iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Strangers in a Tangled Wilderness @tangledwilderness.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

People hate what is happening, which means there are people around you who want to help stop it. You are not alone in wanting to take action. Step up and help; it works.

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Astral Frontier @astralfrontier.org · 06/10/2025

Social media site that’s just an RSS feed aggregator under the hood. Every account is an RSS or Atom URL. Turning comments into replies on posts in a consistent way would be the big benefit

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Binary @binarystar.games · 05/10/2025

Papercult is still up and running and thriving, which is something I *should* periodically remind people when the owner of this site isn't crashing out, but especially when they are: papercult.club

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Binary @binarystar.games · 29/09/2025

VOID_SHIFT is out (digitally)! It's a solo deckbuilder that takes like, I don't know, half an hourish to roll through a job. 30 cards to assemble a 15 card deck, 6 job cards that comprise what you're doing. binary-star-games.itch.io/void-shift

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VOID_SHIFT by Binary Star Games

Assemble your deck and don't get fired.

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 02/10/2025

1. Led by Elon Musk, the far-right has exploded in a campaign to get Netflix to remove shows with queer and trans characters. If Netflix capitulates to their demands, an already strained market for LGBTQ+ animators might become even more dire. Subscribe to support our journalism.

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Elon Musk Leads Campaign To Force Netflix To Remove Shows With Trans Characters

Musk's posts have been seen by tens of millions of users, and many conservatives are now attempting to force Netflix into a removal of LGBTQ+ content.

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Rascal News @rascal.news · 01/10/2025

Unionized workers with @kickstarterunited.org are poised to strike if the crowdfunding platform's management doesn't approve their new contract. The union has demanded a four-day workweek, minimum living wage salaries, and protections against generative AI encroachment.

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Kickstarter United workers will strike beginning October 2

Demands include enshrining the four-day, 32-hour work week in their contract.

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 30/09/2025

I just got a VERY interesting email that allies in congress were upset that so many of my readers were calling about the anti-trans provisions. I'm here to say: good. I won't let them throw our rights under the bus by cover of night. All's that to say, keep up the calls. They're hearing you.

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Astral Frontier @astralfrontier.org · 28/09/2025

If you ever played or even read through something I wrote, a comment would be great even if it sucked. “I posted nothing“ is indistinguishable from “this wasn’t worth my time“ to me, and the latter is the worst possible outcome for me

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Astral Frontier @astralfrontier.org · 28/09/2025

My dungeon design philosophy is “build a facility that would serve some practical purpose” and I think this is where I lose most people

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Astral Frontier @astralfrontier.org · 27/09/2025

I want to see Michael Holt and Hobie Brown hang out and talk hero shit and be recognized for carrying their respective goddamn films

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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

Microsoft will no longer allow Israel to use its cloud services to enable its mass surveillance of occupied Palestinians – "the first known case of a US technology company withdrawing services provided to the Israeli military since the beginning of its war on Gaza"

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Microsoft blocks Israel’s use of its technology in mass surveillance of Palestinians

Exclusive: Tech firm ends military unit’s access to AI and data services after Guardian reveals secret spy project

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Astral Frontier @astralfrontier.org · 25/09/2025

The superhero setting I’m writing for describes prophecy and omens as the equivalent of memory of some suitably weighty event - ripples of knowledge extending into the past. Prophecy isn’t something you do, but something you perceive. You can’t just prophecy next Tuesday’s lunch menu.

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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 24/09/2025

1/ A longtime Wired editor just wrote a mush-brained essay about how he totally missed the political rot of Silicon Valley (& still doesn't get it). But in the late 1990s, a Wired journalist warned of a toxic ideology bubbling up from tech. Paulina Borsook has largely been erased. Let's change that

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Astral Frontier @astralfrontier.org · 24/09/2025

Talked to some folks who reminded me of a Forged in the Dark game I'd done about cute witches doing cute stuff. I'd struggled to write playbook moves, but while talking I got a thought about how I could do it. A random thread about PBTA/FITD/etc. moves in general and my idea in particular. 🧵

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Astral Frontier @astralfrontier.org · 23/09/2025

The obstacle to UBI isn't sincere desire for efficiency, it's wanting to use poverty as punishment

