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TTRPG Designer | he/him | Tabula Rasa: Discovery Edition Out Now on Itch! | wildestworlds.carrd.co

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Jonathan @jwildest.bsky.social · 44m
This season of Survivor is just firing on all cylinders. Really has the perfect mix of everything I enjoy about the show. And dare I say, it seems like production learned from some their missteps in the New Era.
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Jonas Tintenseher (they/them) @tintenseher.bsky.social · 4h
Constructs 🤖, cyberware 💾, and motorcycles 🏍️ are coming to Draw Steel in EX MACHINA, by @jennyredacted.bsky.social, @zetesofos.bsky.social, @echomyecho.bsky.social, @ritehunter.bsky.social, and yours truly! Follow us to be alerted when we go live!! #drawsteel www.backerkit.com/call_to_acti...
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Get Ready for Ex Machina, the Cybernetic, the Stormrider, and more for DRAW STEEL
From Tier 3 Press - Get Ready for Ex Machina, the Cybernetic, the Stormrider, and more for DRAW STEEL
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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...
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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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Wes Franks @carrion-comfort.com · 03/10/2026
Last year, a bunch of you helped Bran and I get out of a terrible living situation, heading to the first stage of us getting out of Washington DC. We're ready for Stage 2: Move to New Orleans. We updated the #GoFundMe page with new info and where the rest of the money we're raising will be going.
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Donate to Wes & Bran's Move: Onward to New Orleans, organized by Wesley Franks
Hello and thank you for taking the time to read this. It feels like more and mo… Wesley Franks needs your support for Wes & Bran's Move: Onward to New Orleans
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John Harper @johnharper.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Speaking of toxic miasma... :) (work on the Breathless hack continues!)
A page spread from Requiem for the Wretched Dead, depicting the Miasma.

Text reads: The ubiquitous toxic void-smoke of the deathlands—all that remains of the howling death throes of the souls consumed by the arcane cataclysm that broke the world.
Deathlanders must remain alert to its malevolent presence, relying on portable lightning barrriers or emergency plasm-flares for defense when it strikes.

Threats (bullet list):
At a distance:
1. Obscures vision, dampens hearing. You fail to notice what’s happening or lose track of where you are.
2. Senses you. Moves to nearby.

Nearby:
1. Fouls gear, erodes materials. An item is badly damaged—mark 1 usage.
2. Closes in. Moves to close contact.

In close contact:
1. Fully envelops you. Mark 1 usage on all your items and suffer Harm. If you can’t escape it, face the next threat.
2. Finds a gap in your mask or exposure suit. You start choking uncontrollably as it gets into your mouth and nose. Suffer Harm. If you can’t escape it or get immediate aid, suffer Harm again and face the next threat.
3. Fills your lungs, snakes into your ears and eyes. You succumb fully to the miasma and perish. See Wretch on page xx.
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Evil Hat @evilhat.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
For all you "OOH! A book with a MAP in the ENDPAPERS!" sickos out there @crislv.bsky.social has been *cooking.* Rangers of a Broken World launches in 12 days. Follow now to get notified when the game goes live: www.backerkit.com/c/projects/e...
On the left, a mockup of the Special Edition of Rangers of a Broken World with green and peach colored foil accents. A dragon rises above a sword. Seven hands are arranged in a circle, reaching for a spark of magical power. On the right, a mockup of the inside covers of the book showing a map of the continent of Amylte where the game takes place. Map drawn by Ripley Matthews. Digital mockup. Design not final.
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Jonathan @jwildest.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Spencer makes kickass games and I just backed his exciting kickstarter for NOVA 2. I would love to see this project get some more support so that we can see more of his innovative work. If you’re on the fence, check out his YouTube channel for insight on the design for this game!:
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Gila RPGs
Official YouTube channel for Spencer Campbell of Gila RPGs. Creator of Slayers, NOVA, LUMEN, LIGHT, RUNE, and more. Indie tabletop RPGs made in Chicago, served worldwide.
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Sean Nittner @seannittner.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I ran a 12-hour session of Crows: Fortune or Death and I want to play more! The crafting, spellcasting, usage die, village development, trait, expertise, and advancement are so good!
Cover image for Crows: Fortune or Death depicting a group of adventurers entering dungeon with weapons drawn.
