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United Wizards of the Coast - CWA @uwotc-official.bsky.social · 16h

This 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...

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Dungeons & Dragons and Studio X Join United Wizards of the Coast - CWA

Today, 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...

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Seanan McGuire @seananmcguire.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I have been a guest at conventions where, during the pre-con walk through, my handler has pointed out the bar and mentioned how some guests are "more fun" and "get asked back," then names only men. Because a lot of female guests aren't comfortable hanging out around alcohol with strangers.

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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

Great chance to post my all-time favorite headline

The Radium Water Worked Fine Until His Jaw Came Off

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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

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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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 02/10/2026

meanwhile people have been telling us since 2025 that we have to vote for him in 2028

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Niels (half of r-n-w) @rpgtoons.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

We laid out our book with new Game Masters in mind. Running a game can be intimidating, and we want to make it as easy as possoble to jump in! Running games is one of my life's purest joys, and I want to invite everyone I can to share in it 🥰 Kickstarter: www.kickstarter.com/projects/r-n...

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K.B. Spangler @kbspangler.com · 30/09/2026

I would watch every single one of their ads, too, and not toss their Act Blue texts right into spam.

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

A man replied to this saying in earnest that women need to get organized and fight for our rights and men will follow. We did that. We do that. We mobilized the largest single day protest in global history on every continent and yet I have fewer rights than my mom did at my age.

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Seanan McGuire @seananmcguire.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The trouble with book tour is that I can't properly promote and shout about upcoming events when I'm on airplanes and running from one location to the next. Fun fun fun. But! Come see me tomorrow night in Redmond, WA for fun, and the kind of exhaustion that comes only from too much travel.

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cmrn knzlmn @ckunzelman.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

If you are a graduate student in the humanities (construed as broadly as possible), what is the MOST EXCITING book published in the last five years to you? Please repost if you’re not a graduate student!

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Dan Davies @dsquareddigest.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

"we didn't have anything like as many people claiming to have ADHD back in the days when everyone carried around a pack of inhalable stimulant drugs and took between 20 and 40 doses every day"

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𝔇𝔢𝔢𝔭 𝔇𝔢𝔩𝔳𝔢𝔯 ☽⛤☾ ℌ𝔬𝔴𝔩 𝔚𝔦𝔱𝔥 𝔐𝔢 @therunepony.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

So this game called "Dverghold" came across my Steam homepage. Interesting retro vibes, apparently collabing with a dungeon synth artist for the OST. The art was kinda tickling my AI-dar though, so I scrolled down to look for any disclaimers.

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Every Bite Counts @sandybeach805.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I’m not a religious person. But the response here is what I imagine a Christian should be.

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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 24/09/2026

over the past few weeks several AI evaluation/cybersecurity experts have explained how what's happening is a result of human incompetence rather than "AI going rogue". I'm begging the media to show a shred of journalistic integrity and stop parroting what altman or amodei say

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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

We can’t allow this man to get within striking distance of a viable presidential candidacy.

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Schrödinger's Sneetch Belly @rtodkelly.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Please know that this is one of my few legitimate areas of actual, high-level professional expertise: Kicking the healthiest people off of a health insurance program will bankrupt it. Not 'could;' not 'might,' not 'probably," but absolutely will, with mathematical certainty.

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Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I say this over and over again. It’s trans rights. It’s immigrant rights. It’s Palestinian lives. It’s always been Black and indigenous lives. No one is free until everyone is free is a warning, not a mantra!

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Paul F. Tompkins @pftompkins.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

It’s very simple and it’s been said over and over but I guess it needs saying continuously: if you deem one group too small to have equal rights you are enabling fascism, not fighting it. The people saying Dems are GREAT on trans rights are not paying attention and/or saying stuff like this.

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The Democrats defend the Kennedy Center but not trans people.
A building.

