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United Wizards of the Coast - CWA @uwotc-official.bsky.social · 17h

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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kirin @koboldstyle.bsky.social · 14h

I hate this framing. The number of congregations and liberal churches that were fighting to be able to marry same-sex couples was not insignificant.

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toilet bones @toiletbones.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Found the email I sent when I got accidentally added to the faculty listserv of an orthopedic surgery clinic and nobody would remove me so I sent this email to all faculty/staff/med students and they removed me almost immediately

Hello Bone Colleagues,
I have invented a new type of ankle and I'm very excited to show it to you. Early raccoon trials suggest a 60% increase in scurrying speed and dramatic increases in fine motor banditry. I know we are not supposed to create super raccoons, but I think you'll change your mind and professional ethics when you see how cute they are. I believe we are on the cusp of a new era in advanced human scurrying because if medical science has taught me anything, it's that improvements in raccoons correspond 1:1 to improvements in humans.

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[My name]
Chief Bone Inventor
Chair, Department of Foot and Leg Innovation
Lord Mayor, Musculoskeletal Medicine
Hartford HealthCare,
The Bone & Joint Institute at Hartford Hospital.

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dan sinker @dansinker.com · 15h

Might I point you at kickbezosintheballs.org

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kirin @koboldstyle.bsky.social · 15h

Imagine habitually lying as part of your ideological huckster political movement

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karanormal activity 💜 @deadontheoutside.bsky.social · 17h

coroner: it appears the subject died of multiple tab wounds

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kirin @koboldstyle.bsky.social · 18h

His crowd just loves that he says outrageous things presidents aren’t supposed to say, I think it starts and stops with that, with no further depth

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kirin @koboldstyle.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Alternate, perhaps more hopeful though not really, theory: people just love their big wet president saying shit presidents aren’t supposed to say. Shock jock fever

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kirin @koboldstyle.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Seems kinda bad when one party has juiced a rural/urban divide so hard and for so long that people cheer for us getting nuked

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Charles Gaba ✡️ @charlesgaba.com · 06/10/2026

Here’s the backstory behind these $500 checks. As you probably guessed, it's another scam (sort of). Trump & the GOP caused premiums to skyrocket by thousands of dollars this year for ~19M enrollees. Now he’s ”giving back” a tiny fraction of that to ~1M of them. acasignups.net/26/09/12/tru...

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Trump's Latest Con is On: Presenting the $500 User Fee Flim-Flam

Less than 24 hours after making an absolutely absurd and utterly illegal attempt to literally bribe voters with $5,000 cash if they vote for Republicans this November, the Trump White House just annou...

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Paul Eric @pauleric70.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Brazil’s intelligence agency has confirmed interference by the US government in Brazil’s election in support of Flavio Bolsonaro, son of jailed former far-right President Jair Bolsonaro

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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Can you imagine being a Northerner at the start of the civil war. All the fancy lad West Point military guys are Southerners. Your president is a backwoods yokel one term congressman and your generals are some guys we found at a 7-Eleven. It's over for our ass...unless all those guys are geniuses

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Elsa @erli.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I can't stop thinking how wrong the tech bros have understood creativity and creators. Or even just having hobbies. #erliart

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kirin @koboldstyle.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Pushing your head through a turtleneck might just be birthing yourself into a new universe, that’s how Mandela Effects happen. Berenstain Bears were spelled Berenstein until the Rock showed up like this f’rex

Than one pic of younger Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson in turtleneck, chain and Fanny pack (and hair!)

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Small Robots @smolrobots.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Idk I think maybe a couple of generations of demonising Marxism have led to a society that doesn't understand what the state is and how it wields power over its citizens. Like, people don't even have the first idea of how to articulate the difference between individual judgement and state violence.

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kirin @koboldstyle.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

"How did you get into ttrpgs" Ironically. Group of cynical skater boys in the 90s deciding to play D&D in order to make fun of it, ended up having way more fun instead, funny how that happens.

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Inbal Breda @greyannis.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Might as well post it here! A magical girl animation I've been slowly chipping at over the weekends for ages.

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kirin @koboldstyle.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I meant Alex P. Keaton. Goddamn my stoned-ass brain.

