Lorcan Murphy

@wasdmatter.bsky.social

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Game Designer, Dad, Bibliophile, and Gamer. Lover of puns both witty and appalling. Abounding in songs and legends. He/them. Words and remarks are my own.

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Try this today, for morale.

You need this today. For morale.

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Look, son: In this world, sometimes you just gotta take the L stair on your way to King Street 👑

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Kilauea casually offering a triple rainbow for Pride.

@supergiantgames.bsky.social skeeting to say I was glad to find y’all on here. Enjoying the heck out of Hades II and hoping patch announcements come here.

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The Indian state of Meghalaya, these natural root bridges are a common site. The local people worked out how to coax loose ficus tree roots protruding from river banks to grow together into a single solid mass sturdy enough to hold 30 people crossing together. (📷: Giulio Di Sturco, NatGeo)

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I've got an amazing joke about Ariadne 1/

I've got an amazing joke about Atropos, but I'm worried I'll get cut off before the punchline.

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What is satire?

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“Tonight We Die as a Family” a poem by Mohammed El-Kurd.

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I need white people specifically to understand this or defer to people of color who do They hate us more than they like themselves. That’s the why Trying to decode it, feeds into their worldview That everything g must center them .. or it should not exist

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We have RETVRNED to the ancient ways of right-sizing for agility. remapradio.com/articles/piv...

Pivot to Decimationremapradio.com SUBJECT: Difficult News About Our Indomitable Roman Legion

I actually can’t preorder this book (I already did, as soon as it was possible to do so) but you still could! THE MIMICKING OF KNOWN SUCCESSES was among my favorite reads of 2023, and there is plenty of time yet to enjoy it in time for the second Investigation of Mossa and Pleiti.

You can pre-order for one more month (and two days)! Links: us.macmillan.com/books/978125... Also still time to read THE MIMICKING OF KNOWN SUCCESSES first if you haven't yet!

The Imposition of Unnecessary Obstaclesus.macmillan.com Investigator Mossa and Scholar Pleiti reunite to solve a new mystery in the follow-up to the cozy space-opera detective mystery The Mimicking of Known Succes...

Here’s a “competing with China” that I could get behind.

none of the hawks nor the chamber of commerce boosters want to talk about "competing with China" in this regard

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#Webcomics Hey kids! Here's a fun game! They just dropped a list of All the artists that Midjourney admits to having scraped to train its A.I. engine. Are YOU on it? (We are) Do you have a good lawyer? (We do) (storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...)

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I just sent the Joseph Saveri Law Firm (representing Brom, Sarah Andersen, and Adam Ellis in the suit against Midjourney) an inquiry about being added as a plaintiff via this contact form. I suggest everyone that appears on that list does the same. www.saverilawfirm.com/contact-us/

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Contact Us Today - Joseph Saveri Law Firmwww.saverilawfirm.com Please contact the Joseph Saveri Law Firm at no cost or obligation for our review of your case. We are excited to begin our journey together.

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Honored to write the Rolling Stone obituary for the worst American of the post-World War II era. Rot in piss

Henry Kissinger, War Criminal Beloved by America’s Ruling Class, Finally Dieswww.rollingstone.com Henry Kissinger has died at age 100, his consulting firm said in a statement on Wednesday.

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163 Jewish leaders have written a followup statement in response to Elon Musk's antisemitism. Here it is in full. You can read it and our previous statements here: xouthate.org Please help us spread the word.

Vital information!

This is horrifying

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This is horrifying

I also truly love this analogy. This comes up all media, sadly.

That Home Depot/milkshake analogy is going to live absolutely rent-free in my head forever.

I want a Kaiju recipe book of dishes to be prepared using megalithic ingredients.

How am I only just learning about the 67-foot-tall napa-cabbage sculpture in Handan, China?

I consistently manage not to be upset by things like this, because @seananmcguire.bsky.social knows her business. I wouldn’t want Mary Robinette to nuke her throat even if she offered, and “different perspective character, different narrator” seems sensible regardless.

I know I'm not the boss of any of y'all, but if you could stop emailing my poor PA to complain about how the narrator for the Tybalt book is not Mary Robinette, that would be swell. Tybalt's book has a non-Toby POV, and doing that voice for fifteen hours would have killed her throat.

I’ve re-“read” @seananmcguire.bsky.social’s Wayward Children series in audiobook format this week. They’re delightful in that format; they feel particularly suitable to being told as a story. Even more on a second read, the multiple perspective and setting/lore buildup over the series is wonderful

Reasonable, serious members of the GOP would insist Jordan publicly disavow this behavior. They should not support a Speaker who brings out the worst behavior.

Ugly pro-Jim Jordan voicemail left for GOP Congressman’s wife www.cnn.com/videos/polit...

Listen: Terrifying voicemail left for GOP lawmaker's wife over Jim Jordan vote | CNN Politicswww.cnn.com CNN has obtained exclusive audio of a threatening voice message to the wife of a congressman who opposes Jim Jordan’s bid for House speaker.

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Very powerful and unequivocal statement from Breaking the Silence, one of Israel's most maligned anti-occupation organizations

Schadenfreude goes here.

The British Museum is asking the public and experts to help recover stolen artifacts

British Museum asks public and experts to help recover stolen artefactswww.bbc.com The museum gives more details of 2,000 artefacts from its collection that are missing or stolen.

Skeeting @clpolk.bsky.social to thank them for Even Though I Knew the End. The hard-boiled detective’s style and fatalism in an aching romance is wonderful. The combination of setting and supernatural is one I didn’t know I needed. I’m still thinking days after the end.

Current status? Feeling called out by @naominovik.bsky.social .

Skeeting at @older.bsky.social about how much I enjoy the Mimicking of Known Successes. Others should know that the Jovian scifi, speculative academia, mystery, and characters work together so that I puzzled and thought, cackled audibly as the plot snapped together, and melt for the protagonists.

Just skeeting directly at @travisbaldree.bsky.social and say how much I enjoyed Legends and Lattes. Anyone else seeing this probably also should know this is a cozy, heartful story and I would struggle not to kill to protect several of the wonderful characters.