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Ken Burnside@kenburnside.bsky.social |
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Game designer (Attack Vector: Tactical, Squadron Strike, Minimus, Federation Commander), writer, monkey servant of Theoden Cat, Lord of the Kittermark, Trampler of Keyboards, High Rider of the Back of the Chair!
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Prof
@wertle.bsky.social
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Seattle residents! Contact your City Council people before Tuesday to express support for this legislation. It waives codes that currently make it impossible to convert office spaces to residential ones. This will help with the housing crisis!
www.king5.com/article/news...
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Karen L. Cox 📚🏳️🌈
@drkarenlcox.bsky.social
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www.nbcnews.com/politics/202...
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Ken Burnside
@kenburnside.bsky.social
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Wasn't really the cartoons I watched in the 1980s in Alaska. :) But thank you for the information.
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Jen Donohue
@authorizedmusings.bsky.social
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today is my NINETEEN YEAR anniversary working at my local library In honor of that, I ask you to get a card to your local public library today! If you ALREADY have a card to your local public library, check out their digital resources! Their summer programs! And yeah, they have books too.
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Ken Burnside
@kenburnside.bsky.social
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Poor Adverb! Please send him my cuddles in whatever dosage he needs.
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Sandra Tayler
@sandratayler.bsky.social
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I know it is a holiday weekend in the US and most people are off the internet, but I'm going to just quietly mention my project is only two backers shy of a nice round 500. www.backerkit.com/c/projects/s...
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Chris Brennan
@chris-brennan.bsky.social
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When Johns Hopkins Hospital stopped masking, my otherwise really smart & experienced transplant nurse told me that COVID can't be airborne or they'd be required to keep wearing masks. The American healthcare system has been filled with "wash your hands to prevent a respiratory virus" misinformation.
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Ken Burnside
@kenburnside.bsky.social
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*puts his slide rule in the Kevlar case* *adjusts his glasses* *levers himself out of the chair with audible winces* "Well, I'm the same weight as when you fitted me for that suit." "Your machine, how cane-friendly is it? Stiff hip. All that sword work 20 years ago." *grabs Chekov's sword-cane*
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Faine Greenwood
@faineg.bsky.social
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Notice how everyone is somehow talking about Biden Too Old right now, and NOT about how the Supreme Court just legalized Trump being a dictator for life and gutted the administrative state, and how the Heritage Foundation is now issuing terrorist threats? Think that might not be an accident?
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Greg Pak
@gregpak.bsky.social
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FWIW, Bonafide Masks is having a 30% off sale right now. This is where I've gotten my Powecom KN95 masks for years now. Not a paid spokesperson, ha ha, just a customer! bonafidemasks.com/powecom-kn95/
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Ken Burnside
@kenburnside.bsky.social
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I think someone has promised him something.
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Ken Burnside
@kenburnside.bsky.social
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And then you suffer. Same with me and milkshakes coughing up gunk. I think the sign I was a mature adult was me saying "No, I'm not having a milkshake, because I understand causal relationships now."
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Tobias S. Buckell
@tobiasbuckell.bsky.social
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Hello social medias...
You may not be aware a major Cat 5 hurricane struck an area that normally doesn't get them. The eye passed directly over Carriacou and Petit Martinique.
The devastation is tremendous. The need is great.
You can help and make a difference:
www.gofundme.com/f/the-people...
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Charles Johnson
@charles.littlegreenfootballs.com
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I wish more people understood that we’re in the midst of a global far right resurgence, as the richest people in the world cling to power.
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Owen K.C. Stephens
@owenkcstephens.bsky.social
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Support our Kickstarter and help me and Stan! bring you a book of cartoons that REFUSED to not be drawn!
Funded in 90 seconds!
First stretch goal achieved in 15 minutes!
Second stretch goal achieved in 45 minutes!
Third stretch goal achieved in just 7 hours!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/owe...
