Reposted by Ben GardnerAdrienne @adrienneleigh.bsky.social · 9hIt's Nobel Prize season again, and i will take literally ANY excuse to tell this story, it's one of my favorites. It's about Nobel medals, and foiling the Nazis with science! 23822
Reposted by Ben Gardnerrax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 17ha little louder for the cheap seats in the back 2238681366
Reposted by Ben GardnerTred @tredlocity.bsky.social · 06/10/2026If english speakers can understand "Don't buy Rurouni Kenshin, the author is a pedophile" I think non english speakers can easily understand "Don't but Harry Potter, the author is a TERF" 6518198
Reposted by Ben GardnerCameron Lauder @unarmedoracle.bsky.social · 17hI'm proud to support the people who make such great games. You can too by signing the petition encouraging WotC management to voluntarily recognize the D&D and Studio X Union. actionnetwork.org/forms/uwotcp... bsky.app/profile/uwot... 18517
Reposted by Ben Gardnerdepths of wikipedia @depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social · 19hwikipedia has been ANNIHILATED with AI bot traffic for a while now (because LLMs can't get enough of it) which puts a huge burden on its tech and server costs. and now it looks like bots are making unauthorized edits to pages and trying to hack community tools diff.wikimedia.org/2026/10/05/o... 10884252
Reposted by Ben GardnerCoach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 26/09/2026The "Is AI alive" conversation is 100% this, too. If you can be conned by a chatbot, I fear for your general safety. You are the guy at the stripclub who think the dancers really like you. 141177200
Reposted by Ben GardnerUnited Wizards of the Coast - CWA @uwotc-official.bsky.social · 22hCurious how you can help? We ask that you sign our petition for Wizards to voluntarily recognize our union, share it with your communities, and keep an eye on this account for future updates! actionnetwork.org/forms/uwotcp...actionnetwork.orgStand with Dungeons & Dragons and Magic Workers Forming a Union!The Dungeons & Dragons team and Studio X (Magic: The Gathering; Duel Masters) are forming a union! We are joining the ranks of United Wizards of the Coast - CWA (UWOTC-CWA) and following in the fo... 81364677
Reposted by Ben GardnerUnited Wizards of the Coast - CWA @uwotc-official.bsky.social · 22hThis 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...unitedwizardsofthecoast.comDungeons & Dragons and Studio X Join United Wizards of the Coast - CWAToday, 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... 10666812424
Reposted by Ben Gardnermadsabaoth @matte-gender.bsky.social · 06/10/2026an explicit way that transphobia manifests is that accounts who censors swears and slurs will never censor "tranny", one of the most explicit slurs in history 29421
Reposted by Ben GardnerKen Schwencke @schwanksta.com · 06/10/2026A year ago, @propublica.org told you immigration agents had detained more than 170 U.S. citizens. We’ve updated our count, and we’ve got all the receipts. The tally: At least 506 citizens detained. Sometimes held at gunpoint, handcuffed, or even deported. projects.propublica.org/american-cit...projects.propublica.orgMore Than 500 U.S. Citizens Have Been Detained, Including Handcuffed or Held at Gunpoint, in Trump’s Immigration Crackdown — ProPublicaThe government doesn’t track how often immigration officers detain U.S. citizens. So ProPublica did. We’ve found more than 500 Americans who were held against their will during this Trump administrati... 261560921
Reposted by Ben GardnerJohn Scalzi @scalzi.com · 05/10/2026To the person noting there is not enough money in the world to license every piece of intellectual property stolen for "AI" training: you're sooooo close to the point, friend, keep going, you'll get there if you try 423993656
Reposted by Ben Gardnergeoffrey @parsnip.bsky.social · 06/10/2026very tired of being told it is the responsibility of urban democratic voters never to risk possibly maybe by chance seeming less than respectful of rural red state life and then watching thousands in nebraska cheer on the president joking about a nuclear strike on me and millions of my neighbors 723977784
Reposted by Ben Gardnermady castigan✨ 🏳️⚧️ @mady.cat · 06/10/2026the Ohio Democratic party is purging its ranks by forcing trans people to either resign or go along with politicians who threaten their existence and calling a pride group an "unwelcoming distraction." If we're just a distraction, then win without our votes and get rid of the fake "pride" orgs 👍🏾 131666446
Reposted by Ben GardnerDan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 05/10/2026I emailed top USA Today editors on Friday, in the hopes that there was some misunderstanding. No response. Unilaterally feeding entire interviews into an AI slop machine is not OK. It has to stop. 5764161
Reposted by Ben GardnerKat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Nicole is a leading expert on the issue of campus sexual violence. I am floored that USA Today would do this to her. I find this kind of journalistic behavior unethical and morally reprehensible, twisting an interview with a renowned advocate for survivors into a hit piece against a survivor. 131667461
Reposted by Ben GardnerNicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Earlier this week, I agreed to interviews with two USA Today journalists. They wrote fantastic articles about the Cornell case that I'm proud to have been a part of. What I did not know is that their employer considers interviews to proprietary and opens up recordings to be used by any journalist. 5846821396
