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brandi, she/they, bi, aphantasia, ttrpg nerd, happy gardener, love of creatures big & small, adventurer w/rad IDD adults, friends call me b, #blacklivesmatter

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love & barley 🐸🪏 @loveandbarley.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
give greta thunberg a gundam
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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 03/10/2025
ICE is buying a location tracking tool that harvests data from hundreds of millions of phones a day. Protect your location data by updating a few settings on your phone 🧵 (1/4): www.404media.co/ice-to-buy-...
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ICE to Buy Tool that Tracks Locations of Hundreds of Millions of Phones Every Day
Documents show that ICE has gone back on its decision to not use location data remotely harvested from peoples' phones. The database is updated every day with billions of pieces of location data.
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🫶🏻Layla🫶🏻 @laylabelle3.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
This is so well said these are the words I’m looking for and I believe he’s quite kind about it actually..
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Mouse, of the Tiny Chaos variety @tinychaosmouse.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
Just a reminder: you can mourn the senseless loss of a life while also celebrating the loss of a source of corruption. I said what I said.
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Dennis Detwiller @drgonzo123.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
THE COMPANY LIVES ON (Oils, Palette Knife, Chalk, Pencil). An illustration for #TheBlackCompany #TTRPG
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Dennis Detwiller @drgonzo123.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
It's the King's birthday. Jack Kirby. The Avengers. Fantastic Four. The New Gods. More. Infinite worlds. And remember, he was a Nazi killer. He beat them senseless in NY, and later shot them in Europe. Here's a sketch from Jack of his gal on some stationary he pulled from a dead Nazi. All hail.
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Scott A Woodard 📚 @mrhacksaw.bsky.social · 17/08/2025
TTRPG fan? Savage Worlds player (or curious about Savage Worlds)? Attending ComiCon Erie in a few weeks??? I'll be running a few sessions of the Savage World of Flash Gordon and you could join me at the table! More info to come, so watch this "OUTER" space!!! ⚡🚀🎲 #SavageWorlds #TTRPG #ComiconErie
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Writers Guild of America West @wgawest.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
WGA statement on Paramount’s decision to cancel the Late Show with Stephen Colbert.
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b in the woods 💙🌲 @kindranger.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
Wow...this art is very cool.
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b in the woods 💙🌲 @kindranger.bsky.social · 12/07/2025
I'm doing a thing for charity! Catch me playing Transformers on Sunday. All funds to help those affected by the Texas Floods.
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meadowlarkprod.bsky.social @meadowlarkprod.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
Here's our schedule for the #TexasFlood #Charity #TTRPG games we're holding this weekend! Saturday, Sunday, and Monday we have a wide variety of games with six awesome tables! Let's roll some dice and do some good! Check out the replies for details about our games and GMs!
Poster for "Rainbows Over Texas" event with schedule and benefiting organizations.

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Meadowlark Productions Presents

Rainbows Over Texas

It Came From The Vast! with GM Jeremy “Belebras” Corff Saturday, July 12th at 11 AM EST / 10 AM CST / 8 AM PST

Trash Pals with GM Mr. Ray Saturday, July 12th at 6 PM EST / 5 PM CST / 3 PM PST

Ultra Teen Fighting Heroes Go! with GM Mr. Ray Sunday, July 13th at 1 PM EST / 12 PM CST / 10 AM PST

Transformers: A Beacon of Hope with GM Mr. Ray Sunday, July 13th at 7 PM EST / 6 PM CST / 4 PM PST

Science & Seances with GM Baba Yaga Monday, July 14th at 3 PM EST / 2 PM CST / 12 PM PST

The Winter Queen's Dollhouse with GM Baba Yaga Monday, July 14th at 8 PM EST / 7 PM CST / 5 PM PST

