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The flood of outrage on this site has retraumatized me every time I log on this week. I don't have the bandwidth to help you deal with your rage while I try to heal. Here's something that centers survivors. Even better, it is queer and trans inclusive by not gendering the survivor or assailant!

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Noah Grand @noahgrand.bsky.social · 5h

Would love some dark magic to place a scarlet letter on all the people who either told me not to come forward about being a sexual violence survivor, covered for my assailant, or assumed it couldn't happen to me because I don't fit their cis preconceptions of gender.

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Lynne M. Meyer | coffee-fueled and available for hire @lynnemeyer.bsky.social · 22h

Quick reminder that @spacemagiccon.bsky.social is this weekend! I’ll be part of this Community in TTRPGs panel on Saturday. Come hang out in chat and say hi!

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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 23h

Things Gavin Newsom has vetoed this week: -A ban on secretly recording people with smart glasses -A ban on ICE agents working for the state government -A ban on websites selling your data -A bill giving native tribes more say over water rights -A bill protecting transgender healthcare providers

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Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Lot going on here www.azcentral.com/story/news/p...

Kyrsten Sinema's ex-boyfriend and former bodyguard said he threw her paintings into her swimming pool in part because he felt disillusioned by her relationship with a major
U.S. Artificial Intelligence software developer as the war in Gaza drags on.

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Noah Grand @noahgrand.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

There's a high profile account I don't follow but gets shared into my feed for outrage and anger. Every time it's outrage! To quote Raylan Givens: You ever hear of the saying, "You run into an asshole in the morning, you ran into an asshole. You run into assholes all day, you're the asshole"?

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Noah Grand @noahgrand.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

What are we doing here? I find straight romance boring because it's not written for me, but that's a me thing. I'm glad it exists for all the straights out there.

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Failbetter Games | Wishlist Mandrake on Steam! @failbettergames.com · 30/09/2026

We're hiring! We're looking for a Writer and Narrative Designer to join the Fallen London team at a senior or mid level. This position is permanent, remote, and full time, which for us means 35 hours a week. #GamesJobs

Night. The House of Chimes - a tower which you might immediately think of as Big Ben - is adrift in the River Thames. It still seems to be keeping time. In the background, a large, alien building looms over the city of London.

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Judy Black ➡️ Deadlines @judyblackcloud.com · 30/09/2026

Eberron's Mournland markets present a true challenge for any #dnd adventurer. The Mournland Market might just have the items you need to stay alive... or to make things worse. www.dmsguild.com/product/3658...

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DriveThruRPG

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Douglas Reyes-CeroÑ @dreyesceron.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The Star Spangled Banner being played by the Mariachi Herencia de Mexico band before the Bears-Eagles game in Chicago on Monday Night Football was a deeply cool thing to see tonight

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Ben Natan @thebennatan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Can’t stop wars. Cant stop the president committing nonstop crime. Can’t do anything about Epstein. Or cost of living. Or the environment. They can fuck over workers though. They’ll do that real fast.

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Lynne M. Meyer | coffee-fueled and available for hire @lynnemeyer.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I've been in a mast cell flare for a week. It looks like one or two of my core safe foods may suddenly be off-limits. I need to restock my supply of the few things I can eat. All my available funds are going to Oct rent & COBRA. I'd be grateful for some help with groceries. 🫶 ko-fi.com/lynnemeyer

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Buy Lynne M Meyer a Coffee

A banner showing cover art of TTRPG titles I’ve worked on: Uncaged Goddesses, Doctor Who: Adventures in Space, Wrath & Glory: Forsaken System Player’s Guide, Uncaged Anthology volume 1, and All the Wi...

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Bruce Arthur @brucearthur.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Silicon Valley needs to be dismantled

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Elise (they/them)🇦🇺 🏳️‍⚧️ @eliseswords.eurosky.social · 25/09/2026

Indie Authors, I'm especially seeking more authors in the Asia-Pacific, Africa or Central or South America for my Books Direct From Authors Around the World Blog. Selling on Itchio counts, as well as Payhip/ on your site, etc. There's still room for more indies in Europe & North America too 😉

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BUM CHILLUPS AKA SPENCER HALL AKA PRESIDENT FOOTBALL @edsbs.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I just got an ad for "trump" paid for by the "united states government" get this man the fuck out of my face

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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 25/09/2026

We had to wait for the....NEW YORK POST to write about this. Y'all know there is so much more where this came from but journalists don't want to dig and people are terrified to speak to any journalist seeing the type of reporting they've been doing

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Noah Grand @noahgrand.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I refuse to look at the context for this wonderful line

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Brian Merchant @bcmerchant.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

About as grim as it gets.