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maybe because defending everything about a super small minority of the population is not worth losing to fascists

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Robin Ince @robinince.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

The Onion knows

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Trans Teen Hatches Nefarious Plot
To Undergo Years Of Medical Treatments And Counseling To Win At Swimming
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THEJordonBrown @thejordonbrown.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Why can’t Democrats be the thing conservatives try to scare us with?

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Leslie Root @lesja.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

"the gays were really polite and normal about it" no see what's happening here is that being gay feels normal to you now, so their activism seems reasonable in hindsight. trans activism feels egregious because you think trans people are grotesque

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 15/09/2026

The U.S. AI industry is being run by a batshit rationalist sex cult, and no, I am not being hyperbolic - they’re genuinely Like That:

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I went to an rationalist/EA Al doomer event last night with the goal of meeting someone who could calmly explain to me the argument for how they get to the conclusion that Al will kill everyone.
Because these are rationalists, I expected to find people who could lay out a serious extinction pathway, walk through the assumptions and intermediate steps, identify choke points where negative pathways could potentially be regulated, and entertain disagreement about where their assumptions might break down.
My experience was the exact opposite.
The people I spoke to seemed psychologically unable to entertain the possibility that their conclusion (that Al literally kills everyone, which was a point that many would not even budge on) might be wrong.
Their most extreme conclusion was treated as an axiom.
I had multiple people walk out of conversations with me when I questioned their inevitable extinction premise.
At one point during a panel, the moderator asked everyone in the audience who was still skeptical of Al doom to raise their hands. About half the room did. He then told all of the skeptics to leave the panel and go with one of the speakers, who would answer their questions separately. They filtered out all the skeptics, and continued the panel only with the subset who accepted their extreme position.
I genuinely felt like a heretic just for questioning whether superintelligent Al inevitably leads to the extinction of humanity, or entertaining the possibility that the future might actually turn out well.
That does not mean Al safety is fake. Obviously there are serious questions about rapidly advancing Al systems and what happens as they become much more capable. Those are exactly the conversations I went there hoping to have.
But what I encountered was an apocalyptic death cult. These people are not rational. They are deeply afraid, they reinforce that fear in one another, and they have become so emotionally committed to apocalypse

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Rose (r-n-w) @rnw.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

It's here, it's happening! If you're tired of seeing grimdark fantasy DnD stuff, THIS IS FOR YOU. Our cosy chaotic 5e campaign book is on Kickstarter NOW! Play treasure-seeking adventurers who accidentally destroy an entire town and wake up a god in the process! www.kickstarter.com/projects/r-n...

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The Forgotten God: A 5e Campaign

A cosy, chaotic 5e sandbox adventure - uncover buried secrets, awaken a slumbering god & rally your friends to defeat the colonisers!

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 14/09/2026

Some Dems are running away from trans people. Abdul El-Sayed, Dem Senate Candidate in Michigan, is running towards them. When asked, he fully and unequivocally support trans youth care as a matter between parents, patients, and doctors. Subscribe to support our journalism.

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"The Decision Ought To Be Between A Patient And Their Doctor," Says Michigan Senate Candidate El-Sayed On Trans Care

Even conservatives “agree that the decision about healthcare ought to be between a person and their provider,” El-Sayed said.

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Meg Elison @megelison.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

sucks to be talentless I guess

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Ben Paddon 🎃 @benpaddon.net · 13/09/2026

An AI flyer is a brown M&M test. If your event or business is cutting corners by using an AI flyer, where else are you cutting corners? What else are you cheating out on? Why should I be bothered to go somewhere you couldn't be bothered to promote with a little of your own personality?

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Megan Fox @glassbottommeg.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Dig this thread. My version of this would be: hey, y'all know those 5500HD laptops you find everywhere from the 10's that can't run Windows anymore? They run Linux great. And Godot runs great. Oh and their specs work out to slightly worse that a Switch 1. And there's a LOT of Switch 1's out there.

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Julia Serano @juliaserano.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I have never once dragged or piled on WS before, but this is an absolutely fucked-up take. rather than considering that a marginalized group may have a very different perspective & experiences than you, smear them all as a "cult" of sorts instead. that way you can dismiss their opinions en masse

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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

It's OK for things to be over. It's OK for things to end. Good stories end.

