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Emily Zhu Bo Ging @dragonfucker69.bsky.social · 8h

A realis mood is the grammatical form indicating truth: The fire is dying. An irrealis mood would instead indicate any other possibility. The fire might not die. The fire must not die. Let not the fire die. Pyrrealis, then, is what flint speaks to tinder. emilyzhu.itch.io/pyrrealis

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Pyrrealis: Upon the 107th Convocation Regarding the Semiotics of Flame by Emily Zhu 朱保敬

Knowledge is fire. Truth burns.

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Charles Hughes @charleshughes2.bsky.social · 14h

I have been saying this for years. "Drinking the Kool-Aid" sounds a lot less funny/pithy when you realize over 300 people who died there were under eighteen and 150 of them were ten years old and younger.

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pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social · 14h

Sad news everyone. Our beloved friend the computer has now become a hated enemy

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Seraphina Garcia Ramirez 🔜 PaxU @seraphina.diceexploder.com · 13h

This is not my field of expertise but given recent news I’ve been doing research and searching for hope on what better approaches to justice and harm look like. I found this resource to be a very useful starting point for learning more about transformative justice transformharm.org/tj_resource/...

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Transformative Justice: A Brief Description | TransformHarm.org

This was written for a transformative justice (TJ) intervention I led and I’m sharing it here for others to use in their work. It was meant to be a brief description for those who are not as familiar ...

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Taylor Barnett-Torabi @taylorbar.net · 21h

our laziness is what allows us as humans to say no, and this helps us push back against complexity @bcantrill.bsky.social #monktoberfest

A slide that says:

The virtue of laziness
• Our need to comprehend and compose systems drives us towards developing simple, powerful abstractions
• This is our drive to cognitive efficiency in a system - what Larry Wall famously called the programmer virtue of laziness
• LLMs lack the virtue of laziness - they are biased to the complex
• Moreover, their limited context makes them tautologically emergent..

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LycanthrEppy @epidiah.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Earlier this evening, I was chatting with Nat Barmore, my co-designer on Dread, and he dug up a 27 year old file containing the original dice mechanics for the game. These were to be used alongside the Jenga tower and we never played with them. We just never needed them.

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Sarah Grace Tuttle @sarahgracetuttle.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

My rainbow-zombie-fungus flash fiction story "Cordyceps crystal" has been published in Issue 5 of @adventitiouswords.bsky.social! I love this little story so much. Grab yourself a copy of the issue here: www.adventitious.net/shop/

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Shop Adventitious — Digital Issues

Adventitious is a literary speculative fiction magazine for curious readers. Browse digital issues featuring science fiction, fantasy, weird fiction, and essays.

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B A R S U K @barssuk.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Dragon (small) ✨

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CLAYFACE: CELEBRITY DIRT #3 out now @judedoyle.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

B has been saying "you're an orchid" when he's fond of me, and then refusing to explain what he means, which leads me to the only reasonable conclusion: I am immensely valuable, hallucinogenic, and WILL cause Meryl Streep and Nicolas Cage to lose their minds hunting for me in the Florida swamps

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Asa Donald | Backwards Tabletop @backwardsttrpg.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Mousetrap has numerous inspirations. Mini-games come from Firebrands-style games with permission from @lumpley.bsky.social & @megueyb.bsky.social. Art derives from John Austen’s Hamlet (1922), and the game is nothing without Shakespeare’s Hamlet, Christie’s The Mousetrap, and Tom Stoppard’s plays.

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Under Hollow Hills presents In Dreaming Avalon by Meguey & Vincent Baker, et al

A Role-playing Party Game of Arthurian Knights and Shakespearean Fairies

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W.H. Arthur RPG @wharthur.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Kudos to @itch.io for the new "submission requirements" options for hosting game jams! 🕹️

Submission requirements
Projects that don't meet the enabled requirements can't be submitted. Existing entries are not affected.
The box with AI disclosure has been ticked
The selection highlighted is "No generative AI - Only projects whose disclosure says no generative AI was used"

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Seraphina Garcia Ramirez 🔜 PaxU @seraphina.diceexploder.com · 30/09/2026

Vincent is being very smart and correct in this thread, and this a good baseline call to action, but my own call to action is to tell them “Depends on the game! Here’s how this specific PbtA game works, other PbtA games work different ways sometimes.” (Tbh you can substitute OSR, larp, etc for PbtA)

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Steve Revilak @purplebandanna.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

It's the middle of the week, and I've got nothing to do tonight. So, I'll try liveskeeting a report. If you want to following along, www.sightline.org/apartments-a...

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Apartments Are the Climate Solution Hiding in Plain Sight

US climate policy is blocked. Housing isn’t.

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Bri de Danann @bridanann.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

This year my goal is to post a Stock Art Pack every month! Because I was unable to post a pack for July or August, I'm posting 3 for September! The third pack is another Space-Scape Background Pack! Available now for all your Sci-fi needs! bridanann.itch.io/space-scape-...

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Space Scape Background Pack 3 by Bri de Danann

3 space background images

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TheDevinTeam @thedevteam.itch.io · 30/09/2026

Fantastic thread on a common misread of move structure. Practically required reading for folks interested at all in PBTA design.

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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

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 · 30/09/2026

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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Xavid @xavid.itch.io · 29/09/2026

Totally. I also think treating this as a binary can make it harder to notice/appreciate the different ways different groups approach things like player roles and "authority" for a given game.

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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 PervoSCARY @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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Xavid @xavid.itch.io · 27/09/2026

It is definitely interesting to read 80s-era "pre-isekai" novels aimed at adults and see a lot of the same dynamics as modern isekai, it feels like they've really fallen out of the genre reader awareness compared to more children-aimed portal fantasy.

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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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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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