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Jes (Dark Mirror Media)

@darkmirrormedia.bsky.social
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TTRPG designer. I make games about struggle, revenge, and painful revelations. Find community, find love, keep living. www.darkmirrormedia.com darkmirrormedia.itch.io 2026 Books Read: 37/25

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Jes (Dark Mirror Media) @darkmirrormedia.bsky.social · 1m
Considering Adam is interviewing the guy who wrote it.
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Haven't watched it, but I bet they cited this research: allthatsinteresting.com/blue-zones-s...
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Morgan Johnson @poormojo.bsky.social · 23h
No joke. I think this is the most important video I have ever seen about mobile games. This guy breaks down how this game psychologically profiles you, and makes the game harder or easier in order to show you ads
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House House @househouse.com · 9h
An explanation on why Big Walk isn't available on Xbox. bigwalk.game/xbox
Regarding Xbox

In June 2026 we announced that the release of Big Walk would be limited to computers, Switch 2 and PS5. Since then, we have received many messages and comments, asking about a future Xbox release. We would like to address those questions here:

We have made the decision not to release Big Walk on Xbox, in accordance with the Palestinian-led BDS (Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions) movement’s call to boycott Microsoft, and their designation of Microsoft Games (and Xbox) as a priority boycott target. If you need help understanding our motives, we would recommend reading about why Microsoft is a BDS priority target, the successes this kind of pressure has already had on Microsoft, and especially, watching this great introductory piece by People Make Games.

It has always been our intention for Big Walk to be played by groups of friends, and we know that keeping the game off Xbox runs counter to those intentions. This decision means that some people will miss out on playing Big Walk with their friends, and we understand the disappointment we’re causing. We are disappointed too.

We would love for people to be able to play the game on Xbox, but not until Microsoft and/or Xbox have been removed as BDS boycott targets.

We’ve made this decision with the belief that meaningful change can be made in the world, that coordinated collective action can confront even the most powerful interests, and that one day, Palestine will be free.

Thank you for your understanding.

