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Tim Ford (Tomb Fart 🎃) @timfordwrites.bsky.social · 18h

I have no strong opinions on the actual effect, but it's impossible to deny this is happening:

www.pewresearch.org/global/2025/...

International Views of China Turn Slightly More Positive

People in many of 25 surveyed nations increasingly see China as the world’s top economic power.

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Tim Ford (Tomb Fart 🎃) @timfordwrites.bsky.social · 18h

Making China look like this heroic noble global leader has to be one of the most bizarre achievements of the Trump era.

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Tom Reagan’s Hat @rufustsuperfly.bsky.social · 22h

RIP Drew Struzan
A master.

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Tim Ford (Tomb Fart 🎃) @timfordwrites.bsky.social · 21h

THE WALKING DEAD VIEWERSHIP PEAKED IN SEASON 5
WHO IS THIS EVEN FOR

Old man yelling at Michonne, Ruthless Survivor (3/White/Green)

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Tim Ford (Tomb Fart 🎃) @timfordwrites.bsky.social · 21h

THE WALKING DEAD VIEWERSHIP PEAKED IN SEASON 5
WHO IS THIS EVEN FOR

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Tim Ford (Tomb Fart 🎃) @timfordwrites.bsky.social · 21h

I definitely feel old man yelling at clouds, but also BACK IN MAH DAY MTG had a fantastic internal lore, continuing story, and sets crafted around exploring those things, not gimmicks and hokey cash-ins on pre-built fandoms.

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Design Room @designroom.bsky.social · 1d

🚨🚨🚨

We are live! Welcome to Design Room, a new independent games media site.

• We specialize in oral histories like the Final Fantasy 7 and Street Fighter 2 ones I (@mattleone.bsky.social) did at Polygon
• Our first big story is on Shadow of the Colossus: bit.ly/4hjwz8n
• See more: designroom.site

Design Room

Video game oral histories

designroom.site

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 2d

It's hard to help Americans left behind because so much of US identity is rooted in individualism. The average American conservative holds all three positions at once:

— Virtue signals about supporting US manufacturing
— Against raising the minimum wage
— Buys foreign imports because they're cheap

HardPass4 on Twitter tweets: "I'm willing to pay more for quality products if they are made in America, by Americans, who are paid a decent income." The tweet shows Norman Rockwell's "Freedom of Speech" painting, which is often used to show the tweeter is expressing a brave opinion.

HardPass4 on Twitter tweets: "MINIMUM WAGE JOBS WERE NOT MEANT TO BE A CAREER. Why does no one understand this? Entry level jobs are STEPPING STONES to better jobs. No one wants to work towards that though."

HardPass4 on Twitter tweets: "Buy $5 gloves instead of $50 ones. Trust me." The tweet shows a box of "Gorilla Grip" gloves.

The label on Gorilla Grip gloves show they're made in China.

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Tim Ford (Tomb Fart 🎃) @timfordwrites.bsky.social · 2d

The cut scene where they show Donnie actually wasn't crushed but instead impaled like Jesus was a wise cut.

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Tim Ford (Tomb Fart 🎃) @timfordwrites.bsky.social · 2d

Shoulda got the Queen of Canada to sign off

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Tim Ford (Tomb Fart 🎃) @timfordwrites.bsky.social · 2d

Ahhh, fellow people of culture

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Tim Ford (Tomb Fart 🎃) @timfordwrites.bsky.social · 2d

I had a dream that a street gang attacked another by throwing a live cheetah, and somehow, it worked.

The best part was other members were only mad at cheetah thrower because they were supposed to be making peace.

Like The Warriors, but instead of "they shot Cyrus" it's "they threw the Cheetah."

Tim Ford (Tomb Fart 🎃) @timfordwrites.bsky.social · 3d

I don't know how. What do I add to my d20

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Tim Ford (Tomb Fart 🎃) @timfordwrites.bsky.social · 3d

lmao even

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👁🌻🦊⚙️⚓ Bob, Engineer, Pusher of Paper @navmecheng.bsky.social · 3d

> It is 2025 BC. I am a soldier from one of the outlying provinces called to defend the pyramid in Memphis

> It is 2025 AD. I am a soldier from one of the outlying provinces called to defend the pyramid in Memphis

Soldiers at the Bass Pro Shops pyramid in Memphis, TN.

