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Rae @rachelseeley.bsky.social · 7h

I wanna be back in France, I need some kwassonts 🥐

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Rae @rachelseeley.bsky.social · 1d

Maybe those are his pj's, his bed kinda looks like a pirate ship.

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Johnnie Jae @johnniejae.bsky.social · 1d

And here it is! The article I wrote for Truthout regarding #IndigenousPeoplesDay and the assault on birthright citizenship and tribal sovereignty.

Truthout @truthout.org · 1d

Indigenous Peoples’ Day has never been just a celebration. It is a call to action against the ongoing assault on our sovereignty and existence.

Native Survival Depends on Protecting Both Tribal and US Citizenship Rights

Trump’s attacks on Native sovereignty and citizenship are a deliberate effort to undermine the rights of tribal nations.

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Dr. Emily Friedman @friede.bsky.social · 2d

Putting out a call: if you were part of WOTC’s late-2010s live events (Stream of Many Eyes, D&D Live, The Descent), I would love to talk to you as part of the Actual Play book.

[email protected] will reach me, either to schedule a chat or to share your memories.

Please feel free to share.

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Rae @rachelseeley.bsky.social · 2d

I was! Happy to chat about it.

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Rae @rachelseeley.bsky.social · 3d

Me stepping in a fairy ring: Mom? Can you come pick me up?

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Rae @rachelseeley.bsky.social · 3d

Gimmie a Sinkhole Station horror novellllllllllll

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Rae @rachelseeley.bsky.social · 4d

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Rae @rachelseeley.bsky.social · 4d

100% witch's jar material

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Dr. Emily Friedman @friede.bsky.social · 4d

Recorded last Friday afternoon after @criticalrole.bsky.social Campaign 4’s debut, ending at midnight BST, so buckle up for some punchy pedagogical conversation — and more questions than answers, as we all struggle with the various dilemmas involved with trying to bring TTRPGs to new audiences.

Many Sided Media @manysidedmedia.bsky.social · 4d

COMING OCTOBER 20th!

Tune in for a TWO HOUR discussion about teaching games through actual play featuring an absolute POWERHOUSE panel.

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@friede.bsky.social
@itsquinns.bsky.social
@brennanleemulligan.bsky.social

Subscribe to Talk of the Table wherever you get your podcasts.

Talk of the Table Patreon w/ Dr. Emily Friedman, Quinns, & Brennan Lee Mulligan.

Roundtable: Teaching Games Through Actual Play

Pictures of each guest are in circles on a yellow background. To each side are anthropomorphized dice, one with a mouth and one with an ear.

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Rae @rachelseeley.bsky.social · 6d

Yeah I guess you could say I live pretty dangerously (prepping/cooking/consuming Korean BBQ chicken while wearing a brand new white t-shirt)

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Rae @rachelseeley.bsky.social · 6d

Perfecting the Kubrick stare I see

Critical Role @criticalrole.bsky.social · 6d

Welcome to Aramán! ✨

Catch up on all the twists and turns of #CriticalRole Campaign 4's intriguing premiere episode with our brilliant Lore Keeper Dani Carr's complete written recap! 📜 🪶

READ CRITICAL RECAP ⬇️
https://critrole.com/critical-recap-critical-role-c4e01-the-fall-of-thjazi-fang/

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 6d

TONIGHT (and especially for followers outside of NYC who want to get involved):

Join @brennanleemulligan.bsky.social on a special phonebank at 6pm!

Sign up: volunteer.zohranfornyc.com/phonebank-fo...

A graphic with a photo of Brennan Lee Mulligan that says "Phone Bank with Zohran, Wednesday, October 8th at 6pm."

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Hana Michels (Personal Account) @hanamichels.bsky.social · 6d

If you are a woman or female presenting in the Valley look out for a man with glasses and this plate. Took it off a TikTok video in which LITERALLY HUNDREDS of women reported him asking for help moving a box from his backseat to his trunk with a fake bandage around his arm, something Ted Bundy did.