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Noah Grand @noahgrand.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Writes down Killing Eve, Terriers, Shorsey. Several to cut here, starting with House of Cards.

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Noah Grand @noahgrand.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Imagine if he asked "how do you not know your zip code?" like a reporter instead of veering away to a monologue.

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kyleraiser: Bloodline @kylebutoverhere.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Strongest endorsement for a college football podcast I've ever heard, tbh

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Hector Diaz @iamhectordiaz.com · 24/09/2026

a friend’s dad was taken by ICE and they’re looking to raise money for legal representation. share and donate if you’re able to www.gofundme.com/f/our-dad-wa...

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Donate to Our Dad was taken by ICE, organized by Victoria Rudenko

Our dad has called the United States home since 1996. He came here 30 years ago and has s… Victoria Rudenko needs your support for Our Dad was taken by ICE

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Noah Grand @noahgrand.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Happy visibility day evening people

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Noah Grand @noahgrand.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Writers who miss deadline, go 50 percent over the word limit, then expect you to still work with all their late edits are the worst.

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Noah Grand @noahgrand.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

For some of us, it looks like this instead

I had to click on Data & Privacy to get Sponsored Content

Then look for Manage Sponsored Content and click the check box

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Noah Grand @noahgrand.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Tap tap tap. Why is my cloak not working? #BiVisibilityDay

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Daniel Kwan @danielhkwan.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Putting a call out for TTRPG artists! Doing an initial discovery for an artist to work on a new cyberpunk, body horror action game I'm designing. Please link your portfolio! NO AI.

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Noah Grand @noahgrand.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I was just telling a straight friend about the damage that self-hating queers can do, then the internet said hold your beer.

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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I was deputy M.E. at the WSJ when Murdoch took over, with a similar “editorial independence board.” Within 4 months, our top editor was gone, replaced by a loyal Murdoch deputy. That board raised a quivering objection, but the deed was done. If the Ellisons own CNN, they’ll do whatever they want.

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Terry Bouton @terrybouton.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

The article is brutal. Great student reporting. The chef's kiss is that the reporters found that the provost's letter defending his use of AI for witting op-eds and academic papers was 100% written by AI.

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Alex Hanna @alexhanna.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Excited to announce that I've signed a contract with @mitpress.bsky.social for a new book! It's about ImageNet, a dataset of 14 million photos. Without it, we likely wouldn't have "AI" as we currently know it. I've been thinking about this book for over 5 years, and am excited to finally write it.

Screenshot of a deal report from Publishers Marketplace that reads: “Coauthor of AI CON and cohost of the Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000 podcast Alex Hanna’s NET WORKS: IMAGENET AND THE CREATION OF THE MODERN AI DATASET, on the labor behind ImageNet’s cache of 14 million photos from the early aughts that became the backbone of AI datasets, to Rachel Moore at MIT Press (world).

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Jen Mercieca @jenmercieca.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

One thing that is interesting about raising my kid in Texas is we have a window into seeing how authoritarian parents raise their kids. So many fear appeals, so much us v them, so much “don’t disrespect us or else.” It’s terrorism.

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John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

The worst thing we've done is made fame a middle class job, instead of the toxic runoff of actual accomplishment.

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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

It really is striking how many authoritarian states have ended up in this exact same place, where the leader seizes control of scientific inquiry. Lysenkoism in the Soviet Union, Aryan Physics in the Third Reich, Great Leap Forward (also related to Lysenko) in China.

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Noah Grand @noahgrand.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Call it the Newsom rule: if a politician treats trans people badly, they love bullying unhoused people and wish they could drink your blood.

