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Brian Kolm
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Artist and Instructor in the SF Bay Area.
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glyphtide.games
I have donated an amount equivalent to the revenue I have received from Chain×Link to the Minnesota Immigrant Rapid Response Fund.

This growing cruelty must be stopped.
Screenshot of donation receipt for $730.53 (and $5.00 processing support) to the Women's Foundation of Minnesota Immigrant Rapid Response Fund.
January 25, 2026 at 3:30 PM
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amabel.bsky.social
It's presented as a found object from an estate sale: a game box, and it contains parts of a game, but also some personal effects of its owner

it's likely to result in about 40,000 words of text across various artifacts and media

piecing things together is a kind of play, but are you "playing" it?
January 25, 2026 at 1:43 PM
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grickle.bsky.social
Secrets. #grickledoodle #hemanandthemastersoftheuniverse #skeleton #closet #cartoon #art #drawing #funny #humor
A cartoon illustration of an anxious He-Man putting his friends' coats away in a closet hiding a very scared looking Skeletor. Caption reads "He was terrified they would find his Skeletor in the closet."
January 25, 2026 at 5:01 PM
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knaveofcups.com
10/10 fool

@ayolland.bsky.social‘s bindle totally has a lil smiling sun on it
helveticablanc.bsky.social Helvetica Blanc @helveticablanc.bsky.social · 15h
Goblin Week 2026
0 — The Fool
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For this year's Goblin Week I'm starting a Goblin Tarot deck — I'll post the first seven this week, and the rest as I make them on Patreon.

patreon.com/helveticablanc
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#goblinweek
#goblinweek2026
The tarot card for The Fool, showing a goblin about to blissfully walk off a cliff while holding a bindle and a rose. They're followed by a worm.
January 25, 2026 at 5:06 PM
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jpcoovert.bsky.social
Thinking about all my Minneapolis friends and BLASTING some Against All Authority. Stay strong, stay warm, stay loud!
January 25, 2026 at 5:34 PM
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thoughtrise.bsky.social
this field biologist does a great job highlighting the insidiousness of AI editing

these one-click AI edit buttons are incredibly appealing to many photographers, amateurs and professionals alike, and are framed as innocuous

this is worth sharing and educating people about
screenshot of a post on facebook from Alex Lamoreaux, depicting two versions of the "same" photograph of a bobcat in front of a pine plantation, one labeled original game cam photo, one labeling AI processed the markings have been altered on the AI photo, and the head changed and resized text says: Oh! A neat goose hybrid posted to ‘What’s this Bird?’ but when you zoom in on the photos the bill details have been too manipulated by AI photo editing to be accurately assessed for which species may be involved. Scroll on… A cool-looking Red-tailed Hawk that someone is wondering which subspecies it might be - right up my alley! But when you zoom in on the photos literally every feather group has been so heavily manipulated and altered by AI editing that it’s impossible to determine subspecies because the photo is essentially fake now; just a mashup of whatever AI thinks parts of a Red-tail should look like. Scroll on… WOW! That’s a remarkable trail cam photo of a Bobcat! It almost looks like a painting!… but the head looks oddly small…. hmmmm. After some prodding the original photo is produced and sure enough it had been so heavily altered by AI ‘post processing’ that the photo posted was essentially a digital mock-up with totally different proportions and fur markings. No longer the photo off the trail cam; it may as well have just been ‘created’ by AI from scratch. This stuff is killing me. My days on social media are becoming very limited. We can’t even trust simple, everyday photos of animals to be real. The wildlife community needs to quit editing with AI, and we need to start calling out photographers that are using it. Our reality is being destroyed all around us.
December 15, 2025 at 2:21 AM
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d20monkey.bsky.social
Seeing hot takes and discourse over a He-Man trailer. Bud, this is a movie based on an 80s cartoon that had jacked characters, swords, talking tigers, magic, and a dude with a skull for a face. Calm the fuck down.

Also knowing if it DIDN’T look like the cartoon they’d be pissed about that too.
January 24, 2026 at 7:32 PM
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catieosaurus.bsky.social
TTRPG friends, Matt, our friend and community member @nurdrocks.bsky.social has been taken by ICE while his back was turned, peacefully protesting. Matt is the founder of Justice Frontline Aid that provides aid & education in the MN community. I've linked the video footage below. Do not stay silent.
January 24, 2026 at 7:38 PM
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audiosand.bsky.social
On a downtown street in Minneapolis, as people stream out from the massive march, Mary Tyler Moore says “fuck ice.”
A picture of the Mary Tyler Moore statue in downtown Minneapolis, depicting the iconic moment from the show where she throws her hat in the air. But the hat has been covered over with a protesters cardboard sign, reading “FUCK ICE.”
January 23, 2026 at 10:29 PM
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bagleycartoons.bsky.social
The reason for the psychotic break in America is FoxNews convinced your neighbors, relatives, and coworkers that White People are the most discriminated-against race in America

They think THEY’RE Anne Frank hiding out in an attic from jack-booted cross-dressers
January 24, 2026 at 1:21 AM
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muskratjohn.bsky.social
We are here to help each other get through this thing...whatever it is. - Kurt Vonnegut
November 26, 2024 at 6:37 PM
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stephenrbissette.bsky.social
Original art rescued & returned this past week by Murphy Anderson III: Gerhard's original painted colors (over a photocopy of my original cover b&w art) for TYRANT® #4.

