Holiday Hivemind
@msbsandrs.bsky.social
GM of Pod Against the Machine.
Writer of stories, lancer of freedom, Luddite, possible hivemind.
Podcast: https://podagainstthemachine.com
Free Short Fiction: https://www.patreon.com/c/samwtennyson
Writer of stories, lancer of freedom, Luddite, possible hivemind.
Podcast: https://podagainstthemachine.com
Free Short Fiction: https://www.patreon.com/c/samwtennyson
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Out of Weighted Darkness | Monkeys, Bears, Robots, and Words
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I've thrown a new--award winning--horror short up on the Patreon for free.
"Out of Weighted Darkness," a 2025 winner of the Electric City Arts Contest, is a Science Fiction story of solitude and survival at the bottom of the ocean.
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"Out of Weighted Darkness," a 2025 winner of the Electric City Arts Contest, is a Science Fiction story of solitude and survival at the bottom of the ocean.
www.patreon.com/posts/out-of...
Y'all, I just had an *idea*.
December 2, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Y'all, I just had an *idea*.
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Gonna say it here that yeah I view it as a serious moral failing as well as an intellectual one
There been a few shorts I've seen crop up making fun of people who now use it to answer/handle talking to people and I WISH it was as ludicrous and overblown as they make them out to be
Legit have seen
There been a few shorts I've seen crop up making fun of people who now use it to answer/handle talking to people and I WISH it was as ludicrous and overblown as they make them out to be
Legit have seen
December 2, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Gonna say it here that yeah I view it as a serious moral failing as well as an intellectual one
There been a few shorts I've seen crop up making fun of people who now use it to answer/handle talking to people and I WISH it was as ludicrous and overblown as they make them out to be
Legit have seen
There been a few shorts I've seen crop up making fun of people who now use it to answer/handle talking to people and I WISH it was as ludicrous and overblown as they make them out to be
Legit have seen
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we're all thinking it
December 2, 2025 at 1:17 PM
we're all thinking it
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Industrial societies have to do renewables better than they did with previous energy systems. These are labor, environmental, and public health issues <<<<<<
When the world’s largest battery power plant caught fire, toxic metals rained down – wetlands captured the fallout
When the world’s largest battery power plant caught fire, toxic metals rained down – wetlands captured the fallout
The Moss Landing battery fire became an unintended experiment – showing how burning lithium-ion cells scattered nickel, cobalt and manganese over a protected marsh.
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December 2, 2025 at 1:43 AM
Industrial societies have to do renewables better than they did with previous energy systems. These are labor, environmental, and public health issues <<<<<<
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Three years into the generative-AI wave, demand for the technology seems surprisingly flimsy
Investors expect AI use to soar. That’s not happening
Recent surveys point to flatlining business adoption
econ.st
November 29, 2025 at 9:20 PM
Three years into the generative-AI wave, demand for the technology seems surprisingly flimsy
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My latest TTRPG is 50% off today, go get it and go crawl through the insides of a space faring leviathan to pump up the fuel needed for FTL travel and maybe (not) pay off your debt to a mega corp.
Great for one shot or group play and includes tons of solo rules and procedures.
Great for one shot or group play and includes tons of solo rules and procedures.
Alright, it's time...
This is Voidlight: A rules-bright sci-fi horror dungeon crawl where your only safety is a beam of light that shrinks every ten minutes.
Light on rules, bound to the dark.
100 playtesters battle tested this game and it's finally available!
farirpgs.itch.io/voidlight
This is Voidlight: A rules-bright sci-fi horror dungeon crawl where your only safety is a beam of light that shrinks every ten minutes.
Light on rules, bound to the dark.
100 playtesters battle tested this game and it's finally available!
farirpgs.itch.io/voidlight
December 1, 2025 at 1:47 PM
My latest TTRPG is 50% off today, go get it and go crawl through the insides of a space faring leviathan to pump up the fuel needed for FTL travel and maybe (not) pay off your debt to a mega corp.
