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Engineer of ill repute and worse opinions. 30s, She/Her.

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Shannapocrypha @shannapocrypha.bsky.social · 9h
(step die Glorantha fangame devpost) It's nowhere near a new part of the game's design sketch and Excel shouldn't be relied on for layout, but I couldn't help but also lay out a player character's ability attributes in a way similar to Zzabur's sigil as how the RQG character sheet does for elements.
Five grouped items that include a name, an icon (a "Rune"), and a box to pencil in a PC's fixed and die attribute values are arranged around a sixth in a pentagonal shape. The icons are all depreciated runes from prior Glorantha systems or editions, except for the Power rune, the Issaries rune for Charm, and the Deftness rune (made up as a placeholder for this by me). Clockwise from top: "Senses" (HQG perception, depreciated), "Will" (HQG? Otherworld, depreciated), Deftness (my creation), Charm (Issaries rune), Might (Umath/Strength rune, depreciated), with Power (core rune) in the center.
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Shannapocrypha @shannapocrypha.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Well I gotta consider finding a whole new job between now and next year if I don’t want to bust my savings paying for bottom surgery. Not a fan of the situation but it’s solveable
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Shannapocrypha @shannapocrypha.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
In my advanced age I’m finding myself commenting on difficult or unlucky things as “oh, that’s rough” or even “oh, that’s rough-and-tumble.” I don’t know where I’m getting this from
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Shannapocrypha @shannapocrypha.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Game design update: some could say that I've got my 4E D&D in their RuneQuest, or that I robbed 4E, Questworlds, and PBTA blind to further a step die system, but allegations aside, the proof-of-design system document is coming along. These are all setting-specific abilities that all PCs have:
Invoke Passion	All Scenes
Scene Power		Action Type: Varies
Keywords: Invocation, Passion
Requirements: Character has an unscarred Passion relevant to a check.
Effect: You Boost a single check.
Snake-Eyes: The Passion is Scarred.
Invoke Rune		All Scenes
At-Will Power		Action Type: Varies
Keywords: Invocation, Rune, Spends Magic
Cost: 1 Magic
Requirements: Character has an unscarred Rune attribute of at least 2/d4 that is relevant to a check.
Effect: You Boost a single check.
Special (Rest Scenes): for each time this power is used within Rest Scenes, you gain 1 less Personal Magic at scene end.
Rune Guard		All Scenes but Rest
At-Will Power		Action Type: Reaction
Keywords: Default, Rune, Rune Scar, Spends Magic
Cost: 1 Magic or scarring Rune.
Requirements: Character is not Taken Out and has an unscarred Rune attribute of at least 3/d6.
Trigger: The character would be reduced to 0 HP or RP, take a Wound, or burn a Passion.
Effect: Character chooses one:
•	The character remains at 1 HP or RP.
•	The character does not take a Wound.
•	The character’s Passion is not burnt.
A Player Character now has to explain what using that Rune to guard themself means.
Rune Scar: If no magic was spent, the character Scars one of their runes worth 3/d6 or higher.
Scar Rune		All Scenes but Rest
At-Will Power		Minor Action
Keywords: Default, Gain Magic, Rune, Rune Scar
Requirements: Character has an unscarred Rune attribute of at least 4/d8.
Effect: The chosen Rune is Scarred, and you gain 2 Personal Magic.
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David J Prokopetz @prokopetz.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Eventually we're going to have to acknowledge the fact that we're not going to be able to constructively address the GM burnout problem as long as our definition of "bad GMing" includes "having any preferences whatsoever about what kind of game they want to run".
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David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I'm under no illusions about how things are or what the trajectory is. But I'm also excited for the future because that is where I will hang out with the people I care about and do the things I like doing, or haven't done before. Weird but telling that this holds less appeal for much richer people.
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David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
It's too depressing and obnoxious to write about, but virtually all of the doomy/horny AI hyperventilating is transparently displaced anxiety about our fucked climate and political situation. Even rich idiots know it's bad and being permitted to get worse. They're trying to write their own ending.
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Shannapocrypha @shannapocrypha.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Hylics on the astral plane be like “”
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dr. rich traditions, JD @helldude.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
we 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
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Geek Native @geeknative.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
UK Games Expo has banned generative AI art, text, and merchandise across all NEC exhibition halls, bringing the convention in line with broader British tabletop standards. Standholders face removal or bans if their products aren't made by humans. #UKGE
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UK Games Expo bans generative AI art and text across all trade halls
UK Games Expo has introduced a mandatory policy prohibiting generative AI art and text across all NEC trade halls, requiring exhibitors to sell only human-made games.