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Rae @rachelseeley.bsky.social · 7d

I think that would solve all my problems, I must away to a mausoleum

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Rae @rachelseeley.bsky.social · 7d

Maybe should talk to my therapist about why I love necromancers so much

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Preeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers.bsky.social · 8d

with alt-text

A screenshot from Zelda Williams' instagram stories. It reads:

Please, just stop sending me AI videos of Dad. Stop believing I wanna see it or that I'll understand, I don't and I won't. If you're just trying to troll me, I've seen way worse, i'll restrict and move on. But please, if you've got any decency, just stop doing this to him and to me, to everyone even, full stop. Its dumb, it's a waste of time and energy, and believe me, it's NOT what he'd want.
To watch the legacies of real people be condensed down to 'this vaguely looks and sounds like them so that's enough', just so other people can churn out horrible TikTok slop puppeteering them is maddening. You're not making art, you're making disgusting, over-processed hotdogs out of the lives of human beings, out of the history of art and music, and then shoving them down someone else's throat hoping they'll give you a little thumbs up and like it.
Gross.

The second Instagram stories screenshot from Zelda Williams. It reads:

"And for the love of EVERY THING, stop calling it 'the future'. AI is just badly recycling and regurgitating the past to be reconsumed. You are taking in the Human Centipede of content, and from the very very end of the line, all while the folks at the front laugh and laugh, consume and consume."

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Rae @rachelseeley.bsky.social · 9d

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Steven 🎃umpkin @silent0siris.bsky.social · 9d

I’m reposting this for me, not for you 😅

Starfish Who Can’t Think Something Witty @irhottakes.bsky.social · 9d

me: Oh my God, I am tired of the robot talk.

brain: You can turn off the phone.

me: Explain.

brain: The screen on your phone projects the images which convey the text that distresses you.

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Dan Johnson @coil.bsky.social · Aug 28

While defending the luddite argument in Discord, I stumbled into this IMO succinct explanation for opposing generative AI:

At every step in the process, it impoverishes us.

AI impoverishes us at every step of the process:
- data centers pollute our environment
- energy use drives up costs
- content theft robs creators of income
- the actual output is used to displace workers and depress wages
- using it harms our mental health and impairs our competence
- the flood of AI slop is damaging our sociopolitical landscape

All in service of making a worse product - and world - to enrich a handful of already spectacularly wealthy people

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Rae @rachelseeley.bsky.social · 11d

I ended up knowing both of the leads of the Ghost Of game series (Daisuke because of OSF and Erika because of G&S). The world can be so terribly small sometimes, in the best of ways.

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Trung Le Nguyen @trungles.com · 12d

Could Cowen not accomplish this by simply turning on his phone camera

Laura Jedeed @laurajedeed.bsky.social · 12d

I'm sorry: "if I wish to see a virgin on-screen"?

My Favorite Actress Is Not Human
Tilly Norwood doesn’t need a hairstylist, has no regrettable posts, and if you wish to see a virgin on-screen, this is one of your better chances. That’s because she’s AI.

A picture of some AI girl standing on an AI landscape with an AI monster behind her. I'm gonna be so real: she looks about 14

By Tyler Cowen

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Rae @rachelseeley.bsky.social · 12d

Wowww gorgeous work!!

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 12d

You can't raid and arrest everyone in an entire apartment building, or even legitimately get a warrant to do that, any more than you could for a whole neighborhood. That would be a general warrant. This is the most specific core the-British-did-it-to-us thing the Fourth Amendment is written to ban.

The TRiiBE @thetriibe.com · 14d

NEW — An estimated 40 people were taken by federal agents in an overnight raid in South Shore, a predominantly-Black neighborhood on Chicago’s South Side.

A couple who live nearby said they were shocked to see the enormous militarized raid in their community.

thetriibe.com/2025/09/feds...

Feds detain dozens of immigrants in 'massive' South Shore apartment building raid in Chicago • The TRiiBE

An estimated 40 people were taken by federal agents in the course of the overnight raid in the predominately-Black neighborhood.

thetriibe.com

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helen, gender goblin @gendergoblinhelen.bsky.social · 16d

'out of the three mass shootings today'

Our Earth Affairs @ourearthaffairs.bsky.social · 16d

Iraq War veteran Thomas Sanford has been identified as the gunman who attacked Grand Blanc Mormon church, killing 2 people and setting it ablaze. Out of the three mass shootings today, two of them have been carried out by Iraq war veterans.

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Gwen Snyder is undead @gwensnyder.bsky.social · 17d

Please, if you have the privilege of not being an obvious and immediate target for state violence...

Call them fascists, loudly, ESPECIALLY right now.

Call yourself an antifascist, loudly, ESPECIALLY right now.

We all need to be Spartacus on this one.

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