Brian Ashford
@brianbloodaxe.bsky.social
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Role-player, husband, parent. Woke PoS. He/him. Staff at Ancient Robot Games in Edinburgh. ominosity.wordpress.com Why you are rolling the dice is far more important than which dice you are rolling.
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brianbloodaxe.bsky.social
Disappointing. Here's hoping for a quick U-turn.
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rowanzeoli.bsky.social
Wow, this makes me so happy to see. Brennan absolutely walks the walk of the politics he presents in his fiction, and I wish more people with platforms his size could say the same
zohrankmamdani.bsky.social
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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themountaingoats.bsky.social
you're already seeing & will see more stories about how various attempts at reducing energy use "aren't working," etc -- those are propaganda. this is fantastic
renewableenergy.bsky.social
Huge historic turning point — Renewables surpassed coal as the world’s leading electricity source for the first half of 2025!

#greensky #energysky #renewableenergy
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jametc.bsky.social
if I'm not mistaken, this is the first UBI scheme where they aren't in some stupid endless "study" and finally have enough data to just simply DO it, and of course like all the studies showed, the result is a huge boost for the economy
mikeachim.bsky.social
Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy:
www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...
Post from Threads user rodneyowl: "Ireland has declared the Basic Income for Artists scheme permanent. This will be officially announced in tomorrow’s budget. Details to follow. Congratulations to all who fought for it and the present and future artists of all sorts in Ireland. That includes me 👌We’re just comin to the end of a 3 year pilot scheme. It’s been a roaring success. For every €1 paid out to the 2000 participants, the government got €1.46 back. Can’t argue with that. Other countries are already taking note."
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gopher33j.bsky.social
As somebody with asthma who uses inhalers - SHUT THE FUCK UP. THIS ARTICLE IS SHAMING PEOPLE WITH A CHRONIC CONDITION.

"Significantly" My ass. You know what else does? AI Data centers - corporations - cows - asphalt - THOUSANDS OF OTHERS THINGS THAT ARE NOT MEDICINE.

Fuck you - fuck you again.
Inhalers contribute significantly to global warming, study finds
Millions of Americans using inhalers for chronic lung diseases like asthma may be unknowingly contributing to global warming, according to new research.
local12.com
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chibdm.bsky.social
Robin Williams' daughter has some quality thoughts on AI slop
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lilithttrpg.bsky.social
I admire Greta's continued principled communication with media. She always puts the focus back on Palestinians. She insists that Palestinians do not need to be saved, and it is also our responsibility to do what we can to help end Israel's genocide.

She's right; this is the bare minimum.
dropsitenews.com
She called out world leaders for sitting by and watching a live-streamed genocide without taking action.
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bencollins.bsky.social
Sometimes it’s hard to tell if the bad guys know they’re losing, so it’s important to read it when they say it out loud.
helldude.bsky.social
mencius moldbug is thinking of fleeing the country because he thinks the trump administration's chaotic half-assing of dismantling liberal democracy is going to bite them all in the ass
brianbloodaxe.bsky.social
Many of the worst things I have ever read were reports of abuse in US prisons.
leftistlawyer.com
People really have no idea how violent, cruel, and intentionally torturous American jails and prisons are.

And most people in American jails have never been convicted of a crime.
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leftistlawyer.com
People really have no idea how violent, cruel, and intentionally torturous American jails and prisons are.

And most people in American jails have never been convicted of a crime.
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newmadras.bsky.social
Hi, is there anybody here who is in/from Spain who could help me answer some questions about RPGs in the 90s?
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cemurphy.bsky.social
I've seen this and other interviews of Perlman talking about this shot before and I still watched it twice all the way through. It's truly magical. 😍
brianbloodaxe.bsky.social
I think I just failed my san check. #headache
brianbloodaxe.bsky.social
There we go! I knew I was forgetting something obvious.
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oxinabox.bsky.social
"it might be conscious but unable to express it! You can't know."
O-kay... That sounds like you are trying to argue for existence of a soul. Why have you never argued this for animals or other objects that didn't have multibillion dollar marketing campaigns?
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brianbloodaxe.bsky.social
I’ve been reading rpg theory this morning and I think I have come to the realisation that I hate the term fictional positioning.
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oxinabox.bsky.social
as a girl with a PhD in natural language processing and machine learning it's actually offensive to me when you say "we don't know how LLMs work so they might be conscious"

I didn't spend 10 years in mines of academia to be told ignorance is morally equal knowledge.

We know exactly how LLMs work.
brianbloodaxe.bsky.social
I'm not sure off the top of my head. I see it in discussions and blogs more than anything.
brianbloodaxe.bsky.social
Read on. I’m arguing against the concept that fiction needs elevated to the level of rules to matter.

The name is bad too though. I think it was intended to mean “position of play within the fiction” but it isn’t obvious.
brianbloodaxe.bsky.social
This just seems backwards to me. The fiction is the point, it’s all real, it’s the rules which need to justify themselves.

#rpg #ttrpg
brianbloodaxe.bsky.social
It feels like fictional positioning is a request to elevate aspects of the imaginary space to to level of rules. *These* are the bits which you can interact with.

Which bits are scenery, and which bits are interactive.