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Mike Boylan-Kolchin @mbkplus.bsky.social · 11h

As I’ve asked many times now, what constituencies does a university president represent? Because too often, the answer seems to not include anyone who works or studies at the university, and that seems like a problem.

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Sharang Biswas @sharangbiswas.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Congratulations to all the Ignyte winners! Honoured to be among the finalists!

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Jessica Price @delafina777.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

CW: immediate post-rape trauma If you have been sexually assaulted, you might want to skip this. If you have not, I think you should watch it. When people are like “Why didn’t the victim get a rape kit/give a clear report/report it at all?” bc this is what’s happening with *supportive* staff.

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Sharang Biswas @sharangbiswas.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

New Nigella Lawson quote from the latest GBBO episode going into my Commonplace Book: “I don’t approve of talking about food as ‘naughty’: we need to take our pleasures where we can.”

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Raahimisgod Nigella Lawson

Alt: Nigella Lawson smiling cheekily at the camera

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Dr. Kill Everyone (Eclipse) @eclipse.gay · 02/10/2026

COMING TO PAX UNPLUGGED if I like you, it's Darling Demon Eclipse's Complete & Final Word on FAGGOT GAMES! All three Faggot Games blogs, author's notes, new and existing games and MORE!

Darling Demon Eclipse's Complete & Final Word on FAGGOT GAMES. At some sort of freaky eye carnival, a girl with her dick poking out gives a peace sign. She's wearing a heart necklace, a big coat and a bikini bottom, with no top. Weird penis and pussy creatures slouch about on the ground.

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AimEEK!! Ogden @aimeeogdenwrites.com · 01/10/2026

Did you miss your shot getting a critique from me on the 3LBE kickstarter? GUESS WHAT, you get another chance now with the Apex version! (Or, you know, lots of other cool books or critique options.) Let's get this magazine funded for 2027:

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Apex Magazine 2027

An award-winning digital literary journal of science fiction, dark fantasy, and horror.

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michael shirey @michaelshireyart.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

it’s that time of year again — October means COCKTOBER! this year i’ll be making 31 shrinky dinks of people’s dicks 🍆😈 want to participate? send me a pic and a DM

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Sharang Biswas @sharangbiswas.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

My story TOOTHPASTE FEELINGS has a new, cool audio version! Thanks, Wil, for picking it for your podcast! And special thanks to @khoreo.bsky.social for first publishing it & to @neonhemlock.bsky.social for including it in the WE'RE HERE: THE BEST QUEER SPECULATIVE FICTION 2025 collection!

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Sharang Biswas @sharangbiswas.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

My @khoreo.bsky.social story TOOTHPASTE FEELINGS has an excellent new audio edition on the IT'S STORYTIME podcast by@wilwheaton.net! (Available on all podcast platforms, not just the one I linked) Check it out! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/i...

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It's Storytime with Wil Wheaton

Fiction Podcast · Updated Weekly · You may recognize Wil Wheaton's name from his acting work in television shows like The Big Bang Theory, Leverage, and Star Trek: The Next Generation, or 1985's timel...

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pam lach @plach.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

If you work at Cal State + are an AI refuser/angry re the renewal of the OpenAI contract, take the CSU AI Survey! I suspect last yr's data skewed towards enthusiasts/early adopters (certainly on my campus). It's important that the data reflect the full range of attitudes aisurvey.sdsu.edu/live/

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CSU AI Survey Response Rates

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Banana Chan 🔜 Portland Retro Gaming Expo @bananachangames.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

My next horror solo game, Sample, will be one of the last TTRPGs I work on for at least a couple of years as I pivot creatively. It launches in 2 weeks and it’s set during Y2K, following a one hit wonder who creates a demonic song to become something monstrous www.backerkit.com/call_to_acti...