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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I think what has become more and more clear is that there’s an elite group of rich people and media members that never interact with normal people in normal ways and spend all day messaging each other about how other people are elitists who don’t see what normal people are thinking
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 16/09/2026
I'm just going to keep yelling this louder and louder until it clicks: weird overpaid AI nerds hand-wringing about human extinction are trying to distract you from the extremely deadly and serious harms they are causing yesterday, today and tomorrow www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Headline: "US Data Centers Set to Burn More Natural Gas Than Most Nations" above a photo of natural gas compressor towers, power lines and a crane at an industrial site, illustrating rising gas use tied to data centers.News excerpt reporting that U.S. data centers’ natural gas use is expected to grow by 15 billion cubic feet per day by 2035—amounting to more gas than every country except China, Russia, Iran and the U.S., citing the U.S. Energy Information Administration.
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edeath @edithcharles.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Holy shit, I am pleasantly surprised by the news for once? For friends abroad, that’s the UK’s national federation of unions. It’s about time the beast awakened.
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TUC votes to condemn EHRC code of practice and back self-ID for trans people
Delegates backed a motion branding the EHRC guidance 'discriminatory and unworkable'
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Shannapocrypha @shannapocrypha.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Step Die Glorantha design post: laying out the 20-30 cults, societies etc that need essential rules support in this 1/10 of Glorantha (Ralios) has revealed to me •Sorry Runequest, class systems still are needed to avoid overwhelming choices in chargen •A lot of people will hate this because of that
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Jacob Geller @jacobgeller.com · 15/09/2026
Space weaponry continuing its legacy as "the last flicker of brain activity in the skulls of evil, senile men" youtu.be/ntLc4hHWqHs?...
youtu.be
The Conceptual Failure of Orbital Lasers
YouTube video by Jacob Geller
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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
There’s a bizarre contrarianism in the Democratic Party, where, if an idea catches on with the base it’s treated as presumptively unreasonable forever. Not even an effort to *appear* to be supportive. Politicians used to pander!
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The Breakdown AB @thebreakdownab.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
BREAKING! "Saddle Lake Cree Nation is asserting its Treaty rights and jurisdiction to provide safe refuge for those seeking and providing gender-affirming care. Any Albertan will be able to access gender-affirming care on Saddle Lake Cree Nation reserved lands and territories"
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
no amnesty
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Shannapocrypha @shannapocrypha.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
I think they should have just kept the BOTW/TOTK art style or went with Skyward Sword’s more subdued watercolor filters tbh
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Illiterate Autodidact 🇵🇸🙂👍🇮🇱☹👎 @cigaretteliker.bsky.social · 12/10/2025
The virgin AGI existential risk vs the chad global warming
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Shannapocrypha @shannapocrypha.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Gift of The Magi-ass kind of situation where now that I have the money and shelf space for the Guide to Glorantha it's out of print
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Shannapocrypha @shannapocrypha.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Once again I am torn about how much I like Glorantha, but have a well-informed dislike for playing or running every system that’s been used for it
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Shannapocrypha @shannapocrypha.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Gonna ask the urologist for the bottom surgery that turns you into an Uzko Dark Troll
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Shannapocrypha @shannapocrypha.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
IRL Guy who gets a "✝" tattooed on both hands not because he's Christian but because he's a practicing Humakti
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Shannapocrypha @shannapocrypha.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
I know it’s because of my medically-unrecognized transfemme hormonal cycle but: I am so so sad right now
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Shannapocrypha @shannapocrypha.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
I sure hope this saline water dripping back out of my nose is because of my sinus rinse and not because my brain fluid is leaking into my nose from a botched surgery
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Dave Against The Machine🏴 @johnbrownbread.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
There is an ethnic cleansing going on is this country, and the government is nazi posting about it, meanwhile the democratic party politicians are more concerned with condemning a person 98% of people have never heard of. What is going on?
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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
This is a more significant breakdown in the fundamental bonds of the union than the headline might imply. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/27/u... 🎁
nytimes.com
ICE agent Christian Castro Released From Texas Jail After Minnesota Loses Court Fight (Gift Article)
The state had sought to have the agent extradited from Texas to answer charges in Minneapolis related to an on-duty shooting that wounded an immigrant.
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Shannapocrypha @shannapocrypha.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
The problem with the Elden Ring set leaks isn’t the wigs, which do look awful, but that they needed a twenty-five-to-thirty-year-old clocky blonde trans girl who’s spent at least one year on skid row and learned about the cool drugs and has a billion mental illnesses to have a proper Marika casting
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Dave Infante @dinfontay.com · 16/08/2026
uhhhhh
 investigation was originally developed for The New York Times, where it underwent eight months of editing, multiple rounds of fact-checking, and independent replication of the underlying methodology. The piece had a scheduled publication date when requests for comment were sent. It was only after the Times reached out to the subjects of the investigation for routine comment that the Elias Law Group, representing the DCCC and DSCC, sent a cease-and-desist letter demanding the paper not publish. Although the paper's fact-checkers and legal department later cleared the piece before sending out a second round of requests for comment, the Times ultimately decided to kill the piece.3:27
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The piece was subsequently slated for publication at The Bulwark, where it underwent additional fact-checking, data verification, and legal review. When requests for comment were sent to the subjects of the investigation, lawyers representing the Progressive Turnout Project and Mothership Strategies likewise responded with legal letters demanding that the article not run.
