Zack Thomson
@zackthomson.bsky.social
Game design student, speculative fiction writer, niche TTRPG enthusiast.
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Always remember, the thought always counts more than the wrapping!
Happy Holidays from all of us to all of you!
#WhereWrestlersWork
Happy Holidays from all of us to all of you!
#WhereWrestlersWork
December 24, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Always remember, the thought always counts more than the wrapping!
Happy Holidays from all of us to all of you!
#WhereWrestlersWork
Happy Holidays from all of us to all of you!
#WhereWrestlersWork
I'll take it 🐈⬛
Fine, whatever, this random cat is your new god of the winter solstice
December 24, 2025 at 8:23 PM
I'll take it 🐈⬛
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You know how Americans are surprised to learn that gun deaths are rare in most other countries, pedestrian-centered cities are normal, or everybody else uses metric? That, but discovering that the rest of the world moved to EVs.
It's funny how us parochial Americans generally seem to perceive that the EV revolution is stalling or reversing when in fact it's accelerating rapidly worldwide. 25% of cars sold globally in 2025 were EVs!
It's mostly just the US that's being left behind
It's mostly just the US that's being left behind
December 24, 2025 at 6:07 PM
You know how Americans are surprised to learn that gun deaths are rare in most other countries, pedestrian-centered cities are normal, or everybody else uses metric? That, but discovering that the rest of the world moved to EVs.
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This means you can read all of @seantcollins.com's TWIN PEAKS recaps for free, as many times as you want!
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December 24, 2025 at 7:55 PM
This means you can read all of @seantcollins.com's TWIN PEAKS recaps for free, as many times as you want!
popheist.com/category/tv/...
popheist.com/category/tv/...
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10 TTRPGs I want to play/run in 2026.
- Tacklebox
- Blades 68
- Triangle Agency
- Grail (🤞)
- One Ring
- Teeth: False Kingdom
- Ex Tenebris
- Coriolis: The Great Dark
- The Scions
- First Among Equals (🤞)
- Tacklebox
- Blades 68
- Triangle Agency
- Grail (🤞)
- One Ring
- Teeth: False Kingdom
- Ex Tenebris
- Coriolis: The Great Dark
- The Scions
- First Among Equals (🤞)
10 TTRPGs I want to play/run in 2026:
- The Walking Dead
- TEETH
- Nimble TTRPG
- SPINE (Solo)
- Coriolis: The Great Dark
- TERMINUS (using Delta Green)
- Doomsong
- Slugblaster
- His Majesty The Worm
- One More Song (Solo)
- The Walking Dead
- TEETH
- Nimble TTRPG
- SPINE (Solo)
- Coriolis: The Great Dark
- TERMINUS (using Delta Green)
- Doomsong
- Slugblaster
- His Majesty The Worm
- One More Song (Solo)
10 TTRPGs I want to play/run in 2026:
Deathmatch Island
Triangle Agency
Orbital Blues
Blades in '68
Dragonbane
Haunted West
Flabbergasted!
Brindlewood Bay
The Last Caravan
Dialect
Number of these I'll probably get to play/run:
1 (maybe 0)
😭
Deathmatch Island
Triangle Agency
Orbital Blues
Blades in '68
Dragonbane
Haunted West
Flabbergasted!
Brindlewood Bay
The Last Caravan
Dialect
Number of these I'll probably get to play/run:
1 (maybe 0)
😭
December 24, 2025 at 7:09 PM
10 TTRPGs I want to play/run in 2026.
- Tacklebox
- Blades 68
- Triangle Agency
- Grail (🤞)
- One Ring
- Teeth: False Kingdom
- Ex Tenebris
- Coriolis: The Great Dark
- The Scions
- First Among Equals (🤞)
- Tacklebox
- Blades 68
- Triangle Agency
- Grail (🤞)
- One Ring
- Teeth: False Kingdom
- Ex Tenebris
- Coriolis: The Great Dark
- The Scions
- First Among Equals (🤞)
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Teacher here:
Teachers absolutely DO NOT need AI to make their jobs easier.
