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The Ken in Yellow @ Lone Star Zine Fest

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Writer and (ENNIE winning!) TTRPG designer who thinks about death the normal amount. VOID 1680 AM, No-Tell Motel, Lighthouse at the End of the World, Killer Ratings. linktr.ee/bannerlessgames Avatar by @catie.bsky.social

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The Ken in Yellow @ Lone Star Zine Fest @kenlowery.bsky.social · Jan 29

VOID 1680 AM is an ENNIE winner, IGDN nominee for Most Innovative and Crit Award nominee for Best Solo Game.

Build a playlist, take calls and create a radio show you can submit for broadcast on the air.

PDF here: bannerlessgames.itch.io/void-1680-am
Physical copies here: bannerless.games/shop

VOID 1680 AM by Bannerless Games

A solo playlist building game about being a lone voice in the dark.

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The Ken in Yellow @ Lone Star Zine Fest @kenlowery.bsky.social · 5m

They ARE

The Ken in Yellow @ Lone Star Zine Fest @kenlowery.bsky.social · 9m

Nooooooo

The Ken in Yellow @ Lone Star Zine Fest @kenlowery.bsky.social · 20m

It means Sassy Dave >:[

The Ken in Yellow @ Lone Star Zine Fest @kenlowery.bsky.social · 20m

Man, Sour Patch Kids really are S tier candy

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The Ken in Yellow @ Lone Star Zine Fest @kenlowery.bsky.social · 22m

Listen we're all having a laugh but Eye Shimmering is a serious condition

The Ken in Yellow @ Lone Star Zine Fest @kenlowery.bsky.social · 59m

Batman got a big ol question mark on his head

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The Spooky Dude @2house2fly.bsky.social · 1h

@suicidepets

Wtf am i gonna go to therapy for??? So I can pay money just for some bitch to tell me I'm gay? To find out im gay and in the closet? To help me discover that deep down im a gay ass homosexual man? Lmao pass. Miss me with that shit. Im straight. I am straight

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The Ass is the father of the legs @internethippo.bsky.social · 5h

A bunch of grandmas standing and hooting for Nuremberg 2? Something for the opposition party to think about

Graham Platner for Senate @grahamformaine.bsky.social · 6h

We have armed secret police kidnapping people off the street based on the color of their skin.

When we win: we will haul them before a Senate committee. The masks will come off. There will be consequences.

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tatiana 🌈 @caterwaul.bsky.social · 5h

hey here's an important thing: don't wash your mushrooms under running water nor soak them in a bowl. trim the gills and stems and then, at best, wipe them with a damp paper towel.

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tatiana 🌈 @caterwaul.bsky.social · 6h

if you like to cook or read about cooking, you might like this thread, wherein i, a second semester culinary student, make dinner

tatiana 🌈 @caterwaul.bsky.social · 5d

how to sautée mushrooms so they taste their best:

big pan
hot not burning - the fat needs to shimmer and move like water, not smoke
mushrooms in - you want them in one single layer
DO NOT SEASON YET
leave them alone ~2 minutes
flip when golden brown
add salt
taste :)
yum

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A Whole Damn Town! @im.a.whole.damn.town · 3h

Twin Peaks: The Roadhouse at night. A red light is lit on the roof, acting as a signal.

The Roadhouse at night. A red light is lit on the roof, acting as a signal. Twin Peaks S01E04 - Rest in Pain.

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Itzu the Tak @itzu.bsky.social · 6h

we've never left this moment

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The Ken in Yellow @ Lone Star Zine Fest @kenlowery.bsky.social · 4h

It's open! I'm here! So are 500 of your new favorite riso prints please come throw my wallet far away from me

The Ken in Yellow @ Lone Star Zine Fest @kenlowery.bsky.social · 2d

Heyyyy Austin, I'll be at Lone Star Zine Fest this weekend!

If you're in Austin come out and say hi. It's free, family-friendly, they got zine-making workshops, the works.

the Lone Star Zine Fest poster, which reads
"The 2025 Lone Star Zine Fest
Oct. 11 & 12th at Blue Genie
6100 Airport Boulevard
Austin, TX
LoneStarZineFest.org"

The art is an old-fashioned computer desk. The computer and monitor have post-its that read
"12-6 PM"
"Free!"
"All ages!"
"100+ vendors"
"Comics jam"
"door prizes"
"zine making"

The Lone Star Zine Fest layout. Bannerless Games is at table 85, just to the left of the entrance.