Great for one shot or group play and includes tons of solo rules and procedures.
Great for one shot or group play and includes tons of solo rules and procedures.
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AI is NOT inevitable. Keep not using it. Uninstall Copilot from your computer. Refuse to use programs bogged down with it. Complain loudly about it when they shove it into the programs you use. We can starve the slop machines.
"All of this falls apart if humans don't adopt the tech. This is why you've seen Meta cram its lame chatbots into WhatsApp and Instagram. This is why Notepad and Paint now have useless Copilot buttons on Windows. This is why Google Gemini wants to "help you" read and reply to your emails."
Analysis: OpenAI is a loss-making machine, how can it survive?
Don't call it a bubble! Loss-making monster OpenAI is on the hook for $1.4 trillion (with a T) in compute commitments. How can this go on?
www.windowscentral.com
November 30, 2025 at 11:12 PM
AI is NOT inevitable. Keep not using it. Uninstall Copilot from your computer. Refuse to use programs bogged down with it. Complain loudly about it when they shove it into the programs you use. We can starve the slop machines.
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ANNOUNCEMENT: THREE SAILS STUDIOS TO PUBLISH 'CITY OF ESPERS - A STREET-LEVEL PSYCHICS TTRPG', THE NEW GAME BY NATHAN BLADE (@theneoncaster.bsky.social)
Press Release: www.threesailsstudios.com/blog/cityofe...
(PLEASE REPOST) 🧵
Press Release: www.threesailsstudios.com/blog/cityofe...
(PLEASE REPOST) 🧵
Press Release: Three Sails Studios to publish ‘City of Espers’, new TTRPG from Nathan Blades. — Three Sails Studios
December 1st, 2025. Manchester: Three Sails Studios are happy to announce that they are publishing City of Espers - A Street-Level Psychics RPG, the next TTRPG from established designer, streamer, and...
www.threesailsstudios.com
December 1, 2025 at 10:37 AM
ANNOUNCEMENT: THREE SAILS STUDIOS TO PUBLISH 'CITY OF ESPERS - A STREET-LEVEL PSYCHICS TTRPG', THE NEW GAME BY NATHAN BLADE (@theneoncaster.bsky.social)
Press Release: www.threesailsstudios.com/blog/cityofe...
(PLEASE REPOST) 🧵
Press Release: www.threesailsstudios.com/blog/cityofe...
(PLEASE REPOST) 🧵
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This indie author is only $288 away from funding an audiobook production of a sweet gay scifi book. Would you pledge for an ebook or physical book to help close the gap? So close!
A lonely ex-lab subject on the run, a sweet failed mercenary trying to move on, an exploration of each other through space.
Help fund the audiobook and get exclusive content!
www.backerkit.com/c/projects/a...
#queerscifi #scifi #booksky #books #audiobooks #tbb25 #thebookbazaar25 #ad
Help fund the audiobook and get exclusive content!
www.backerkit.com/c/projects/a...
#queerscifi #scifi #booksky #books #audiobooks #tbb25 #thebookbazaar25 #ad
December 1, 2025 at 2:15 PM
This indie author is only $288 away from funding an audiobook production of a sweet gay scifi book. Would you pledge for an ebook or physical book to help close the gap? So close!
Help, my weekend has been too productive and there's nowhere to go from here but down.
November 30, 2025 at 7:46 PM
Help, my weekend has been too productive and there's nowhere to go from here but down.
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I love this site! I also post all my Daggerheart content on here! (Also they have a NO-AI stance which is more than i can say for other digital rpg shops)
Daggerheart community, let's welcome (and follow) @heartofdaggers.bsky.social! Heart of Daggers is the place to go to buy/sell/create Daggerheart content. It now has an encounter manager as well!