We need good high-quality curriculum (costs money)
We need resources and supplies (costs money)
We need smaller class sizes (costs money)
We don't need AI slop substituting for any of that.
Teachers absolutely DO NOT need AI to make their jobs easier.
We need good high-quality curriculum (costs money)
We need resources and supplies (costs money)
We need smaller class sizes (costs money)
We don't need AI slop substituting for any of that.
December 24, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Teacher here:
Teachers absolutely DO NOT need AI to make their jobs easier.
We need good high-quality curriculum (costs money)
We need resources and supplies (costs money)
We need smaller class sizes (costs money)
We don't need AI slop substituting for any of that.
Teachers absolutely DO NOT need AI to make their jobs easier.
We need good high-quality curriculum (costs money)
We need resources and supplies (costs money)
We need smaller class sizes (costs money)
We don't need AI slop substituting for any of that.
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Excited to have sold 969 copies of The Ascellan Conspiracy, my first timeline for Fate of Cthulhu #ttrpg by @evilhat.bsky.social.
Help me get to 1,000 copies sold on @drivethrurpg.com by the end of 2025!
bit.ly/AscellanCons...
(Don't have the core rules? They're ALSO on sale!)
#ttrpgcommunity
Help me get to 1,000 copies sold on @drivethrurpg.com by the end of 2025!
bit.ly/AscellanCons...
(Don't have the core rules? They're ALSO on sale!)
#ttrpgcommunity
December 24, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Excited to have sold 969 copies of The Ascellan Conspiracy, my first timeline for Fate of Cthulhu #ttrpg by @evilhat.bsky.social.
Help me get to 1,000 copies sold on @drivethrurpg.com by the end of 2025!
bit.ly/AscellanCons...
(Don't have the core rules? They're ALSO on sale!)
#ttrpgcommunity
Help me get to 1,000 copies sold on @drivethrurpg.com by the end of 2025!
bit.ly/AscellanCons...
(Don't have the core rules? They're ALSO on sale!)
#ttrpgcommunity
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The Excavation of Hob's Barrow is a whopping 55% off in the Steam Winter Sale!
Inspired by movies such as The Wicker Man & the works of M.R. James, with a little pinch of Twin Peaks and Lovecraft - our folk horror adventure is the perfect play for Christmas!
store.steampowered.com/app/1182310/...
Inspired by movies such as The Wicker Man & the works of M.R. James, with a little pinch of Twin Peaks and Lovecraft - our folk horror adventure is the perfect play for Christmas!
store.steampowered.com/app/1182310/...
December 18, 2025 at 6:09 PM
The Excavation of Hob's Barrow is a whopping 55% off in the Steam Winter Sale!
Inspired by movies such as The Wicker Man & the works of M.R. James, with a little pinch of Twin Peaks and Lovecraft - our folk horror adventure is the perfect play for Christmas!
store.steampowered.com/app/1182310/...
Inspired by movies such as The Wicker Man & the works of M.R. James, with a little pinch of Twin Peaks and Lovecraft - our folk horror adventure is the perfect play for Christmas!
store.steampowered.com/app/1182310/...
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Hey gang, I put up 50 community copies each for solo games VOID 1680 AM, No-Tell Motel, and Lighthouse at the End of the World, AND for my two-player game Wayfarer 1.
Grab, play, share, enjoy.
bannerless.games/voidam
bannerless.games/ntm
bannerless.games/lighthouse
bannerless.games/wayfarer1
Grab, play, share, enjoy.
bannerless.games/voidam
bannerless.games/ntm
bannerless.games/lighthouse
bannerless.games/wayfarer1
VOID 1680 AM by Bannerless Games
A solo playlist building game about being a lone voice in the dark.
bannerless.games
December 24, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Hey gang, I put up 50 community copies each for solo games VOID 1680 AM, No-Tell Motel, and Lighthouse at the End of the World, AND for my two-player game Wayfarer 1.
