Marie Buhtz
@mbuhtz.bsky.social
Wife, mom, gamer, costumer, more or less in that order. Too many interests, not enough lifetime. She/her
You can listen to the full episode here, though Diablo fans must suffer through half an episode of discussion about Xal'atath.
Lore Watch Podcast: Xal'atath is acting like a child, and so are Diablo's angels
Xal'atath is the subject of the first bit of another Lore Watch Podcast. Frequent listener Daikaiju had the astute observation that Xal'atath seemed upset
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Diablo's angels are always like: ugh, flesh beings, hate you guys. Except for our boy Tyrael. So it's not shocking that we haven't really seen them in Diablo 4... but going into Diablo 5, what role will the angels play? This and more Diablo discussion on this week's Lore Watch Podcast, now live.
Real ones know that the best comics event this weekend is the Philly Comics Expo! @phillycomixjam.bsky.social will have a table there (table 65), and I'll be behind the table from 4-5 tomorrow! (and also generally around most of the day!) Come by and get some great books (including mine!)
I really hope whichever devs are responsible for the lighting effects in WoW: Forever are having an excellent Friday, because, just look at this.
Blizzard Watch@blizzardwatch.com · 21h agoIn addition to the racial abilities everyone gets, the Priest class has unique racial abilities in their toolkit. Some were gamebreakingly phenomenal (FEAR WARD) and others are meh at best (I will always have a soft spot for OG Feedback). Here are the updated Priest racial abilities for WoW: Forever
700! Can you believe it? What is time? Anyway, if you have memories of the show, come post them on the discord (weekly topic channel). Or come listen live Sunday afternoon (Eastern time)!
Girls Gone WoW Podcast@ggwshow.bsky.social · yesterdayLook we've no idea how this happened, but *somehow* it's our 700th show on Sunday. Seven Hundred. Madness! If you have any memories to share, or burning questions pop over to bit.ly/ggw-discord and we'll share them in the show on Sunday!
This hobby is mis-named. It's not 'sewing,' it's 'ironing with occasional piecing.'
Support D&D and MtG workers UNIONIZING!! 💪 Sign the petition by Oct 13 to add your voice to the demands so Wizards can see that the community supports their employees being compensated fairly and protecting against AI: actionnetwork.org/forms/uwotcp...
Stand with Dungeons & Dragons and Magic Workers Forming a Union!
The Dungeons & Dragons team and Studio X (Magic: The Gathering; Duel Masters) are forming a union! We are joining the ranks of United Wizards of the Coast - CWA (UWOTC-CWA) and following in the…
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If you've ever wanted to think more about language, my podcast @lingthusiasm.com with @gretchenmcculloch.com has almost 10 years of monthly episodes, all originally researched and made by our little team. We make fun episodes about 40 minutes on a wide variety of topics, no linguistics necessary!
Gretchen McCulloch@gretchenmcculloch.com · 4d agoHey. The fragmentation of the social media landscape has been hard on indie #scicomm 🧪 projects So if you'd like to follow a podcast that's enthusiastic about #linguistics, could you check out @lingthusiasm.com? And if you think your followers might like to, could you give this a repost?
New Past Lives: Leprosy, Plague, and Life in Anglo-Saxon England. In one small cemetery in Cambridgeshire, a place called Edix Hill, we can see everything from the ties that bound a young disabled woman to her community to the impacts of a continent-sweeping pandemic. pod.link/1852618120/e...
Leprosy, Plague, and Life in Anglo-Saxon England
Listen to Leprosy, Plague, and Life in Anglo-Saxon England from Past Lives wherever you get your podcasts!
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Read Dr. Singer’s outstanding work!
Rachel Singer@rachelbsinger.bsky.social · 2y agoFor those of you who (wisely) haven’t been on Twitter lately and may not know, I recently had an article come out in the EHR on early medieval British plague and its broader historiographical implications. Just message me if you don’t have access and need a pdf! academic.oup.com/ehr/advance-...
In the US right now, our daily lives are dictated to us by the kleptocratic avarice of oligarchs. They steal everything they can from us, every single day. Something like the pre-Revolution Homespun Movement would be *extremely challenging* to accomplish. But just *imagine* us doing it...
I'm striking out on an adventure because Kevin said I wouldn't. Screw you, Kevin!! 😡 You don't know me!!
Kinda want to distribute this article to all the high schools in the US. Not admin or staff; to the students. apnews.com/article/fran...
