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@aefact.bsky.social
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ttrpgs / ip lawyer / patent and tm agent / raised by celery wholebeach.com ALT. Profile pic: Crash test dummy wearing an Icarus patch. Banner: A rug woven in pink, blue, yellow, brown, and green colors. ⚲ nonlocal, remote, variable

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@aefact 🌾 @aefact.bsky.social · 20h
“Thay, for all you've changed, so much remains the same…” Some light prep for next week, D&D 5.5e Encounters (Season of Magic) at a FLGS.
A map and booklet from an AD&D FR6 module (1988) featuring Thay, along with the D&D 5.5e PHB (2024), Arcana Unleashed (2026), and a Thay spread from D&D Worlds & Realms (2024)
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@aefact 🌾 @aefact.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Below-linked study examines shifts in scientific publications that referenced [Xschwitter] to Bluesky, impacts on scientific communication, and social metrics (aka altmetrics). From the Journal of Informetrics Vol 19, Issue 3, Aug 2025 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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@aefact 🌾 @aefact.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Historically, "labour-saving" technologies often underlied/belied a move towards employment in other ventures… And, when "saved" labour brings profits and amasses capital in those ventures, we should maybe _pause_ to ask whether stakeholders in that capital include more than just the shareholders… 🤷
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@aefact 🌾 @aefact.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Patent colleague jokes, re: Quantum computers, the uncertainty principle, and supercool stuff. -- #quantumcomputers #uncertaintyprinciple #supercooling
On a black background, text reads "9:59 am" followed by 4 rectangular shaped with rounded corners, the 1st dark grey and the others blue. Text in each of the 4 shapes reads as follows:

– 1st –
«So you understand how
Quantum computers work?»

– 2nd –
«I mean, yes.*

* Subject to the uncertainty
principle»

– 3rd –
«There are various models for "why" they work... And as long as the "how" of it doesn't venture too far into that field... [Aside: "It may generally be believed—but without intending to be bound by theory—that..."] It should be ok.»

– 4th –
«You got something "supercool" you're working on over there?»

[All text is white sans serif.]
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@aefact 🌾 @aefact.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Just ordered a print copy of this (via Lulu)... Looking forward to getting my hands on it!
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@aefact 🌾 @aefact.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
⚠️ Newly coined phrase alert: "Let him stew, like weak broth."
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@aefact 🌾 @aefact.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
And, this is how I learn?! 😱🫠 (Wasn't there supposed to be a plume of white smoke, or something? 💨) -- "I am not a Fortune 500 company..."
On a blue curtain background, off-white "comic sans"-like text reads:
and neither is hasbro anymore
they fell off the list in 2023
BUT THEY WERE