Grab, play, share, enjoy.
bannerless.games/voidam
bannerless.games/ntm
bannerless.games/lighthouse
bannerless.games/wayfarer1
Grab, play, share, enjoy.
bannerless.games/voidam
bannerless.games/ntm
bannerless.games/lighthouse
bannerless.games/wayfarer1
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❤️🔥mecha pilots
❤️🔥magical girls
❤️🔥racing drivers
❤️🔥rock stars
❤️🔥heroes of justice
❤️🔥whatever the persona characters are
all of those are featured scenarios in burning hearts forever on during the holidays for 65% off!
worstgirleva.itch.io/burning-hear...
❤️🔥magical girls
❤️🔥racing drivers
❤️🔥rock stars
❤️🔥heroes of justice
❤️🔥whatever the persona characters are
all of those are featured scenarios in burning hearts forever on during the holidays for 65% off!
worstgirleva.itch.io/burning-hear...
December 20, 2025 at 7:16 PM
❤️🔥mecha pilots
❤️🔥magical girls
❤️🔥racing drivers
❤️🔥rock stars
❤️🔥heroes of justice
❤️🔥whatever the persona characters are
all of those are featured scenarios in burning hearts forever on during the holidays for 65% off!
worstgirleva.itch.io/burning-hear...
❤️🔥magical girls
❤️🔥racing drivers
❤️🔥rock stars
❤️🔥heroes of justice
❤️🔥whatever the persona characters are
all of those are featured scenarios in burning hearts forever on during the holidays for 65% off!
worstgirleva.itch.io/burning-hear...
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For at least a decade I have been told that “the blockchain” was not just for crypto but was a transformative technology that would be broadly adopted for thousands of uses.
Facebook renamed itself Meta and lit $77 billion on fire for the metaverse just to abandon it five years later.
Hoverboards are the future, segways are the future, betamax, laser disc, Google glass is the future, 3d tvs are the future, curved screens are the future.
Like do we have to traipse through the whole graveyard of tech to get these people to understand just becauae you say it doesn't make it true.
Like do we have to traipse through the whole graveyard of tech to get these people to understand just becauae you say it doesn't make it true.
December 24, 2025 at 11:21 AM
For at least a decade I have been told that “the blockchain” was not just for crypto but was a transformative technology that would be broadly adopted for thousands of uses.
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Surprise!
100 community copies are now available for ARC, Magus, Marvelous Children of Inang-Uri, and What Dust Remains! 🔥
Download these games for free—for a limited time only.
momatoes.itch.io/arc
momatoes.itch.io/the-magus-or...
momatoes.itch.io/inang-uri
momatoes.itch.io/what-dust-re...
100 community copies are now available for ARC, Magus, Marvelous Children of Inang-Uri, and What Dust Remains! 🔥
Download these games for free—for a limited time only.
momatoes.itch.io/arc
momatoes.itch.io/the-magus-or...
momatoes.itch.io/inang-uri
momatoes.itch.io/what-dust-re...
December 24, 2025 at 5:48 AM
Surprise!
100 community copies are now available for ARC, Magus, Marvelous Children of Inang-Uri, and What Dust Remains! 🔥
Download these games for free—for a limited time only.
momatoes.itch.io/arc
momatoes.itch.io/the-magus-or...
momatoes.itch.io/inang-uri
momatoes.itch.io/what-dust-re...
100 community copies are now available for ARC, Magus, Marvelous Children of Inang-Uri, and What Dust Remains! 🔥
Download these games for free—for a limited time only.
momatoes.itch.io/arc
momatoes.itch.io/the-magus-or...
momatoes.itch.io/inang-uri
momatoes.itch.io/what-dust-re...
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I'm tired, @rweingarten.bsky.social. Tired of reading this document, tired of writing about this.
