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🇹🇹 Poet, SFF writer, TTRPG designer. Worldcon 2025 Poet Laureate. @rascal.news columnist. Podcaster @speculate.bsky.social & @skiffyandfanty.com. Author of CAN YOU SIGN MY TENTACLE? and other things. Thank God for words. https://www.brandonobrien.xyz/

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Brandon O’Brien, low on Action Points @therisingtithes.bsky.social · Nov 10

Just realised I never did a proper intro over here:

Hey folks. I'm Brandon. I'm a poet, science fiction writer, and TTRPG designer from Trinidad. I have a lot of feelings about elegies, lagahoos, and Kamen Rider.

Find out about my writing and game design here: links.brandonobrien.xyz/

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Brandon O’Brien, low on Action Points @therisingtithes.bsky.social · 5d

As I'm in between payments and just had to pay a wicked internet bill, any current support would be most welcome!

Brandon O’Brien, low on Action Points @therisingtithes.bsky.social · Aug 1

A reminder that if you like the work I’ve been recently making, you can support me via PayPal (paypal.me/brandonobrien), Patreon (patreon.com/therisingtithes), Itch (therisingtithes.itch.io), or Ko-Fi (ko-fi.com/therisingtit...)!

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Brandon O’Brien, low on Action Points @therisingtithes.bsky.social · 1d

Effort like: patience, thoughtfulness, and a willingness to know more about the students in your charge than their grades. Effort I think a lot of teachers are making all the time, made easier still by the quite plentiful adaptations of the dude’s work that I’d argue translate very well culturally.

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Brandon O’Brien, low on Action Points @therisingtithes.bsky.social · 1d

I don’t know what triggered the Shakespeare discourse this week but all I can say is, as a big-time literature nerd in high school and someone who once thought they’d be a teacher when they grew up, there are so many ways to get young people into Billy, just like any lit, but it requires effort.

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Brandon O’Brien, low on Action Points @therisingtithes.bsky.social · 1d

in my continued overthinking about writing apps, a thought came to mind:

the most ideal writing app SaaS model would be that the app itself has a standalone price, but a subscription model gets you monthly masterclasses with various writers whose facilitation payment comes out of the proceeds.

Brandon O’Brien, low on Action Points @therisingtithes.bsky.social · 1d

(very gender affirming that he said 'children' though, so that's... some... thing... I guess...)

Brandon O’Brien, low on Action Points @therisingtithes.bsky.social · 1d

there is no greater indication that something is deeply wrong with this American administration than the tacit implication that nervous system developmental progress is *stored in the foreskin*. Lil RFK is collecting anecdotes just like he does animals.

Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 1d

Besides linking Tylenol in pregnant women to autism, RFK Jr. now says circumcision is part of the reason why kids are autistic.

"Children who are circumcised early have double the rate of autism, and it's highly likely because they're given Tylenol. None of this is positive..."

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Brandon O’Brien, low on Action Points @therisingtithes.bsky.social · 2d

thank *you*! as someone still trying to figure out a future website refresh, seeing you share resources & encouraging folks filled me with inspiration but also definitely with joy. keep being awesome!

Brandon O’Brien, low on Action Points @therisingtithes.bsky.social · 2d

I would carry this every time I didn't need a laptop with me--too bad it's sold out! (I'm equally upset that I'm now learning they had the Kamen Rider sneakers as well, including the Fourze set which I adore, but they're out of stock too!)

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 4d

this is a super useful guide

Courtney/Lucy 🍉 from the river to the sea @magicalgurll.com · 4d

hi i have a collection of resources, including layout templates requiring minimal html knowledge + guides that will teach you that minimum, on my own indie web page. god please make an indie website

Fairytale

Courtney's home on the indie web.

fairytale.magicalgurll.com

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Brandon O’Brien, low on Action Points @therisingtithes.bsky.social · 2d

So I've only just noticed that Affinity has an announcement for October 30th, and in the meantime their entire web storefront is closed.

People seem incredibly wary of this elsewhere online. I have no idea what this means yet, but it does lean on the side of sucky.

Brandon O’Brien, low on Action Points @therisingtithes.bsky.social · 2d

Thank you for sharing these! Some of these resources appear amazingly useful, at first glance.

If anyone else is in need of a way to weed through the overwhelming choice of potential mental health apps, there are detailed sources of information out there.

www.nami.org/complimentar...

George @georgeapog.bsky.social · 2d

From this article. www.nami.org/complimentar...
It links to this website as a good source.
mindapps.org
And I believe the VA health apps are decent.
mobile.va.gov/mental-healt...

