few words as possible.

Ź🖤🥀 @lalaspeaks.bsky.social · 7d

What’s ONE green flag about your father?

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🦇 💀 justin achilli 💀 🦇 @jachilli.bsky.social · 6d

Autonomic intelligence!

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🦇 💀 justin achilli 💀 🦇 @jachilli.bsky.social · 6d

Or a local .JSON file that surely won't be deleted/ corrupted/ unable to sync to depot.

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🦇 💀 justin achilli 💀 🦇 @jachilli.bsky.social · 6d

Writing for a video games project? Well, you're using either Excel/ Sheets or some proprietary database behemoth that also manages the localization and the spoken dialogue sound files and UI labels and epilepsy warning.

Erik Robson @erikrobson.net · 6d

A TV/comic writer friend in LA once asked what kinds of tools game writers use. I told him Excel and he couldn't even process my response. I might as well have said "coconut water."

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