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online ghoul

tabletop role play obsessive, science lover, infosec gadabout, copyright dilettante, foia cheerleader, journalist superfan, cryptid compatriot, natural world observer.

2024: i use some pronouns and articles now, grashdok the neo-grammarian forgive me. still avoid capitalization, too showy

watching one battle after another on a whim, thinking "this feels like some thomas pynchon shit"

oh, right

ok, tech ghoul needs an online friendly #ttrpg for mostly newbs (but friends that also know each other)

mothership? mork borg? other osr games that begin with "m"?

Warhammer 401k

Huck trying to shovel snow from the dog run with his nose

#Dogsofmastodon

According to Tech Radar, a reason to avoid using Vivaldi web browser is "No AI-powered assistant". Yup - and we're proud of it! If you don't want slop while you shop, or scurf while you surf, give the European browser a try.
https://vivaldi.com/blog/a-i-browsers-the-price-of-admission-is-too-high/
Scientists sequence a woolly rhino genome from a 14,400-year-old wolf’s stomach
Fortunately for paleogeneticists, wolf puppies don't chew their food thoroughly.
https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/01/scientists-sequence-a-woolly-rhino-genome-from-a-14400-year-old-wolfs-stomach/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

Rare images of Europe's ghost cat https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20260112-rare-images-of-europes-ghost-cat

"In 2020, wildlife photographer Vladimír Čech Jr was trudging through the snow in a military zone in the Doupov Mountains, a remote, rugged area in the Czech Republic. His goal: to take photos of the #EuropeanWildcat, a species so elusive, it had been thought to be extinct in several European regions... Once thought to have vanished from Czechia in the 20th Century, wildcats had been documented in the Doupov Mountains in the late 2010s"

At long last, Swords Without Master shall slip the bonds of Worlds Without Master, issue 3!

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/unwrittenearths/swords-without-master?ref=4g25pr

Funded so fast, I'm reeling!

in tech ghoul's interpretation, instead of spell energy helms require the pilot to move their butt real fast on the seat
yup thinking about spelljammer ships again