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Queen of the Giraffes 👑🦒 @diyanddragons.bsky.social · 20m

I don't know why, but if all the lies he constantly tells, I find this one especially annoying. Maybe I'm just extra annoyed at Reuters for printing this like it has any meaning or could possibly be true.

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meyo 🌸 @meyoco.bsky.social · 10h

pink skies 💖☁️

Digital painting of a girl with long pink hair, wearing a long blue dress with stars and pink clouds on the skirt.

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Assigned Media @assignedmedia.org · 6h

Pew poll finds just 31% of parents accept their trans kids. Crucial to dialog around GAC which focuses on affirming parents. This is directly _opposite_ a 2023 WashPo/KKF poll 2023 (tinyurl.com/ph5u6pnh) which found two-thirds of transppl said families were supportive. @rikiwilchins.bsky.social

Most trans adults say transitioning made them more satisfied with their lives

The Post-KFF survey is the largest, nongovernmental survey of transgender Americans using randomized sampling methods.

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David Blandy makes games sometimes @davidblandyrpgs.bsky.social · 3h

Multi-purpose point-crawls. Might be handy for your game this evening

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Multi-purpose Maps

Need a map for your game tonight, but run out of time/spoons?

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🪼Jellyfishlines is Haunting You🪼 @jellyfishlines.itch.io · 2d

Share Absurdia with that friend that is still listening to WTNV, the two that like Gravity Falls and The Twilight Zone, and that one that is totally normal about Alice in Wonderland!

At 25k I (and other really cool folks!) get to write for the game!
www.backerkit.com/c/projects/q...

Absurdia: The (Meta)Physical Edition

An absurdist tabletop roleplaying game about the inane hilarity and mundane horror of everyday life, inspired by Welcome to Night Vale, Alice in Wonderland, and Gravity Falls.

www.backerkit.com

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Queen of the Giraffes 👑🦒 @diyanddragons.bsky.social · 1h

Rhyming ichor with liqueure, like a true sicko.

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Rascal News @rascal.news · 7h

Reshare: Even as TSR and D&D’s early periods receive the gold-standard treatment, there’s much more to the hobby than one game and one company. But are those histories actually important? What is at stake if we forget them?

www.rascal.news/we-cant-let-...

We can’t let the market decide what we remember and forget

Emily Friedman and Evan Torner on why gaming histories matter.

www.rascal.news

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Queen of the Giraffes 👑🦒 @diyanddragons.bsky.social · 13h

They govern the same way. When national policy is liberal, advocate for the principle of states' rights to be locally conservative. When national policy is conservative, decry any attempt to have local policies to the left of the nation. (And in red states, ban cities from making their own laws.)

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theinscrutabledr3 @theinscrutabledr3.bsky.social · 1d

Latest lettered Land of Azurth comic page with art by Mike Kazaleh.

Black and white comics page about the adventures of a frog lingerie thief.

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Queen of the Giraffes 👑🦒 @diyanddragons.bsky.social · 21h

He really just has no idea what numbers mean, does he?

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Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 1d

"The views expressed by users @kaioken8026, @mrright8439, and @ZxZNebula ... do not alter the Court’s analysis."

The Court holds, based upon a full consideration of the context in which “Not Like Us” was published, that a reasonable listener could not have concluded that “Not Like Us” was conveying objective facts about Drake. The views expressed by users @kaioken8026, @mrright8439, and @ZxZNebula, and the other YouTube and Instagram commentators quoted in the Complaint, Am. Compl., ¶¶ 73-74, do not alter the Court’s analysis. In a world in which billions of people are active online, support for almost any proposition, no matter how farfetched, fantastical or unreasonable, can be found with little effort in any number of comment sections, chat rooms, and servers. “[T]hat some readers may infer a defamatory meaning from a statement does not necessarily render the inference reasonable under the circumstances.” Jacobus, 51 N.Y.S.3d at 336.

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Zak H. | Bommyknocker Press @bommyknocker.bsky.social · 2d

New gameable blogpost: summon one of 3d6 good dogs with this holy relic.

