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28 🌱 she/her 🌱 editorial director at Possum Creek, lead game designer at Steve Jackson Games, award-winning trans gay 🌱 wrote wanderhome, yazeba's b&b, seven part pact, and others email: [email protected]

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jay Dragon has firmware updates @jdragsky.bsky.social · Nov 14

hi everyone! my name is jay Dragon, i'm a tabletop RPG designer and editorial director at Possum Creek Games best known for my work on wanderhome, yazeba's bed & breakfast, sleepaway, and many other games.
my patreon is full of my design thoughts and games in progress: www.patreon.com/possumcreek

A photo of me holding a beverage looking at the camera. I'm a white fat butch woman with blond hair

The cover of Wanderhome: three animal people walking through a beautiful meadow.

A photo of the cover of Yazeba's B&B, which depicts the Bed & Breakfast itself

A selfie of me in a purple shirt. I'm a white fat butch woman and my tits look great here.

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Cat Manning @catacalypto.bsky.social · 15h

it is insane to me that you could basically get two narrative designers who can basically solve any problem within scope constraints. it’s like having people parachute in to rescue whatever you need fixing far beyond what you thought you could get

Laura Michet @lmichet.bsky.social · 15h

If you hire me AND bruno, you could get two long-time collaborators who will make your material, whatever it is, *alarmingly* unhinged

Bruno Dias @brunodias.bsky.social · 15h

yes. put us together in a box so we can make each other increasingly deranged

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Marco Rogers @polotek.bsky.social · 14h

I'm not advocating for violent protests. But I am challenging the naive notion that non-violent resistance can singlehandedly stop what's happening. I know everybody wants to hang on to the notion that it was MLK's tactics alone that people responded to in the 60s. It's just not true.

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J. C. Cantwell 🌻 @segfaultvicta.aludel.xyz · 14h

newsom's devotion to taking evenly-scheduled breaks from actually usefully standing up against the Trump administration to be a world-class piece of shit for absolutely no reason is genuinely something to behold. like does he schedule it on his calendar or is it just a thing he's in the mood for

LGBTQ Nation @lgbtqnation.com · 18h

Gavin Newsom vetoes gender education bill, declines to sign other trans protections - buff.ly/MTUAV85

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jay Dragon has firmware updates @jdragsky.bsky.social · 15h

i believe this mirror is 6" tall and youre standing on a desk right now

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Key 🗝 🦊✅ @keytryer.net · 16h

I think it's worth mentioning that this sort of intellectual property landlordism is incompatible with the Internet. You can't want all:

a) Content you upload to the Internet being private
b) Content you upload to the Internet being accessible
c) Computers and the Internet like you understand them

Key 🗝 🦊✅ @keytryer.net · 16h

This is just how computers work, data has to be transmitted to the user system to be reproduced for viewing. You either make that difficult, like in closed social media, or you want an open social media with open clients which make that easy.

bsky.app/profile/elea...

ellie lockhart (she/they) @eleanor.lockhart.contact · 17h

Because AI models do not in fact reproduce their training contents, it’s trivial for companies to train on anything they want and just not disclose it, and you can’t really do anything about it

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Danielle Lalonders @dlalonders.bsky.social · 23h

trump trying to send ice to portland is really crazy considering how portland is one of the whitest major cities in this country. i know everyone is making their polycule jokes but i dont see this as anything but an attack on trans people

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Matthew Gault @mjgault.bsky.social · 22h

seems bad!

But it’s not just the slop. It’s also the scams. “At its most innocuous, AI generated content without watermarking and metadata accelerates the enshittification of the internet and tricks people with inflammatory content,” Tobac said. “At its most malignant, AI generated content without watermarking and metadata could lead to every day people losing their savings in scams, becoming even more disenfranchised during election season, could tank a stock price within a few hours, could increase the tension between differing groups of people, and could inspire violence, terrorism, stampede or panic amongst everyday folks.”

Tobac showed 404 Media a few horrifying videos to illustrate her point. In one, a child pleads with their parents for bail money. In another, a woman tells the local news she’s going home after trying to vote because her polling place was shut down. In a third, Sam Altman tells a room that he can no longer keep Open AI afloat because the copyright cases have become too much to handle. All of the videos looked real. None of them have a watermark.

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Clayton @explorersdesign.bsky.social · 23h

Alright, the first in-depth article of my awards debrief is live. "How do the Ennies work?" A top-down look at my judging experience from A to Z.

Please share, leave comments, and ask questions. And don't forget to read part 1 if you haven't already.

www.explorersdesign.com/ennies-2/

How do the Ennies work?

An insider's look into the 2025 Ennie Awards. Part two. What is the award process like behind closed doors, and how do the judges select nominees?

www.explorersdesign.com

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Asa Donald | Backwards Tabletop @backwardsttrpg.bsky.social · 1d

Part of my writing process for SPINE was to write exploratory essays and conduct interviews on ideas that informed the project.

The first interview in this series is with @jdragsky.bsky.social on playing with books, what ttrpgs can learn from fiction, and being a “slut for physical books”!

