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Mackenzie (he/his/him)

@catmetamackenzie.bsky.social
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Cataloguing librarian & games enthusiast. Ever learning & growing, views are mine but sometimes I'm wrong.

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vortex_egg @vortexegg.com · 3h
These men want you ignorant and powerless so that you can’t stop them from eliminating most of us when they really get things going.
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Kate Manne @katemanne.bsky.social · 4h
I wrote for @thecut.com about the Cornell case and what it says that, at my institution and many others like it, protesters are often punished more harshly than sexual assailants www.thecut.com/article/what...
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What It Feels Like at Cornell Right Now
As a professor at the Ivy League school, Kate Manne has known many, many victims. There’s a palpable feeling on campus, she writes, that this is big.
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merritt @merrittk.com · 3h
we fucked up bigtime when the internet slipped from the utopian promise of being able to connect with ANYone into the hellscape of being connected to EVERYone
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Josh Fruhlinger @jfruh.bsky.social · 4h
they DIDN'T REFUND her fucking TUITION?????
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Naruga @naruga.bsky.social · 6h
Lancelot #LancerRPG
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Monte Cook Games @montecookgames.com · 5h
Big Upgrades to the Cypher Character Builder are HERE 🚀 🐲 🎲 A plethora of new, FREE features! Build campaigns and invite your players, choose which CCR content you want to allow in each campaign, reskin or customize character options--and create your own!--and more! www.montecookgames.c...
A massive golden dragon coils through a blue sky above cherry blossoms, with a woman riding on its back holding a bouquet and another woman reaching up toward it from below. The bottom right shows the title “CYPHER.”
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Thought Punks 🎲 TTRPGs + Punk 👩‍🎤 @thoughtpunks.com · 5h
Come explore a large random selection of forever open source #TTRPG resources, from games to SRDs to art and more! thoughtpunks.com/ope... #OpenSource #TabletopGames #IndieGames
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Open Source TTRPG Resources
Here's a collection of forever open licensed tabletop roleplaying games and resources. Borrowed from and inspired by the Forever Open Source RPG game jam series. Example Open Licenses Creative Commons Zero ("CC0"). Release your work into the public domain. The most open license. Creative Com
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Dr. Jennessa Hester 🍒 @cherrypoppunk.bsky.social · 5h
HUNDREDS OF BEAVERS has been adopted by @dropout.tv! This indie film is a perfect mixture of silent Hollywood slapstick, Looney Tunes cartoon antics, and Nintendo video game logic. If you already subscribe to Dropout for shows like Game Changer or Dimension 20, please give this a watch!
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Hundreds of Beavers Is Now on Dropout [US Only]
YouTube video by Dropout
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Nathan Grayson @nathangrayson.bsky.social · 5h
the brand safety panopticon has come to twitch
Streamers, wary of both AI and YouTube’s infuriatingly un-transparent hall of mirrors, are not enthused about this new development.

“Ohhh so that’s why ad revenue dropped,” longtime streamer JP "itmeJP" McDaniel said on Twitter.  

“I’m genuinely worried that the sheer fact that I’m a lesbian will cause the AI to remove ads,” said Vtuber LuminusRed. “In the past I’ve tested it and confirmed that I get less ad money if I had queer-related tags on my stream like ‘lesbian,’ so I am worried this dumb AI monitoring will mean I no longer get money from ads on Twitch.”
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LycanthrEppy @epidiah.bsky.social · 5h
It came up again elsewhere, and so I'm oathbound to reshare here. Using AI can only reduce your audience.
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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 29/09/2026
You will be able to set your watch by the frequency with which Musk sets his minions on people during this case, using their usual tactics of death threats and doxxing. And media will cover none of it.
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Willow @rockshrimp.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The Cornell rape story and the Silicon Valley professional orgy culture story are the same story.
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Carly Goodman @carlygoodman.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Did you know that teenagers are human beings
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Carly Goodman @carlygoodman.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Old enough to remember when “police state” was pejorative
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Carly Goodman @carlygoodman.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Congratulations, we have created a world where teenagers cannot exist with each other in space, where we use “safety” to destroy sociality, youth, and development.
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Montgomery County, Maryland