[Two fingertips are visible in the bottom right.]
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@aefact 🌾 @aefact.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
selling imagination. how D&D accidentally broke capitalism YouTube video by Answer in Progress worth it, imo. kudos @sabrinacruz.bsky.social + Taha Khan & Melissa Fernandes youtu.be/6tE3cqhUAjg
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how D&D accidentally broke capitalism
YouTube video by Answer in Progress
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@aefact 🌾 @aefact.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
« we believe that a strong economy is not an end in itself / but a means to a just society »
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@aefact 🌾 @aefact.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Are people* still talking about "disruption" like it's a good thing? [Aside: For example, Uber "disrupted" thousands of taxi drivers' retirement plans for their medallions...] * i.e., People other than the fellow – an investment banking VP – who was referenced in my quoted text below.
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@aefact 🌾 @aefact.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
From an email I sent today: « I'm a bit concerned that fellows like […] don't #neglect to exercise #ReasonableCare in (employing or) advocating for disruptive technology. « imo, The word element #disrupt is fraught with potential peril, and should no longer be used to reference anything good. »
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@aefact 🌾 @aefact.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
#AILaw #AILiability #AIRegulation
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Happen Upon RPGs @happenuponrpgs.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Play TTRPG games Halifax Nov. 8th @ Prince George Hotel! happenupon.square.site/shop/events/... We have three timeslots and amazing volunteer GMs signed up to run a tonne of RPGs from Blades in the Dark to D&D, Dungeon World 2, Monster of the Week, & more! @ipr.bsky.social @hfxgov.bsky.social
Nov 8th prince George hotel Halifax. Sign up now using code HURUMOUR for 60% off a seat. So many awesome TTRPGs to choose from including D&D, Mork Borg, Etc.
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@aefact 🌾 @aefact.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Hereby moving, once again, for an International treaty on #ArtificialIntelligence / #ai... And, it took about 30 mins this afternoon to make a second pass at actually drafting it… <Spoiler alert: Adapted from the #OuterSpaceTreaty.> What follows is for your reading enjoyment and perhaps more…
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@aefact 🌾 @aefact.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Beyond Backing : Table time is valuable for everyone… Here, a good discussion / starting point for some barriers to entry, er… um, I mean... barriers to play that interested folks can encounter (post-entry) with new ttrpgs. Kudos @thaumavore.blue! ✌️🫠 thaumavore.substack.com/p/why-your-r...
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Why your RPG will disappear
Selling the game is only part of the job. Somebody still has to run it.
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@aefact 🌾 @aefact.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Found this promo article from a couple years ago... Could be related. #Soulbreaker #SoulbreakerCodex www.promonews.tv/videos/2024/...
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A.G. Cook 'Soulbreaker' by Gustaf Holtenäs | Videos
The latest from director/animator Gustaf Holtenäs is the video for artist/producer and PC Music founder A.G. Cook - a fantastical, idiosyncratic &hellip;
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The Merry Mushmen @themerrymushmen.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Ben Felten, distinguished designer of Dungeon Inc, started a new blog about this indispensable game. Go there! www.dungeon-inc.com/2026/09/dung...
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Dungeon, Inc. if you hate corporate life?
I spent more time than is healthy going through the comments on Ben Milton's review of Dungeon, Inc. and a couple of comments reminded me o...
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@aefact 🌾 @aefact.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Can 2nd this sentiment... Also, the rumour around the water cooler is, a corporate focus group may favor rephrasing "killing Clients" as "expediting Donations"... ¯\_(👾)_/¯ #DungeonInc @mysteresdeparis.bsky.social @themerrymushmen.bsky.social
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@aefact 🌾 @aefact.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Below, just FYI, a list of current national security legislation in Canada. (I don't yet see any national AI or trade security legislation listed there, yet...) ✌️
On a white background, black italicized text: 
- Department of Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness Act
- Canadian Security Intelligence Service Act
- Communications Security Establishment Act
- National Security and Intelligence Committee of Parliamentarians Act
- National Security and Intelligence Review Agency Act
- Intelligence Commissioner Act
- Security of Canada Information Disclosure Act
- Royal Canadian Mounted Police Act
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@aefact 🌾 @aefact.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Great post. Worthwhile analysis. Went back and watched the subject @mysticartsdm.bsky.social and #BenMilton videos as well. And—their titles / thumbnails aside—there were some good kernels in there too, thanks to these "content" creators :) And, kudos @valerialoves.bsky.social. Another banger.
