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Barantor
@barantor.bsky.social
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Just getting by. He/Them, Pan, trying to work on myself. Love TTRPGS, Battletech and general nerd stuff. Anti-AI in almost all cases, especially Art.

I also like a lot of lewd stuff, so make sure your settings are right lol.
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chadloder.bsky.social
Holy crap. I've never seen anything like this.
January 12, 2026 at 12:57 AM
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trooper036.bsky.social
So I'm considering getting into Battletech! I used to be big into 40k, but it is WAAY too expensive and intensive to get into. Meanwhile, I am very much a stompy mech fan and I'm not scared of hex grids or math, so this looks fun!

Any advice for someone new to the hobby?
January 11, 2026 at 1:05 AM
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kekeflipnote.bsky.social
Of all platforms I shared my Art vs Artist video, Twitter been the only place where some people were actually disappointed I was black!

I screenshoted that one because it's so hilarious to me!

If you are a popular animator and make cute things, you can't be black? So Twitter 😂😭
A Twitter post I received after I put a photo of myself for "Art vs Artist" that sais: "Dang why? You make such cute and popular animations, why are you black?"
January 9, 2026 at 5:30 PM
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potatocubed.bsky.social
Every so often I wonder about how the differential works in cars, and here's a four-minute explainer from some old-timey video which does a perfect job:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=F40Z...
How Differential Gear Works | QUOTED
YouTube video by Mizo
www.youtube.com
January 11, 2026 at 2:42 PM
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lotusws.bsky.social
I was organizing some of my folders and found this gem, lmao
Tweet: being a self-identified animation nerd as an adult used to mean being obsessed with aeon flux and ralph bakshi but now it just means you keep up with new episodes of bluey
January 7, 2026 at 9:27 AM
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honkifyouareantifa.bsky.social
Here are the brands and sizes recalled 👇🏻

this is a serious recall. please check your fridge if you buy these brands.
throughout 20 states, including Arizona, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Massachusetts, Maine, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Texas, Virginia, Washington, and Wisconsin. Boar's Head Grated Pecorino Romano sold in a 6-ounce cup with expiration dates of 3/4/2026 and 3/12/2026. Locatelli Pecorino Romano Grated sold in a 4-ounce cup with expiration dates of 5/3/2026, 5/10/2026, and 5/17/2026. Locatelli Pecorino Romano Grated sold in an 8-ounce cup with expiration dates of 4/6, 4/11, 4/12, 4/15, 4/17, 5/5, 5/6, 5/7, 5/10, 5/12, 5/14, and 5/17/2026. Member's Mark Pecorino Romano 1.5-pound bag with expiration dates of 3/25/206, 3/30/2026, and 4/5/2026 Ambriola Grated Pecorino Romano with expiration dates of 2/28, 3/4, and 3/11/2026. Boar's Head Pecorino Romano Grated bag with expiration dates of 3/3 and 3/12/2026. Locatelli Grated Pecorino Roman with expiration dates of 3/4, 3/6, 3/11, and 3/13/2026. Pinna Grated Pecorino Romano with the expiration date 3/11/2026.
January 9, 2026 at 7:43 PM
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f12.bsky.social
Please stop platforming Minneapolis’ piss boy mayor.

Every tragedy, he emerges from some downtown gutter to cry on national television that only he should be able to murder the people of Minneapolis with zero consequences.

