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Dane of the Dead 🔜 LightBox Expo 313 @monkeyminion.com · Sep 1

I love the smell of consequences in the morning. Thank you, @dragoncon.org

An empty booth with a sign that says “vendor removed for selling AI art #ArtBYHumans”

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Classical Studies Memes for Hellenistic Teens @csmfht.bsky.social · Aug 13

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Reverend0 @modilabs.com · Jul 13

It's that time of year again when I am looking for writers for Shadowrun Missions and associated #Shadowrun content. Writer submissions will be due by August 10. This will be for the third season of New Orleans.

Shadowrun Missions Submission 2026: forms.gle/jVcPCeufSjy4...

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cassie_mmk @cassie-mmk.bsky.social · Apr 30

Ukraine’s booth at the Osaka World Expo is perfect

Goods with barcodes that can be scanned with a sign hanging above saying “Not for Sale”

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B. Dave Walters - Yes, it is I! @bdavewalters.bsky.social · Apr 30

What the

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Reverend0 @modilabs.com · Apr 28

They look fantastic

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · Apr 24

Walz: Here in Minnesota, freedom means several things. It means freedom from hunger and poverty. That means freedom to worship or not. It means the freedom to be who you are anyway you choose, and that is a birthright..

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · Apr 24

Walz: If you say you love freedom but you don't believe freedom is for everybody, then the thing you love is not freedom, it is privilege.

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Reverend0 @modilabs.com · Apr 11

I refuse to let them go silently. I keep them in my contacts. I save their letters, messages, and emails. It's a testament to the influence they had on you and your love for them!

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(Mike) Draco’lantern 🎃 @dmdraco.bsky.social · Mar 23

#Shadowrun be like

a pixel art of a wizard holding a gun and the words out of spells not bullets

Alt: a pixel art of a wizard shooting a gun and the words out of spells not bullets

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Brian PJ Cronin @brianpjcronin.bsky.social · Mar 12

Ten years ago if you had written a dystopian SF story in which the person in charge of U.S. public health did a press event at a fast food joint to say that fried food is good but measles vaccines cause measles the ghost of Philip K. Dick would have said that you were being too bleak and unrealistic

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Mar 12

RFK Jr on the measles vaccine: "There are adverse events from the vaccine. It does cause deaths every year. It causes all the illnesses that measles itself cause."

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Samantha Ferreira Is Creating An Anime Mag @sam-animeherald.bsky.social · Mar 9

So, Amazon getting Gundam GQuuuuux just got even fucking worse.

Will McKinley @willmckinley.bsky.social · Mar 9

Amazon is now using AI to dub movies for streaming on Prime.

This technology underscores their "commitment to inclusivity" — for everyone except the voice actors who will lose work if we accept this.

cordcuttersnews.com/prime-video-... #FilmSky #Streaming

Prime Video Introduces AI-Powered Dubbing of Movies & TV Shows | Cord Cutters News

Prime Video, Amazon’s streaming platform known for its extensive library of movies and series, announced today, March 5, 2025, the launch of a new AI-aided dubbing initiative aimed at breaking down la...

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Steve Kenson ❌👑 @stevekenson.com · Mar 9

LOL SMDH this thread is a DEEP rabbit hole of nostalgia about how Shadowrun’s cyberpunk fantasy Sixth World has turned out to be kinda hopeful compared to the present day.

Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · Mar 9

Wild how Shadowrun today feels like an optimistic alternate future. Native Americans gain independence from the U.S. government? A benevolent dragon becomes the president and governs by suicide? People still communicate primarily through message boards? Sign me the fuck up.

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(((Tendar))) @tendar.bsky.social · Mar 2

Ukrainian forces have punched deep holes into Russian defenses in Toretsk and re-entered into large part of the city. They have already entered the ruins of the city center.

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Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.bsky.social · Feb 16

Dear Democratic Party: why are you not screaming this from every rooftop? Why are you not holding press conferences with these poor fired people - putting a face on what the richest man is destroying?

Anna E. Cook @annaecook.com · Feb 15

“The thing that I can’t get over is that the actual richest man in the world directed my fucking firing. I make $50k a year and work to keep drinking water safe. The richest man in the world decided that was an expense too great for the American taxpayer.”

