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AAAAAA!-nthon-EEEK! Pham 🎃 @viridianth.bsky.social · 8m

In other RPGs the rules can always be ignored, as evidenced by most big creators ignoring most of #D&D 's rules. But, the rules are still there to make it easy for players to act without the DM having to rule at all.

AAAAAA!-nthon-EEEK! Pham 🎃 @viridianth.bsky.social · 8m

#Daggerheart says it focuses on rulings over rules, but there's a lot more they do to give guidelines on how to make rulings. It's good that it can be open, but also bad in that there's overhead for GMs to come up with what ruling to make when there's little to no guidance.

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AAAAAA!-nthon-EEEK! Pham 🎃 @viridianth.bsky.social · 28m

She is! She's been free for two days now... And being her needy self again.

AAAAAA!-nthon-EEEK! Pham 🎃 @viridianth.bsky.social · 1d

De-coned. Unbroken. Free.

Fuuka has her recovery cone off finally through a combination of healing and me trimming and rounding her giant back claws down. Still under observation, but look at this face...
#Cats #Siamese #Meezer

A Siamese cat standing on a grey panel floor, looking up at the camera and making a weird innocent face with slightly closed eyes, puffy jowls, and a lowered jaw without opening the mouth.

AAAAAA!-nthon-EEEK! Pham 🎃 @viridianth.bsky.social · 35m

Fuuka being a comfortable little gremlin.
#Cats #Siamese #Meezer #Blep

A Siamese cat laying on couch cushions covered in a throw blanket. She's laying on her side with all her legs together pointing down, while her head sticks up as she makes a funny face with her tongue sticking out in a blep.

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AAAAAA!-nthon-EEEK! Pham 🎃 @viridianth.bsky.social · 1h

Just all the current problems with the traditional studio structure and how so many of them have problems.

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Luke Plunkett @lukeplunkett.com · 2h

i wrote a whole thing about this once as a joke, and it just keeps happening

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AAAAAA!-nthon-EEEK! Pham 🎃 @viridianth.bsky.social · 2h

Also like, if you do form a new studio, include an artist and actually ask them about things. Give them actual responsibility and power over decisions like, say, whether or not to use plagiarized machine generated imagery.

AAAAAA!-nthon-EEEK! Pham 🎃 @viridianth.bsky.social · 6h

Seeing more employee owned studios pop up and curious to see how they work. Seeing a lot of negativity and caution from comments, but a core aspect of co-ops and employee owned businesses is that the devs have a stake and can try to avoid the failing exec decisions, and get compensated either way.

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AAAAAA!-nthon-EEEK! Pham 🎃 @viridianth.bsky.social · 2h

If you somehow get stuck in crunch, don't eat the crunch food. It's almost always cheap high carb junk, or super rich restaurant food. Stick to your staples, bag it for later if you want, for when you're eating in a non-stressful environment. Avoid the health issues.

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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 12h

The MMR vaccine is one of the most stunningly effective medical therapeutics in existence. It’s also safer than most of your everyday activities. This is simply an attempt to stop people from vaccinating.

HELLody SchreiBOO @melodyschreiber.com · 12h

The acting director of the CDC called for new, separate MMR shots. That would be "remarkably complicated, time-consuming, costly, but more importantly unnecessary," @jasonlschwartz.bsky.social told me:
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Alarm as CDC calls for separate MMR vaccines despite measles outbreak

Concerns that three separate shots would be more costly and time-consuming, and keep kids from being vaccinated

www.theguardian.com

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Gabrielle A. Perry, MPH @geauxgabrielle.bsky.social · 2h

YALL.

Remember what I said to yall about preordering. Even if you dont plan on reading an author’s book, preordering is EXTREMELY important because it tells book publishers the kind of books they need to invest more in.

Preorder TODAY

Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 3h

Drake lost that rap battle so badly that I wrote about it in my book about SPACE-TIME

A rap battle loss of literally cosmological proportions

Find out how by preordering a copy!!

The Edge of Space-Time by Chanda Prescod-Weinstein: 9780593701683 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books

A fresh, charming, socially conscious tour of the mysteries of space-time, from the award-winning author of The Disordered Cosmos In her highly acclaimed debut, distinguished cosmologist and particle...

www.penguinrandomhouse.com

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AAAAAA!-nthon-EEEK! Pham 🎃 @viridianth.bsky.social · 2h

Sometimes, when the world goes crazy, you just can't give a duck.

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AAAAAA!-nthon-EEEK! Pham 🎃 @viridianth.bsky.social · 3h

Vibe arting...

