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PJ Coffey - They/Them @[email protected]

@homebrewandhacking.bsky.social

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💛 I make tools for GMs for 5e, A5e, and Free5e 🤍 I do developmental editing and design. 💜 I broadcast TTRPG news and support indie devs and artists. 🖤 I chat about funding and publishing TTRPG books. http://Homebrewandhacking.com

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PJ Coffey - They/Them @[email protected] @homebrewandhacking.bsky.social · Dec 6

"I followed this profile" reaction table (2d6)

Hostile
2- You're selling AI or investment opportunities
3- You're on BS to talk about US politics
4- You expect me to auto follow back

Unfriendly
5- You don't use alt-text
6- You haven't filled in your profile

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PJ Coffey - They/Them @[email protected] @homebrewandhacking.bsky.social · 4h

Druid has used conjure animals to summon octopi and cast an ink cloud.

Completely blinding our front line.

*sad trombone noise*

But then the enemies swam past which enabled flanking and a wall of coral to be dropped into them.

With a double crit as my last roll of the campaign...

PJ Coffey - They/Them @[email protected] @homebrewandhacking.bsky.social · 10h

Interesting!

PJ Coffey - They/Them @[email protected] @homebrewandhacking.bsky.social · 10h

😆

Vibes.

a group of ships in the ocean with smoke coming out of the top

Alt: A wedge of battleships steaming straight at ya

media.tenor.com

PJ Coffey - They/Them @[email protected] @homebrewandhacking.bsky.social · 10h

IDK, you sometimes come across fellow travellers who communicate the same way, right? 😀

PJ Coffey - They/Them @[email protected] @homebrewandhacking.bsky.social · 11h

Yikes. Have they _read_ the Bible?

PJ Coffey - They/Them @[email protected] @homebrewandhacking.bsky.social · 11h

Oooooooffffffffff

Feel that one in my bones.

It requires constant masking in person and the verbal equivalent of 😀 😀 😀 ❤️🧡💛 and smiles and ❤️🧡💛 🌈 🏳️‍🌈 🌈 🏳️‍🌈 and it's _exhausting_.

PJ Coffey - They/Them @[email protected] @homebrewandhacking.bsky.social · 11h

Not beating the sentient racoon allegations. X

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Melissa Rogerson @melissainau.bsky.social · 1d

Do you teach boardgames? We have just launched a survey asking about your experience! It takes about ten minutes to complete - please share!
Survey link: go.unimelb.edu.au/45qp

Image text reads:
Do you teach board games?
We invite you to complete a short survey for academic research into people’s experiences of teaching boardgames, at home and elsewhere.
The survey takes about ten minutes to complete.

To find out more, please use the QR code,
visit go.unimelb.edu.au/45qp
or email hybrid-games@unimelb.edu.au

(University of Melbourne Human Research Ethics Approval 33778)

There is also a decorative image of game pawns and dice, with a magnifying glass on top, as well as a QR code which points to the given link.

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PJ Coffey - They/Them @[email protected] @homebrewandhacking.bsky.social · 11h

/ watch her sink into the deep/
/ as her fangirls rave/
/In other words/
/Drag her do/
/In other words/
/she's not for you/

Why would you earworm me like that? You monster? 😉

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PJ Coffey - They/Them @[email protected] @homebrewandhacking.bsky.social · 11h

Kindle to let me read non-Amazon books, whereas Kobo just lets me add them and read them from my phone. ❤️

Anyway, that's a weird ramble. Any thoughts from followers/booksky? Or questions/recs/rec requests about books? 😀

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PJ Coffey - They/Them @[email protected] @homebrewandhacking.bsky.social · 11h

Not giving them more money seems like a plan.

Currently I'm looking at Kobo Unlimited which offers books and audiobooks. I notice there's also a £6.99/month subscription which is looking like great value (Audible is shitting the bed with AI Narrators and £8.99/month).

Also, I could never get /3

PJ Coffey - They/Them @[email protected] @homebrewandhacking.bsky.social · 11h

I use the Kobo app because I need my phone in my hand a lot of the time to manage anxiety, so might as well read a book!

