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Wil (He/Him)
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Fiction first storygaming metagaming #TTRPG immersion-denier. Lead designer for Tribes in the Dark. Senior database administrator by day. Tired GenXer all the time. https://linktr.ee/rivetgeek Banner by @juanochoa.bsky.social; PfP by @d20monkey.bsky.social
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Since Altman (of OpenAI) claims that AI agents provide you with “PhD-level expertise”, a TA from Cornell University put three major LLMs through a freshman Computer Science class… it went about as well as you might expect, and it’s very entertaining!
YouTube
www.youtube.com
February 11, 2026 at 2:21 AM
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wait, wait, wait
Brian from Catherine Wheel and Tanya from Belly have a new song out!

gooddayfather.bandcamp.com/track/sonic-...
Sonic Amadea, by Good Day Father
track by Good Day Father
gooddayfather.bandcamp.com
February 11, 2026 at 2:26 AM
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My game Public Access is coming to KS next month. I ran a full campaign of this new, revised edition for @thebadspot.bsky.social last year, and it was terrific! Watch here:

youtube.com/playlist?lis...
Public Access - YouTube
Our Actual Play of the very nearly complete - if as yet unreleased - second edition of Public Access by Jason Cordova
youtube.com
February 11, 2026 at 2:35 AM
True, because the shelves seem to be empty in every video I've ever seen.
February 11, 2026 at 5:06 AM
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A weapon made solely to deny families closure, to inflict psychic damage on entire societies. People planned and built this. They sold it to their superiors. They manufactured it. They loaded it on planes and drones and dropped it on human beings.
“Four of my children just evaporated,” Badran said, holding back tears. “I looked for them a million times. Not a piece was left. Where did they go?”

There are no words to adequately describe the evil here.
Israel used weapons in Gaza that made thousands of Palestinians evaporate
US-made thermal weapons burning at 3,500C caused 2,842 people to "evaporate" in Gaza, Al Jazeera investigation finds.
www.aljazeera.com
February 11, 2026 at 2:27 AM
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If you abandon a post in the dark-limned gap between posting and the drafts, it goes off to live in the woods and comes back years later to exchange its firstborn child with yours
Is there a way to remove the "save draft" option from the menu when I cancel out of a post? I keep hitting it by accident and saving shit I don't want to save
February 11, 2026 at 2:41 AM
Age verification? When we saw Star Wars we had to drive to a theater 30 minutes away because it didn't open in the theaters near us until a week later.
Age verification? i saw Star Wars before it was A New Hope
Age verification? I saw Empire Strikes Back in the theater
February 11, 2026 at 4:53 AM
Whatever.

😅
February 11, 2026 at 4:51 AM
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A pile of PDFs have gone out the door to backers of Songfall Survivors and most of the hard copies have gone out. I hope to send out the remaining physical rewards and shipping invoices shortly so we can wrap this up.
February 11, 2026 at 3:23 AM
Meadow Lane, the store mentioned in the article, isn't Whole Foods. It has bouncers and like $25 salads.
February 11, 2026 at 4:28 AM
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Kevin Kileen to narrate everything please

every month

but also lunch

and also my grocery shopping

please Kevin
Don't give anything an Emmy until it's as good as this.
February 11, 2026 at 4:04 AM
Much worse. The "luxury grocery stores" have bouncers, and are stupidly expensive by anyone's metric. They're not like popping down to Costco for a rotisserie chicken and a pizza.

www.dailymail.co.uk/lifestyle/ar...
We got a sneak peek into NYC's most popular new grocery store
The Gen Z grocer became infamous on social media as 'Brokeback Contessa,' where he shared constant updates about the delays his upscale market's opening was facing.
www.dailymail.co.uk
February 11, 2026 at 3:52 AM
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It’s great that the grand jury said nix, but the attempt was a significant escalation.
Grand juries keep seeing through the Trump DOJ's naked attempts to intimidate critics and political rivals — this time for accurately stating that illegal orders must be disobeyed. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/10/u...
www.nytimes.com
February 11, 2026 at 2:09 AM
It was, I watched it.
February 11, 2026 at 1:49 AM
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New Call of Cthulhu adventure plot just dropped
February 10, 2026 at 6:32 PM
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First, assume a perfectly cubical cat.
February 10, 2026 at 11:27 PM
I got it when I was a teenager. Do not recommend. And the vaccine still wouldn't be available for ten years after that.
February 11, 2026 at 12:19 AM
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There are several throughlines in the Epstein saga. One is the community of elite child rapists and sex pests. Another is the weak narcissistic thirst for proximity to power and influence and celebrity. But another is official hubris: how offended Top People are that we question how they Do Things.
February 10, 2026 at 11:58 PM
My grandfather on my dad's side used several different names during his life, even putting them on official documentation, that were never on his birth certificate.
February 11, 2026 at 12:06 AM
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One of my favorite concerts I've ever been to was getting to see Tengger Cavalry live in a tiny club in Charlotte: a Mongolian folk metal band, featuring traditional instruments and throat singing.

I am always struck by how these people think everyone must be secretly as small-hearted as they.
Both these options sound objectively amazing, why do racists keep assuming everyone's racist?
February 10, 2026 at 11:14 PM
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Modern sci fi RPGs need less power loader/mech suits and more "everyone rides in this one giant wheel"
A co-worker lent me his copy of Empire Galactique, a French TTRPG from the early 80s.
The art is crazy (and there's a lot of it!), the layout is almost non-existent, character creation is interesting but has a lot of math. Reading it is a wild time!
February 10, 2026 at 11:13 PM
Yes, all of this sounds perfectly acceptable to me. My response is, "Fucking bring it."

This is who opened for Bauhaus a few years ago, it was awesome.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=bztD...
The Vernal Oath by Soriah
YouTube video by Enrique Ugalde
www.youtube.com
February 10, 2026 at 11:22 PM
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I would laugh if this were an SNL sketch. I'm horrified it's government stuff.
Please... do not do any of this...

@evystadium.bsky.social has more. full story by @jasonkoebler.bsky.social here: www.404media.co/rfk-jrs-nutr...
February 10, 2026 at 11:15 PM
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We’ll never rest again until every nazi dies
February 10, 2026 at 8:44 PM