Benefiting Shadow Cats Community Foundation of the Texas Hill Country World Central Kitchen

www.twitch.tv/meadowlarkproductions
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meadowlarkprod.bsky.social @meadowlarkprod.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
Sunday evening, Mr. Ray brings it home with their game of Transformers: A Beacon of Hope. Autobots! They say you can never go home again, but it's been millions of years. Surely, if ever there was a time, it's now.
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b in the woods 💙🌲 @kindranger.bsky.social · 12/07/2025
I'm doing a thing for charity! Catch me playing Transformers on Sunday. All funds to help those affected by the Texas Floods.
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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
Medicare for all.
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pork, cheese, broccoli rabe @garlicbuffalo.gobirds.biz · 21/06/2025
amtrak’s marketing team gets it
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Kirby's Got A Gun!!! @gaynidoking.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
My brother and I almost drowned as children because everyone in the pool thought we were just really good swimmers. The only reason we survived is because someone happened to swim by and we grabbed them. It is so important that people learn what drowning ACTUALLY looks like.
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Evan Greer @evangreer.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
Time to re-up this little ditty about how to make your Venmo more private. Remember that digital security is not just about protecting yourself, it makes your entire community safer
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 26/05/2025
I believe that everyone should be allowed the space and time and opportunity to become who they truly are. I am sad that some people, given the space and time and opportunity, choose to be assholes.
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Daniel Kraus @danielkraus.com · 11/05/2025
For those failing to get the "copilot" AI off their Microsoft Word -- If you proceed with canceling Microsoft Office, you'll get a "wait wait don't go!" screen where they suddenly offer you "Microsoft 365 Personal Classic" -- which *doesn't include AI* and is actually cheaper! Weird workaround.
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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
“It's hypocrisy to call yourself a Christian and chase away a refugee or someone seeking help, someone who is hungry or thirsty, toss out someone who is in need of my help. If I say I am Christian, but do these things, I'm a hypocrite." -Pope Francis
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Jillbles @jillbles.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
Hey, did you know there's an alternative to ChatGPT that makes sense economically and doesn't destroy the environment? It's called English majors and they will happily fix all of your documents for the low price of health insurance and a living wage.
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Teddy Wilson @reportbywilson.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
The wellness industry is killing animals, spreading disease, and fueling the next pandemic
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The wellness industry is killing animals, spreading disease, and fueling the next pandemic
Cats and dogs are dying because of growth of raw pet food, which might also help create the next pandemic.
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Catherynne M. Valente @catvalente.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
Move Fast and Break People Part 2: Everyone's Third Place is now open and free for all! catvalente.substack.com/p/move-fast-...
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Move Fast and Break People Part 2: Everyone's Third Place
How the yearning for third places was weaponized against us
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Katie Drummond @katie-drummond.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
In partnership with @freedom.press, WIRED will make all of its FOIA-based reporting free to access for anyone. Public records should be public, and I hope to see more outlets follow suit: freedom.press/issues/wired...
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Wired is dropping paywalls for FOIA-based reporting. Others should follow
As the administration does its best to hide public records from the public, Wired magazine is stepping up to help stem the secrecy
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b in the woods 💙🌲 @kindranger.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
This book looks very cool!!
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Matthew Broberg-Moffitt (any/all) @mbrobergmoffitt.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
I’m an Autistic classically trained chef and I wrote a food aversion acceptance cookbook and guide (COLOR TASTE TEXTURE). I was tired seeing people without aversions trying to trick or force the averse to eat new foods, so I wrote a book about how to work with food to meet individual sensory needs.
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Color Taste Texture by Matthew Broberg-Moffitt: 9780593538593 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books
An accessible family cookbook that offers solutions rather than tricks to empower the food-averse, autistic, and picky eater, with 46 recipes. This much-needed cookbook combines tips and techniques.....
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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
No kings.
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b in the woods 💙🌲 @kindranger.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
I'll read it again.. for the assholes in the back of my brain
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Prof Julia Steinberger 🌹🌱🌍 #ClimateAction #Fightfascism @jksteinberger.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
As promised, here are the slides I shared with students to convince them to NOT use chatGPT and other artificial stupidity. TL;DR? AI is evil, unsustainable and stupid, and I'd much rather they use their own brains, make their own mistakes, and actually learn something. 🪄
NO CHATGPT Or other artificial stupidity: motivation
First, clarity on distinguishing AIs:
Non-generative: grammar aid, translation, dictionary, text-to-audio (e.g. Natural Reader): no problem
As long as you use the appropriate tools (least intensive in data and server energy use).
Why? Because you provide the content. Your brain is doing the most important work
Generative: ChatGPT & Co. 
You only supply the prompt, the AI supplies the content.
Why is this delegation of work problematic?
3 domains: ethical, environmental, intellectual engagement.