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Ed Markey @edmarkey.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

In Massachusetts, we have a responsibility to protect the vulnerable and stand up for those who need it. We don’t throw trans kids under the bus for political points. We protect them—and all of our neighbors—because trans rights are human rights.

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八十八 | thinking abt ocs @ei8hty.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

btw if I see any of my mutual talk about watching the new HBO Harry Potter series when it comes out you're catching an immediate block, no excuses. literally watch any of the other shows that isn't funding a horrible and malicious terf.

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Andrew Weinstein @andrewjweinstein.com · 09/09/2026

You know who actually did show up at Ground Zero? Canadian emergency rescue crews.

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Maureen Johnson @maureenjohnsonbooks.com · 08/09/2026

As a New Yorker who was here that day and who is really, really trying to avoid anniversary coverage this year--and who remembers his famous call in from ACROSS TOWN where he said he now had the tallest building in NYC--I am so enraged by this I think I temporarily went blind.

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Amy @NYCC Artist Alley A-14 @amymebberson.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

RT if you’ve never had a tab of CharGPT open, period.

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Cathy G. Johnson🏴 @cathygjohn.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Pull your work off of Webtoon right now if you've put anything on there, allowing AI to be trained off their platform's work so "fans" can make AI "fancomics" is horrible, horrible. Pull it right now.

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Adam Parkhomenko @adamparkhomenko.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

If Barack Obama had done this, every Sunday show would have talked about nothing else.

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Derek Powazek @fraying.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

A perfect example of what AI is really for: removing consent, removing the social safeguards that used to keep the worst ideas at bay, and doing racism at scale. theplaylist.net/paul-schrade...

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Paul Schrader Says He Turned To AI Because “No Black Actors Wanted To Play In A Movie Where There Are No Good Black People”

Paul Schrader explains why he turned to AI actors for ‘Three Guns At Dawn’ after Black actors rejected the original roles.

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Hemant Nayak -Fantasy Writer, ER doc, CROW & SHADOW 3/27 Del Rey @stillwriting.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

The terrible thing about the Anthropic settlement is as soon as they settled the lawsuit their valuation skyrocketed & they became billionaires- the lesson was steal everything and profit! Authors should be paid a share of profits going forward

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Chris Mangum @ockapus.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

I wouldn’t say no to some Jimmi Simpson getting thrown into the mix.

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John Walton @thatjohn.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

this second session being impossible to schedule is the most D&D thing you could possibly imagine

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Jay Edidin @edidin.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

oh this whole thread is feeding my soul

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🧟‍♀️ Ditty Doop and the Creppy Spoops 🎃 @goosname.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

“What if the confederate flag I fly in my yard was one I stole from Walmart?” That’s what you sound like when you say you’re gonna pirate Harry Potter.

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The Verge @theverge.com · 02/09/2026

As a new Harry Potter trailer makes the rounds, it bears repeating that there’s no way to watch this show without supporting J.K. Rowling’s bigotry and the structural violence she’s inflicting on the trans community.

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There is no ethical consumption of HBO’s Harry Potter series

You can’t without supporting Rowling’s transphobic bigotry.

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Rebecca Brückmann @historleans.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

"Perhaps nothing says “2026” like a once-disgraced actor making a comeback in a film that asks questions like: What if a famously nasty, evil rich guy actually had a point? This is what we all have to look forward to with Ebenezer, a new take on A Christmas Carol ... from Ti West and starring Depp."

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Jay Edidin @edidin.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

THIS

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🎃 Killy Witches 👻 @tillybridges.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

if you watch it you tell WB to keep making more Potter stuff and you show them that directly funding JKR’s transphobia, that she LITERALLY uses to strip trans women’s rights away, is not a dealbreaker how could i ever feel safe around someone who buys her the boots she uses to step on my neck?

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