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Want to read some Vaults of Vaarn 2E and aren't a patron or backer? I've released a public playtest draft of the player-facing rules, over 90 pages of material vaultsofvaarn.com/2026/10/02/v...

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VAULTS OF VAARN 2E: AMBER JACKAL PREVIEW

Hello folks, been quiet around here lately. I am still busy as ever on Vaults of Vaarn: Second Edition, which is shaping up to be a real monster of a project. 130,000 words and counting at this sta…

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Marcia B. @traversefantasy.itch.io · 13h

never having seen this guy’s videos i can’t help but wonder why are some of y’all truly torn up over a male feminist come on babies

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Marcia B. @traversefantasy.itch.io · 14h

you can simply stfu and support women in speaking on women’s issues but why are you making it about you sir

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Marcia B. @traversefantasy.itch.io · 14h

tbh i think it’s sus for men to try become spokespeople of feminism, and perverse for even a rehabilitated SA’er to do so

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nym™️ @arettee.bsky.social · 19h

accidentally opening a fandom dot com page and 50,000 pop-ups fill my screen and my phone stops working

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Undercaffeinated Eel @caffeinatedeel.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

It's a very good quote and one that reframes a LOT of the world when you become aware of it.

“To say that straight men are heterosexual is only to say that they engage in sex (fucking exclusively with the other sex, i.e., women). All or almost all of that which pertains to love, most straight men reserve exclusively for other men. The people whom they admire, respect, adore, revere, honor, whom they imitate, idolize, and form profound attachments to, whom they are willing to teach and from whom they are willing to learn, and whose respect, admiration, recognition, honor, reverence and love they desire… those are, overwhelmingly, other men. In their relations with women, what passes for respect is kindness, generosity or paternalism; what passes for honor is removal to the pedestal. From women they want devotion, service and sex.

Heterosexual male culture is homoerotic; it is man-loving.”
― Marilyn Frye, The Politics of Reality: Essays in Feminist Theory

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maura quint @mauraquint.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Yes every woman has been harassed, many assaulted. But every woman has also experienced invisible loss from moments she avoided harassment. She felt a space becoming unsafe, so she left, while men stayed on. And in leaving, she lost: opportunities, experiences, learning, promotions, even simply fun.

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Marcia B. @traversefantasy.itch.io · 01/10/2026

it’s bc we bounce on our fine asses 🫰🫰🫰

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

They quoted me in this New Yorker piece about AI today. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

“Let’s say there’s a world or time line I exist in where A.I. has been subject to regulation. It is ethical. It has no footprint environmentally,” the novelist Jeff VanderMeer, a prominent critic of A.I., told me over the phone. “With those guardrails in place, would I read an A.I. book? All I can say is no. And the reason is, in part, because I want to read something coming from a particular mind.” Using A.I., he said, “feels like a betrayal of the whole point of why you’re a writer.”

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Four-byline alert: “.. Meta claimed that $4.1 billion of stock options exercised by Mr. Zuckerberg counted as a research expense ..” @nytimes.com $META www.nytimes.com/2026/09/30/t...

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lumpley @lumpley.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

15 years ago when Apocalypse World was new and people were beginning to understand and work with it, it was seductive to look at "acting under fire" and see, not one basic move of several, but the template underlying all the game's moves. Like @kierongillen.bsky.social 's classic gag:

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onion person @junlper.beer · 29/09/2026

from what i can gather, tech CEOs greatest ambitions started at "cure all cancer" and is now to give everyone their own secretary

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nick @unionnick.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

On the *same day* the Cornell Seven drugged and raped Jane Doe, Cornell banned four students (including the President of Cornell JVP) from campus for three years for nonviolent, pro-Palestine protests. The same Cornell officials let the rapists off with apology essays.

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 28/09/2026

if i had infinite access to all existing digital resources through an all-powerful god-like search tool probably the first thing i would look up is the internal discussions at subway corp about this

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Calvinball Congress @emericanjezebel.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

yall, ig is popping off. the girlies are doxxing every single admin they can find at cornell, plus the cornell 7 and their families. women are (correctly) going scorched earth.

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Dr Katie Twomey @k2mey.eurosky.social · 28/09/2026

This is quite cool. My university is the first organisation in the world to force Microsoft to allow us to turn off copilot summaries in Word 365, after a backlash against it from staff (including, very vocally, me). That cannot have been easy for our heroic IT people so hats very much off to them!

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Mike Ginn @shutupmikeginn.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

porn is so deeply misogynistic. i just watched a video with dozens of performers going at it, and they literally hadn’t bothered to hire a single woman.