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Authenticity Trip | 200-Proof Games @200proofgames.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
This is the skeleton key to every mid PBTA game and session - people look at the moves and think they’re equivalent to, like, initiative mechanics or something. Like an optional add-on for flavor. No, man, they’re the *whole deal.* Ignore them and everything falls alll the way apart
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Plus One Exp @ 🔜 Metatopia @plusoneexp.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
This fall, Kingdoms rise. Kingdoms fall. Kingdoms come. The 7th Order by Brian Miranda & the Ennie Award-winning Ritual Deck by @drlemons.itch.io are coming Sept 29th on @backerkit.com in the Kingdoms Carved Combo. 2 dynamic mystery games by 2 amazing creators ttrpg.link/KCC 1/X
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Kingdoms Carved Combo
Get notified when Kingdoms Carved Combo launches on BackerKit!
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J Evil Parks @drlemons.itch.io · 29/09/2026
Tomorrow is Ritual Deck day. Will you become the King of Games (by backing my game)? ttrpg.link/kcc
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jay Dragon 🔜 Metatopia @jdragsky.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
i helped @anxiousmimicrpgs.bsky.social with developmental editing on girl frame, and i shared some of my notes on my work on my patreon! www.patreon.com/possumcreek/...
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Dev Editing Girl Frame and Information Hierarchy | Jay Dragon (& Friends)
Recently I started working with Isabelle Ruebsaat on her award-winning TTRPG Girl Frame, providing developmental editing for her work. A lot
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Josh Kettles 🤙🏼 @joshkettles.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
HAPPY SURVIVOR EVE! I’m re-sharing my NEWLY REFRESHED #Survivor Starter Packs, which I’ve updated for #Survivor51, the Open Era and beyond! #1 SURVIVORSKY CENTRAL 🏝️ Survivor content creators, podcasters, alumni, and other must-follow accounts that are ACTIVE here on Bluesky. go.bsky.app/9hbTVr3
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The Dice Society @thedicesociety.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Making this was no joke, but every second was worth it. I can't tag every contributor here, but please take a look at the image below 🤯 If I counted it right, that's 40 people coming together to turn this crazy idea into a reality. Not to mention the over 200 backers! Thank you all so much ❤️
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The Dice Society @thedicesociety.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Hooked on Crafting is officially out 🎉 #DrawSteel Almost 200 quest hooks and suggested challenges for your table's crafters ⚒️ I dare you to use all of them! For one week only, get it alongside You Meet in an Ambush for a discounted price 👀 thedicesociety.itch.io/hooked-on-cr...
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Hooked on Crafting by The Dice Society
Quest Hooks for Every Craftable in Draw Steel
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Thomas M, Full-time Rascal @newmadras.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Do I have any mutuals who have played games set in Eberron (asking for Rascal Reading Club as that's our next setting book)?
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I Liv, I Die, Oliviagain Hill @machineiv.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Into Daggerheart? How about Bloodborne? My amazing partner @filamena.bsky.social wrote and designed these seven amazing weapons, including the classic Saw Cleaver. I did the art and layout. Psst. There's a pretty dress equipped with spinny saw blades.
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Shift Weapons • Daggerheart Compatible Consumables Equipment Loot Homebrew • Heart Of Daggers
I’m just making this because certain dark and gothic monster hunting Daggerheart campaign frames seemed to be missing something… borne… of the strange Age of Enlightenment type passions for experiment...
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RHAP @robhasapodcast.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
#TheTraitorsUS Season 6 cast has been released! Watch now to see what Pooya, Brandon, and Maggie tink #rhap 🌀🏰 www.youtube.com/live/ZgYPTtI...
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Traitors US Season 6 Cast Announcement
YouTube video by RHAP: We Know Reality TV
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James Introcaso @jamesintrocaso.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Folks, thank you so much for making the Crows BackerKit campaign the 14th most-funded and 19th most-backed BackerKit campaign ever. More importantly, thank you for believing in this game, one that I love playing and making with awesome people.
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MB @sugarcubedog.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Macklemore just announced he’s donating the $1 million he made from Sheeran’s tour to 6 organizations to support Palestinians and he’s asking Robert Kraft to match it. This is just the first part announcing it.
With everything that has happened over the last 48 hours, I want to bring the conversation back to where it belongs: to the Palestinian people who are still being killed, still living under military occupation, and still fighting for their freedom.