November 30, 2025 at 2:44 AM
I love this site! I also post all my Daggerheart content on here! (Also they have a NO-AI stance which is more than i can say for other digital rpg shops)
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1. Operation AJAX in Iran (we stole their oil)
2. The acquisition of Hawaii (the US Marines were used to overthrow their queen to steal their sugar cane crop)
3. The 30 year US occupation of Haiti (to steal their sugar & sisal AND control their banking system)
4. TWO COUPS in Nicaragua and Guatemala
2. The acquisition of Hawaii (the US Marines were used to overthrow their queen to steal their sugar cane crop)
3. The 30 year US occupation of Haiti (to steal their sugar & sisal AND control their banking system)
4. TWO COUPS in Nicaragua and Guatemala
Before Trump, cite a unilateral action by the United States towards another nation for the acquisition of their resources?
November 30, 2025 at 2:21 PM
1. Operation AJAX in Iran (we stole their oil)
2. The acquisition of Hawaii (the US Marines were used to overthrow their queen to steal their sugar cane crop)
3. The 30 year US occupation of Haiti (to steal their sugar & sisal AND control their banking system)
4. TWO COUPS in Nicaragua and Guatemala
2. The acquisition of Hawaii (the US Marines were used to overthrow their queen to steal their sugar cane crop)
3. The 30 year US occupation of Haiti (to steal their sugar & sisal AND control their banking system)
4. TWO COUPS in Nicaragua and Guatemala
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Every aspiring adventurer needs the right materials! For today only, take your story building skills to new heights with a mountain of lore books for any intrepid adventurer at 20-60% off!
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buff.ly/jkQRgcB
November 30, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Every aspiring adventurer needs the right materials! For today only, take your story building skills to new heights with a mountain of lore books for any intrepid adventurer at 20-60% off!
buff.ly/jkQRgcB
buff.ly/jkQRgcB
Finished my November Nonsense Novel project. Just over 73k for the month dedicated to Narratonomicon, Volume 1, Interlude 2.
The total written length of the Narratonomicon (my 20-years-and-counting November Nonsense Novel project) is 2,244,302 words. My guess is I'm a little over half finished.
The total written length of the Narratonomicon (my 20-years-and-counting November Nonsense Novel project) is 2,244,302 words. My guess is I'm a little over half finished.
November 30, 2025 at 12:16 AM
Finished my November Nonsense Novel project. Just over 73k for the month dedicated to Narratonomicon, Volume 1, Interlude 2.
The total written length of the Narratonomicon (my 20-years-and-counting November Nonsense Novel project) is 2,244,302 words. My guess is I'm a little over half finished.
The total written length of the Narratonomicon (my 20-years-and-counting November Nonsense Novel project) is 2,244,302 words. My guess is I'm a little over half finished.
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*banging a metal pot with a wooden spoon very loudly*
people want to LISTEN to podcasts!!!!!!!!!!!!
*hitting you on the forehead with the spoon*
STOP PIVOTING TO VIDEO
www.westwoodone.com/blog/2025/11...
people want to LISTEN to podcasts!!!!!!!!!!!!
*hitting you on the forehead with the spoon*
STOP PIVOTING TO VIDEO
www.westwoodone.com/blog/2025/11...
November 21, 2025 at 6:28 PM
*banging a metal pot with a wooden spoon very loudly*
people want to LISTEN to podcasts!!!!!!!!!!!!
*hitting you on the forehead with the spoon*
STOP PIVOTING TO VIDEO
www.westwoodone.com/blog/2025/11...
people want to LISTEN to podcasts!!!!!!!!!!!!
*hitting you on the forehead with the spoon*
STOP PIVOTING TO VIDEO
www.westwoodone.com/blog/2025/11...
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Let's get an indie ttrpg HYPE TRAIN going and recommend some cool games for people to buy/gift.
If you're a small #ttrpg creator (or there's an indie game you really love) drop a quick pitch and a link below.
🚅🎲🎲🎲🌟🌟
If you're a small #ttrpg creator (or there's an indie game you really love) drop a quick pitch and a link below.