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Ken Burnside
@kenburnside.bsky.social
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"You could get lost! We could lose you! You finally smell like *you!* We want to keep you safe!"
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Aaron Rupar
@atrupar.bsky.social
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"My concern is there’s an entire generation of young ‘conservative’ activists who are coming into politics now and think this is normal. They understand what the incentive structures are and they will continue to push them to the extremes."
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Ken Burnside
@kenburnside.bsky.social
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I work for a place that makes yard signs. We have a couple of standard sizes. I print broker for another place that ships nation wide. DM me for details if you've got a budget. I'll happily throw in some of my time to design eye-catching ones.
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Max Dubler 🏳️🌈
@maxdubler.com
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Small business owners are not experts on street design, parking policy, or transportation. Many of them barely know how to run their own businesses! Expecting trained professional planners to defer to their judgment is bananas.
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CHOAM Nomsky 💭
@thielman.bsky.social
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yes, we boiled the planet, but it was worth it to make a machine that, instead of adding two plus two, takes the statistical average of every answer to questions containing "what" "is" "two" and "plus" from a database of illegal cell phone transcripts and returns a fake nude pic of a high schooler
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Patrick S. Tomlinson
@stealthygeek.bsky.social
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Project 2025 is the GOP party platform they've been too afraid to write down since 2020. It is a collection of all their policy positions and plans for remaking America into the upside down, mirror universe version of itself. That's why they don't want you to read it.
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Ken Burnside
@kenburnside.bsky.social
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And this is me, in GenX, going "Those are definitely nouns, proper ones based on the capitalization. I hope the people who know what they are take joy in them! It's nice that people have pop culture that speaks to them, even if I don't get the references!"
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Amanda Marcotte
@amandamarcotte.bsky.social
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Don't let his lies scare you out of sharing the details of Project 2025 with everyone you know — especially those who are on the fence about their vote this year.
There's good reason to believe knowing about Project 2025 focuses people's minds on the stakes.
www.salon.com/2024/07/05/p...
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Faine Greenwood
@faineg.bsky.social
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The fact that Trump is actually weakly attempting to pretend he doesn’t back Project 2025 = EXACTLY why you need to be telling everyone you know about their evil, violent plans.
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Shiv Ramdas
@nameshiv.bsky.social
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keep hitting the reality of who they are- their true face is so fucking ugly even they will refuse to acknowledge it exists
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Michael
@fleerultra.bsky.social
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i think of some y'all are being entirely too naive about the type of coverage harris would get
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Moira Donegan
@moiradonegan.bsky.social
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“He took away abortion and he wants to be a dictator” should be plastered on every surface and blaring out of every speaker.
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Marx S—
@phophos.bsky.social
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taking bookings now for line/copy editing or proofreading gigs from September onwards. i've got loads of experience, including some on big indie games of the last few years. i can get you references if you want. let me know if you're interested! we can work together and it'll be fun, guaranteed.
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Binary
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HIRE MARX, they did a fantastic job editing APOCALYPSE FRAME and Valiant Horizon - each of them is way better for it.
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Ken Burnside
@kenburnside.bsky.social
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Quite honestly, I think that calendar is saints is demarcated in sols, not days. She needs about twice as many saints as we have days...
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Joe Katz
@joekatz45.bsky.social
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This is particularly important to understand because Trumpist authoritarianism is the descendent of Jim Crow far more than say Hitler or Pinochet or Orban, and it's going to look a lot more like 1930s Mississippi than 1930s Berlin.
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Ann M. Lipton
@annmlipton.bsky.social
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Opinion is free here:
media.ca7.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/Opin...
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Ann M. Lipton
@annmlipton.bsky.social
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This is marvelous. Class action alleges Walmart systematically puts one price on the shelf, and charges a little more at the cash register. Walmart claims consumers can see the prices actually charged, so no harm. CA7 rejects.
www.law360.com/securities/a...
