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𝔖𝔢𝔞𝔫 𝔉𝔯𝔞𝔫𝔠𝔬 ✒️📖🎲🦺🚉 @seanfranco.bsky.social · 2h

…being brought forward to save everything.

Would broadly recommend all of these.

𝔖𝔢𝔞𝔫 𝔉𝔯𝔞𝔫𝔠𝔬 ✒️📖🎲🦺🚉 @seanfranco.bsky.social · 2h

…Gold, Black Adam, Elastic Man, Animal Man, the Question, Will Magnus, Steel, and several others, and they all intertwine with each other. The story is notable for NOT being about DC’s heavyweights, specifically Superman, Batman, and Wonder Woman, so it’s cool to see a lot of the minor characters…

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𝔖𝔢𝔞𝔫 𝔉𝔯𝔞𝔫𝔠𝔬 ✒️📖🎲🦺🚉 @seanfranco.bsky.social · 2h

…basically in real time. It’s a narrative format I’d never seen before in the medium and it works really well. It’s also written wholly collaboratively by some industry all-stars, namely Geoff Johns, Grant Morrison, Greg Rucka, and Mark Waid. There’s like seven main plots going on, between Booster…

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𝔖𝔢𝔞𝔫 𝔉𝔯𝔞𝔫𝔠𝔬 ✒️📖🎲🦺🚉 @seanfranco.bsky.social · 2h

…Gorilla Grodd’s fortune, locked up in the center of Gorilla City. It’s Ocean’s 11 but everything goes wrong. This one was fantastic and doesn’t require comics experience to dig.

52 is a mammoth experience. It was originally a weekly title, fifty-two issues across one year, telling a story…

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𝔖𝔢𝔞𝔫 𝔉𝔯𝔞𝔫𝔠𝔬 ✒️📖🎲🦺🚉 @seanfranco.bsky.social · 2h

…whole thing just left me wanting more Wally West and less Barry.

Rogues is a Flash-adjacent story, about his adversaries but not him. The titular villain group, led by Captain Cold, decide to leave their post-villainy retirement behind and go evil for one last job: a meticulously planned heist of…

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𝔖𝔢𝔞𝔫 𝔉𝔯𝔞𝔫𝔠𝔬 ✒️📖🎲🦺🚉 @seanfranco.bsky.social · 2h

Some recent comic book reads:

Volume 2 of Mark Waid’s run on The Flash sees the return of Barry Allen, who is supposed to have died the most heroic death that a hero could have died. The circumstances of his sudden return and the truth behind those circumstances make for a solid storyline, but the…

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𝔖𝔢𝔞𝔫 𝔉𝔯𝔞𝔫𝔠𝔬 ✒️📖🎲🦺🚉 @seanfranco.bsky.social · 15h

#41 The Happiness Patrol (1988)

It’s flamboyant and garish and undeniably about Margaret Thatcher. The Iron Lady is replaced by the Pink Lady, and her dedication to force Terra Alpha to bend to her absolute decrees and whims is not subtle at all. In the process, the Doctor gets to delicately…

screencap from the Doctor Who story The Happiness Patrol #doctorwho

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𝔖𝔢𝔞𝔫 𝔉𝔯𝔞𝔫𝔠𝔬 ✒️📖🎲🦺🚉 @seanfranco.bsky.social · 15h

…unleashes a series of confectionery executions. He’s visually distinctive and has a backstory unlike anything else in the show. The story really leans into its overnight revolution concept, making the most of its three episodes and never suffering from poor pacing. This one is a lot of fun.

𝔖𝔢𝔞𝔫 𝔉𝔯𝔞𝔫𝔠𝔬 ✒️📖🎲🦺🚉 @seanfranco.bsky.social · 15h

…unpack the shallow contradictions of Helen A’s ideology, showing that happiness is nothing without sadness, and sometimes you feel better by feeling the blues. Beyond the bright pink is also one of the shows most menacing and macabre villains, the Kandyman. From within his Kandy Kitchen, he…

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𝔖𝔢𝔞𝔫 𝔉𝔯𝔞𝔫𝔠𝔬 ✒️📖🎲🦺🚉 @seanfranco.bsky.social · 15h

#41 The Happiness Patrol (1988)

It’s flamboyant and garish and undeniably about Margaret Thatcher. The Iron Lady is replaced by the Pink Lady, and her dedication to force Terra Alpha to bend to her absolute decrees and whims is not subtle at all. In the process, the Doctor gets to delicately…

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june 🧛‍♀️ @juneever.green · 1d

Marisa Tomei as Mona Lisa Vito in My Cousin Vinny (1992).