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

Disney reverses course on Kimmel. Lessons: -Trump's anti-Constitutional stances, anti-1A in this case, are unpopular -Popular resistance via expression and spending choices can have an impact -Many corporate leaders are weak, amoral people who'll bow to threats unless they face countervailing ones

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Astral Frontier @astralfrontier.org · 22/09/2025

Due to the size of our planned work this sprint, my employer is worried about employees being Raptured and wants us to commit to an emergency sin quota to keep us here

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Astral Frontier @astralfrontier.org · 22/09/2025

I tried this new AI powered medicine thing. I put a blood sample into my phone and it says my midichlorian count is high, at least on par with Master Yoda

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Astral Frontier @astralfrontier.org · 21/09/2025

technologically advance a band. Bronze Machine

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Void🔞 | VGen @voiddebris.bsky.social · 20/09/2025

Do NOT believe the misinfo going around There absolutely have been MASSIVE TOS updates Most notably: 1) Specifying no FICTIONAL noncon 2) No "dangerous" kink 3) No DISCUSSING self harm, suicide, or substance abuse unless its "educational" So what can we DO about it? #SaveSpeech 1/🧵

Multiple cropped screenshots showing portions of the bsky TOS before and now. Before: "iv. Encouraging self-harm or suicide
v. Depictions of excessive violence, gore, torture, dismemberment, or non-consensual sexual activity". Now: "ii. We do not allow sexual content involving non-consensual activity including synthetic, simulated, illustrated, or animated versions. iv. Do not create, share, or promote sexual content involving realistic risk of death or serious injury. i. Do not share content, methods, instructions, or promotion of self-harm, suicide, eating disorders, and extreme dieting practices.
ii. Do not share methods, instructions, depictions, or promotion of dangerous stunts or abuse of dangerous or controlled substances. 5. Protected Expression
B. Support, Recovery, and Mental Health:
i. Personal recovery experiences or survivor stories shared to promote healing and community support rather than encouraging harmful behavior.
ii. Sharing verified mental health resources, crisis prevention".

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Astral Frontier @astralfrontier.org · 21/09/2025

Some people have a health care co-op. My health care is all PvP

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Astral Frontier @astralfrontier.org · 20/09/2025

From the "in-character" edition of the superhero game I'm writing, the conclusion: "Folks, Breathtaking Comics isn't about poring over lists of specific super-powers, or debating who would win - the guy with the gadgets or the physical god." 🧵

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Astral Frontier @astralfrontier.org · 20/09/2025

"The Strange Case of the Cosmic Rays" (1957) is a two-part educational program, where an earnest actor tells a puppet version of Fyodor Dostoevsky that cosmic rays affecting evolution may be responsible for his writing talent. This is spectacular.

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Astral Frontier @astralfrontier.org · 20/09/2025

I'm a version of this. My version is "you don't tell me how my character feels or reacts unless I buy in as a player". And why not? In a GMed trad game, I can't add narration, fudge dice, change details, do anything a GM can do to the world. The one tiny domain where I rule is my PC. But...

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Astral Frontier @astralfrontier.org · 18/09/2025

I’m writing ”The Complete Guide to Humans” for D&D. Will include stats and racials for High Humans, Twilight Humans, Hipster Humans, Red-necked Humans, and other beloved subtypes from fantasy literature

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Astral Frontier @astralfrontier.org · 18/09/2025

No new pictures, where are you at mentally?

An orange cat is laying slack on the carpet in front of a security door. The shadow of the door bars is cast over them to suggest imprisonment

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Thomas M, Full-time Rascal @newmadras.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

This essay is so fucking good. It's not about games but games people should read it. vajra.me/2022/03/17/t...

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The Extractivism of Setting and the Traitor’s Text

On canon and place.

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🏳️‍⚧️ Amy had a little pond 🔞 @amypond.gay · 16/09/2025

Michigan's porn ban specifically bans being openly transgender as being pornographic. Don't let this one slide. It is a ban on being publicly transgender on the Internet.