Sincerely,
House House

(see bigwalk.game/xbox for links)
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Amabel Holland @amabel.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
I got a message this morning. Someone bought "But Then She Came Back", played it, and said it made them realize they were being abused and leave that relationship. I am profoundly moved that something I made helped someone in that way. Been sobbing since I got the message.
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
David Walker published An Appeal to the Colored Citizens of the World in pamphlet form in 1829. It's one of the most important and influential abolitionist texts in U.S. history. Yet, very few people have actually read it and many people don't know who Walker was especially among young people.
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Gilamasan @gilamasan.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
The bill has been opened to feedback. Rather than dooming about the proposal, you can tell them exactly how you feel about the act here. ec.europa.eu/info/law/bet... With how much of an uphill battle Chat Control is having, you should never assume it's worthless to fight these draconian bills.
ec.europa.eu
European Commission - Have your say
European Commission - Have your say
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PJ Coffey - They/Them @homebrewandhacking@mastodon.ie @homebrewandhacking.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
30 trucks a day to keep the LLMs powered.
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Satanic Panic | DNGN CLUB @dngnclub.itch.io · 02/10/2026
i was trying to channel Robert Eggers on this one...
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Nefarious Bat Press @nefariousbatpress.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Kobo have blocked publication of one of our books We don't want to say too much about the specifics as we try to get to the bottom of the situation and get it resolved, but we're VERY angry - and would no longer recommend any reader uses the platform vs AMZ, etc (1/3)
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Adam Conover @adamconover.net · 10/10/2026
My new special "Big Divorce Energy" drops October 23 on Youtube!
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Truthout @truthout.org · 10/10/2026
Ten years after the Standing Rock protests captured national attention, the tribe is still fighting the project.
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Standing Rock Sioux Tribe Files New Lawsuit to Shut Down Dakota Access Pipeline
Ten years after the Standing Rock protests captured national attention, the tribe is still fighting the project.
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Who are you going to believe, the preeminent expert on surveillance pricing or George W. Bush’s communications director during the Iraq War who now works for Walmart?
gizmodo.com
Walmart Denies Plans for Surveillance Pricing Despite Holding Patents for Surveillance Pricing
Who you gonna believe?
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Kelly Whyte @kellywhyte.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
ICYMI, first patreon post is up!
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SoloRPGList @solorpglist.com · 08/10/2026
The Solo RPG List is an ENNIE Award-winning site dedicated to helping players discover solo and duet TTRPGs. We have over 1,365 titles recommended by the community and creators, with more added every day 🧡 solorpglist.com #soloTTRPG solo RPG journaling game epistolary TTRPG
solorpglist.com
Solo RPG List - Find Solo and Duet TTRPGs
Discover amazing solo and duet tabletop role-playing games that can be played with or without dice, tarot cards, playing cards, pen and paper, etc.
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High Priestess, Low Patience @cheriepriest.com · 09/10/2026
by all means, AI evangelists: leave me behind, off with you, godspeed, don’t let the door hit you news.berkeley.edu/2026/10/09/u...
news.berkeley.edu
Using AI for just 10 minutes erodes your ability to persist at hard things - Berkeley News
A UC Berkeley researcher co-authored a study that raises profound questions about how we interact with artificial intelligence in education — and daily life.
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Sara Nelson @flyingwithsara.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
BOYCOTT ALERT. @sbworkersunited.org deserve a fair contract. Starbucks can’t be trusted to serve good coffee until there’s a union contract. Delete your app and find a local coffee shop! #NoContractNoCoffee
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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 09/10/2026
We gotta have some real uncomfortable conversations with our agents/publishers.
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Adam Conover @adamconover.net · 10/10/2026
Flock cameras and the First Amendment
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Unicorn Riot @unicornriot.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
NEW: Teacher and labor organizer Treasure Thoreson spoke to Unicorn Riot about being one of the 15 Minnesotans who were federally charged with conspiracy over their organizing earlier this year against ICE's deadly Operation Metro Surge in Minneapolis. [More on the Minnesota 15 at our website]
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Not Writing Games @notwritinggames.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
It’s always such a treat to see folks with trans colours in their PFP find this, or names like “Tranny Puppy87” reblog it. I’m glad you found this game.
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Elsa @erli.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I can't stop thinking how wrong the tech bros have understood creativity and creators. Or even just having hobbies. #erliart
