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lumpley @lumpley.bsky.social · 2h

"Want to toss a card you don’t like and draw a new one to replace it? Want to change up the turn order? Want to add a reserve in the middle of your turn, unprompted? Just ask.

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Coyote & Crow Games @coyoteandcrow.bsky.social · 1h

Lesson learned. If you need to advertise, I would suggest avoiding Reddit.
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Don't Use Reddit Ads - Coyote & Crow Games

So, when I left much of social media last year, I was left in a bit of a pickle. Without Meta and other mainstream social media outlets, my advertising options were somewhat limited. I decided a coupl...

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Rascal News @rascal.news · 4h

Day one of @kickstarterunited.org's ongoing strike saw elected officials and union leaders show up in the streets of NYC to support workers.

Kickstarter United strikes in New York City for fairer contract

The workers were joined on day one by elected officials and various union leaders.

www.rascal.news

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Meredith Shiner @meredithshiner.com · 7h

Bridging my current life in Chicago and my past life in D.C., I argue today at @newrepublic.com that Democrats should ~never~ vote to fund this government. Make John Thune blow up Senate rules and Republicans wholly own the U.S. extra-military military doing war crimes against us, funded by us.

The Case for the Forever Shutdown

Senate Democrats actually allowing the GOP to stop funding the government is only the first step. Now they have to make the case that Trump’s government is illegitimate.

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Sebas @ohlookbirdies.bsky.social · 2d

"but it's everywhere now so we just have to accept it's the new reality" motherfucker we can just stop putting it everywhere! we did it with asbestos and CFCs and lead-based paint or petrol and make-up with arsenic in it! if everyone is using something and it's bad, we can choose to stop!

Sebas @ohlookbirdies.bsky.social · 2d

"anti-AI people should just learn more about it" motherfucker I know so much about it, that's why I'm anti-AI

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OPEIU @opeiu.org · 1d

TODAY: Members of Kickstarter United, on strike for a fair contract, rallied today in Manhattan outside the offices of venture capitalist Fred Wilson, a major investor in the company.

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Xavid @xavid.itch.io · 1d

(An A+ anthology in my opinion, with lots of variations on the theme.)

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Xavid @xavid.itch.io · 1d

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Trans-Galactic Bike Ride: Feminist Bicycle Science Fiction Stories of Transgender and Nonbinary Adventurers

2021 Lambda Literary Award Finalist Take a ride with us as we explore a future where trans and nonbinary people are the heroes. In worlds where bicycle rides...

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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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Katelyn Boo-urns @katelynburns.com · 2d

For my newsletter, I wrote about how wantonly illegal and unconstitutional ICE is, how it must come to a stop now, how it's up to all of us to stop it, and how we will need to develop a way so the federal government can never do this to us again.

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We Can't Live Like This

Trump's ICE agents are wantonly breaking the law across the country, while he sends the national guard to forcibly occupy blue states. It's up to the good citizens of this country to oppose this uncon...

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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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gyrium @gyrium.bsky.social · 1d

oh hey, that's my art

(please go check out this project -- it's so cool, and has tons of incredibly skilled and varied work in it about a culture rarely discussed!)

Dig It! @digitscotland.bsky.social · 6d

"It’s basically the best book on the Picts ever written" 😍

Dig into 7th-century Scotland with "Carved in Stone", a comprehensive guide to the Picts with 350+ historically informed illustrations covering everything from language to fashion. Pre-order to save 20%: www.stoutstoat.co.uk/carvedinstone

Digital illustration of a stonecarver and a bard holding a lyre

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🎃 public HELLth guy 🎃 @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 2d

this is already a huge problem, and it’s about to get much worse as the economy goes into recession

WORKERS AT FOOD BANKS and pantries said that the canceled deliveries add to the growing challenges they face. Many staff members said they had seen a decline in private contributions and volunteers. Grocery stores and food manufacturers, which started managing their inventories more efficiently during the pandemic, now have less leftover food to give.
Other Trump cuts have disrupted AmeriCorps, which helps staff mobile food pantries and other services, and are ending the Local Food Purchase Assistance Cooperative Agreement Program, which provided food from local farmers.

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Catsuka @catsuka.bsky.social · 2d

Rebecca Sugar (Steven Universe) to direct a "Moomins" animated feature film.
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The TRiiBE @thetriibe.com · 2d

HAPPENING NOW — This morning, Mayor Brandon Johnson signed an executive order establishing “ICE-free zones.”

“That means that city property and unwilling private businesses will no longer serve as grounds for these raids,” Johnson said to applause.

thetriibe.com/2025/10/mayo...

