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Fantômas, Le contrebandier de DEI @theefantomas.bsky.social · 2d

J. @orthopraxy.itch.io · 4d

Today was session two of Brindlewood Bay @pemetawe.bsky.social.

The Mavens tracked down a Cancerous Cardiovascular Cult in: 'Cardio Makes the Heart go Stronger?'

This is a special scenario because it was written by, well, me! It's Vol 2 of Sprigs and Kindling! Find it at: sprigsandkindling.com

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Deanna Kreisel 🌱 @doctorwaffle.substack.com · 7d

In honor of National Poetry Day, the greatest parody rewrite of all time:

Screen cap of parodic version of William Blake's "The Tyger" that begins:
Tyger! Tyger! Burning bright
(Not sure if I spelled that right)
What immortal hand or eye
Could fashion such a stripy guy?
What the hammer that hath hewn it
Into such a chonky unit?
Did who made the lamb make thee,
Or an external franchisee?

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hellojed @hellojed.bsky.social · 6d

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J. @orthopraxy.itch.io · 7d

There's going to be some *good stuff* in this issue, let me tell ya!

Go read S&K!

Amanda/iamatrex @iamatrex.com · 7d

Happy October! We have a Sprigs & Kindling Volume 5 cover reveal for you! This volume is themed around the TTRPG Trophy and creator @jesseross.com did the art! It's incredible!

You can check Volumes 1 to 4 of S&K here: sprigsandkindling.com

A man has his head thrown back as a tree erupts from his chest

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Anne Lutz Fernandez @lutzfernandez.bsky.social · 10d

Say it often, say it loud:

"Overall, research has not supported the common-sense presumption that digital approaches to schooling are better than non-digital alternatives. At the broadest level, widespread computer use in education has been found to be associated with lower student achievement."

Fit for Purpose? How Today’s Commercial Digital Platforms Subvert Key Goals of Public Education

Digital educational platforms have become ubiquitous in American classrooms, with tools like Google Workspace for Education, Kahoot!, Zearn, Khan Academy, and many others now structuring curriculum, i...

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Dean Dettloff @deandettloff.bsky.social · 11d

Unironically I think this should be illegal. We should have the right to be dead.

The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 11d

"Dad—I’m creating this chatbot to talk to you." Jon Michael Varese on the resurrection of his dead father through ChatGPT:

I Used ChatGPT to Resurrect My Dead Father

My own private Frankenstein

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J. @orthopraxy.itch.io · 10d

A Margherita pizza isn't for sharing; it's just for me. Not appropriate game night food.

A cheese pizza *is* for sharing, and therefore appropriate game night food.

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J. @orthopraxy.itch.io · 10d

Breaking story: angry man can't read

More news at 11

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jay Dragon has firmware updates @jdragsky.bsky.social · 12d

this fucked up apple is trying to House of Leaves me

the applejacks apple standing in fromt of a wallpaper maze. he says "here's my room! isn't my custom wallpaper amazing? solve the maze on the wall to find the way out of my messy room! then we can make like an apple tree and leave!" the maze is unsolvable

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che! @s-che.bsky.social · 12d

ashcan of DEAD INTERNET THEORY, my ttrpg about time travel and how online is a world-ending cognitohazard is now available anywhere you support my patreon.

www.patreon.com/posts/dead-i...

several clowns. four are green. four are pink. one is purple.

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JP @jpbrammer.bsky.social · 15d

I wrote about living with the chronic, debilitating anxiety that made me a "problem child" as kid, about trying to understand what anxiety is an adult, and how I discovered that it might be like prayer johnpaulbrammer.substack.com/p/line

line———

Anxiety as script, shape, and destiny

johnpaulbrammer.substack.com

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 14d

For their first project, my Kids and Society students have to create an infographic clarifying a common misconception about "kids these days." I'd prefer that they not use AI to create their projects, so I made my own infographic explaining why : )

Infographic titled "AI Isn't a Ticket To an A," explaining how chatbots work, what the data show about the prevalence of these technologies and how they're used, what we know about the quality of their output, and what we know about the impact that frequent use of these technologies has on their users and on content creators, low-wage workers, and the environment.

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Yochai Gal @yochaigal.bsky.social · 15d

Coming next summer!
Join @bradkerr.net, Skullboy and I at Between Two Cons, an indie RPG/OSR convention in Portland, Oregon.