#osr #blogpost #dogpost
bommyknocker.bearblog.dev/dog-dagger/

Dog Dagger

3d6 magical dogs and a means to summon them (apart from a juicy steak).

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 1d

2. The Australian report, titled “Cass Review does not guide care for trans young people,” is the latest in a swelling body of literature debunking some of the most harmful myths propagated by the project—one laced with politically-charged and frankly shoddy pseudoscience.

Cass Review does not guide care for trans young people

Click on the article title to read more.

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Queen of the Giraffes 👑🦒 @diyanddragons.bsky.social · 21h

Teeth was kind of a romp!

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Ryan Lynch @outridercreative.bsky.social · 1d

Cheese dungeon is starting to take shape. Usually I try and ground my location designs in real spaces but cheese dungeon begs to be gonzo, so going through every single room and trying to make it more weird. Is definitely a fun challenge.

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ktrey @ktrey.bsky.social · 1d

d100 - Wilderness Fauna
Weaving some more Wildlife into those Overland Journeys
blog.d4caltrops.com/2025/10/d100...
#osr #randomtables #ttrpgs

d100 - Wilderness Fauna

A s part of my Preparation for a new Wilderness Stocking Resource (an Overland version of my Dungeon Stocking – Expanded ) I’ve identified...

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NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · 1d

Yep. Same: ash.harvard.edu/resources/wa...

Watching the Generative AI Hype Bubble Deflate – Ash Center

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Queen of the Giraffes 👑🦒 @diyanddragons.bsky.social · 1d

Trump's a lady who's sure all that glitters is gold.

Queen of the Giraffes 👑🦒 @diyanddragons.bsky.social · 1d

How about someone talk to this kid who apparently attacked two other kids in one day!

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Monday @mondave.bsky.social · 1d

Quick lil repost for the morning osr crowd! Yesterday my home ttrpg system “Pilgrim’s Passages” entered public beta. It’s pay what you want so feel free to download it for free!

Play as pilgrims, wandering mediators for spirits and craftsfolk. Solve problems, explore, and make stuff!

Monday @mondave.bsky.social · 1d

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Pilgrim's Passages by Monday Cox

A rule set for playing adventure games about pilgrims, the items they carry, and the places they travel.

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Queen of the Giraffes 👑🦒 @diyanddragons.bsky.social · 1d

Oh my god, how awful! 🫂💜🫂

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Queen of the Giraffes 👑🦒 @diyanddragons.bsky.social · 1d

Patrick Bringley's "All the Beauty in the World" is at least as much about the author's journey through his grief after the death of his older brother as it is about the Met, or about what it's like to work as a museum guard.

I was reminded of Peter Bearman's study, "Doormen."

💙📚 #bookreview

All the Beauty in the World

All the Beauty in the World The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me by Patrick Bringley Simon and Schuster 2023 All the Beauty in the ...

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xaosseed @xaosseed.bsky.social · 2d

Inspired by @prokopetz.bsky.social post that on hospitality obligations of the wealthy and "you’re missing an opportunity if you never talk about the Guests" - d30 guests to enliven your noble courts, great houses and wizards manses

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#dnd #diyrpg #ttrpg

d30 Entertainingly Weird Guests

Inspired by @prokopetz making the point that "hospitality was a major part of a wealthy household’s basic social obligations" and "at any gi...

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ouinne @ouinne.bsky.social · 2d

The only correct take on a fundamentally anti-human technology.

Screenshot of David Simon interview
SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

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Jeremy Parish, imperial aerosol kid @jparish.bsky.social · 1d

Remember how I kept talking about the Metroidvania book I had in the works, and then it kinda dropped off the radar? I didn't lose interest. I was just working with a Legit Major Publisher (Dark Horse!) on turning it into the pilot release for a Press Run team-up: www.gamespot.com/articles/exp...

Explore The Origins Of Metroidvania In This New Retro Gaming Book

This new book will explore the history of the enduring metroidvania genre in video games.

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