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@aefact 🌾 @aefact.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Forgot to mention, it has more to do with spacetime and ye olde H. P. Lovecraft quote* than it does D&D or magic ✌️🫠 * Screenshot of quote below:
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     “The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far. The sciences, each straining in its own direction, have hitherto harmed us little; but some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the deadly light into the peace and safety of a new dark age.”
– H. P. Lovecraft, The Call of Cthulhu (1928)
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@aefact 🌾 @aefact.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
"weapons of domination in the creation, perpetuation, and deepening of a gulf between classes in society" – Harry Braverman, writing about uses of science and technology (1974)
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@aefact 🌾 @aefact.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
downgrade a movie: Down
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@aefact 🌾 @aefact.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Example 1 (to be continued…)
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@aefact 🌾 @aefact.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Some light reading for a Saturday afternoon. Really, quite a beautiful (and useful) tome… Some might even say, magical 🧙‍♂️✨ 👍 Kudos to the whole @dndbeyond.com team :) [And, thanks to FLGS @lvlupgames.bsky.social in Mississauga, Ontario for all its inherent awesomeness too!] #D&D #ArcanaUnleashed
EXT. TREES – DAY
A book is propped up against pillows in the foreground, with trees visible in the background. The book is D&D's 'Arcana Unleashed' (alt. cover)EXT. TREES – DAY
A book is propped up against pillows in the foreground, with trees (and some water barely) visible in the background. The book – D&D's 'Arcana Unleashed' – is open to chapter 3 entitled "Creating Magical Worlds" at pages 46-47.
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@aefact 🌾 @aefact.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
For me, the value comes from affording a better window on the inherent setting, thru its creator's eyes.
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@aefact 🌾 @aefact.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Almost 9h later and the world has not broken down into a cacophony of discord : Hypothesis, check ✅ 🙌 Kudos @ Jay Jani & all the #wotcstaff @dndbeyond.bsky.social ✊ (All I can say is, good thing this isn't reddit ;) #UnearthedArcana #DnDdrops
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@aefact 🌾 @aefact.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
I proclaim, @dndbeyond.com's recent re-drop of Leomund's Lamentable Belaborment—an Unearthed Arcana (1985) spell—was itself, in this time, a self-aware insight or inflammatory statement about a polity nearer than we know. Else, on our intelligence, spend a turn discussing or arguing for or against.
A book is on a table. The book is Official Advanced Dungeons & Dragons 'Unearthed Arcana' (1985) by Gary Gygax. The table has a dark wood veneer worn thin and a metal frame on its right side.The top of a page in an open book bears the heading 'Leomund's Lamentable Belaborment', a spell for Official Advanced Dungeons & Dragons from 'Unearthed Arcana' (1985) by Gary Gygax. The spell's tombstone information and first 1½ paragraphs are shown.
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Melsonian Arts Council @melsonian-arts-council.itch.io · 03/09/2026
Even though promoting stuff on social media is like selling tupperware to your friends, it doesn't change the fact that we pressed the GO button on this now. www.backerkit.com/c/projects/m...
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A Bit O Troika
A street-by-street, door-by-door gazetteer of the Troikan borough of Ripplegate with spider banks, fire cults, population adjusters, and hundreds of other small businesses all mapped and packed with s...
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@aefact 🌾 @aefact.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
‘yo, bluesky! what, I gotta learn about cool sh!t like this from youtube?’ Slime, Warp & Solder looks siiick… Kudos @wilkiescandylab.com & @mythworks.bsky.social Saweeet #slugblaster 💥🛹 🚧🕳️🤸 🐌🔫 Kickflip over a quantum centipede™ youtu.be/dlneYbfM0D4
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Slugblaster: Slime, Warp, Solder Update! Sample Copy!
YouTube video by Mythworks
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@aefact 🌾 @aefact.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
we can call it FOMO, yet it's for awesome good value that i'll back this... next up, further explorations of #Troika!
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@aefact 🌾 @aefact.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Stunning artwork! 👀 (For the upcoming #Dolmenwood Book of Lairs) Kudos @pauhami.bsky.social (and #NecroticGnome, Gavin Norman, Chance Dudinack, @bradkerr.net & @exaltedfuneral.bsky.social)
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@aefact 🌾 @aefact.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Update: I have now pledged for the softcovers, without add-on cards or Codex at least for now.* * Can resolve if / when I end-up playing #crowsrpg in-person or online. Kudos @hellomcdm.bsky.social & @jamesintrocaso.bsky.social. Very much looking forward to seeing it in print!
