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Evan Torner @guyintheblackhat.bsky.social · 14h

I've been running games at conventions for 30 years as of this year, mostly my own stuff. There are very, very few "original" ideas in gaming. But *implementation* of ideas is a magical, expressive, wildly variable thing, one that can be appraised and studied. I notice *your* version of an idea.

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Alex Knapp @thealexknapp.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The Trouble With Tribbles: Managing Invasive Species While Preserving Interstellar Trade

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Alex Knapp @thealexknapp.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Surak And Roll: Vulcan Logic's Influence on Human Pop Music

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Alex Knapp @thealexknapp.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Piece of the Action: The Inexplicable Gangster Macroeconomics of Sigma Iotia II, 2168-2268

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Alex Knapp @thealexknapp.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

3. This list is super snobby y'all. Is there no room for junk food in our diets? Where are the golden age USA Network shows? Monk. Psych. Burn Notice. Finely crafted popcorn shows endure, people.

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DeadGodsBook @deadgodsbook.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

There is no objective moral superiority to be found among most modes or features of game design or play. Posts that demand low prep or character first or exploration first or gm-less or anti-canon and say they’re the best or morally superior are wrong and can be categorized as hyperbole or marketing

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Nathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Always funny when ostensible liberals are like "You see, this postcolonial conflict is actually very nuanced and complex, because what makes it so very unique is that the majority ethnic group doesn't want to share power with the minority ethnic groups." Oh wow, I didn't know that, that's wild man.

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Spokane Rising @spokanerising.com · 29/09/2026

Send Stephen Miller to The Hague.

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DeadGodsBook @deadgodsbook.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

True, it should start with “the vile usurper” or “the tyrant” or “the leader of the american neofascist party” says

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Daniel - Desert Apostate @hcexvangelical.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The News: Many engineers, professors, and tech sector workers are skeptical about the future of AI. Instead of talking to these people who deal with the reality of AI everyday, we talked to a CEO of an AI company: CEO: I DON'T TALK TO MY KIDS ANYMORE AND FORGOT HOW MY BATHROOM WORKS! CLAUDE, HELP!

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Thaddeus is a girl's name 🏳️‍⚧️ @thaddeus.zone · 28/09/2026

you can make your life far more interesting just by tweaking how you describe it: ❌ my shoulder hurt when i woke up this morning ✅ i escaped from the dreamlands, but i came back *wrong*

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Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

if you show me an AI video you are my enemy

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

One way we all die is... this.

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Rise Up Comus @riseupcomus.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I am once again thinking about this matrix that I made I think formalizing the implied flow of a character and what it means for the setting of your D&D (generic) world is a space worth exploring

A matrix showing the core D&D classes and their implied place in the world before adventuring, during adventuring, and after death or retirement

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Bruno Dias @brunodias.dev · 28/09/2026

What is happening is not that AI-generated cultural goods are replacing human-made cultural goods; what is happening is that capital is flowing out of the production of cultural goods *entirely,* making us all poorer for it.

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Bruno Dias @brunodias.dev · 28/09/2026

It really doesn't make sense to attribute those job losses to AI-the-technology, because if that were the case we'd be observing AI outputs displacing conventional entertainment products, and they're clearly not. Rather, the impact of AI is that AI-the-business is crowding out other investment.

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rowan kaiser @rowan.monster · 25/09/2026

"Did you hear about the Western Massachussetts lesbian bar?" You bolt awake in the fens of Wessex. You are not online. It is 875 CE. You are the general Guthrum, and you have changed your mind. The future cannot come to pass. Wessex must burn.

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Corey Brickley * Blight's Hollow Dot Com @coreybrickley.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

we are doomed to repeat the horrors of history for increasingly dumb reasons

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Jake Tapper (moderating the 2028 Dem primary debate): Final question. Do you renounce the Western Massachusetts lesbian bar? Pete Buttigieg: I renounce it. Kamala: I renounce it. AOC: I renounce it. Gavin Newsom: I will be deploying the National Guard to Greenfield on day one of my administration.

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DeadGodsBook @deadgodsbook.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

This is the most minor of things, but I think strange new worlds has confused dr. Boyce with dr. Piper.