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kirin @koboldstyle.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Michael Keaton vibes (complimentary)

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Molly White @molly.wiki · 03/10/2026

Fellow FTX executive Caroline Ellison is out of jail, and the Manifund effective altruist grantmaking organization has just let slip they hired her. She “brings specific, useful expertise around finance”, they say, which yeah — much in the same way that Bernie Madoff had very specific expertise.

FTX essentially bankrolled Manifund and the associated Manifold Markets (think Polymarket but with fake money) through grants and investments. This may explain why Chen, citing a “keen debt” to FTX, decided to hire Ellison and pay her using funds derived from her fraud — money Manifund is currently fighting the FTX estate over rather than returning to creditors.17

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kirin @koboldstyle.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

"2 days, why would you wanna go back 2 days?" "You know, spilled some wine on my pants. Or maybe I killed someone."

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 02/10/2026

they're my favorite of the AI cults. yhey didn't sign up to make productivity software, they signed up to make the machine god!!

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Tim Carmody @tcarmody.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

This is the funniest thing I've seen today, possibly ever

A tweet by SarahStarberry that says "oh god read the vertical axis" on top of a chart measuring AI models' release dates and model numbers rather than any real capabilities

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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

You've seen fireworks that look like jellyfish, but what about a jellyfish that looks like fireworks? The E/V Nautilus filmed this rare Halitrephes maasi jellyfish glowing like a firework at a depth of 4,019 feet (1,225 meters) off the coast of Baja California, Mexico. (📷: Ocean Exploration Trust)

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kirin @koboldstyle.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I’m super interested in the relationship between religion and nihilism. As a mostly lifelong atheist I’ve felt like Christianity was perpetually sold to me as a rescue from nihilism, yet most of the political works of the Christian Right seem fundamentally rooted in lack of faith in people.

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Dennis Detwiller @drgonzo123.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

It's time. It's time. Time for the big giveaway. Halloween has come. All you lucky kids with Silver Shamrock masks, gather 'round your TV set, put on your masks and watch. All witches, all skeletons, all Jack-O-Lanterns, gather 'round and watch. Watch the magic pumpkin. Watch...

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Liℤℤy Kodpuak née Acid Lich (can’t spell sheaves without she) @acidlich.bsky.social · 10/10/2023

#portfolioday 🎨🌀 Hello I’m Acid Lich & I illustrate & write (when I have time 😅). I make art for games, music & people. I love projects where I can play with texture & add geometric/pattern elements & I love trying to capture the ineffable. Here are some pieces from the last couple of years

An illustration from this year: a crab being intersected by different golden stars in front of clouds and stars. Hatch shading with black, white, gold & silver on heathered gray paper

Illustration I made last year for Book of Fulgin, this is meant to be Thecla and meant to represent how even after her death she’s still part of the story. We can see a woman’s face and a second copy looking in a different direct reaching into the foreground while surrounded by night sky and stars and sliced by a square spiral. Colors are black, white and gray with hatch shading and geometric patterns

Illustration of a woman’s face behind a skull with intense eyes surrounded by roses (with eyes) & foliage and two exploding gold stars. Black, white and gold with hatch shading and geometric accents

Illustration of a pale hand with an eye in the center & red finger tips holding a lotus with gold accents and patterning. Very much inspired by the art I saw in temples in Thailand

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Liℤℤy Kodpuak née Acid Lich (can’t spell sheaves without she) @acidlich.bsky.social · 24/12/2023

It’s Craigsmas! My friend Craig isn’t on here but it’s his birthday and I made this for him a few years ago! Please enjoy ❤️🕊️❤️

Illustration of a song bird on a branch of holly wearing embossed armor. In black and white with hatch shading

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Olivia Messer @oliviamesser.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

This 33-year-old nurse told the FBI she knew she was “going to set him free” after border patrol agents brought in a man whose face was bloodied and seriously injured. She treated him and helped him escape, and she faces charges now. He got away, and they never relocated him.