Protesting pupils blockade French high schools again, testing a weekslong movement
Thousands of demonstrators marched in cities across the country to support the teenagers’ demands for more education funding, increasing pressure on the government of outgoing President Emmanuel Macro...
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Just think about that. No land, no lights, no ships in sight. You step off your ship into a tiny raft in the moonlight and hope for the best. Seems like they did everything right. They were prepared for an emergency. Still incredibly lucky. It took 18 hours to rescue them.
Whale sinks yacht in South Pacific, sailors rescued alive 18 hours later
A sperm whale cracked the hull of a yacht sailing off New Zealand, forcing four sailors into a day-and-night fight for survival on the high seas.
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I keep seeing jokes about the boat that sunk after hitting a whale. I love stories of orcas sinking megayachts as much as anybody, but this was 4 people on a sailboat between Australia & New Zealand. They got into a life raft in the middle of the night in a big empty ocean and are lucky to be alive.
Woohoo!! Doghouse Systems and Valve were fabulous for my son's wish 🥰 (started sophomore year with a concussion, ended it with cancer - quite the rough year)
Garrett Weinzierl@garrettart.bsky.social · 4d agoIt's finally happening! By the power of Doghouse Systems & Make-A-Wish Massachusetts/Rhode Island the GG Pod X Core crossover is real! See y'all tonight!
Part of going back to the beginning of #WorldofWarcraft in WoW: Forever is finding weapons trainers. And wondering why no one in Ironforge can teach me to use a staff. IT'S JUST A BIG STICK, GUYS, COME ON!! Not that I'm upset. I should have checked the trainer list before getting my hopes up.
Where to find weapon trainers in WoW Classic and WoW: Forever
Part of the WoW Classic leveling experience is weapons training, and this carries over into World of Warcraft: Forever. Each race and class combination can
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We wrote down directions, and owned map books. Sometimes you pulled over to review the map and/or your written directions. You also built up a mental map of your greater area in a way that reflexively following gps directions just doesn't do.
🎃 Spooky Shoshana 🎃@shoshana.bsky.social · last wk.What was driving like before GPS? Did you just wing it? Did you only go places you knew how to get to? Were you just better at remembering steps to get somewhere?
Or if you don't like listening, all Lingthusiasm episodes have human-made transcripts with all the proper names and bits in other languages written correctly!
Marie Buhtz@mbuhtz.bsky.social · 4d agoLingthusiasm absolutely deserves a spot in your podcast rotation! Or if you don't listen to podcasts, Lingthusiasm could be the first?
Lingthusiasm absolutely deserves a spot in your podcast rotation! Or if you don't listen to podcasts, Lingthusiasm could be the first?
Gretchen McCulloch@gretchenmcculloch.com · 4d agoHey. The fragmentation of the social media landscape has been hard on indie #scicomm 🧪 projects So if you'd like to follow a podcast that's enthusiastic about #linguistics, could you check out @lingthusiasm.com? And if you think your followers might like to, could you give this a repost?
Many Minds is now distributed on YouTube! (Still in audio-only format, for the time being.) www.youtube.com/watch?v=hB0b...
Cognitive offloading and its consequences
YouTube video by Many Minds podcast
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Episode 165 is now out! Join @tbkzord.bsky.social and @benbumhoffer.bsky.social as we talk about the latest news, World of Warcraft DnD, character roleplay pivots, and much more! Check it out at www.dndiscussions.com/2026/10/05/e... or your podcast platform of choice! #dnd #ttrpg
Episode 165 – World of Warcraft, Lamordia, and Roleplay – DnDiscussions
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I haven't posted anything for a while, so here's some new #paleoart for #FossilFriday: Cetiosaurus in a Middle Jurassic landscape. I've had to compose and execute this in just two days, so hopefully it looks OK! (All data for the plant recons comes from @palaeojules.bsky.social.) #dinosaur #sciart
If the things you say are designed solely to get other people to believe what you want them to, or do what you want them to, the concept of someone who isn't going to deviate from their beliefs out of convenience doesn't scan.
At a really fundamental level Leo XIV is just a person with sound, well-reasoned, moral stances on the world and how life should be lived who isn't afraid to say those things in public. That kind of person simply does not make sense to business leaders and politicians for whom speech is convenience.
Parkscope Joe@parkscopejoe.bsky.social · last wk.This is insane.
