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Arienne Childrey @ari4ohio.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Today, I resigned as Vice Chair of the ODP Pride Caucus. The state party expects us to be a sales team, censoring our voices when we beg candidates not to trade on trans lives. I am still a Democrat, but I will not value party approval over true, defiant advocacy. Full text below. 👇

Part 1 of an open letter of resignation by Arienne Childrey, stepping down as Vice Chair and member of the Ohio Democratic Party (ODP) Pride Caucus. She states that party leadership treats the caucus as a recruitment and sales team rather than a representative body. She cites an incident where the ODP censored and denied permission for the caucus to post a letter by two trans leaders addressing harmful comments made by Democratic gubernatorial candidate Amy Acton. The State Party Chair reportedly called the letter an "unwelcome distraction," which Childrey notes demonstrates how little party leadership values the voices and dignity of LGBTQ+ Democrats.

Since that decision, every Caucus plan, every potential post, and every path forward has been filtered through a lens of strict compliance and ODP approval. That may very well be the party's rule, but following those rules right now is a dereliction of our duty to the LGBTQ+ community.

For me, any rule that silences advocacy for the trans community during this time is an unjust rule, and I see no obligation to follow it. In alignment with the words of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. in his Letter from Birmingham Jail:

“One has not only a legal but a moral responsibility to obey just laws. Conversely, one has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws.”

We are living in incredibly dangerous times for the trans community. We are in an era where the GOP has so thoroughly weaponized trans lives that even some formerly self-professing allies within our own party have fallen prey to the rhetoric. Looking at the national trend towards Democratic anti-trans triangulation, as well as our own internal conversations, it is clear to me that this shift is much more than a simple coincidence.

We have to speak up—loudly, strongly, and unapologetically—or I fear what our 2028 choices may look like. The ODP would like everyone to believe they are a "big tent" party. However, their successful efforts to silence even the Pride Caucus—even in cases where we are simply begging our candidates not to trade on our lives for perceived electoral advantage—has proven otherwise. The tent hasn't gotten any bigger; it has simply shifted, leaving many trans individuals, progressives, and allies out in the rain.

I will continue to advocate, organize, and fight for our community with everything I have. But I can no longer compromise my own moral principles by remaining part of a caucus that appears more interested in party approval than in true, defiant advocacy.

Sincerely,
Arienne Childrey

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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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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 12/09/2026

Trans people tried this in Ohio and Amy Acton didn’t show up and her goons threatened the progressive and Pride caucuses while also shutting trans people out in the meetings her campaign did have (that she didn’t even show up to). If Talarico ever wants to talk I’d be more than glad to.

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Corey @placidtick.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

I was fast enough this time! Can't wait to get these on the wall.

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Corey @placidtick.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Poster collection already sold out?! Glad it was a hit, but hope you restock at some point.

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Tricksy Wizard @tricksywizard.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Looking for a #ttrpg? Both Lunata and Knights of the Broken Moon need one more player to start! #startplaying Lunata: The Last Island - #Daggerheart - Friday evenings 🌙 startplaying.games/adventure/cm... Knights of the Broken Moon - #DnD5E - Monday evenings 🤖 startplaying.games/adventure/cm...

A campaign poster for the DND campaign Lunata: The Last Island. It features a blue map of a crescent shaped island with a bronze incense censer swinging across the page, trailing white smoke behind it. The campaign title is in the top left.

A ttrpg startplaying listing for Knights of the Broken Moon: A Dark Matter Mecha Campaign. The background is a starry sky with a shattered, ringed moon

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Corey @placidtick.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

After 9 months of working and going to school full time, I've just graduated with my bachelor's in IT management. I went from dropping out of college the first time I tried, to finishing a four year degree in less than one. Pretty proud of myself.

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Tricksy Wizard @tricksywizard.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

DEAL TIME! We're $1K shy on rent, so we're discounting our #ttrpg art! #opentowork #lookingforwork #artsky 👉For the next 2 weeks👈 🔵Bust shots are $50 each 🟣Full bodies are $75 each (including a simple background + deal applies to group shots too!) 🟢Campaign banners for #startplaying $100 each

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Corey @placidtick.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Wife and I still boot it up a couple times a week. Been having a blast playing through maps with the super horde - light mod.