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🌈 Hailey Piper 🌈 @haileypiperfights.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Oh neat, so the U.S. copyright office is feeding submitted books to the slop machine to test their authenticity, and as always it decides "yes, this is my slop" even when it isn't, because the slop machine is an incestuous ouroboros with itself. Glad it was resolved in this case but fuckin yikes
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Keith Ammann @ Gamehole Con @themonstersknow.com · 05/10/2026
Are you (or do you know) a #DnD DM in Chicago? Come to the Book Cellar in Lincoln Square (4736 N Lincoln Ave) tomorrow night at 7 for a celebratory reading/signing of REMONSTERED! THE MONSTERS KNOW WHAT THEY'RE DOING, my guide to combat tactics revised and expanded for 5.5E! www.bookcellarinc.co...
A copy of REMONSTERED! THE MONSTERS KNOW WHAT THEY'RE DOING on a black cloth backdrop, surrounded by colorful dice. On the cover, five adventurers—a dragonborn paladin, a forest gnome barbarian, an orc druid, a tiefling bard and a goliath sorcerer—are fighting a rakshasa in the richly appointed office of a royal adviser. On the rear wall is a portrait of a handsome, mustachioed human who wears the exact same robes of honor as the rakshasa. The rakshasa is savagely tearing into the paladin's throat with its claws. The look on the paladin's face is of someone unexpectedly confronting his own mortality. The shellshocked barbarian looks like she's about to drop her absurdly oversize axe; the bard and the sorcerer are clearly terrified, holding their weapons limply. The druid, on the other hand, looks resolute, angry and unafraid. The book is photographed at an angle so that you can see it's very thicc.
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Stop Killing Games @stopkillinggames.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
The EU Kids Act will make private servers illegal as it stands now. Read up on the Act yourself: hub.edri.org/index.php/s/... Contact your MEPs, tell them to scuttle this bill, and sign the Stop Killing Internet Initiative to ensure the protection of our digital spaces: eci.ec.europa.eu/066/public
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Jamie Flack @catandcrown.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Wake up, babe! New Cat!
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eliko thalia @museinrevolt.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
just learned this today
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Susanah Grace @susanahgrace.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Stop fucking using genAI. Not even for a joke, not even for that oh so cutting political satire. Every time you use it, you are actively taking food out of our mouths. You are using the weapon of the enemy. We do not need it.
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Colossal @thisiscolossal.com · 27/08/2026
Remembering Yayoi Kusama (1929-2026) with some gems from the archive www.thisiscolossal.com/tags/yayoi-k...
a kusama installation of flowers in an atriuma kusama installation of mirrored spheresa kusama installation of red flowers cloaking an apartment
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Laurie O'Connel (is looking for ttrpg work (in Dublin)) @laurieoc.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Americans (particularly writers and booksellers) have a responsibility to circulate information that the state wants to fall out of the news cycle -how the CIA trafficked arms to ISIS and Al-Quaeda in Syria, how the US betrayed the Kurds fighting ISIS in Rojava.
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Laurie O'Connel (is looking for ttrpg work (in Dublin)) @laurieoc.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
When the the regime labels random activist groups as terrorists the intent is in fact deliberate; by stripping any meaning from the term they hope to confuse the public and divert attention from the fact that the USA itself is the world's largest sponsor of terrorism, domestic and international.
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RPG Roots @rpgroots.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Another guest for Season 1 of RPG Roots is Laurie O’Connel, the award-winning designer of Litchcraft, Hieronymous, Death Game, To Honour and Obey, Full Send, and many more. 1/ #ttrpg #laurieoconnel #rpgroots #season1
A poster showing a picture of game designer Laurie O'Connel against a gray background, surrounded by the covers of four of his TTRPGs: To Honour and Obey, Hieronymous, Litchcraft, and Death Game.
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Rise Up (From the Grave) Comus @riseupcomus.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
The next time you sit down to start writing a list of 10 gods and 1 evil god, stop. Don't do that. Do this instead. Get 3-6 friends who play RPGs that aren't part of your current campaign. These are your setting's gods. riseupcomus.blogspot.com/2026/08/the-...
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The gods are the gay people that live in my phone
Sometimes I kvetch about how boring I find fantasy pantheons that are just Greek gods with a bad coat of paint. Sometimes I've blogged abou...
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Ai Jiang || 江艾🎐 @aijiang.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
tis official!! a new book coming to y’all 2028 with @erewhonbooks.bsky.social / @kensingtonbooks.bsky.social 🥺🤍👻 background art: Da Huang Chan 💫
Publishers marketplace deal announcement for Ai Jiang’s VESSEL EATER
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T(errifying) C(ryptid) Parker (she/her) @tcparker.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Thanks Gabino! If Weird (Peri)Menopausal Woman Lit and/or East Midlands Macabre sound like the genres for you... I may have something for your weekend payhip.com/NefariousBat...
Image of book covers for A Press of Feathers, Tradwife and The Nine O'Clock Horses superimposed on an image of Leicester city centre

