TF Grognon
@tfg.bsky.social
writer, enthuser | formerly a fist that was tiny | Toronto
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TF Grognon
@tfg.bsky.social
· Aug 16
how does our library go? by tfgrognon
You're a library & you're in motion. A travelling library game for one or more.
tfgrognon.itch.io
Anyway. I wrote a one-page ttrpg this summer, the first one since that disastrous experience.
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this entire thread is very good
But when things being published are just handfuls of empty tropes, I feel like I'm not taking in someone's observed reality, but rather their third-hand account of something they heard once. It's like being on the very end of a game of telephone, and the message is dull, muffled, flat.
February 13, 2026 at 1:21 PM
this entire thread is very good
I can't stop thinking about this essay by @zoestodd.bsky.social . It has enlarged my world.
humansandnature.org/home-story/
humansandnature.org/home-story/
Home Story
Métis scholar Dr. Zoe Todd tells the story of their return to their homeland in Alberta, Canada and what this journey revealed about their relationship to family and homeland in their work to hold oil...
humansandnature.org
February 13, 2026 at 1:12 PM
I can't stop thinking about this essay by @zoestodd.bsky.social . It has enlarged my world.
humansandnature.org/home-story/
humansandnature.org/home-story/
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but that's the atlantic! "aren't the wokes REALLY to blame, a little bit, for what they made the fascists do?"
February 12, 2026 at 5:20 PM
but that's the atlantic! "aren't the wokes REALLY to blame, a little bit, for what they made the fascists do?"
Isn't Travis McElroy still holding their hands??
amazing how yet another round of "you have to promise you'll vote for the shitbag years in advance" reveals itself to have nothing to do with strategy and pragmatics and everything to do with "i am scared and anxious and everyone on the internet needs to promise me everything will turn out alright"
February 12, 2026 at 7:17 PM
Isn't Travis McElroy still holding their hands??
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any true office fan knows jim should've been executed in the woods for his crimes
February 11, 2026 at 10:22 PM
any true office fan knows jim should've been executed in the woods for his crimes
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this is the flipside of "what if libraries were bars for adults who were scared of loud noises" and "what if libraries could also do laundry????" discourse you see people with terminal whimsy bring up.
A vivid example of "mission creep" and "libraries aren't essential services except when they're told to be" that are creating a mental health hellscape for library workers.
bookriot.com/the-state-of...
bookriot.com/the-state-of...
February 11, 2026 at 10:28 PM
this is the flipside of "what if libraries were bars for adults who were scared of loud noises" and "what if libraries could also do laundry????" discourse you see people with terminal whimsy bring up.
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Relaunched my Patreon to help cover bills and afford to keep making Swan Boys. Swan Boy is -and will always be- a free comic but now you can get access to comics a day early, as well as behind the scenes art and bonus content.
www.patreon.com/bransonreese
www.patreon.com/bransonreese
Get more from Branson Reese on Patreon
creating comics
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February 11, 2026 at 6:19 PM
Relaunched my Patreon to help cover bills and afford to keep making Swan Boys. Swan Boy is -and will always be- a free comic but now you can get access to comics a day early, as well as behind the scenes art and bonus content.
www.patreon.com/bransonreese
www.patreon.com/bransonreese
Post a tree you photographed
February 11, 2026 at 9:34 PM
Post a tree you photographed
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Marmoutier - Ruines de l'ancienne Basilique (coté Est) (#IndreEtLoire)
Suite 👉 https://cartorum.fr/carte-postale/242919/marmoutier-ruines-de-lancienne-basilique-cote-est
Suite 👉 https://cartorum.fr/carte-postale/242919/marmoutier-ruines-de-lancienne-basilique-cote-est
February 11, 2026 at 5:27 PM
Marmoutier - Ruines de l'ancienne Basilique (coté Est) (#IndreEtLoire)
Suite 👉 https://cartorum.fr/carte-postale/242919/marmoutier-ruines-de-lancienne-basilique-cote-est
Suite 👉 https://cartorum.fr/carte-postale/242919/marmoutier-ruines-de-lancienne-basilique-cote-est
it's very shy
This gorgeous little bloom's scientific name is Disa staerkeriana — there are only 14 iNaturalist observations documented of this rare, endemic plant!