Mayor Brandon Johnson signs executive order establishing ‘ICE-free zones’ • The TRiiBE

Johnson is calling for a full investigation into “all of the brutality” that federal agents have conducted this past week.

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WBUR @wbur.org · 2d

An AP tally shows ICE is spending millions of dollars on TV recruitment ads targeting officers frustrated by local restrictions on immigration enforcement. The ads are airing in more than a dozen cities, including Boston, Chicago, Seattle and Atlanta.

ICE ad blitz in Boston aims to lure local law enforcement officers to join Trump mass deportation efforts

An Associated Press tally shows U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement is spending millions of dollars on TV recruitment ads targeting officers frustrated by local restrictions on immigration enforc...

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Kevin Carson 🇵🇸 🇺🇦 🇹🇯 @kevincarson1.bsky.social · 3d

Indigenous Nations Plan Tariff-Free Trade Corridor Across US-Canada border ino.to/agDxSX2

Indigenous Nations Plan Tariff-Free Trade Corridor Across US-Canada border

“We’re not begging for crumbs anymore. We’re demanding what’s rightly ours."

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KOJAMF🤘🖤🤘 @kojamf.bsky.social · 3d

Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

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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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victor @windienine.bsky.social · 2d

what we've collectively done to the world by letting this fester and not affording rest, reprieve, and protection to those who need it most -- elders, children, disabled people, *babies*... i shudder to even contemplate it in any depth. the world is forever changed.

please mask + vaccinate.

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Julia Doubleday @juliadoubleday.bsky.social · 2d

Nobody has Long COVID, but everybody has brain fog, cognitive decline and memory loss. I talk about the overwhelming scientific evidence that COVID damages the brain, and the overwhelming social unwillingness to acknowledge it in my latest:

www.thegauntlet.news/p/when-will-...

When Will the Lion Concern Himself

Joking memes make light of the uncomfortable reality: everyone's got a little of that post-COVID brain damage these days

www.thegauntlet.news

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David J Prokopetz @prokopetz.bsky.social · 2d

We've just passed stretch goal #2 and we're rounding the corner to stretch goal #3: "The Eternal Exhibition" by @austinramsaygames.bsky.social, a scenario in which a grand festival celebrating the latest innovations in art, science, magic, and food has been cursed to repeat the same day, forever.

David J Prokopetz @prokopetz.bsky.social · 7d

"Eat God" is live on Kickstarter:

www.kickstarter.com/projects/pen...

Be a blue-furred social justice advocate with detachable limbs, a many-eyed horror with strong opinions about metaphysics, or a jet-powered telepathic crab and stick it to the Man though the power of gratuitous cartoon violence.

Eat God

a tabletop roleplaying game about causing problems on purpose

www.kickstarter.com

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TabletopGamingDeals @tabletopgamedeals.bsky.social · 4d

Get The Far Roofs for the lowest price ever, only $5.95

The tabletop roleplaying game by Jenna Moran (Nobilis, Chuubo's Marvelous Wish-Granting Engine) about talking rats, god-monsters, and you.

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Far Roofs Special

Adventurer! This new Far Roofs Special presents The Far Roofs, the tabletop roleplaying game by Jenna Moran (Nobilis, Chuubo's Marvelous Wish-Granting Engine) about talking rats, god-monsters, and you...

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Colin McMillen @mcmillen.dev · 3d

co-signed. a robot might be able to type rote code faster than me, but *typing speed* is not the limiting factor in my effectiveness as a software engineer, and never has been.

*understanding* the code (and the pre-existing human and computational systems it interacts with) is the hard part.

"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 3d

I'd also identify a third position, "I see or imagine there are meaningful uses for LLMs, but that they are relatively few (not 'everything') and relatively small (+10%, not +10000%) and so may not support the cost of model building and inference or the valuation of these companies."

ellie lockhart (she/they) @eleanor.lockhart.contact · 3d

I think a lot of people who are reasonable AI skeptics are saying things like “I don’t see a reliable use for LLMs in areas I’m an expert in” and that those folks are quite distinct from people who argue that LLMs don’t have capabilities that they clearly do

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Gwen Pearson @bug-gwen.bsky.social · 3d

A little break from reality: a delightful insect procession by Nishiyama Kan'ei (Japan, Edo period). Check out the original for more delightful details www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti...

Detail of the the front of the painting. Katydids, grasshoppers, leafhoppers, and crickets are playing instruments and dancing, while mantids and other insects are carrying flowers

The full painting; katydids, mantids, and more lead the procession. In the middle is grasshoppers carrying a box, and in the rear are wasps offering up a comb of brood. Many are carrying flowers and dancing

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