Please read this post. Please note all of the citations. Please acknowledge the terrible harms of these "A.i." products and end your partnership with these companies.
gregpak.net/2025/12/19/i...
Please read this post. Please note all of the citations. Please acknowledge the terrible harms of these "A.i." products and end your partnership with these companies.
gregpak.net/2025/12/19/i...
I’m an “A.i.” abolitionist - gregpak.net
I’m an “A.i.” abolitionist. No consumer-facing LLMs or generative “A.i.” in anything. Sure, machine learning in science and a f...
gregpak.net
December 24, 2025 at 4:42 AM
I'm tired, @rweingarten.bsky.social. Tired of reading this document, tired of writing about this.
Please read this post. Please note all of the citations. Please acknowledge the terrible harms of these "A.i." products and end your partnership with these companies.
gregpak.net/2025/12/19/i...
Please read this post. Please note all of the citations. Please acknowledge the terrible harms of these "A.i." products and end your partnership with these companies.
gregpak.net/2025/12/19/i...
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The "A.i." products used created a slicker final presentation. But slickness means nothing in education. Only thought and creativity and work. You're cheating kids of actual creative work, turning them into button operators instead of thinkers and doers.
Shame on you.
Shame on you.
December 24, 2025 at 4:38 AM
The "A.i." products used created a slicker final presentation. But slickness means nothing in education. Only thought and creativity and work. You're cheating kids of actual creative work, turning them into button operators instead of thinkers and doers.
Shame on you.
Shame on you.
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"Users must recognize the environmental impact of advanced technologies and promote sustainable practices within educational settings"
Again, laughably offensive. Shifting responsibility for massive environmental damage by corporations onto consumers.
No. Individuals can't fix this. Ban "A.i."
Again, laughably offensive. Shifting responsibility for massive environmental damage by corporations onto consumers.
No. Individuals can't fix this. Ban "A.i."
December 24, 2025 at 4:33 AM
"Users must recognize the environmental impact of advanced technologies and promote sustainable practices within educational settings"
Again, laughably offensive. Shifting responsibility for massive environmental damage by corporations onto consumers.
No. Individuals can't fix this. Ban "A.i."
Again, laughably offensive. Shifting responsibility for massive environmental damage by corporations onto consumers.
No. Individuals can't fix this. Ban "A.i."
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"Engaging students with AI-driven projects encourages creativity, critical thinking and hands-on experience with advanced technologies."
No. "A.i." products DESTROY creativity by telling kids their own minds and thoughts and hands are inadequate for producing worthwhile writing and art.
No. "A.i." products DESTROY creativity by telling kids their own minds and thoughts and hands are inadequate for producing worthwhile writing and art.
December 24, 2025 at 4:22 AM
"Engaging students with AI-driven projects encourages creativity, critical thinking and hands-on experience with advanced technologies."
No. "A.i." products DESTROY creativity by telling kids their own minds and thoughts and hands are inadequate for producing worthwhile writing and art.
No. "A.i." products DESTROY creativity by telling kids their own minds and thoughts and hands are inadequate for producing worthwhile writing and art.
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How do you believe a child you've instructed to use this miserable technology should provide "attribution"?
This, in my opinion, is an inexcusably hand-wavey attempt to paper over the question of theft based on a vast misunderstanding of the way this product works.
This, in my opinion, is an inexcusably hand-wavey attempt to paper over the question of theft based on a vast misunderstanding of the way this product works.
December 24, 2025 at 4:19 AM
How do you believe a child you've instructed to use this miserable technology should provide "attribution"?
This, in my opinion, is an inexcusably hand-wavey attempt to paper over the question of theft based on a vast misunderstanding of the way this product works.
This, in my opinion, is an inexcusably hand-wavey attempt to paper over the question of theft based on a vast misunderstanding of the way this product works.
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"Users of technology & AI should value the work of the people who created the content that technology uses to enhance learning. This respect must be overt & never used without attribution."
You are personally insulting me with this unworkable & contemptuous passage. "A.i." companies have robbed me.
