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Writer, Illustrator, and Mushroom Photography Enthusiast working on the West Coast of Canada. https://ko-fi.com/metalsnail https://metalsnail.itch.io/

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There are lots of more serious reasons to hate Instagram and other social media sites, but I on top of those I also hate how idea theft has just become just completely normalized. Like it’s not even framed as theft, it’s just part of the culture. (1/X)

07.03.2026 18:33 👍 22 🔁 3 💬 4 📌 0
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We get a better look at the graphic in "The Making of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine". All the text is fully legible there, confirming that the creature on the bottom right is indeed the Denebian slime devil, making the creature's appearance canon. 6/7

07.03.2026 18:45 👍 59 🔁 3 💬 2 📌 0
A page with various charts showing fantasy loot. 2 pig men illustrations are on there too

A page with various charts showing fantasy loot. 2 pig men illustrations are on there too

Threw together a loot chart for my creature zine because felt it needed something at the end. Like, the creatures gotta drop something when killed, right?

06.03.2026 17:51 👍 67 🔁 18 💬 2 📌 0
05.03.2026 22:04 👍 1678 🔁 666 💬 10 📌 8

This thread is really good. All other things being equal I absolutely agree with it. Toothless criticism isn't criticism, it's cowardice. Have a perspective and write honestly from it, even if it's an acerbic or bitter perspective.

That said: I don't think all other things are equal right now?

05.03.2026 01:05 👍 178 🔁 48 💬 2 📌 1
M is for maybe this starts with an m
N is for next letter, and that one's an n
E is for easy, like spelling this word
M is for magpie, the stealingest bird
O is for only three more letters to go
N is for nearly there, you mnemonic pro
I is for imminent, this poem's end
C is for congratulations, my spellingwell friend

M is for maybe this starts with an m N is for next letter, and that one's an n E is for easy, like spelling this word M is for magpie, the stealingest bird O is for only three more letters to go N is for nearly there, you mnemonic pro I is for imminent, this poem's end C is for congratulations, my spellingwell friend

If you are unsure of how to spell mnemonic, here is a handy mnemonic:

04.03.2026 11:21 👍 742 🔁 211 💬 15 📌 8
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A funny thing happened on the way to the Roach God… The last few sessions of my Reach of the Roach God campaign have been a great example of why I choose to run games this way.

Recently I have been trying to talk about play in RPGs rather than adding to the cyclical discussions of rules/mechanics/systems. The last few sessions of my Reach of the Roach God campaign have given me a great opportunity to do just that.

#rpg #ttrpg

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02.03.2026 16:22 👍 10 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0

I had to

03.03.2026 01:37 👍 2765 🔁 763 💬 45 📌 4
A screenshot of Star Wars: Return of the Jedi, with Luke defiantly standing against the Emperor. The 90s-style captions read:
"You've failed, your highness. I'm forklift certified, like my father before me."

A screenshot of Star Wars: Return of the Jedi, with Luke defiantly standing against the Emperor. The 90s-style captions read: "You've failed, your highness. I'm forklift certified, like my father before me."

01.03.2026 22:58 👍 1260 🔁 277 💬 17 📌 5

the world has never been less safe, it makes you feel crazy watching people
cheer on war and destruction and destablization for profit and land. one day it will end

01.03.2026 02:17 👍 4605 🔁 487 💬 56 📌 16

Okay so let me get this straight, a oligarch country that elected a suspected pedophile & known rapist over his Christian values, and an illegally nuclear genocidal apartheid nation that keeps electing war criminals to do war crimes, those are the good guys because they bombed a primary girls school

28.02.2026 21:27 👍 772 🔁 193 💬 4 📌 0

Blaming people opposing genocide is a play in favor of the fascists - sacrificing any group of people for who they are to preserve yourself or your own will always support the fascists. And fascism will always win, when people vote in the mistaken belief voting to harm others will save themselves.

28.02.2026 22:38 👍 277 🔁 59 💬 3 📌 0

The people that allowed fascism to win was, to nobody's surprise, the side that felt supporting genocide had to be negotiable because it'd be bad for them if the genocide had to stop. If everyone had joined the red line against genocide, you might've had both. Now we have neither.

28.02.2026 22:35 👍 281 🔁 31 💬 1 📌 0

A reminder that fascism thrives when people choose to sacrifice the weaker, and that people that might otherwise be sensible and kind but do step over that line will blame anyone but themselves to soothe their conscience when fascism does win.

28.02.2026 22:31 👍 523 🔁 108 💬 3 📌 0
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> @covie93.bsky.social

28.02.2026 16:11 👍 25948 🔁 5450 💬 247 📌 188

People really struggling with the idea that the Iranian government sucks but we shouldn't be bombing them can both be true, eh?