Reposted by Ben GardnerAlex DeLuca @alexldeluca21.bsky.social · 01/10/2026New: A Florida county discovered Flock cameras along its roads that officials didn’t know were there. No one has publicly claimed them. Who has operated them — and who has had access to their data — remains a mystery. www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2026/...washingtonpost.comFlorida county discovers mysterious Flock cameras with no obvious ownerOfficials say they don’t know who installed the controversial cameras or how the data was being used. Residents are unnerved. 19222109
Reposted by Ben Gardner🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 02/10/2026No one has ever been this high on their own supplythelettersfromleo.comNYT: Anthropic Nearly Walked Out on Pope Leo XIV’s AI Encyclical — Then Lobbied His AdvisersChris Olah saw an advance copy of Magnifica Humanitas days before the Vatican launch and proposed withdrawing over its stance on machine consciousness. The pope held his ground. 2159579
Reposted by Ben GardnerHillary Monahan @hillarymonahan.bsky.social · 01/10/2026If the argument for women should know better than to go into a rape den like a frat house, explain to me why a rape house like a fraternity is allowed to exist at all. 202204480
Reposted by Ben GardnerPaige, TheMaverickGirl @themaverickgirl.bsky.social · 01/10/2026That’s interesting, wonder what we’re gonna learn here 👀 mcatlanta.mtgfestivals.com/en-us/experi... 106713
Reposted by Ben GardnerKat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 29/09/2026I literally don’t know a single woman who hasn’t been raped, stalked, groped, harassed, or sexually violated in some way at some point in their life. If you choose to doubt and dox survivors, just know every woman in your life is disgusted by you. 766286795988
Reposted by Ben GardnerPREORDER CASCADE CASCADE ISSUE 2 NOW! @cascadecascade.com · 30/09/2026CASCADE CASCADE ISSUE 2 IS AVAILABLE FOR PREORDER NOW! - All 24 articles from ISSUE 2 on CASCADECASCADE.com - A physical exclusive article from @rhysticstudies.bsky.social - a fun bonus or two. :) - 8 1/2"x11" magazine with THICC paper - $19.99 Read more: www.cascadecascade.com/cascade-casc... 613562
Reposted by Ben GardnerPREORDER CASCADE CASCADE ISSUE 2 NOW! @cascadecascade.com · 30/09/2026We don't make videos, we don't podcast, we just let the writers write. We're trying to prove that there's still an audience for written work about a thing we all love and word of mouth helped us sell nearly a thousand issues last time. It would rule to get over that line this time around. 38126
Reposted by Ben Gardnerali alkhatib @ali-alkhatib.com · 30/09/2026shutting down frat houses won't end rape culture, but it will disorganize a lot of rapists, and i think that's probably worth doing if only to destabilize what is apparently an ecology of organizations that functionally exist to rape women per the whole "purpose of a system is what it does" insight. 84002760
Reposted by Ben GardnerPicnic Magazine @picnic-mag.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Still lots of space for classified ads in Picnic 3, coming this November :) Sign up for yours here, completely free forms.gle/zheUt1LP6Y8h...forms.glePicnic Vol. 3 Classified PageHello Picnic fans! After 6 months, Picnic is coming back this fall 2026 for a third edition (our very first fall issue!), and that means a fresh round of classified ads and dispatches from the world o... 034
Ben Gardner @nebman.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Just ordered this. If you want to support magic writing in the modern day, you should too! 020
Reposted by Ben GardnerKelly @justkelly.bsky.social · 30/09/2026She was doxxed by a Chi Phi alum who implored his followers to “help a Chi Phi.” Just in case anyone thought that organization was remotely redeemable. 393752600
Reposted by Ben GardnerThe Onion @theonion.com · 29/09/2026Cornell Vows That Rapists Will Be Forced To Write Much Longer Essays In The Future theonion.com/cornell-vows... 195112862154
Reposted by Ben GardnerCaptain Awkward @captainawkward.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Excellent thread! There *are* rewards for being A Good Guy Who Speaks Up even if they are not immediately obvious or publicly bestowed. First, integrity is its own reward. Maybe you didn’t save the world or change hearts & minds. But if you held the line on not making it worse, that’s something. 8727206
Reposted by Ben GardnerElizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 29/09/2026You have to wait until the sixth paragraph of this piece before you learn, in the New York Times reporting on the murder of THEIR OWN EMPLOYEE, that the victim was a trans man who had been abused for being trans by the in-laws who murdered him. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/28/u...nytimes.comCouple Accused of Killing Their Son-in-Law in Bay Area Park (Gift Article)Jonathan McKinsey, an engineer who worked in the games department for The New York Times, was fatally shot Saturday in a San Francisco suburb. The police have accused his parents-in-law, both 76. 281761574
Reposted by Ben Gardnerevacide @evacide.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Meta Muse appears to read your Apple messages and upload them to the cloud even if you explicitly tell it not to: appleinsider.com/articles/26/...appleinsider.com 10220341030
Reposted by Ben GardnerTyler King @tyleraking.com · 29/09/2026A key component of the Cambridge Analytica outrage was your friends subjecting you to data theft without your consent or knowledge. Facebook is running the same playbook on your text messages. Even if you’re not on Meta properties, they’re ingesting your interactions. 182013976
