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Pantsless Tables has Blue T-Shirts and Pronouns! @pantslesstables.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

Pantsless Tables Presents 'That's What She Aid,' a mutual aid charity event benefitting @asouzagm.bsky.social! For the month of September, all our scheduled (and surprise) games will fundraise for his gofundme, ending in a 12-hour stream and raid train! Donate here: www.gofundme.com/f/keep-us-ho...

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Esther @dungeonminister.bsky.social · 05/07/2025

I know what it is to put a lot of work into an awards ceremony and receive pushback about it and I know your position isn't easy, but I would ask you to reconsider the tone of this response and consider the deeper dimensions of why Steve's video is relatable to people.

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Esther @dungeonminister.bsky.social · 05/07/2025

Moreover, this is already encouraging a trend of several white people having a dismissive or defensive reaction to a very well-reasoned good faith critique by a person of color. If you want to be for the community, this ain't how you respond when someone brings up something like this.

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Esther @dungeonminister.bsky.social · 05/07/2025

I completely understand how terrible it is to be harassed in the wake of opposing Zionism and this isn't meant to dismiss the very real impact of that, but this response is wildly defensive and really disappointing.

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Esther @dungeonminister.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

As one of my partners said to me re: the CRIT awards this year, ‘Damn, this category really is wall to wall white dudes, huh?’ That’s a big problem, and the fact that there’s limited transparency around how the CRITs work only contributes to the issue.

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🧚‍♀️Gwen // Alecto 📈 @glitchypixie.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

The thing that annoys me about the Crit Awards being a popularity contest is that everyone nominated DESERVES recognition, but because there's no real analysis, critique, or intention beyond winning votes, the actual art, work, and services are not ACTUALLY being talked about in a meaningful way

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Pantsless Tables has Blue T-Shirts and Pronouns! @pantslesstables.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

Stuff has been bothering me for a while, and the list kept getting longer so here's baby's first video essay featuring the CRiT awards. This includes my thoughts on the recent paid promotions, resharing of AI art and the lack of transparency from the team. www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Dfs...

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Paid Promos, AI Art, and Zero Transparency: AKA The CRIT Awards Problem

YouTube video by Pantsless Tables

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Pantsless Tables has Blue T-Shirts and Pronouns! @pantslesstables.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

We raised $1451 for PFLAG as part of Pantsless PRIDE 2025! Thank you to everyone who donated, to all our sponsors and cross promo collabs and ad buys, but most importantly thank you so much to my team. You're all incredible and I wouldn't be here without you. I love you all so much.

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Haus of Dreams @hausofdreams.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

So much incredible talent in this starter pack including folks who have visited and joined us here to collab and create at the Haus of Dreams!

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itch.io @itch.io · 09/12/2024

I kid you not, @itch.io has been taken down by Funko of "Funko Pop" because they use some trash "AI Powered" Brand Protection Software called Brand Shield that created some bogus Phishing report to our registrar, iwantmyname, who ignored our response and just disabled the domain

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illicit peanuts @illicitpeanuts.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

NEW GAME ALERT! Nesting rituals is a small duet game where you play two birds building a nest! Let us know what you think! illicitpeanuts.itch.io/nesting-ritu...

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Nesting Rituals by Illicit Peanuts

A short duet game about two birds building a nest.

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ᴰʳ Khalil Thirlaway @drtalksalot.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

Doctors, teachers, journalists, athletes, chefs... 🇮🇱 Israel targets anyone doing good for the people of 🇵🇸 Palestine, especially if their work is visible to the world. The 🇬🇧 UK, 🇺🇸 US, 🇩🇪 Germany and other Western govts are complicit in this genocide via money, weapons and political protection. STOP.

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Ari @aristarshower.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

It's finally tonight! I got absorbed by job search and forgot to post this but here's a free game to celebrate 1k. This is the game I wrote in my friends dms lmao hope y'all have fun! #ttrpg #sarpg illicitpeanuts.itch.io/nesting-ritu...

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Nesting Rituals by Illicit Peanuts

A short duet game about two birds building a nest.

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Nesting Rituals by Illicit Peanuts

A short duet game about two birds building a nest.

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Rami Ismail (رامي) @ramiismail.com · 01/12/2024

This game can use your support, if you're a publisher, too! I get that this game might be too risky a subject to publish, but I believe many of you do understand & appreciate the value of a Palestinian-made game. There's an anonymous donation option, if needed for your job. www.launchgood.com/1948

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Dreams on a Pillow - a videogame experience about the 1948 Nakba, based on a true story | LaunchGood

A pseudo-3D stealth adventure game about a land full of people being made into a people without land

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Christopher Helton @dorkland.itch.io · 26/11/2024

Friday is Creators Day at Itch.io and creators will get 100% of the money from sales on that day, so please support your favorite small press and indie publishers by buying things on Friday that you might have been thinking about buying.

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Jamie McKelvie @mckelvie.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

Side note to this: if you block someone you follow without unfollowing them, you're still registered as following, and show up as such for anyone who follows you and is looking at the page of the person you blocked. (Which may be the case for some of those 50+, but I mention so everyone knows)

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Ari @aristarshower.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

Lots of new people have been added since I last shared this if you followed me through this starter pack click on follow all again!

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Amitha Jagannath Knight @amitha.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

I've started a starter pack of South Asian Kidlit Creators (authors and/or illustrators)! Please spread the word and DM or comment on this post to be added or removed. go.bsky.app/E2AUDvR

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RahRah🫀 @rahrah.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

Hey here's a free two pager game I made if you get sad around holidays. You can get even more sad now.

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Ari @aristarshower.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

Oooh 1k followers! Thanks y'all! I'll drop a game tonight to celebrate!