Mobile Health Index and Navigation Database, App Evaluation Resources

MIND is an interactive database that helps anyone find mental health and brain apps that meet the unique preference and needs for each unique individual. Search apps across privacy, cost (including f...

mindapps.org

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Brandon O’Brien, low on Action Points @therisingtithes.bsky.social · 2d

I wish there was a genuinely useful resource somewhere for how to find a genuinely useful mental health and productivity tool instead of the apparent glut of AI-driven scam apps that need you to fill out a goddamn bullshit personality quiz first.

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Brandon O’Brien, low on Action Points @therisingtithes.bsky.social · 4d

If anything, I wish more white cishet young people took that as an opportunity to challenge this kind of energy. If more parents knew that their own children want better for themselves, and more neighbours saw children fighting to learn and be more empathetic, these hateful movements lose power.

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Brandon O’Brien, low on Action Points @therisingtithes.bsky.social · 4d

the comic mathematical revelation notwithstanding,
I can't imagine being one of those households' kids, not only learning in real time alongside your entire county that your parents are bigots, but becoming a classroom disruption & getting a worse education over politics you may not even share.

Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 4d

1. 4 months ago, The Supreme Court gave families a right to opt out of LGBTQ+ education in schools.

Now, in Montgomery County, Maryland, where the case originated, the results are in.

Only 43 families out of 160,000 students have exercised that new right.

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Only 0.03% Opt Out Of LGBTQ+ Education In Maryland After SCOTUS Gives Them A Right To

After SCOTUS gave families a right to opt out of LGBTQ+ education, Montgomery County, Maryland is reporting only 43 families took them up on it.

www.erininthemorning.com

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Brandon O’Brien, low on Action Points @therisingtithes.bsky.social · 4d

You know what?

I need to re-read Our Lady Of The Forest.

Brandon O’Brien, low on Action Points @therisingtithes.bsky.social · 4d

I can't tell anyone how to feel about their everliving soul, but dozens of believers all over the world investing in a concept that is not even Biblical so strongly that they're more excited to catch the bus to Heav'n than to at least do real good in the world they leave behind is a hell of a psyop.

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Brandon O’Brien, low on Action Points @therisingtithes.bsky.social · 4d

A reminder that the date of Rapture of the Body of Christ Part II: Stairway to Heaven Double-Down Remix 2.0+1.0 is set for October 7-8.

Make sure your underwear's clean, and if you still looking for a place to offload your heathen PS5, I can send you an address.

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Brandon O’Brien, low on Action Points @therisingtithes.bsky.social · 4d

So a MIYACHI song just reminded me that I have a whole new game to work on sometime next year.

But a remix of a Rihanna song is trying to tell me that it needs both courtly intrigue and... romance? 🤔

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DFTBA @dftbarecords.bsky.social · 5d

We are beyond grateful that Kathleen was up for writing another round of the Pizzamas-themed one shot! It’s hilarious and fun and perfectly Pizzamas 🍕

If you missed the first one, don’t worry, you can get both as a bundle! pizzamas.com/products/piz...

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Brandon O’Brien, low on Action Points @therisingtithes.bsky.social · 5d

As I'm in between payments and just had to pay a wicked internet bill, any current support would be most welcome!

Brandon O’Brien, low on Action Points @therisingtithes.bsky.social · Aug 1

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Brandon O’Brien, low on Action Points @therisingtithes.bsky.social · 5d

TIL the first chapter of One Piece came out in 1997.

*1997*.

Yeah, I'm sorry allyuh, it looks rad but leave me behind, I ain't never catching up with that shit

that's why allyuh does talk about reading the thing like it's a part-time job, because you only have so much life left to live

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 5d

😭

IG newberlinlibrary

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Dani Donovan 👩🏻‍🎨 ADHD Comics @danidonovan.com · 5d

This x 100000 = mood

#ADHDAwarenessMonth

Circular flowchart. “Too anxious to start on anything” leads into “stressed about not getting anything done,” then back to “too anxious to start on anything”—creating an endless loop.

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Brandon O’Brien, low on Action Points @therisingtithes.bsky.social · 5d

The longer I think about it, the more it appears to me as a very obvious classist psyop that the ‘aye-eye slur’ discourse took so many people to performances of racism when the issue is undeniably a class one.

Brandon O’Brien, low on Action Points @therisingtithes.bsky.social · 5d

I wanna be sure:

you can’t hurt AI feelings because it has none. Insulting a JSON file is not a bigoted action.

But non-Black ppl *roleplaying pre-American-Civil-War racism* online for the lolz just telegraphs that the only thing stopping you from performing IRL racism is shame, if you have any.

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