Kindle is a smoother interface, often, and Kobo has no dark mode which is an offence against God and man.

However Amazon is clearly working towards holding my library hostage so

PJ Coffey - They/Them @[email protected] @homebrewandhacking.bsky.social · 11h

You may not know this about me, but I'm actually a lot more into books than anything else.

And that's coming from someone who has written, edited, and crowdfunded, a fair few TTRPG books.

So, I'm looking at Kobo. For reasons (link related).

blog.the-ebook-reader.com/2025/02/25/a...

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Amazon Keeps Finding New Ways to Anger Kindle Customers

From forced software updates that keep breaking things to suddenly removing the ability to download purchased ebooks, Amazon has done a number of things to

blog.the-ebook-reader.com

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Bill Amend @billamend.bsky.social · 1d

My friend Matt Inman made a great comic about AI…

A cartoonist's review of AI art - The Oatmeal

This is a comic about AI art.

theoatmeal.com

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PJ Coffey - They/Them @[email protected] @homebrewandhacking.bsky.social · 1d

This accessibility advocate...

bsky.app/profile/thin...

PJ Coffey - They/Them @[email protected] @homebrewandhacking.bsky.social · 2d

For those oblivious:

Accessibility advocate: permabanned

Transphobe and harrasser: still welcome

*sigh* I wonder when they'll bring in the bots?

trick van treat @derek.bike · 2d

lots of people know Łink from what he did to promote alt text usage here. this tip about pretending you’re describing an image over the phone has been burned in my brain since i saw it

PJ Coffey - They/Them @[email protected] @homebrewandhacking.bsky.social · 1d

IDK... I don't think that's a proper Mork Borg layout...

I can read it... 😉

PJ Coffey - They/Them @[email protected] @homebrewandhacking.bsky.social · 1d

Yup. Sora is going to make things work so much worse.

I think I will manage because I tend to do a lot of cross-checking but there's so much uncritical acceptance. Very concerning.

PJ Coffey - They/Them @[email protected] @homebrewandhacking.bsky.social · 1d

80% fact and 20% bullshit is a real killer.

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PJ Coffey - They/Them @[email protected] @homebrewandhacking.bsky.social · 1d

I know a lot of people don't like Kurgesagt because it has a pro tech bias, but I thought this was a decent video.

Maybe send it to someone who needs the shiny pictures explanation?

youtu.be/_zfN9wnPvU0?...

AI Slop Is Killing Our Channel

YouTube video by Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell

youtu.be

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PJ Coffey - They/Them @[email protected] @homebrewandhacking.bsky.social · 1d

Met a shih tzu. Great day. 😀

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PJ Coffey - They/Them @[email protected] @homebrewandhacking.bsky.social · 1d

That's rough, but I hope the fridge works!

PJ Coffey - They/Them @[email protected] @homebrewandhacking.bsky.social · 1d

If you're wondering why I've unfollowed you after you changed your name and pfp it's because I had no idea who you were and your post was a bit mid.

Sorry 😞

PJ Coffey - They/Them @[email protected] @homebrewandhacking.bsky.social · 1d

There are some places that won't take cash, like in the UK but I used cash most of the time and it was fine. But having wechat pay or alipay is very convenient and pretty universal.

Food and drink is very cheap, except dark chocolate. But you can get proper bread in some places! It was good.

PJ Coffey - They/Them @[email protected] @homebrewandhacking.bsky.social · 1d

Didn't miss the smell of exhaust at all. Although I suspect there's some particulate matter from brakes and tyres, I didn't have black nose or ear discharge. Big improvement.

There's a chain that used to just sell toast. Now other baked goods.

Reports of being totally cashless are incorrect.

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PJ Coffey - They/Them @[email protected] @homebrewandhacking.bsky.social · 1d

So, China.

Driving is terrifying. Everyone is constantly barging in and nearly colliding, pedestrians walk across the road, scooters hurtle everywhere...

But I didn't see a single scratched or dented car. Maybe they're paying attention to other road users?

Also: all electric. 1/

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