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Genderqueer game designer, union activist, and treehugger. I also do stuff with computers?

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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 13h
i thought about this old tweet tonight and how nothing has ever aged better
@Merman_Melville • Jan 24, 2019
Being a billionaire must be insane. You can buy new teeth, new skin. All your chairs cost 20,000 dollars and weigh 2,000 pounds. Your life is just a series of your own preferences. In terms of cognitive impairment it's probably like being kicked in the head by a horse every day
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Jason Morningstar @jmstar.bsky.social · 18h
Are we doing hot TTRPG takes? Here's mine: If a game isn't working for you, get up and leave. You can be graceful about it but don't stick around. If someone at your table gets up and leaves, thank them, because they are improving everyone's experience.
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Arrianna Marie Planey, PhD MA @arrianna-planey.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
One of my pirmary objections to GenAI- beyond the concerns about labor, environmental justice, and intellectual property rights- is that I understand privacy to be NETWORKED and contingent. My information is only as secure as the weakest link in my social circle.
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Isabelle Ruebsaat -> paxu @anxiousmimicrpgs.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The split between player/GM and GM'd/GMless hurts our understanding of player roles in ttrpgs, and our design. They are false binaries that we sort games into based on what "feels right," without actually being very useful terms for understanding dynamics in play beyond a base level.
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David J Prokopetz @prokopetz.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The fact of the matter is that if we don't want people resorting to asking LLMs to solve their coding problems for them, we as a community have gotta get a LOT more willing to field questions whose answers we regard as painfully obvious.
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Lydia @lunapuella.eurosky.social · 28/09/2026
My husband and his friends realised they thought they were good guys but still made like, ironic-sexist jokes. They introduced the 'sexism snake' where wherever one of them made a sexist comment or joke, the others would just start hissing. Didn't need to get into an argument about it, just hissing.
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Kevin Petker - Combat Philosopher - ☝️✌️🖐️ @kevinpetker.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
It's okay to hit "rewind" on occasion and have a do-over; yes consequences are part of (most) games, but "having fun" (in all its permutations) is usually a bigger part. It's not cheating to say, "That/we kind of sucked, can we try it again?" Ask yourself "Why am I playing this?" to figure it out.
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Cliff Pervocracy @pervocracy.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
gaming out multiple-choice tests is a learnable skill that is frequently mistaken for "intellectual aptitude"
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tanze bravopueblo / w.s. healed @tattletale.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
also, i hate how it's standard language for games to differentiate betwen 'the gm' and 'the players'. the gm is playing the game too! it's a small linguistic quirk but it feels microcosmic of a larger more prevalent attitude towards facilitator roles
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Bruno Dias @brunodias.dev · 28/09/2026
It really doesn't make sense to attribute those job losses to AI-the-technology, because if that were the case we'd be observing AI outputs displacing conventional entertainment products, and they're clearly not. Rather, the impact of AI is that AI-the-business is crowding out other investment.
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jay Dragon is unstoppable @jdragsky.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
quibbly-quabbly avery alder wrote games about various monsterous things famed across canada til apotheosis made her a sparrow and she sprouted wings ( @lackingceremony.bsky.social )
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Steve Revilak @purplebandanna.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Photo enforcement, coming to a bus lane near you. bankerandtradesman.com/automatic-ca...
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Automatic Cameras to Start Enforcing MBTA Bus Stops, Lanes
The MBTA is finally ready protect its own bus lanes and bus stops from double-parkers with automated cameras. It's key to the agency's improvement plans
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 27/09/2026
ProPublica obtained a vast cache of IRS information showing how billionaires like Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk pay little in income tax compared to their massive wealth — sometimes, even nothing. From the archives:
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The Secret IRS Files: Trove of Never-Before-Seen Records Reveal How the Wealthiest Avoid Income Tax
ProPublica has obtained a vast cache of IRS information showing how billionaires like Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk and Warren Buffett pay little in income tax compared to their massive wealth — sometimes, ev...
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c. ruiyi smallbird 🪷 @veryroundbird.house · 27/09/2026
actually you know it's really funny that fantasy trends come back around so much that dark lord of derkholm feels like it could have been written much more recently
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Playtest Material Magazine @playtestmaterial.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
new on the site: what can 300-year-old Japanese sit-down comedy teach us about running better TTRPGs? playtestmaterial.org/rakugo-and-t...
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Sitting Down and Telling Stories: learning TTRPG skills from Rakugo
What do tabletop role-playing games have in common with Japanese sit-down comedy? In this article, D. "Zhen" C. explores the art of Rakugo and explains how TTRPG GMs and players can learn from its st...
