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Thank you for talking about this, so I know it happened. If I can do anything to make this better for you directly, please let me know.

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Whining that a playtest isn't "fully ready" doesn't live up to METATOPIA's intention. I'll ponder what was can do to reinforce the expectation setting we do. And to reiterate that we expect people to treat each others' vulnerability with appropriate compassion.

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If someone's acting outside the spirit of the event, and is demonstrating that they don't understand the social contract, I encourage people to let me know. I would treat it with the same discretion as a code of conduct report - confidential unless you ask me to take action.

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Avonelle @avonelle.bsky.social · 22/11/2025

Whoa. Not cool! I'm really sorry - that isn't the spirit of the event at all.

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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...

ksl.com

'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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Avonelle @avonelle.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

there are so few circumstances in where I'm likely to cheer for this. most of them on this timeline.

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Oh, I 100% was addressing the experience of folks in the US/Canada currently. In other places, there are other "safety nets" - ones that aren't invisible, like formal support for "the arts", universal healthcare, etc.

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for any of our conventions, if a membership and a place to sleep are someone's biggest barriers, connect us. I can almost always help.

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but even if we didn't have that support, I can almost always trade a membership for help actually pulling this improbable thing together - helping set up the tech, making sure panel recordings are happening properly, etc.

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METATOPIA, in particular, has a silent donor who covers a small handful of memberships for designers who wouldn't otherwise be able to attend, in addition to the IGDN sponsorships.

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please reach out to me next year. I'll find a spot for you.

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Charles Louis Richter @richterscale.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

Though.I might challenge the original framing. I don't know many people any more who work any job full-time that is their only gig, and not rely on other folks to make ends meet - financially or practically. Everyone is a dual (or more) income household, whether or not they're in a creative field.

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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

I spend SO MUCH TIME telling new people trying to hop into games publishing that they aren't going to support themselves (much less multiple people) quickly, if ever. Even with crowd-funding, without being setup to run a business makes it a shaky proposition at best.

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...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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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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and the right degree of exactly tacky enough. 🥰

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