📷 carelf on iNaturalist
📍 South Africa
🔗: www.inaturalist.org/observations...
#ObservationOfTheDay
📷 carelf on iNaturalist
📍 South Africa
🔗: www.inaturalist.org/observations...
#ObservationOfTheDay
February 11, 2026 at 5:39 PM
it's very shy
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my politics
February 11, 2026 at 9:39 AM
my politics
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A point I make in my work on this subject is that we need to reject the insistance that convos abt commercial AI products should be about the tech. Determining whether AI is “conscious” is a Smartwashing exercise in solipcism that distracts from the material conditions of the product’s distribution
February 11, 2026 at 2:07 PM
A point I make in my work on this subject is that we need to reject the insistance that convos abt commercial AI products should be about the tech. Determining whether AI is “conscious” is a Smartwashing exercise in solipcism that distracts from the material conditions of the product’s distribution
February 11, 2026 at 1:10 PM
"What has not been destroyed will always change / And what is destroyed can still love"
From my poetry chapbook From the Yew from @the-ethelzine.bsky.social
February 11, 2026 at 1:09 PM
"What has not been destroyed will always change / And what is destroyed can still love"
I'd like to prepare for a lecture for my teenage sons on the topics of soups.
February 11, 2026 at 1:02 PM
I'd like to prepare for a lecture for my teenage sons on the topics of soups.
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“According to the Al Jazeera Arabic investigation, The Rest of the Story, Civil Defence teams in Gaza have documented 2,842 Palestinians who have “evaporated” since the war began in October 2023, leaving behind no remains other than blood spray or small fragments of flesh.”
February 10, 2026 at 11:30 PM
“According to the Al Jazeera Arabic investigation, The Rest of the Story, Civil Defence teams in Gaza have documented 2,842 Palestinians who have “evaporated” since the war began in October 2023, leaving behind no remains other than blood spray or small fragments of flesh.”
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John Frow, Genre
February 10, 2026 at 10:25 PM
John Frow, Genre
It's not why I bought them, but I cannot deny that every time I lace up my winter boots and get to sing "Timbos on my toes" like Q-Tip, I feel great.
February 10, 2026 at 8:02 PM
It's not why I bought them, but I cannot deny that every time I lace up my winter boots and get to sing "Timbos on my toes" like Q-Tip, I feel great.
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Make Art (3/4)
February 10, 2026 at 12:52 PM
Make Art (3/4)
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I’d now like to know a bit more about this footage he got of Alex Pretti kicking an ICE vehicle before his death
February 10, 2026 at 1:43 PM
I’d now like to know a bit more about this footage he got of Alex Pretti kicking an ICE vehicle before his death
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we need COINTELPRO taught at the elementary school level
February 10, 2026 at 2:37 PM
we need COINTELPRO taught at the elementary school level
reddit annoys me so very much, but this post is perfection:
February 8, 2026 at 8:38 PM
reddit annoys me so very much, but this post is perfection:
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The point of the AI project is to provoke despair in creative people. They haven’t produced profits or anything anyone wants, just a steady stream of articles about how us artistic types can’t do the thing we’re already doing, making art. Jokes on them, we’re even better at despair than they are.
February 8, 2026 at 6:24 PM
The point of the AI project is to provoke despair in creative people. They haven’t produced profits or anything anyone wants, just a steady stream of articles about how us artistic types can’t do the thing we’re already doing, making art. Jokes on them, we’re even better at despair than they are.
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More people are being deported from Florida and Texas, for example, than most other states, but because these are happening on the regular and by local police, there really isn't national news coverage. But if you look at deportation data, it's pretty clear.
February 8, 2026 at 7:47 PM
More people are being deported from Florida and Texas, for example, than most other states, but because these are happening on the regular and by local police, there really isn't national news coverage. But if you look at deportation data, it's pretty clear.