(Caveat: generative is probably ok for computer programming, where it can be useful and save time. Not relevant to this class.)
1) AI and ethics
Mass theft of all and everything
«learning» on books, articles, blogs, social media, images, music, cultural production, without  permission of authors/creators, and leading to their mass joblessness. Profits are not reditributed to originators. 
Permanent destruction of the mental health of underpaid precarious tech workers in the Global South (Kenya, Philippines …):
«correction» to avoid production of violent and pedophile contents etc, tech workers are obliged to watch and correct super violent contents for days on end, leading to extreme psychological suffering and trauma, from which recovery is doubtful. No or little compensation (certainly not at the level of the suffering inflicted). 
In short, an industry built on theft of real human creation and sacrifice of real human health, profiting a few megafortunes. 
2) AI and (un)sustainability

Massive consumption of electricity, water, server capacity for generative AI. 
Outcome: keep fossil fuel companies in business, using up new renewable capacity, without any satisfaction of basic human needs.
Massive misappropriation of the finance necessary for climate and ecological action (renewable generation, efficiency and retrofit for buildings, public transit, infrastructures for cycling etc) towards AI industry. 
Overall: undermine climate action, reinforce fossil industry, waste resources necessary for human development. 
3) AI and intellectual engagement

First, what learning is (or should be) about:
The goal should not (only) be the reproduction of «correct» knowledge,
But mainly personal engagement and experience of thinking about topics of interest. Personal engagement = using one’s own brain. 
The most important activity for learning and intellectual engagement is the experience of making one’s own mistakes, by trial and error, corrections based on new ideas, starting over again. Learning to recognise nuances, knowledge gaps, better explanations 
This kind of learning is possible only through using your own brain, not AI. 
Also, Ais are not «intelligent». At all. 
They simply reproduce pre-existing patterns. They «bullshit», invent false references, false facts, false data, simply because those sound plausible. VERY DANGEROUS. 
If you learn how to NOT use AI, and how to research facts and data on your own, this will serve you and your communities for the rest of your life.
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Bits @bitshammer.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
I use this
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 11/02/2025
I'm sad to share that the trans vet that took her life outside the VA last week was apparently Elisa Rae Shupe. She's someone many of us know - she was responsible for the mass email leak that let us know how the ADF, Heritage, etc planned to enact trans eradication we see today. RIP Elisa.
zerodoesntsleep.substack.com
Vet found hanging draped in trans flag
The suicide letter they won't publish
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b in the woods 💙🌲 @kindranger.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
So so good.
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Jesse Jerdak 🐻 has your back! @jessejerdak.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
Being cruel to trans people doesn’t change their status, but is most definitely lowers yours.
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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
February 4, 2025:
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February 4, 2025
Shortly after 1:00 this morning, Vittoria Elliott, Dhruv Mehrotra, Leah Feiger, and Tim Marchman of Wired reported that, according to three of their sources, “[a] 25-year-old engineer named Marko Elez...
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Preacher from the Black Lagoon @revpoppop.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
The revolution may need violence. That is a possibility. But it also needs healers. It needs gardeners. It needs leaders. It needs managers. It needs cooks. It needs farmers. It needs tailors. It needs educators. It needs journalists. It needs artists. It needs builders. You are not useless.
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B. Dave Walters - Yes, it is I! @bdavewalters.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
From @artbymoga.bsky.social
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Spooky Poltergeist Ghouls 🎃 @sandypuggames.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
Hey we're looking for an artist to pick up a bit of HELLPIERCERS work. It's a fairly involved, double page spread piece depicting a bunch of fucked up demons. Preferably looking for someone who can nail a kind of dark, broody, mysterious atmosphere but style is variable. Check the attached for Vibes
A lone figure holding a torch walks through a towering canyon of reddish-brown stone. The cliffs are lined with eerie, cloaked figures with skull-like faces, looming over the traveler. The sky is a deep, burnt orange, adding to the ominous atmosphere.A black-and-white ink drawing of a temple perched on a steep mountain peak. A long, winding staircase leads up through dense foliage, while a narrow rope bridge connects to a jagged rock formation. Swirling clouds fill the sky, creating a dreamlike, isolated atmosphere.
