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Calgary Cinematheque Programming Co-ordinator, Scream Scene Podcast co-host, Dungeon Master, he/him.

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Animation from Giacomo's Secret (canceled), dir. Sergio Pablos, The SPA Studios

14.03.2026 03:29 πŸ‘ 2529 πŸ” 656 πŸ’¬ 26 πŸ“Œ 42

Danielle Smith banned renewables. It chased billions of investment out of the province and cost thousands of jobs. And we’re still paying for it. Danielle Smith is causing an Alberta disadvantage.

www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

14.03.2026 20:12 πŸ‘ 138 πŸ” 47 πŸ’¬ 13 πŸ“Œ 1

Can’t believe nobody wanted to read the articles nobody bothered to write

14.03.2026 01:34 πŸ‘ 6782 πŸ” 1847 πŸ’¬ 46 πŸ“Œ 18

"I don't know how to make this" is an opportunity to fucking LEARN.

14.03.2026 00:51 πŸ‘ 530 πŸ” 157 πŸ’¬ 8 πŸ“Œ 3

objection your honor, my client is being brutally owned online

14.03.2026 00:53 πŸ‘ 4608 πŸ” 869 πŸ’¬ 31 πŸ“Œ 14

If you did something bad, you deserve to have a bad reputation.

14.03.2026 00:55 πŸ‘ 17 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

DON DRAPER, wearing a Changshan: if we want to sell this revolution as being truly universal under Heaven, we need to make inroads with the fairer sex… how about β€œwomen hold up half the sky”

MAO, sucking on his teeth: god damn it gweilo you’ve done it again.

14.03.2026 02:00 πŸ‘ 474 πŸ” 93 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 0

RIP buzzfeed i will never forget the dress and the llamas happening on the same day

14.03.2026 02:01 πŸ‘ 779 πŸ” 106 πŸ’¬ 5 πŸ“Œ 0

This was in a comic aimed at 10 year olds. I need people who don't want to encounter big scary words in prose to get on the level of a superhero comic aimed at 10 year olds.

13.03.2026 20:52 πŸ‘ 12 πŸ” 6 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Frankly I doubt Hegseth even knows that's what no quarter means - it's just a badass thing he's heard action movie guys say and he's repeating it because he wants to look like an action movie guy.

13.03.2026 19:59 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

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This is crucially important point.

1) "No quarter" is indeed specifically war-crime term

2) Under Geneva Conventions, after sinking an enemy ship, the attackers must "take all positive measures" to find and rescue any survivors. Text in next post

No evidence US sub did so after attack, AFAIK

13.03.2026 16:33 πŸ‘ 1888 πŸ” 675 πŸ’¬ 63 πŸ“Œ 23

A striking feature of Trump and his team is: they somehow imagine a world in which they are the only actors, only ones with power, and whether it's Tehran or Minneapolis are surprised when it turns out others do. There are many kinds of power and many nations with power.

13.03.2026 01:35 πŸ‘ 4020 πŸ” 1029 πŸ’¬ 27 πŸ“Œ 56

He basically says "It's OK that uninformed 20-year-olds who never applied for a grant or reviewed one were making the decisions to cancel these outright, you see, because we read books."

The lawyer asks: "Which books?"

"Oh, there were no books."

12.03.2026 16:46 πŸ‘ 1314 πŸ” 133 πŸ’¬ 33 πŸ“Œ 4

My "trained filmmaker" hill I will die on is that most of y'all misuse "POV" and do not understand what it means.

13.03.2026 08:35 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

A story that's like maybe two pages in the book stretched into two full (probably 150 minute) movies is INSANE. Didn't they get the message from 10 years of people dunking on the Hobbit movies?

11.03.2026 21:50 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I ran a special actual play episode with Dread and it was one of the most intense game sessions I've ever had!

11.03.2026 21:47 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Oh, and look, here's that class action suit! That anyone with half a brain would have seen coming! From, like, a million miles away!

Just because you work in tech doesn't mean you're smart.

11.03.2026 21:28 πŸ‘ 1685 πŸ” 316 πŸ’¬ 51 πŸ“Œ 11
A promotional graphic for Otso SpiritBear featuring his stream schedule for this week.

A promotional graphic for Otso SpiritBear featuring his stream schedule for this week.

