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author - DIY & dragons, the Lunar Flaneur
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The research articles we produce with AI can now be reviewed by AI with nearly human-level performance, assigned to students who use AI to submit term papers similar to those done by humans, which can then be graded by AI too.

Or, you know, we could just read, write, and think with our brains.
November 24, 2025 at 11:45 PM
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New post on the Magnum Galaxy Gazette: an interview with my long-time collaborator @golden-achiever.bsky.social about design, #OSR RPGs, and his first zine series, The International Player’s Review. Come for the interview, stay for the links!
Starting your Own OSR Zine
An Interview with Golden Achiever
open.substack.com
November 19, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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NEW: When Propecy Fails is one of the most famous social psychology books of all time, a look at a small group of UFO believers when the “spacemen” failed to land. I wrote about a new study from an independent researcher who says the book is not what it seems. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
It’s one of the most influential social psychology studies ever. Was it all a lie?
A classic book on UFO believers and their "cognitive dissonance" after aliens failed to land is called into question.
www.motherjones.com
November 25, 2025 at 12:36 PM
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A Grimlow attacks! A monster unique to ShadowDark #grimlow #shadowdark #monstermanual #shadowdarkrpg #osrart
November 23, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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November 24, 2025 at 9:02 AM
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Reposting my 2018 piece about year end lists for anyone who needs it (me!). www.damemagazine.com/2018/12/19/i...
It’s Time to Reconsider the Best-Of List - Dame Magazine
The piles of books and galleys that clutter my apartment are overwhelming. This is not a humble brag—more of a cry for help. I’m a culture writer and critic who is deeply entrenched in the book world....
www.damemagazine.com
November 24, 2025 at 12:37 PM
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Books We Love is back with a brand new batch of hand-picked titles. Mix and match tags like “Book Club Ideas” and “Eye-Opening Reads.” Find 380+ new 2025 reads, and stick around to browse more than 4,000 books from the last 13 years.
Books We Love
Here are 380+ great reads from 2025 handpicked just for you by NPR staffers and trusted critics.
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November 24, 2025 at 12:27 PM
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Encroaching upon a cyclopean city.

#PROCJAM 2025 #gamedev #pixelart
November 24, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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Are you looking to go whaling on an astral sea? On a pure coincidence, I've got a meat grinder table for you.

#hismajestytheworm #hmtw

wayspell.blogspot.com/2025/11/hmtw...
[HMtW] Encounters Upon the Astral Sea
Whaling Upon an Astral Sea Some dang fool blorbed an astral whaling ship into their prep, but never reckoned the players would set foot on t...
wayspell.blogspot.com
November 24, 2025 at 3:34 PM
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One more oil pastel painting for good measure: I always have to do a crystal island in a new medium, and this one, painted on a wood panel for maximum softness and painterliness, is one of my favourite islands from this year! Oil pastels have been so rewarding, and I hope you enjoyed this art tour!
November 24, 2025 at 4:07 PM
"The Bathysphere Book" by Brad Fox is a history of the bathysphere and a biography of William Beebe, who dove in it in the 1930s to observe deeper than any human before. Fox blends diary excerpts, art from Else Bostelmann, and short bios of lots of people tenuously related to Beebe.

💙📚 #bookreview
The Bathysphere Book
The Bathysphere Book Effects of the Luminous Ocean Depths by Brad Fox Astra 2023      I think there's some value in allowing your friends'...
lunarflaneur.blogspot.com
November 24, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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Oh hey, this is me! Constance is a fast and fluid upcoming metroidvania that unfortunately chose to push its barely-there ~mental health journey~ angle to the fore, instead of the ~we made a very pretty and really quite well designed metroidvania~ parts instead:

www.pcgamer.com/games/action...
Constance is a metroidvania that wants its monsters to mean something
I want them to mean something, too.
www.pcgamer.com
November 23, 2025 at 6:15 AM
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This is very good. Clear, calm, factual, and devastating for proponents of bans on puberty blockers for trans youth.

theconversation.com/puberty-bloc...
Puberty blockers: why politicians overriding doctors sets a dangerous precedent
The government’s ban on puberty blockers undermines clinical expertise and targets trans youth with a policy that lacks evidence, consistency and fairness.
theconversation.com
November 23, 2025 at 11:42 AM
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Finally out into the world, the labour of many months. My long essay in the inaugural edition of the Alter Magazine on the pasts, presents, and futures of Indian science fiction.

