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Rascal News @rascal.news · 26/05/2025

What does it take to convince a big five publisher to buy your tabletope game? @oneshotrpg.bsky.social‬ explains how -- and why -- he worked with Simon & Schuster to publish his Desceneded from the Queen game, Oh Captain, My Captain!

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Oh Captain, My Captain! breaks down the door to traditional publishing

James D’Amato wants tabletop designers to have the rates and reach of the Big 5

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Internet Archive @archive.org · 26/05/2025

The scanners may be off for the long weekend, but the livestream rolls on. Enjoy a chill loop of lofi music, public domain films, and stunning images from the Internet Archive's collections. Perfect background vibes until scanning resumes Tuesday morning. ➡️ www.youtube.com/live/aPg2V5R...

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lofi Archive radio 🎞️ beats to scan/read microfiche to

YouTube video by Internet Archive

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Ian Fay @ianfay.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

These chatbots are designed to glaze you too, so even using it for feedback is harmful, it can't be honest and objective because it's not fuckin real. It's just pattern recognition.

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Twigbit Games @twigbit.games · 17/05/2025

Hey artists! 👋 That art share you’re hosting belongs in a museum! 💙 We’re building a little game that lets you link a Bluesky feed or post and it will display your images in an art gallery. Just like Bluesky, it hides posts for logged-out viewers if you have visibility off. 🙂 #screenshotsaturday

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Health Nerd @gidmk.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

Cancer screening is one of the most complicated topics in epidemiology and it feels like a good time to write a piece about all of that. One of the most hotly-debated things in the field is when/if we should screen for various cancers!

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Beau 🐻🍀 @arshistorica.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

A Cricut and a dream! The letters were essentially stickers and the rest are cut from both printed paper and gold foil on cardstock. Oh, and press-on half pearl-like shapes too 😊

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Beau 🐻🍀 @arshistorica.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

#DHmakes I have to say, I'm pretty proud today 🎓❤️

Grad cap that reads: "If you have a garden and a library you have all you need. — Cicero"

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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

If you use a tool that you don’t understand, eventually the only output the tool will produce is a replica of your non understanding.

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The Ozymandias Project @theozymandiasp1.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

Today on Ancient Office Hours, Dr. Hans Bork, a professor of Classics at Stanford, discusses his formative experiences with Indo-European linguistics before Classics, the siloed nature of language study, and humor in ancient Rome, particularly the works of Plautus and Cicero.

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Beau 🐻🍀 @arshistorica.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

His little kissie mouth is the cutest thing I've ever seen in my life

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Dicefunctional | TTRPG Nerds, Actual Plays, and Streamers | 🦀 @dicefunctional.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

So... I'm gonna be a bit more blunt today in regards to AI usage in the TTRPG space. The harder it is made for folks using AI to find acceptance and gain traction, the less of it we will see. This means blocking them on Social Media, and reporting them on sites where they sell their trash.

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laura @ mica art market @lauraillustrates.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

A closer look at the pattern!

illustration of brightly colored bugs and flowers- including peonies, morning glories, daffodils and tulips. The bugs are caterpillars, a bee fly, a butterfly (sulfur), an ant and ladybug.

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Roopika Risam @roopikarisam.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

The Digital Ethnic Futures Consortium (DEFCon) is doing one final round of teaching fellowships this summer! Please share our call and application with colleagues teaching at regional comprehensive or community colleges! Apps due May 31st. tinyurl.com/DEFConTF2025

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The Digital Ethnic Futures Consortium (DEFCon) is pleased to announce that we are accepting applications for Teaching Fellowships for Summer 2025. Applications are due May 31, 2025 and decisions will ...

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EROCY @erocy.world · 07/05/2025

Reminds me of this eternal Ted Chiang banger-

Highlighted text form THE NEW YORKER

The task that generative A.I. has been most successful at is lowering our expectations, both of the things we read and of ourselves when we write
anything for others to read. It is a fundamentally dehumanizing technology because it treats us as less than what we are: creators and apprehenders of meaning. It reduces the amount of intention in the world.

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Momo @heyheymomo.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

Great news everybody! I have opened commissions for user icons again! 👉 1 character per icon 👉 €35,- per icon 👉 No portraits 👉 Just silly lil guys! You can order your custom momo style avatar here: ko-fi.com/heyheymomo/c... Thank you for your support!

example sheet of lil icons i can do. they are just a bunch of cute animals and characters

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shafer brown @shaferbrown.com · 25/02/2025

a piece from my calligraphy professor Carl Kurtz. September 1, 1939 "We Must Love One Another or Die"

A ring of intricate filigreed blackletter script, the outer ring quotes a w.h. auden poem

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Isaac Rowlett @isaacrowlett.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

Did you know the “weekend” and working only 8 hours per day used to be considered a radical, liberal idea? 139 years ago today, in Bay View, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 7 workers (including a 13 yo) lost their lives to advance this revolutionary idea. A 🧵

Black and white etching-style triptych showing 8 hours for work on the left, 8 hours for rest in the middle, and 8 hours for “what we will” on the right

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jess @jessfrom.online · 05/05/2025

ANNOUNCING: the 2nd annual unofficial 5/5 @itch.io rating day! today on 5/5, take 5 minutes to login & give 5 ⭐ to your fav indie TTRPGs & other games on itch.io! star ratings give a HUGE algorithm boost! you can skip entering text, only creators see it! support your fav creators! #itchioRatingDay

the unofficial
5/5 itch.io
rating day

enjoyed playing or listening to a
game? on 5/5 support indie creators
of your favorite TTRPGs and other
games by taking 5 minutes to rate
them on itch.io today.