Fill out this survey to influence how it takes shape:
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Between Two Cons

The Between Two Cairns podcast is hosting a convention (Between Two Cons) next year in Portland, Oregon, and we'd love your help! Please answer the following questions so we can plan accordingly.

forms.gle

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J. @orthopraxy.itch.io · 15d

Can't wait for the Harrowing of Hell starring Petruvius

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Pe Metawe Games @pemetawe.bsky.social · 15d

The pie 🥧 was delicious! Thanks to all our players for coming out 😄

J. @orthopraxy.itch.io · 18d

My Brindlewood Bay campaign at @pemetawe.bsky.social begins *today*!

We've got a sold out table! Today we're meeting our five Mavens and investigating a case of nefarious nautical plots in our first episode "Dad Overboard"!

Slice of cherry pie free for all players

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Aaron Voigt @aavoigt.bsky.social · 17d

Dr Friedman notes that there is a need for mentoring more reviewers in this piece, and though I'm broadly not a reviewer, I am trying to get more people to talk about RPGs on Youtube! If you are interested in learning how, please let me know!

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Matthew Claxton @matthewclaxton.bsky.social · 18d

Particularly useful for science fiction & fantasy writers in an age of TVtropes, the Turkey City Lexicon is from an earlier age, one unafraid to call a cliché a cliché.

Some of it would be useful for any writer in any genre – I see 'countersinking' all the damn time, for example.

www.sfwa.org

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J. @orthopraxy.itch.io · 18d

My Brindlewood Bay campaign at @pemetawe.bsky.social begins *today*!

We've got a sold out table! Today we're meeting our five Mavens and investigating a case of nefarious nautical plots in our first episode "Dad Overboard"!

Slice of cherry pie free for all players

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Norin 🦈 🔜 Twitchcon @mahoukarp.com · 24d

Me as of late 🦝
#art #comic #raccoon

Comic of a lazy round raccoon

"Today we observe the raccoon, they stay up all night, usually eating junk, and are kinda round."

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J. @orthopraxy.itch.io · 24d

If you're even at all into Carved from Brindlewood, you *gotta* check out S&K.

250 free pages. For free! Easily the best deal in Tabletop rn

Amanda/iamatrex @iamatrex.com · 26d

Sprigs & Kindling Volume 4 is now available! Issue 1 is themed around Public Access & Other Analog Oddities, and Issue 2 is Lost Transmissions! Download it for FREE from sprigsandkindling.com and shout out all the amazing contributors, editors and layout ppl for 250 pages of amazing creative works!

Sprigs and Kindling

An ongoing digital zine of community collected creative works for Carved from Brindlewood TTRPG games

sprigsandkindling.com

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Amanda/iamatrex @iamatrex.com · 26d

Sprigs & Kindling Volume 4 is now available! Issue 1 is themed around Public Access & Other Analog Oddities, and Issue 2 is Lost Transmissions! Download it for FREE from sprigsandkindling.com and shout out all the amazing contributors, editors and layout ppl for 250 pages of amazing creative works!

Sprigs and Kindling

An ongoing digital zine of community collected creative works for Carved from Brindlewood TTRPG games

sprigsandkindling.com

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Pe Metawe Games @pemetawe.bsky.social · 28d

Thanks to everyone who joined us last night! If you missed out, the next D&D one shot session runs Tues Sept 23.

We've also got Brindlewood Bay, ShadowDark, and Vampire: the Masquerade campaigns running this fall. Check out the details here: shop.pemetawe.com/shop/rpg-eve...

Pe Metawe Games @pemetawe.bsky.social · 29d

New D&D starting tonight! A series of 6 one shots ideal for beginners run by our friend Mike! $20/session. Starting 6pm Sept 9 (tonight!). Drop by the shop and see if this is for you or register here: shop.pemetawe.com/product/pe-m... 🎲🏹⚔️

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Dr. Emily Friedman @friede.bsky.social · Sep 8

Y’all my sister’s parish wasted NO TIME — Children’s Mass had some… rich texts for the “gamer saint”

A saint’s card and coloring-book-style sheet of St Carlo Acutis, with various facts and images about him, including Nike swooshes on his shoes and mention of his love of Pokémon.

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ratchel @ferret5557.bsky.social · Sep 7

THEY'RE CALLED MECHA, COOP. REAL WACKADOO STUFF THE BOYS BACK AT LANGLEY HAVE BEEN COOKING UP. ENORMOUS ROBOT BODIES THAT'LL WIN THE NEXT TEN WARS. BUT HERES THE KICKER: THEY CAN ONLY BE DRIVEN BY MALNOURISHED TEENAGE LESBIANS. TRANSGENDERS TOO IF THEY'RE MALNOURISHED ENOUGH.

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