John Nephew

John Nephew

@johnnephew.bsky.social

Game publisher (www.atlas-games.com), plastic recycler (www.replayworkshop.com), woodworking hobbyist, parent, spouse, container of multitudes. He/him.

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Rose Schmits
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Yissss

Rose Schmits@roseschmits.bsky.social

I know absolutely nothing about Lula except that i saw someone share a clip on insta of him in celebration kissing a trans woman politician on the cheek and oh my god is that a radical act for a politician in 2026 so lets fucking go

John Nephew
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An open license Ars Magica computer game, Covenantum, is taking applications for playtesting volunteers for the neat phase of development. I've been enjoying the demo/beta version a bunch already. forms.gle/M7RocF98D4TP...

forms.gleCovenantum - Playtesting VolunteersCovenantum will ready for another round of playtesting in November 2026. The game will be made available via Steam with temporary access to the development build to a selected few individuals that me...

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Jon at Handiwork Games
@handiworkgames.bsky.social

Replying to @handiworkgames.bsky.social

We’re all used to a world where you *can* post things. It makes sense. Get book, pack it, post it. At a post office. Use an international service. But it doesn’t work like that anymore. We’re in basically a time of international trade conflict where countries are closing their doors to free trade.

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Brian Johnson
@bjohnsonfreelance.bsky.social

Good news, everyone! My latest publication, _The Book of Theyzolius_, is finally available through general retail distribution channels! So if for some reason you wanted to pick it up but weren't able to make purchases via Lulu, you should now be able to do so on the other site.

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Atlas Games
@atlasgames.bsky.social

Bob Byrnildson Passing #BobByrnildson #InMemoriam

dlvr.itBob Byrnildson PassingJohn and I had to say goodby to a good friend recently, when Bob Brynildson passed. Bob was co-owner and general manager of The Source Comics & Games in the Twin Cities, and our partner in Atlas Games for decades. If you ever saw Atlas Games at a convention in the mid-90s and 2000s, there was a good chance Bob was manning the booth. These words from his obituary struck us as particularly apt: "Throughout his life, Bob did not only …

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jamelle
@jamellebouie.net

this is like a reverse "daisy." an ad so reprehensible that it detonates the candidate's campaign. tiffinohio.net/posts/acton-...

tiffinohio.netAmy Acton’s mother defended husband accused of raping her daughter at 12. Now she’s in a pro-Ramaswamy attack ad.Acton’s brother is speaking out after their estranged mother appeared in a political attack accusing his sister of lying about her childhood. He says their mother remained married to the man who sexua...
John Nephew
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Probably this is AI spam over SMS. Probably we'll see a lot more of it in terms of influence operations funded by foreign powers, billionares, etc.

John Nephew
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I thought I'd play along, since I had to sit over at my mother's house while her stairlift was getting serviced. In the end, the convo reinforces how much I despise both Bibi and Trump. And I don't think there's likely to be much progress towards actual security until both are gone.

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Comfortably Boo
@numb.comfortab.ly

Replying to @fintwitter.bsky.social

NVIDIA CEO JENSEN HUANG SAYS HE BELIEVES MOST PEOPLE WILL PILOT GIANT ROBOTS, SITTING IN THEIR HEADS, AND PUSHING LEVERS, AND ROBOTS WILL PUNCH EACH OTHER WITH GIANT FISTS, AND SHOOT MISSILES AT EACH OTHER.

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David Rothschild
@davmicrot.bsky.social

Crazy this is not obvious to Wall Street: every democracy saw what Musk did to Ukraine last week and confirmed security need for Starlink alternative. Those alternatives will not just serve defense needs, but also be viable commercial alternatives, crushing any hope of SpaceX's monopoly projections.

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Jenny Cohn
@jennycohn.bsky.social

😡😡😡 “Meta employees acknowledged in internal communications that the Instagram accounts of Brazilian ​President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva were hindered by ‌restrictions during [Brazil’s] election” & that Meta “recommended the profile ​of challenger…Flavio Bolsonaro” & “his ​WhatsApp channel…” 1/

John Nephew
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"One of the biggest peace-time deployments of private capital in history is now being largely devoted to an automation vision of AI that may be both economically untenable on its own terms, and also a waste of all the potential of AI to help us do things we couldn’t already do."

By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C)@doctorow.pluralistic.net

"... (This is likely part of the reason for the gap between benchmark performance and real-world usefulness)." -Steering AI Beyond Automation, Gabriel Unger and Arvind Narayanan www.normaltech.ai/p/steering-a...

normaltech.aiSteering AI Beyond AutomationA Research Agenda and Plan for Action

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Rob Delaney
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And here’s the trailer for BEING HEUMANN. In cinemas Nov 6, streaming on AppleTV Nov 13. I saw it last night at the London Film Festival & it’s a triumph.