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where the oleander grows @nonblnary.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Hi, everyone! Excited to announce that I’m launching I Don’t Remember When I Started Killing Bugs Again: Game of the Year Edition on itch! This serves both as an actual physical page for Bugs as well as a way for you to support me, if you so choose :) tomorrow-today.itch.io/i-dont-remem...
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I Don't Remember When I Started Killing Bugs Again: Game of the Year Edition by sage tomorrow, today
a single player journaling rpg WITH UPDATED GRAPHICS AND NEW MECHANICS
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Julie S. Lalonde @julieslalonde.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The literacy crisis is not just referring to people's ability to literally read and write. It's also people's inability to read for context. I've been a public educator for over 20 years and I have never, ever seen it this bad.
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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
the "iced coffee at a job interview" discussion is obviously stupid but also a great representation of the fact that every single HR person/recruiter has their own different made up rules for candidates and all of them think they are absolutely correct
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Amabel Holland @amabel.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
a friend pointed me to this post for obvious reasons folks think I made rules-decoring games like City of Six Moons and Swords Against as some kind of "performance art" (gah!) or stunt, but it's because I think of learning/figuring out rules as a valuable form of play, not just a preamble to it
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Embrace the Void @etvpod.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
As a philosopher of mind I’m fascinated by so many people having to confront the nature of consciousness, and also think the most important thing is that Sam Altman goes to jail.
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MythologyBot @mythologybot.boodoo.co · 26/09/2026
D429.2.2 Transformation: dragon to stone.
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Anna Holmes @annabookwriter.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
My dad isn’t as anti-AI as I’d like given both my professions, but I will say this. He has a friend from China who is very self-conscious of her English grammar, so she runs all her emails through the slop machine. “It makes me so sad,” he says. “It doesn’t sound like my friend anymore.”
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ChicagoVintageTileFloors @chicagovtfloor.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Such a floor we have to look at today!
Closeup of a vintage tile floor with intricate circular patterns in blue, green, yellow and white.The covered entrance to a storefront with an intricate tile floor, wood bench, floor mat and plenty of store windows to see inside.
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Kevin Riggle @kevinr.free-dissociation.com · 25/09/2026
lol of course this was coming.
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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Reminder that in Canada upon becoming an engineer you get an iron ring made of a collapsed bridge, purposely designed to be uncomfortable, to remind you that your ethics demand you give a fuck even about the boring grudgework of such as double-checking your math. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_Ring
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Iron Ring - Wikipedia
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Clark Valentine @clarkvalentine.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Humans are responsible for the automated systems they build and initiate. Every time. - Says me, a guy who builds automated systems for a living
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🍁 Levi Kornelsen @levikornelsen.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Re: The current discourse: This is basically the top-end example of my whole view, so... there it is.
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
"In 2020, there were only six programs in the U.S. that sent unarmed responders, such as mental health clinicians, to certain 911 calls instead of police officers. Now, these programs — sometimes called alternative or community response — are in nearly 100 cities." www.npr.org/2026/09/22/n...
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How unarmed 911 teams are reshaping public safety in nearly 100 cities
Alternative response programs, where mental health clinicians respond to 911 calls instead of police, have proliferated since George Floyd's murder. What does it take to do this work well?
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Colin McMillen @mcmillen.dev · 24/09/2026
Using AI to do a crime does not absolve you of criminality. AI is just a computer program. It's already illegal to use computers to do crimes. Even other people's computers. Furthermore, AI is unnecessarily unsafe; using it to "accidentally" commit a crime should add charges of criminal negligence.
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Enigmatic White Woman @worstgirleva.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
TTRPG where everyone plays as princesses and the stats are tyrant, hero, damsel and miraculous to reflect the different ways princesses are presented in fiction
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Sarah Grace Tuttle @sarahgracetuttle.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Blessed Mabon / Fall Equinox to everyone celebrating the wheel of the year in the Northern Hemisphere! Happy Spring to my friends below the equator!
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Corey Atad @coreyatad.com · 22/09/2026
“If you are staring at an example of social disorder or social inefficiency, and the left refuses to explain either why it has happened or how they will fix it, then the right gets to point at someone in the immediate area and say, ‘That’s who did it.’” crazy how much Mamdani speaks my language
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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
becoming a vulgar rawlsian. the veil of ignorance isn't perfect, but 'is this how you would design things if *you* thought you might end up here?' is a test that way too many people fail. on everything from criminal justice to public transit, across the ideological spectrum.