“The Secret History of Indian Science Fiction” —

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The Secret History of Indian Science Fiction.
Before Asimov, there was Rokeya.
altermag.com
November 22, 2025 at 6:11 AM
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Part 7/7 is in people’s inboxes today!

That’s a wrap on “A Road Less Taken.” I hope y’all enjoyed it, got a glimpse into what @scottishbooktrust.bsky.social offers, & had a good National Book Week wherever you happen to be!

This was part 6: mailchi.mp/scottishbook...
November 23, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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Oil pastels are also a fantastic medium for plein air work - all the powerful opaque colour of gouache, the blendability of oils, and the throw-in-a-box-in-your-bag ease of pencils or markers. I use them in my royal talens art creation sketchbooks and they hold up better than I could hope!
November 23, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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Random drawings of animals at the San Diego Zoo.
November 23, 2025 at 3:59 PM
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New blog post: How I Write Adventures
Not a “how-to,” but a reflection on what’s shaped my process—vision, layout, and creative flow. Just how I do it.
#OSR #NSR #TTRPG
How I Write Adventures
#017 Thoughts on vision, layout, and creative flow
golemproductions.substack.com
November 23, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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In Mausantara, forests are not safe places. Even village bamboo thickets have spirits that are to be feared and placated. The upshot of this is that most people only visit neighbouring villages a few times in their lives.

Only six more backers needed.
MZ01: Pandan Island
Welcome to Parahyangan, the mountainous regions of West Java, the literal home of the gods (hyang). This first issue features a zooming hex flower which focuses on Pandan Island and features stock art...
www.backerkit.com
November 23, 2025 at 5:23 AM
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Friend of the #TorontOSR, Jonathan Benn, writes about his approach to creating dungeons. Nice solid advice for people new to creating your own adventures.
Writing New Dungeons
www.benn.ca
November 23, 2025 at 4:35 PM
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Who invests in critical thinking and who invests in an AI chatbot to help you think will be really telling.
November 23, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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I really cannot recommend this excellent piece on Hammersmith Bridge highly enough
Hammersmith Bridge
Where did 25,000 vehicles go?
nickmaini.substack.com
November 21, 2025 at 10:24 PM
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Spent the last two weeks working on this, missing deadlines and not answering messages---but this thing was in my mind like a psychic worm; I just had to get it out, you know?

Process notes and extra thoughts here: slowlorispress.com/post/8005714...

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CHAPTER SERF
CHAPTER SERF is a tabletop roleplaying game and adventure, set in Warhammer 40K, where you play those hooded peasant weirdos you sometimes spot in the backgrounds of the art. Full PDF downloadable...
slowlorispress.com
November 18, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Today's #SundaySong is "Indifferent" by Rowena Wise. It's a song about making yourself fall back out of love after a breakup. She knows she'll see him again, knows he'll try to date her again, so as she gets over the unexpected loss, she's hardening herself against the expected attempted sequel.
Rowena Wise - Indifferent (Official Video)
YouTube video by Rowena Wise
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November 23, 2025 at 6:11 PM
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Blogpost: A follow-up to my previous one about Mothership campaign frameworks, this time talking about shore leave and scarcity in the context of a low prep, semi-open table campaign
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Mothership Campaign Framework 2: Shore Leave & Scarcity - Pointless Monument
You’re light years away from home, your vaccsuit is torn up and covered in the multi-coloured blood of an unknown horror… and the vending machine
pointlessmonument.blot.im
November 22, 2025 at 2:47 PM