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Writer/Coder. Christian. Parasocial IRL. Gene Wolfe fan #dnd old school blogger. #ttrpg: http://pduggan.itch.io http://pduggancreative.wordpress.com

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New Warhost Orc Command and some Elven Dawn blades arrived today!

The sculpts are perfect from @hicksy.bsky.social and @andyhobday.bsky.social once again. These are perfect for my alternate LOTR project! The Warhost game is a cracker too!

warhost.online

#LoTR #Orcs #Elves

02.03.2026 18:53 πŸ‘ 10 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Do you use contractions oddly? I've.

01.03.2026 02:27 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I need a clean glass FTWe

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Another Bronze Age Miniature purchased from @fenrisgames.com

For #WarriorsofAthena

25.02.2026 22:16 πŸ‘ 20 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

The book club
of no discussion
no meetings
tacit books are shared
a community of invisibles
not even a nod
on the subway from behind the cover
"oh, you too?"
but the words do their work
and later we discover
our shelves
were in common all along
#poetry

26.02.2026 03:31 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

My therapist: what would your tears say if they could talk?

Me: aaah! I’m dripping down some guy’s face and I don’t know where I’m going or why?!!!

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Jackson Must Step Down, Seek Direction The Rev. Jesse Jackson has admitted to fathering "a daughter who was born outside of my marriage."

Not trying to diss the dead but since there is a lot of #acsa discourse these #churchtoo days its interesting that some see Jesse Jackson as guilty of Adult Clergy Sexual Abuse. www.latimes.com/archives/la-...

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It’s a surname

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Friday, cones and signs outside the house closing a lane of the road. This morning, everything is gone but _no roadworks were ever done_. It's like an incredibly mundane dream.

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Happy Valentine’s Day

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Not a good dancer
metrical feet
give me a chance, er
something I said?
Central High Lancer
poetry class
No high school lass
a-mused not brash
....
there's no answer #poem

13.02.2026 15:56 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

originally "this poem" but "his poem" works...

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his poem
is
a
vertical
expression
of a
hor
i
zon
tal
desire

#happyvalentinesday #poetry

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How Our Politics Failed during the COVID Pandemic: An Interview with Stephen Macedo There was a fundamental failure of toleration for alternative points of view. I think some of it might be explained by the fact that it was a pandemic. For public health guidance to be effective, peop...

Princeton’s Stephen Macedo says COVID policy failed by suppressing dissent and outsourcing decisions to technocrats, eroding liberal norms and accountabilityβ€”and now demands an honest reckoning.

www.thepublicdiscourse.com/2025/03/97338/

02.02.2026 14:23 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Winter and Summer Hollar’s rendering of the Four Seasons is very unusual. Rather than following tradition by showing seasonal scenes of peasant labour, he represented how English women modified their ensembles througho...

from www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/collectio...

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The cold, not cruelty makes her weare
in Winter, furrs and Wild beasts haire
For a smoother skinn at night
Embraceth her with more delight.

(text below the image below)

See detail too!

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'Reminds me of Anne Frank': Jewish seniors are offering to hide their Haitian caregivers as Trump's TPS end looms - Jewish Telegraphic Agency The end of Temporary Protected Status has Holocaust survivors offering to hide Haitian staffers, according to the CEO of a senior-living center in Florida.

"About 500 seniors live at Sinai Residences in Boca Raton, Florida, including many Holocaust survivors. Recently, some of them asked if they could hide the building’s Haitian staff in their apartments."
www.jta.org/2026/01/30/u...

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Worth remembering that something did happen: the journalist who revealed this died from a car bomb.

01.02.2026 10:40 πŸ‘ 7396 πŸ” 2766 πŸ’¬ 22 πŸ“Œ 8

I’m not on any group chats

29.01.2026 11:29 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
How Donald Trump Lost the Battle of Minnesota
How Donald Trump Lost the Battle of Minnesota YouTube video by Takesβ„’ by Jamelle Bouie

how trump lost the battle of minnesota (debated between this and "the battle of the twin cities," which does sound more evocative) youtu.be/vxI8sR-I0ME

26.01.2026 21:31 πŸ‘ 1541 πŸ” 227 πŸ’¬ 78 πŸ“Œ 19

if bovino is out and conservatives are turning on noem then there is a real opportunity to demand that miller resign too.

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DISPATCH DEBATE - The Steep Cost of β€˜Free’ Child Care:
Young children need deep human connection, not paid providers | Katharine B. Stevens & Jenet Erickson

Read here: https://thedispatch.com/debates/child-care-family-development/

15.01.2026 20:00 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

They do not cry out to me from their hearts
but wail on their beds

Hosea 7:14

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who can forget Brenda Romero's Train brenda.games/train

13.01.2026 13:50 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Fucking American grifters, exploiting everyone else's tragedy for pleasure and profit.

13.01.2026 11:52 πŸ‘ 75 πŸ” 12 πŸ’¬ 8 πŸ“Œ 0
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But Labor Scholars …

13.01.2026 11:07 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

The "traditional" structure of TTRPGs puts an enormous amount of pressure on the GM to learn/refine & very little on the players.

Which is somehow seen as more reasonable than spreading the load of learning/contribution across the whole table.

Broader implications about community in there, y'all.

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