I will be donating the entire $1 million of my net earnings from Ed Sheeran's Loop Tour to six organizations working directly to support the Palestinian people. And I invite Robert Kraft to match my donation. Whatever we disagree about, perhaps we can agree on this: Palestinian lives are worth protecting. A Palestinian life is no less valuable than any other life on this earth.
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woke stifler @yelix.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
YOUR FRIEND WHO LIVES IN LOS ANGELES, AT LEAST ONCE A WEEK: Yeah I just saw Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever in 70mm,
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Sylvan Lawrence Is Long Hauled Again @lonelamplighter.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Not sure who here heard already, but Nic from IPR was in a really bad car crash two weeks ago, and his car is completely totaled. Anything you can give would be immensely appreciated, and even if you can't, please please please spread the word on this! www.gofundme.com/f/support-ni...
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Donate to Support Nicholas's Recovery and Car Replacement, organized by David Gales
I'm raising funds for my dear friend Nicholas, who was recently in a ter… David Gales needs your support for Support Nicholas's Recovery and Car Replacement
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Ghoula RPGs @gilarpgs.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
I feel like blowing up the sun. Let's launch NOVA 2 next week. www.kickstarter.com/projects/the...
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Coming soon: NOVA 2
Pilot mechs in a sunless world in this exciting second edition of the NOVA TTRPG!
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Jonathan @jwildest.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
As I move towards getting my game into layout, I’ve thought a lot about the rules’ structure & flow. Ten Candles really excels at this too. I think it’s one of those aspects of game design that is subtle when done well, but very noticeable when it’s not quite right.
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Jonathan @jwildest.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Reading & playing it also came at the perfect time for me, as I noodle on some complex design updates to Tabula Rasa. I love the way it handles narration rights mechanically. And Ten Candles has some great guidance in its collaborative character building.
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Jonathan @jwildest.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
I had the chance to GM Ten Candles by @stephendewey.bsky.social after a few times as a player. It’s such a masterclass in thoughtful, evocative writing & design. If you’re looking for a reference for structuring collaborative storytelling or reinforcing theme thru rules, check it out!
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Sen-Foong Lim @senfoonglim.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
✂️🎲 Designers! Please share your area’s #FLGS - let me know where the storefront is located and tag ‘em / drop their website. Tell me why I should go visit them if I’m in the area. Bonus points if they support local design efforts with a prototype night or featured shelf, etc.
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Jonathan @jwildest.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
@geekyteas.bsky.social in Burbank is absolutely amazing! I’ve been going there for years and they’ve been able to upgrade to a larger space. They have an entire room in the store dedicated to RPGs. There are definitely efforts to support indie and local design, and they’ve very welcoming in general!
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Sean Nittner @seannittner.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
When we make choices in rpgs, what are they in service of? The story? Character arcs? Advancement? Plot? Optimizing success? Engaging the mechanics? All of these things and more I'm sure. This is a thread about when there is tension between those objectives. Game: Draw Steel
Cover image of Delian Tomb, featuring the tomb entrance and the statue of a Caelian Knight outside of it.
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Dave Itzkoff @ditzkoff.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
how is this real
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Jonathan @jwildest.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Yes! Researching Carved from Brindlewood has really opened up some cool design for this version. Really excited to test out the new tools for collaborative storytelling
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Plus One Exp @ 🔜 Metatopia @plusoneexp.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
The setup on this game is great and it's been cool to see how @jwildest.bsky.social has been expanding it. A bit of Brindlewood tech may have snuck in.
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Jonathan @jwildest.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Carve Your Character and Shape Your Story. The editing of Tabula Rasa‘s updated version for @plusoneexp.bsky.social is nearly complete, but I’m still hoping to do some playtesting related to campaign rules. I’m looking for 1-2 people to join a two part playtest in late September. DM for more info!
Cover image with Tabula Rasa at the top and verdant green background. At the center is aTabula Rasa, depicted as a melting anthropomorphic beeswax construct with a honeycomb at the top of their head. Bees swarm around the Tabula Rasa.
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Evil Hat @evilhat.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
how it started / how it's going @roll20.net marketplace.roll20.net/browse/searc...