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Daniel Swain @weatherwest.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Global model ensembles are in strong agreement that a prolonged &anomalous nearly West-wide autumn heatwave will develop this week & persist for 10+ days. While some daytime records may be set, this event will be more notable for its persistence & breadth. [Thread]

Map showing predicted temperature anomalies in early October from the ECMWF ensemble across the western U.S. Nearly the entire region is painted red and pink, indicating widespread very warm anomalies.

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kirin @koboldstyle.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Like this dumb meme specifically. I couldn't recognize a Bob Ross landscape painting out of a million similar paintings. People don't love Bob Ross because his paintings are special. They love the palpable joy and sense of delight he displays WHEN he paints them. He's sharing his joyful experience!

shitty meme complaining that ai-hate is hypocritical because robots can make art just as good as humans (uhhh... dubious assertion but okay).

Panel one shows a robot painting a landscape and an angry man pointing at it and calling it "slop."

Panel two shows a cartoonified Bob Ross type painting the exact same landscape and the man is appreciatively going "simply beautiful".

The 2-panel comic is part of a screenshot with the caption "the hypocrisy is baffling", revealing the cluelessness of how a huge chunk of enjoying art can often be admiring the process and experience of making it

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kirin @koboldstyle.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

last-ditch pruning towards loyalists in preparation of what everyone knows is going to be a hugely contentious and volatile shift of power; stupidly refusing to understand that the massive morale hit that results from a downsizing is going to intensely bite them in the ass. As dumbass as it gets.

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kirin @koboldstyle.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Which honestly, is a hell of an awesome thing to have, especially in a world where a huge chunk of political and corporate philosophy seems predicated on the belief that helpful humans and having to help humans is a bad thing for some reason

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Erin Kissane @kissane.myatproto.social · 30/09/2026

My grand unified theory of this moment, after a few months of intense and variously high-stakes engagement with various corporate and public systems, is that pretty much nothing works. We just have each other.

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kirin @koboldstyle.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Curious what @dieworkwear.bsky.social's take on the brown-shoes-with-grey-suit look is all about. It's such an intense slightly 2018ish fashion choice

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kirin @koboldstyle.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

It seems reasonably likely that the "fuck this shit" attitude is pretty pervasive even among the generals that survive the pruning, and what tough decisions they have to make with inevitably unlawful and domestically abusive orders, well, I think we can expect considerable incompetence & fuckuppery.

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kirin @koboldstyle.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

On one hand it's a reassurance that a large chunk of the enlisted leadership has been pretty "fuck this shit" about these losers' fascistic scheming, on the other hand a big purge before what everyone knows is going to be a contentious power shift is a concerning move.

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kirin @koboldstyle.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The difference btwn looking or listening to a thing and going “who was this person who made this, what were they thinking, what were they feeling, what beautiful shared humanity is connecting me to them across time and space” vs “a thing I’m giving my precious attention to is making me feel things”

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kirin @koboldstyle.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Oh wow, @ciggysmokebringer.bsky.social came up with the amazing phrase “bespoke solipsistic bon bon hunt” of the ai vague-vibe chasers and it’s perfect

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kirin @koboldstyle.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I suppose that’s how you know it’s for real

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kirin @koboldstyle.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Bespoke solipsistic bon bon hunt is a fucking amazing turn of phrase Ciggy.

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kirin @koboldstyle.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The artists journey is almost always one of making bad stuff before you make the good stuff. It can be painful!

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kirin @koboldstyle.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

And a lot of similarly excited nitwits are throwing prompts at ai and are probably genuinely excited about the results and eager to share them, and are probably due for some disappointment when it remains unsold or criticized…

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kirin @koboldstyle.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

And there was a tragedy to it a bit, because it wasn’t like Joe Earnest’s Guide to 100 Succubus Boob Outfits or whatever didn’t come from a place of at least some enthusiasm and excitement, it was just still kinda hack and poorly-thought-through as a product…

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kirin @koboldstyle.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Early 2000s with the 3edition OGL, I walked into gaming stores and just saw… endless boxes of 3rd party D&D stuff. Super exciting but SO MUCH of it was, uh, not good. And the gaming store ended up with a whole lot of unsellable inventory…

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kirin @koboldstyle.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I have faith in quite a lot of us discovering, rediscovering, or reaffirming the value of the human element in the art we appreciate.

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