Reposted by Ben GardnerHannah Vardit @hannahvardit.bsky.social · 29/09/2026i worry that men think being A Good Guy is dramatically and heroically intervening on behalf of an endangered woman and then being publicly rewarded on a grand scale when actually being A Good Guy is just usually saying, “hey man that’s not funny” or “wow that’s fucked up” and there is no reward 10134793781
Reposted by Ben Gardnernick @unionnick.bsky.social · 27/09/2026On the *same day* the Cornell Seven drugged and raped Jane Doe, Cornell banned four students (including the President of Cornell JVP) from campus for three years for nonviolent, pro-Palestine protests. The same Cornell officials let the rapists off with apology essays. 6152832117
Reposted by Ben GardnerKatie Tightpussy, Editor-In-Chief @katie.bzky.team · 17/09/2026so the official bluesky policy position is that you can't tell someone to kill themselves but you can tell a protected minority category that you hope that state kills them. Am i getting that right. 964094948
Reposted by Ben GardnerStanding Together @standing-together.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Let’s be clear about what this is: a sustained effort to push Palestinian citizens out of political life and silence those who challenge Jewish supremacy, occupation and forever war.haaretz.comIsrael's elections committee votes to bar all Arab partiesThe decision to ban the UAL, the Joint List and Balad's party leader Sami Abu Shehadeh and Jewish MK Ofer Cassif from Hadash is expected to reach the Israel High Court for review 34425
Reposted by Ben GardnerBen Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 28/09/2026I'm absolutely losing it. Everything in here is made up (we hired an actor, rented a car, did not use AI, obviously), but he just invents a whole-ass world. Boner pills are a helluva drug. 1462219221
Reposted by Ben GardnerGavin G Whiz @loveatra.in · 28/09/2026A running trend throughout the history of InfoWars is whenever Alex Jones watched a new movie he liked, his conspiracy narrative would noticeably shift to be a lot like the plot of that movie. He has a hard time keeping fiction and reality separated. Onion InfoWars has genuinely fucked with him. 1170857
Reposted by Ben GardnerCirc @tinyicecat.bsky.social · 24/09/2026This news is important because all the fucks out there actively attempting to wreck the world want you to think that the work is hopeless and just mitigating the worst case scenario. It's not. Fucking keep going. 2679194647
Reposted by Ben Gardnerbig tiddy Rebell @rebell.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Hey everyone! A Magic friend of mine's mom is a public middle school counselor in Iowa who wants to introduce play based counseling to help her neurodivergent kids. If you have a bit to spare, you can sponsor an Amazon gift for her to help with the kids. The toys are all really cheap! 79542
Reposted by Ben GardnerTiffany - …but make it cat 🐱 @butmakeitcat.bsky.social · 25/09/2026I gave @boshnroll.bsky.social a disposable camera at SCGCon Baltimore and these are his pictures! Thank you so much to Brian for participating and to @starcitygames.bsky.social for having me! #mtg #magicthegathering #scgcon #starcitygames 2294
Reposted by Ben Gardnerkuraine @lena.fyi · 26/09/2026the entire guides economy is busted because literally every single website imaginable has cornered the seo on fortune's weave but only for useless lists of locations and not what actually matters: a single screenshot of the map so i can figure out how to access a dungeon with no line to it 530819
Reposted by Ben Gardnerkuraine @lena.fyi · 26/09/2026i am begging people to make gamefaqs for new releases... make me an ascii map, even be opinionated about how much you hate a certain mechanic, anything to save us from 500 websites listing the same information chock full of ads 4849245
Reposted by Ben Gardnermerr-itt came from outer space @merrittk.com · 25/09/2026i heard woke is trying to do same-sex bathrooms now... they want our sons pissing next to each other to turn them gay 103554478
Reposted by Ben Gardnerdr. rich traditions, JD @helldude.bsky.social · 24/09/2026we have control mechanisms for this. it's called The Law. these guys should be held personally liable for these harms. the suicides, the thefts, the intrusions into computer systems. they should be sued and prosecuted as appropriate. problem immediately solved 12771131698
Reposted by Ben GardnerWhitney Curry Wimbish @whitneycwimbish.bsky.social · 24/09/2026The youngest person his pager attack killed was 9-year-old Fatima Abdullah, who had just started 4th grade. The pager was on a table when it went off and she picked it up to take to her dad. It exploded in her face and reports said it covered the room in her blood. She wanted to learn English. 42103614413
Reposted by Ben GardnerSarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · 24/09/20261. They caught this in time! It won't keep anyone from voting. 2. This happened bc TX lets you register to vote when you get your driver's license online. The DL office's web portal didn't send people's info to county voter roll registrars properly. 6413143
Reposted by Ben GardnerRoger Parloff @rparloff.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Judge Kelly orders hard passes returned to White House reporters for @CNN @MSNOWNews & @politico immediately. They were pulled in violation of Fifth Am Due Process. No stay pending appeal. www.documentcloud.org/documents/28... 211425
Reposted by Ben GardnerLeah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 24/09/2026AP 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.” 1970182264
