Prof. Porterfield
@profporterfield.bsky.social
"I have three spirits, and their names are Foe, Faith, and Truth." Texan, Typesetter, Conjurer, Author, Bookworm, Modeler, Teacher, Student, and Self. As steady and yet changeable as the hands of a clock. http://www.professorporterfield.com/
Around six years ago I started building a world. I've helped put together a detailed CoC setting — 1950s take on Arkham, with cats and dogs and humans as player characters. Come take a look at what I've made and tell me what you think: www.worldanvil.com/w/curiosity-...
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If you are anti-LGBTQ+, Anti-Black - need I go down the whole danged list? Surely you know the rest by now. If that's you just go on a git!! Shoo stay away from me and mine. The unfriend button, the block button, whatever is sooo easy to use. Now ya'll go now and don't let the door hit ya. Shoo fly!
Running out of body bags, using forklifts to transfer corpses into makeshift morgues, a mortician conducting 200 funerals in a month when he usually does 30, crematories running at double capacity… And these senators just want to memory-hole it all www.nytimes.com/2020/04/30/n...
‘We Ran Out of Space’: Bodies Pile Up as N.Y. Struggles to Bury Its Dead (Gift Article)
The coronavirus crisis is overwhelming New York’s system for burying the dead.
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Still the greatest Call of Cthulhu character sheet evar!
Gerry Rafferty, Baker Street A tremendous song that was released before he left us.
Gerry Rafferty - Baker Street (Official Video)
YouTube video by Gerry Rafferty
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'An Instinct for Murder', the first episode of Star Cops, was broadcast on this day in 1987.
Jemima Shore Investigates - Dr. Ziegler's Casebook (6th July 1983). In one of his early post-Who roles, Tom Baker plays ... well, Tom Baker.
Some things I worked on last night. These are for an upcoming Role-playing game I am going to be running for some friends.
"The Anglo-Saxon race loves justice, and will eventually do it, where it does not conflict with their own interests." ~ Charles Waddell Chestnut, A Matter of Principle, Tales of Conjure And The Color Line #Booksky
People who never lived in LA won't understand the magnitude of this loss: Echo Park's beloved Burrito King is no more, and for those of us who regularly made the pilgrimage to its greasy counters and dirty facade, the city will never be the same. lataco.com/burrito-king...
Burrito King In Echo Park, 1968-2026 ~ L.A. TACO
The scratches in the counter, the wobble in the stools, the patina of seasoning accumulated on the flat-top. You can't make all that up out of nothing.
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There is no better tribute to Penelope Keith than the laughs Margot Moments is giving us all a full 50 years on from their first appearance. Let's raise a glass to Penelope and the role that will be forever associated with her. Bringing forward one I only really noticed recently...
Hotter than a firecracker on the Fourth of July the East Coast will be ICYMI www.dailykos.com/stories/2026...
Hotter than a firecracker on the Fourth of July the East Coast will be ICYMI
A post on Daily Kos reports how Europe is getting hit with extreme temperatures; I had written about it several days earlier as well. (A friend of mine in Yorkshire reports seeing temperatures in the…
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If you didn’t already love Texas, you will after this speech. youtu.be/CamYITDOLDE?...
The Cause of Texas | James Talarico Accepts US Senate Nomination
YouTube video by James Talarico
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RIP Legend! www.cbc.ca/news/enterta... Canadian singer David Clayton-Thomas, who led Blood, Sweat & Tears to hits and Grammys, dead at 84 | CBC News
Canadian singer David Clayton-Thomas dead at 84; drove Blood, Sweat & Tears to new heights | CBC News
David Clayton-Thomas, the powerhouse Canadian singer who lifted American band Blood, Sweat & Tears to the heights of pop music success, including Grammy awards and one of the biggest-selling albums of...
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Injustice Served: Alleged Antifa Terrorists in Texas sentenced to 50 - 100 years for protest gone wrong www.dailykos.com/stories/2026...
Injustice Served: Alleged Antifa Terrorists in Texas sentenced to 50 - 100 years for protest gone wrong
Frankly, I was waiting for someone to post a story on this latest attack on free speech and left leaning protests, but I got tired of waiting. This initial situation was obviously a protest that sadly...
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Donald Pleasence is on VO duty for this 1973 PIF.
Your Prime Day reminder that half of Amazon warehouse workers struggle with food & housing costs. A third have had to rely on government assistance like SNAP — which was gutted last year. If Bezos can spend $500M on a yacht, Amazon can afford to treat its workers with dignity.
