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Just thinking of things and writing them down. Always thinking of things and writing them down. Forever. And ever.

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Matt Risby @thebadspot.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

You can depend on Carpenter.

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My stock response to the folks now saying they include “just a little AI” in their shitty games.

Buddy, if you used AI for some of it, I can only assume you used AI to do all of it. Hell, I assume you used AI to write this email.

Hardest of passes.

Matt Risby
(he/him)
@thebadspotcast

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Etaoin Shrdlu @filamena.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

This continues to be a great idea.

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STOP WHAT YOU ARE DOING

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I'm always riding the delayed train.

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The "how I arrive on Bluesky" meme and it's a gif of Phineas and Jeffery from Voyagers! falling out of the sky into a hay cart or something, except such a gif doesn't exist because I'm old.

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(It's not wild. The purpose of that nerd urge to explain every wondrous mystery in a beloved piece of fiction is to flatten it out and make everything soothingly smooth so you don't have to think about it anymore.)

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Caelan Conrad @caelan.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Wild how when science explains a mysterious wonder it somehow gets even more intriguing, but when a sequel or prequel explains a mysterious wonder it inevitably gets far less interesting.

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Bluesky right now is better for me than Twitter ever was even at its peak. While it’s definitely not an echo chamber - I wouldn’t care if it was. I’ve heard enough bigotry and anti-science garbage in my life to know what their arguments are. I don’t need to hear it every day to be educated on it.

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Ben from Spookily Drawn Swords @glenatron.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

A common misapprehension. Most people aren't aware of it now but up until the early eighties any author releasing a book had to support it by releasing a promotional single of them performing a classic song. These rarely charted but John Le Carré's Dancing Queen is much sought-after by collectors.

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Akil Wilson @akilwilson.blacksky.app · 06/10/2026

Little known fact: The phrase "don't judge a book by its cover" is about the celebrity blurbs, not the cover art.

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We all are in agreement that Sluggo’s hat looks nice, right?

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Matt Binder @mattbinder.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

can’t think of a better example of AI being mostly a solution to a problem that doesn’t exist also it can’t help when this is your user base

nic carter o
@nic_carter
X.com
this is about me and i'm not sorry! i don't have time
to autistically read forums and random team news
or whatever.
i'm sure spending hours and hours running your
fantasy team is a good ROI if you're unemployed but
some of us have jobs
also my team is stacked so that's another point in
the Al column

Andrew Weiner • @DickeyNate • 18h
What's the point if playing fantasy football if
you're just going to automate it

nic carter
@nic_carter • 17h
there's no point to fantasy football, it's grown ass
men pretending to draft NFL players

OpenWindowManiac @Cit_rusK •17h
Then just don't do it?

nic carter *
@nic_carter
X.com
social obligation
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United Wizards of the Coast - CWA @uwotc-official.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

This morning, the D&D team and Magic's Studio X informed our leadership of our intent to unionize. We love the games we make and the work we do, and unionizing is how we protect that work. unitedwizardsofthecoast.com/news/dnd-stu...

unitedwizardsofthecoast.com

Dungeons & Dragons and Studio X Join United Wizards of the Coast - CWA

Today, October 6, 2026, the designers, artists, writers, producers, and workers behind Dungeons & Dragons, Magic: The Gathering, Duel Masters, D&D Beyond, and countless other games are uniting in soli...

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shel kahn @portablecity.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Did a proper photoshoot of my little pocket dungeons in their new zine forms:

Three b&w zines on a colourful watercolour map background; the zines are The Ghost Houses of Phylinecra, The Corruption of Pelursk, and Keep on the Shining Isle

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I have to remind myself of that whenever I despair over how monolithic the public-facing part of the hobby is.

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Anfor @anforsorrow.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Sometimes I just marvel at the breadth of truly true role-playing games, both in form and subject.

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Stop👏portraying👏vikings👏as👏bikers!!