🚅🎲🎲🎲🌟🌟
November 28, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Let's get an indie ttrpg HYPE TRAIN going and recommend some cool games for people to buy/gift.
If you're a small #ttrpg creator (or there's an indie game you really love) drop a quick pitch and a link below.
🚅🎲🎲🎲🌟🌟
If you're a small #ttrpg creator (or there's an indie game you really love) drop a quick pitch and a link below.
🚅🎲🎲🎲🌟🌟
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people used arsenic-based face paint!
i feel like a lot of the disconnect between the ai boosters and the rest of us is about the fact that they do not think the humanities matter, therefore political, sociological, and cultural critiques don’t matter. “people are using this” is not an answer to “this is a detriment to society”
November 26, 2025 at 9:01 PM
people used arsenic-based face paint!
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This is a really good deal if you're looking to pick up Remastered copies of books you don't own or get into Starfinder 2E after it just recently released!
What nerdy library is complete without the perfect stack of your favorite books? All weekend, get one Core Rulebook for 20% off, two for 25% off the pair, and 30% off for a group of three or more! The more you stack, the more you save in our Core Rulebook Stacking Sale!
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buff.ly/jkQRgcB
November 28, 2025 at 3:37 PM
This is a really good deal if you're looking to pick up Remastered copies of books you don't own or get into Starfinder 2E after it just recently released!
3 days, 7000 words left.
November 28, 2025 at 2:49 PM
3 days, 7000 words left.
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Goes without saying but yeah yall, dont watch it, don't pirate it don't engage with it.
This same shit happened with that god awful Velma show, people watched it to shit on it and they made more
Just let the fucking thing die in the crib and give up the series
Fuck the Terf Queen
This same shit happened with that god awful Velma show, people watched it to shit on it and they made more
Just let the fucking thing die in the crib and give up the series
Fuck the Terf Queen
HBO CEO Casey Bloys says 'HARRY POTTER' Season 2 is already being written
"We’re going to do whatever we can to not have a huge gap, for the kids, obviously, but also for viewers"
"We’re going to do whatever we can to not have a huge gap, for the kids, obviously, but also for viewers"
November 22, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Goes without saying but yeah yall, dont watch it, don't pirate it don't engage with it.
This same shit happened with that god awful Velma show, people watched it to shit on it and they made more
Just let the fucking thing die in the crib and give up the series
Fuck the Terf Queen
This same shit happened with that god awful Velma show, people watched it to shit on it and they made more
Just let the fucking thing die in the crib and give up the series
Fuck the Terf Queen
Every Tuesday, the day my top 2 pizza places are both closed, I wind up wanting pizza.
November 25, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Every Tuesday, the day my top 2 pizza places are both closed, I wind up wanting pizza.
(Star Wars movies just aren't all that good.)
November 25, 2025 at 1:40 AM
(Star Wars movies just aren't all that good.)
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hi all! I'm so happy to see the high level of interest, but I'm getting lots of replies on different threads & it's very difficult to keep track of. Please DM me or email me at [email protected]
You don't need to wait for me! Get started now allmyfriendsarestories.neocities.org/iachecklist
You don't need to wait for me! Get started now allmyfriendsarestories.neocities.org/iachecklist
November 24, 2025 at 6:30 PM
hi all! I'm so happy to see the high level of interest, but I'm getting lots of replies on different threads & it's very difficult to keep track of. Please DM me or email me at [email protected]
You don't need to wait for me! Get started now allmyfriendsarestories.neocities.org/iachecklist
You don't need to wait for me! Get started now allmyfriendsarestories.neocities.org/iachecklist
I have such sights to show you, Charlie Brown.
Do Not Quote the Old Magic to me! I Was There When It Was Written, Charlie Brown!
It's Morbin' Time, Charlie Brown
November 24, 2025 at 6:38 PM
I have such sights to show you, Charlie Brown.