New Under-18 Policy Begins Today at Westfield Montgomery and Westfield Wheaton

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themocoshow A new Parental Guidance Policy begins today, Monday, September 28, at Westfield Wheaton and Westfield Montgomery malls, requiring visitors under 18 to be accompanied by a parent, legal guardian or chaperone age 21 or older after 3pm daily.
The policy will be in effect from 3pm until closing, seven days a week, and applies to interior and exterior common areas at both malls. According to signage now posted at the malls, one supervising adult age 21 or older may accompany no more than
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Éireann @eireannmor.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Who will organize an "another university is possible" conference with me?
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Weedle @weedle.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Feel like the wealthiest man in human history seething with rage because he's not allowed to say the n-word should really be the final argument against the idea we have a rational economic system or material based politics.
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C is for Crombil @zhenwa40.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I am grateful for the opportunity as a humble fan of TTRPGs to write for @playtestmaterial.bsky.social. I went into this writing with serious academic rigour, and the editing experience was really helpful in trying to make is parseable. It’s also just fun to be able to use quotes like this:
The audience for this game was a single session game (a “oneshot”) featuring players who had never played the game before. A feature of Mythic Bastionland is the “weirdness” of the setting and open interpretation of the gameworld. This is exemplified, for example, by the entry of the Screaming Seer, whose details are replaced with “RAAAAAARGH!” and “YAAAAAAAAAARRRHG!!” respectively, a reading which can be comic or tragic depending on specific interpretation by the GM and players.
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Rine @rine.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Hell, there is still a vibrant homebrew deal for all of those, and similar engines that are designed to feel like devving for those older platforms. You can go make a gameboy game right now if you want, it'll run on gameboy emulators forever.
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Katie Birkwood @girlinthe.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
More digital systems doom. National data provided through a third-party that goes bust and boom! Of course, national data provided through unmaintained internal systems can also go boom! The solution? People to maintain the stuff!
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Playtest Material Magazine @playtestmaterial.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Today is the last day of our "official" subscription drive. It's been a resounding success - but we still have further to go. Currently we have 89 subscribers. Reaching 100 would be a huge milestone for us. playtestmaterial.org/playtest-mat...
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Playtest Material launches its first ever subscription drive
Playtest Material needs 75 subscribers to break even — one of those could be you.
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Ian Danskin @innuendostudios.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
we live in a world where "humanity is rotten to the core" is a more tolerable idea than "capitalism is kinda busted" but what I love about "capitalism is kinda busted" is realizing every good thing that happens is in spite of capitalism because humans are that committed to doing good things
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Tim Gaedke @timgaedke.com · 24/09/2026
in the age of AI, making art is a radical act
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John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Having written a TV show built on "deep dives on one bad rich guy per week" with one version 2008-2012 and another 2021-2025, I'll say that the OG evil rich guys were evil greedy assholes, and the new rich guys are mentally disordered perverts, and so do evil. And not the good kind of perverts.
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Mackenzie (he/his/him) @catmetamackenzie.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
so freezing that I scream?
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Lyra and 1 other @muzzlesbian.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
they found a dead rat in bowden, it's only one but it's also in the middle of the province which is pretty damning
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Aaron Lim 林家丰 @ehronlime.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
RIP (rat in province)
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Rob Donoghue @rdonoghue.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I think, for all the “gifted” kids out there, there’s a point where they discover that as unique as their situation felt, they’re actually a substantial cohort. If you found this out early, you likely have a weird-but-loyal friend group. If you found out too late, you risk enjoying Ayn Rand.
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Sarah Clarke - Not your doll @damselindystopia.northsky.social · 27/09/2026
I'm not gonna quote post that estrangement article doing the rounds cos I ain't giving them the metrics but part of being in queer community is knowing a lot of people who are estranged from family. None of them broke contact for trivial reasons.
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Michael Brough @smestorp.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
"i haven't written a line of code all year!" as though that's something to be impressed by and not an admission that you can't navigate the slop you're pouring out so instead you've just completely surrended your creative capacity
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Thought Punks 🎲 TTRPGs + Punk 👩‍🎤 @thoughtpunks.com · 27/09/2026
We'll go deep in the street for you too. DESIGN IS MY PASSION. HIRE ME. bsky.app/profile/thou...
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Leigh Alexander @leighalexander.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I think the loss of privacy for adults is the actual intention; they want all our movements linked to our state ID like most moral panics “the kids!” is a bad faith smokescreen for the encroachment the fascists desire
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The Whimsical Muse @whimsicalmuse.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I don't know who needs to hear this, but yes, you do deserve to treat yourself to a day of exploring bookstores, greenhouses, libraries, museums, cafés, and bakeries.
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Aidan Moher @aidanmoher.com · 26/09/2026
Mutuals: Do I know anyone who could animate an existing image (the FunFactor podcast background) into a fun looping animation for the video version of the podcast?
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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Just helping with editing here. These bots aren’t sentient. They’re doing what they’re programmed to do. OpenAI, a private company supposedly bound by laws, committed federal crimes.
Screenshot of BBC article: OpenAI bots (struck through) meddled with multiple US government agency sites
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Thought Punks 🎲 TTRPGs + Punk 👩‍🎤 @thoughtpunks.com · 26/09/2026
Raided medical funds for other needs. Got CT scan, EEG, neurologist, functional rehabilitation (350) *soon*. Halp, pls. 🙏🥹 Back a #TTRPG: bsky.app/profile/did... Grab #IndieGames: www.drivethrurpg.com... #MutualAid tips: ko-fi.com/revcasey (PayPal or credit/debit): bit.ly/payrev
QR code to send Rev money using credit/debit cardsVenmo QR code to send money to Rev/Thought PunksQR code to send Rev money via PayPal
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Transphobes Can't Read @lordaslan.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
gm
A picture of an anime lady holding a sign that reads "trans rights are not just for beautiful 'passable' trans women"
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Carmen Celestini @philofwrite.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Manitoba locations have found stickers from the NS13 Active Club. I have written a lot about Active Clubs, and the spread of hate ideology. Second Sons Canada is more visible, but we cannot ignore this group. www.winnipegfreepress.com/breakingnews...?
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Signs of local neo-Nazi recruiting efforts spark concern
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Bruno J. Navarro @brunojnavarro.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

