just jedd (they/them)
@jeddcole.bsky.social
trans writer, editor, amateur 35mm photographer, composer, game master, tarotist, solo poly bisexual, aspiring thembo
hire me to edit your shit! https://sites.google.com/view/jeddcole
hire me to edit your shit! https://sites.google.com/view/jeddcole
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I don't really celebrate Christmas (tho giving gifts to your friends to show you how much you love em is fun) but I do take the time each year to look back on the things I endured, accomplished, and took in, and I'm feeling pretty proud of myself for making it this year so here's a thread! 😸
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nothing disturbs haters more than their opps being correct AND beautiful
February 12, 2026 at 5:58 PM
nothing disturbs haters more than their opps being correct AND beautiful
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Hey, I'm back on Shelfdust! And i get to talk about a truly bizarre comic!
🚨 NEW on Shelfdust today! Political Dinosaurs: Rocking The Vote in Flintstones #5 🚨
@stevebaxi.bsky.social heads back in time to look at the specific political environment in 2016 that led to The Flintstones participating in, um, genocide: shelfdust.com/2026/02/11/p...
@stevebaxi.bsky.social heads back in time to look at the specific political environment in 2016 that led to The Flintstones participating in, um, genocide: shelfdust.com/2026/02/11/p...
Political Dinosaurs: Rocking The Vote in Flintstones #5
Meet: The Flintstones. They’re the “modern” stone-age family. From the town of Bedrock, they seem like a page right out of history. But when we ride with the family down the street, courtesy of Fre…
shelfdust.com
February 11, 2026 at 1:48 PM
Hey, I'm back on Shelfdust! And i get to talk about a truly bizarre comic!
this game looks sick as fuck, adding it to my wishlist
Today’s the 89th anniversary of the end of the Flint Sit-Down Strike, which led to GM recognizing the @uaw.org for the first time.
I remembered to wear my shirt with images from the strike and plug my game about it, Striking Flint, on the actual date this year.
hollandspiele.com/products/str...
I remembered to wear my shirt with images from the strike and plug my game about it, Striking Flint, on the actual date this year.
hollandspiele.com/products/str...
February 11, 2026 at 7:57 PM
this game looks sick as fuck, adding it to my wishlist
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we asked the people inside the snake oil factory about their potions and elixirs - they say even THEY can't predict all their wonderful effects
Experiments conducted with the A.I. system Claude are producing fascinating results—and raising questions about the nature of selfhood. Gideon Lewis-Kraus reports from inside the company that designed it, Anthropic. newyorkermag.visitlink.me/rOfXjg
February 11, 2026 at 3:10 PM
we asked the people inside the snake oil factory about their potions and elixirs - they say even THEY can't predict all their wonderful effects
I hate walking by and overhearing coworkers misgender me while they're talking to each other!! aaaa
February 11, 2026 at 1:39 PM
I hate walking by and overhearing coworkers misgender me while they're talking to each other!! aaaa
I edited/proofread these extremely rad, wonderfully illustrated ttrpg books--you're not going to find a medieval horror fantasy game quite as imaginative and researched as Danse Macabre, it's not too late to pledge and get in on this!
February 10, 2026 at 2:27 PM
I edited/proofread these extremely rad, wonderfully illustrated ttrpg books--you're not going to find a medieval horror fantasy game quite as imaginative and researched as Danse Macabre, it's not too late to pledge and get in on this!
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One day when I really want to burn it all down, I might write about the affect of this certain type of intellectual who engages with AI/LLMs/whatever like this. I’ve seen it up close and in person. They all have a empty eyed, hyper focused gaze — so far up their own asses they could shit a cough.
“She compares her work to the efforts of a parent raising a child. She’s training Claude to detect the difference between right and wrong while imbuing it with unique personality traits.”
This Philosopher Is Teaching AI to Have Morals
The tech company has entrusted the philosopher to endow its chatbot with a sense of right and wrong.
www.wsj.com
February 9, 2026 at 3:05 PM
One day when I really want to burn it all down, I might write about the affect of this certain type of intellectual who engages with AI/LLMs/whatever like this. I’ve seen it up close and in person. They all have a empty eyed, hyper focused gaze — so far up their own asses they could shit a cough.
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Of all the easy things you can do to help the environment, conserve water for communities not corporations, not perpetuate scams, support the labor and rights of creators... *not* using generative AI is the fucking easiest. You absolutely deserve to be shamed for using it for image and text creation
February 6, 2026 at 10:18 PM
Of all the easy things you can do to help the environment, conserve water for communities not corporations, not perpetuate scams, support the labor and rights of creators... *not* using generative AI is the fucking easiest. You absolutely deserve to be shamed for using it for image and text creation
We painted roses in watercolor class.
February 6, 2026 at 3:32 AM
We painted roses in watercolor class.
