“It’s marginalized communities whose culture is at the most risk of vanishing, very often, and it’s these communities who most often have their own practices of sharing and preserving culture.”

Internet Archive@archive.org · 2h ago

📚 The cultures most at risk of vanishing are often created and sustained by communities with the fewest resources. In WHAT WE'VE LEARNED, Alice Bridgwood reflects on everyday archives like handwritten cookbooks & zines. 🎧 Listen to Future Knowledge: futureknowledge.transistor.fm/episodes/van... 🧵

📚 The cultures most at risk of vanishing are often created and sustained by communities with the fewest resources. In WHAT WE'VE LEARNED, Alice Bridgwood reflects on everyday archives like handwritten cookbooks & zines. 🎧 Listen to Future Knowledge: futureknowledge.transistor.fm/episodes/van... 🧵

Want a TTRPG that has Annihilation / Roadside Picnic / Stalker vibes? I recently updated the list at the end of the Zonecore post: omnes.exeunt.press/p/what-is-zo... #zonecore #stalker #zone #zonepunk #ttrpg

What is zonecore?

Creating Exclusion Zone Botanist led me to search for the origins and critical works of the genre. Here are five common elements of zonecore and a list of zonecore tabletop games for inspiration.

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This is a short story by Ray Bradbury, published in 1950, which takes place today. It’s beautiful, dark, melancholy, surreal.

Rebecca R Helm@rebeccarhelm.bsky.social · 20h ago

Here’s the text: www.btboces.org/Downloads/7_...

dealing with doctors is wild bc they'll publish a paper like "new epidemic of Brain Exploding Syndrome & the only warning before your brain explodes is a headache that lasts more than 3 days" but if you go to the doctor with a 4-day headache they're like "how dare you"

Whenever I host TTRPG advice streams, a good 50% of the advice is *imagine you're a person and the player in question is also a person, what would you do then?*

Wil (He/Him)@rivetgeek.aggregatecognizance.com · yesterday

Then...talk to the player. As adults. The same way you would with any other rude behavior. Don't fucking infantilize them, use language like "playing stupid games", or try to dictate their engagement with a blanket ban.

The raccoon who lives by my house is making weird chittering noises at night so I looked it up AND ITS A LULLABY FOR BABY RACCOONS?!?? 😭😭😭 it’s a sound momma raccoons make to comfort their kits 😭😭😭😭

Anyone have botanical horror book recommendations? Bonus points for body horror and/or mushrooms 🍄‍🟫👄🍄‍🟫

Spreading the good word 🙌

Gretchen Felker-Martin PRE ORDER CHIMERA 2.16.27 🍉@scumbelievable.bsky.social · 2d ago

I had all-dressed chips for the first time today and my god, I'm still in shock. Perfection.

rewatching the Underworld trilogy and trying to make the case that this haircut is both a fuck ass bob and hot as hell

Go support Rascal News if you are able to! ✨✨✨

Rascal News@rascal.news · 2d ago

State of the Rascal: August 2026 www.rascal.news/state-of-the...

This thread is a delight

Kathryn Tewson@kathryntewson.bsky.social · 3d ago

I have just been sent the transcript of a deposition my grandmother gave in 1977 while she was serving as an expert witness in a series of tribal rights cases and let me tell you, if nothing else this is proof that I come by it honest for every conceivable value of “it”

Whoever brings me a breakfast burrito or coffee to Booth 449 gets a free copy of the Ashtray Edition. I saw this work for @gilarpgs.bsky.social, don't let it flop for me

I might have a chance to go part time while staying in my career (this would be HUGE for my mental health), but then I need to come up with another income stream. My brainstorming very much looks like a 6-year-old’s idea of how grownups make money.

LARP World Wide Web Hackathon Geek out Queer studies … wait a second now

Merriam-Webster@merriam-webster.com · 5d ago

Find the 5 words from your birth year that perfectly describe YOUR vibe ⬇️ www.merriam-webster.com/time-traveler/

Hey would someone mind stopping by IPR and buying me one of everything? thanks love you

Indie Press Revolution@ipr.bsky.social · 5d ago

1/18 IPR #Booth449 at #GenCon2026 Thursday before open, with 156 games of the 600+ we carry, from 96 of our 220 member-publishers. Photos courtesy of Nicholas. www.indiepressrevolution.com/xcart/Gen-Co...

niche tea 🫖

ReadingDanger@readingdanger.bsky.social · 6d ago

Most folks don't know, but the question of whether librarian patrons should be able to watch sexually explicit material that qualifies as Constitutionally protected free speech is contended in the profession.

Fun fact: banning porn on the public computers at our library was VERY CONTROVERSIAL— libraries are anti-censorship. They got it through by using labour rights — the staff shouldnt exposed to explicit images at work. But we all know the *real reason* 🫠 (patrons don’t stop at watching)

InfoWars@realinfowars.bsky.social · 6d ago

Drown your sorrows in Emergency, TONIGHT at 8 ET. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hvO_wi7PojI

MAKE WEIRD GAMES

The connotation-drift on “content” fascinates me. I always thought of it as form vs content — form being “how you’re communicating”, content being “what’s being communicated”, two interrelated aspects of art. Medium, message. But now, “content” usually means ”the uncompensated art between ads”

Haus of Decline@hausofdecline.bsky.social · 6d ago

Lately, I’ve been meeting TTRPG nerds in the wild who have more experience with non-D&D games than D&D. I often describe games in relation to D&D since, in the past, thats been where ppl’s awareness ends, but now I gotta update my strat! 🤩 (Still working at getting them on that lyrical shit tho 🚬😎)

I have failed 😞 Turns out all the books I own are horror novels or leftist propaganda, and sometimes I need a beach read.

Gnome Anne@annethegnome.bsky.social · 2w ago

Since posting this I’ve been on a QUEST to read all the books I own. I just finished the fourth one and honestly? past me had great taste

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I've started doing this thing where when people interupt me at work, I stop talking mid-word. I don't start again until explicitly cued or asked a direct question. I just stare. No "uh huh"s, "ok"s or nods. Only stare. This is conversational warfare 🔫🔫

it’s funny to think about how writing is a skill in term of craft and quality, but also a separate skill of being able to sit down, focus and string together sentences for 10 hours in 3 days

Gnome Anne@annethegnome.bsky.social · last wk.

I wrote 10 000 words for a narrative video game THIS WEEKEND please clap *im so tired*

I wrote 10 000 words for a narrative video game THIS WEEKEND please clap *im so tired*

HAVING THE TIME OF MY LIFE

The Storyteller Squad@storysquadcast.bsky.social · 2w ago

Never mind the Hellhounds, a Dragon walks into a bar... and Jackie is having a BLAST~! Find out what all happens in this high stakes Expanded Universe Episode, "San Francisco Hellfire"~! #fantasypodcast #monsteroftheweek #thestorytellersquad #storysquadcast

I’ve been so busy for so long that whenever I’m not super busy I get anxious, CONVINCED I must be forgetting some important engagement

PLEASE NOTE in the dialogue Kitty says "YOUR CLOTHES! YOUR ... HAIR! WHAT HAVE YOU DONE?!!" and Storm replies "A NEW LOOK. DO YOU LIKE IT." with no question mark. Queen shit.

Gnome Anne@annethegnome.bsky.social · 2w ago

Kitty having a little panic after seeing Mohawk Storm has no heterosexual explanation.

Just a reminder: mohawk Storm.