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Follow Sample before we launch

From Read/Write Memory - Follow Sample before we launch

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Sharang Biswas @sharangbiswas.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Folsom Weekend was lovely, and I got to additionally see a bunch of old friends (as well as patronize my favourite chocolate store), but it's also nice to be back home.

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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Front page news, Boston Globe: Ivy provost leading charge to infuse AI into higher ed discovered using AI in academic & public work w/out disclosure--an action for which a student could fail a course or worse. Free link: archive.is/JoJbA

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Marceline Leiman is Racing Dinos @marcelineleiman.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Woo!! Let’s rally to get USA-based cons to move in this direction too! Use of AI in such a human and creative industry is fundamentally absurd.

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Evan Torner @guyintheblackhat.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

University budgets are largely personnel but, paradoxically, they *hate* paying for personnel.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Most people have no idea how much international students are the lifeblood of higher education. But they’re about to learn. Sigh.

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Claire Zagorski, PhD, MSc, EMT-P @clairezagorski.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I hate it so much. This can happen to you too. A year ago, almost everyone doubted this would happen. I had faculty at other schools telling me I was hysterical. (Irony!) Watch for the installation of right wing figureheads without an academic background. Watch for assaults on faculty governance.

BREAKING NEWS
UT cuts all Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies courses from core curriculum

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Sharang Biswas @sharangbiswas.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Nails for Folsom in San Francisco!

Nails with a pink-purple cat eye effect (on a black base)

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Sharang Biswas @sharangbiswas.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

San Fransico, I'm in you! Folsom, here I come!

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Marceline Leiman is Racing Dinos @marcelineleiman.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I’m in ✨love✨ with my credit on the Organism game campaign page! 🥰 Thank for your colorful brand of cosmic absurdism! @prismofeverything.bsky.social I now have the privilege to add “Seer of the Mechano-Magical Depths” onto any future CV haha

Marceline Leiman
Developer/Sorceress/Seer of the Machano-Magical Depths

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Sharang Biswas @sharangbiswas.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I'm excited about Folsom. Just saying.

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Sharang Biswas @sharangbiswas.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Aimee Ogden has spoken. You do not need to have hooked up with me to enjoy my book.

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Sharang Biswas @sharangbiswas.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

A (cool) hookup I met in another city just texted me to tell me that he not only bought my book, but that he really likes it. (Maybe you will too?) I trust that I am embodying the spirit of @neonhemlock.bsky.social

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Sharang Biswas @sharangbiswas.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I am excited. My one regret about going to SF for Folsom this weekend is that I won't be able to play more of this, lol.

A screenshot of the game "Nighthawks", showing some of the character options I picked

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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Last week all my students hand-wrote their own pledges, according to their terms, to write in my courses without AI. Some of them were quite moving—their anger at AI’s attempt to steal their educations, their determination to learn & create anyway.

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Sharang Biswas @sharangbiswas.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I may not be progressing very FAST with my Choice of Games project, but I *am* writing every day, for which I'm giving myself a little pat on the shoulder.

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Sharang Biswas @sharangbiswas.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Every time I get a letter about health insurance and billing, I know it will cost me at least an hour of my life calling at least 3 different offices, with the issue still unresolved after all that. I was not disappointed today.

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Sharang Biswas @sharangbiswas.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

“Released, I am a spear in the hands in the hands of the sun.” Gods, second time around, and @byzantienne.bsky.social’s A MEMORY CALLED EMPIRE is still excellent.

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Sharang Biswas @sharangbiswas.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Today was full of friends and rope. Now some writing, weee!

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Scott Dworkin @dworkin.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Sierra Club volunteers are literally standing at the entrances of Yosemite to protest Secretary Doug Burgum’s plan to use public funds to subsidize a private developer’s luxury resort road. 14,155 of you caught this. We need 15k to kill it permanently: actionnetwork.org/letters/tell...

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Tell Congress: Stop Trump’s Yosemite Giveaway

Contact Congress today!

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Sharang Biswas @sharangbiswas.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Shitpost in game TTRPG form. Game design has truly ascended.