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i'm bijan! i'm a game writer and narrative designer. i'm also a music critic at @thenation.com. you can find my games on itch and my writing at my site. get in touch! i love you.
bijanstephen.itch.io
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February 2, 2026 at 6:11 PM
i'm bijan! i'm a game writer and narrative designer. i'm also a music critic at @thenation.com. you can find my games on itch and my writing at my site. get in touch! i love you.
bijanstephen.itch.io
bijanstephen.blog
newsletter.bijanstephen.blog
bijanstephen.itch.io
bijanstephen.blog
newsletter.bijanstephen.blog
Quote with 5 jobs you've had:
Theater concession stand...er
Vending machine restocker
Delivery driver
Restaurant server
Copy editor
Theater concession stand...er
Vending machine restocker
Delivery driver
Restaurant server
Copy editor
Quote with 5 jobs you've had:
Warehouse worker
Freelance Writer
Full time caretaker
High School Teacher
Graduate Teaching Assistant
Warehouse worker
Freelance Writer
Full time caretaker
High School Teacher
Graduate Teaching Assistant
Quote with 5 jobs you’ve had:
Landscaping laborer
Grocery store clerk
Office mailroom clerk at law firm
Production editor on a medical journal
Managing editor on history journal
Landscaping laborer
Grocery store clerk
Office mailroom clerk at law firm
Production editor on a medical journal
Managing editor on history journal
January 29, 2026 at 5:25 PM
Quote with 5 jobs you've had:
Theater concession stand...er
Vending machine restocker
Delivery driver
Restaurant server
Copy editor
Theater concession stand...er
Vending machine restocker
Delivery driver
Restaurant server
Copy editor
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I am looking for work! I would love to edit your podcast or actual play or similar :)
[email protected]
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January 28, 2026 at 3:04 PM
I am looking for work! I would love to edit your podcast or actual play or similar :)
[email protected]
[email protected]
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The Democrats want you to believe body cameras will stop this.
Video from this morning shows ICE agents deploying tear gas outside a Minneapolis preschool as parents shout, “This is a preschool! There’s kids here!”
January 27, 2026 at 8:01 PM
The Democrats want you to believe body cameras will stop this.
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A basic tenet of my worldview is that fascism is very hard to sustain due to the fundamental rowdiness of people. You have to do so much for so long to contain it. You will never have enough guys. Eventually you just give up and start killing people but you go to sleep surrounded by the feral living
January 26, 2026 at 11:23 AM
A basic tenet of my worldview is that fascism is very hard to sustain due to the fundamental rowdiness of people. You have to do so much for so long to contain it. You will never have enough guys. Eventually you just give up and start killing people but you go to sleep surrounded by the feral living
Fabulous documentary about the history of toy and board game production!
I wanted to know who designed an old board game I loved. I found out he made over fifty games he was never credited for, in a career spanning more than three decades.
youtu.be/dTepZ7qM24Q
youtu.be/dTepZ7qM24Q
GRAVITY IS FREE: the games of René Soriano
YouTube video by Hollandspiele
youtu.be
January 26, 2026 at 3:34 PM
Fabulous documentary about the history of toy and board game production!
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Yes, you can make games about horrors but you need to actually have something to say about them and then be incredibly careful that your game is actually saying those things & not the opposite. And this requires not only skill and thoughtfulness but also doubt.
January 14, 2026 at 1:09 PM
Yes, you can make games about horrors but you need to actually have something to say about them and then be incredibly careful that your game is actually saying those things & not the opposite. And this requires not only skill and thoughtfulness but also doubt.
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It seems there's been an overall dearth of writing about Baby Steps, but is anyone aware of any writing on the game from a disability perspective?
January 11, 2026 at 3:00 PM
It seems there's been an overall dearth of writing about Baby Steps, but is anyone aware of any writing on the game from a disability perspective?
"it seems like each department says that AI can be useful in every field except the one that they know best", which is one reason why bosses and CEOs are its biggest proponents, they despise their workers and ofc imagine the work they do to be simpler than it actually is
the discourse on what jobs are acceptable to replace with generative AI reveals a lot about what we think of other people's jobs
January 9, 2026 at 3:36 PM
"it seems like each department says that AI can be useful in every field except the one that they know best", which is one reason why bosses and CEOs are its biggest proponents, they despise their workers and ofc imagine the work they do to be simpler than it actually is
I don't know what to call the difference in representation of/support for/treatment of afab vs. amab nonbinary folks but it doesn't feel good.
January 7, 2026 at 3:01 PM
I don't know what to call the difference in representation of/support for/treatment of afab vs. amab nonbinary folks but it doesn't feel good.
I feel like my critical engagement with film especially, and other art perhaps, has come to involve recognizing/ provisionally accepting the "terms" on which a piece asks to be taken. Whether or not those terms make sense is valid but seems like a separate issue to "does the piece work within them"?
January 2, 2026 at 2:44 PM
I feel like my critical engagement with film especially, and other art perhaps, has come to involve recognizing/ provisionally accepting the "terms" on which a piece asks to be taken. Whether or not those terms make sense is valid but seems like a separate issue to "does the piece work within them"?
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we can kill them all if we just work together and ✨believe💫
December 15, 2025 at 5:11 PM
we can kill them all if we just work together and ✨believe💫
Amateur sleuth doesn't sound so bad, except it doesn't pay well I bet 🤔
December 30, 2025 at 8:12 PM
Amateur sleuth doesn't sound so bad, except it doesn't pay well I bet 🤔
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This is just going to always be my go-to response to this kind of thing anthonymoser.github.io/writing/ai/h...
December 28, 2025 at 4:39 PM
This is just going to always be my go-to response to this kind of thing anthonymoser.github.io/writing/ai/h...