Chris Muravez @chrismuravez.bsky.social · Feb 15

Yesterday many thousands of federal employees were terminated. This is a Reddit thread for federal employees that got laid off.

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Bull @bulldrek.bsky.social · Feb 7

I mentioned the other day that my #FLGS was struggling. Well, he's got an ebay page!

He's got a drekload of 5e and other #Shadowrun stuff on his ebay page at great prices, and I know he'll take lower "Best Offer" bids!

Check it out and buy some stuff, and help keep the lights on please??

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Darryl Mott 💀 @gamerstavernshow.com · Dec 23

I work in gaming. I can't do my job without a PlayStation 5 and a new 4K TV. It's too much trouble to sort out who needs to be paid for them, so I'm allowed to just go to the store and take them. Right?

elena perez @thisiselena.bsky.social · Dec 20

imagine if people went to retailers and just took stuff and called it "generative shopping" and then, when the retailers said that's illegal, people said "regular shopping is too expensive so we have disrupted it" and then the retailers were like "OH! Carry on, innovators!"

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Meanwhile in Ukraine @meanwhileua.bsky.social · Dec 20

Make no mistake: russia bombing the downtown of the capital city with 4 million residents is considered routine. Ukraine conducting deep strikes against russian military bases is labeled as escalation. Future historians will feel secondhand embarrassment when studying this era.

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CanRay @canray.bsky.social · Dec 8

Picture of Tom Waits smoking a cigarette with a '70s era jukebox behind him.

"Just a friendly reminder to leave a piano and pack of cigarettes out for Tom Waits tonight."

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Neil Renic @ncrenic.bsky.social · Dec 4

Two stages of writing:

1) This shouldn't take too long
2) Oh no

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Reverend0 @modilabs.com · Nov 28

Happy Thanksgiving. Got an early thing to be thankful for when Catalyst Game Labs release a new book that I worked on. Tarnished Star covers where Shadowrun and law enforcement intersect. It was amazing to work with the team of writers on this!

store.catalystgamelabs.com/collections/...

Shadowrun: Tarnished Star (Runner Resource Book)

PRESERVING DISORDER The old law enforcement motto of “to serve and protect” is a long-dead joke in the Sixth World. The idea of due process is more of a suggestion, and rights are only afforded to tho...

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paulpro @mariopro.bsky.social · Nov 28

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Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · Nov 23

Aristotle on tyranny

The Greeks struggled with issues that are similar to what we confront
today. Aristotle, for example, spent much of Book V of his Politics examining the problem of tyranny.2
He said that the tyrant loves vice and
is a friend of the bad. The tyrant wants to surround himself with weak,
bad, and stupid people. He finds good and wise people to be irritants
because they do not support him in his viciousness. The tyrant also
needs enemies and antagonists—those he rails against in order to rally
his party and the party’s base among the people. Aristotle explained:
“The tyrant is a stirrer-up of war, with the deliberate purpose of keeping the people busy and also of making them constantly in need of a
leader.” Aristotle also understood that the tyrant needs his sycophants.
He explained: “For tyrants enjoy being flattered, but nobody would ever
flatter them if he possessed a free spirit.” Aristotle continues to explain
that a demagogue is what we call a tyrant in a democracy. The demagogue must, however, suck up to the people. He is, as Aristotle says, a

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fraggingunicorns.bsky.social @fraggingunicorns.bsky.social · Nov 17

Hi Blue Sky! This is our first post here and we're excited!
This is also the first announcement that our webstore is now selling Subversion, our new cyberpunk/fantasy RPG of Hope, Rebellion, and Community. Check it/us out!

www.fraggingunicorns.com/shop/subvers...

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Pink Fohawk (🏆 ENnie Award Nominee!) @pinkfohawk.bsky.social · Nov 15

Love ttrpgs? Maybe even Shadowrun?

Check out our ENnie-nominated, AudioVerse Award-winning actual play podcast, PINK FOHAWK!

#shadowrun #actualplay #podcast #cyberpunk #ttrpg

Music by Karl Casey @ whitebataudio.com

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