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Lesley Conner @lesleyconner.bsky.social · 12h

Closing in on $9K on the Apex Magazine 2027 Kickstarter! Thank you so much to everyone who has backed us so far and to those of you who have shared our campaign. I'm so excited! www.kickstarter.com/projects/ape...

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Apex Magazine 2027

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

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Anna Russell @aenrussell.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Did you know that the largest known cave system in the world is in Kentucky? And it’s full of history and spookiness and really cool rocks? www.patreon.com/aenrussell/p...

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Coffee Break: Mammoth Cave | A. E. N. Russell

Mammoth Cave is the largest known cave system in the world. It spans over 400 miles, stretching underneath the rolling hills of Kentucky. If

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Will Sobel @wlsobel.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

My intergalactic space magic ring would never be below 20% and I’d definitely bring my space magic charging unit everywhere I went instead of leaving it halfway across the country

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Will Sobel @wlsobel.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

This is how we get the Orange Catholic Bible.

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Will Sobel @wlsobel.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I’ve never made a meme faster in my life

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Will Sobel @wlsobel.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

This is how we get the Orange Catholic Bible.

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Will Sobel @wlsobel.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Suz Sheldon is being impersonated on BlueSky. Help me tank this bad profile which is, no doubt, a salty racist backer from the new Resto game.

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Eric Lang @ericlang.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Boosting not because they need the help, but because Queen's Gambit was a genuinely great game and this looks AWESOME Great pick for Restoration. Love it

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The Lord of the Rings™: The King’s Gambit

The final, fateful battle in the war for Middle-earth plays out across four epic fields of battle.

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Will Sobel @wlsobel.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

What should be an amazing campaign bringing back a beloved game with a great IP has been soured by the fragile egos of White Men.

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Will Sobel @wlsobel.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The unabashed racism in the comments of The King's Gambit Kickstarter campaign is infuriating. Half of the comments demand the publisher answer the question "Why is Aragorn Black?" and the publisher "fix it" before they pledge.

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Will Sobel @wlsobel.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Curious what bourbon pairs well with "deranged, fragile egos get loud in the comments"

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beth @bethsobel.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Very cool to see an Aragorn who's Black! More pushes towards accurate representation of the incredibly varied world we live in will only ever be a huge plus for me. @restorationgames.bsky.social

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Will Sobel @wlsobel.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I played the final version of this over the weekend with some friends and I’m stoked with how it turned out!

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Will Sobel @wlsobel.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Sorry to hear she’s still harassing you.

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Will Sobel @wlsobel.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Another game I worked on is out in the wild! I did development for this fun party game and wrote all the prompts and answers. Grab Will Get Won’t Game from your LGS or from Ultra Pro’s website.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

DoorDash spent $1.4M trying to stop Zohran Mamdani from becoming mayor. This week's historic $131.5M enforcement action against DoorDash for underpaying NYC delivery workers shows why. Yet another reminder that the only thing that can beat organized money is organized people.

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DoorDash Spent $1.4 Million Trying to Stop Mamdani From Becoming Mayor. Now We Know Why.

In a wage-theft settlement, DoorDash now has to pay its workers around 100 times what it spent trying to beat Zohran Mam

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Will Sobel @wlsobel.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I’m so excited for this! Queer swashbuckling Babel meets Star Wars??? Sign me up!

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Will Sobel @wlsobel.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

It’s a pretty tough game when you don’t know how to read

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Will Sobel @wlsobel.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Once upon a time I played EVE Online and I will take the menu games so you don’t have to! Bring me the MENU!!!

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Will Sobel @wlsobel.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Where do I sign up for background Kamen Rider that isn’t me just watching Kabuto for the 80th time

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Will Sobel @wlsobel.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Happy Lost day. 22 years ago the pilot for Lost aired, and the same day the narrative began with Oceanic Flight 815 crashing after altering course through turbulence. Meanwhile Desmond killed his mentor and buried him so far away he forgot to press the button causing 815 to crash.

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Will Sobel @wlsobel.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I’m having a lot of fun with Aniimo but I’m waiting for the other shoe to drop. It’s made with AI or the dev team are anti-Semitic or or or and I really wanna just enjoy it.

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Will Sobel @wlsobel.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

3rd in line of longest running continually published video game franchises is Ultima. The first game in the series was Akalabeth (1979) and was largely designed/written by Richard Garriott later he’d revolutionize the MMO genre and be one of the few people to go to space. Today it claims 23 games.

