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Site/Blog! - https://words.presgas.name/ #folkdnd #TTRPG gamer interested in #OSRIC #DnD #1e #2e. #FLOSS advocate and #sysadmin. Interested in horizontal organization, collaboration and biking. Pronouns: https://en.pronouns.page/are/he%26e He/Him/E/Em

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My pronouns are: he/him or e/em β€’ Pronouns.page Example usage in sentences, Table, Examples from cultural texts

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21.09.2025 16:22 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Rocky Horror Picture Show is 50 - PresGas Words Great little history from Ars Technica of all places! Yet in some respects, it’s as relevant as ever. β€œThere are still those extreme prejudices in…

Rocky Horror is 50!! πŸŽ‰

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#movies #lgbtqi

17.08.2025 14:21 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Debian(et al) Repo Management Hidden Gem - PresGas Words Why is it that I hadn’t heard of Debian’s extrepo management tool?!?! I stumbled onto it from an article from beardystarstuff.net’s post and then looking…

I wish I knew of the existence of `extrepo` sooner! How'd I miss this?!?

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#floss #linux #debian

16.08.2025 15:10 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Me too! Enjoying my apartment's front porch for a little bit before it gets too warm however...

12.08.2025 11:55 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
About NearlyFreeSpeech Hosting + - PresGas Words This blog post is yet another reason, I am so glad I chose NearlyFreeSpeech.net for my hosting. Not only do they have a solid policy…

Bravo, @nearlyfreespeech.bsky.social ! This is worth knowing and passing along for #lgbtqi folks looking at hosting. This is the place!

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09.08.2025 13:32 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Aaaaaaaand... Prints bought!!

03.08.2025 23:53 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Yes! I would agree with that mindset for all of the dorms, but this is also involving all of the apartments in this entire college town. And not everybody works for the college as much as the college would like to think that's the case...😏

06.07.2025 16:39 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Even in "College Towns" - Moving Day Needs to Die - PresGas Words Don’t get me wrong, there are plenty of issues with large cities and housing. Hell! There are problems all over; β€˜cos don’t get me started…

semi-CW - rant on housing and higher ed incoming. I initially thought I'd talk about "Moving Days" and how college towns need to get past it, but then started feeling feels about what places like Indiana are doing to colleges. So fair warning.

#housing #highered

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06.07.2025 13:56 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
Time to Support The Chicago Reader - PresGas Words I have been reading off and on Chicago Reader since I lived there for 2 years at the turn of the century (love that I…

As much as I love the Chicago Reader, it was about time to donate:

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You all should look at your regional news source and support em if you can! Let us know what place you like and/or support!!

#media #journalism

21.06.2025 15:59 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Yeah, I need to put Trollhunter on the queue... I was skeptical about it for some time, but I keep hearing about it.

17.06.2025 17:36 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Let The Right One In from 2008

16.06.2025 23:08 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

That is a high complement! 🀩

I'm definitely getting into the practice of writing more.

15.06.2025 21:51 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Hard Mode and Modularity - PresGas Words I went down the morning’s RSS hole and found Jeremy’s Take on Rules’ article on β€œHard Mode” along with the subsequent reading of Joan Westenberg’s…

Posted some extra thoughts about @joanwestenberg.com and @takeonrules.com blog posts recently. Helped make me crystalize my thoughts on simple, convivial tools and just contributing to that #blogosphere

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15.06.2025 18:25 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Oh, you know how to get me with some Galaxie 500 and a-n-y branch of em.... They are all so good

06.06.2025 22:38 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Now there's someone who likes to take it easy in the morning...no hustle and bustle with them. πŸ˜πŸ€“

29.05.2025 12:12 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
YouTube, Blogging, and Surveillance Capitalism - PresGas Words I have been mulling over a comment someone sent me over Matrix (that’s living by the ol’ Blogosphere mindset!!) about embedding YouTube videos. Since β€œsome…

Doing some more thinking about embedding video content in blogs without feeding the corporations...yet supporting the folks creating things. It is definitely a delicate balance!!