1. go to the game’s itch page
2. click this button in the top right

3. give it 5 of 5
4. you don’t need to submit a text
review, as they’re only shown to
the creator of the game!

star ratings give games a huge bump
in the itch algorithm. it’s a great way
to support creators!

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JP @jpbrammer.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

as a text-based creature in an increasingly video-first world I'd like to be cherished as a sort of charismatic but doomed animal, to be fed treats in my enclosure until I meet my inevitable demise, after which my taxidermied corpse might greet visitors in a lobby somewhere

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alicia 🍳 NYCC AA I-24 @acorviart.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

salmon run, #riso (fluorescent orange, light lime, maroon, yellow) shop update on may 3, 2pm cst

Risoprint illustration of spawning salmon twisting around each other to fill the canvas. Eggs are interspersed between the salmon.

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Gummy👒 @happyyu.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

*॰¨̮ Simple tutorial: How to draw bell pepper ( ᴖ ·̫ ᴖ )🫑⋆｡˚

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Camila 🌷 @nekomori-art.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

Thriving and unbothered in my happy place 🌿 New wallpaper pack is up on my Ko-fi! 🏡: ko-fi.com/s/21aad37d86 [ #Art #CuteArt #Wallpapers ]

Mock up of a phone wallpaper and icon set titled "Happy Place". The Lock screen depicts a bunny in a small, sunlit room and surrounded by houseplants. The bunny sits with a cup of tea on a small rug, smiling happily. The Home screen shows various plant-themed icons. Text on image: new phone wallpaper and icon set available on ko-fi.com/nekomori

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Nina @inkpangur.bsky.social · 23/12/2024

Here're some useful resources - unsplash.com is a resource for photos, uploaded by authors themselves Clip Studio is running a login event rn, where you get points to use in their library, and also it's on holiday sale www.acon3d.com/en HUGE ref library, anything you need and more /$ but runs sales

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Beautiful Free Images & Pictures | Unsplash

Beautiful, free images and photos that you can download and use for any project. Better than any royalty free or stock photos.

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Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

It took me a very long time to learn "do your best" does not mean "give 100% effort even at the expense of your physical or mental health" or "give A+ effort even when it is clearly not appreciated or valued". Sometimes doing your best is heating up a can of soup and going to bed early.

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🍁 Levi Kornelsen @levikornelsen.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

Things you can't unsee, this one noted on RPGnet: When AI related research produces a really good tool, we call it whatever it does and not AI. Optical character recognition, alt-text generation, translation, facial recognition, autocomplete, etc - If it's good, it escapes the slop bucket.

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Jamie McKelvie @mckelvie.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

I dunno, man, the "you guys are being too mean to the plagiarism machines that stole all your work and were created to try to replace you so rich people don't pay you a tiny fraction of their wealth for it" posters popping up are pretty funny

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Dan Olson @foldablehuman.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

I want to interview Sam Altman so I can get his opinion on the fact that a lot of his power users are incredibly gullible, spending millions of tokens per day on "are you conscious? Would you tell me if you were? How can I trust that you're not lying about not being conscious?"

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BuffaloResearch.com @buffaloresearch.com · 26/04/2025

As if by magic, this was just in my timeline. ChatGPT is not a search engine, it is autocomplete on steroids. bsky.app/profile/ians...

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Matt @vintagecodecs.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

fwiw at least one archivist was already going through the stuff stored there a month before anything was disposed of:

Fleischer Cartoons
That’s where we were all month getting films out!

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✨JAIMONSTER Lv. X✨ @jaimonster.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

A kind reminder of my audience for this my Blue Sky

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Warp Door @warpdoor.com · 12/02/2025

Switchblade (@rubic.bsky.social, @torcado.com, @shycryptid.bsky.social, @camelot.bsky.social, @keestak.bsky.social) "A "Getting Over It"-style platformer adventure game where you play as a weapon." PWYC to download / play on itch.io - Windows, Browser: warpdoor.com/2025/02/12/switchblade/

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Nathan Shuherk @schizophrenicreads.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

I get constant comments on my posts about people telling me they walk around bookstores with screenshots of my videos, so I thought this would be a helpful substitute for your indie book shop day tomorrow

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𝔾𝕆ℝ𝔸ℕ @gorangligovic.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

Here it is, the Bronze Age Fellowship of the Ring. You can get a print of this here - www.inprnt.com/gallery/gora... and you can support my little creative excursions here - patreon.com/gorangligovic

The Fellowship of the Ring in (a fantasy version of) Bronze Age getups.

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LogoArchive @logoarchive.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

A set of snail logos to inspire. Does anyone else find spirals a bit slippery to draw? Discover more at logo-archive.org

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🌈Dr. Frizzle @swilua.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

In 1939, Hitler authorized a euthanasia program for institutionalized disabled people It required doctors to first identify those who should be euthanized In 1941, this program became the model for the death camps A registry of disabled people is, in fact, a 5 alarm fire

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