As someone who intentionally was AVOIDING socials yesterday (y'know, because... socials, already looking for work, etc), it's nice to see - hope? Is this hope?

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Revising a presentation of mine and thinking of imagination: the stories we tell ourselves, & the stories we tell about other people. The presentation I'm working on is about Metaphor: ReFantazio. Do you have a hero? Or did you? Doesn't matter if they are a fictional character - who are they?

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I saw a post on Instagram from a wise and seasoned fic writer friend advising folks NOT to contact these people directly yet and let the AO3 lawyers do their work first, bc their insistence that you email them if you want your fics taken down feels like it could be a phishing scam or otherwise risky

Avery🌹Poet | Artist🌹@kunstpause.eu · 5d ago

So ao3.life has scraped the entirety of ao3 and is offering shitty audiobook versions of every fic I had everything archive locked on ao3 and it's still all here and I as the author have 0 control over any of my fics on there. This is absolutely not ok and needs to be taken down immidiately. #ao3

PSA: AO3 is VOLUNTEER-RUN. If you have tech skills, cybersecurity skills, etc, consider volunteering. @archiveofourown.org @status.archiveofourown.org If you are on Github you can also contribute to the code (last I checked). www.transformativeworks.org/volunteer/

Finding out if a game has the accessibility features you need is getting a little easier! I chatted with Enid Nelson from Riot Games about the ESA's Accessible Games Initiative and its tags. #Sponsored youtu.be/4V9-pKbrRBQ

Finding Accessible Games Just Got a LOT Easier!

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Rest in Peace, Patrick Stewart. You made an indelible impression on my psyche. I had the honor of writing the art description for Swords to Plowshares in the upcoming Star Trek set. As a lifelong Trekkie, even at that time, it felt like a virtual "thank you" for what you brought to the screen.

Sir Ian McKellen has made a statement on the tragic passing of Sir Patrick Stewart. “He wore his heart on his sleeve, which made him a man to rely on, to admire and in my case, love.”

WE LOVE YOU AO3. WE LOVE YOU VOLUNTEERS. WE SUPPORT YOU. even as our hearts break and our anxiety sky rockets and none of us know how we'll soothe ourselves to sleep for the next 4 weeks.

[update] Identified: We estimate that service restoration for #AO3 will take around 2 weeks but it could be up to 4 weeks. We are hopeful that we will be able to bring the site back up in a degraded state sooner. If that does happen, there may be times when the site has ...

Like a wound, grief does not heal overnight. As the days pass, let the empty space fill with memories, let the sorrow be replaced with gratitude for the good times, the kind words, and most of all, the part of them that made you who you are.

Kahless tells us that loss is a bitter cup we all must drink from occasionally. The grief of loss is the other side of deep love. Love, no matter the pain later, is never wasted. When the pain of loss visits you, remember the love as well, so those departed will live on forever.

If you want more Patrick Stewarts, then you publicly fund the arts and learning programs, so that working class kids can find their way into making a career in them.

This one hurts because my Captain.

Sir Patrick Stewart should be remembered as one of the brightest examples of how men can embody an alternative, positive, and healthy masculinity. Not by being a perfect man, but by being a man who openly expressed the emotional complexities, vulnerabilities, and contradictions of masculinity.

☀️My new game Danchi Days is NOW OUT!!! ☀️ In a slice-of-life adventure in 2000s Japan, explore an everyday town, meet surprising neighbors and, as 12-year-old Hoshino, revive a summer festival for her grandma who is living with dementia! store.steampowered.com/app/3107530?...

I have a lot of thoughts about these statements but let's start with the salary discussion. WOTC pays more than any other TTRPG company, this is true. That's one reason we've lost so many people at Paizo to WOTC over the years. But once you get that job at WOTC, and are finally making decent money,

Vertical Slice@verticalslice.news · last wk.

Responding to union concerns, Hasbro CEO says "the greatest form of job protection any team can have is to expand the business they're working on"

I just published A Timeline and Overview of What Happened to The PAX Intersection i-cch.medium.com/a-timeline-a...

A Timeline and Overview of What Happened to The PAX Intersection

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So. The role this person was offered (and signed!!) appears to be on tenuous ground due to ongoing roadblocks with the acquisition process. He’d like to put out feelers once again. Anyone with an inside line on open senior dev positions, pls hmu.

Maladroithe@maladroithe.bsky.social · 4mo ago

If anyone has any leads about a senior dev or related position for an engineer with 10+ years of experience including most languages, excellent soft skills, and willingness to be in-office/relocate for the right position, hmu. I have an amazing candidate for you.

This is big. Do you play board games? Asmodee probably had a hand in it. Even some tabletop games. TABLETOP ACCESSIBILITY BAYBEEEEEEEE.

Can I Play That?@caniplaythat.com · last wk.

Asmodee launched access+, a new accessibility resource for tabletop games to help players and carers. It originated from an internal initiative, which now expands to all studios in the Asmodee group to cover a wide range of accessible design practices. caniplaythat.com/2026/10/28/a...

It's in collections, so this is the first bill I need to sort. I have two others that I'm behind on. GFM: gofund.me/be10a7ac5 if that's more convenient than Paypal or Venmo. PP: kitchan Venmo: kitwinter #EmergencyCrowdfund #MutualAidRequest #DisabilityCrowdfund

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I checked my browser install and it didn't have this setting, but I don't have a Nitro sub active. Those with Nitro subs, please check your apps to verify if Discord is putting public server chats on Google search etc.

JKflay@jkflay.bsky.social · last wk.

PSA on how to turn off that feature since I haven't seen anyone post it: User Settings > Data & Privacy > Channel Messages then turn it off

Thanks to @disabilitystor1.bsky.social also was reminded of my love of mashups. Have a mix for spooky season: Nightmash, from Titus Jones. This one's Volume Five: youtube.com/playlist?lis...

NIGHTMASH: Volume Five - YouTube

Titus Jones presents NIGHTMASH, Volume V. This fifth edition of the annual Halloween EP was crafted during my Twitch show, "Will It Mash?", with input from o...

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i had a really shit day and would like to have pizza about it but do not have pizza money can someone buy me a pizza

NEW: Remedy's latest game, Control Resonant, is filled with art galleries. The galleries are filled with real art When I began talking to Remedy about it, I was delighted to discover who the artists are: many are the game developers' parents My story... www.gamefile.news/p/control-re...

Who made the art inside Control Resonant?

When the developers of Control Resonant needed to fill their video game version of New York City with art galleries, they tapped the talents of people they knew particularly well

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AI models can take up to 17 times more tokens to process non-Latin scripts than English, saddling users with a steep "tokenizer tax" https://restofworld.org/2026/ai-tokenizer-tax-non-english-languages-cost-inequity/?utm_campaign=row-social&utm_source=bluesky

life is too short to waste breath on people who free-associate in your replies as if that's an argument if you compare the false dilemma of a goofy and transparent "omg SO SERIOUS" choice in a narrative game with being forced by life to take medication to live, you are not a serious person

This story made me want to cry, as an epileptic. I recognize so much; the isolation of epilepsy; the difficulties of managing an intense full time job with epilepsy; the loss of trust; the fierce desire for some semblance of "normal" amidst all the symptoms. And AI companies prey on people like us

Dan Nguyen@dancow.bsky.social · last wk.

Gut punch of a story about an Amazon engineer who trusted ChatGPT-4o to manage and reduce her seizure med dosages. You'd hope someone who made it into a top engineering position would have known the limits of AI circa May 2024 www.nytimes.com/2026/10/27/w...