John Nephew
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Incredible. One of our #ferrets, Chonky, got out on September 8th. When this has happened before he's always come back -- we leave the screen doors open with a blanket for him. But he didn't return. The days went by. A neighbor thought she'd heard a screaming late at night that could have been a

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Dr. Sobek
@sobex.social.sciences.re.ap.brid.gy

Any Irish person on this network ? I'm curious about what's the Irish sentiment toward joining Schengen (if the UK had to join Schengen as part of a re-join agreement), for instance, or following a reunification). Boost please.

John Nephew
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Incredible. One of our #ferrets, Chonky, got out on September 8th. When this has happened before he's always come back -- we leave the screen doors open with a blanket for him. But he didn't return. The days went by. A neighbor thought she'd heard a screaming late at night that could have been a

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John Nephew
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Astonishing that he must have been successful in hunting. Ferrets are obligate carnivores. So maybe mice, voles, amphibians, bugs? Plenty of fresh water at the creek, even with the level low because of drought. He doesn't have the amount of winter pudge that his brother has accumulated, but he's

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not emaciated or anything. One scab on his head that might be a sign of some kind of confrontation with another animal, no other clumps of missing fur or injuries.

John Nephew
@johnnephew.bsky.social

Incredible. One of our #ferrets, Chonky, got out on September 8th. When this has happened before he's always come back -- we leave the screen doors open with a blanket for him. But he didn't return. The days went by. A neighbor thought she'd heard a screaming late at night that could have been a

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John Nephew
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moment to a foster home across the bridge in Superior. And...it's our Chonkerdoodle! He's lost a lot of weight (though not so much as to look unhealthy), and has a lot of ticks, but it's him. He and his brother are dinstinctly larger and longer than most pet ferrets. They immediately recognized

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each other upon their reunion, with kisses and grooming. So here's your happy story for the day. He traveled far -- I assume staying close to Tischer Creek all the way down into the Congdon neighborhood where he was found. And after much more adventure than any pet ferret needs, he's home again.

John Nephew
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Incredible. One of our #ferrets, Chonky, got out on September 8th. When this has happened before he's always come back -- we leave the screen doors open with a blanket for him. But he didn't return. The days went by. A neighbor thought she'd heard a screaming late at night that could have been a

John Nephew
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ferret in distress. We worried about his ability to feed himself, as an obligate carnivore without practical hunting experience. (Water was not a problem; there is a stream that runs behind our house.) We actually had a family memorial and wrote him farewell notes. We adopted a new ferret one

John Nephew
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week ago. (Chonky's brother and lifelong companion, Nipsy, seemed lonely.) Today -- 33 days later -- someone on Nextdoor said that someone on Facebook reported finding a ferret under their outdoor furniture covers. Friendly and unafraid. Michelle called and reached the finders, en route that

John Nephew
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Found a 2006 demo scenario by Neil Taylor for Ars Magica 5th Edition, and I just put it on @drivethrurpg.com as a free download. (It was in a directory on our website, but without any links to it since the ending of the Special Ops demo program.) www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/5... #arsmagica

drivethrurpg.comAn Ill-Fated Meeting | Atlas Games | Atlas Games | DriveThruRPGSix magi have gathered to negotiate the rights to gather vis from a glade deep in a forest, bordered by the lands of their respective covenants. They have been brought together by a skilled negotiator...

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John Nephew
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ARS MAGICA DEFINITIVE FOR FREE! Well, the text at least. Thanks to OriginalMadman and friends, it's all on GitHub in Markdown format, and I just set it up as a free download on @drivethrurpg.com: www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/5...

drivethrurpg.comArs Magica Definitive Edition Markdown Text | Atlas Games | Atlas Games | DriveThruRPGTwenty years after the original release of 5th Edition comes Ars Magica Definitive Edition! While the underlying manuscript is the 5th Edition text, extensive revisions reflect decades of play. It inc...

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Mischief Toy Store
@mischieftoy.com

Our president is deranged and extremely dangerous. Leave Minnesota alone. Leave our immigrant neighbors alone. Hate will never win. Resist.

John Moe@johnmoe.bsky.social

As completely deranged and fucked up and wrong as he is, I gotta say it is stressful to have the damn president of the United States constantly attacking my state of Minnesota, sending violence, calling for violence, putting all lives at risk, killing our neighbors. Like it really takes a toll.