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Avonelle

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DEXCON, DREAMATION, METATOPIA, and the First Exposure Playtest Hall at Gen Con. *Double Exposure, Inc.* Operations Manager for the Center for Transformational Play at Carnegie Mellon University

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Avonelle @avonelle.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
I’m terrible about coming over here. I’m at my social media saturation point, and I just don’t have another slot right now. sorry I miss everything.
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Jason Pitre @genesisoflegend.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
As I prepare for the kickstarter on #LonelyTimbers I want to take a minute to explain where the game came from originally. I first designed the ashcan version of the game way back in 2017 during the game chef competition about borders.
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Kat the Lore Mistress @loremistress93.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
TTRPG creators assemble, I need your suggestions for tabletop games that tackle themes of resistance, rebellion, fighting for what's right, etc. No AI involved in their creation please, and I'm especially eager for games made by minority creators!
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Avonelle @avonelle.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
A new indie rpg designer is asking me about how to connect with other designers. tell me where you hang out to talk design.
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The BMJ @bmj.com · 12/03/2026
Every hospital in England has been urged to disobey an NHS directive to use software operated by controversial US analytics software company Palantir www.bmj.com/content/392/...
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Jan Kirsch, M.D., M.P.H. @drjanicekirsch.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
This is awful. Now imagine a reassortment event in the avian influenza virus triggering human-to-human spread.
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Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
www.democracynow.org/2026/2/23/he...
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Newsweek: ICE Fatally Shot a U.S. Citizen Nearly a Year Before Killing Renee Good and Alex Pretti
A 23-year-old U.S. citizen was fatally shot by an ICE agent in south Texas nearly a year before federal immigration officers killed Renee Good and Alex Pretti in Minneapolis as part of Trump’s immigra...
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
This is the eighth death in ICE custody in the last seven weeks.
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
the only place this should happen is academic conferences
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Kickstarter United @kickstarterunited.org · 18/02/2026
Despite being back at work, Kickstarter is retaliating against our teammates for our legally-protected strike action from last year. Tell Kickstarter’s CEO this is both ILLEGAL and UNACCEPTABLE
Reinstate our teammates now!
Kickstarter is retaliating against our union members for our legally-protected strike action in October 2025.
Four union members have been laid off or forced to leave our union by leadership, despite clear business needs for these members' roles.
Email Kickstarter's CEO and tell him this is illegal and unacceptable!
e@kickstarter.com
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 19/02/2026
We must stop every single proposed concentration camp. www.kjzz.org/the-show/202...
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Surprise ICE warehouse could house up to 10,000 detainees for months at a time, new documents show
After weeks of speculation about what the 400,000-square-foot warehouse in Surprise might be used for, the documents confirm it will be retrofitted as an ICE detention center, potentially housing 7,00...
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Dieselbrain @dieselbrain.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
Reminder: under no circumstance should you give discord your ID. It is gonna -suck- trying to set up alternatives, and this whole fiasco is going to damage communities, but you CANNOT give them your info
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Indie Game Developers Network (IGDN) @igdn-official.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
Applications are open for the IGDN 2026 Diversity Scholarship by the iTDF: itdf.games We have 4 spots for marginalized and underrepresented designers to receive mentorship plus $1000 USD no-strings-attached scholarship! Apply before March 17th, 2026: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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Tabletop Diversity Foundation
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Avonelle @avonelle.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
who possibly could have seen this coming - a mass-disabling event costs more than just cooling our damned jets for a bit and figuring this shit out? being disabled is more expensive than masking and air filters? WHO KNEW?
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Long Covid Advocacy @longcovidadvoc.com · 22/11/2025
🧵 Thread: The Economic Cost of Long Covid – new 2025 study in Nature 1/ A new paper has modelled the economic burden of Long Covid in the U.S. and globally. Spoiler: it’s massive. Here’s a breakdown. 👇
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Shannon Hale @shannonhale.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
More info about Marta Leiva, the woman I witnessed being assaulted by plainclothed men in the SLC airport last week. She has a work permit legal through 2029, mom of 4 with sick kids: www.ksl.com/article/5139... You can donate to her gofundme for legal expenses: www.gofundme.com/f/apoya-madr...
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'Still in shock': Utah immigrant grappling with detention after arrest at Salt Lake City airport
A Utah immigrant, arrested last week at the Salt Lake City airport, is
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Avonelle @avonelle.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
I don't really wish $1m kickstarters on anyone - they're rife with chaos and hidden costs (emotional, operational, cash). In this case, if this gets anywhere near 100x funded, I will personally hop in to help Meg and Vincent fulfill, in whatever for the help needs to take.
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MegueyB 🔜Metatopia @megueyb.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
www.kickstarter.com/projects/lum... THANK YOU for already putting us past a stretch goal that will mean we give the animator for our KS video more money for her art! Annika Sturmer is a graduate of MassArt and a dear friend. You can check out her work here: www.youtube.com/@annie_thepi...
Stretch Goals