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Aftermath @aftermath.site · 30/07/2026

Welcome to the resistance: meet the workers dodging (and sabotaging) their employer's AI mandates: aftermath.site/ai-resistance-...

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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

It really cannot be stressed enough how entirely reasonable and obtainable the goals of orgs like Aftermath are. What if you gave sites like this a buck every time your lip curled in annoyance at bad journalism elsewhere from billionaire-led, industry-complicit rags?

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Tricksy Wizard @tricksywizard.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

We only need one more player to get this magical school for monsters up and running! If you think you’ve got what it takes to make first-string on the Zortch Ball team (or if you just want to play some Kids on Brooms) then join us on Wednesdays! startplaying.games/adventure/cm...

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A magical school for monsters (includes custom PC art)! It isn’t easy to live a quiet life as a slime, a goblin, an imp or a kobold if you never know when the next upstart would-be “hero” is going to...

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Corey @placidtick.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

This is the sort of stuff I subscribe for.

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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Enjoy your mold, Jo, and kiss my queer dyke ass with your fucking claim to speak for all women. Not in my fucking name. www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/mafq8...

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 12/07/2026

Amnesty International put out a major report documenting the influence of UK based anti trans gender critical organizations and their funding. Within hours, GC groups threatened defamation lawsuits and Amnesty was forced to pull it down. Proving the point they're anti rights. Anyways, here it is.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 10/07/2026

The AI bubble is why I hate silicon valley and the tech CEOs so damn much. They ruined my love of tech and turned it into a means to enrich themselves and amass power. We should be using tech to help each other and make the world better, not as a means to build power and wealth.

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Felipe De La Hoz @felipedlh.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Everyone’s enjoying the excommunication drama but there are also lessons for pro-democracy political actors. Decades of accommodating and appeasing this sect did not work and only emboldened them. You have to go whole hog. When you have power, break the back of the reactionaries. Shut them out

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Tricksy Wizard @tricksywizard.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

Hey friends. We've come up short on rent. Our #commissions are open, and we can guarantee speedy turnaround. Also, if anyone would just like to help, here are some links: Paypal - adamricecarlson@gmail.com Venmo - @Trout-Rice-Carlson-1 Also reposts are very appreciated to help spread the word 💙

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Corey @placidtick.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

I know I'm a little late to the party, but damn Outer Wilds is amazing. One of those games that is going to stick with me for a long time.

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Tricksy Wizard @tricksywizard.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

Adam here! I'm starting a longform #DnD campaign on startplaying! I'll be creating all of the art for the campaign including maps, NPCs, and PC portraits! Campaign runs for 4-6 players! Follow the link to check it out! I hope to see you on Lunata!

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Corey @placidtick.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

S2E1 of megalobox may be my favorite anime episode of all time. Incredible use of imagery and music. An emotional experience that sets up so much payoff.

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Tricksy Wizard @tricksywizard.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

Hello #publishers #editors #developers #designers #authors! We want to make art for your: • TTRPG • Game • Kickstarter • Comic/Graphic novel • Picture book DM/reach out on tricksywizard.com! #openforwork Portfolio: www.tricksywizard.com/illustration Rep: komediamanagement.com/adam-trout-r...

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Corey @placidtick.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

Play this game, weep, and then spend forever thinking about the profound experience.

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Corey @placidtick.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

As someone who has been along sunce release I found myself let down by the ending. Feels like it was written solely as a setup for the next game. The distance between the story they wanted, and the mechanics/scenes shown was too big. I can only suspend my disbelief so much, and I wish it weren't so.

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sunset visitor 斜陽過客 | Prove You're Human - Wishlist Now! @sunsetvisitor.studio · 09/04/2026

An AI dares to dream that she is human. You’ve been hired to put her in her place. We’re sunset visitor 斜陽過客, the creators of 1000xRESIST, and this is our next game: Prove You’re Human. Published by our friends at @blacktabbygames.com. s.team/a/4533950

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Aftermath @aftermath.site · 04/04/2026

The art of Esoteric Ebb: aftermath.site/esoteric-ebb-c...

