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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Tim and the team at Evil Hat have made something truly amazing here. I am beyond thrilled to see it expand the world and game I made in so many cool ways.
It's 968 AC.
An artificial sun shines down upon Doskvol. Autopods cruise down rows of peaceful, prosperous houses. Beneath it all, strange actors and twisted conspiracies work their shadowy agendas.
Blades '68. The future is now. Don't miss it:
www.backerkit.com/c/projects/e...
Blades '68 Crowdfunding Trailer
YouTube video by Evil Hat Productions
www.youtube.com
February 10, 2026 at 8:44 PM
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REPRISE
February 10, 2026 at 8:51 PM
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Left: Hackneyed cartoon exaggerating moral weakness of “you made me like this” losers.

Right: actual Marc Randazza on Twitter.
February 10, 2026 at 8:57 PM
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I couldn’t care less about an official Harry Potter TTRPG, but I will say that a Carved from Brindlewood magical school game would absolutely slap and someone should make that.
February 10, 2026 at 7:21 PM
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Worth going through the effort to find and rip this scene. Ridiculous satire in the 1960s; ridiculous reality today.
bsky.app/profile/liza...
To link to every time a DOJ employee is grilled by a judge:
February 10, 2026 at 7:16 PM
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Want to know the difference between these two TikTok videos? One was launched yesterday at 9am PST and contains anti-ICE comments at the end, and anti-ICE hashtags.

The other doesn't mention ICE and was put up two hours later. Guess which one has zero views, despite being live?
February 10, 2026 at 6:02 PM
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Dr. Who x Airwolf | Epic Theme Song Mashup 2026
YouTube video by CLMC Music
youtu.be
February 10, 2026 at 5:31 PM
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Here's what DHS doesn't want you to know: Working for ICE is one of the safest jobs in America — and last year was the second-safest year for the agency on record.

And the doxxing? It hasn't actually happened even once.

The masks are justified by a lie. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/ice-s-mask...
ICE's Masks Are All a Lie
Working for ICE is actually less dangerous than being an elementary school student in America.
www.doomsdayscenario.co
February 10, 2026 at 3:48 PM