🐻VAL'S SCHEDULE🐻

We are back this week @dungeonscrawlers.bsky.social with the first episode of To The End of Reason! Our vislae enter The Grand May Be for our desideratumπŸ‘€

On Saturday we will return to @transplanarrpg.bsky.social after last week's midpoint episode as vengeance locks upon us.

09.03.2026 17:02 πŸ‘ 14 πŸ” 9 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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DungeonScrawlers - Twitch Authors and Artists playing Dungeons & Dragons 5e. Mixing Rule of Story with Rules as Written. Join us on our zany adventures!

TONIGHT! Enter the Actuality as our players search for answers in the logical place: A movie!

But a movie at the Grand May Be is always life-changing--for better or worse.

TO THE END OF REASON: #InvisibleSun #actualplay 5PM PDT on twitch.tv/dungeonscrawlers

@montecookgames.com

09.03.2026 19:03 πŸ‘ 9 πŸ” 6 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 1
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Here's a draft manuscript of the Magic: The Gathering roleplaying game from 1996, and I've giving it away as a fundraiser for Planned Parenthood, with permission from the authors. Not sure how much to ask for. Vanishingly rare. $1,872 raised so far. #mtg #ttrpg

09.03.2026 18:45 πŸ‘ 242 πŸ” 104 πŸ’¬ 13 πŸ“Œ 10
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Money does not equal art.

09.03.2026 19:17 πŸ‘ 639 πŸ” 160 πŸ’¬ 10 πŸ“Œ 10
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Hasbro’s CEO on J.K. Rowling. We just published our new Decoder interview with Chris Cocks, the head of Hasbro. I asked him directly about how he thinks about author J.K. Rowling’s politics and what it’s done to the Harry Potter f...

cannot stress enough that "separate the art from the artist" was meant for private individuals reconciling the art they love with its flawed creators and not meant for the ceo of a company driving a dump truck of money up to a bigot's front porch

www.theverge.com/podcast/8914...

09.03.2026 19:22 πŸ‘ 9057 πŸ” 2514 πŸ’¬ 131 πŸ“Œ 179

One of the most destructive blind spots to the guys currently tanking our society is that they treat information like vitamins and believe it can be optimized.

1. They’re lying/wrong

2. It means the world is run by guys who think they have nothing to learn from a movie or song or play or stranger

09.03.2026 19:21 πŸ‘ 354 πŸ” 66 πŸ’¬ 7 πŸ“Œ 0
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By the book: Alberta schools pull at least 160 titles from shelves to meet provincial order | CBC News Alberta school divisions complying with a provincial order have removed dozens of graphic novels from their shelves, from illustrated versions of literary classics to coming-of-age memoirs and dramati...

www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

What a disgrace. I hate this government so much.

09.03.2026 19:52 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

ELIZA's creator was so alarmed by the fact that people mistook the chatbot for a sentient being that he wrote an entire book about why this implementation of computer technology was a huge problem and it is a staggering achievement

09.03.2026 02:51 πŸ‘ 192 πŸ” 88 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Happy International Women's Day to all of the women around the world! @TheMostBadOnes

And then it’s a picture of him surrounded by attractive women

Pitbull v @pitbull Follow Happy International Women's Day to all of the women around the world! @TheMostBadOnes And then it’s a picture of him surrounded by attractive women

Happy International Women’s Day from Pitbull

08.03.2026 13:01 πŸ‘ 2147 πŸ” 233 πŸ’¬ 51 πŸ“Œ 24
Pit pit on a pile of skulls saying "severed is the head that wears the crown!" death to the wizard kings!

Pit pit on a pile of skulls saying "severed is the head that wears the crown!" death to the wizard kings!

Chop chop!

08.03.2026 23:14 πŸ‘ 956 πŸ” 208 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 1

A thread about ECCC.

I know ICC gets asked for at this show sometimes, and we did used to do it annually. But there’s a reason we stopped.

09.03.2026 02:05 πŸ‘ 132 πŸ” 42 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

When a comic convention’s ownership/management starts caring more about size & headcount over anything else, comics inevitably lose. The industry can’t compete against film, television, video games, music. Comics become a footnote at the conventions they were founded to celebrate & made successful.

09.03.2026 02:14 πŸ‘ 148 πŸ” 23 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

They like Trump and want to help him rule us a king, so they help downplay scandals that would've merited banner headlines for weeks under any other president

09.03.2026 01:30 πŸ‘ 873 πŸ” 169 πŸ’¬ 9 πŸ“Œ 3