Our Roll20 offerings from 2020. Eleven titles - Fate Core, Fate Accelerated, Deck of Fate, Secrets of Cats, Channel A, and more.Our Roll20 offerings as of September 2026. Eighty-eight products including Blades in the Dark, Monster of the Week, Thirsty Sword Lesbians, Scum & Villainy, and many, many more.
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E. R. F. Jordan 🏳️‍⚧️ PROXY, available now! @erfjordan.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
PROXY version 1.2 is out! The new SLEEPER playbook for Androids is so humanlike they struggle to accept they're an Android at all. Plus, a new play to get to the action quicker and a couple example contracts to get you started. Check it out: hexjellyfish.itch.io/proxy-androids
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PROXY by E. R. F. Jordan
Android espionage in a city that abandoned you
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RPG Trader @rpgtrader.com · 03/09/2026
⚠️ Accessories are here! RPG Trader just got a big upgrade. Creators can now offer print-on-demand physical accessories for their games - alongside digital downloads & print books. Cards. Dice. Maps. GM screens. Tiles. Character sheets. Game boxes. And it all happens directly through RPG Trader.
Screenshot showing the 7 accessories now available - Screen, Tear-off pad, Sheet, Cards Hex Tiles, Dice and Game box
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The Verge @theverge.com · 02/09/2026
As a new Harry Potter trailer makes the rounds, it bears repeating that there’s no way to watch this show without supporting J.K. Rowling’s bigotry and the structural violence she’s inflicting on the trans community.
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There is no ethical consumption of HBO’s Harry Potter series
You can’t without supporting Rowling’s transphobic bigotry.
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Thomas M, Full-time Rascal @newmadras.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Working link: www.rascal.news/reading-club...
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Reading Club: Blades in the Dark/Doskvol
This ain't Swords in the Light.
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Nishaant! Made Tamasha! @artbyrecluse.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
To make good my promise to @orbitaldropkick.bsky.social I present the quickstart to my heartbreaker TAMASHA! An original setting and system inspired by South Asian Myth, LA hip hop and 2000s anime and cartoons. An action comedy journey to become legendary! artbyrecluse.itch.io/tamasha
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Tamasha! Quickstart! by Recluse!
Set in a hopeful apocalypse where junk is better than gold and music stops armies. Are you ready to make some noise?
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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
Love this news but hate the "surprise comeback" framing. Teams around the globe worked incredibly hard to protect & expand mangrove forests & it worked! Please just say, "We tried and we succeeded! Go team Earth!" We must admit our victories to give people the heart to keep trying! #ShareGoodNewsToo
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The Fandomentals @thefandomentals.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Our tabletop team @danarndtwrites.bsky.social and @ragepandapajamas.bsky.social got to chat with the lovely @felicia.day in a wide ranging chat about everything from The Guild to AI to the very origins of Critical Role. www.thefandomentals.com/felicia-day-...
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"We Have To Be Scrappy": After Twenty Years Of Creativity, Felicia Day Still Rolls With The Changes - The Fandomentals
"The Godmother of Actual Play" reflects on getting The Guild back together, the realities of film production, and what it's like doing everything before it was cool
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🪼Ghost Jellyfishlines 🔜 PaxU🪼 @jellyfishlines.itch.io · 27/08/2026
Yall like melancholic yet hopeful games about people and where they live, right? jellyfishlines.itch.io/townies
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TOWNIE(S) by Jellyfishlines
Rustbelt grit
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Avery Alder, Buried Without Ceremony @lackingceremony.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Do you love any of the games that I have created? Whether it's Monsterhearts, Dream Askew, The Quiet Year, Going For Broke, or a deeper cut, now would be a great time to hit quote-tweet and tell your friends about it! It's been a slow month. 💕✨ store.buriedwithoutceremony.com
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Buried Without Ceremony
My name is Avery Alder, and for the past eighteen years I’ve been designing tabletop roleplaying games. These are games about community, relationships, doubt, queerness, and the collapse of civilizati...
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Maureen Johnson @maureenjohnsonbooks.com · 26/08/2026
As a tribute to Dolly, why not donate a book? Leave one is a free library. Give one to a friend or neighbor or child. Buy one for a teacher’s wishlist. If you have book donation ideas, add them to this thread. Dolly would love to see people getting books!