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Marcia B. @traversefantasy.itch.io · 26/09/2026

definitely thought nicholas braun and skyler gisondo were the same actor

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bijan (spooky version) @bijan.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

i think about this post all the time. you might too

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I am paid a very high salary to design new ways to hurt innocent people. Please don't hurt me. I want to live. My job is to hurt your children. Please, don't do anything to me. I want to be safe. My job is to make your family sick. I want to live. Please, I deserve to live. Pleas
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Marcia B. @traversefantasy.itch.io · 25/09/2026

instagram threads is smth else like tbh bluesky pales in comparison

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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

i’m wondering who They is supposed to be here. who is in dereliction of duty by failing to properly cite the source of beatlemania

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Freya Holmér @freya.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

there is no skill these people don't consider a means to an end they want the experience machine they're begging for their AI models to create it, to hook them up to the machine

excerpt from Wikipedia's "Experience Machine":
The thought experiment: Nozick describes a machine that could provide whatever desirable or pleasurable experiences a subject could want. In this thought experiment, psychologists have figured out a way to stimulate a person's brain to induce pleasurable experiences that the subject could not distinguish from those they would have apart from the machine. He then asks, if given the choice, would the subject prefer the machine to real life?

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The Volatile Mermaid @ohnoshetwitnt.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

“The goal of this meeting is to have even more meetings” sounds like my fuckin office job.

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The Onion @theonion.com · 24/09/2026

The Onion’s Exclusive Interview With Robert Pattinson theonion.com/the-onions-exclusive-i…

The Onion : What creative liberties did you take with the role of Chris Hansen?

Pattinson: Instead of “Why don’t you take a seat?” I say “By the stars that glow and the moon’s silken light, my powers now activate, pedophiles take flight!”

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Matt Ford @mford.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Ezra Klein asked Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang about AI making kids worse at math and reading. Huang’s reply: “Does it matter?” Then he said he doesn’t know his own address or phone number. “We’re going to lose some fine intellectual dexterity.” www.nytimes.com/2026/09/23/o...

So the message of this research out of China, where you were seeing a lot of kids using A.I. to help them, was that when they were using the A.I., they were getting things done faster. But it turned out that the skills they were learning were not holding, that their actual personal performance, at least in the way we traditionally measure it, was degrading.

What do you think when you hear that?

The last part — I completely agree. Try to get a kid to do long division right now. The multiplication table is starting to be forgotten. Doing square roots, my goodness. Basic math is being forgotten. Does it matter?

That’s my question for you.

Yeah. I don’t think it does. I don’t think it does.

But there must be some set of skills that matter.

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. But maybe not those. We’re going to discover new ones. Just maybe not those.

There are a lot of skills that don’t matter. My first confession, I actually don’t know my address.

And I ——

I don’t really believe that to be true.

It’s completely true. Janine will tell you and Lori will tell you.

One day I had to pump gas — it was a few years ago. They needed my ZIP code, and I panicked. I didn’t know my ZIP code. I don’t know my telephone number. I forget these things. I can live with it.

But let me take the other side because I don’t want to fall into a thing where, because some skills can be safely offloaded ——

Yeah.

I also can’t get anywhere without a mapping system now. Never could, frankly. But I’m a big reader. And one of the skills I really value, one of the capacities I have that I really value is an attention span formed on physical books.

You’re a big reader. I’ve read about the kind of reading you do. And there is, prior to A.I., a lot of concern and noticing among college professors and others that the way people use the internet has probably shortened attention spans.
Some skills can be safely given away. Others are valuable. They are capacities that are needed for that flexibility, for that creative thinking, for that focus. It can’t be the case that everything can be traded off.

Some skills can be safely given away. Others are valuable. They are capacities that are needed for that flexibility, for that creative thinking, for that focus. It can’t be the case that everything can be traded off.

Yeah. Well, I think that we’re going to lose some finer intellectual dexterity, but we’re going to be better systems thinkers.

Today’s engineers are far better systems thinkers than I was when I graduated from school. But I was a much better transistor thinker.

What do you mean by systems thinker?

They think of large systems. Today’s computers have trillions, hundreds of trillions of transistors in them. When I first graduated from school, the first chip I worked on had 200 transistors. I knew every one of them by name. No engineer does that today. Most engineers now work well above the transistor, well above the functionality, and they’re cobbling things together to do things.

So you need to think much more about systems and interactions of systems. So some of the lower-level knowledge is gone.

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incapotomus.bsky.social @incapotomus.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Everyone who pretended not to understand what AOC meant when she said “Woke 1 was crazy” should have to read this article.