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Tim Ford (Tomb Fart 🎃) @timfordwrites.bsky.social · 3d

A sample of items at the National Toy Museum of Canada, re-opened in Vic at Cherry Bomb Toys:
- Gene Roddenberry's Star Trek pitch doc
- the first Yellow Castle from LEGO knights, with box
- maybe every Batman: Animated Series figure
- a Sesame Street school bus display

#yyj
#VictoriaBC
#Canada

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Tim Ford (Tomb Fart 🎃) @timfordwrites.bsky.social · 3d

Godfather AKA The Diane Keaton Movie

(may her legacy never fade)

'Go Make Contact With Diane Keaton's Brother-In-Law' #captainholt #brooklyn99 #andysamberg

YouTube video by QQ

www.youtube.com

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Tim Ford (Tomb Fart 🎃) @timfordwrites.bsky.social · 3d

SUFFER FOOLS

(I do love and miss my PNW neighbours in Port Angeles, Port Townsend and Seattle, sorry but your country is unhinged)

Forbes @forbes.com · 5d

President Trump’s tariffs and demeaning “51st state” rhetoric spurred a sustained boycott among Canadians traveling to the U.S.—and has cost the country tens of billions of dollars in visitor spending, according to tourism experts.

Canadian Visits To U.S. By Car Fell 35% In September—9th Consecutive Month Of Drastic Declines

President Trump’s tariffs and demeaning “51st state” rhetoric spurred a sustained boycott among Canadians traveling to the U.S.—and has cost the country tens of billions of dollars in visitor spending, according to tourism experts.

www.forbes.com

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Tim Ford (Tomb Fart 🎃) @timfordwrites.bsky.social · 4d

The last of my garden tomatoes! Let's see if we can't get the stubborn holdouts looking a bit more red, shall we?

A small amount of tomatoes, most grape size, and a few a bit bigger, about two-thirds are ripe and the rest are green.

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Tim Ford (Tomb Fart 🎃) @timfordwrites.bsky.social · 4d

*Holding article to forehead*

The "legal expert" who says we can't increase penalties against drivers will be Kyla Lee

*opens article*

TADAAAAA

Andrew Kurjata @akurjata.ca · 4d

A family wants immediate suspensions for drivers suspected of causing death after their 12-year-old was killed. But legal experts warn it may be easier said than done www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

B.C. considers tougher penalties for drivers after 12-year-old killed in crash | CBC News

The B.C. government says it is actively looking at options to get tougher on drivers involved in fatal crashes after the premier spoke to the family of a 12-year-old killed on Vancouver Island this pa...

www.cbc.ca

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Tim Ford (Tomb Fart 🎃) @timfordwrites.bsky.social · 4d

The Nightmare Before Christmas Day, obviously

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Tim Ford (Tomb Fart 🎃) @timfordwrites.bsky.social · 4d

My oldest issue of @onspecmag.bsky.social in my collection: Vol.3, Iss.3, from Fall 1991. This includes retiring Editor Diane L. Walton's FIRST published short story, "Cheesecake." Also the first pro publications by Brent Buckner and J. Nelson!

Me holding up the Cover of On Spec, the Canadian Magazine of Speculative Writing, Vol. 3, Iss.3, from 1991.

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Tim Ford (Tomb Fart 🎃) @timfordwrites.bsky.social · 4d

This actually is a good thing from a left-wing perspective, too, because it acknowledges that pornography IS consensual and further separates child exploitation from sex work. I appreciate Caputo's note on that.

Simon Little 🍁 @simonplittle.ca · 4d

Some people might see this as semantics, but this is actually long overdue. There is nothing pornographic about child rape

CFJC Today Kamloops @cfjctoday.bsky.social · 4d

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Rogue @roguesite.bsky.social · 4d

We just hit 5,000 followers on BlueSky!

Thank you to all of you who have followed us for the past 6 weeks. We have even more great work coming! Please share us with your friends!

We’ll be off Monday for Indigenous People’s Day, but we’ll see you Tuesday with some Steam Next Fest recommendations!

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Tim Ford (Tomb Fart 🎃) @timfordwrites.bsky.social · 4d

The funniest part is that Marco Rubio CO-SIGNED MACHADO IN 2024, along with other Republicans like Rick Scott.

They ADORE her. She's their bastion against Evil Socialist Maduro.

And now they're attacking her.

Fucking perfection.

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gimenez.house.gov/2024/8/for-i...

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