We're running a mean & stripped down campaign here, a PDF and a paperback, a couple of PDF add-ons, nothing to give ourselves headaches or grief. We do have room for just a few cool stretch goals, though:
$28,000: Bonuses for Annika Sturmer

Annika's the animator who made our video! For every $10,000 we go over our goal, we'll cut her a bonus check. She deserves it and you can be part of it.
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Evil Hat @evilhat.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
Most of the games we've published in the last 10 years (ie Monster of the Week, Thirsty Sword Lesbians, Blades in the Dark) either use the Powered by the Apocalypse engine or are hugely influenced by it. Happy to back this latest incarnation from the Bakers. Strongly recommend you check it out:
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Charles Louis Richter @richterscale.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
wow, this sure sounds like a bombshell that should have been reported in a timely fashion so that--i'm sorry, i'm being told that it was destined for something far more important than the fate of democracy: a journalist's *book*
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Timothy Burke @bubbaprog.xyz · 03/11/2025
...and less than 24 hours later Condé Nast has fired Lex and the rest of the Teen Vogue political desk, even as stories like this were bringing huge numbers of readers to the site
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Evan Sutton @evansutton.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
Teen Vogue has had some of the most useful coverage of labor, politics and culture under Lex's guidance—and especially because of the audience it reached. This is a real loss, and a shameful act of whitewashing by Vogue.
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Avonelle @avonelle.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
I struggle to add "new" social media platforms to my circuit. I think I've got bluesy back on the radar, but don't expect me to be consistent.
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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
Begging folks to stop referring to the pandemic in the past tense. It’s still “during COVID”. The pandemic isn’t over just because you want it to be. We have no sterilizing vaccine. No treatment or cure for Long Covid. People are still dying & becoming disabled every day because we refuse to adapt
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Science Friday @scifri.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
An emerging area of research shows how positive childhood experiences, like safety, stability, and nurturing relationships, can our impact health—even offsetting adverse childhood experiences. @preetisimransethi.bsky.social reports:
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How Positive Childhood Experiences Offset Adversity
Adversity in childhood can affect our health later in life. But positive childhood experiences also have a profound impact.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
there were multiple reporters outside of the institute of museum and library services today as DOGE invaded their headquarters, but not a single elected official. something to consider when thinking about who’s actually defending democracy.
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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
The Right to Repair movement has reached all 50 US states. Six states have already passed laws requiring companies to sell repair parts, share manuals, and remove software locks that restrict repairs, and 20 more are actively considering bills. buff.ly/BIzrTtt #ShareGoodNewsToo
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All 50 States Have Now Introduced Right to Repair Legislation
The legislation hasn't yet passed everywhere, but all 50 states introducing some form of right to repair legislation is a "tipping point” for the right to repair movement.
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Still COVIDing Canada @stillcovidingca.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
3 vaccine doses cut long-COVID risk by over 60%, analysis suggests CIDRAP March 17, 2025 By Mary Van Beusekom stillcoviding.ca/en/news/3-va... #COVID #LongCovid #research
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3 vaccine doses cut long-COVID risk by over 60%, analysis suggests
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Adam Bonica @adambonica.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
1/🧵 Judges across ideological lines are ruling against Trump at strikingly similar rates (84% liberal, 86% centrist, 82% conservative). This isn't partisan opposition to Trump—it's the judiciary functioning as intended by cutting across partisan lines to uphold the Constitution.
Title: Both Liberal and Conservative Judges Rule Against Trump
Description: A scatter plot showing the rulings of judges against or in favor of Trump, categorized by ideology using the DIME score. The x-axis represents Judge Ideology (DIME Score), ranging from liberal (-1) to conservative (1), and the y-axis represents the case outcome (against or for Trump).
	•	Blue dots represent liberal judges, purple dots represent moderate judges, and red dots represent conservative judges.
	•	Some judges are labeled, including Rudolph Contreras, Lauren King, John Coughenour, and James Emanuel Boasberg on the liberal to moderate side, and Carl Nichols, Richard J. Leon, and Joseph N. Laplante on the conservative side.
	•	A note mentions that Boasberg, though slightly right-leaning, was initially appointed by George W. Bush.
	•	The visualization suggests that judges from both ideological backgrounds ruled against Trump.
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Avonelle @avonelle.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
This is a darkly hilarious repackage of weapons of mass destruction to a new purpose.
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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
There are still living Navajo Code Talkers. And the people who oppose them are still literal Nazis.
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Technology Connections @techconnectify.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
One thing that the general public is not that aware of re: Tesla is that *they do not manufacture their own battery cells* They lease space in their factories for third-parties such as Panasonic. A lot of people invested in Tesla because they thought Tesla was vertically integrated re: the cells.
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Chuck Wendig @chuckwendig.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
He should be thankful that’s all they’re yelling right now. Give it a few months, they’ll replace “tax” with “eat.”
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NPR @npr.org · 18/03/2025
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, a government-backed overseas broadcaster, sued the Trump administration in an attempt to get it to release funds appropriated by Congress.