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Starbucks Workers United @sbworkersunited.org · 25/08/2026
🚨BREAKING: Our union of over 12,000 baristas are officially calling for a Starbucks boycott. Read this statement penned by Starbucks workers on why a boycott from ALL customers, allies, and organizations is necessary to fight back against corporate greed:
BOYCOTT STARBUCKS is written inside a zig-zaggy speech bubble against crumbled paper. Beside it are the Starbucks Workers United logo and an image of a coffee cup being poured out.We, the 12,000 and growing members of Starbucks Workers United, call on everyone who stands with working people to boycott Starbucks until they finalize a contract with union baristas and stop union-busting.
What we’re fighting for is simple: a minimum $17/hr wage, enough hours to live on, better staffing in our stores, and basic workplace protections. Every year, our living costs rise but our wages don’t keep up – a growing pressure many American workers are feeling as corporate greed accelerates unchecked in our country. 
Starbucks is banking on customers' blind loyalty to the integrity and values this company once stood for in order to keep squeezing them for profits. At a time when working-class people across the country are struggling in a challenging economy, it is no longer possible to be both a Starbucks customer and in support of workers; choosing to spend money at Starbucks is choosing a law breaking corporation over the baristas who make your coffee everyday exactly as you ask for it.
Starbucks has violated U.S. labor law more than any other company in modern history–the NLRB and its judges have found that Starbucks committed hundreds of labor violations and there are currently more than 550 unresolved unfair labor practice charges still pending against the company. Instead of finalizing a fair and reasonable union contract, Starbucks has repeatedly demonstrated a lack of care for the workers who fuel the company’s profits by wasting millions of dollars on AI and technology that doesn’t work, launching countless gimmicky drinks designed to distract from real problems, and inventing pointless policies that do nothing but make our jobs harder. 
This ongoing, irrational behavior by Starbucks and its refusal to settle a fair union contract with workers leaves us with no other choice than to call for a boycott. We know when working people stand up together, we win. 
No Contract? No Coffee.
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🪼Ghost Jellyfishlines 🔜 PaxU🪼 @jellyfishlines.itch.io · 17/08/2026
TOWNIE(S) is in here!! Help support scholarships for folks going to college in this day and age. Support people in their right for education. 💖
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The Hollywood Reporter @thr.com · 24/08/2026
"A market ceases to function when competition disappears. And it’s disappearing," contends writer Mike Schur in a guest column for The Hollywood Reporter
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Mike Schur: The Paramount-Warner Bros. Merger Is Existential for Writers
Let’s begin with a statement of fact: mega mergers in Hollywood are bad for writers. They’re also bad for actors and directors, for production designers and caterers, for carpenters and Teamsters and electricians and set decorators. They are bad for consumers, who get fewer choices in entertainment controlled by fewer bosses with narrower worldviews. Mergers are bad for local businesses, who lose paying customers from disappearing productions. They are bad for high level TV and film executives, and entry-level assistants, and everyone in between.
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E. R. F. Jordan 🏳️‍⚧️ PROXY, available now! @erfjordan.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Spy. Mercenary. Sex doll. The neighbor next door. You'll be anyone the Division asks you to be, so long as you get to be *someone.* Anything to be a person again. PROXY, my Girl Frame hack about Androids, is out now as an ashcan on itchio! Check it out: hexjellyfish.itch.io/proxy-androids
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PROXY by E. R. F. Jordan
Android espionage in a city that abandoned you
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jess 🔜 PAX Unplugged @tectonomancer.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
On Monday, I went on my friend Derik's youtube channel to help him plan and lock down some details on a Fabula Ultima bestiary we're making. Practically, this means I yelled at him for 5 1/2 hours, and we'll be back at it again next Monday if I can interest you in watching me bully him some more.
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Building a TTRPG Creature Compendium From Scratch | Design Diary #1- Livestream #477
YouTube video by Knights of Last Call
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Plus One Exp @ 🔜 Metatopia @plusoneexp.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Tonight at 8p et join us for Show Me Your Moves as we explore life & design through the lens of PbtA design! Our guest is @lackingceremony.bsky.social, creator of... a whole lot of our favorite games! Also, special guest cohost @seraphimseraphina.bsky.social is joining us! Youtube.com/plusoneexp
A set of skewered dice show Avery's picture on one face and on the other is an animal skull.

Show Me Your Moves
twitch.tv/tonyplusone
With Avery Alder!
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