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Tom McCambley
@ottawatom.bsky.social
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🇨🇦 He/Him. I acknowledge that I live on the unceded indigenous land of the Kanienʼkehá꞉ka (Mohawk), Omàmìwininìwag (Algonquin), and Anishinabewaki ᐊᓂᔑᓈᐯᐗᑭ people. I thank them for that.
Geek, Husband to Vickie, Almost 50 years a TTRPG’r. GNU Greg McCambley
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It was his birthday last Sunday, and it was our mom’s a few days ago. So this has been a long week, but I wanted to say thanks to you for mentioning him. 🕯️

GNU Greg McCambley
My brother, the irreplaceable Greg McCambley. RIP brother, there are none like you anymore.
November 9, 2025 at 12:44 AM
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This is Bluesky.
First Panel: Kira stands there in a colourful costume. Kira Nerys: Sir I’m taking a runabout. Second Panel: Benjamin sitting at his holds up a PADD and says. Benjamin Sisko: I can’t let you do that, Major. Third Panel: Kira is standing in a giant inflatable frog costume and says. Kira Nerys: But the Cardassians are on their bullshit again. I’ve got to go. Fourth Panel Sisko smiling holds up his baseball and says… Benjamin Sisko: I know, I’m coming with you. Give me time to change and meet me on the Defiant. Last Panel The entire cast of DS9 is on the bridge of the Defiant dressed in a variety of inflatable animal costumes. They all shout in unison: Entire Cast of Deep Space Nine: NO GULS, NO KINGS, YEET THEM OFF THE DOCKING RINGS!
November 2, 2025 at 9:49 PM
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I've just found my new Doctor
A portrait of the actress Lucy Lawless from the remake of Battlestar Galactica. She is a tall woman with long blonde hair and black roots. Blue eyes. And has an extremely guarded expression on her face.
October 28, 2025 at 9:52 PM
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In very late to the party news, I’ve finished the entire run of #DC #YoungJustice TV show and I was not prepared for how much of an emotional journey it was. Seeing DC play into its strengths as generational heroes coming into their own was a rewarding and moving watch. Thank you all who made it
The cover art of the Young Justice TV show depicting the heroes and villains from the fourth season.
September 7, 2025 at 10:08 PM
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Post a random picture or else everything will go bad in September.
It’s night. There is a McDonald’s restaurant pictured, while outside the McDonald’s sign on a pole is on fire. Underneath is written “The beacon is lit, America calls for aid.”
August 31, 2025 at 12:07 PM
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Post a comic you love - a top-5er for you.

Action Comics 500, “The Life Story of Superman”
The cover of Action Comics 500. The front cover is a picture of Superman standing hands on his hips, looking at Lois Lane and Supergirl holding a copy of the issue between them. The image is recursive as you look at it repeating 4 times. The back cover is Kal-El as a baby being rocketed away from the doomed planet of Krypton. Covering both the front and back covers in the background, are drawn as red line image renderings of 50th, 100th, 150th, 200th, 250th, 300th, 350th, 400th, and 450th anniversary issues. I’m sorry folks. I’m not typing in what they look like. I apologize.
August 25, 2025 at 6:42 PM
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@thebitterguy.bsky.social I need to be talked off the ledge. I have zero shelf space, but I’m feeling a huge urge to be a late pledge to the 40th Anniversary DC HEROES RPG reprint. I want them all and I HAVE NO SPACE!
Superman and Batman posing on a Black background with DC Heroes RPG *40th Anniversary * next to them.
July 31, 2025 at 10:13 PM
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I wanted to say thank you to @muskratjohn.bsky.social for the latest rewards! The bumper sticker and Army of Dorkness have now adorned my laptop, and the art cards are bookmarks in my Space 1999 Core Rules. And really, like a lot of places, Moonbase Alpha can use a lot more of Vonnegut.
A random page from the Space 1999 Core Rules with a John Kovalic art card with a sketch of Vonnegut and with his quote “we are here to help each other get through this thing…whatever it is” The back of my laptop with a bumper sticker showing Igor from Dork Tower John’s web cartoon. Igor is short man, flat head with a large expressive mouth. He is shown jumping while wearing a cape and saying “Roll the dice! I want to see if I eat your spleen.” A picture of a sticker on my laptop showing Carson the Muskrat from John’s webcomic Dork Tower, wearing a medieval pot helm, a shield (red, quartered with a white cross, and a spear under the motto “ Army of Dorkness)
July 27, 2025 at 2:46 PM
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If you see this, post a DC comic cover you love.
Issue 4 of Crisis on Infinite Earth. Harbinger floating in the air, wearing blue armour and her hands glows with energy. Beneath her on a platform, the Monitor a crimson skinned humanoid in dark blue and gold armour lies dead, his chest still smoking from being shot by Harbinger. Nearby, a thin man with purple hair, wearing a green outfit and cloak staggers against the platform’s railing with horror at the act he’s just witnessed. Above the title, Crisis on Infinite Earths are the words “This is it! The End of the World!” And beneath the title in a red arrow pointing to the scene described above are the words “Death of the Monitor” By Marc Wolfman, George Perez, Mike DeCarlo.
July 19, 2025 at 5:34 PM
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If you see this, I implore you to post a photo from your device without context
A blown snow-covered bus stop in Ottawa with the Inuit word for Hello written on it, along with a single heart. Hello is written in English as well to be seen from the outside and the inside as well.
July 19, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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What's your sign?
The picture shows a green hedge with a sign mounted on two posts saying “You are now entering a stress free zone” and mounted underneath is a smaller sign saying “Enforced by sniper”.
June 19, 2025 at 9:29 PM
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I really need to break out 7E Gamma World for my 4E fix.
June 6, 2025 at 10:50 PM
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But no accessories, right? Right…?
Padmé and Anakin Skywalker meme. Upper left is a stoic looking Jedi Padawan, being quiet looking to Upper Right Padmé asking a question. We then go to the lower left, which is Anakin staying silent in the face of the question. We end with lower right and Padmé with uncertainty on her face re-asking the question.
May 31, 2025 at 10:09 PM
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What’s the cover art that got you started in the TTRPG hobby? Here’s mine:

My heart has always been in the ruins of Gamma Terra.
Pictured are four humans, standing in thick vegetation dressed in futuristic armour and helmets and carrying strange weapons. The centre one consults a device and peers at a data screen, while the human to his right points at distant ruined skyscrapers and exclaims something. Printed at the top of the box, Gamma World, Science Fantasy RPG.
May 28, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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*pushingupglasses* 🤓 Actually Doctor T’Ann is a Caitian. A related species. Ensign Taylor, is Kzinti. You can tell that from the bat-wing ears.
May 25, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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Best Star Trek crew. Wrong answers only.
The crew from the movie Forbidden Planet
May 24, 2025 at 9:50 PM
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If you see this I IMPLORE you to post a picture from whatever device you’re using without explanation.
May 18, 2025 at 10:40 PM
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Had a very fun session of #MarvelMultiversalRPG today. The PCs had a plan to bloody HYDRA’s nose, and they carried out, in the face of overwhelming odds, in a spectacular way. Zemo and HYDRA may control Manhattan but the fight’s just getting started!
A muscled man in a magenta hood, ermine collar, and purple armor stands looking out at the viewer. This is Baron Zemo. Around him the green and gold coloured uniforms of HYDRA goons salute him.
May 11, 2025 at 8:33 PM
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Post a robot that's neither from Star Wars or Transformers.

I swore I was going to get Maximilian from The Black Hole from my phone’s photo roll. I was not expecting Gog. 😁
A smiling blonde woman sits beside a swimming on a four armed robot on treads. She’s looking to the left, while the bug-eyed robot holds a suitcase in an upraised claw.
May 11, 2025 at 3:26 PM
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So for those of you watching Season 2 of Andor, I have a question. Is episode 8 probably the best piece of Star Wars media ever produced?
#evenbetterthanEmpire
In the central plaza on Ghorman, it’s filled with Imperial protesters waving planetary banners shouting towards where Imperial Stormtroopers stand guarding the Imperial centre. A group of riot troopers are pushing through the crowd. On the far left a man wearing a long brown coat has climbed a tower and waving a flag in protest.
May 10, 2025 at 6:45 PM
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“I CAN SEE HER LYIN’ BACK IN HER SATIN DRESS, IN A ROOM WHERE YOU DO, WHAT YOU DON’T CONFESS.”
A scene from the movie The Sound of Music. Maria (Juliet Andrew’s) is in a mountain pasture, pine trees behind her, playing her guitar and singing to the Von Trapp children.
May 3, 2025 at 5:14 PM
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Such a nightmare made real. Does Maximillian have to cut a b**ch?
April 24, 2025 at 10:37 AM
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Share a movie scene that lives rent-free in your head.
From the Walt Disney movie The Black Hole. A complicated high gantry is filled with monitors and controls. Four dark figures stand and work the controls. Floating in the darkness a fifth vaguely red, demonic looking robot with a single glowing red eye watches the viewer.
April 24, 2025 at 10:25 AM
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What’s your sign?
April 16, 2025 at 8:57 PM
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If you see this, post a ship.

(I mean what else could I post?)
A picture of the Arthur M. Anderson a Great Lakes freighter.
April 7, 2025 at 11:54 PM