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Ari @aristarshower.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

Ik it's frowned upon tm to type entire games directly into the layout sites/softwares but how do we feel about typing games into friends' discord dms

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Tab Creations @tabcreations.com · 22/11/2024

We had more requests from awesome #ttrpg designers than we could possibly fit into our first starter pack, so we're putting together a second! This list is still growing! Comment if you're interested in being added! Likes and shares appreciated! go.bsky.app/GYoBnaY #ttrpgCommunity #ttrpgs #dnd

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Selleha @selleha.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Doodled my new figurine. I love her so much.

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Ari @aristarshower.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

I am starting to realise I am so not interesting enough for this lmaoooo

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Ari @aristarshower.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

Okie dokie 5 faves, 5 tags Food: Gobi 65/noodles but it has to be crispy Drink: cold coffee Season: rainy Colour: teal Anime: dungeon meshi @tanfighter.bsky.social @smarticot.bsky.social @amaanhk.bsky.social @ciaraerenai.bsky.social @loregarden.bsky.social

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Ari @aristarshower.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

Aite I wanna do the lore thing too for every like this post gets I'll post one smol Ari lore (u can ask me things if u want but I might not answer lmao)

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Ari @aristarshower.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

South Asian ttrpg creators starter pack! I'll keep updating this for now it's only a few people Please comment below to be added! Thanks! #saRPG #TTRPGcommunity #TTRPG go.bsky.app/8fN9y13

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Ari @aristarshower.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

As promised #writingcommunity heres a starter pack for lit mags If you want to be added please reply below! go.bsky.app/LLYAHf6

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Desis & Dragons @desisndragons.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

As we welcome more folk to Bluesky, we want to make it easy to find great South Asian TTRPG stars. Here's some of our favorites: go.bsky.app/DwGUbZX

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Tab Creations @tabcreations.com · 21/11/2024

We're putting together a starter pack of #ttrpg designers in the indie and hobbyist space. The list is still growing! Comment if you're interested in being added! Likes and shares appreciated! go.bsky.app/89AfVdN #ttrpgs #dnd #ttrpgcommunity #ttrpgdesign

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Ari @aristarshower.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Will any of you be interested in word tag games for writing? I pick a random word and post a line from my writing with the word in it and tag three people they do the same and tag three each and goes on? I miss connecting with writers tbh #writingcommunity #amwriting

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Viktor @viktornavypink.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Thank you for 20 Kickstarter followers 🥳 Here's a celebratory thread about the dragons of Varris, their culture, language, significance, and legacy in the form of half-dragons, dragonborn, kobolds, dragon riders and dragon cults 1/12 🧵

An illustration depicting a purple-skinned humanoid dragon standing over a desk covered with books and potion bottles. Various arcane spell components lay around him. He wears a blue robe and has two tails and multiple sets of horns. Ancient ruins are seen in the background, drawn by @barnswallow.bsky.social.

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Ari @aristarshower.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

I've been in a high key anxiety attack for the past month and half and a low key anxiety era for my entire life and now my chest hurts haha

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mestre frávia @vinhaar.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

bsky.app/profile/did:...

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mestre frávia @vinhaar.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

There's a feed for this. You use a emoji and they send to an especific feed with just the posts you used the emoji(I'm not using the emoji to not send to my feed). Let me get you the link

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Tristan Gray @eidyngray.scot · 21/11/2024

Sorry but @authorsguild.bsky.social is talking absolute nonsense here. They don't seem to understand the tech they're talking about. "Three year contractual term" is nonsense. The data integration is permanent, there's no way to undo it without deleting it all. authorsguild.org/news/harperc...

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HarperCollins AI Licensing Deal - The Authors Guild

HarperCollins has sent out requests to thousands of authors for the inclusion of their nonfiction books in an AI license to an unknown AI company. There is some confusion about the offer in the press ...

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Vajra Chandrasekera @vajra.me · 21/11/2024

Saed is supporting his family of eleven people—including three children aged 5, 3, and 1 year old respectively—with food, a tent to make the winter survivable, and medicine for his mother's eyes. You don't have to be able to donate a lot to help. Every little bit will add up: gofund.me/8070e966

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Donate to Gaza Emergency Appeal- Help my family, organized by Saed Almadhoun

Dear Sir/Madam, In a world full of challenges, there are moments when help is… Saed Almadhoun needs your support for Gaza Emergency Appeal- Help my family

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Cezar Capacle @capacle.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

📣PSA for my fellow TTRPG creators: **AI generation disclosure on itch** Now on itch, your games have to be manually tagged (via a tick box in their edit page, after "description" and "tags") to show up in non-AI searches. Spread the news!

Screenshot of itch edit page: AI generation disclosure. Please disclose if this project contains content produced by generative AI tools such as LLMs, ChatGPT, Midjourney, Stable Diffusion, etc., even if you hand-edited it.

Yes — This project contains the output of Generative AI
No — This project does not contain the output of Generative AI

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Ari @aristarshower.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Made one! go.bsky.app/LLYAHf6

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Ari @aristarshower.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

As promised #writingcommunity heres a starter pack for lit mags If you want to be added please reply below! go.bsky.app/LLYAHf6

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franz @franzanth.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

We're trying to show even more diverse species, media, and ideas in the December art book. So far we've seen mosquito pixel art, brine shrimp photo, insect fakemon design, and digital paintings in the submission folder. If you do something else, submit your work now! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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Google Forms: Sign-in

Access Google Forms with a personal Google account or Google Workspace account (for business use).

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jae is not dead i promise 🩸✨ @naladraws.com · 20/11/2024

HUZZAH I finally got it to work!! This contains professional game designers, artists, writers, performers, or other creators in tabletop RPGs who identify as being multiple-marginalized people of color. HIRE US !!! go.bsky.app/SDNFXji

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