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Astral Frontier @astralfrontier.org · 16/09/2025

Writing a script for a new police procedural, called “Smug White Man Is Right All The Time”. His personal life is in the trash and he‘s got a tragic backstory, but the sexual tension with his by-the-book and exasperated partner makes up for it. Hollywood won’t see this one coming

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Gnome @gnomeknight1990.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

Trump admin deleted this study which finds the majority of domestic terrorists are right-wing. So, y'know, like and share. web.archive.org/web/20250911...

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

Today, the UN officially designated Israel’s assault on Gaza as a genocide. As a party to the Genocide Convention, the U.S. has a legal obligation to obey our own laws, stop weapons sales to Israel, and demand a permanent ceasefire. End the genocide. Ceasefire now.

257. The Commission recommends that all Member States:
(a) Employ all means reasonably available to them to prevent the commission of genocide in the Gaza Strip;
(b) Cease the transfer of arms and other equipment or items, including jet fuel, to the State of Israel or third States where there is reason to suspect their use in military operations that have involved or could involve the commission of genocide;
(c) Ensure individuals and corporations in their territories and within their jurisdiction are not involved in the commission of genocide, aiding and assisting the commission of genocide or incitement to commit genocide and investigate and prosecute those who may be implicated in these crimes under international law;
(d) Facilitate the investigations and domestic proceedings and take action (including imposing sanctions) against the State of Israel and against individuals or corporations that are involved in or facilitating the commission of genocide or incitement to commit genocide;
(e) Cooperate with the investigation of the Office of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court.
258. The Commission recommends that the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court:
(a) Examine, within its continuing investigation in the Situation in the State of Palestine, the crime of genocide for amendment to existing arrest warrants and addition to future application for arrest warrants;
(b) Examine the involvement of officials mentioned in this report for inclusion as those most responsible for international crimes committed in the occupied Palestinian territory.

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Alan Elrod @aselrod.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

“This isn’t a program that’s primarily concerned with changing policies or systems; it’s a fetish for domination.” I keep saying this, but @jvl.bsky.social is writing the best daily political newsletter there is. www.thebulwark.com/p/conservati...

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“Conservatism” Is Now Just a Domination Fetish

From states rights, a rules-based system, and limited government to a boot stamping on a human face—forever.

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Molly White @molly.wiki · 15/09/2025

anyway if you think i deserve a raise: www.citationneeded.news/signup/

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Citation Needed

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Sophie Labelle @assignedmale.bsky.social · 13/09/2025

The Groyper Wars

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Astral Frontier @astralfrontier.org · 12/09/2025

I found a link to a MOO in the back of a 1993 Wired magazine. By the end of that year, four people I introduced to it had met their future spouses online

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➼ amihan (he/hymn) @therosecleric.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

I feel really unseen currently. I don't know if folks see my posts, but I'm disabled, I don't make enough with my current job to survive, and my situation is becoming more dangerous in the current climate. I'm doing everything I can, but I cannot survive without help. 💠 ko-fi.com/therosecleric

It’s a bit demoralizing to have to post on social media like this, but I’ve been in a bad situation for a very long time. I struggle deeply with opening up about my personal life, but I feel like I have to be this vulnerable in order for anyone to understand the gravity of my situation.

I have been officially diagnosed with Dissociative Identity Disorder, and have spent the past year attempting to recover from CPTSD. In short, I have multiple disorders stemming from multiple traumatic situations and incidents that have occurred to me over the course of my life, but especially in the last decade. Thanks to Medicaid, I am fortunate enough to have 2 different therapists and a psychiatrist. As of today (9/11/2025) I do not wish to share details beyond this. Do not speculate about my personal life.
My arthritis has worsened significantly because of the stress I am under. While I am seeking healthcare for this new development, life has become substantially more difficult because of the adjustment to constant pain.
I have been at risk of homelessness since July. I have a job, but I do not make nearly enough to support myself through survival. I have been looking for jobs that are accommodating to my disability, with no luck as most of them require relocation or hybrid work environments. I have opened commissions of various types - including video editing, art commissions and tarot readings - but my commissions aren’t consistent enough for me to build a stable income off of.
Because of the current administration, it has become more difficult to acquire food. The Big Ugly bill that was passed has put me at risk for having my SNAP benefits taken away. If you know me, I have had to have an additional monthly grocery fund from time to time to buy groceries/cover bills, as I provide food for & cook for my entire household. Until I find stable income, I will likely continue to need assistance like this.

