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Daniel M. Ford

@soundingline.bsky.social

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Fantasist. Bespoke Cusses. Rum Cove. Ring Guy. Orioles Fan. Cocktails and weightlifting, rarely at the same time. Opinions are my own. https://www.patreon.com/c/DanielMFord

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Daniel M. Ford @soundingline.bsky.social · Jun 3

ADVOCATE, Book 3 of THE WARDEN, narrated by the incredible @lindseydorcus.bsky.social is out in Audiobook today! www.audible.com/pd/Advocate-...

Advocate

Check out this great listen on Audible.com. "Omigosh! I've just found an author to put on my list of I've got to read everything they ever wrote! The Warden is a gem of the first order. Aelis is my he...

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Daniel M. Ford @soundingline.bsky.social · 5h

Fans and front offices have entirely lost the goddamn plot

Christ I remember someone arguing on an Os message board in ‘12 that bringing Manny up was the wrong move REGARDLESS of what the Os did in the postseason, that prospect-hugging was more important

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Daniel M. Ford @soundingline.bsky.social · 5h

“Maybe they should prioritize the health of the franchise!” THEY JUST LOST THE ALDS IN A 15 INNING HEARTBREAKER THEY SHOULD BE TRYING TO WIN A FUCKING WORLD SERIES IN 2026

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Daniel M. Ford @soundingline.bsky.social · 5h

We live in a baseball world full of abject cowardice. No.

MLB Trade Rumors @mlbtraderumors.bsky.social · 5h

Poll: Should The Tigers Consider A Tarik Skubal Trade?

The Tigers lost a heartbreaker in Game 5 of the ALDS when they fell to the Mariners in 15 innings. Detroit was viewed as one of the best teams — if not the best team — in baseball throughout the first half but slumped to a 34-43 record from the start of July onward. They…

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Daniel M. Ford @soundingline.bsky.social · 5h

I think I gotta take tonight off, the self doubt is gonna lead me to deleting drafts or something

Daniel M. Ford @soundingline.bsky.social · 9h

chat is it good if i second guess every sentence i write while i write them.

is it good if i second and third guess every story idea and plot notion that comes to me. it's good right. that's good, that i can maybe write 150 words in the time i used to write 2000.

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 6h

I go back and forth on if this would blow back on us, but I wouldn’t be SAD to see America’s Concerned Parents launch moral panic jihad against ChatGPT’s decision to permit their teenager to spend 12 hours a day making genAI Sonic-taur fetish porn.

Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 7h

good news everyone!

chatGPT is now able to “mitigate the serious health issues,” according to trustworthy source Sam Altman, which means humanity can be trusted with the Revenge Porn Madness Spigot

Matt Burgess (WIRED) @mattburgess1.bsky.social · 11h

Oh good, ChatGPT is getting "erotica for verified adults" later this year

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Daniel M. Ford @soundingline.bsky.social · 6h

Still looking for these

Daniel M. Ford @soundingline.bsky.social · 15h

give me your most hinged, apologetic, milquetoast, agreeable, universal opinion.

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 7h

In approximately a month, Sam Altman will say “whoops, we have seen 25,000 senile grandpas kidnapped for ransom by five-boobed-lady AI porn bot rings, we’ll pretend to introduce a tool that will fix this”

somehow, many people will believe him

and thus launches a mass Grandpa Extinction Event

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Daniel M. Ford @soundingline.bsky.social · 7h

Look I wanna get a game up with a big playerbase but I'm not moving houses in this market.

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Julie Leong @julieleong.bsky.social · 10h

THE KEEPER OF MAGICAL THINGS IS OUT NOW!* *in the US. The UK has to wait until Thursday, sorry! (special shoutout to my dog Kaya for helping announce. she is very concerned about all this catdragon talk and needed reassurance.)

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A Sharpened Woodstake @tenderbeefsteak.bsky.social · 7h

Once the Star Wars Special Edition became the default version, and certain characters were added to the background in Episode IV, they had to change the song over the end credits ("You Ain't Seen Boba Fett" by Bachman Turner Overdrive).

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K. A. “Kîck Åß” Pillë @keithpille.bsky.social · 7h

I felt really bad when I learned that Hugh Hefner arranged to be buried next to Marilyn Monroe; even in death, she couldn't just be a person, free of creep-ass sex pests projecting their weird shit onto her. Anyway-

Scientific American @sciam.bsky.social · 1d

Despite early, and familiar, copyright growing pains, Sora may be the prelude to AI-generated on-demand TV and movies

Want to See Marilyn Monroe in Game of Thrones? AI Could Make It Soon

Despite early, and familiar, copyright growing pains, Sora may be the prelude to AI-generated on-demand TV and movies

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Daniel M. Ford @soundingline.bsky.social · 7h

And it’s a problem that precedes you joining

Daniel M. Ford @soundingline.bsky.social · 7h

A lot of them don’t tho!

Daniel M. Ford @soundingline.bsky.social · 7h

Anybody close enough to Newark DE and want to play Starfinder 1x a month? We’ll all be learning the game together

Daniel M. Ford @soundingline.bsky.social · 8h

How are people out there charging $30 a head to run RPG sessions when I, spending money to give players tools, can’t get enough of them to give enough of a shit to answer a text

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Daniel M. Ford @soundingline.bsky.social · 8h

I’m clearly not good enough at it to worry about that bit

Daniel M. Ford @soundingline.bsky.social · 8h

The clear inference is I am also a bad GM in addition to being bad at everything I care about

Daniel M. Ford @soundingline.bsky.social · 8h

How are people out there charging $30 a head to run RPG sessions when I, spending money to give players tools, can’t get enough of them to give enough of a shit to answer a text

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Daniel M. Ford @soundingline.bsky.social · 9h

the only reason i'm not outside burning author copies right now is i might could sell them later

Daniel M. Ford @soundingline.bsky.social · 9h

the words are probably pretty bad actually

Daniel M. Ford @soundingline.bsky.social · 9h

the words are not better. just slower.

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FakeEyes @fakeeyes.bsky.social · 9h

“When I did the first Muppet Movie poster, Jim Henson told me that I painted his characters exactly the way he feels about them.”

-Drew Struzan

Muppet Movie poster that I printed up and hung at work a while back. It’s beautiful.

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A Sharpened Woodstake @tenderbeefsteak.bsky.social · 9h

*UB40 voice* Ed, Ed Gein

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Daniel M. Ford @soundingline.bsky.social · 11h

Skenes is probably getting traded _eventually_ but why would the Tigers even consider trading Skubal when they just narrowly lost in the ALDS

Daniel M. Ford @soundingline.bsky.social · 11h

God I love an unhinged fan question like "should the Mets go get Skubal or Skenes" yes of course, every single team should be trying to do that. Doesn't mean it's in any way possible!

MLB Trade Rumors @mlbtraderumors.bsky.social · 11h

MLB Mailbag: Alonso, Skubal, Grisham

This week's mailbag gets into Pete Alonso's reported contract demand, the Tigers and Tarik Skubal, possible Trent Grisham suitors, and much more. Chris asks: Alonso saying he is seeking a 7 year deal is essentially him saying that he's out of Queens. So if you're Stearns, is the play to go all out for Murakami?…

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