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𝔖𝔢𝔞𝔫 𝔉𝔯𝔞𝔫𝔠𝔬 ✒️📖🎲🦺🚉 @seanfranco.bsky.social · 1d

@support.bsky.team @bsky.app @safety.bsky.app

𝔖𝔢𝔞𝔫 𝔉𝔯𝔞𝔫𝔠𝔬 ✒️📖🎲🦺🚉 @seanfranco.bsky.social · 1d

#42 The Ambassadors of Death (1970)

Season seven of the show was really its own little capsule world, almost just a twenty-five episode miniseries interpretation of Quatermass, with enough elements of the old show to help retain that audience. This story is possibly the best representation of such…

screencap from the Doctor Who story The Ambassadors of Death #doctorwho

𝔖𝔢𝔞𝔫 𝔉𝔯𝔞𝔫𝔠𝔬 ✒️📖🎲🦺🚉 @seanfranco.bsky.social · 1d

Okay, what is it about this picture that by itself that flags something? @support.bsky.team

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𝔖𝔢𝔞𝔫 𝔉𝔯𝔞𝔫𝔠𝔬 ✒️📖🎲🦺🚉 @seanfranco.bsky.social · 1d

Posting just the image now to see if that does anything.

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Coyote & Crow Games @coyoteandcrow.bsky.social · 2d

Happy Indigenous Peoples Day! Today we celebrate the heritage, beauty, and perseverance of hundreds of cultures and nations across North America that have thrived and endured here for thousands of years, and will be around for thousands more.
If you want to support this Native: bit.ly/3L67Yrs

A display of Coyote & Crow, the roleplaying game, Wolves, the cooperative board game, Naasii, the Coyote & Crow Dice Game, and a set of custom dice for the RPG. All created by Cherokee Nation citizen, Kenna Alexander.

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𝔖𝔢𝔞𝔫 𝔉𝔯𝔞𝔫𝔠𝔬 ✒️📖🎲🦺🚉 @seanfranco.bsky.social · 1d

I can’t imagine that it would, since Robots of Death didn’t do this.

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𝔖𝔢𝔞𝔫 𝔉𝔯𝔞𝔫𝔠𝔬 ✒️📖🎲🦺🚉 @seanfranco.bsky.social · 1d

Hey, would adding the word “death” to alt text trigger this from bluesky?

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wendy copium @alicebennett.bsky.social · 1d

one thing LLMs have revealed is that the belief that there is a magical incantation that will give you what you want is not just confined to pick-up artists and freemen on the land

Des Fitzgerald @desfitzgerald.bsky.social · 1d

Seeing people nonchalantly post stuff like makes me feel like I'm going crazy honestly.

A post from an academic on blue sky that says: "I'm learning about "prompt engineering" when asking LLMs to extract data. I now add this to all instructions:

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Be concise, analytic, and specific (cite page/figure if provided). If essential info is missing, keep going but flag Unclear and exact data needed. Never invent data.

#academicsky"

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𝔖𝔢𝔞𝔫 𝔉𝔯𝔞𝔫𝔠𝔬 ✒️📖🎲🦺🚉 @seanfranco.bsky.social · 1d

#42 The Ambassadors of Death (1970)

Season seven of the show was really its own little capsule world, almost just a twenty-five episode miniseries interpretation of Quatermass, with enough elements of the old show to help retain that audience. This story is possibly the best representation of such…

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𝔖𝔢𝔞𝔫 𝔉𝔯𝔞𝔫𝔠𝔬 ✒️📖🎲🦺🚉 @seanfranco.bsky.social · 1d

…machinations of a British military officer who wants to use the captured aliens (the titular ambassadors) to rile up public aggression against this interplanetary power. It’s all spies and space throughout, with the Doctor taking the lead on both fronts. It’s an epic that’s earned its seven parts.

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𝔖𝔢𝔞𝔫 𝔉𝔯𝔞𝔫𝔠𝔬 ✒️📖🎲🦺🚉 @seanfranco.bsky.social · 1d

…a description. It’s one of several stories that celebrates Britain’s space program, an organization on par with NASA. The Doctor and UNIT are sent to support a Mars mission that’s gone wrong, but of course it hasn’t gone wrong because of the aliens on Mars, but because of the xenophobic…

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𝔖𝔢𝔞𝔫 𝔉𝔯𝔞𝔫𝔠𝔬 ✒️📖🎲🦺🚉 @seanfranco.bsky.social · 1d

#42 The Ambassadors of Death (1970)

Season seven of the show was really its own little capsule world, almost just a twenty-five episode miniseries interpretation of Quatermass, with enough elements of the old show to help retain that audience. This story is possibly the best representation of such…

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𝔖𝔢𝔞𝔫 𝔉𝔯𝔞𝔫𝔠𝔬 ✒️📖🎲🦺🚉 @seanfranco.bsky.social · 1d

I have nine of those, starting with Science and Séance.

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World Champ 🔜 Gamehole @worldchamp.bsky.social · 2d

Not every game is a product.
Not every booklet is a zine.
Not every idea is a kickstarter.
Not every conversation is content.
Not every collab is a stretch goal.
Not every designer is a peer.

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World Champ 🔜 Gamehole @worldchamp.bsky.social · 3d

Kill the hustler inside your mind

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