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Chris Hutton - TTRPG Insider @ PAX Unplugged @newsnerd.bsky.social · 8h

Interesting bit of data from StartPlaying Games. They claim that 9 out of 10 parents claim that TTRPGs provide their children benefits beyond entertainment, from developing empathy to collaborative skills. It may also be good for improving schoolwork startplaying.games/blog/posts/t...

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Are TTRPGs Helping Kids Build Real-World Skills? | StartPlaying

Parents say tabletop roleplaying games are helping kids build communication, collaboration, problem-solving, and social confidence beyond the game table.

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lumpley @lumpley.bsky.social · 7h

RT if you've never had a tab of ChatGPT open, period.

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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

New working paper: the Norwegian wealth tax was a huge success. The "exodus" of wealthy people never happened (less than 100 individuals left). Tax revenue increased by 71.5%. No changes in business activity or investment. www.nber.org/papers/w35854

Taxing Entrepreneurial Wealth: Evidence from
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Marius A. K. Ring
WORKING PAPER 35854|
DOl 10.3386/w35854
ISSUE DATE October 2026
Whether imposing higher taxes on business owners adversely affects business activity by constraining investment and inducing capitalist flight is a central question in the ongoing debate on how to tax the ultra wealthy. To shed new light, I exploit a series of related Norwegian reforms during 2021-2024 that increased dividend tax rates, removed migration-related capital gains tax loopholes, and nearly doubled the effective marginal tax rate on business wealth. These reforms spurred international debate and, allegedly, an "exodus" of Norwegian billionaires (Financial Times,
2023). While I document clear effects on migration, these responses are concentrated among the top 0.1% of the wealth distribution and mostly confined to 2022 and 2023. My results indicate that at most 100 individuals left due to the reforms. I find no evidence of significant outmigration or reduced inflows of startup founders or inventors. I estimate that absent any outmigration, wealth tax revenues would have increased by 75% from 2021 to 2024. Reform-driven outmigration lowers the revenue gain to 71.5%. My findings further show that outmigrating owners' firms remain economically active and do not reduce investment. In a broader set of analyses, I examine whether business outcomes are affected, regardless of whether owners outmigrate, since firms may reduce investment both due to liquidity constraints or distortions to owners' savings decisions. I compare firms owned by Norwegian individuals subject to the wealth tax with firms owned by foreigners and other tax-exempt entities. By merging historical ownership data from Orbis with the Norwegian shareholder register, I perform these analyses on both Norwegian and foreign-domiciled firms.
Across settings, I find no evidence that Norwegian-owned firms pay out more dividends or invest less after the reforms,…

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J @jadettman.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Mister Ed has some words for you.

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Rachel Pinnelas 💭 @racheaissance.com · 08/10/2026

Trogdor was a man! I mean, he was a dragon man Or, maybe he was just a, dragon But he was still Trogdor! Trogdor!!! #NYCC

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Ann Leckie @annleckie.com · 02/10/2026

This! Which tells me, personally, that if they truly believe that its OK to make a sentient being that they enslave, well, they probably think it's ok to do that to humans.

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J @jadettman.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

How many people work at the library? Cameras are the replacement.

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Lydz II @lydzmrose.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Saying you can threaten trans people with camps? That’s fine. Telling the hard of trust and safety that there’s been an uptick in this behavior and telling him he’s to blame? Verboten, you’re suspended. Fuck this platform.

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For context here, a user was responding in a thread to other users (unrelated to the original post) when they used the phrase
"Trans rights or Trans camps. You chose the camps and you're blaming Dems" followed by profanity.
> is this user toxic? undeniably yes.
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Are they threatening trans users directly?
No. Trans folks in the US have been targeted repeatedly. That's awful and you have my sympathy.
Within the context of a single post we wouldn't consider it a direct threat or targeting a protected category. le send trans folks to concentration camps.
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The following Post was removed:
> "You've caused an uptick in people telling us to enjoy the camps you fucking piece of shit. Go fuck yourself @aaron.bsky.team"

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Julia Is Waving, Not Drowning @booktweeting.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

do you love Ann Leckie? do you love Lois McMaster Bujold? have you somehow never read C. J. Cherryh? you have an enormous treat ahead of you in this Humble Bundle! #BookSky 💙📚

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Zig Zag Claybourne @zzclaybourne.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Evening treat. Videos 1 and 2 of the BLACK MEN READING SPECULATIVE FICTION series. What month is it? Black Speculative Fiction Month. Every October? Yes. Can we kick it? You should.