28.02.2026 21:41 👍 7789 🔁 1147 💬 149 📌 92
Tumblr post from larkstonguesinaspicpart1

Picture of Gul Dukat in Sisko's office, sitting in Sisko's chair and staring curiously and pensively at the baseball on his desk as he holds it.

Text "gul dukat thinks that this is sisko's egg and its going to hatch into another sisko

Tumblr post from larkstonguesinaspicpart1 Picture of Gul Dukat in Sisko's office, sitting in Sisko's chair and staring curiously and pensively at the baseball on his desk as he holds it. Text "gul dukat thinks that this is sisko's egg and its going to hatch into another sisko

27.02.2026 23:05 👍 341 🔁 79 💬 1 📌 2
A store with a sign that says “ADULT NOVELTIES - BJORK ALBUMS - MAGIC POKEMON YUGIOH - AIRSOFT GUNS”

A store with a sign that says “ADULT NOVELTIES - BJORK ALBUMS - MAGIC POKEMON YUGIOH - AIRSOFT GUNS”

"thin places" are locations where the veil between the physical and spiritual worlds is said to be particularly thin.

21.02.2026 17:32 👍 7482 🔁 2306 💬 57 📌 113
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[guy who sang baby beluga] the festering belly is splitting, each half digested soul fumbling for a knife

26.02.2026 18:38 👍 6153 🔁 1247 💬 56 📌 71

We literally know now that anti-trans legislation was pushed by a pedophile ring to allow a pedophile ring to serve a pedophile ring’s interests, and legislators have decided the best course of action is to keep doing what the pedophile ring wants.

26.02.2026 10:53 👍 6341 🔁 2727 💬 31 📌 37
Comic. [Person is sitting at a desk with a laptop, turned toward voice coming from off-panel.] VOICE FROM OFF-PANEL: I got you the ingredients for dinner tonight. Oh, and the plums in the fridge drawer are for my yogurt tomorrow; you should just leave them. Be back later! PERSON’S THOUGHT BUBBLE: Oh no. [caption] Help. It actually happened. I shouldn’t. But how can I not!?

Comic. [Person is sitting at a desk with a laptop, turned toward voice coming from off-panel.] VOICE FROM OFF-PANEL: I got you the ingredients for dinner tonight. Oh, and the plums in the fridge drawer are for my yogurt tomorrow; you should just leave them. Be back later! PERSON’S THOUGHT BUBBLE: Oh no. [caption] Help. It actually happened. I shouldn’t. But how can I not!?

Plums

xkcd.com/3209/

24.02.2026 20:32 👍 2742 🔁 434 💬 45 📌 38
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25.02.2026 04:34 👍 1136 🔁 183 💬 18 📌 7

This videogame character has gained more sentience than Moriarty or season 2 EMH and everyone is like, "That's just Vic, crazy right?"

25.02.2026 06:34 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Working through the last season of Deep Space Nine, and I am so confused at the choice to go all in on Vic Fontaine.

25.02.2026 06:23 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

“i’m still punk” i whisper to myself as i turn down the music in my car so i can see better

24.02.2026 02:21 👍 3510 🔁 722 💬 8 📌 0

I've finished with Elric and have picked up Senlin Ascends. So far we've got trains, airships, giant snails, an inn with a parrot housekeeper and beer merry-go-rounds.

24.02.2026 15:44 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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i built an entire x86 CPU emulator in CSS (no javascript)

you can write programs in C, compile them to x86 machine code with GCC, and run them inside CSS

lyra.horse/x86css/

24.02.2026 02:23 👍 2603 🔁 869 💬 129 📌 158
splash ergo designed by rain2

a split ergo columnar where the thumb cluster is on the underside of the keeb

splash ergo designed by rain2 a split ergo columnar where the thumb cluster is on the underside of the keeb

incredible things are happening in the pervert keyboard space

24.02.2026 06:35 👍 462 🔁 109 💬 14 📌 6
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It's Official: the Cybertruck is More Explosive than the Ford Pinto - FuelArc News We now have a full year of data for the Cybertruck, and a strange preponderance of headlines about Cybertrucks exploding into flames, including several fatalities. That’s more than enough data to comp...

The Ford Pinto had a death rate of 85 people for 10 million cars sold. The Cybertruck hasn't sold 10 million, but the fatality rate so far maths out to 1,452 people killed per 10 million sold.

The Cybertruck may be the deadliest road car, for the occupants, ever sold.

fuelarc.com/evs/its-offi...

23.02.2026 21:24 👍 9116 🔁 4211 💬 249 📌 518
Drawing of two statues holding a sparkling glass orb.

Drawing of two statues holding a sparkling glass orb.

I did some art today for a little zine I'm working on, again going for a AD&D style. It's an abandoned observatory for spying on gods.

23.02.2026 05:59 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0