Eric L-M Shuman
@barzai.com
Historian ecologist; experiential. Star trucker, designer, writer. Masters (Ancient Mediterranean). 🎲🌌🏺♻️🪔🌱🖖🦬
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Just cleaned out and blocked a bunch of rando male followers on Insta after I got a harassing, pervy DM. Realized the chud was probably creeping on my colleagues too.
Men! this is a reminder! Clean out the randos in your followers to protect the women in your life!!
Men! this is a reminder! Clean out the randos in your followers to protect the women in your life!!
September 6, 2026 at 7:28 PM
Just cleaned out and blocked a bunch of rando male followers on Insta after I got a harassing, pervy DM. Realized the chud was probably creeping on my colleagues too.
Men! this is a reminder! Clean out the randos in your followers to protect the women in your life!!
Men! this is a reminder! Clean out the randos in your followers to protect the women in your life!!
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“There's nothing wrong with you. You're different, and that's what makes you so special. Come be in the future with us. Bring your specialness to the future, because we need you.”
I asked @wilwheaton.net about the intersection of Star Trek and mental health and his answer is so powerful.
I asked @wilwheaton.net about the intersection of Star Trek and mental health and his answer is so powerful.
September 6, 2026 at 6:52 PM
“There's nothing wrong with you. You're different, and that's what makes you so special. Come be in the future with us. Bring your specialness to the future, because we need you.”
I asked @wilwheaton.net about the intersection of Star Trek and mental health and his answer is so powerful.
I asked @wilwheaton.net about the intersection of Star Trek and mental health and his answer is so powerful.
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September 6, 2026 at 7:00 PM
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Status report, "Just Mentioning This..." Redux: I note an uptick in recent days in Discourse on alternative YA material about wizardry. So if you're interested, please note: the 9-book package of these are on #sale! 🙂bit.ly/YWNMESET
YW New Millennium 9-Volume Box Set
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September 6, 2026 at 6:48 PM
Status report, "Just Mentioning This..." Redux: I note an uptick in recent days in Discourse on alternative YA material about wizardry. So if you're interested, please note: the 9-book package of these are on #sale! 🙂bit.ly/YWNMESET
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60 years ago today Star Trek premiered on Canadian television. Canadian actor James Doohan played the incomparable James Montgomery Scott. A.K.A. "Scotty." 🖖🏻🤟🏻
September 6, 2026 at 3:34 PM
60 years ago today Star Trek premiered on Canadian television. Canadian actor James Doohan played the incomparable James Montgomery Scott. A.K.A. "Scotty." 🖖🏻🤟🏻
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NEW: The Department of Homeland Security has subpoenaed REI (yes, the outdoor retailer) for details on anyone who bought a specific green beanie in the Minneapolis area.
It's one part of a larger, and very disturbing, effort to go after people protesting ICE:
It's one part of a larger, and very disturbing, effort to go after people protesting ICE:
ICE Wants to Know Everyone Who Bought a Certain Green Beanie From REI in the Last 2 Years
Homeland Security Investigations agents hit the outdoor retailer with a controversial subpoena as part of a dragnet search for the identities of protesters who entered a Minnesota church in March.
www.wired.com
September 4, 2026 at 3:23 PM
NEW: The Department of Homeland Security has subpoenaed REI (yes, the outdoor retailer) for details on anyone who bought a specific green beanie in the Minneapolis area.
It's one part of a larger, and very disturbing, effort to go after people protesting ICE:
It's one part of a larger, and very disturbing, effort to go after people protesting ICE:
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16:53 on Tuesday September 1st, over Venezuela
September 3, 2026 at 11:35 PM
16:53 on Tuesday September 1st, over Venezuela
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Preview looks weird. Here are the covers of JDR and PNJ.
September 1, 2026 at 10:52 PM
Preview looks weird. Here are the covers of JDR and PNJ.
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I made a thing, and now I’m making more. Cheap as free, that's our price match guarantee. Pound for pound it's a better value than the $1.50 Hot Dog.
