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Larry (he/him) @liblarrian.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

the United States, but Colorado specifically?

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Rii Abrego @riibrego.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

happy october! #art (wallpapers below!)

A drawing of black cats climbing in a pile of pumpkins

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Larry (he/him) @liblarrian.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

A last minute change of plan meant instead of playing in our tables I ended up running three simultaneous games of competing teams on the same asteroids, and it went shockingly well. Three teams of Seven all given the same cursed charge? The students dealt with it with aplomb.

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Larry (he/him) @liblarrian.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

6th Week: Stoneburner from @rpdeshaies.farirpgs.com stoneburner.farirpgs.com I love this game (not my first time running it). This paired with a class on project management and team composition, and if you think about it demon-hunting on a haunted asteroid is kiiiinda like a group project?

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Stoneburner RPG

Stoneburner Is a Sci-Fantasy Solo-Friendly Demon-Hunting Community-Building RPG published by Fari RPGs

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Larry (he/him) @liblarrian.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Fifth Week: Like-A-Rogue from @alleyesno.art alleyesno.itch.io/like-a-rogue I ran my usual research skills workshop for the students this week, and this felt like a good compliment to that. This one went super well. Most of the tables had time for 2 games, and there were some great words in play.

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LIKE-A-ROGUE by All Eyes No Games

A linguistic dungeon crawl OSR TTRPG

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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 24/09/2026

Saw a woman on TikTok who said she quit corporate at age 46 to become a beekeeper because “I would literally rather get stung by 10,000 bees than write ‘per my last email’ again” and you know what? I respect that

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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

AP Stylebook warns against anthropomorphizing AI systems: “Avoid language that gives them human characteristics… Instead, explain what a system does, how well it performs, who built it and who could be affected by it.”

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Artificial intelligence systems do not think, feel, want or understand. Avoid language that gives them human characteristics. This is called anthropomorphizing, when we ascribe human traits, emotions or behaviors to non-human things, such as animals or inanimate objects.
Instead, explain what a system does, how well it performs, who built it and who could be affected by it.

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JP @jpbrammer.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

it's important to arrive at sturdy ethical principles that you can't be annoyed out of. people are annoying as shit

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Ghostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 17/02/2026

JCO is the only one who gets a free pass to stay on twitter because it's better for us, emotionally, if she's not here, but also it's worse for them, emotionally, if she's over there

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Larry (he/him) @liblarrian.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

They had a great time! It was a fun way to think about problem solving and sharing resources

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Larry (he/him) @liblarrian.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

They did!! We had a really fun time

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 20/09/2026

LOOK AT THIS FUCKING SHIT. The easiest way to tell that trans women are women is that the right is so desperate to control what they do with their bodies. WE HAVE EVERYTHING IN COMMON.

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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

When you hear a fantastical story about AI, you should ask yourself, "How does this serve the political project of AI?" Because, as others have pointed out, that's what AI really amounts to: a political project.

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Josephine beckbook.com Riesman @josie.zone · 11/05/2026

"In '99, Smash Mouth released ASTRO LOUNGE, their most iconic LP. Their undisputed masterpiece is 'All Star,' a song so catchy, most people say they're sick of it. But they shouldn't be, because it's prophecy. It was composed by an Xer, but it's the definitive Millennial Song. [lifts ax] Hey, Paul!"

Patrick Bateman at the stereo system in a raincoat

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TekknoNerd - Commissions open @tekknonerd.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Voyager, walking on those tiny legs.

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Larry (he/him) @liblarrian.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Telling your co-Directors/Co-instructors you had an idea? Mundane, could have come from nothing. Telling them you received a vision? Mysterious, implies higher knowledge. Anyway this is how I'm going to refer to all syllabus edits from now on.

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Larry (he/him) @liblarrian.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Fourth week: Let Loose the Lilac Mammoths! by @gabriellebleu.bsky.social gabriellebleu.itch.io/let-loose-th... Class was about self knowledge and community (and the lecture session was a little longer) so this synthesized those themes. We did it by passing letters around the room rather than post

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Let Loose the Lilac Mammoths! by Gabrielle Bleu

A letter writing game about resource pooling, mutual assistance, fantasy disasters, and sometimes mammoths.

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Ian Linkletter @linkletter.org · 14/09/2026

"Zero procurement and zero red tape" so long as you verify your identity "using a government-issued ID and a selfie, through our verification partner, Veriff." Do not trust Instructure with this information. They have yet to come clean about what was stolen in April, and now they want more info?

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Andrew Wasserman @onceatrophic.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I know, girl. I know.