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Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty sues Trump administration over canceled contract
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, a government-backed overseas broadcaster, sued the Trump administration in an attempt to get it to release funds appropriated by Congress.
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Kingfisher & Wombat @tkingfisher.com · 18/03/2025
Who wants some good news? The overwintering monarch population, which had plummeted last winter, has doubled this winter! www.worldwildlife.org/stories/east...
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Eastern Monarch Butterfly Population Nearly Doubles
The population wintering in central Mexico's forests occupied 4.42 acres, up from 2.22 acres during the previous winter.
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 18/03/2025
INCREDIBLE Ruling! Judge Reyes just ruled that transgender people have served honorably in the military, judges Trumps trans military ban - which states trans people are inherently dishonorable - as unconstitutional and motivated by animus. Trans military members may continue to serve.
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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
Universities need to stand up. Students, faculty and staff must press presidents and trustees on this. Your silence will not protect you. www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
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First They Came for Columbia | Opinion | The Harvard Crimson
We must learn from the past. We cannot remain silent in the face of authoritarian attacks on our peers, even if they have not yet come for us.
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Moxie Meow @moxiemeow.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
They are doing this to a conventionally masculine looking white """aryan""" looking fellow. IMAGINE the absolute hell they are inflicting upon Black people, trans people, Muslims, Latine people, etc. And most of that is probably not getting reported! #AbolishICE bsky.app/profile/benc...
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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
Ok I know this is old-man irritability but I don’t care if Mahmoud Khalil has a pregnant wife, I don’t care if he and his wife are childfree, I don’t care if he’s in a fucking polycule with a hedgehog and a jar of mayonnaise, NOBODY should be detained for protected speech, including singletons.
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Thanh Neville, MD, MSHS @thanh-neville.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
The leopard ate her face. Imagine that. www.reuters.com/world/us/dog...
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DOGE job cuts shake Trump-voting West Virginia town
Jennifer Piggott proudly hung a red-and-blue Trump campaign flag outside her one-story home during the November election race. Now, after she was abruptly fired from her civil service job, her days of supporting the president are over.
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Mark Carney @mark-carney.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
It has been more than two days that the supply of electricity to Gaza has been shut off. It must resume — essentials including food, electricity, and medical supplies should never be used as political tools. (1/3)
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Tristan Yates @tristansyates.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
Last year, I was overjoyed to receive an NIH NRSA fellowship to study toddler brains and caregiving effects on memory at Columbia. Last night, my grant was terminated.
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Patrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
This, precisely, is what I think Dem voters want from their representatives: direct confrontation with people who are used to bullying others both as a matter of substance and style. You don't have to back down to these fucking clowns.
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Avonelle @avonelle.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
I'm planning a little container garden with my niece this year - herbs and other joys. tell me about your favorite impractical plant to grow.
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David Gilbert @davidgilbert.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
MUSK: A sophisticated cyberattack from Ukraine took out Twitter's servers REALITY: Twitter's servers were not secured properly and were publicly visible Great explainer here from @lhn.bsky.social www.wired.com/story/x-ddos...
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What Really Happened With the DDoS Attacks That Took Down X
Elon Musk said a “massive cyberattack” disrupted X on Monday and pointed to “IP addresses originating in the Ukraine area” as the source of the attack. Security experts say that's not how it works.
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Arghavan Salles, MD, PhD @arghavansallesmd.medsky.social · 11/03/2025
We all got distracted by the indirects when they were actually planning far worse
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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
NEW: White House says the arrest and deportation of student activist & legal US resident, Mahmoud Khalil, is a blueprint for more. The final line here is chilling. The White House specifically says Khalil was not breaking the law. No evidence, no due process, no crime. He was just disappeared.
Indeed, a White House official told The Free Press that the basis for targeting Khalil is being used as a blueprint for investigations against other students.

Khalil is a "threat to the foreign policy and national security interests of the United States," said the official, noting that this calculation was the driving force behind the arrest. "The allegation here is not that he was breaking the law," said the official.
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damniel spookradski @self.agency · 11/03/2025
WELP
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Avonelle @avonelle.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
Running events is exhausting, terrifying, fraught, often invisible work. Support the local communities that host the events that matter to you.
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Julian A Nowogrodzki @plantnerd.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
🚨🧪 We’ve been talking to scientists at rallies today across the country in DC, Boston, Seattle, and NJ. Here’s why scientists are “Dismayed, depressed, disgusted” and what they’re doing about it 🧵 ⤵️ for more #StandUpforScience #StandUpforScience2025 @nature.com
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‘Scientists will not be silenced’: thousands protest Trump research cuts
Researchers at Stand Up for Science rallies voice defiance against the policies of US President Donald Trump’s administration.
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