From there, publication was repeatedly delayed. The piece cleared successive rounds of legal review. When I asked for a committed publication date after months of delay, The Bulwark conditioned publication on my accepting an extensive rewrite prepared by its editors that, in my assessment, removed key empirical findings without explanation, introduced claims contradicted by the data and fact-checking record, and presented the subjects' legal defenses as my own conclusions. When I declined to publish under those terms, the piece was released back to me.
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Peter Labuza @labuzamovies.com · 16/08/2026
The entire body of the DNC literally voted yesterday to include abolishing ICE in their platform. How can you have a majority leader who is against the platform?
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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
"If you say Abolish ICE, Republicans will say you want open borders." Right but it's your job to communicate persuasively enough to 1) win and 2) enact your party's agenda. If you don't have the requisite talent, you're unfit, step aside. If you don't *want to* then you're unfit, step aside
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Shannapocrypha @shannapocrypha.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
I wish that this stupid infection that randomly saps all my energy was gone after over a month of this, god damnit
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Shannapocrypha @shannapocrypha.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
You killed the moderate, now you get the Mesopotamian temple complex hydraulic despot
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Shannapocrypha @shannapocrypha.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
The fact that all the regular NPC hylians use Miis as the basis of their design makes it a real loss that BOTW/TOTK mods haven’t figured out how to let you import Miis simply or even play as them
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bort @crushbort.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
the “dobby’s grave” landmark is just a small dead guy who died on the beach a few days ago. he’s not even buried, someone just saw him and said “that’s dobby” and everyone started piling harry potter merch on him. a sad end for lindsey graham
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farfin @farfin.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 30/07/2026
"As Japanese financial newspaper Nikkei Asia found in a recent investigation, just five US tech giants — Alphabet, Microsoft, Amazon, Meta, and Oracle — are hiding an estimated $1.65 trillion in debt that doesn’t appear on balance sheets. futurism.com/artificial-i...
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AI Companies Are Trying to Hide a Staggering Amount of Debt
AI companies are pouring tens of billions of dollars into enormous data centers. They're being built on top of a mountain of hidden debt.
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merriam 🇰🇳 @merriam.blacksky.app · 28/07/2026
Reparations and tribal sovereignty? I was told the DSA didn't care about race issues and flattened everything into a class issue by these same neo-libs/cons. It's almost like they've been lying out their teeth the whole fucking time
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Shannapocrypha @shannapocrypha.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Pissed off that I’ve had a weird UTI for the past week and a half, tests came back negative, and it’s still refusing to stop lingering
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#VeenTeam Day 1 @rockiesvsconnor.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
If these guys were actually students of history they’d know Europe tried this type of shit all of the time and it always lasted like six months. A good rule of thumb if you think of some outlandish solution to democracy that benefits the rich the inbred French aristocrats probably tried it already.
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Jesse Thorn @jessethorn.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Cheryl Reeve, winningest coach in WNBA history, defends transgender athletes against sports bans. “Exclusion is never the answer. Separate isn’t equal. Trans lives matter.” 💗🏳️‍⚧️💗🏀💗
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Shannapocrypha @shannapocrypha.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Do people in East Asia get use their basic ba zi day master signs to lazily excuse everything they do like people in the West use their astrological sun + moon + rising signs?
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Ruz-El @ruz-el.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Things getting real bad up here. None of this stuff changes overnight with the next PM.
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"And what are Canadians getting in return? The beginnings of two-tiered health care, which Carney could stop at any time by reducing health transfer payments under the Canada Health Act; the proliferation of AI into all aspects of our lives without our consent; a carbon capture hub that is already slated to cost more and reduce emissions less than initially advertised; a 60% cut to nature conservation; and the authorization of pesticides that the government has deemed harmful to our health."
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Kenny Lauderdale @kennylauderdale.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
I've uploaded a standard capture of this on Youtube. Preserving lost media is thankless work, but hoarding things is 10,000X worse. I bet someone out there really wanted this. youtu.be/Av6hVnr00bA
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FOUND MEDIA (RAW) - Monkey Punch Word Processor Guide - モンキーパンチのワープロ・おもしろアニメ レッスンビデオ
YouTube video by The Domesday Bunker
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Kyle Goon @kylegoon.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
In February, USA Rugby banned trans women from all levels of one of the world’s most inclusive sports. What happened next was telling. Across the country, teams refused to comply. The story of the Baltimore Ferals, who are pushing back: www.thebanner.com/sports/rugby...
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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Fun fact: While Jews made up less than 1% of the population of Argentina, they comprised up to 12% of those disappeared during the Dirty War, due to the antisemitism of the right-wing junta and the association of Jews with leftism. More Jews were killed in the Argentine Dirty War than on 10/7/2023.
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