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Corey @placidtick.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

Being an adult means I can make decisions like eating too much junk food during movie night and getting an upset tummy the day after.

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mattie lubchansky @mattielubchansky.com · 25/03/2026

i think sometimes cis people truly have a hard time understanding that jk rowling is a living person actively using her wealth to fund the international assault on trans lives. she’s not some Complicated Author we can have a spirited debate about separating from the art with!!!!!

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sunset visitor 斜陽過客 | Prove You're Human - Wishlist Now! @sunsetvisitor.studio · 18/03/2026

hi! we're the makers of 1000xRESIST, and we have... something special coming up soon 👀 ✨ triple-i showcase on April 9 ✨ 9am PDT / 12pm EDT ✨ no hosts, no ads, just GAMES see you there, sisters 💖

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Corey @placidtick.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

Nothing makes me want to play a game more than knowing they had a real freak (compliment) in the writing room. Turns out that even when playing marathon, it too is caves of qud.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 11/03/2026

I spent the last week writing up this essay on what it means to be trans in this moment. What it means to live under authoritarianism as the scapegoated minority of the moment and how it feels inescapable as an infinite loop. www.thedissident.news/exit-conditi...

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Exit Condition

On Alderson Loops, Billionaire Cruelty, and Living Inside the Trap “Pessimism of the intellect, optimism of the will.” — Antonio Gramsci, Prison Notebooks[1] I. The Loop In computer science, there ...

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 04/03/2026

Let this serve as a warning to Dems who abandon trans folks and vote for anti trans bills. You will be primaried, and you will lose.

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Evan Urquhart @evanurquhart.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

What's scary about this story is the surveillance it hints at. This trans woman had changed her name, legally, but chose not to change her gender marker. She was apparently flagged in the DMV system as trans and her license was invalidated under a law that supposedly only concerned gender markers.

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Aftermath @aftermath.site · 28/02/2026

Tell me a story: Caves of Qud edition: aftermath.site/tell-me-a-stor...

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Corey @placidtick.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

Our house is filled with various dog beds and they still choose to sleep on the hardwood 95% of the time.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 27/02/2026

Labour did everything the popularists like Matt Yglesias want. They cracked down on trans people and immigrants. They pushed austerity. They ended up fracturing their entire base and losing this seat to the left for the first time in nearly a 100 years.

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Paul Waldman @paulwaldman.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

To any Democrat who ever said about any issue, "Maybe if we agree with Republicans just this far, they'll stop there," remember that you were wrong, it was obvious at the time, and you really should never believe that again about any issue, ever.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 10/02/2026

THEY ARE BUYING UP WAREHOUSES TO HOLD HUMAN BEINGS IN DETENTION INDEFINITELY. I feel crazy at how everyone is acting like this is normal. These are concentration camps being built right before our eyes. These buildings are not meant to house human beings. People will be caged like cattle and die.

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Tricksy Wizard @tricksywizard.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

Last call for #Valentines character art #commissions! We can do social media profile avatars, #ttrpg characters, fanart, and more! Book by 2/6 for guaranteed turnaround by 2/13!!

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Omg. WTF is Happening? @lalahaenzy.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again. #Pinks #ProudBlue

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spooky tail latency @bluespacecanary.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

Real talk, if Thomas Paine were alive today he'd currently be in prison for sending "The Case for Bombing Their Homes" to his 500,000 Substack readers and then minutes after hitting the publish button attempting to purchase 57 tons of fertilizer

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Corey @placidtick.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

Sword of the sea was a wonderful experience.

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Avery Alder, Buried Without Ceremony @lackingceremony.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

The Quiet Year is now back in stock no matter where you live! The Quiet Year is an award-winning map-making game about building community after the collapse. It comes in a little box with everything you need to play. And it's back in stock in the US! store.buriedwithoutceremony.com/products/the...

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The Quiet Year (box set)

The Quiet Year is a map game. You define the struggles of a community living after the collapse of civilization, and attempt to build something good within their quiet year. Every decision and every a...

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