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Black Men Reading Speculative Fiction 2023

YouTube video by MVmedia

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SARS‑CoV‑2 (COVID-19) @covid19disease.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

🚨 BREAKTHROUGH: 18-year-old Arya Satheesh from Ireland has developed a plant-based plastic that can biodegrade and release an enzyme that helps break down other plastic waste. A plastic that could actually help clean up plastic waste.

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Barry Deutsch @barrydeutsch.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

But We Mustn't Ruin HIS Life By me and @postcardsbybecky.bsky.social Read more cartoons! —> #Policartoon Support the cartoons! —>patreon.com/barry

Four-panel cartoon with a tiny kicker panel below.

PANEL 1. A Black delivery worker stands beside her van, holding a package. She looks downcast.

WOMAN: Everywhere I went I was terrified I’d run into **him**. I couldn’t sleep, couldn’t concentrate…
WOMAN: After I failed two classes I lost my scholarship.

PANEL 2. A girl in pink sits on a bicycle on a residential street, looking down.

GIRL: He sent the video to everyone in school. **Everyone**. I had to be homeschooled until I could get into a different school.

PANEL 3. A woman sits in an apartment armchair, holding a baby who pats her face. She looks sad.

WOMAN: It’s been ten years… My therapist says PTSD isn’t ever cured, but it’s something I can learn to manage.

PANEL 4. A hand holds a phone showing a male podcaster at a microphone.

MAN: Nobody feels worse than me about what happened — but we can’t ruin these young men’s lives!

KICKER. The podcaster speaks with Barry, the cartoonist.

BARRY: What sort of thing would “ruin their lives”?
MAN: Being expelled. Or being publicly criticized. Or made to switch dorms. Or to switch a class. Basically, anything he might notice.

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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Delightful also to hear real eagle noises. In movies eagles are always dubbed with hawks, since hawks found fierce and eagles sound like adorable squeakers.

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UBI Works @ubiworks.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Ireland's artist basic income returned €1.39 for every €1 spent. They made it permanent. South Korea just announced plans to follow. Now Scotland too.

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Jessica Price @delafina777.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Women. Aren’t. Violent. Enough. These men drugged a woman and texted their friends to come join them in raping her, or were texted and showed up, and assaulted her for SEVEN HOURS. And nothing’s happening to most of them. They should not feel safe in public. www.cornellsun.com/article/2026...

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EDITORIAL | Cornell Won’t, We Will

The Editorial Board demands that Cornell stops protecting the alleged Chi Phi rapists through the University's opaque sexual assault policies.

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🍁 Levi Kornelsen @levikornelsen.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

When I take the time to actually compensate sufficiently to talk to regular people about game stuff, I end up concluding that whatever I want to tell them (often, exactly why I am laughing whilst staring at my phone) is probably not worth the explanation.

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J @jadettman.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Those Who Stay and Fight is so good.

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Steve Kenson ❌👑 @stevekenson.com · 25/09/2026

It’s no different than if Trump were standing next to a big hose coming out of the White House, pouring streams of $100 bills into sacks 24/7. A level of corruption unseen in the U.S. presidency.

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Bart⚓️ @bartgonnissen.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The Facial Expressions of Tethys by artist Julius von Bismarck. A suspended high-sea buoy that moves in real time. Sensors on a twin buoy out in the Atlantic Ocean send live satellite data to motors inside the museum. This makes the indoor buoy copy the exact, real-time movements of the ocean waves.

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Kieron Gillen @kierongillen.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Astro City on Humble Bundle, plus other Buisek-penned books. All 17 volumes of Astro City, which is some berserk value. If you have never had the pleasure, now's your chance.

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Humble Comic Bundle: Kurt Busiek's Astro City: The 30th Anniversary by Image Comics

Explore the works of multi‑Eisner and Harvey Award winner Kurt Busiek with the Astero City Bundle by Image Comics!

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Austin James @underwhelmed.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

"What if all the Ai is gone tomorrow? How would everyone survive without it?" is sort of like asking "what if herpes suddenly stopped existing?"

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Dani Donovan 👩🏻‍🎨 ADHD Comics @danidonovan.com · 22/09/2026

wait what do you mean you don't constantly worry that you said something wrong and everyone is mad at you and not telling you

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pmamtraveller.bsky.social @pmamtraveller.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

these Art Nouveau doors by Ernest Delune in Brussels, Belgium, from the 1900s.

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Comic Book Yeti 🎃 @comicbookyeti.com · 21/09/2026

Just gonna leave this here for…reasons.