He alone controls our police force.
If he wanted ICE gone, they’d be gone.
January 9, 2026 at 6:12 PM
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xxsethxx.bsky.social
Keith porter was also murderd by ice. Please donate to their gofundme. Funerals cost like 10,000.
January 9, 2026 at 6:25 PM
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hillarymonahan.bsky.social
Incidentally, silver and gold skyrocket right before a huge financial collapse so a warning: sterling is at the highest price it has ever been at.
hillarymonahan.bsky.social Hillary Monahan @hillarymonahan.bsky.social · 4d
I buy good stones, yes, but you're paying for my forging and composition, and now, the sterling itself which is going for over $80 PER OUNCE.
January 9, 2026 at 5:38 PM
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acyn.bsky.social
AOC: What we saw today was a criminal murder a woman while she was trying to flee for her life. What we saw today was a manifestation of every American’s worst nightmare: their government turning into a tyranny.
January 8, 2026 at 12:20 AM
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atrupar.com
Walz: "I saw an individual at the scene identify themselves as medical personnel and ask to provide aid, and an ICE agent said 'I do not care.' That lack of humanity was chilling to me."
January 8, 2026 at 5:45 PM
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iwriteok.bsky.social
Their entire spiel was unapologetically about embedding AI agents in cars and other devices to push users to buy specific products. One example was filtering map suggestions for restaurants based on which companies had deals with SoundHound.
January 8, 2026 at 9:04 PM
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iwriteok.bsky.social
SoundHoundAI came to CES 2026 to show off their AI Agent building software. I caught one rep explaining to a team from Coca-Cola how their agent taking orders for Burger King can be programmed to "push" specific product lines or even sizes of beverage, altering the menu display if needed.
January 8, 2026 at 9:01 PM
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herrnethar6.bsky.social
I discovered a free web app that allows you to reliably convert TTRPG map files to print-friendly files that you can print at home.
Spend the day printing some VTT maps on cardstock for my game on Saturday

dungeonmapper.io/dungeon-mapper

#TTRPG #maps #minis #dnd
dungeonmapper.io
January 8, 2026 at 8:43 PM
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alistaircoleman.bsky.social
Important distinction here which certain people still do not get: Judge Dredd is, and always was, a warning about and parody of authoritarianism, judicial violence and the militarisation of law enforcement. It is NOT an instruction manual, Elon.
leftistlawyer.com Sheryl Weikal, still saying Free Palestine @leftistlawyer.com · 5d
Gentle reminder that EVERYONE shot by ICE or the police is innocent. Every single one. Cops aren't Judge Dredd. A person is innocent until proven guilty IN A COURT, so until a person is found guilty by a judge or jury, they're innocent. They're ALL innocent.
January 8, 2026 at 4:29 PM
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failnaut.bsky.social
This is also John Stallard, by the way. Source: www.goonhammer.com/goonhammer-h...
John Stallard: I think that the biggest threat now, along with some of the supply problems we’ve been seeing, is what seems to have become known as wokeism. It doesn’t matter where it comes from but journos are going to do what they do; they could write a story right now – some sensationalised thing – that one wargames manufacturer is making Nazis, another is producing Imperialist British soldiers to slaughter natives, and another is sculpting slave owning Confederates. What an outrage! I can just see that it can then progress to people deciding they don’t want their children playing x and y
January 8, 2026 at 5:12 PM
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mxdshipwreck.bsky.social
ah, the legacy of Gary Gygax is alive and well, I see
kitbashcat.bsky.social Kitbashcat @kitbashcat.bsky.social · 5d
For reference:
January 8, 2026 at 8:36 PM
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soengery.bsky.social
A green devil saying annihilate ice
January 8, 2026 at 3:09 PM
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priorplanning.life
No one, and I mean NO ONE in the hobby should buy Warlord Games ever again, until this John Stallard fuckface is removed from the company, and a VERY public apology is made.