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Will Sobel @wlsobel.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

The longest continually published video game franchise is The Oregon Trail, originally published in 1971. It’s since published 14 games. Most recently it published The Oregon Trail (2021) on Apple Arcade, Nintendo Switch, PS5, XBOX X/S, and Windows.

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Anna Russell @aenrussell.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

September poll has closed! We will be discussing "Guillotine" by @goosemixtapes.bsky.social , published by @strangehorizons.bsky.social on September 27. Join my Patreon for monthly short story discussions!

Hand drawn word Guillotine with Patreon link: patreon.com/aenrussell

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Will Sobel @wlsobel.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Huh. Not what I expected but interesting.

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Will Sobel @wlsobel.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

What does K Pop Demon Hunters Lucky Charms taste like????

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Will Sobel @wlsobel.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

my GOD aren’t yall embarrassed

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Will Sobel @wlsobel.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Illinois is proud enough of this to take a photo op lmao 🤣

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Delilah S. Dawson @delilahsdawson.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

✨GIVEAWAY✨ for an advance copy of MONSTERA. Like and reskeet this post, then tell me how many points you have: 10- preordered Monstera 9- chose it for book club 8- added it on Goodreads or Storygraph 7- requested at the library 6- joined the preorder swag giveaway 5- added to TBR 4- heard of it

This is an image of the book Monstera against a chartreuse background with flowers. Monstera has a bloodied hand holding a gardening tool, also bloodied, amidst a handful of greenery. I really can't stress enough how much blood, hands, and plants are involved. Like, A LOT.

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Will Sobel @wlsobel.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I think this is marketing for the next Root expansion right @patrickleder.bsky.social

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Will Sobel @wlsobel.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

With Spidey 4 dominating the 10 highest grossing actors list changed. Tom Holland is now number 1, and 9/10 are MCU actors. Tom Cruise is 7th. Of the 9 MCU actors only 8 of them have Endgame billed as their highest performing film. Any ideas who the 9th person is and what the alt movie is?

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Will Sobel @wlsobel.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

THE CAT IS ALSO A FUCKIN CLASS TRAITOR

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Will Sobel @wlsobel.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I’m playing through FF7 Rebirth. The party consists of 8 people. An indigenous dogfolk dork son of the protector of the Ancients, a Scottish capitalist cat, Matt Mercer vampire, and 5 eco terrorist humans in different flavors of queer.

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Will Sobel @wlsobel.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Fun fact. In S06E04 of The Sopranos the Gilmore Girls is playing on TV. In S07E17 of Gilmore Girls Richard wears a tracksuit & Lorelai jokes by asking if he’s gonna have lunch with Tony Soprano. If The Sopranos show exists in Gilmore Girls, eventually they would come across Tony watching them.

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Brandon O’Brien, but wearing a wolf mask @therisingtithes.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Hark! @flightsoffoundry.bsky.social is this weekend! There's a lot of really wonderful programming planned if you're not already aware, and your registration and donations help @dreamfoundry.bsky.social do lots of very valuable work, so come through! flights-of-foundry.org

A screenshot of Brandon O'Brien's Flights of Foundry schedule:

Friday September 18
8PM AST
Indie TTRPGs

Saturday September 19
7AM AST
Game Recommendations!

Saturday September 19
10AM AST
Chill-n-Chat with Brandon O'Brien

Sunday September 20
1PM AST
Pathways to Speculative Poetry

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Lilly Wachowski @lillywachowski.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Hi! This is out today and it’s awesome! And I am proud to be connected to it! SUPPORT TRANS PEOPLE!!! WE ARE FUCKING MAGICAL!!!!

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What Happened at Aleister Crowley’s Boleskine House? | #WITCHYAF

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Will Sobel @wlsobel.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Fun fact of the day with Will. Furious 7 was the highest grossing film for Universal for a mere 3 months; April - June 2015. It was dethroned by Jurassic World, which held the title until this year. Which Universal movie dethroned it?

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Will Sobel @wlsobel.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I’d like to submit to the court that both Tron and The Hunger Games are LitRPG. Both use games as a tool to facilitate the main characters journey, and the game is central to the world as well. In this essay I will—

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Will Sobel @wlsobel.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Something, something remember Jace the Mind Sculptor? *insert laugh track*

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Nick Martell @nickmartell.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

B&N is doing a preorder sale until 9/11 which includes my upcoming novel TERMINA STATION. Preorders are important for authors, and I always appreciate anyone who’s willing to give a book a shot before it’s out 🙏

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Will Sobel @wlsobel.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Could a raccoon design a game???

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