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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

may we all be sealed for love, for showing up, for liberation, for truth + for joy. ♥️ gmar tov

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Gwen Marshall @drgwenmarshall.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

The Onion ran this amazing article and thought, I wanna play this! So I made it! 38 pps, PbtA, plus every mechanic mentioned in the article, and a bunch of Rodrigo song references. And it's free! Enjoy! #OliviaRodrigo @theonion.com #theonion #ttrpg #itch.io drgwenmarshall.itch.io/high-winter-...

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High Winter Elves of Girlville by Gwen Marshall

A satirical game based on an Onion article about Olivia Rodrigo making a TTRPG!

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Jesse Thorn @jessethorn.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I don’t have much to say about party politics, but I can say this: you get to decide whether you support candidates who think my beautiful, wonderful children can go to the doctor and live regular lives or if they should be trapped and tortured by a hostile system. And the former requires so little.

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

every day of my life I think about the people using “she” to describe this computer program who still need to be convinced to use it for trans women

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Weremorgan ⚢🔥🐺 @comeuppance.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Pardon my language but it really is insane that when you're a kid people just know you're a tranny faggot before you do and terrorize you endlessly about it

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Sydney Bauer @sydney-bauer.com · 18/09/2026

So many stories about schools secretly transitioning kids are about unsupportive parents. These parents are trying to use this angle after they were arrested and got a restraining order placed on them by their child:

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Mass. parents' story about child's gender transition complicated by court records

Joseph Kutzko was charged with assaulting the child in January 2025, not long before the child was removed from the family’s home. Mother Arlene Kutzko was charged with witness intimidation in connect...

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Noah Grand @noahgrand.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

On Reddit talking to people coming out as nonbinary and realizing I've been questioning my gender on some level for longer than these posters have been alive.

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

This is straight out of Handmaids Tale. A high school trying to force girls to disclose the dates and lengths of their menstrual cycle. Don’t comply? You lose a grade. There’s absolutely no reason a school needs this information other than to exert control over our bodies.

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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

OpenAI and Microsoft admitted LLMs are predatory tech built on “an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions,” and the “largest theft of labor in human history.” An internal Microsoft document said AI has created a “doom loop” that is killing “the entire web.” www.404media.co/doom-loop-op...

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‘Doom Loop’: OpenAI and Microsoft Admits LLMs Are Destroying the Web and Built on Theft

"Millions of people around the world will soon consider large models ‘hoovering up’ all their work to be an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions."

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Alex Hanna @alexhanna.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Waymo workers have to clean WHAT? It’s come to light that Waymo uses even more human laborers than they want us to believe, and those workers deal with some pretty graphic stuff. Go check out the @bayareacurrent.bsky.social article by Stephanie Reist. bayareacurrent.com/theres-a-lot...

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Rainbow Space Magic @spacemagiccon.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Join us October 3rd for Community in TTRPGs: discuss ways community impacts the TTRPG experience. With Mary Brydon-Kehoen @noahgrand.bsky.social @lynnemeyer.bsky.social Kristian Atlas Petillo & @trueryankhan.bsky.social RSM is a free, virtual queer SFFH con! Details at rainbowspacemagic.org

To the left of the background is dark blue with lines connecting small white lights in a seemingly random pattern. Across the image in the middle is a rainbow. The rest of the background is dark blue. The text reads: Rainbow Space Magic, A Queer SFF Convention, RainbowSpaceMagic.org October 3-4 Below that it says: Community in TTRPGs Then there is a row of pictures of individuals with their names below. The names are: Mary Brydon-Kehoen, Noah Grand, Lynne M. Meyer, Kristian Atlas Petillo, Ryan Khan

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Sydney Bauer @sydney-bauer.com · 18/09/2026

When trans people say they’re worried democrats will trade support for us for absolutely nothing and that’s why it’s worrying when politicians don’t stand up to right wing slant about our rights it’s because some (not all) democrats keep doing this!!!

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Noah Grand @noahgrand.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Failson who never had to work a day in his life is having a temper tantrum while holding my neighbors hostage.

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Sydney Bauer @sydney-bauer.com · 16/09/2026

I really appreciated @celebrityhottub.bsky.social letting me ramble and ramble because any point you bring up on this has like 5 contextual tangents attached. I could have gone for three hours to be honest!!

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