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Nick Stefanski 🐦‍🔥

@tzarfenix.bsky.social
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History by training. UX by profession. TTRPG writer and platinum best seller on DMsGuild. May be you from an alternate timeline. 🌐 khyberia.com 🦣 dice.camp/@tzarfenix 🐦 twitter.com/tzarfenix

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🍁 Levi Kornelsen @levikornelsen.bsky.social · 4h
Eggnog has appeared on the local grocery shelves, and I for one welcome this *specific* harbinger of winter holidays coming early; it's by far my preferred way to consume eggs.
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wishda @wishda.bsky.social · 4h
When I checked this week, my registration was gone. Durham County, NC voter in good standing for many years, and I was no longer a registered voter.
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Brian Beutler @brianbeutler.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Why has the GOP been so procedurally extreme for so long? Because Republicans radicalized themselves against the government they were working within. There was a real logic to it, quite apart from the awful substantive vision. Now, Dems are working in a government fully corrupted by Donald Trump...
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The New Radicals
Democrats need to be the uncompromising ones now.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I'd like to make it clear, although the list is unranked, they called and told me that I'm #1. They said there's nobody more important than me in any list they've ever made. They said, "You won the TIME100 lists" then called the astronaut on the list a coward. Little much but I can't control them.
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Nick Stefanski 🐦‍🔥 @tzarfenix.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
I missed my chance to promote this when it was part of the kickstarter, but a #dnd #5e adventure I wrote for Goodman Games is now available for purchase in print and PDF! Find it here: goodman-games.com/st...
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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 19/09/2026
"For a man whose academic field was built largely on faulty studies to ignore the intellectual fraud in his circle and lash out at people like Arday for bad scholarship – well, psychologists used to call that projection" @virginiaheffernan.bsky.social www.thenerve.news/p/steven-pin...
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From celebrity intellectual to anti-woke outlaw: how Steven Pinker lost his way
The pop psycholgist’s new book seems to betray a lurking fear of others’ criticism – about his Epstein links, his manosphere admirers and his discredited former field of study, writes Virginia Heffern...
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Matt Henry 🥄 @matthenry.fyi · 15/09/2026
There are people who care deeply about delivering good government services working on figuring out what to do next, but you should know that this is happening. You should know how this administration is trying to make it harder for you to access the services and information to which you're entitled.
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🍁 Levi Kornelsen @levikornelsen.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
If you were going to teach a course on TTRPG design and (besides playing lots of games) could assign three books that *aren't* games to read, what would they be?
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Kat Kruger 🦄 @katkruger.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Some bit of happy news for me during a down week. While I've had my work on @dndbeyond.bsky.social, today is the first time I have a full adventure published direct to the site. It's part of the Legends of Greyhawk play series from @baldmangames.bsky.social. www.dndbeyond.com/sources/dnd/...
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Legends of Greyhawk: Dreams of the Chained God
Legends of Greyhawk: Dreams of the Chained God Dreams of the Chained God is a series of three adventures that are p...
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Nick Stefanski 🐦‍🔥 @tzarfenix.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
My wife pointed out that if the name of Lake Ontario were changed them you couldn’t use the ‘HOMES’ acronym anymore. But it occurred to me we could use a new acronym, ‘SHAME,’ and we both agreed that was pretty apt.
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Tony DiTerlizzi @diterlizzi.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
My first batch of newly painted MtG artist proofs ready for Dragon Con. There’s more to come! 🎨
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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 22/08/2026
Everything laid out in Project 2025 was talked about openly as far back as 2010, and amplified by big VCs as far back as 2014, but most big CEOs didn’t start to fall in line until 2017 or so. By 2020, they pushed out most execs who didn’t agree with (or at least silently accept) this thinking.
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Elizabeth Nolan Brown @enbrown.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Remote work is a feminist issue and this study (and NYT op-ed) panning it are just plain silly reason.com/2026/07/27/n...
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No, remote work is not making us miserable
The rise of remote work is a tech success story, despite what one new and very convoluted study claims.
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Fernando Salvaterra @salvaterra.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Amarath, partial pencil sketch. ✏️ Work in progress. #ttrpg #sketch #cartography
an unfinished black and white pencil sketch depicting a broken piece of land floating in space, with extensive mountain ranges, hills, forests, plains, a lake of acid with a citadel.