@warlordgames.com #nerdlings #wargaming
kitbashcat.bsky.social Kitbashcat @kitbashcat.bsky.social · 5d
For reference:
January 8, 2026 at 4:17 PM
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meidastouch.com
🚨 The White House is now actively covering up a murder.
January 8, 2026 at 4:25 PM
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bencollins.bsky.social
The time for state police to arrest the ICE agent is yesterday. You may still be able to do it now. Once that's done, start investigating those who participated in the cover-up.
jcollins.bsky.social Jon Collins @jcollins.bsky.social · 5d
The state Bureau of Criminal Apprehension says they've been informed by the FBI that US DOJ has said FBI will solely lead the investigation into Renee Nicole Good's killing by a federal officer. State investigators no longer have access to "case materials, scene evidence/investigative interviews"
January 8, 2026 at 4:28 PM
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thetnholler.bsky.social
SCARBOROUGH: “There is no ambiguity… Kristi Noem got out as quickly as she could without the facts and lied to the American people.”
January 8, 2026 at 4:33 PM
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davidforbes.bsky.social
There's a lot of issues with the myths around nonviolence and protest. A big one is that they erase the actual history of the civil rights movement — complex coalitions whose struggles and strategies are vital to understand — into a whitewashed saintliness that gentry liberals are comfortable with.
It is important that those who seek to crush liberation today must sanitize and erase the movements of the past, particularly the civil rights movement. They conflate its nonviolence with passivity and a lack of disruption. Some, like 50501, do this explicitly. In doing so they even get nonviolence wrong. The civil rights movement had its own disagreements and differences with other groups in the wider Black liberation struggles, but its use of nonviolence was explicitly a set of highly disruptive tactics aimed at making injustice impossible to maintain. Its groups and organizers intentionally defied laws and police while refusing “moderate” offers of compromise. “It isn’t nice” was one of their songs for a reason. Today, there’s good odds those organizers and activists would be condemned as “provacateurs” and turned over to the police by those who invoke their memory to shut down militant demonstrations today. Their attitudes on armed defense — and even violence — were also much more complex, rooted in the reality of the cold terrors they faced. It is also much more complex than portrayed in today’s liberal mythology. Martin Luther King, Jr., while not expressly advocating violent revolt himself, nevertheless refused to condemn tactics used by others in the fight for Black liberation, especially in his later years. “It is not enough for me to stand before you tonight and condemn riots. It would be morally irresponsible for me to do that without, at the same time, condemning the contingent, intolerable conditions that exist in our society,” King said in his 1968 lecture The Other America. “These conditions are the things that cause individuals to feel that they have no other alternative than to engage in violent rebellions to get attention.” ”And I must say tonight that a riot is the language of the unheard,” King continued to the audience of high schoolers in Grosse Point, Mich. “And what is it America has failed to hear? It has failed to hear that the plight of the negro poor has worsened over the last twelve or fifteen years. It has failed to hear that the promises of freedom and justice have not been met. And it has failed to hear that large segments of white society are more concerned about tranquility and the status quo than about justice and humanity.” In 1965 King even pointedly refused to condemn Annie Cooper, a Selma, Ala. woman who punched the notoriously racist sheriff square in the face and knocked him to the ground, noting that her actions were clearly “provoked” by his racist violence. In Charles Cobb’s seminal book on the role of armed resistance in the struggle for Black liberation, especially in the American Civil Rights Movement, This Nonviolent Stuff’ll Get You Killed, he recounted how journalist William Worthy stumbled upon two firearms in King’s house. The civil rights leader noted these were “just for self-defense.” Another activist described King’s home as “an arsenal.” “The claim that armed self-defense was a necessary aspect of the civil rights movement is still controversial,” Cobb, a legendary journalist and former Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) field secretary, wrote. “However, wielding weapons, especially firearms, let both participants in nonviolent struggle and their sympathizers protect themselves and others under terrorist attack for their civil rights activities. Their willingness to use deadly force ensured the survival not only of countless brave men and women but also of the freedom struggle itself.” He lays out a multitude of examples, like the heavily-armed Deacons for Defense and Justice group that mobilized against segregation and worked closely with civil rights organizers. “If we had a picket line, these guys were standing on the corner, on both sides of the street,” CORE organizer Fred Brooks recalled. “Wherever we went it was like a caravan; these guys in their pick-up trucks with their high-powered rifles.” Renowned radical civil rights organizer Fannie Lou Hamer put it bluntly: “I keep a shotgun in every corner of my bedroom, and the first cracker even look like he wants to throw some dynamite on my porch won’t write his mama again.” Cobb wrote his history to counter the ongoing sanitization of the realities of that struggle. He’s honest about divisions within the movement over the use of armed force, but also emphasizes that fears that armed demonstrations and defense would lead to overwhelming retaliation proved unfounded. Instead, in plenty of cases local segregationist governments folded in the face of them. “It may be that ‘nonviolent’ is simply the wrong word for many of the people who participated in the freedom struggle and who were comfortable with both nonviolence and self-defense, assessing what to do primarily on the basis of which seemed the most practical at any given moment,” Cobb concluded.
January 8, 2026 at 4:48 PM
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talzin.bsky.social
So, having multiple friends passionate about Battletech has proven to be a bit of an influence on recent purchases. Though in fairness it was also quite fun to play recently at PAX when a friend brought some of her collection in as an introduction.
Six boxes of Battletech mech miniatures arranged on a desk with no regard for lighting given the reflections
January 8, 2026 at 4:50 PM