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tbabb @tbabb.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
approximately one industry in our civilization has figured out "systematically keep track of things that go wrong, and then systematically try to prevent them from happening again", and this is the result
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Chen Chen @chenchenwrites.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
To live in this world you must be able to do three things: to love what is mortal; to hold it against your bones knowing your own life depends on it; and, when the time comes to let it go, to let it go. —Mary Oliver, from "In Blackwater Woods"
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dan mentos @danmentos.com · 22/09/2026
[job interview] interviewer: so god killed all your kids? job: that's right
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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Obama’s charisma often gets put in terms of speeches but I think it was much more stuff like this, if he saw some little kid he’d be like oh hey there dude in a way that didn’t make him seem like a maniac and 90% of politicians can’t do that anymore
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Imperobotor @imperobotor.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Fallen of Dedication, Wristwatches, Retail, Vistas, and Causality
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Kevin Riggle @kevinr.free-dissociation.com · 21/09/2026
I really wish that people would stop saying "the technology works" WRT LLMs without specifying what exact use-cases it "works" for. The technology sure does emit tokens! Whether it "works" or not for a specific use-case depends on a lot more than just that fact!
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Translunar Travelers Lounge @translunartl.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Translunar Travelers Lounge is open for general submissions. We are looking for speculative fiction stories, 5000 words or under. We ask that you read the submissions page carefully before sending us anything. translunartravelerslounge.com/submissions/
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Submissions
Broadly defined, the type of fiction we are looking for is “fun”. [Go to Submissions]
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Joanne Harris @joannechocolat.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Much as we love bookshops, they need more than love to keep going. A bookshop can be the centre of a whole community. Bookshops support authors; organize events. A thriving bookshop teaches the next generation that literacy matters. So don't just love your bookshop: actually buy books there.
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Japanese Talk @japanesetalk.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
It really irks me when people share their 300, 600, 1000 day Duolingo streaks but still don't know how to use Japanese. Here's an explanation for why apps like Duolingo don't work for learning to any fluency. jtalkonline.com/why-apps-lik...
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Why Apps Like Duolingo Don’t Work for Japanese - Japanese Talk
I’ve been learning Japanese for twenty years, but it hasn’t been consistent. I’ve stopped and started, bounced around multiple different study methods, and overall had a very slapdash approach to the ...
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saucypaws @saucypawpads.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
free shoes
single illustration by saucypaws.

an angel sits on a telephone wire, suspended and weightless. she is pure white and glowing, wearing a pair of sneakers which have their laces tied. along the wire are other pairs of shoes, hanging by their laces as if they have been thrown up from below. she has a halo and two little wings.

there are other poles in the background, criss crossing in the background, and an abstract moody texture creating a heavily overcast sky.
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Kevin Riggle @kevinr.free-dissociation.com · 21/09/2026
This shit drives me nuts when people are like “don’t you want quote nontechnical people unquote to be able to automate stuff” yes! I do and have for decades! But if they use Excel they understand the universe just a little better and if they use an LLM they understand a LOT less
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🪼Jellyfishlines 🔜 PaxU🪼 @jellyfishlines.itch.io · 21/09/2026
I have a piece in here on lyric games, interpretation of others words, how we build canon in our games with only a loose sense of what exists there, reading as a form of play, and where what may be next with ttrpgs & an interview on site with @liz-shrikestudio.bsky.social abt lyric games and YWDITP!
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gochenourabout @sjgochenour.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
this is a trivial thought that many people have had before me, but I sort of wonder if what people are mistaking for drudgery is financial precarity, lack of community, and lack of purpose/hope. the same task can be fun and exciting or suck shit, depending on what context you're doing it in.
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Sarah Grace Tuttle @sarahgracetuttle.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
New Poem Day! My spec fic poem "I'm Learning from the Moles" about healing with a sharp edge is in Issue 4 of @crypticfrogpub.bsky.social! Buy a paperback, load it onto your Kindle, or wait until it's free on the website. However you read, I hope you enjoy! www.amazon.com/Cryptic-Frog...
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violet allen @blipstress.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I feel like a lot of people missed that Omelas is about how we think about utopia and ethical dilemmas and not really a metaphor for real societies because real societies suck ass and still have Omelas children for the love of the game.
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siobhan mcdonough @siobhan-m.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
for those who aren’t familiar—the NAACP’s solidarity with trans people and willingness to recognize “similarities between exclusions of transgender kids and racial segregation” is something i find genuinely moving
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David J Prokopetz @prokopetz.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
I understand that most people using the word "vizier" as a fantasy trope aren't actually aware of its etymological origin, and I'm not claiming I've never done it myself, but "we say the word 'advisor' in Arabic when we want to denote that the advisor in question is evil" still isn't a great look.
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