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Michael Harrison

@oldbie.bsky.social

❤️ games, movies, baseball, geocaching, data, writing, local govt, coffee, my fam, social justice, brightening my corner. Formerly: Wired, GeekDad. He/Him

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Latest posts by oldbie.bsky.social on Bluesky

Always impressed with how you explain your stances on these things, Rodney. Thank you so much for using your influence to stand up for trans rights. 💖

01.08.2025 16:49 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I wanted to share a few thoughts recent discussions around CGE’s decision to partner with JKR for their upcoming @codenamesgame.bsky.social game have prompted. Thankful to those who spoke early to this issue (Marceline, Tiffany, @nopunincluded.com et al) for helping this get the needed attention.

29.07.2025 15:46 — 👍 526    🔁 135    💬 43    📌 15

Wow. It’s absurd when you count the years.

Was the internet truly better back then, or are we just doing the thing that people do when they get older?

07.07.2025 01:43 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

There's a scene in episode 4 of The Pitt where Dr. Robby is fighting a panic attack in the bathroom and he remembers that he has to pee, has had to pee for nearly an hour, and he finally does. Visceral to an ADHDer like me with massive executive dysfunction. I felt that relief so hard.

06.04.2025 17:04 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0
Arthurian April | Day 2 — All About Arthur
YouTube video by Natania Barron Arthurian April | Day 2 — All About Arthur

And Day Two us also up, wherein I follow the threads through the past to talk about how we started talking about Arthur in the first place.

youtu.be/WJ92afGitXI?...

03.04.2025 03:42 — 👍 9    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

Regardless, glad we were there to commiserate. Hopefully the accompanying #dnd sesh was cathartic. ❤️‍🩹

03.04.2025 15:05 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Today’s hot take: romance books are for anyone.

03.04.2025 14:52 — 👍 73    🔁 2    💬 2    📌 0

Everyone wants there to be a grand scheme behind all of this but the terrible truth is that extremely stupid people are in charge and they have a fanatical devotion to wrong, childlike concepts of society and economics cooked up by right wing radio hosts in order to sell tainted dietary supplements

03.04.2025 14:11 — 👍 46773    🔁 11570    💬 1001    📌 687
A very floofy, very sleepy golden retriever totally splayed out on a bed.

A very floofy, very sleepy golden retriever totally splayed out on a bed.

50% golden retriever, 50% muppet. 100% the best boy ever.

02.04.2025 04:38 — 👍 11    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

RPG tip: Let players roll all their dice even if you know it's a fatal blow. Don't take away their fun with the math rocks.

#dnd #ttrpg

01.04.2025 14:45 — 👍 46    🔁 6    💬 4    📌 3
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a man with a beard and mustache is smiling and says yes ALT: a man with a beard and mustache is smiling and says yes
01.04.2025 01:38 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Yeah, they make 'em that way. They're a little unwieldy, though. It's like rolling a golf ball.

01.04.2025 01:09 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Outside of Breakaway/Dingo Dog tonight. 😝

01.04.2025 01:04 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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SagaBorn Dice: An Icosahedron D100 Making a d100 roll as well as a d20.

Do I need more dice?

No.

Do I need a d100 set that uses icosahedra instead of decahedra?

Also no.

But I'm still backing this Kickstarter, because it's $10 and I need all the little joy I can find. Maybe you'll want to back it, too?
www.kickstarter.com/projects/mic...

01.04.2025 00:46 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

Of course. It's just a great example of how impossibly high those numbers are. Your true point--that he could do a heck of a lot of good with his immense wealth, but is instead doing... ::gestures angrily::--still stands.

03.03.2025 03:36 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Math on Elon Musk’s money doesn’t add up When Tesla owner Elon Musk agreed to buy Twitter for $44 billion dollars, many social media users offered their thoughts

This comes up a lot. See www.politifact.com/factchecks/2...