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Kink Between The Lines @kbtl.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

How do or sexual selves fit into our playful spaces? This talk will discuss the role of intimacy in games, how games engage with themes of the erotic, and where game designers, players, and kinksters intersect. Reg is open at link in bio. #queer #games #intimacy #kinksky #rpg

Caption "Queerness, Kink & Sex in Games: An Exploration. Sharang Biswas". Image is a person holding tabletop dice in their hand

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Sharang Biswas @sharangbiswas.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I'm gonna take a moment to brag and say that all of the five games I'm working on are kinda innovative in their own way...

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Sharang Biswas @sharangbiswas.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I have received multiple spam-texts mistaking me for @criticalplay.bsky.social… Does this mean I’ve made it? I’m well-regarded enough to be mistaken for someone famous?

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Sharang Biswas @sharangbiswas.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Recently got to play another game of SETI! Took us 4 hours as 3 players and it was EPIC. I managed to slide a sneaky victory in without anyone noticing!

The boardgame SETI at the end of a session

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Sharang Biswas @sharangbiswas.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I am currently working on 5 game design projects, in addition to being an adjunct at 2 schools And yet, I’m still barely making a living. Joy.

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Rami Ismail (رامي) @ramiismail.com · 16/09/2026

Crunch is embarrassing.

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Evan Torner @guyintheblackhat.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Since I'm knee-deep in Nazi film history for a current project, I just read a 1934 letter complaining that were only "nine good film directors" left in Germany after folks like Fritz Lang left and Jewish filmmakers were denied future projects. The far right has always had an "artists" problem.

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Sharang Biswas @sharangbiswas.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I just watched HEARTSTOPPER FOREVER and I’m definitely feeling full of wist.

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Elias Eells- Bar Cart Bookshelf @eliaseells.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

A rainbow stack for all seasons! Featuring all Neon Hemlock titles. Neon Hemlock is THEE premier queer SFFH indie press. Top notch fiction chosen with the very best eye! Everything they put out is a must read for me and something I highly recommend to you!!

[A stack of books (bottom to top): SHATTER THE SUN ed. dave ring, CALL AND RESPONSE by Cadwell Turnbull, A NECESSARY CHAOS by Brent C. Lambert, THE MYSTERY OF THE BITTEN PEACH by Cecilia Tan, REDUNDANCIES AND POTENTIALS by Dom Dickey, UNCOMMON CHARM by Emily Bergslien and Kat Weaver, THE SECRET SKIN by Wendy Wagner, NO SUCH THING AS DUTY by Lara Elena Donnelly, STONE AND STEEL by Eboni Dunbar]

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ACLU @aclu.org · 15/09/2026

Make sure you’re registered and have everything you need to cast your ballot by November 3 at aclu.org/vote_2026

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MegueyB 🔜Metatopia @megueyb.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Get your ballots in ASAP!!!

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Sharang Biswas @sharangbiswas.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I used this poem in class today right before we began discussing CITIZEN SLEEPER and my favourite response was: "I feel sharing tapeworms is kinda sweet!"

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Sharang Biswas @sharangbiswas.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

“Every thirty minutes, The Dare gave all its users three things: 1 Geo-coordinates 2 An impossible activity 3 A chance at attention The first person to submit a video clearing The Dare would go out to every user. No other videos were shared.” By @wiswell.bsky.social in @uncannymagazine.bsky.social

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Welcome to Heroism - Uncanny Magazine

Nobody read the Terms of Service. They were in a rush to watch the latest unbelievable must-see content from someone who probably died seconds later. It seemed like as soon as anyone knew The Dare exi...

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Sharang Biswas @sharangbiswas.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

“[AI] did not, every single student said, feel good. They used AI because it was there, because their classmates use it, because they fear if they don’t use it they’ll fall behind, because some professors ask them to & some tell them not to and some look away & some can’t see it...”

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