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@aefact 🌾 @aefact.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Following (especially, re: collapsible, foldable, movable… :)
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@aefact 🌾 @aefact.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Santa?
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Satan from South Park Staring
Alt: Cartoon GIF of Satan (from an episode of the show South Park). With hellish flames animated in the background, he blinks.
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@aefact 🌾 @aefact.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
affect effect... fess...
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@aefact 🌾 @aefact.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Great video. Kudos. For me, I'm still on the fence yet hope to soon decide on my pledge level… Have the designers explained anywhere why physical equipment cards—which seem so essential to how we might run #CrowsRPG in person—aren't included with the physical edition softcovers? 1/3
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@aefact 🌾 @aefact.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
“We have the right to fairly trade in what we produce with our own hands and minds.” – #Anonymous affect effect... © 2025-2026 aeFact. No part of these posts, comments, or profile may be used or reproduced in any manner for the purpose of training artificial intelligence technologies or systems.
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@aefact 🌾 @aefact.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
I recognize that "table" syrup! (Made in Canada.) 🍁
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@aefact 🌾 @aefact.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
These days, some people* may suspect "free" hides a bundled pricing strategy... And/or, they* may feel, nonetheless, an advertised overall price accounts for included premium perks, makes for less consumer choice, and/or reflects an inferior deal. * Not me, at least not in this community :)
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@aefact 🌾 @aefact.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Picked up a physical copy of @limithron.bsky.social's #PirateBorg Starter Set from the fine folks at @heroesbeacon.bsky.social near the Bay of Fundy in Saint John, New Brunswick. Looking forward to getting it home with me, and tearing open the shrink-wrap, a bit later today.
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@aefact 🌾 @aefact.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Also, a shout-out to Up North Games (in Huntsville, Ontario) for the sweet 2026 #freeRPGday loot... www.instagram.com/p/DZ-yP1EGak4
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UpNorthGames on Instagram: "Free RPG Day this Saturday! Tons of free RPG Books and accessories! Doors open at 10"
5 likes, 1 comments - upnorthgames on June 24, 2026: "Free RPG Day this Saturday! Tons of free RPG Books and accessories! Doors open at 10".
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@aefact 🌾 @aefact.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
A little Sunday afternoon Terror in Tortuga reading, poolside. (Such a great quickstart adventure book:) -- #PirateBorg #freeRPGday
In the foreground, a PirateBorg 'Terror in Tortuga' quickstart rules and adventure book, from 2026 Free RPG Day. It sits on a blue and beige pillow. A swimming pool and concrete surround can be seen in the background.
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@aefact 🌾 @aefact.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Put to proper use, IP can be your friend... Leaving this here: www.musicradar.com/music-indust...
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@aefact 🌾 @aefact.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Current backed list: ‣Cairn 2x Feature ‣Slugblaster Slime, Warp & Solder ‣JR Lewis Shadowdark 3x Feature ‣Our Golden Age ‣Shadowdark Western Reaches ‣Vaults of Vaarn ‣Crack the Sun ‣Book of Unnumbered Worlds ‣Realis ‣DURF Expanded ‣Limithron Pirate Encounters ‣Rise of the Lazy GM ‣Seven-Part Pact
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@aefact 🌾 @aefact.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Leaving this here beeboobubie.substack.com/p/who-approv... in lowercase beeboobubie.substack.com
beeboobubie.substack.com
in lowercase | Habeeb | Substack
my thoughts in lowercase! Click to read in lowercase, by Habeeb, a Substack publication with hundreds of subscribers.
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@aefact 🌾 @aefact.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Super excited to learn that a two-part actual play of @jdragsky.bsky.social's Seven-Part Pact will be coming to @glasscannonnetwork.bsky.social… If you haven't done so already, consider backing the Kickstarter now: TTRPG.link/7PP -- @sjgames.com @plusoneexp.bsky.social #7pp
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Seven-Part Pact
A fantastical, ornate TTRPG from Possum Creek about the might and folly of powerful wizards bound by a venerable Pact.
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@aefact 🌾 @aefact.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
#DarkSunConfirmed
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@aefact 🌾 @aefact.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
They mentioned shrink-wrap in the livestream... If that was no joke, Wizards should then be able to sell physical copies, via your FLGS, with a @dndbeyond.bsky.social digital code inside... #justsayin (broken record over here 🤣) #DarkSun – Season of Survival (early 2027)
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