Jay Dragon on Bookplay

An interview with Jay Dragon about how ttrpgs play with books

www.backwardstabletop.com

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🐔 Brian Bucklew 🐔 ₑͤ＞∿＜ₑͤ ∞🌮 @unormal.bsky.social · 1d

one thing thats crazy is that all art movements are just systems of hundreds of individual little unique goblins, none of whom did the exact movement; particles of the movement wave

🐔 Brian Bucklew 🐔 ₑͤ＞∿＜ₑͤ ∞🌮 @unormal.bsky.social · 1d

it sucks that its useful to know the name of every art movement

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jay Dragon has firmware updates @jdragsky.bsky.social · 1d

the tut tut cow

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Jameel Jaffer @jameeljaffer.bsky.social · 1d

It's a pretty big deal that the NYC Bar Association--one of the most prominent and respected bar associations in the country--is accusing the President of ordering the "unlawful summary execution," i.e. murder--of civilians in violation of US and international law. www.nycbar.org/press-releas...

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cmrn knzlmn @ckunzelman.bsky.social · 1d

I have a book on Assassin’s Creed coming out and I would like to be on your podcast / show / stream to promote it!

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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 1d

I see pieces like this a lot, often w/ a spin of lamenting cultural degeneration, but reading is a LABOR issue, it’s declined because so many people are working overtime or two jobs & employers expect after hours work. France has Earth’s highest reading rate b/c long lunch breaks & labor protections

After Dinner Conversation® @afterdinnerconversation.com · 1d

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jay Dragon has firmware updates @jdragsky.bsky.social · 1d

woahhhh i love this format

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OrbWitch @wildwoodgames.bsky.social · 1d

You should get in on this
www.backerkit.com/c/projects/c...

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jay Dragon has firmware updates @jdragsky.bsky.social · 1d

ive cut that because it produced a lot of ambiguity

jay Dragon has firmware updates @jdragsky.bsky.social · 1d

just means to put em per decade

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jay Dragon has firmware updates @jdragsky.bsky.social · 1d

a very youcore character

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jay Dragon has firmware updates @jdragsky.bsky.social · 1d

hi can people roll on this and tell me about the ordinary people they create

If you need to determine the trajectory of a mundane person's life, roll a number of D8s equal to the number of decades they've been alive, and arrange them in order to see how their life occurred, with each dice result representing the tenor of that decade. Each result represents 10 years of their life. Ignore any results which contradict anything established about the character.
Glyph
Years 10-19
Years 20-39
Years 40-59
Years 60+
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Death of a parent, loss of a home, freak tragic accident.
Death of a lover, exiled from home, haunted by guilt.
Death of a child, hopes dashed, legacy spoiled.
Haunted by death, wandering aimlessly, forgotten and alone.
♃
Regular peasant life, learned a trade, hard honest work.
Marriage proposal, building a home, parent to children.
Build a strong home, surrounded by family, many calm and unremarkable days.
Cared for by family, keep the fire warm, rocking chair at heart.
♂
Fought to survive, learned violence too young, nasty scar.
Skilled warrior, foes slain, battlefield dominated.
War came to the door, home burned, grief spread.
Stern and cold, guardian against the dark, prefers the night.
♀
Privileged youth, loving parents, everything provided for.
A lover and a layabout, heartbreaker, homewrecker.
Talented artist, creative training, earned acclaim from peers.
Master of a craft, feared and ruthless teacher, auspicious legacy.
☿
Traveled from distant lands, found a new home, sailed aboard a ship.
Explore new lands, venture far from home, go on adventures.
Reinvent self somewhere new, earn a fortune in trade, captain a sturdy ship.
Dream of distant lands, send others on quests, seek out forgotten treasure.
☾
Encountered magic, miraculous change, still carry the mark.
Student of old knowledge, ambitious researcher, curious youth.
Bitter intellectual, disillusioned by the world, desperate for enlightenment.
Wise old soul, educator to children, a bit wickerwise.

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jay Dragon has firmware updates @jdragsky.bsky.social · 1d

the CEO of bluesky is also named jay

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Clayton @explorersdesign.bsky.social · 1d

I love award shows. It's no secret. It's why I've spent months writing, refining, and trying to distill my Ennies judging experience.

It's a 4-part series (I know, I know). One article a day. Today's lays out my goals and puts the focus on awards in general.

www.explorersdesign.com/ennies-1/

The Awards Debrief 2025

An in-depth look at the Ennie Awards, its process, design, and role from the perspective of one former judge.

www.explorersdesign.com

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jay Dragon has firmware updates @jdragsky.bsky.social · 1d

im feeling the walls

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Anna Holmes @annabookwriter.bsky.social · 2d

The number of parents who gasped when we told them no, we could not tell them what their kids checked out because their kids have a right to privacy!

We offered “one book cards” to kids whose parents wouldn’t agree to let them have a card. They could take out a book at a time. The FURY.

Helena Greer @blumagaincurios.bsky.social · 2d

My feelings about Banned Books Week are that no indeedy parents do NOT have the right to decide what their own children read, because children are human beings with the right to dignity and privacy.

Agreeing w the parents rights premise shifts the Overton window in the wrong ass direction.

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lumpley @lumpley.bsky.social · 2d

Meg and I just signed up to talk about underlying conceptual models at Metatopia. If you're in the neighborhood, come by!

tabletop.events/conventions/...

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