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Anna Vrieling @bananamation.bsky.social · 10h

Hi friends. Unfortunately, my time at Heart Machine is coming to an end. I’m seeking a new role and would appreciate your support. Saying goodbye to such a talented team is difficult, but I am excited for the next adventure. <3

I'll have more info soon.

Thanks everyone. Stay strong out there.

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AAAAAA!-nthon-EEEK! Pham 🎃 @viridianth.bsky.social · 4h

The sad thing about the AI generated Sackbird logo and supporting art is that you had a team of artists there and clearly couldn't be bothered to ask what should be fellow owners of the studio about it. Which means things aren't as equal as presented.

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Kate Gray @hownottodraw.bsky.social · 5h

I'm pretty sure this is an AI-generated logo. If you look at the other versions of it on their website, every single bird is slightly different (the feet, the head, the bag).

I mean, this sucks, no?

A screenshot of the Sackbird website that says "seek the sack" (horrible) followed by four images of a black bird with a bindle and a human arm. there are minor variations in the art - some birds have bigger heads, or more fingers, or flatter feet.

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AAAAAA!-nthon-EEEK! Pham 🎃 @viridianth.bsky.social · 4h

Protecting their craft... By destroying their craft...

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AAAAAA!-nthon-EEEK! Pham 🎃 @viridianth.bsky.social · 4h

And networks of employee owned studios that operate frugally could all mutually support and contract out to each other if any one wants to create something bigger than they are capable of.

AAAAAA!-nthon-EEEK! Pham 🎃 @viridianth.bsky.social · 4h

Fuuka is taking her newfound cone freedom to be an extra sassy loaf.
#Cats #Siamese #Meezer

A Siamese cat laying on a padded bench with all her legs tucked under her in a position known as loafing. Her body is positioned at a 3/4 angle from the camera, whole her face is turned closer toward the camera with an angry and contemptuous expression, her bright blue eyes narrowed.

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AAAAAA!-nthon-EEEK! Pham 🎃 @viridianth.bsky.social · 5h

Yeah, feels like a more easy to play Oath. I'd love to see a variant that goes to 5-6 players even if that means more chaos.

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 22h

Two big GOP activists from Oregon were in DC last month for meetings with Trump admin officials. On their podcast they talk about a plan they discussed to nullify the results of Oregon's 2026 federal elections. Pass federal voter ID law, then refuse to seat OR delegation because OR didn't comply.

Ep. 18: September to Remember
October 6 • S1 E18 • 44 min
Also, we proposed a idea how to do a end run on vote by mail. Concept is based on what Trump proposed. When you vote, you check everyone's citizenship as well as voter ID.
In a vote by mail state, you might be able to check citizenship during voter registration. You can send copies of your passport and your birth certificate in.
How in the world are you going to check our voters?
Voter ID, right? Vote by mail. So that creates a problem for Oregon.
But if federal government new requirement is to check both, and if Oregon can comply with the requirements, what would happen to our election result? I'm talking about the entire federal delegation.
For federal elections, we're talking about only federal elections.
COMMON SENSE
Vascluar

Ep. 18: September to Remember
October 6 • S1 E18 • 44 min
So entire federal delegation, congressmen and senators could be challenged, could be unseated because you didn't follow federal requirements to elect them. So I said the trade-off is worth it. You know why?
Democrats control two Senate seats out of six congressional seats. We only control one. They control five.
You talk about trade-off, right?
COMMON SENSE
Sanctuany

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AAAAAA!-nthon-EEEK! Pham 🎃 @viridianth.bsky.social · 5h

Mouse hunting feet

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AAAAAA!-nthon-EEEK! Pham 🎃 @viridianth.bsky.social · 6h

Seeing more employee owned studios pop up and curious to see how they work. Seeing a lot of negativity and caution from comments, but a core aspect of co-ops and employee owned businesses is that the devs have a stake and can try to avoid the failing exec decisions, and get compensated either way.

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Eurogamer @eurogamer.bsky.social · 14h

Former Zenimax Online Studios staff launch employee-owned Sackbird Studios in wake of Microsoft layoffs

www.eurogamer.net/former-zenim...

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WoodPig Press @woodpigpress.bsky.social · Jun 29

Please share:

Do you hate AI?

Are you an editor, proofreader, designer, illustrator, typesetter, marketer, book blogger, audio narrator, reviewer, ARC/beta reader?

WoodPig Press is creating a pool of freelancers for future paid work.

woodpigpress.com/call-for-pub...

#booksky #books #publishing

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AAAAAA!-nthon-EEEK! Pham 🎃 @viridianth.bsky.social · 19h

I'd hire you had I the funding.

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