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TasWildlife @taswildlife.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
At risk to life and limb I managed to suspend cameras over two of our dams. Both captured ghostly platypus footage. #platypus #Tasmania
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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 09/08/2026
if they're drinking nounwine it's fantasy. if they're snorting a verb it's sci fi
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Exactly 3 months from today is the most important midterm election in our lifetime. Our opportunity to hold him accountable. Register to vote here: Iwillvote.com The stakes have never been higher. Show the world the majority of Americans are good, decent, honest people. #VoteBlue🗳️ #RejectMAGA 👎
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Daniel Fedor @dcfedor.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Blue Bottle Games, as a policy, does not use generative AI. It's something we've discussed as a team, weighing the pros and cons, and ultimately, we decided it was not for us. Recently, while chatting with a colleague, she mentioned it was useful hearing our reasoning. So: Sharing time! 1/12
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POTUS @sentientpotato.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Two panel comic. Panel 1: Omni Man and Invincible are floating in the sky. Two fighter jets are flying nearby. One is labeled "double" and the other is labeled "float". Omni Man is labeled "Mathematicians". Panel 2: Omni Man / Mathematicians turn to Invincible and say "Look what they need to mimic a fraction"
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thebluebaron.bsky.social @thebluebaron.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Yeah, but we never actually see him construct his first set of power armor. He just shows up on Christmas Day with holly jolly repulsers and twin peppermint plasma canons. Seeing the process of trial and error in the Scrooge Cave will be a lot of fun.
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Thomas J. Tobin @thomasjtobin.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Few folks work through the possibilities of big topics—incuding the far-flung or less likely ones—like @neilmosley.bsky.social. Definitely worth 10 minutes of your reading time on #AI in higher ed. Let us know your thoughts and reactions, too!
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Adam Gurri @adamgurri.liberalcurrents.com · 23/07/2026
We can’t let her play this game she’s been doing her whole damn career where she gives her vote to every evil policy but then play acts being the mediator for how the policy is deployed (completely dishonestly)
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Cat Manning @catacalypto.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
deeply annoying that creative breakthroughs don’t come on schedule from direct work but from things like “open-ended conversations with interesting people” and “doing nothing”
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Basil Wright @kobanya.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
I'm Basil, an Afronative narrative/game designer and sensitivity consultant! I worked on Spellbound: a magical mystery and was the SC for clients like MCDM, Brotherwise, Dinoberry Press, and more! #PortfolioDay Website: towerofbasil.wordpress.com Games: rpg-trader.com/creator/205/...
Two page spread of "Come Out From Your Grave". The art on the left is a spirit standing over a woman praying in front of a cross tombstone with candles on its base. The ghost is pointing as if giving directions.A color cover illustration for the Little Wolves TTRPG with muted purples, blues, greens, yellows, and reds, with black line art. The title logo is done in a yellow stylized blackletter ambigram style that reads the same upside down and right-side up. The logo sits in front of a large red moon. The main focal point of the composition is a young werewolf with glowing eyes, running along with two wolves behind them. The werewolf is tangled in the vines emerging from the silhouetted trees that frame the composition. Along the edges of that frame, in four circular vignettes created by the branches and vines, there are cameos of the four queens of the game: the witch queen, the troll queen, the pumpkin queen, and the mermaid queen. A banner along the bottom of the cover reads “A realm of folk and fae from Dinoberry Press"
(alt text originally from jnb.art, the cover artist)The Cosmere Roleplaying Game logo atop a starry background, next to mockups of the Stormlight and Mistborn world guides."The MCDM RPG" laid over a battle scene with heroes fighting against monsters using various weapons and abilities.
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Emma Mitchell @silverpebble2.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
You might need this little soapstone carving of a whale today… (1200-1600 CE, Chumash culture, California, held at Musée des Beaux Arts, Montreal)
A little smily soapstone carving of a whale by Chumash culture, circa 1200-1600 CE, California
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Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
A World-Historic Chance The Right is freaking out because they know we could be on the brink of proving that egalitarian, pluralistic democracy is possible. My new piece - a glass-half-full interpretation of our moment:
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A World-Historic Chance
The Right is freaking out because we could be on the brink of proving that egalitarian, pluralistic democracy is possible. A glass-half-full interpretation of our moment.
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Andboo Haunton 😷🎃 @andrewhinton.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Just read this post for the first time. Excellent unpacking of some key principles behind how LLMs work and — even more importantly — the systemic effect those functions are having on our discourse & ability to trust and use written language.
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nono ➡️ Commissions open! @nonoworks.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
I've received several inquiries about commissions for August, so I'd like to start taking reservations for August. August is my birth month, so I would be delighted to receive lots of requests🎂 I especially welcome commissions in the Skeb style, which I started this month! forms.gle/UqedV55wSpb8...
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Wolfgang Baur @wolfgangbaur.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
A hobby about human creativity and quirky homebrew is really not the place for AI slop. Kobold is sticking with human-made games and sourcebooks.