You are personally insulting me with this unworkable & contemptuous passage. "A.i." companies have robbed me.
December 24, 2025 at 4:11 AM
"Users of technology & AI should value the work of the people who created the content that technology uses to enhance learning. This respect must be overt & never used without attribution."
You are personally insulting me with this unworkable & contemptuous passage. "A.i." companies have robbed me.
You are personally insulting me with this unworkable & contemptuous passage. "A.i." companies have robbed me.
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"Schools must adopt effective filters to block inappropriate or misleading content."
What filters block misleading content from ChatGPT? Is there a "no disinfo" or "no faked citations" or "no hallucinations" filter?
There is not. This is poisoned tech. You have to block the entire product.
What filters block misleading content from ChatGPT? Is there a "no disinfo" or "no faked citations" or "no hallucinations" filter?
There is not. This is poisoned tech. You have to block the entire product.
December 24, 2025 at 4:00 AM
"Schools must adopt effective filters to block inappropriate or misleading content."
What filters block misleading content from ChatGPT? Is there a "no disinfo" or "no faked citations" or "no hallucinations" filter?
There is not. This is poisoned tech. You have to block the entire product.
What filters block misleading content from ChatGPT? Is there a "no disinfo" or "no faked citations" or "no hallucinations" filter?
There is not. This is poisoned tech. You have to block the entire product.
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"Elected officials must ensure that funding for technology
and training is readily at hand. Schools must allocate those funds in ways that prioritize student learning."
No. Elected officials must increase the number of teachers and their pay, and fund arts programs. "A.i." should get no money.
and training is readily at hand. Schools must allocate those funds in ways that prioritize student learning."
No. Elected officials must increase the number of teachers and their pay, and fund arts programs. "A.i." should get no money.
December 24, 2025 at 3:53 AM
"Elected officials must ensure that funding for technology
and training is readily at hand. Schools must allocate those funds in ways that prioritize student learning."
No. Elected officials must increase the number of teachers and their pay, and fund arts programs. "A.i." should get no money.
and training is readily at hand. Schools must allocate those funds in ways that prioritize student learning."
No. Elected officials must increase the number of teachers and their pay, and fund arts programs. "A.i." should get no money.
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Just want to put out feelers for a TTRPG writer/dev or two who would be interested in collaborating on a pulpy scifi/fantasy project in 2026 with myself and another artist/writer. Ideally someone who'd fuck with "Frank Frazetta but queer" as an aesthetic. Would love 2 chat if this sounds interesting
December 24, 2025 at 12:06 PM
Just want to put out feelers for a TTRPG writer/dev or two who would be interested in collaborating on a pulpy scifi/fantasy project in 2026 with myself and another artist/writer. Ideally someone who'd fuck with "Frank Frazetta but queer" as an aesthetic. Would love 2 chat if this sounds interesting
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most mcu viewers don’t read marvel comics. The mcu isn’t 616 and isn’t trying to be. But all the context and qualifiers in the world don’t change the fact that they are bringing steve back because they have no faith in the Sam they created. And in the America we live in right now, that’s a statement
December 23, 2025 at 5:12 PM
most mcu viewers don’t read marvel comics. The mcu isn’t 616 and isn’t trying to be. But all the context and qualifiers in the world don’t change the fact that they are bringing steve back because they have no faith in the Sam they created. And in the America we live in right now, that’s a statement
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I had a teacher who reversed that and said "Know what you write." Like if you're writing about Elizabethan England, you don't need to already be an expert, just do some research beyond reading Shakespeare and watching Elizabeth. Research is one of the fun parts anyway. I found that much more useful.
December 23, 2025 at 7:02 PM
I had a teacher who reversed that and said "Know what you write." Like if you're writing about Elizabethan England, you don't need to already be an expert, just do some research beyond reading Shakespeare and watching Elizabeth. Research is one of the fun parts anyway. I found that much more useful.