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Eric Michael Johnson
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Academic, award-winning writer, editor, TTRPG creator, AuDHD, primate. Not necessarily in that order. He/him. Unceded territory of Vancouver, BC. 🏳️‍⚧️🇵🇸
Production Designer at #BlackwaterDnD

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That’s no ballroom…
A Death Star is under construction where the East Wing of the White House used to be.
October 24, 2025 at 11:43 PM
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David Brooks headlines between 2020 and 2025. Hard to say whether this is tragedy or farce.
David Brooks headlines: No, Not Sanders, Not Ever Maybe Bernie Sanders Is Right I SHOULD HAVE SEEN THIS COMING AMERICA NEEDS A MASS MOVEMENT-NOW
October 16, 2025 at 11:50 PM
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“Yet according to recent estimates, generative AI now accounts for roughly 40 percent of the United States’ gross domestic product. In other words, if the AI spending boom falls apart, it could take down the entire economy with it.”
October 11, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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Just saw #OneBattleAfterAnother. I loved this movie! It’s as if The Dude was reactivated in Trump’s America. One part manifesto, two parts the importance of found family. Hilarious, thrilling, and very touching. I look forward to seeing it again.
Poster from One Battle After Another showing Leonardo DiCaprio in a bathrobe holding a rifle and framed by members of the resistance and Sean Penn as the military goon set on destroying him. Title that says “One Battle After Another”
October 6, 2025 at 3:26 AM
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October 5, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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I will admit that my own theory of political change has been informed by historical examples where direct action operated in-person to interrupt the status quo. This makes a persuasive case that Internet politics needs to be taken seriously.
Citarella noted that he's been warning, for more than half a decade, that too many people remain under the mistaken impression that "what happens or the internet isn't real." He added that "the professional commentary class" has been particularly insulated from the power of digital discourse, because "they pay attention to the legacy sources of information, and they're just not having the same media-environment experience as most people in the country. What is needed, Citarella's strategy suggests, is an understanding of a kind of post-internet politics, where, like it or not, online life is embraced as part and parcel of how modern belief systems are formed.
September 28, 2025 at 11:16 PM
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This AP photo shows the truck that rammed into a Mormon church in Grand Blanc, Michigan before a gunman opened fire.

The truck is draped in American flags. If it carried the flag of any other country, the coverage would scream “terrorism.” Instead, the narrative is: motive unknown.
A fireman carries a fire hose while, behind them, a truck with American flags is seen crashed into a Mormon church.
September 28, 2025 at 10:47 PM
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The Heritage Foundation lied in order to frame the disproportionate victims of gun violence as the perpetrators. www.wired.com/story/herita...
The larger pattern, researchers say, points in the opposite direction: White supremacist, anti-government, and misogynist beliefs account for the lion’s share of ideologically motivated gun violence. Targeting “transgender ideology” as a terrorism category, they warn, confuses identity with ideology, risks licensing violence against anyone who defies gender norms, and shifts attention away from the real drivers of schoolyard violence. “There are no legitimate studies that suggest that a majority of school shootings since 2015 involve trangender people,” said Rachel Carroll Rivas and R.G. Cravens of the Southern Poverty Law Center’s Intelligence Project in an email. “Trans people are far more likely to be victimized by gun violence than to perpetrate it.”
September 26, 2025 at 8:51 PM
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Fantastic! I recently posted this photo of Curtis Evans, of Evanston, IL, a former Marine, outside of an ICE facility in Broadview on Sept. 19, 2025. (Stacey Wescott/Chicago Tribune)
Photo of a man, a former marine, holding an American flag surrounded by gas while protesting an ICE facility. A protest sign on the ground reads, “Every ICE agent will be held to account.”
September 22, 2025 at 2:24 AM
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This is an excellent photograph.