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Marcia B. @traversefantasy.itch.io · 24/09/2026

i’m not over this it’s so fantastic more please

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I Know What You Did Last Year At Marienbad @montresaurusrex.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Wait a minute! This lesbian bar doesn’t require KN-95 masks!

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The Onion @theonion.com · 24/09/2026

“Rather than worrying about eating a balanced diet or maintaining an active lifestyle, our advice is to spend as much time as possible in the gym hitting dumbbell curls until your biceps are crazy big.” — Dr. Willie Underwood III, American Medical Association president

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American Medical Association: ‘Huge Biceps Are Only Thing That Matters’

CHICAGO—Granting the public permission to disregard the organization’s previous recommendations, American Medical Association officials announced this week that huge biceps were now the only thing tha...

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Marcia B. @traversefantasy.itch.io · 24/09/2026

i appreciate pop crave unlocking new adjectives. dreamy 🩷 breathtaking 🩷 that’s right

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Paolino Caputo @magnolienne.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The last few months have given me an unexpected surge of motivation to work on Opera Eterna. Check out some of the fundamentals in the new blog up on PinkSpace! www.magnolienne.com/pinkspace/20... #ttrpg

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How to Play Opera Eterna – PinkSpace

Get a Job Opera Eterna (OE) is a game of operatic science fantasy set in the World of Saints: a post-catholic imagination that echoes my family’s stories of post-war Italy....

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Reynaldo @naldodrinan.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Legally distinct beholders are a favorite of mine: breakrpg.blogspot.com/2024/03/free...

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Marcia B. @traversefantasy.itch.io · 23/09/2026

it kinda sucks there’s a line of raising cane’s dogs like they can never be their own individual

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Marcia B. @traversefantasy.itch.io · 23/09/2026

in what world is paul addressing the welfare state. did you see what happened to ananias and sapphira

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Marcia B. @traversefantasy.itch.io · 23/09/2026

my pet peeve is that "god loves a cheerful giver" doesn't mean you shouldn't give if it's not voluntary. you're supposed to give, and not be a little bitch about it. real easy!

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WiddershinsWanderings @naeolin.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I've been talking about play style preferences lately, but there's another aspect of table culture that I think is a key determining factor on whether a gaming table stays together. Whether you're playing Cairn, Mothership, or Vampire. widdershinswanderings.bearblog.dev/ttrpg-table-...

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TTRPG Table Alignments

A blog post where I compare a Tabletop Roleplaying Game session to having a communal meal, and why its important for everyone's expectations to be aligned.

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Sandro AD 🔜 PAX Unplugged @sandroad.moe · 22/09/2026

[ ~ Where grief stirs, spirits linger ~ ] Dive into the kaleidoscopic fantasy of Beneath the Floating World, a Carved from Brindlewood game of psychedelic zenpunk exorcism ~ Uncover twisted truths, face supernatural horrors and navigate your mortal woes . . . sandroad.itch.io/restrain-ref...

The cover for beneath the floating world ~ Featuring an onryo-esc figure above two silhouetted exorcists

The beginning of character creation rules

The center fold describing the parallel Day and Night phases of play

The 12 Exorcist Moves that can each define a character

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Marcia B. @traversefantasy.itch.io · 22/09/2026

so uhhhhh is tyler perry out yet

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Afraid of Encounters (He/Him) @isaacisafraid.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

If the way you play TTRPGs is basically how a lot of people play, then you shouldn’t go “woe is me” when someone challenges or debates you simply because they play differently. afraidofencounters.bearblog.dev/a-ttrpg-play...

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A TTRPG Playstyle Rant (A Short Blog Post)

Here's a short blog post. More of a rant. If the way you play TTRPGs is basically how a lot of people play, then you shouldn’t go “woe is me” when some...

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Jack Boot @jackboot.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

The sad part about having a pet is watching something that feels like your child grow up, then old and then begin to fade. The nice part for a pet is getting to live a good life then leave the world with their moms and dads still with them, taking care of them.

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Marcia B. @traversefantasy.itch.io · 22/09/2026

so i'm not even going to tell you to play od&d or some version of it. make your own thing that makes sense and is fun/useful to you because these guys had no clue what they were doing or what worked. god bless and good night

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Marcia B. @traversefantasy.itch.io · 22/09/2026

genuinely no clue what was going in on those and i don't know why they (or at least greyhawk in particular) became the basis of d&d as it solidified not that od&d by itself is that great but it's like wow that's what y'all took from the whole project huh?

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