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#blogosphere

26.05.2025 15:15 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Thinking about Housing - PresGas Words As I am getting ready to move to a smaller place; a one bedroom split house, I find myself walking around my town and seeing…

I know we have a shload of things happening. There is a lot to parse and act on in a civic way (let's goooo!!). However, my walk from a day ago got me thinking about US housing:

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Just a gentle mini-rant from feelings...

#housing #rent #housingfirst #humanrights

24.05.2025 13:22 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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AI is violence to culture.

(Remember when everyone was like "3D movies are the future, deal with it"?)

08.05.2025 11:28 πŸ‘ 78 πŸ” 22 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 1
Two New Race-as-Classes TOOT GRIMALKIN - Levels as halfling - Thief skills - -2 to stats on Mondays - Can eat extra ration of lasagna during short rests to he...

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Wayback toot the rescue!!

03.05.2025 17:37 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
Bandcamp Friday Finds 202505 - PresGas Words Just got me some good finds from the recent Bandcamp Friday!! https://bandcamp.com/presgas So let’s rummage through the shopping bag, shall we? I got almost everything…

Thought I'd rummage through my #Bandcampfriday bag to see what I picked up to support Indie and local-ish artists.

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What did you all get??

#music #bandcamp

03.05.2025 14:46 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Blogosphere Reaching Out - PresGas Words I finally started practicing what my ideals are and reaching out to another blog after reading it. They don’t have comments enabled either and had…

Trying to live my #blogosphere ideals and reach out to folks via their contact page over comments (esp if they don't have comments enabled but that contact page).

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It definitely encourages thought and pause. I like this slow internet.

20.04.2025 15:19 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Resist, eggheads! Universities are not as weak as they have chosen to be. Opinion: It’s time for public resistance.

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This is a call. Academics need to read this.

18.04.2025 13:13 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Regarding my Pupper Tesla (after the scientist!!) - PresGas Words On Thursday, we lost our anxious, four legged buddy Tesla. We had him since March 2013. It was very sudden, but not unexpected. He was…

On Thursday one of my puppers passed away. It was fast, but not fully unexpected. I miss him quite a bit, but really taking time to be with people and his 3 legged brother. He was a good boi, but we will be alright.

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#pets #feelings

13.04.2025 14:39 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
You Can Only Hug So Hard... - PresGas Words I think I just found my new favorite interview show! Grave Conversations with David Dastmalchian has the great character actor interviewing folks each in their…

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I think I have a new interview show to obsess about. Also, a new, profound admiration for Seth Green. That comedy genius thinks deep!!

05.04.2025 15:09 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
RE Indiana Senator Jim Banks - PresGas Words https://indianapublicmedia.org/news/banks-says-former-hhs-worker-probably-deserved-to-be-fired.php No elected official should talk to their constituents (or anyone) in this unprofessional way. It is a...

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Such petty, unprofessional behavior for someone in power to talk this way to someone who works with folks with disabilities. Reach out.

#uspolitics #ussenate

02.04.2025 21:32 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Is There Magic in the Town or in People? - PresGas Words I had a good morning walk to a local coffee shop to have a black sesame late (it was awesome!) and intending to read my…

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I had a really unexpectedly great morning walk! I really enjoy bumping into wonderful folks.

29.03.2025 20:39 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I'd agree with that... I definitely got a 2e vibe...

25.03.2025 16:14 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Why Worlds Without Number? Singing the praises of Sine Nomine.

On this week's casting of the Dazzling Prismatic Hemicycle I'm talking system - particularly my system of choice, Worlds Without Number. What's your favorite system?

Read it here: strages.bearblog.dev/000c/

#OSR #DnD #TTRPG #WorldsWithoutNumber

17.03.2025 03:17 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

I bought the book and still going through it. I came from 2e (with a smackerel of 1e) and like much of it. Reading your post inspired me to take it up again for a more thorough go!

24.03.2025 12:48 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

I KNEW there was something I liked about you!! πŸ˜†

23.03.2025 17:23 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0