Credit and Caption: Curtis Evans, of Evanston, Illinois, a former Marine, carries a U.S. flag through gas deployed by federal officers as they clear protesters from the entrance of the ICE facility in Broadview on Sept. 19, 2025. (Stacey Wescott/Chicago Tribune)
Curtis Evans, of Evanston, a former Marine, carries a U.S. flag through gas deployed by federal officers as they clear protesters from the entrance of the ICE facility in Broadview on Sept. 19, 2025. (Stacey Wescott/Chicago Tribune)
September 20, 2025 at 3:57 AM
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February 6, 1939. A headline pulled straight out of today’s news.
Newspaper article: Goebbels Ends Careers of Five Actors Who Made "Cracks" About Nazi Rule
September 18, 2025 at 10:25 PM
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Hell yeah!
A picture of Mon Mothma with the announcement: EMMY WINNER OUTSTANDING WRITING FOR A DRAMA SERIES DAN GILROY ANDOR
September 15, 2025 at 2:04 AM
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Here is my latest miniature set for @blackwaterdnd.bsky.social. The party journeyed to a stronghold in The Divide that was under siege by ghouls. Check it out in action here: youtu.be/YM3b7ZPGFPc?... #BlackwaterDnD #miniatures #miniaturepainting #terrain #dungeonsanddragons #wargaming #DnD5e #TTRPG
A miniature set showing a keep protected by a wooden barricade that has been breached. A dozen ghouls have breached the gates and are wandering around aimlessly as a boat attached to a hot air balloon approaches from the left. 1/4 A miniature set showing a keep protected by a wooden barricade that has been breached. A dozen ghouls have breached the gates and are wandering around aimlessly as a boat attached to a hot air balloon approaches from the left. 2/4 A miniature set showing a keep protected by a wooden barricade that has been breached. A dozen ghouls have breached the gates and are wandering around aimlessly. 3/4 BlackwaterDnD players Adam Lucas and Jess Lupini at the gaming table as the mini set of a keep under siege by ghouls sits in front of them. Both are smiling and enjoying playing a game with good friends.
September 10, 2025 at 8:38 PM
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Welcome to inaccurate anatomy season!
Two plastic “skeletons” of invertebrate animals: an octopus and a snail.
September 6, 2025 at 11:24 PM
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My music tastes are eclectic. Let’s do this!
Music Ask 1. A song you like with a color in the title 2. A song you like with a number in the title 3. A song that reminds you of summertime 4. A song that reminds you of someone you would rather forget about 5. A song that needs to be played LOUD 6. A song that makes you want to dance 7. A song to drive to 8. A song about drugs or alcohol 9. A song that makes you happy 10. A song that makes you sad 11. A song that you never get tired of 12. A song from your preteen years 13. One of your favorite 80's songs 14. A song that you would love played at your wedding 15. A song that is a cover by another artist 16. One of your favorite classical songs 17. A song that would sing a duet with on karaoke 18. A song from the year that you were born 19. A song that makes you think about life 20. A song that has many meanings to you 21. A favorite song with a person's name in the title 22. A song that moves you forward 23. A song that you think everybody should listen to 24. A song by a band you wish were still together 25. A song by an artist no longer living 26. A song that makes you want to fall in love 27. A song that breaks your heart 28. A song by an artist with a voice that you love 29. A song that you remember from your childhood 30. A song that reminds you of yourself
September 5, 2025 at 11:57 PM
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The UK Online Safety Act of 2023 makes it a crime to send online messages about harming someone—even if you weren’t serious—if you were “reckless as to whether an individual encountering the message would fear that the threat would be carried out (whether or not by the person sending the message).”
Text from UK Online Safety Act of 2023: 181 Threatening communications offence (1) A person commits an offence if-(a) (c) the person sends a message (see section 182), (b) the message conveys a threat of death or serious harm, and at the time of sending it, the person— (i) intended an individual encountering the message to fear that the threat would be carried out (whether or not by the person sending the message), or ii) was reckless as to whether an individual encountering the message would fear that the threat would be carried out (whether or not by the person sending the message). (2) "Serious harm" means— (a) serious injury amounting to grievous bodily harm within the meaning of the Offences against the Person Act 1861, (b) rape, (c) assault by penetration within the meaning of section 2 of the Sexual Offences Act 2003, or (d) serious financial loss.
September 3, 2025 at 7:34 AM
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Things aren’t golden in Canada either. In Alberta (Canada’s Texas) they just banned over 200 books, including The Handmaid’s Tale. @margaretatwood.bsky.social had thoughts. www.ctvnews.ca/edmonton/art...
Margaret E Atwood @MargaretAtwood Here's a piece of literature by me, suitable for seventeen-year-olds in Alberta schools, unlike -- we are told -- The Handmaid's Tale. (Sorry, kids; your Minister of Education thinks you are stupid babies.) John and Mary were both very, very good children. They never picked their noses or had bowel movements or zits. They grew up and married each other, and produced five perfect children without ever having sex. Although they claimed to be Christian, they paid no attention to what Jesus actually said about the poor and the Good Samaritan and forgiving your enemies and such; instead, they practised selfish rapacious capitalism, because they worshipped Ayn Rand. (Though they ignored the scene in The Fountainhead where "welcomed rape" is advocated, because who wants to dwell, and also that would have involved sex and would de facto be pornographic. Well, it kind of is, eh?) Oh, and they never died, because who wants to dwell on, you know, death and corpses and yuk? So they lived happily ever after. But while they were doing that The Handmaid's Tale came true and Danielle Smith found herself with a nice new blue dress but no job. The end.
August 31, 2025 at 11:09 PM
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Happy #SkynetDay to those who celebrate!