Just further evidence that humans basically cannot comprehend the levels of wealth that dudes like Musk have. Which works in their favor.

02.03.2025 14:28 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

I loathe the guy you’re referring to, but your math is wrong. Splitting $404 billion among 304 million people would give each person $1,625.

02.03.2025 14:26 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0
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Announcing my new chrome extension, in the millennials/snake-people tradition, to fix one of the major aesthetic liabilities on the internet right now: "I asked ChatGPT" phrases in posts and headlines. Join me and free yourself by installing My Stupid Friend chromewebstore.google.com/detail/my-st...

06.01.2025 15:14 — 👍 634    🔁 211    💬 8    📌 14
08.01.2025 15:42 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Really cool post revisiting Rachael Ray's visit to the Triangle from 20 years ago and somehow managing three meals and a snack on $40 in the year of our lord 2024

10.12.2024 17:41 — 👍 6    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0
Screencap of longtime harasser and all-around awful person Zak S's Bsky profile at zakthepainter.bsky.social

Screencap of longtime harasser and all-around awful person Zak S's Bsky profile at zakthepainter.bsky.social

Hey y'all, Zak S is trying to make his way onto Bsky.

Idk about y'all but I don't think we need his awfulness showing up here.

26.11.2024 00:44 — 👍 458    🔁 221    💬 49    📌 51
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A ★★½ review of The Dark and the Wicked (2020) Highly effective dread in the setup, really engaging premise, and some exceptional acting from Marin Ireland. Really falls apart in the end, though. I don't need a pat explanation for everything going...

Watched THE DARK AND THE WICKED last night. Really weird Oz prequel, tbh. The singing was pretty bad. Didn't see GLADIATOR 2 the same day, so maybe I just misunderstood the assignment? boxd.it/7Ugzf3

26.11.2024 19:36 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
A recipe for Chicken Divan with notes that read “BASIC GARBAGE” and “UGH” and “tastes like a church supper”

A recipe for Chicken Divan with notes that read “BASIC GARBAGE” and “UGH” and “tastes like a church supper”

My great aunt was a soul friend, and she passed away in 2016.

I have her annotated cookbooks, though, and this one had me giggling and missing her so much. For someone born in the 1920s she sounded pretty modern here.

BASIC GARBAGE

15.11.2024 20:13 — 👍 8973    🔁 297    💬 362    📌 34

The thing about following a bunch more people on a suddenly hopping social platform is relearning the difference between “This would be a funny reply,” and “This would be a funny reply — if we knew each other.”

13.11.2024 14:58 — 👍 55    🔁 9    💬 4    📌 1

i’ll say i am darkly amused by the increase in web searches for “what are tariffs”

09.11.2024 14:56 — 👍 21691    🔁 2452    💬 724    📌 288

Pre-ordered through our amazing local bookstore, Flyleaf Books! www.flyleafbooks.com/book/9780374...

30.08.2024 16:12 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Boar's Head plant linked to deadly outbreak broke food safety rules dozens of times, records show Records show that a Boar's Head deli meat plant in Virginia tied to a deadly food poisoning outbreak repeatedly violated federal regulations.

Well, the Boar's Head brand name takes on an entirely different meaning now. It was always weird, but now it’s downright ghoulish.

"Heavy discolored meat buildup." JFC

30.08.2024 16:08 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Early Bookcases, Cupboards & Carousels - Lost Art Press Scholars, translators, transcribers and writers have always needed to have multiple books and other resources within easy reach. Illustrated manuscripts give

What do you think, @natania.bsky.social? Should I construct a bookwheel for your new studio? blog.lostartpress.com/2024/07/28/e...

30.08.2024 15:29 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Everyone always shat on it for being easy, but I loved it for that. Definitely one of my earlier vibes games.

21.08.2024 02:46 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

...and all I can say is "learn when to shut up". 🙄

21.08.2024 02:29 — 👍 7    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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