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Jade J. Laidlaw @starfishness.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Woah mama, they trapped me in tha orb.

Picture of a woman with glasses as an orb.

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Jade J. Laidlaw @starfishness.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Made pixel art of me and my friends ongoing TTRPG campaign, can you guess which character I play? :>

Pixel art with the words "SHATTER PUNK" written across the top of it. At the bottom is cast of characters of diverse size, shape, color, and species.

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Jade J. Laidlaw @starfishness.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

I feel like this has probably been done before, dont be made at me if it has.

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Jade J. Laidlaw @starfishness.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Smash Announcer Voice: MEGAMIND!!! Wiimote speaker: Olo!

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Jade J. Laidlaw @starfishness.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

haven't watched this guy since he tried to justify the use of the r slur and doubled down when disabled people told him thats not cool. horrible horrible man.

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Jade J. Laidlaw @starfishness.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

That's fair, my hint is that I play a cleric :]

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Jade J. Laidlaw @starfishness.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Made pixel art of me and my friends ongoing TTRPG campaign, can you guess which character I play? :>

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Jade J. Laidlaw @starfishness.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

I've decided to begin creating low poly models of animals as practice :]. My partner decided its name will be Ched, if you dont like that name you can fight them about it.

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Jade J. Laidlaw @starfishness.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

OH SHIT! SHE'S GETTING FUNKY WITH IT!!1!

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Jade J. Laidlaw @starfishness.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Experience infinite torture stranger.

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Jade J. Laidlaw @starfishness.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

OH SHIT! SHE'S GETTING FUNKY WITH IT!!1!

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Jade J. Laidlaw @starfishness.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Who is Sybau and why is everyone i talk to mentioning him.

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Team Tofana @teamtofana.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Your new fave is still trans! Our artist (@starfishness.bsky.social) decided to redraw this in honor of pride month. Here's her artist statement: "I rushed the previous one so I wanted to try and really do her justice. Happy pride month!" #pixelart #pride

A pixelated drawing of a witch stirring a potion with a big spoon while reading a book. The colors of the book and potion are those of the trans flag, implying her potion is related to the trans community.

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Matt, Anime Luddite @waifurious.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

All games discourse is like this now

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Jade J. Laidlaw @starfishness.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

One thing they didn't mention is that Brian Mittge said in his opening speech that he wanted to help parents protect the "innocence" of their children. Implying LGBT people are inherently sexual or impure. Yuck.

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Jade J. Laidlaw @starfishness.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Went to the meeting a couple days ago. I thought about writing a retrospective about the experience but my partner wrote one and I'd pretty much just be rehashing what they said. So go check out this article they made :) robinwinwood.substack.com/p/queer-refl...

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Queer Reflections on June 24th's TRL Board of Trustees Meeting

Brian Mittge's Opening Comment, Solidarity, and Where We Go From Here

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Team Tofana @teamtofana.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

HAPPY PRIDE! Here's a thread of Belladonna pride gifs!! Requests for variations with different phrases and flags are open! We'll try and make it happen! :> #pride #gamedev

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Jade J. Laidlaw @starfishness.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

yeah not sure how he didn't have the self awareness to see how cartoonishly evil that sounds lol

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Jade J. Laidlaw @starfishness.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Lastly, keep an eye out on your ballots for a levy lid lift. We’re unsure when they’ll be putting it to vote, but the patron coalition and TRL will likely be campaigning for it beforehand. 11/11

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Jade J. Laidlaw @starfishness.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Next, attend the board meeting on June 24th at 5:30 pm. It’s available to join over zoom or you can attend in person in Ocean Park. You can make a 3 minute statement, but just having more attendance can show how much this issue matters to people. timberland.bibliocommons.com/events/69436... 10/11

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Agendas with Zoom links when applicable are available via AV Capture approximately one week in advance of the meeting.Visit the TRL Board of Trustees page for more information.

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Jade J. Laidlaw @starfishness.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Now, as promised, a few things that those of you who live in this system can do to help! First of all, follow TRL’s patron coalition to keep up with updates. You can find them on Instagram: www.instagram.com/trlpatrons/ and Facebook: www.facebook.com/people/Patro.... 9/11

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Jade J. Laidlaw @starfishness.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

write an extremely divisive list of ideals that will sow even more discord among the patrons and staff of your library system. I don't wish to assume malice, but it’s clear that decisions like this do not serve to unify us in a time of hardship, which is what we really need to be focusing on. 8/11

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Jade J. Laidlaw @starfishness.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

President of TRL’s board of trustees. Your library system is currently in crisis, you have people afraid of getting laid off, a recent change in administration, a board that has several vacancies, and a budgetary crisis that can only be solved by getting public support. So in turn you decide to 7/11