Ah, the good old days when all we had to worry about was AI destroying civilization as we know it, oh wait…
Two screenshots from Terminator 2: Judgement Day with Arnold Schwarzenegger. Part 1. Schwarzenegger as the T-1000 cyborg looks at the road as he’s driving and says: Skynet begins to learn at a geometric rate. Part 2. Schwarzenegger as the T-1000 cyborg looks to the camera and says: It becomes self-aware at 2:14 a.m. Eastern time, August 29.
August 30, 2025 at 12:36 AM
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A four panel meme involving Anakin Skywalker and Padme Amidala. Anakin: A Muslim Democratic Socialist won the mayoral primary in Minneapolis. Padme: Great! The Democrats are going to endorse him, right? Anakin: … Padme: The Democrats are going to endorse him, right?
August 22, 2025 at 3:37 PM
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Want to know how I made my rainforest temple terrain? I have a full tutorial available at the @blackwaterdnd.bsky.social Patreon page! www.patreon.com/posts/temple... #BlackwaterDnD #miniatures #miniaturepainting #terrain #dungeonsanddragons #wargaming #DnD5e #TTRPG
Miniature set for Dungeons & Dragons depicting an overgrown temple in the rainforest. Yuan-ti soldiers cross ramshackle wooden bridges over pools of acid while a purple worm emerges in the background.
August 19, 2025 at 7:23 PM
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My “sophisticated” photography studio.
A makeshift lighting studio for a miniature D&D set. USB lights have napkins draped over them as diffusers while pieces of black cardboard block the light from reflecting on the flatscreen TV used as a panorama backdrop.
August 19, 2025 at 7:13 PM
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Trying out a new lighting setup for my #BlackwaterDnD mini sets. Here’s the results for my rainforest temple.
Miniature set for Dungeons & Dragons depicting an overgrown temple in the rainforest. Yuan-ti soldiers cross ramshackle wooden bridges over pools of acid while a purple worm emerges in the background. 1/4 Miniature set for Dungeons & Dragons depicting an overgrown temple in the rainforest. Yuan-ti soldiers cross ramshackle wooden bridges over pools of acid while a purple worm emerges in the background. 2/4 Miniature set for Dungeons & Dragons depicting an overgrown temple in the rainforest. Yuan-ti soldiers cross ramshackle wooden bridges over pools of acid while a purple worm emerges in the background. 3/4 Miniature set for Dungeons & Dragons depicting an overgrown temple in the rainforest. Yuan-ti soldiers cross ramshackle wooden bridges over pools of acid while a purple worm emerges in the background. 4/4
August 19, 2025 at 7:10 PM
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Here is my latest miniature set for @blackwaterdnd.bsky.social. The party journeyed into The Divide, a region overrun with ghouls and the undead. Check it out in action here: youtu.be/VOxiRA3cndE?... #BlackwaterDnD #wargaming #miniatures #miniaturepainting #terrain #dungeonsanddragons #DnD5e #TTRPG
A miniature set of blackened stone and ruined buildings. Two corpses hang from a dead tree and an ominous statue of a skeletal mouth has been carved into the mountain. Ghouls and undead charge out from a ruined temple. 1/4 A miniature set of blackened stone and ruined buildings. Two corpses hang from a dead tree and an ominous statue of a skeletal mouth has been carved into the mountain. Ghouls and undead charge out from a ruined temple. 2/4 Dungeon Master Tim Carlson strikes a pose in front of a set depicting The Divide. 3/4 Players Adam Lucas and Jess Lupini plan what to do as their characters are attacked by ghouls. 4/4
August 15, 2025 at 10:41 PM
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Excellent paragraph from @timothynoah.bsky.social today. *chef’s kiss*
"I believe the numbers were phony," explained Trump, who also believes that he won the 2020 presidential election, that the Emmys were rigged against him when he was star of The Apprentice, that climate change is a hoax, that Finland rakes its forests to prevent wildfires, and (my personal favorite) that magnets don't work when you pour water on them.
August 13, 2025 at 11:52 PM
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“Access to a PhD-level expert in your pocket.”

Prompt: Create an accurate anatomical diagram of a great white shark with clear labels of all major organs.

How did it do @whysharksmatter.bsky.social?
ChatGPT-5 prompt: Create an accurate anatomical diagram of a great white shark with clear labels of all major organs.
August 8, 2025 at 10:58 PM