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You've read Weird West. Southern Gothic. Appalachian Horror.
But have you ever read...
EAST MIDLANDS MACABRE?Image of book covers for The Long Con, Tradwife, Hummingbird, Saltblood, A Press of Feathers and Salvation Spring

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NOT WEIRD GIRL LIT

WEIRD (PERI) MENOPAUSAL WOMAN LIT
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Gabino Iglesias @gabino.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
It’s #FridayReads time! Let’s share books and boost all signals. Repost this and let us know what to repost for you. The HOBAR ebook is only $1.99 for a limited time! That’s a lot of creatures from beyond the reef, horror, crime, vengeance, murder, and magic for cheap! www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B0CP...
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Adam Bonica @adambonica.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
The fundraising texts you delete are working on someone. It’s infuriating and heartbreaking. An 85yo in Ohio gave more than double the value of his home. A 91yo in an Indianapolis senior facility gave 25K times. The DCCC/DSCC don’t just tolerate the spammers who exploit seniors. They take part.
data4democracy.substack.com
Hook and Squeeze
How Democratic consultants, committees, and party leaders built a fundraising spam pipeline that funnels money from a captive pool of elderly donors into their own operations.
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This Effin’ GM @thiseffingm.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Damn it, stop using AI in the TTRPG space, publishers.
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William Gillis 🏴 @rechelon.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
The US is targeting the anarchist collective that hosts the popular Noblogs wordpress platform as terrorists. This is truly batshit (as are their various obvious lies about Rose City Antifa etc). This is a HUGE attack on basic free speech. www.state.gov/releases/off...
state.gov
Designation of Autistici/Inventati as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist - United States Department of State
Today, the Department of State, in partnership with the Department of the Treasury, is announcing the designation of Autistici/Inventati as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist. Autistici/Inventati...
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jessamyn @librarian.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
I work at a public library. People who want to use AI seem to have no trouble doing so. People who don't want to use AI have a harder time. I crowdsourced and then finalized this document "How to disable or avoid intrusive AI" and then gave it a short URL: notoai.org Please pass along if it's useful
An aircraft passenger oxygen mask: a drop down passenger mask with air bag and yellow plastic mouth and nose cover, oxygen tube has been cut; Demonstration model used by flight attendant crew for passenger instruction. Has text on the side indicating that it's non-functional.
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DBJ @deadblossomjesse.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Please use this link twitch.uservoice.com/forums/92338... and tell twitch how fucking insane this is. Comment and let twitch know that this is horrible. Thank you
twitch.uservoice.com
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Alanna Smith @alannawrites.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Relying on ChatGPT research as a *science communicator* is wildly irresponsible!! What are we doing here??
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Part Time Yeen @parttimeyeen.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
Any of you using the ios version of Patreon to support me, switch to the browser version instead, cuz the apple fees have actually taken over 3000 usd from me in the course of a year
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Kenna Alexander @kennaalexander.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Yay! I can finally tell everyone! I'm going to be working with the amazing folks at @montecookgames.com to help bring the Between Earth & Sky series by Rebecca Roanhorse to the tabletop roleplaying world! Please follow along, share, and let folks know! www.backerkit.com/c/projects/m...
backerkit.com
Between Earth and Sky: the Roleplaying Game
Get notified when Between Earth and Sky: the Roleplaying Game launches on BackerKit!
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Unicorn Riot @unicornriot.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Activists Drop ‘Stop Line 5’ Banner From Stone Arch Bridge, Urge Michigan to Block Enbridge Line 5 Tunnel Permits Full story: unicornriot.ninja/2026/activis...
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Activists Drop ‘Stop Line 5’ Banner From Stone Arch Bridge, Urge Michigan to Block Enbridge Line 5 Tunnel Permits - UNICORN RIOT
Minneapolis, MN — Stop Line 5 activists dropped a huge banner that read “Stop Line 5” from the Stone Arch Bridge, which spans across the Mississippi River on Tuesday morning and called on Michigan Gov...
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Kathryn Tewson @kathryntewson.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
I am low-key obsessed with this pair of Chinese designers, in no small part because the model guy is SERVING.
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DriveThruRPG @drivethrurpg.com · 31/05/2026
Final hours of the Pathfinder & Starfinder Spotlight Sale! Shop deals here: www.drivethrurpg.com/en/browse?pr... Save up to 60% on more than 6800 digital items! Plus more at @roll20.net @demiplane.com and @drivethrucomics.com
Final hours of the Pathfinder & Starfinder Spotlight Sale at DriveThruRPG!
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Belsheber Rusape Jr. @belrusape.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
AI Data centers are polluting Black and Brown neighborhoods, killing the environment, helping promote misinfo and graphic hate speech, deteriorating the entertainment industry AND destroying the economy, all simultaneously. We don’t need a White liberal solution, we need those centers gone. Period.
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natemare before christmas @natescape.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
Disabling achievements when turning on provided accessibility features might seem like a sensible compromise, but it's actually a weird pointless humiliation ritual for everyone involved
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SprintingOwlDesigns @sprintingowl.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
It's live! Our most ambitious TTRPG bundle yet features work by a bunch of talented creators and is pay-what-you-want BUT you have to review something on itchio. itch.io/b/3707/revie...
Whimsical logo for the Review Something TTRPG bundle with garish multicolor text and a cluttered library background. Includes message proselytizing against generative AI.
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