I have dropped out of multiple TTRPG projects because of the above circumstances. The community within the TTRPG space I have is very important to me, but I feel I cannot keep up with anyone because I am constantly fighting for survival. I have remarked that I feel unseen, and it is because I feel like I have to be entertaining for people to care about me as a human being.

It goes without saying that I need help, and I need help badly. I don’t want to have to keep asking for help, but asking for help is my only option.

I don’t enjoy having to list my marginalizations for people to have empathy (I honestly feel like I shouldn’t have to share them) but in this current political climate, it is exceedingly dangerous for me to be one emergency away from being on the streets. I’m not making enough to cover my living expenses, and to try and ignore my circumstances in favor of playing TTRPGs or videogames would be completely detrimental to my survival.

To everyone who has supported me the past few years - I deeply appreciate you. Whether you liked and shared my art, enjoyed my performance on an AP, or commented on any of my work, every bit of support I have cherished and treasured. There have been many of you who have donated to me out of kindness, and I feel like I can’t thank you all enough.

Even with my circumstances, I am committed to making artwork, and have opened a Patreon for those who would like to support my artwork.

If you would prefer to make a one-time donation, you can help in the following ways:

Ko-fi || @therosecleric
Venmo / Cashapp || @therosecleric / $therosecleric

Thank you for reading.

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emily blight 🐦‍⬛ @threnody.northsky.social · 09/09/2025

hi, cis folks! if you said you’d stand with trans people, we need you now. the FY26 budget bill gets a vote by 9/30. the GOP wants to jam a ban on federal funding for ALL health services that provide trans care for ANY AGE. we need you to call senators: reps.fyi more info & script downthread.🧵

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Astral Frontier @astralfrontier.org · 11/09/2025

To everyone who reacted to yesterday’s news with relief that a source of danger is gone, and with fear that you’ll be forced to take the blame for it: I’ll be looking around for ko-fi links and the like. If you need something or want to be heard, drop me a DM

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R. Sera @talonbornestudio.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

#ERAOFSILENCE: Have you seen stories of the ashen wastes and glittering city-states of the Long Silence? Do you yearn for adventures in a world abandoned by its gods and saved by the science of alchemy? Follow the links in this thread for your in to the series 🧵 🧪 ⚔️ 🔫🧙‍♀️😇

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Astral Frontier @astralfrontier.org · 10/09/2025

I’ve realized I can measure my curiosity by the maximum duration of a YouTube video explaining the thing. Like I’m 5 minutes curious what’s going on with Blizzard these days but not one hour curious

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R. Sera @talonbornestudio.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

shrikepublishing.itch.io/get-in-loser... The year is 2017. The model kilogram is a year away from retirement. Two Teams One Prize and a Junior Detective hot on the trail. Get In Loser, We're Stealing the Kilogram! A ttrpg for Just $7.50. Great for parties. Made with @rathayibacter.itch.io

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Get In Loser, We're Stealing the Kilogram by Shrike Publishing

A oneshot heist ttrpg to steal the mother of all weights.

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Astral Frontier @astralfrontier.org · 09/09/2025

An idea for handling cybernetics, biotech, etc. Write 10 things that define your PC as an entity - for humans, "breathes air", "metabolizes food for energy", and so on. The game will come with standard examples. As you augment or redefine yourself, you replace items one by one.

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Queer Games Bundle @queergamesbundle.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

🚨 13 hours left to get Queer Games Bundle 2025. We've just passed $86,000 for queer artists. itch.io/b/3062/

pixel art shows the numerals 1 through 86 over a background of transgender pride flag colors. each number is on a section of a ribbon shape creating a woven appearance, with rainbow and transgender pride flag colors and various textures.

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Astral Frontier @astralfrontier.org · 09/09/2025

More on these sci-fi vampire/zombie folks! Necroborgs started as an emergency lifesaving measure. Inject a fatally wounded person with nanomachines. They swarm and spread, consume hostile germs, and take over basic metabolic function. The goal is to keep the body alive at some minimal level. But. 🧵

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