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PJ Coffey - They/Them @[email protected]
@homebrewandhacking.bsky.social
💛 I make tools for GMs for 5e, A5e, and Free5e
🤍 I do developmental editing and design.
💜 I broadcast TTRPG news and support indie devs and artists.
🖤 I chat about funding and publishing TTRPG books.

http://Homebrewandhacking.com
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"I followed this profile" reaction table (2d6)

Hostile
2- You're selling AI or investment opportunities
3- You're on BS to talk about US politics
4- You expect me to auto follow back

Unfriendly
5- You don't use alt-text
6- You haven't filled in your profile

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Say less.
November 25, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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I'd make that sacrifice personally. I need a job, and I'm already on the brink. Plus, as a woman, I'm used to laughing at jokes that aren't funny and propping up sensitive egos
November 24, 2025 at 4:45 PM
True AGI!

A Guy Instead.
Founders on LinkedIn still seem to be struggling with the difference between telling people about their humble beginnings and admitting to straight up committing fraud.
November 25, 2025 at 2:41 AM
Never go back to your X.
Delete your Twitter account. That platform is built for right wing propaganda and harassment and that's it.
I wrote about the fake account blowup on X this weekend. A genuine post-truth nightmare and proof that these companies have polluted their platforms so thoroughly and traded reality for profit that they've undermined the very idea of what the internet is supposed to be.
November 24, 2025 at 8:20 PM
I'm in the final stages of getting the 2026 new horror list ready to launch, so a reminder: please let me know about your books if you haven't already! RTs very appreciated
do you have a horror/horror-ish book coming out in 2026? tell me about it here, please! I'm working on the 2026 horror list and while I'm very good at sniffing out new books, I still miss things - help me help you!

forms.gle/KxLNwVDVbbRS...
November 24, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Question your assumptions. Engage with reality.
But most generations today have basically been conditioned to believe humanity cannot exist without burning coal, oil and gas, even though all three of them are historically very recent.

Fatalists (whether from the fossil industry or just volunteers) set their mind to helping preserve this belief
November 24, 2025 at 9:49 AM
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Consider who has a conflict of interest and why if they say that guardrails on LLMs are possible.

Who paid them? What start-up do they have? Always search scientists names as journals do not often consider this a conflict.

bsky.app/profile/oliv...

9/n
Non-industry compromised scientists keep saying these models don't become safe, no matter what, but people keep thinking just because the concept of guardrails is mentioned it must work. By definition, it doesn't. This is not something open to discussion, unless you're a paid shill.
"Powered by OpenAI’s GPT-4o model by default...tests repeatedly showed that the AI toy dropped its guardrails the longer a conversation went on, until hitting rock bottom on incredibly disturbing topics."
November 17, 2025 at 6:24 AM
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If you're out there even going through the process to pirate Harry Potter shit, instead of just finding ANYTHING ELSE, all it proves is that your moral values only go as far as your own consumption.

It's not that you can't, you won't even TRY to leave it behind.

And THAT is what disgusts me.
November 22, 2025 at 4:50 AM
Even pirating Harry Potter lends the fandom legitimacy and currency.

People, big respected names, took joy in disclosing they were playing the game, to taunt trans people.

Don't be that person. Ignore it. Watch a better show, read a book that doesn't help fuel trans genocide.

#harryPotter
HBO CEO Casey Bloys says 'HARRY POTTER' Season 2 is already being written

"We’re going to do whatever we can to not have a huge gap, for the kids, obviously, but also for viewers"
November 23, 2025 at 7:31 AM
One of my hobbies is strolling the timeline leaving random bits of encouragement to people. Maybe a happy birthday here and there where appropriate.

It bucks people up and that's important.

I don't just do it here. I watch but don't post reels. Being kind is easy there.

Not a fan of AI mind.
November 22, 2025 at 11:26 PM
Was assumed to be a 20 sth femme presenting type today.

In a strange way, quite gender affirming. :)
November 22, 2025 at 11:21 PM
November 22, 2025 at 10:35 PM
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this is how you lose the dish war
November 22, 2025 at 4:22 PM
AI goon remains my semantic weapon of choice, but these may also amuse you.

Remember: it has to fit your hand and your purpose.
AI SLURS

*ahem*

Clanker
Slopper
Token tanker
Thought stopper
November 22, 2025 at 7:44 PM
The Black Lives Matter movement was wildly influential and sorely needed.

I'm just a little sad that the cast of Brooklyn 99 felt that they couldn't really keep doing their show because it was copaganda.

I mean, they were right, it _was_, but it was also comforting. And I miss that a bit.
November 22, 2025 at 7:26 PM
Orrrr you could #voteGreen and not for massive arseholes.

Have you seen those polling numbers?
"Reform would be worse" is both entirely correct and entirely irrelevant until polling day 2029. What matters right now is that Labour's approach is morally repugnant on its own terms, *and is empowering Reform*. As things stand today, its not Labour or Reform. Its Labour *then* Reform.
While it feels like I'm repeatedly slamming my head against a brick wall repeating this massively simple concept. Saying "Reform would be worse" doesn't make what Labour is doing better. Labour is now the most anti-immigration, anti-any marginalised group, government we have seen in decades. 1/
November 22, 2025 at 7:14 PM
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I forgot, I put a printable version of my #bookmark #game, "Cut Off Your Face", up on itch.

It's....here! And #free.
(any donations go to Cornforth Animal Welfare Society)

#ttrpg #surrealism
Cut Off Your Face (Bookmark Version) by Joy
A micro-game of mental autonomy.
joymakesmonsters.itch.io
November 14, 2025 at 6:38 PM
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Journalist challenge: Use “Machine Learning” when you mean machine learning and “LLM” when you mean LLM. Ditch “AI” as a catch-all term, it’s not useful for readers and it helps companies trying to confuse the public by obscuring the roles played by different technologies. 🧪
November 22, 2025 at 4:50 PM
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November 22, 2025 at 5:40 PM
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I was kinda nervous about giving this speech TBH. I don't usually get nervous about public speaking but going to a fancy Washington DC event and talking about fascism and why AI sucks felt like a lot honestly. I was so relieved people seemed to like it.
November 22, 2025 at 2:13 PM
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Ooh stretch goal "fight lawful good god" unlocked. Shiny!

(it's not my project, I'm just unreasonably excited by the idea).

www.kickstarter.com/projects/170...
Codex of Celestials - a Celestial Pantheon for 5E D&D
A Dungeons & Dragons 5E/5.5E compatible supplement that adds in a Celestial pantheon, their lore, and additional worldbuilding.
www.kickstarter.com
November 22, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Imagine someone who had a modicum of cunning getting hold of an AI.

Who was less obvious about shaping what they wanted you to think.
"Grok has been tweaked sometime in the last several days and will now choose Musk as being superior to the entire rest of humanity at any given task."

Any given task? C'mon, that's hyperbole--there are lots of ridiculous tasks that it can't possible claim . . . oh
November 22, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Ooh stretch goal "fight lawful good god" unlocked. Shiny!

(it's not my project, I'm just unreasonably excited by the idea).

www.kickstarter.com/projects/170...
Codex of Celestials - a Celestial Pantheon for 5E D&D
A Dungeons & Dragons 5E/5.5E compatible supplement that adds in a Celestial pantheon, their lore, and additional worldbuilding.
www.kickstarter.com
November 22, 2025 at 1:15 PM