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thoughtcrimegames @thoughtcrimegames.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Your town has deep secrets, terrifying monsters, unspeakable evils, a clandestine city council...and a public radio station! Tell the tales of your own strange town in Community Radio. #ttrpg Itch: thoughtcrimegames.it... IPR: www.indiepressrevolu... TBS: tabletopbookshelf.co...

Community Radio from Thoughtcrime Games.

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Jason Keeley @herzwesten.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Alas, poor Ishmael. I call'd him, Horatio.

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shel kahn @portablecity.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

If it ain't Howard the Duck, I couldn't give a fuck.

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Happy spooky season! I saved up some spooky art just for you! Here, the Ankhou: www.portablecity.net/full-colour-...

A skeleton in late victorian garb with long red hair in the spotlight of a streetlamp, holding a scythe.

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The cultural damage done by the iPhone aesthetic is immeasurable.

A tangled wreck of a weathered Garfield novelty phone resting on a beach in France. The caption reads "The quest for the telephone motivates the troops."

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The Spaceshipper 🚀 @thespaceshipper.com · 05/10/2026

Had a dream last night that I met someone with a novelty hotdog-shaped cellphone and I was deeply jealous. Kind of a shame we attached our pocket computers to smart phones, instead of letting them remain two separate devices so that phones could be free to follow their natural evolution.

An old timey corded telephone with a transparent case so you can see it's delightfully colored innards.

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Buck Rogers in the 25th Century (1979): Matte painting by Syd Dutton

Futuristic city, matte painting by Syd Dutton

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 05/10/2026

Astronomy news for spooky season: a zombie planet orbiting a dead (but still hostile) star. Evidence suggests the following: Star dies, expels outer layers, becomes white dwarf. Gas giant forms from the debris. White dwarf is now blasting planet with radiation, shearing off some of its atmosphere.

science.nasa.gov

Suspected Second-generation Planet Solves NASA Hubble Cold Case - NASA Science

New analysis of archival Hubble data points to the possibility of "dead" white dwarf stars hosting second-generation planetary systems.

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SGW @strangedruid.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Morning #Sketch - Frogs have started up their fall choir around my house. I like pacific tree frogs. Hard to find the little dudes though. If they were huge, maybe they would spawn in the Salish sea and live in the foggy tops of the fir forests...

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Pyat, a Mouse @pyat.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Matt Howarth has died. He did a lot of art and creative work for the Myriad Song RPG from my publisher, though I'm sure is best known for the Post Brothers and work for Heavy Metal. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matt_Ho...

en.wikipedia.org

Matt Howarth - Wikipedia

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BLACK SABBATH - "Black Sabbath" (Official Video)

And Black Sabbath! Cannot forget Black Sabbath! youtu.be/0lVdMbUx1_k?... If you are ever suddenly transformed into a child in the late 70s, early 80s, find yourself a friend with a older sibling that has blacklight posters on their bedroom wall and a pet tarantula or snake.

youtu.be

YouTube video by Black Sabbath

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…and read Andre Norton's introduction. Then I remembered how it made the idea being of a writer sound like, to Young Eppy, being a full-on wizard.

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Oh! Baleful Beasts and Eerie Creatures! I was obsessed with this book in grade school. I remember it convinced me that I wanted to be a writer, but I couldn't remember why until I tracked it down decades later on the Internet Archive… Check out that artwork: andre-norton.com/contents/fou...

An illustration of a creepy patchwork doll with black button eyes, a thin, red, unsmiling mouth across a stark white face, a collar of tiny bells, and a little fish hook embedded in the palm of its creepy little hand. In the back ground a young girl is silhouetted by a thunderstorm through a living room window. She is in some sort of distressing pose.

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Honorable mention, in no particular order, go the stuff I saw on TV perhaps a little too young, like Logan's Run, V, and Demon Seed. (I should check out Demon Seed again.)

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To be fair, though, just the existence of Texas Chainsaw Massacre had already terrified me. You'd hear whispers about this movie, that it was based on a true story. I don't think I even saw a poster for it until I was a teenager. But you were always hearing about friends of friends who saw it.

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