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Dennis Detwiller @drgonzo123.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
I’d like to — on behalf of Fat Mike — co-opt his message for #TTRPGs. If you’re a #TTRPG Trump supporter, fuck you. Get the fuck out of our scene. Warm regards, Me
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b in the woods 💙🌲 @kindranger.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
Get on these great games for a great cause!
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b in the woods 💙🌲 @kindranger.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
This. A thousand times this.
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Coyote & Crow Games @coyoteandcrow.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
Just to be clear for new followers: Trans rights are human rights. People can never be "illegal". Israel is committing genocide. The US is stolen land. Everyone deserves healthcare, bodily autonomy, education, housing and food. Black lives matter. ACAB.
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 15/01/2025
I see some people are demanding we watch the inauguration and I'm all, motherfucker, I didn't watch his first one and spent four years actively avoiding the sound of his voice, what makes you think I'm going to do any different this time around
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Morrus @morrus.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
I like Charlie’s work but this article is a misstep. We indies shout and shout but outlets won’t cover us (nb-Polygon has been kinder than most and has covered us before but usually ignores our press). Blaming indies for ‘wringing their hands’ is pretty tone deaf. www.polygon.com/opinion/5067...
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It’s time for independent tabletop role-playing games to get loud
The dragon is wounded, and it’s time to throw yourselves into the breach
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 04/01/2025
Everything stated in this post is a provable fact. You are entitled to your own opinion. You are not entitled to your own facts. Looking at YOU, 2020 election-deniers.
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CeriusBlaq (Sean Wynn) @swynn.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
FOR MY PORTLAND AREA CREATORS. "Capital City Swap" will be held on Saturday, 5/31/25 at the Holiday Inn Events Center in Salem, OR. If anyone is interested in being a Vendor. Comics, Toys, Crafted Works, Podcasts, Games, Artists, etc Info can be found here: capcitycomicswap.com#container02
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b in the woods 💙🌲 @kindranger.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
Without downloading any new pics, what’s your energy going into 2025?
Image titled How to have the Best New Years We've of your Life,  by Chris Simpson. Standing man with whip and pointy red hat engaging a fellow on the ground cowering. 

Standing man says Why aren't you wearing a hat? 

Laying guy says it fell off it fell off. 

Standing man is captioned: carry a harmless iron
whip with you so that
you can gently slap
people with it if you
have a sneaking
suspicion they arent
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b in the woods 💙🌲 @kindranger.bsky.social · 30/12/2024
Can also bigly recommend Shrinking. It's damn good
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 27/12/2024
1. This is a good reminder that even sophisticated users of social media (including you! Including me!) are susceptible to planned mis-and-dis-information campaigns, even ones not (directly) about politics; 2. Parasocial relationships are inherently fictional. There is always so much we don't know.
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Chris Morran @themorrancave.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
🚨 JOURNALISM JOB ALERT🚨 @propublica.org is hiring a reporter to cover climate change as an investigative beat, examining how decisions by individuals, corporations and governments are shaping life-and-death outcomes for people across the U.S. and the world. Details, including salary range, 👇
boards.greenhouse.io
Reporter, Climate
New York, New York, United States
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Leon "Used to Be Cat" Richardson @catlinggun.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
forms.gle/V9uUMgwEcmwL... You have until the 21st to submit a singleplayer TTRPG to next year's Solo But Not Alone! So far we have 97 entries - we're so close to 100, and it's for mental health supports, so why not lend us a hand?
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Solo But Not Alone 5 Signup
If you have a singleplayer TTRPG you've never submitted to Solo But Not Alone before, this is the place! Solo But Not Alone is a bundle of singleplayer TTRPGs of all kinds, sold for $10 to benefit m...
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