Stars Eternal JDR on DTRPG now. PNJ coming to digital, Winter 2026-27.
legacy.drivethrurpg.com/product/5481...
Stars Eternal JDR on DTRPG now. PNJ coming to digital, Winter 2026-27.
legacy.drivethrurpg.com/product/5481...
Stars Eternal: JumpDrive Rules - Barzai Observatory | DriveThruRPG.com
Stars Eternal is a space opera tabletop role-playing game (TTRPG) focused on games and stories with elements like alien
legacy.drivethrurpg.com
September 1, 2026 at 10:44 PM
I made a thing, and now I’m making more. Cheap as free, that's our price match guarantee. Pound for pound it's a better value than the $1.50 Hot Dog.
Stars Eternal JDR on DTRPG now. PNJ coming to digital, Winter 2026-27.
legacy.drivethrurpg.com/product/5481...
Stars Eternal JDR on DTRPG now. PNJ coming to digital, Winter 2026-27.
legacy.drivethrurpg.com/product/5481...
Preview looks weird. Here are the covers of JDR and PNJ.
September 1, 2026 at 10:52 PM
Preview looks weird. Here are the covers of JDR and PNJ.
I made a thing, and now I’m making more. Cheap as free, that's our price match guarantee. Pound for pound it's a better value than the $1.50 Hot Dog.
Stars Eternal JDR on DTRPG now. PNJ coming to digital, Winter 2026-27.
legacy.drivethrurpg.com/product/5481...
Stars Eternal JDR on DTRPG now. PNJ coming to digital, Winter 2026-27.
legacy.drivethrurpg.com/product/5481...
Stars Eternal: JumpDrive Rules - Barzai Observatory | DriveThruRPG.com
Stars Eternal is a space opera tabletop role-playing game (TTRPG) focused on games and stories with elements like alien
legacy.drivethrurpg.com
September 1, 2026 at 10:44 PM
I made a thing, and now I’m making more. Cheap as free, that's our price match guarantee. Pound for pound it's a better value than the $1.50 Hot Dog.
Stars Eternal JDR on DTRPG now. PNJ coming to digital, Winter 2026-27.
legacy.drivethrurpg.com/product/5481...
Stars Eternal JDR on DTRPG now. PNJ coming to digital, Winter 2026-27.
legacy.drivethrurpg.com/product/5481...
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Beaver shirt! (From @roryblank.bsky.social )
September 1, 2026 at 10:34 PM
Beaver shirt! (From @roryblank.bsky.social )
A dude was telling me all about how he used AI on an RPG system doc and the game that came out was garbage. Inexplicable, sad, perplexing.
Making my game absolutely feels like watching some incredibly unexpected and surprisingly personal thing of my dreams take shape. Art has heart.
Making my game absolutely feels like watching some incredibly unexpected and surprisingly personal thing of my dreams take shape. Art has heart.
August 22, 2026 at 4:04 AM
A dude was telling me all about how he used AI on an RPG system doc and the game that came out was garbage. Inexplicable, sad, perplexing.
Making my game absolutely feels like watching some incredibly unexpected and surprisingly personal thing of my dreams take shape. Art has heart.
Making my game absolutely feels like watching some incredibly unexpected and surprisingly personal thing of my dreams take shape. Art has heart.
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ProPublica’s latest Impact Report is a must read and a huge validation of our local journalism. And it’s beautiful too. www.propublica.org/atpropublica... Kudos to partners @ctmirror.org and @readfrontier.bsky.social for prominent billing!
August 19, 2026 at 1:26 AM
ProPublica’s latest Impact Report is a must read and a huge validation of our local journalism. And it’s beautiful too. www.propublica.org/atpropublica... Kudos to partners @ctmirror.org and @readfrontier.bsky.social for prominent billing!