New RPG Review is up. Today we're talking about SPACESHIPS!!! youtu.be/GiR5R0KRrFA
Traveller Ship Catalogs - RPG Review
YouTube video by Seth Skorkowsky
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On this day in 1973, the final episode of The Green Death was broadcast.
Trump deflects from Reflecting Pool failure by arresting 'vandals' www.dailykos.com/stories/2026...
Trump deflects from Reflecting Pool failure by arresting ‘vandals’
Somebody is desperate for a scapegoat!
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"You're an author? Would I know anything you've written?" "Have you heard of the book Eat Pray Love?" "Oh wow. I have, actually!" "Well, one of my books was printed in a typeface not totally dissimilar to the one in that."
Juneteenth marks the celebration of America's second independence day. Like the people in this photo—Texans celebrating Juneteenth in 1900—we know that progress hasn't made our union perfect. But we can recommit to reaching toward that more perfect union together. Happy Juneteenth.
The Seven Social Sins are: Wealth without work. Pleasure without conscience. Knowledge without character. Commerce without morality. Science without humanity. Worship without sacrifice. Politics without principle. -Frederick Lewis Donaldson in Westminster Abbey, London, on March 20, 1925
“The surest way to shrink evil is to stand taller than it” www.dailykos.com/stories/2026...
“The surest way to shrink evil is to stand taller than it”
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![8-panel Comic. (1) Tornado Warning [tornado in the distance of a house] A tornado has been detected; take shelter (2) Tornado Watch [Person with bun talking to another person pointing at diagrams on screen] Conditions are favorable for tornadoes to form (3) Tornado precaution [person] Tornadoes happen sometimes, so be ready (4) Tornado Inkling [Person with hand on face] No tornadoes yet, but we have a feeling (5) Tornado Suspicion [Person looking up at clouds] Weird clouds have been observed (6) Tornado Premonition [Person looking at birds flying in tornado shape and two birds sitting on scythe-like structure with skull beneath] Tornado portents and omens have been observed (7) Tornado Recollection [Person with thought bubble containing tornado] Tornadoes have occurred in the past (8) Tornado Contemplation [Person sitting and saying, “Wow.”] Tornadoes are very big and powerful](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreifxb7ror6yzflj5i3bqcsb74onpagh5acfbdqiosplmyiqil6sdgi)
![Comic: Holes. Elevation is to scale relative to sea level and ground level. Land shapes and horizontal distances are not to scale. [Lines for every 1k meters starting from -12k up to +4k: Bingham Canyon Mine (US), Veryovkina Cave (Georgia), MPONENG Gold Mine (South Africa), Sanford Laboratory (US), Giant Crystal Cave (Mexico), Derinkugo Underground City (Turkey), WIPP (US), Restof Salt Mine, with an arrow pointing at the bottom that reads “oops” (US), San Andreas Fault Observatory Borehole (US) CFB North Bay (Canada), Woodingdean Water Well (dug by hand) (United Kingdom), Diefen-Bunker (Canada), Deep Underground Command Center (Canceled in 1965) (US), Lake Peigneu, with another oops arrow next to it (US), Sydney Opera House Parking (Australia), Onkalo Spent Nuclear Fuel Repository (Finland), Hudson River, Delaware Aqueduct (US), Raven Rock (US), Wieliczka and Bochina Salt Mines (Poland), Atchison Storage Facility (US), Snolab (Canada), Detroit Salt Mine (US), Hongyancun Subway Station (China), Nuclear Test Shafts (North Korea), Super Kamiokande Neutrino Detector (Japan), Gran Sasso Laboratory (Italy), Peak above Gran Sasso, Modane Laboratory (France), Peak above Modane Laboratory, Gotthard Tunnel (Switzerland), Peak above Cheyenne Bunker and Gotthard Tunnel, Cheyenne Mountain Bunker (US), Kola Superdeep Borehole (Russia) - deepest artificial point below surface at -11917m, Lake Baikal (Russia), sediments under Lake Baikal, IDDP-2 Borehole (Iceland), Dead Sea (multiple countries), Ryfylke Tunnel (Norway), Pantal Remis Mine with another oops arrow (Malaysia), Great Blue Hole (Belize), Joides Resolution Expedition 307 (Atlantic Ocean), Deepwater Horizon Borehole (Gulf of Mexico) - deepest artificial point below sea level at -11944m, Glomar Challenger Hole 504B (Pacific Ocean), Mohole (Pacific Ocean), Joides Resolution Expedition 329 (Pacific Ocean), Mariana Trench (Pacific Ocean)]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreia43wl3gwyqydc47yse5gbdzybk2edtcibxdtr5jf4gqorc676ap4)