A poster included in the current PS1 show Artists Against the Bomb, an exhibit that seems to have made the completely enraging decision to not label/credit creators of individual works (among other things about this show that left me fully exasperated)

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Larry (he/him) @liblarrian.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

The real value of a task manager is that you can experience the heart-dropping feeling that you have to be doing an amorphous something and instead of dropping everything you can just leave yourself a note like "surely I'm responsible for something I'm forgetting rn" and keep trucking

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Brosephine Wires, Perennial Soup-Lover @joparkerbear.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

You know… I would really stop using AI chat bots if I were you

Inside 'Project Lily':
The Humans Reading Your ChatGPT Chats
JOSEPH COX • SEP 14, 2026 AT 10:22 AM
Humans are reading ChatGPT users prompts to improve OpenAl's models, and those chats can include sensitive, personal information, according to leaked internal documents and real prompts seen by 404 Media.

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Adam Carnevale? @retroarchetype.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Me being lackadaisical: hey you guys aren't upset by how carefree I am right now right?

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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 11/09/2026

So rather than increase faculty payroll and lower student:teacher ratios, UMass would rather spend it on Claude. I would argue that a better investment would be hiring 100-200 tenure-line faculty.

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Larry (he/him) @liblarrian.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Two actually good movies, one INSANE movie, and one pretty generic movie. #LetterboxdFriday #LastFourWatched

The Harder they Fall 2.5, Akira 4.5, The Presidents Analyst 5, Camp Miasma 4.5

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Larry (he/him) @liblarrian.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Two actually good movies, one INSANE movie, and one pretty generic movie. #LetterboxdFriday #LastFourWatched

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Larry (he/him) @liblarrian.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Third week: Kingdom by @lamemage.com lamemage.itch.io/kingdom This was the capstone for our first unit, bringing themes of character development, setting discovery, and problem solving (irl and in game) together!

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Kingdom by Ben Robbins

Build A Community Together

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Larry (he/him) @liblarrian.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Starting The Name of the Rose (a cool and normal thing to do when I was just telling a colleague how little time there is in the day), and it feels appropriate that it's one of those dark green, buckram bound library books with some illicit marginalia penciled in in cursive. 📚

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Jeremy Markovich @ncrabbithole.com · 03/09/2026

With a ton of help, I tried to tackle one of North Carolina's greatest mysteries: Why are there so many Chinese restaurants next to Food Lions? I learned a lot! www.ncrabbithole.com/p/there-real...

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There really is a Chinese restaurant next to nearly every Food Lion

It's been a meme for years. But one man actually ran the numbers and found proof that the correlation is very real in North Carolina. So, in this Rabbit Hole investigation, we enlisted others to help ...

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Memento Mori Kira @kmaustinyoung.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

The fun thing about waiting to hear about a grant today is that I’ve convinced myself both that I’m definitely going to get it and also that I’m definitely not going to get it.

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Larry (he/him) @liblarrian.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

We also have a required service learning day as part of the GPS program, so I've used @imaginif.bsky.social's "Starting Out" to structure their reflection on community service imaginif.itch.io/starting-out

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Starting Out by Imaginif Media

a guided journaling quest to begin your story

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Quinn Daedal @quinnanya.me · 03/09/2026

Well played, whoever posted these signs around Stanford on a morning when the LLMs are down.

Parody poster for allergy meds for LLM relief

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Larry (he/him) @liblarrian.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

If nothing else, putting this class together is forcing me to actually know what all is in my TTRPG mega-folder in google drive. I've bought a lot of bundles and sometimes those bundles just got thrown in the folder. 📚📜

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Larry (he/him) @liblarrian.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Use this to teach the kids semiotics

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Larry (he/him) @liblarrian.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

we have a field in our refstats for referral, and for the student who just came up to the desk and needed directions to a building that's clear on the other side of campus (25ish minute walk) for a class that got moved minutes before it started I would love to be able to select "loving god" 📚

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Larry (he/him) @liblarrian.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

They did great! One group was sentient dice in the rec center, one group created a Borgesian infinite Columbine Hall that contained all of their hopes and dreams, one group made garlic bread people in the game studio, and one group put cats in a different cozy rec center. Their stories were LOVELY!!

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Larry (he/him) @liblarrian.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Second week: Cozy Town by @temporalhiccup.bsky.social! This one was wildly successful. To make it relevant to the reading for this week (on various campus resources), I told them to use a campus building as their inspo but otherwise go wild.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Students who nod and smile during lecture when we try to make a point? Heroes

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Larry (he/him) @liblarrian.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

August was a good month!! One More Show: boxd.it/fIW0YH Call of My Life: boxd.it/fKnoBP One Hour Photo: boxd.it/fTG3zx Streets of Fire: boxd.it/fVEvqR Coyote vs. Acme: boxd.it/g83UCB

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Kara N. Slade @karanslade.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Pretty sure this has already been a real article

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Larry (he/him) @liblarrian.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

So like yes: the telehealth therapy/doctor-finder apps are a nightmare. But I also find it massively strange the way they tout searching by availability? Who's using these apps to only find UNavailable providers?

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