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Jade J. Laidlaw @starfishness.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

This is why it is imperative that the library system gets the public to vote for a levy lid lift, essentially raising the portion of taxpayer dollars that would go to the library system. Now I want you to imagine that you’re Brian Mittge, the man who wrote this list and is the current 6/11

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Jade J. Laidlaw @starfishness.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

previous director and delay most of the layoffs. Though over 25 staff have already lost their jobs and if the budgetary crisis is not resolved, large layoffs will continue and many rural libraries could close down or only be accessible via keycard and not have any staff present. 5/11

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Jade J. Laidlaw @starfishness.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

revealed that while a budgetary crisis was bound to happen eventually due to the budget not being able to expand to keep up with inflation (more on that later), it was exacerbated by the previous administration's extreme mismanagement of the system's funds. This caused the board to eject the 4/11

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Jade J. Laidlaw @starfishness.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

layoffs would not be coming anytime soon. While most of us tried to give them the benefit of the doubt, further investigation showed that they had known about the budgetary crisis for some time now, and they had purposely lied in order to make it easier to lay off their workers. It also 3/11

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Jade J. Laidlaw @starfishness.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

that the library was having a budgetary crisis and that several large layoffs of mostly frontline staff would be happening within the year. This caused quite a stir, because in the previous year the workers union had agreed to worse protections for certain staff with the express promise that 2/11

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Jade J. Laidlaw @starfishness.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

As someone who lives in a town serviced by TRL that’s been keeping up with these events, I want to give some further context on why this statement is being released now and what you can do about it if you live in the region. At the beginning of this year it was revealed to staff and patrons 1/11

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Jade J. Laidlaw @starfishness.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

I genuinely thought God of War: Laufey was a money grab where they made a new game starring the musical artist. I didnt even question it. Sometimes I cant believe myself.

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Jade J. Laidlaw @starfishness.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Heartbreaking: The cool queer person at the grocery store just misgendered you.

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Jade J. Laidlaw @starfishness.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

I am not having FOMO from not being able to afford to go to PIGcon (manifesting).

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Jade J. Laidlaw @starfishness.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

Uhh I joined my first TTRPG campaign and now I have a blorbo I play as. I really like them... their name is Tinsley. This is also kind of a style study of Kyle Ferrin's (@d20plusmodifier.bsky.social) work on the board game Root.

A bust portrait of a little robot with cog eyeglasses and a Blue robe.

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Jade J. Laidlaw @starfishness.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

This drink is starting to taste like maternal instincts toward me and my partners Tomodachi Life child.

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Jade J. Laidlaw @starfishness.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Rather rude, and dare I say, transphobic, that there are people who have my dead name. Every time I hear someone speak to/about them, I shudder. I think that it should be illegal.

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Jade J. Laidlaw @starfishness.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

these are soooo cute! do these have custom models or are they vanilla? :]

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Jade J. Laidlaw @starfishness.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

Relistening to the Magnus Archives, dont' have anything interesting to say about it. I'm just enjoying it a lot and want you to know.

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Jade J. Laidlaw @starfishness.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Saw the new Apex Legends trailer and couldn't help but feel excited for this new character. This is despite the fact that my fps days are long behind me, which is proven to me every time I get smoked at a game that used to be in my daily rotation.

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Jade J. Laidlaw @starfishness.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

Writing a design doc often seems to mean writing down things as if I'm gonna have sudden amnesia and forget how to export a sprite.

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Jade J. Laidlaw @starfishness.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

Now the only question is which power...

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Jade J. Laidlaw @starfishness.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

His ass is NOT allowed in the venue ‼️‼️‼️

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Jade J. Laidlaw @starfishness.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

New blorbo just dropped: TWIG ‼️‼️

Art of a little witch made of wood and vines.

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Jade J. Laidlaw @starfishness.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

I looked up something about skincare the other day and I think advertisers have finally pegged me as a woman because im suddenly getting a lot more things meant to make my self esteem lower.

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Jade J. Laidlaw @starfishness.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

spelling mistake in a post about being a para. Ill never recover.

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Jade J. Laidlaw @starfishness.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

Working as a paraeducator while being an game artist means seeing kids working on art and holding back the urge to mention that you make art for video games. Because theyre going to ask what games and if its not Fortnite or Roblox they will not care in the slightest.

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Jade J. Laidlaw @starfishness.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

y'know I have the keyword "AI" blocked on posts made by people I dont follow, but this game might make me go all the way and just block it entirely :p

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Jade J. Laidlaw @starfishness.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

Im in a very similar spot. I have to overcome the urge to redraw every line 20 times.

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