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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
I read this. Actually, I had Siri read most of it to me in a rental car yesterday. 😏 I have takes. But I’m glad it exists. I’m glad we’re talking about this. I don’t think the article is in bad faith. The headline is. But it’s doing what it’s supposed to Ok, in order of ascending importance… 1/7
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Nick Stefanski 🐦‍🔥 @tzarfenix.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
I finally saw the Super Mario Galaxy Movie, and I have today that SMB2’s boss Wart as a high rolling crime lord is the kind of expanded lore I didn’t know I needed in my life.
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The Eurasian Knot🎙️ @euraknot.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Here is a segment from Marc Bennetts' episode on the eurasian knot podcast. Support the podcast on patreon: The Eurasian Knot www.patreon.com/cw/euraknot
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Aftermath @aftermath.site · 08/07/2026
How AI is ruining education, in one handy chart aftermath.site/ai-education-i...
A keyboard with a key labelled "AI." Photo by BoliviaInteligente on Unsplash
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Zach Hazard Vaupen @emo-sludge.com · 08/07/2026
Here’s the part we all want to know which is behind the paywall. You’re welcome.
If you want to avoid these Al generations of your Instagram posts, without switching your account to private, you'll have to dig into the app's settings.
Open the Instagram app, tap your profile, and then tap the three lines in the top-right corner of the screen. Then, scroll down to the Sharing and reuse tab. Here is where you should see a section labeled Allow people to use your content on Instagram and with Al features on Meta, with a toggle for Posts and one for Reels.
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Stephen Wolf @stephenwolf.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
If Dems overcome a tough map & win Pennsylvania’s Senate, they could pass: • Same-day voter registration • Expanded automatic registration • In-person early voting • Expanded mail ballot drop boxes PA could also give the National Popular Vote Compact an Electoral College majority with AZ, MI, & WI
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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
webinar webinaris webinari webinarem webinare webinares webinarum webinaribus webinares webinaribus
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Tim Dickinson @timdickinson.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
For the 250th, I spoke with @kevinmkruse.bsky.social about the reactionary spasm of the MAGA movement, and how America has overcome similar struggles
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MAGA Wants to Reverse American Progress
Princeton Professor Kevin Kruse explains our current moment with a historical lens
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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
A number of the responses here are basically asking, "on what basis can you term the United States a success?" and I'm glad you asked, because I wrote about exactly that four years ago. acoup.blog/2022/07/08/c...
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Collections: Is the United States Exceptional?
It is the week of July 4th and so I hope that everyone will once again forgive me for taking a break from our normal fare to write out an argument that I’ve had brewing for quite some time. I…
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Erin Grievances @erinbartram.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
I have long wanted someone to write a follow up or response to this peace and maybe now is the time.
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Veronica in the Fens ~ My Heart in Nature @veronicainthefens.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Wow, that was truly amazing, the Strawberry Full Moon rising over Ely Cathedral this evening. Seen from Little Downham outside of Ely, Cambridgeshire 😍🌝 I didn’t think it was going to shine through the clouds, but it certainly did 🙏🏻🥰 #Fullmoon #strawberrymoon #ElyCathedral #amazing #Wonderful
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Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
TMZ DC with perhaps the most brutal video from Trump's Great American State Fair, showing Dr. Oz on stage bragging to Dean Cain about how big the crowd is, only for the reporter to pan around and show absolutely nobody is there. Original post: x.com/i/status/207...
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GamerMomLuna ✨🌙 @gamermomluna.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
Happy #FreeRPGDay to all of my #TTRPG friends! What are you all doing today if you're participating? My husband is running Daggerheart and I'm playing a Cosmere game at our local comic & game store!
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Ben Williamson @benpatrickwill.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Remember that meta-study of ChatGPT effects on learning that got retracted by SpringerNature recently? Here's a new paper showing why it and others like it can't be trusted due to serious issues with the underlying literature. Bluntly put, they're meta-reviews of junk science doi.org/10.1016/j.co...
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Ramona @alderdoodle.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Hey, you! Are you making a neat little ttrpg for a game jam and need a cover? I gotchu. ✨And they're free✨ ko-fi.com/alderdoodle/...
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Dara Moskowitz Grumdahl @deardara.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Irina Ratushinskaya didn’t scratch her poems into a bar of soap with a matchstick, memorize them and wash away her forbidden work as a political prisoner in a Soviet labor camp for you to tell me AI is "inevitable"
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Ele Willoughby @minouette.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Worse. It’s a literal plagiarized butthole.
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Kurt Vonnegut's descendants sue Anthropic: "Claude's logo is our grandpa's butthole!"
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Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
ICYMI yesterday: I wrote about what we can learn from new reporting on how the Trumpists have been contemplating despotism, the fault lines within the regime, and the prospects for a post-Trump MAGA. When the Republic Almost Fell:
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When the Republic Almost Fell
What we can learn from new reporting on how the Trumpists have been contemplating despotism, the fault lines within the regime, and the prospects for a post-Trump MAGA
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