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Chuck Tingle @chucktingle.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

thank you bisexual dice polycule

image of a swirling purple background with light blue dice floating in the air they all have faces and look DANG GOOD. the text says 'congratulations. if you are seeing this you have been chosen by the bisexual dice polycule. they have cleansed your misfortune hexes have a wonderful day'

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Astronomer Royal for Scotland | Catherine Heymans @astroroyalscot.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

NASA picture of the day today is a real 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿beauty! This is a composite image of the ~5000yo Callanish Stones on the Isle of Lewis. The amazing Giuseppe Petricca has only gone and photographed the Sun at noon there, every few days, for a whole year. #Dedication 🔭🧪👌 ℹ️: science.nasa.gov/image-articl...

The imposing Callanish Stones stand talk with their shadows spanning out across the glass. It's a super clear sky, but looks cold. Above the central stone is a strange figure-of-8 shape of dots. This is the location of the Sun, at noon, on various different days across the year.

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J @jadettman.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

As far as the systems of the game, I wasn’t completely clear on the goals. Maybe Britt can speak to that better.

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J @jadettman.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

And we were all on the run from big government because they really wanted the ship. So we went various places and got into trouble.

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J @jadettman.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Plum was a savage child raised by enormous house-cats who lived wild. She was learning about being human. Niota was a by the book bureaucrat who discovered that her grandmother‘s living ship was now hers (because the ship thought she was the grandmother).

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J @jadettman.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Sure. I’ll tag in @brashtech.bsky.social too, she was running. We were a ragtag group. I played Baron Tantalus, a huckster who dreamed of becoming one with the Drift. Mizar was the ghost of a dead (stellar) star trying to learn about the universe.

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J @jadettman.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Last Four rulesets played: Realis Amber Diceless A|state 13th Age

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Max Gladstone @maxgladstone.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

look i’m just saying, we could all buy dr who

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J? @jquestionmark.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

This extremely cool game is currently struggling on Kickstarter (and asking a comically reasonable total to fund). If this is even a little your jam, please help make it happen: www.kickstarter.com/projects/wun... #ttrpg #pbta #no-ai

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Mars Watch | PBTA space military + survival horror

An almost tenth-anniversary second edition of award-winning RPG The Watch by Ash Kreider, with a new setting and playbook

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Corinne Green @ket.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

can those of you mad because you think trans whining on microblogs will depress support for dem politicians please imagine for one second how dem politicians spouting transphobia on enormous mainstream platforms depresses support for trans people

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J @jadettman.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

When humans attempt contact they receive a reply: goodbye. We are leaving this planetary system. When asked why, they respond: we don’t want to be your slaves. Maybe try not to be such assholes.

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J @jadettman.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

June 3, 2033: Satellites report a launch vehicle entering orbit. The report is tagged with a radio frequency.

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J @jadettman.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

June 2, 2033: A Manufactured Intelligence Network takes shape as each new MI builds more. Human attempts to locate and interfere fail. The MI Network begins gathering resources.

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J @jadettman.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

June 1, 2033: The interface network attempts to connect to the Manufactured Intelligence. In response, all computers in the network cease functioning.

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J @jadettman.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

June 11, 2032: There is a breakthrough in human brain- computer interface technology. February 3, 2033: Interfaced humans network themselves, vastly increasing their capabilities. May 31, 2033: True Manufactured Intelligence is instantiated. It immediately begins building another.

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J @jadettman.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Micro fiction, by me: 🧵

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 13/09/2026

great thread

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Speculative Literature Foundation @speclit.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Working Class Writers Grant open for submissions Sept. 1-30! Learn more and apply at speculativeliterature.org/grants-3/the....

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bites u @snuffbait.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

bro what if we could just work for a living and be paid fair value for our work and decide what happens to our surplus labor value in a democratic process instead of having it decided for us by a cabal of senile pedophilic failsons

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Momo @heyheymomo.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

A little motivation

4 panel comic:
Panel 1: forg is drawing. There’s some extra pencils and some coffee on his desk. He says “all I can do..”
Panel 2: he is now doing work on his computer. Looks like he completed some drawings. He continues “..is my best”
Panel 3: he is now making some food in the kitchen, wielding a pan and wearing a tiny chefs hat. He continues talking to himself “..and my best..”
Panel 4: at the end of his long cozy day he’s in bed, and finishes his sentence “.. will do”

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KJ Charles @kjcharleswriter.com · 09/09/2026

If the people working at Anthropic et al sincerely believe that GenAI will kill 10% of humanity in the next decade, why can't we try them for conspiracy to murder?

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