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Luke LeBrun
@llebrun.bsky.social
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Doug Ford’s plan to privatize alcohol sales will cost Ontario taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars. Now it’s forcing LCBO workers to go on strike. Workers say Ford is helping billionaires and big business siphon profits from healthcare, education and public services
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Erin Biba
@erinbiba.bsky.social
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The new COVID variant seems to be evading immunity from vaccines and past infections. COVID cases are up 250% in NYC. Remember the more you get covid your risk for long covid increases significantly.
gothamist.com/news/nyc-cov...
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Ken Burnside
@kenburnside.bsky.social
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For very narrow definitions of famous, I'm famous. I'm "Oh, you're *that* Ken Burnside!" in a couple of Internet circles/game industry talks. And most people have no idea who I am, so I can go about my business with near anonymity.
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Ed Zitron
@zitron.bsky.social
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God DAMNIT Instagram stop trying to sell me a ceramic chicken dick!
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Faine Greenwood
@faineg.bsky.social
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this is yet another reason why I am incredibly not sold on replacing Biden: it’s showing our soft underbelly to a rabid dog
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Heidi McDonald
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We watched a grieving father with a known stutter and a head cold have his dead son denigrated to his face. Then we still expected him to have a pristine debate performance, and are trying to punish him because he did not. I have lost a son. Let me be very clear.
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Faine Greenwood
@faineg.bsky.social
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The qualities of the candidate often do not fucking matter if the people who really want that candidate to get elected are willing to play hardball, especially if the candidate is an incumbent. Maybe, just this once, we could learn this lesson from the GOP to save ourselves from true horror.
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Willow
@rockshrimp.bsky.social
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Preemptive hurricane reminder that just because Texas is a voter suppressed state whose vocal minority leadership wants the rest of us dead doesn’t mean the actual citizens of Texas don’t deserve to live/aid.
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Ken Burnside
@kenburnside.bsky.social
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Can I interest you in sitting on a comfy couch with an orange cat in you lap?
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Kate Elliott
@kateelliottsff.bsky.social
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Pre-orders for the Fairwood Press collection of stories set in the Cold Magic (Spiritwalker) universe are about to go up. There's a deluxe hc limited edition as well as trade paper & ebook editions. To have first chance at the deluxe edition, subscribe to my newsletter:
newsletter.imakeupworlds.com
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nick
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do you mean do more things? because he is doing some things.
www.latimes.com/world-nation...
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Ken Burnside
@kenburnside.bsky.social
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Which is why the NYT is all in on this strategy. I wish every MSNBC segment started with "For the XXXth day in a row, the Trump campaign has been too frightened to sit down for an interview, so these are things that they don't want you to know about their pet rapist."
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Ken Burnside
@kenburnside.bsky.social
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My take: Don't fuck your staff as an employer. Don't fuck your fans as a celebrity. Don't assume breaking either of those rules will remain secret. Scandals move news and podcasts.
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Ken Burnside
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Without a cited source or three, I am assuming it's "Oh hey, our TERF-y podcast went viral!" I do not know enough to judge the allegation from what's presented. I don't think anyone but Gaiman, the women involved, and any attorneys in three different countries knows enough. And they're all quiet.
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Ken Burnside
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You absolutely want those stories running in the NYT and WashPo and on CNN. All three have brand name credibility with Democratic voters who don't realize that they've been suborned by the interests of their billionaire owners/publishers. So they have to be "more in concern than in anger" pieces
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Ken Burnside
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Somehow, a Photogenic White Person (Gretchen Whitmer or Gavin "pretty hair" Newsom) manages to survive a brokered convention, and lawsuits, and is into the general? What does Roger Stone do from there? When you're unconstrained by the truth, all you care about is getting negatives repeated.
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Ken Burnside
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Roleplay being Roger Stone: how do you change Trump's messaging to take advantage of the following: Biden drops and the DNC is a brokered convention? Kamala Harris is the candidate? Kamala Harris isn't the candidate and lawsuits against the DNC happen because voters choices were ignored?
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