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A seminal American story in two plaques
August 19, 2026 at 3:01 AM
A seminal American story in two plaques
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the government of canada’s advice on what to do if you encounter a moose is “moose are unpredictable” & I just feel like this is a particularly dazzling proof of that
August 19, 2026 at 3:05 AM
the government of canada’s advice on what to do if you encounter a moose is “moose are unpredictable” & I just feel like this is a particularly dazzling proof of that
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Planet ahoy! We could sail there through the vastness of space. What a good world.
August 19, 2026 at 3:10 AM
Planet ahoy! We could sail there through the vastness of space. What a good world.
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I’m on vacation but I gotta say, as much fun as it is to debate woke1 and Hasan Piker, the Trump administration is currently engaged in mass murder on the high seas as surely as any serial killer or lynch mob. And viewed from the distance of vacation, The Discourse doesn’t seem to give a shit.
August 14, 2026 at 3:21 AM
I’m on vacation but I gotta say, as much fun as it is to debate woke1 and Hasan Piker, the Trump administration is currently engaged in mass murder on the high seas as surely as any serial killer or lynch mob. And viewed from the distance of vacation, The Discourse doesn’t seem to give a shit.
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The death estimate is very uncertain but the lower bound is over 8 million and the upper bound is over 19 million. All while US spending has increased overall. Just a monstrous policy choice by monstrous people.
14 million souls ended in a single year by Elon Musk's cruelty and stupidity
Here are some of the comparisons:
Rwandan genocide: 800k dead
Cambodian genocide: 3 million dead
The Holocaust: 7 million dead
Here are some of the comparisons:
Rwandan genocide: 800k dead
Cambodian genocide: 3 million dead
The Holocaust: 7 million dead
New estimate of Elon Musk’s death toll just dropped www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
August 13, 2026 at 7:20 PM
The death estimate is very uncertain but the lower bound is over 8 million and the upper bound is over 19 million. All while US spending has increased overall. Just a monstrous policy choice by monstrous people.
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Been working on something
August 9, 2026 at 3:14 AM
Been working on something
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Gregory was a student in @jenniferberkshire.bsky.social's journalism class as part of Boston College Prison Education Program. @covingtonedu.bsky.social spoke with Jennifer about BCPEP for our podcast and visited her class at MCI-Shirley earlier this year:
August 13, 2026 at 3:59 PM
Gregory was a student in @jenniferberkshire.bsky.social's journalism class as part of Boston College Prison Education Program. @covingtonedu.bsky.social spoke with Jennifer about BCPEP for our podcast and visited her class at MCI-Shirley earlier this year:
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Somebody tell 30-50 feral hogs guy that the answer—as always—is community
Controlling wild pigs can work if it’s a group effort
Teaming groups of private landowners with federal efforts yielded measurable success, at least in terms of defending cornfields.
share.google
August 13, 2026 at 2:34 PM
Somebody tell 30-50 feral hogs guy that the answer—as always—is community
Been working on something
August 9, 2026 at 3:14 AM
Been working on something
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HiRISE 3D: Hale Crater Gullies
The gullies are very deeply incised with extensive debris aprons. There are piles of material (boulders? snowpack?) that clog some of the gully channels.
https://www.uahirise.org/anaglyph/ESP_092232_1450_ESP_092311_1450_RED
NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona
The gullies are very deeply incised with extensive debris aprons. There are piles of material (boulders? snowpack?) that clog some of the gully channels.
https://www.uahirise.org/anaglyph/ESP_092232_1450_ESP_092311_1450_RED
NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona
July 28, 2026 at 5:00 PM
HiRISE 3D: Hale Crater Gullies
The gullies are very deeply incised with extensive debris aprons. There are piles of material (boulders? snowpack?) that clog some of the gully channels.
https://www.uahirise.org/anaglyph/ESP_092232_1450_ESP_092311_1450_RED
NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona
The gullies are very deeply incised with extensive debris aprons. There are piles of material (boulders? snowpack?) that clog some of the gully channels.
https://www.uahirise.org/anaglyph/ESP_092232_1450_ESP_092311_1450_RED
NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona