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Matt 'Wib' Ward @wib.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

I keep coming back the fact that to some people using the defence that Elon just did a motion that happened to look like a Nazi salute, that he reinvented one of the most famous hate symbols from first principles by accident. Which is obvious nonsense. The man can’t invent anything himself.

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Wyrd Science Magazine @wyrdscience.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

Right, not much to celebrate today but solely because of this site we had our best ever DriveThruRPG sales this weekend, which was v. unexpected So to say thanks, we'll send 1 person who reposts this every copy of the mag in stock (issues 3-4) & 1 of each of our Johan Nohr & Łukasz Kowalczuk tees

a collage of Wyrd Science magazine covers

a black t-shirt featuring an illustration by Johan Nohr of some kind of terrifying creature

a black t-shirt farming an illustration by Lukasz Kowalczuk of a drawn beating up a ratman

a black t-shirt with a small pocket design reading WS

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MÖRK BORG @morkborg.com · 20/01/2025

Nazi oligarchs fuck off.

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Passive-aggressive PowerPoint @lachlang.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

Recommendations straight from the maestro. Reminds me: I really need to try FIST one of these days.

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Idle Cartulary @idlecartulary.itch.io · 13/01/2025

Nah, we can quietly ignore the dragon and just let it die. De-center Hasbro in the hobby, don’t challenge it. They’re a big, dying fish, there are far more interesting depths in this pond.

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Clarkesworld @clarkesworldmagazine.com · 13/01/2025

This is your periodic reminder that: "AI" is artificial, but not currently intelligent "hallucinations" are actually incorrect or misleading output (errors) "AI" cannot "join the workforce" any more than a broken clock can When we use their marketing terms we only help them perpetuate the scam.

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Cen Galdre @cengaldre.com · 10/01/2025

i love seeing my chickens just hanging out. The dynamics of their little friend groups.

Duibhe, Collette, and Tamago hanging out on garden roost/rails

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Cheru @cheru.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

A meme of Cinnamoroll from Sanrio using balloons to fly, there’s a rainbow behind him, he has a gun. Top text: DONT SHOW ME JOE ROGAN bottom text: ILL FUCKIN KILL YOU

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Apt-Get @aptget.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

Friends, a petition I've created to go to Parliament for the protection of Trans Healthcare in the UK has just gone live. If you are in the United Kingdom, please sign and share this. If you are not in the United Kingdom, please share it. #Trans #LGBTQ #UK petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...

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Petition: Do not stop transgender people from receiving care in mainstream hospital wards

The previous government proposed changes to the NHS constitution which would mean transgender hospital patients in England may not be treated in female- and male-only wards. We believe that this segre...

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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

Ursula K. LeGuin: "American science fiction has assumed a permanent hierarchy of superiors and inferiors, with rich, ambitious, aggressive males at the top, then a great gap, and then at the bottom the poor, the uneducated, the faceless masses, and all the women."

If you deny any affinity with another person or kind of person, if you declare it to be wholly different from yourself—as men have done to women, and class has done to class, and nation has done to nation—you may hate it, or deify it; but in either case you have denied its spiritual equality, and its human reality. You have made it into a thing, to which the only possible relationship is a power relationship. And thus you have fatally impoverished your own reality.

You have, in fact, alienated yourself.

This tendency has been remarkably strong in American SF. The only social change presented by most SF has been towards authoritarianism, the domination of ignorant masses by a powerful elite—sometimes presented as a warning, but often quite complacently. Socialism is never considered as an alternative, and democracy is quite forgotten. Military virtues are taken as ethical ones. Wealth is assumed to be a righteous goal and a personal virtue. Competitive free-enterprise capitalism is the economic destiny of the entire Galaxy. In general, American SF has assumed a permanent hierarchy of superiors and inferiors, with rich, ambitious, aggressive males at the top, then a great gap, and then at the bottom the poor, the uneducated, the faceless masses, and all the women. The whole picture is, if I may say so, curiously "un-American." It is a perfect baboon patriarchy, with the Alpha Male on top, being respectfully groomed, from time to time, by his inferiors.

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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 04/01/2025

If it's an 'authoritarian drive' in China to remove trans people from public view, what's it called in the UK and US?

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Rise Up (From the Grave) Comus @riseupcomus.bsky.social · 04/01/2025

Introducing the Designing Dungeons Course: a free, 14 step, hands-on tutorial that walks you through the process of creating a 30-room dungeon from scratch. I just launched the first two chapters. More chapters forthcoming every week. I hope you'll check it out! dungeons.hismajestytheworm.games

Designing Dungeons Course front page screenshot

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Idle Cartulary @idlecartulary.itch.io · 31/12/2024

Happy new year, everyone! I wrote a manifesto for 2025! In 2025, I'm doing to review as many ZUNGEONS as I can get my hands on. Let's lower the bar on making dungeons, but keep in gorgeous. Here's how to make a zungeon. playfulvoid.game.blog/2025/01/01/t... #osr

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The Zungeon Manifesto: Demystifying Dungeon Creation

I have a really large earring collection; I have perhaps as many earrings as I have TTRPGs, and I mainly buy them from local craft markets, not jewellers. They’re all made from resin or clay,…

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🍁 Levi Kornelsen @levikornelsen.bsky.social · 02/01/2025

This is a helpful read, re: Recent goings-on in the #osr and points to a thing I strongly suspected: Yochai is, as many have noted, a community-builder. Bluesky is not a community-oriented site; it's a network, at most able to host a scene. newschoolrevolution.com/blue-skies-a...

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Blue Skies Ahead

Hello friends. I don't usually write posts like this. Generally, I don't even write posts about myself, and I am not trying to create more drama with this...

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Passive-aggressive PowerPoint @lachlang.bsky.social · 02/01/2025

Amid all the controversy, I keep coming back to this take. Seems to me that YG's biggest sin in all of this is being bad at internet (which, for a community organiser/champion, is not nothing).

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Bohdan Pavuk @bpavuk.neocities.org · 26/12/2024

if you see this post, your actions are: - if you have a spare buck, give it to Wikipedia, then repost this - if you don't have a spare buck, just repost your action is mandatory for the world's best source of information to survive

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Random Stranger @randomstranger.bsky.social · 01/01/2025

Famous author Garth Marenghi saying "I know writers who use subtext, and they're all cowards" taken from his commentary on his television show Darkplace.

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Amanda Yee 余美娜 @radiofreeamanda.bsky.social · 29/12/2024

Jimmy Carter has died at 100. With the battle for democracy in South Korea in the news, it's worth pointing out that Carter backed Chun Doo-hwan in crushing the 1980 Gwangju Uprising — a 10 day student revolt against Chun's military coup. Hundreds killed w/ hundreds more tortured in military prison.

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Emiel Boven @emielboven.itch.io · 31/10/2024

A new version of DURF Expanded is up on the Patreon! It includes a bunch of new art and reworks the structure of the book to make it a lot easier for new players to jump in ✨ www.patreon.com/c/emielboven

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Dolphin Pilot @theamitie.bsky.social · 09/08/2024

Lmfao

Some Republican dillweed asking Derek Guy (@dieworkwear) why he doesn’t roast democrats wardrobe

Derek’s response: “are you asking for diversity equity and inclusion?”

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Stephen Collins @stephencollins.bsky.social · 06/08/2024

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Passive-aggressive PowerPoint @lachlang.bsky.social · 26/07/2024

Having a moment of hobby euphoria. Feeling grateful to be living through a golden age for ttrpgs. This year alone: Mothership 1e, Pendragon 6e, Lancer reprint, Moria supplement for The One Ring, Wildendrem: Valley of Flowers. All such brilliant works of creativity!

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Dr. Jen M @awesomebiota.bsky.social · 19/07/2024

Hey, BlueSky folks: are you a Photobucket user or have you ever been in the past? They just updated their ToS & it includes a rather shocking element. If they used your photos to train AI that would be an improvement over their new policy. They're selling your uploaded media to biometric companies.

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Reactor Magazine @reactorsff.bsky.social · 18/07/2024

We are overjoyed to reveal a graphic novel edition of Ursula K. Le Guin's fantasy classic A Wizard of Earthsea, coming 2025 reactormag.com/cover-reveal...

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Revealing a Graphic Novel Edition of Ursula K. Le Guin's Masterpiece A Wizard of Earthsea - Reactor

Artist Fred Fordham brings new life to Le Guin's iconic fantasy classic.

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Garth Marenghi's Catbus @catbus.phd · 06/10/2023

PSA

photo of a viking warrior captioned
pick your battles
pick fewer battles than that.
put some battles back.
that's still too many battles.

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 27/06/2024

i know i complained too many people sent me this but "I will fucking piledrive you if you mention AI again" is very very funny ludic.mataroa.blog/blog/i-will-...

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Zoe TunnHELL ➡️ NYCC @zoewithasword.bsky.social · 26/06/2024

It is very exhausting to see people doing "ha ha look how dumb Chat GPT is it can't get basic questions right" right as we are getting constant stories about how much energy even basic queries for AI uses up. Just don't use it! The bit isn't that funny!

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John @localcelebrity.bsky.social · 22/06/2024

Reminder that Aaron Swartz was facing 35 years in prison and financial devastation for trying to programmatically download and open the contents of JSTOR, which led to him taking his own life. But OpenAI is going to scrape all of academia and make billions by plagiarizing it.

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Passive-aggressive PowerPoint @lachlang.bsky.social · 12/06/2024

TTRPG podcasters: it's been four years since Mörk Borg was released. I can't remember if exaggerated mispronunciations of the title were ever especially funny but please (I'm begging you) get a new joke.

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Tom Reagan’s Witch’s Hat @rufustsuperfly.bsky.social · 07/06/2024

It’s Prince’s birthday This is my favourite story about him by a country mile

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Passive-aggressive PowerPoint @lachlang.bsky.social · 06/06/2024

Exeggcute. Cos I'm solar-powered, I struggle with exeggcutive dysfunction; and when I'm not draining the energy of the people around me, I'm hypnotising (boring) them to sleep with monologues about my special interests. 😅

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ALT: Peow0 GIF

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Passive-aggressive PowerPoint @lachlang.bsky.social · 05/06/2024

@cubicle7games.bsky.social Hate to do twitter-style shame posting but can someone from your customer service team please direct message me about the order I placed last week (and the email I sent on Monday).

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Metal Gear Summer '27 ☀️🥀☠️ @mgearsolidarity.bsky.social · 30/05/2024

I think I internalised this as a good wage when I was young, and whilst I know it's not, it's a shock to learn that it is now minimum wage, and that is still not enough to live on. This was a song about getting a job in the City of London, the square mile, in 2005.

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the rakes - 22 grand job

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Charlie Hall @charliehall.bsky.social · 29/05/2024

In the @polygon.com open thread Thurs. I'll be recommending tabletop games! Come share what you've been playing, and help your fellow readers find their next board game, TTRPG, or TCG obsession! Here's what the format looks like with @susanapolo.bsky.social on comics! www.polygon.com/2024/5/23/24...

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Not sure what comics to read? Leave a comment, we’ll help

Jump in the comments with a request

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Stephanie Rodgers 🍉 @bootstheory.bsky.social · 29/05/2024

Are you worried about falling birthrates? Here's 5 simple tips! 1. Quick racism check, are you actually just worried about *white* birthrates? Maybe stop that 2. More parental leave 3. Make public spaces and services safer for parents 4. Rent: too damn high 5. No seriously do the racism check again

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Luke Ontario @coolhand.bsky.social · 28/05/2024

just bringing the essentials thanks

A four-panel comic by @davecontra:

1. Top left: A frog underwater holds a helmet and says, "FINALLY! MY EXPLORER HELMET IS COMPLETE!"
2. Top right: The frog is now on land, wearing the helmet full of liquid, and says, "NOW I HAVE EVERYTHING I NEED TO VENTURE BEYOND THE POND."
3. Bottom left: A bird on a branch says, "HEY DUMBASS, YOU'RE AN AMPHIBIAN. YOU DON'T NEED WATER TO SURVIVE OUT HERE." The frog looks up, surprised.
4. Bottom right: The frog, pointing to the helmet, replies, "VODKA." The bird looks confused.

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Tristan Gray @eidyngray.scot · 27/05/2024

If anyone's wondering how Chris Murray, Labour candidate for Edinburgh East, is on LGBT+ rights? He has dedicated anti-trans journalist Susan Dalgety door-knocking for him and telling the parents of trans people that their kids rights aren't a legitimate concern.

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😱 Spooky SpectreKILLoquy 🔪 🩸 @caulimovirus.bsky.social · 27/05/2024

Herman Melville on moderates, all the way back in 1857:

“You are an abolitionist, ain’t you?”
“As to that, I cannot so readily answer. If by abolitionist you mean a zealot, I am none; but if you mean a man, who, being a man, feels for all men, slaves included, and by any lawful act, opposed to nobody’s interest, and therefore, rousing nobody’s enmity, would willingly abolish suffering (supposing it, in its degree, to exist) from among mankind, irrespective of color, then am I what you say.”
“Picked and prudent sentiments. You are the moderate man, the invaluable understrapper of the wicked man. You, the moderate man, may be used for wrong, but are useless for right.”

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Created Wrongly @creativewronging.bsky.social · 27/05/2024

How much time do you have left to enter my giveaway? 👇 #ttrpg 🎲

Cover of the movie "48 Hours" showing a faded image of Eddie Murphy smoking a cigar & holding handcuffs next to Nick Nolte drawing his gun. There is a late 80's, early 90s retrowave blue & black background with white & pink recursive text reading "48 Hours"

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SIMONE 🩷 @simonee.bsky.social · 26/05/2024

dog in an apple orchard with an apple in its mouth, standing amongst apples that have fallen onto the ground, which is covered in hay. captioned “isnt it nice to be gentle with yourself”

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