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Jesse @requiemarm.bsky.social · 8h

this is by far the worst reading of Alan Moore’s Watchmen I’ve ever seen and if you spend an appreciable amount of time online you will know what a crowning achievement that is

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 10h

thiel, man, what the fuck are you talking about

He describes the plot of Watchmen, a 1986 graphic novel involving superheroes grappling with moral questions about humanity against the backdrop of impending nuclear war:

The antihero Ozymandias, the antichrist-type figure, is sort of an early-modern person. He believes this will be a timeless and eternal solution – eternal world peace. Moore is sort of a late-modern. In early modernity, you have ideal solutions, ‘perfect’ solutions to calculus. In late modernity, things are sort of probabilistic. And at some point, he asks Dr Manhattan whether the world government is going to last. And he says that ‘nothing lasts forever.’ So you embrace the antichrist and it still doesn’t work.

Thiel later finds biblical meaning in the manga One Piece, discussing how he believes it represents a future where an antichrist-like one-world government has repressed science. He believes that the hero, Monkey D Luffy, represents a Christlike figure.

In One Piece, you are set in a fantasy world, again sort of an alternate earth, but it’s 800 years into the reign of this one-world state. Which, as the story unfolds, gradually gets darker and darker. You sort of realize, in my interpretation, who runs the world and it’s something like the antichrist. There’s Luffy, a pirate who wears a red straw hat, sort of like Christ’s crown of thorns. And then towards the end of the story, transforms into a figure who resembles Christ in Revelation.

Thiel, along with a researcher and writer at Thiel Capital, explored these ideas at greater length in an essay for the religious journal First Things earlier this month.

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The Ken in Yellow @ Lone Star Zine Fest @kenlowery.bsky.social · 7h

This is a proper Halloween broadcast.

The Ken in Yellow @ Lone Star Zine Fest @kenlowery.bsky.social · 7h

Due to scheduling conflicts tonight's VOID broadcast will actually be *tomorrow* night. Do NOT miss it; DJ Vera Lynn of @what981.bsky.social hosts strange callers, stranger weather reports and tracks from Tears for Fears, the Cure, and more.

Set your reminder here: bannerless.games/void-what

VOID 1680 AM // WHAT_10.13.25

Broadcasting (as always) from Nowhere, just north of The Island, DJ Vera Lynn of 98.1 WHAT makes her debut on the VOID Affiliate network. Tune in for live ca...

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tatiana 🌈 @caterwaul.bsky.social · Feb 10

it's so funny that they used to be wolves and now they have to acknowledge doors

a zoomed in, blurry camera pic of a pitbull staring seriously through a glass door from the outside

a zoomed in, blurry camera pic of a bulldog staring seriously through a glass door from the outside

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The Ken in Yellow @ Lone Star Zine Fest @kenlowery.bsky.social · 8h

Dismantle all apps

⌈Tautology⌋ | Dirk | ΘΔ& @tautology.systems · 8h

Oh, yeah, we only noticed that when it saved ***2 fucking gigs.***

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The Ken in Yellow @ Lone Star Zine Fest @kenlowery.bsky.social · 8h

Caught my youtube app trying to download completely random videos to my phone. "Smart downloads." Just another cool feature that didn't ask me permission.

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The Ken in Yellow @ Lone Star Zine Fest @kenlowery.bsky.social · 10h

Please do!

The Ken in Yellow @ Lone Star Zine Fest @kenlowery.bsky.social · 11h

Props to Rockstar for building a huge media empire where the first few hours of your encounter with it are you trying to figure out controls while The Most Annoying Man Who Has Ever Lived ceaselessly berates you for not being an expert already

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The Ken in Yellow @ Lone Star Zine Fest @kenlowery.bsky.social · 11h

I bet in hell they make you play opening missions in GTAs where your extremely unpleasant "friend" yells at you the whole time................ forever

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The Ken in Yellow @ Lone Star Zine Fest @kenlowery.bsky.social · 19h

Have you considered getting some crack?

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The Ken in Yellow @ Lone Star Zine Fest @kenlowery.bsky.social · 23h

I went to bed at 8pm earlier this week and it ROCKED

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Dark and Wondrous - it's in the trees! it's coming! @darkandwondrous.bsky.social · 11d

As October begins, we contemplate how the sea wind had its way with this now-fungal saint.

scary sea-weathered saint on the church near Hartlepool headland (body of saint is heavily eroded down to a veined or boxwork-like underlying structure of the stone, which looks like weird branching fungus).

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