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Karen Twelves

@ktwelves.bsky.social
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Ben Monroe @benmonroe.com · 01/10/2026
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Evil Hat @evilhat.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Just in time for spooky season! Power up your Monster of the Week game with the one-two punch of The Hunter's Journal and Slayer's Survival Kit. More Hunter playbooks, Team playbooks, Weird moves and new ways to shine a bright spotlight on your character's fearless deeds. evilhat.com/product/slay...
On the left, a triptych of Monster of the Week characters: a person in a long trenchcoat sprouts tentacles from their mouth, eyes, and ears, a woman suspended from a zipline points twin pistols straight down and fires them, a shirtless bald man stands with his back to us, his spin covered in cybernetic implants. On the right, mockups of the Hunter's Journal and Slayer's Survival Kit for Monster of the Week. Caption: Upgrade your arsenal.
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nervous demon purveyor 🔥 ndpdesign 🦄 Unwritten Earths Symposium @ndpdesign.com · 01/10/2026
a day one reminder this year to all of us with wives!
A picture of a rapier on a brown textured background with white meme text “October is buy your wife a sword month”
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Karen Twelves @ktwelves.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Went to put the Alameda Lighted Yacht Parade on my calendar and saw that their website has a super sloppy AI-generated poster this year. Complete with "logo placeholder" text. So gross and disappointing. Will skip it this year I guess. I wonder how the sponsors feel about this?
Bottom of an event poster that was obviously AI-generated. The sponsor boxes have "logo placeholder" as the text. Barf.
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Fattig @fattig.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I've been saying this.
A screenshot of the wikipedia page for Bornhardt. The highlighted sentence reads "not all bornhardts are inselbergs and not all inselbergs are bornhardts."
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Karen Twelves @ktwelves.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I know some of y'all have turned off reposts so miss most of my feed but what about quote posts? Do those get through? Because this is worth reading enough that I will make it a quote post and yet add very little to it in my own words except: good 🧵
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Maybe It Will Happen Today @today-maybe.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
A digital illustration done in a black and white woodcut style similar to Totentanz images by Holbein and others. A skeleton wearing a jester-type cowl with two floppy horns with bells on the ends, and another garment around his shoulders and boots all decorated with bells. He his high stepping and playing some kind of flute. Black lines radiate out from behind him and a banner wraps around at his hips with the words ‘maybe it will happen today’ on it.
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Sarah Andersen @sarahseeandersen.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The image is of a four panel comic.
The first panel shows Sarah, the protagonist, holding a red ball labeled "A SILLY MEME".
The second panel shows Sarah taking the ball and going through a door labeled "GROUP CHAT".
The third panel shows a group of women sitting together and consoling one woman in the center. The woman in the center is saying "...And that's how it happened. It's been the worst day of my life."
The fourth panel shows Sarah standing in the doorway behind them awkwardly holding the red ball.
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Fattig @fattig.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Big adult shoes, not for sale at any price, absolutely worn to shit.
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Ben Robbins is launching M2 @lamemage.com · 30/09/2026
In one week I click the button and let slip the dogs of fractal history… Tuesday October 6 www.kickstarter.com/projects/lam...
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Coming soon: Microscope (2nd Edition)
The fractal game of epic histories
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LycanthrEppy @epidiah.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Because it came up a bit over the weekend, I'm going to reiterate something here for all my #ttrpg designing pals, new & old. Using AI can only shrink your audience. No one is excited to see AI, and plenty of folks abhor it. When you use AI, you attract no one new & repulse more than you know. …
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Star Trek Minus Context @nocontexttrek1.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
Star Trek Voyager scene. We see a small, lone shuttlecraft fllying through a cloudy sky. Closed caption reads, "(screaming)"
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Maybe It Will Happen Today @today-maybe.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
A digital illustration of a version of the big board from Wheel of Fortune. An array of green rectangles (each bearing an icon of a hand with crossed fingers inside a circle with rays), and white rectangles that indicate the letters in the secret phrase contestants are trying to guess. The board is not yet solved and reads like this:

M_YB_ I_
_ILL H_PP_N
__D_Y

Standing next to the board in a shiny pink and maroon evening gown and ready to turn around newly-guessed letters is a woman whose head is a human hand with crossed fingers. 

Below the board in the space where viewers at home are informed what type of  phrase is in play it simply reads ‘PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE’
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Fattig @fattig.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
All quotes are scare quotes when ur afraid of punctuation
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Chuck Tingle @chucktingle.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
HAPPY INTERNATIONAL BI VISIBILITY DAY
cover of NOT POUNDED BY BI ERASURE BECAUSE MY CURRENT HETERO-PRESENTING RELATIONSHIP DOES NOT INVALIDATE MY QUEERNESS featuring a ladybuck in a red suit lookin over at a VERY ANGRY sentient eraser they are on a long street with lush green plants on either side
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Fattig @fattig.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I don’t have to outrun the bear, I just have to outrun you. Fast as the bear is, we all know he’ll be struggling to stay in the top five after the talent competition.
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The Volatile Mermaid @ohnoshetwitnt.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Hot Girl Summer is over. Welcome to Witch Woman Autumn.
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The Volatile Mermaid @ohnoshetwitnt.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
If someone ever calls you a crazy cat lady, say “actually I’m a crazy catWOMAN” then lash him with your whip before backflipping away into the shadows.
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Karen Twelves @ktwelves.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
You Are Here 📍
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Sarah Andersen @sarahseeandersen.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
The image is of a four panel comic.
In the first panel we see Sarah, the protagonist, next to a stick figure labeled “AI”. The stick figure says, “my outputs look just like yours now.”
The second panel zooms in on Sarah’s face. Above her we see text reading “I think”.
The third panel zooms in closer on Sarah’s face. Text above her reads “you missed”.
The fourth panel shows Sarah drawing happily in a sunlit room. The text above her reads “the point”.
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 22/09/2026
Look goddamnit It's entirely possible To eat a plum And not make a poem about it The one I just ate Wasn't even in the Goddamn refrigerator Or anything Sometimes a plum Is just a plum You can just eat it And go on with your life WHAT Why are you looking at me What'd I do now (looks) oh GODDAMNIT
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Karen Twelves @ktwelves.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
omg same and I'm doing NOTHING about it, so unfair
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maura quint @mauraquint.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
"Gavin Newsom is a Dem" "Gavin Newsom is actually a Republican" No, Gavin Newsom is rich and that's the only allegiance he has. The only thing that scummy fuckwit would ever to help others would be accidentally falling of a pedo-friend's mega yacht and making himself into a snack for the fish.
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Mark Meredith @dicemonkey.itch.io · 22/09/2026
a Tweet from quixoticclown showing Tywin Lannister looking serious. "Yes, these Muppets have taken Manhattan. The question now is can they HOLD it"
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The Golden Cobra Challenge @goldencobra.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
ssssssssss The Golden Cobra Challenge 2026 is OPEN for sssubmissions. Ssubmit by October 15th! www.goldencobra.org
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Golden Cobra Challenge
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Maybe It Will Happen Today @today-maybe.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Digital lettering in a kind of fat marker style colored in bluish-greens. The letters have been extruded and warped back into space in reddish-maroon overwritten in in yellow-green inlines. Everything is outlined in white and set against an irregular mottled grayish-blue background shape. Perched in amongst the letters is seated a small pink bunny with its cheek resting in one paw, looking bored and impatient. The lettering, of course, reads ‘Maybe it will happen today’.
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Karen Twelves @ktwelves.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Willem DaFoe/Willem DaFriend meme
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Karen Twelves @ktwelves.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
This was a great conversation, thanks for having me!
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Karen Twelves @ktwelves.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
What do you MEAN I have to wait a YEAR for the next season of Silo.
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Evil Hat @evilhat.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Curious about Blades '68? We've partnered with @startplaying.bsky.social so you & your friends can try it out! Just head to startplaying.games/learn-to-pla... pop in a date & time that fits your schedule, answer a few questions about your play style, and instantly get matched with an experienced GM!
An illustration of three women and two men dressed in 60s-style fashion confidently striding together across an empty plane, like a crew of stylish criminals taking a curtain call. Caption: Blades '68. Learn to play with StartPlaying.Games
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Sam Tillis @stillisgaming.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
"Nibling" is an appropriate gender-neutral word for the child of one's sibling, but while it works for young children it feels inappropriate to apply to a surly teenager. I would like to humbly submit the word "nerf."
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Evil Hat @evilhat.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
IN STORES TODAY! Blades '68 shines a bright, electroplasmic light on the grimy streets of Doskvol and spins the timeline forward 100 years. Enter a technicolor world of bold action, shadow conspiracies, and supernatural twists. Pick it up at your FLGS or directly from us: evilhat.com/product/blad...
In the background, a roadmap of Doskvol 968. The city is rendered in pastel pink, blue, and gray. Atop the map is a copy of Blades '68.  Colorful characters inspired by the 1960s are illustrated in bright shades of blue, orange, and yellow.
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Karen Twelves @ktwelves.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
static.klipy.com
Kevin Sorbo as Hercules: Disappointed!
Alt: Kevin Sorbo as Hercules shouts "Disappointed!"
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Tommy Siegel @tommysiegel.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
a helpful guide to “disrupters” I made for the New Yorker
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Chuck Tingle @chucktingle.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
we all know this classic way
cover of THE PHYSICAL MANIFESTATION OF CANCELLED PLANS GETS ME OFF BECAUSE DEEP DOWN I KINDA DIDN’T WANT TO GO featuring beautiful ladybuck on the right smilin standing in front of a house in the evening with a slight sunset behind and on the left if a good lookin sentient calendar
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da share z0ne @dasharez0ne.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
REMEBER - dashare.zone ADMIN
A SKLETAN IS TRAPPED INSIDE DA AMERICAN FLAG , "YOUR TALKING TO A AMERICAN , MY BODY IS FULL OF MICROPLASTICS, MY MIND IS CONSUMED BY TRYING TO AFFORD FOOD AND HOUSING, DONT LIKE IT? MOST OF US DONT " - DASHARE.ZONE ADMIN
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Museum of Twitter @museum-of-twitter.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
@kpkboogie99

Horror movies used to be about a freaky alien that was gross or there was a fucked up kind of guy. Now they're all about the 5 stages of grief chasing you through your 500k apartment
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Karen Twelves @ktwelves.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
I ruffled a friend's feathers saying that D&D doesn't actually promote character development. "MY campaign has that" he said. Yeah dude that's because you're promoting it yourself with your players, the mechanics aren't actually rewarding players for roleplay.
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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
“Do you think HUMAN CREATIVITY matters? Most people don't spend a lot of time thinking about poetry until their father dies, you go to a funeral, you lose a child, somebody breaks your heart & that's when Art’s not a luxury it's sustenance.” — ETHAN HAWKE
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MapQuest @mapquest.com · 11/09/2026
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Museum of Twitter @museum-of-twitter.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
@DoctorPenisBoob

this is my all time favorite trolley problem

nobody is in danger

however, you can pull the lever to make the train get closer just so you can wave at all the people
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It's Abby. Yep @itsabbyyep.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
We used to have fun, didn't we?
A top ten of all time tweet from @KyleMcDowell86 AKA Good Kyle, dated 3/11/16 (from Earth. You can bet your ass it didn't say that in 2016 but whatever):

[wakes up with a hangover] uhh what happened last night
[Carrot Top in bed beside me] Good morning
[Me] Carrot Top my love, what happened
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Karen Twelves @ktwelves.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
I still haven't had time to play 😭
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 10/09/2026
You know, when you find out that the art you like is made by people you've learned hold views you find wholly repugnant, I don't think you need to disavow ever having enjoyed the art. It's okay to acknowledge you liked or loved that art, but are now putting it aside. That was then, this is now.
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Clark Valentine @clarkvalentine.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
You can’t trust AI to fact check. You can’t. It’s famous for being confidently wrong, and when challenged on a fact (whether that fact is right or wrong) obsequiously telling you what it predicts you want to hear.
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Tom Lommel @tomlommel.com · 10/09/2026
they already have an Oscar for ai actors. it's called the Academy Award for Best Visual Effects.
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Yeonsoo Julian Kim @yeonsoonerorlater.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Donations and applications are now live for the Place to Play Grant! This is the first grant in the United States specifically created to help LARP creators bring their games to life. I’m so excited for this resource to be available for LARP designers. www.playabletheatre.org/grant
A graphic that reads “Somebody’s got a new LARP in their head. We want to help them get it out. Place to Play Grant. Donate.”
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da share z0ne @dasharez0ne.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
STOP IT - dashare.zone ADMIN
A SKLETEN HOLEN A CRYSTAL BALL OF A GUY LICKING AMERICAN FLAG POLICE BOOT'S "A SYMBOL OF NOT JUST RESPECTING AUTHORITY BUT SEEKING TO IMPRESS IT WITH DEVOTION" - YOULL NEVER LICK THE BOOT SO WELL THEY LET U WEAR IT ! DUMB ASS!!!!!! - DASHARE.ZONE ADMIN
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Maybe It Will Happen Today @today-maybe.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
Digital illustration in a comic inking style of the head of a walrus. He has big tusks, but instead of the normal walrus whiskers he has a luxuriant handlebar mustache with a nice curl on the end. A pair of pince nez glasses sit on his nose and he’s puffing on a large pipe which is popping out soap bubbles. A thought balloon over his head contains the words, ‘Maybe it will happen today’.
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Karen Twelves @ktwelves.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Just sitting on the floor two feet from the AC vent doing some editing, wyd
Hourly forecast, currently 90°
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