Never thought we'd ever see this again—and it's thankfully here! Scanning from source materials for TYRANT® crowdfunder in Feb.
January 22, 2026 at 2:21 PM
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starshinescribbles.bsky.social
Did You Know:

The Library Of Congress lets you used hundreds of their images in your projects!

www.youtube.com/shorts/-xTMD...
Get FREE Images From The Library of Congress! #contentcreation #contenttips
YouTube video by Starshine Scribbles
www.youtube.com
January 22, 2026 at 4:58 AM
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skullivander.bsky.social
Struggling with doing what I need to do to get the results I want sooooo I did a comic!

First panel is "The Deposition" by Michelangelo. Third panel is a self-portait by Rembrandt. Fifth panel is "Portrait of Pompeius Occo" by Dirck Jacobsz.
January 22, 2026 at 6:17 AM
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the-soloist.itch.io
The Yes/No Oracle is an esssential piece of your solo RPG toolkit. The newest issue of The Soloist tackles when and how to use it, types of questions to ask, and handling the "Buts" and "Ands." soloist.substack.com
#solorpg #ttrpg
YES/NO ORACLE d6 Answer Interpreting 1 No, and... Add a cost or increase intensity. 2 No. No. 3 No, but... Add a silver lining or alternative. 4 Yes, but... Add a complication, cost, or twist 5 Yes. Yes. 6 Yes, and... Add a benefit or increase intensity. • Ask a question as you might ask a GM. • If the answer could benefit the character, frame it so "Yes" is the win. • Even Odds: Roll 1d6. • Likely: Roll 2d6, keep the highest. • Unlikely: Roll 2d6, keep the lowest.
January 21, 2026 at 5:16 PM
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segedy.bsky.social
If you've purchased a game from the Bully Pulpit Games store, it was shipped from Minnesota by the good people at the Atlas Games warehouse.

We absolutely stand in solidarity with our friends there in standing up to ICE, and we hope you will too.
January 20, 2026 at 5:50 PM
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jimmyshelter.bsky.social
I wrote a small retrospective about 2025.

My releases, my game income and my plans.

open.substack.com/pub/monsterm...
2025 - A year in review
Game writing income, publications and future plans
open.substack.com
January 20, 2026 at 12:21 PM
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garenewing.bsky.social
Happy new year :-) Lot's of challenges last year - hope for lots of good stuff for you in 2026.
Two panels from my Julius Chancer adventure comic, The Brambletye Box, both close-quarter views of occupants of cars speeding alongside each other and looking at each other; 1) Julius Chancer and Sir Alfred Catesby-Grey, looking somewhat perturbed, 2) a villainous looking group, two men in the front and a woman in a white suit and hat and holding a pistol in the back, smiling and grinning.
January 7, 2026 at 12:10 PM
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mattknight.bsky.social
a chart from Penn Media Accountability Project (PennMAP)'s Media Bias Detector project showing overwhelming ratio of mainstream media coverage of Biden's Age in 2024 compared with coverage of Project 2025, as much as 48.7x at Fox News, 10.9x at the NYT, and 2.8x at HUffPost. source: https://mediabiasdetector.seas.upenn.edu/blog/new-york-times-biden-s-age-is-10-9x-more-important-than-trump-s/
January 14, 2026 at 9:23 PM
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juddlegum.bsky.social
1. ICE has STOPPED PAYING for medical treatment for its 73,000 detainees

ICE has not paid its bills to 3rd party providers since OCTOBER and the situation will likely persist for MONTHS, a Popular Information investigation reveals

Meanwhile, critically ill ICE detainees are not receiving care

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ICE has stopped paying for detainee medical treatment
ICE halted payments in October, and the situation will persist for at least several more months
popular.info
January 20, 2026 at 1:42 PM
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theserfstv.bsky.social
Sweden becomes the first country to ban all AI music from their official charts! Huge win!
Swedish flag NO AI Allowed: Sweden Bans AI Generated songs from official charts
January 19, 2026 at 11:42 PM
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cartoonbrew.bsky.social
Exclusive: Check out Netflix's official English-subtitled trailer for 'Samuel,' the minimalist French animated micro-series that will debut worldwide on the platform on February 5.
www.cartoonbrew.com/interviews/e...
January 20, 2026 at 3:01 PM
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bakenshake.bsky.social
What if creating maps was done through letter writing? I give you....Epistle Maps. Frist write-up of my first system :)

theplayreports.com/posts/epistl...
The Play Reports
Epistle Maps, An Exquisite Hamlet
theplayreports.com
January 19, 2026 at 9:24 PM
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tahk0.bsky.social
I’ve posted this a million times, too many people forgot what social media was like before the algorithm spoon fed you

you can have cool stuff on your timeline if you actually follow people posting cool stuff it’s that easy
jcsalterego.bsky.social Jerry Chen @jcsalterego.bsky.social · Jun 12
bluesky is the #1 app for introspection
a comic with three frames: 1) a man is reading a book entitled "Why Your Bluesky Timeline Is Bad" 2) the man is looking at a page in the book and it reads "skill issue" 3) the man cries tears of anguish
January 20, 2026 at 2:50 AM
briankolm.bsky.social
I finally finished my solo campaign and drew an final drawing featuring at least 15 characters. Started the game in May 2024, played off and on and learned a lot about how I like to play.

219 hours - 101 sessions - 62+ characters - 309 pages

#supercity24 #sketchbooksolorpg #solorpg #ttrpg
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A final illustration on the final page of my longest solo campaign so far. In front in J-Box K a.k.a Kurt Mc Ivy a magic born (i.e. magic construct) a superhero in the small northern california town of Heathburg. The game ends with an event, the wedding of his parents Helen and chris and attended by family and friends. His mother Helen plays a guitar with her husband as they sing a favorite son. The game spans 4.5 sketchbooks and so I had to go back and find drawings of different characters, which took time, but was fun.
January 20, 2026 at 6:32 AM