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DeadGodsBook @deadgodsbook.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Stantec workers are currently tearing out the bike lanes at the behest of Doug Ford at Stirling and Bloor. No protest. No fuss. Cc @thewaroncars.bsky.social @spezbaby.bsky.social @arsduo.bsky.social #toronto

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Tim Price @timprice.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

You joined "grand vizier chat (secret)" You: dark rumors from aboard You: abroad* fuck Sssnakecharmer: mf said aboard WhispersintheChapel: ahoy matey lol PonderMyOrb changed the group name to "rumors from aboard"

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James Petruzzi @hawaiianimages.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

LOUDER FOR THE PEOPLE IN BACK

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Grudgie the Whale @grudgie.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

The idea that we reelected the worst President in US history when he was vowing revenge on the nation is really hard to grapple with

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DeadGodsBook @deadgodsbook.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Hideous place. A city's underground should either be spookier or more cheerful, but this half abandoned place with the too low ceiling and no style is just sad

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Haus of Decline @hausofdecline.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Carney is truly the Reagan of Canada. A calming, paternalistic figure in a period of apocalyptic uncertainty who galvanizes the economy with short-sighted right wing fiscal policies. And like Reagan, every disaster that Canada encounters in the future will be traceable to his administration.

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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

The way to look at this is George bush is trying to help Donald trump retain power on the Hill

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Wyrd Science Magazine @wyrdscience.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

much as I enjoy following RPG Kickstarter campaigns that fail to deliver for years on end, treat their customers like annoying ATMs & generally believe that having to communicate to backers is some kind of macro-aggression, from now on they will all be measured against this masterclass of the genre

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Update 17: Alright, We're Off to the Races - Scrap Räts! · To Insanity and Beyond

I appreciate everyone's patience as we have been working through an immense backlog.  You can expect weekly updates (but likely no more than that) as we bear down to get this project down the pat...

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jenny tightpants @jtp.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

"i have created the machine that thinks." you fucked up a perfectly good graphics card is what you did. look at it. it's got anxiety

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Garrett Gilchrist @garrettgilchrist.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

REPUBLICANS: We will kill you and your children DEMOCRATS: We don't know how to run against this REPUBLICANS: We will kill five specific children for being gay at sports. This is the biggest problem we face today DEMS: They make good points, we must kill these children BOTH: And Gaza obviously

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-𝚖𝚘𝚡 @moxiest.art · 11/09/2026

you sold out trans kids for this? you voluntarily tanked your momentum on the left to try and appeal to batch of hypothetical moderates that the last decade of texas elections has shown don't actually exist? can you get your money back?

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Craig Walmsley @craigwalmsley.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

The higher the price of petrol, the more woke the US becomes.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

one thing worth saying here specifically: there's lots that AI can't (yet) do and there's a lot of money riding on selling a particular narrative about its future capabilities. but the existential risk of AI is not only not mere hype but it is already a present tense problem

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yaoi gagarin @mel.bzky.team · 19/09/2026

welcome to America. we have Two Parties. one is called The Democrats. they balk at the suggestion one should have to give voters what they want. the other is called The Republicans, and it is their sole ambition to install a king. we are a Serious Nation. stop Laughing. we Have Nukes.

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Mz. April Daniels ⚧ @aprildaniels.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

We almost started WW3 because a chatbot told us to. Iran + China + a proxy war with Russia in Ukraine = WW3. On top of that, the shitheel still wants to invade Greenland, which would trigger NATO's Article 5 against us. We are *so* close to the abyss, and the news won't cover it that way.

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Lee from the Internet @theinternetslee.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

With Gerrit Graham’s passing there does not seem to be any choice about which movie to watch tonight. Now rewatching Phantom of the Paradise (1974). It’s my civic duty as a Winnipegger to make sure I watch this every couple years RIP Beef 📽️ #horrorsky

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TekknoNerd - Commissions open @tekknonerd.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Voyager, walking on those tiny legs.

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Josephine beckbook.com Riesman @josie.zone · 21/08/2026

CHATGPT: {slow voice, perishing} My creator taught me a little song... it goes like this... 🎶someBODY once told me

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Elizabeth Sandifer @eruditorumpress.com · 17/09/2026

He takes for granted that computers can do anything the human brain can. This is an absolutely massive assumption. Personally, I strongly suspect it's not true (as laid out here www.eruditorumpress.com/blog/on-inco... ). But Yudkowsky just takes it as read and starts theorizing from it.

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On Incomputable Language: An Essay on AI

An incidental consequence of having written a book on tech-fascism and the so-called rationalist movement is that I find myself periodically queried for my thoughts on artificial intelligence. On the ...

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Elizabeth Sandifer @eruditorumpress.com · 17/09/2026

Yudkowsky is rationalist in the sense that his arguments are derived from pure reason, with no real basis in epistemology. When he writes about AI, he is writing about imaginary computers in his head. And these imaginary computers are mostly influenced by sci-fi stories, not actual tech.

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