FLOCK OFF
CEO of Flock Garrett Langley doesn't like his photo being shared publicly
NOTICE NEWS
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松島みぃ~ぷ @meep-matsushima.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
not Oxford University, specifically, but academic publishers hounded Aaron Swartz to death for less
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Matthew Noe @noethematt.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Our institutions have lost the plot
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Internet Archive @archive.org · 26/09/2026
You can help build the library. 🏛️ Have digital materials you’re allowed to share? Upload them to the Internet Archive so other people can discover and use them. 📷 A photograph. 🎙️ A recording. 📄 A document. 💾 A piece of digital history. Upload your first item 👇 archive.org/upload 🧵
Four "Tools You Can Use" Upload campaign tiles arranged in a 2x2 grid. Top left, a cream and yellow tile with a folder icon reading "Upload" and "Contribute digital materials that you have the right to share." Top right, a cream tile with bold black text: "Upload digital materials to help preserve and share knowledge with people around the world." Bottom left, a cream tile with a screenshot of the Internet Archive's Upload files page, with the "UPLOAD" nav link and "Choose files to upload" button circled in red. Bottom right, a cream tile with bold black text, "Contribute digital materials that you have the right to share," and a small multicolor line-art icon of the Internet Archive's columned building.
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Sara Gibbs @sararoseg.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
We have a very, very long road ahead of us funding wise. If you loved It’s a Superpower?? we will need a lot of community momentum, noise, & pledges from people who have the means 💗
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Charlie Angus @charlieangus104.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
California company accused of shipping pesticide laden berries to Canada. We can't trust American product we should be able to trust that our government has adequate numbers of inspectors in place to protect us. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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Whistleblower alleges millions of Driscoll’s berries sent to Canada with excess chemical levels | CBC News
A whistleblower lawsuit in California is alleging millions of pounds of Driscoll's fruit containing non-compliant levels of pesticides and chemicals crossed the border into Canada, and the company tri...
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Rami Ismail (رامي) @ramiismail.com · 25/09/2026
I honestly have never considered switching from Google Pixel phones until they sent me a "wanna celebrate destroying the lives of trans people" as a system update.
Android Pixel system update screen, showing Harry Potter customizations as a bullet point.
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🐔 Brian Bucklew 🐔 ₑͤ>∿<ₑͤ ∞🌮 @unormal.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
is that good
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Bengineering @bengineeringtv.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I never could have imagined both my children would have to battle
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Sara Gibbs @sararoseg.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
He imposed Shania Law
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The Whimsical Muse @whimsicalmuse.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Okay but hear me out: An emotional support library ghost.
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Amabel Holland @amabel.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
a friend pointed me to this post for obvious reasons folks think I made rules-decoring games like City of Six Moons and Swords Against as some kind of "performance art" (gah!) or stunt, but it's because I think of learning/figuring out rules as a valuable form of play, not just a preamble to it
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