Curious how you can help? We ask that you sign our petition for Wizards to voluntarily recognize our union, share it with your communities, and keep an eye on this account for future updates! actionnetwork.org/forms/uwotcp...

Stand with Dungeons & Dragons and Magic Workers Forming a Union!

The Dungeons & Dragons team and Studio X (Magic: The Gathering; Duel Masters) are forming a union! We are joining the ranks of United Wizards of the Coast - CWA (UWOTC-CWA) and following in the fo...

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People have been claiming that AI could end the world. I don't think so. AI will just make things inconvenient and weird. gentledecline.beehiiv.com/p/gentle-dec...

I growl about Irish Rail, but they don't claim that their vehicles are due when they don't exist. I've just seen a Dublin Bus go from "3 minutes" (which it held for 10) to "Due" to... nothing. The next one evaporated off the tracker before it showed up 8 minutes late, 2 stops into the route. Clowns.

Housekeeping or farming, bit of carpentry on the side. And that then seems to be true for as many generations as you care to go back.

Revan@revan.eurosky.social · 2mo ago

Enough “what would you do on the commune questions” If you got sent back 100 years and were given your grandparent’s job, what are you doing?

Apparently the MetroLink project could run to €19 billion. Ok. GET ON WITH IT. It's not going to get any cheaper, and it's completely necessary, not least because it's embarrassing telling international visitors they can't get a train from the airport. www.irishtimes.com/transport/20...

MetroLink could cost up to €19bn, say senior Coalition figures

Cabinet set to consider plans in autumn to put out to tender the proposed 19km rail link from Swords to Charlemont

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Fascists, apparently, gonna fash.

Alejandra Caraballo@esqueer.net · 3mo ago

Watching Israeli genocide apologists latch on to the attack on Amnesty International really shows how these struggles are intertwined.

JKR and her new org apparently helped get the new Amnesty International report on how TERF organizations destroy lives taken down from their site. Well, guess what? The Streisand Effect is real. Here's the entire report in a thread. Read it. Share it.

Alejandra Caraballo@esqueer.net · 3mo ago

Amnesty International put out a major report documenting the influence of UK based anti trans gender critical organizations and their funding. Within hours, GC groups threatened defamation lawsuits and Amnesty was forced to pull it down. Proving the point they're anti rights. Anyways, here it is.

My neuroatypicality apparently doesn't really allow for anxiety. Similarly, guilt and shame are a bit alien to me. And I am very much the Forever DM.

Dr. Emily Friedman@ecfriedman.com · 3mo ago

Is there someone who regularly GMs TTRPGs who is not anxious, or is my frame of reference warped?

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A new issue: gentledecline.beehiiv.com/p/gentle-dec...

Gentle Decline 2/45: Voices & Versatility

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Livejournal, without a doubt.

JD (by way of Blacksky)@jdot.blacksky.team · 4mo ago

Can I ask y’all a genuine question? In all your life online, what’s the greatest social media you’ve ever used?

Overheard on bus: "...but this is Ireland, a country governed by a body of wet dishrags masquerading as lame politicians."

This looks magnificent. www.backerkit.com/c/projects/l...

Monsterhearts: Welcome to Drowned Lake

Monsterhearts: Welcome to Drowned Lake. Get messy. 🤯 Get magical. 🪄 Get monstrous. 🦇 We are crowdfunding to add controller support to this queer narrative horror deckbuilder.

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A new website for and by the artisans of Lough Devnaree: nacuallachtai.org

Na Cuallachtai

Recrafting Medieval, the SCA way

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White folks need to step up and do more to stop and speak out against the ever increasing violence towards POC. We can’t do it alone. Don’t keep asking us ‘how’, google is free.

A petition for public transport information to be visible to the public. Which, really, seems like common sense. my.uplift.ie/petitions/pu...

Public Info, Public Access - Stop providing public info exclusively on private social networks

How this affects you: Public transport and government services are public goods. But right now, vital updates—like train cancellations, road closures, and emergency alerts—are often shared on private ...

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A sestina, written in a couple of hours while camping: www.tumblr.com/thejoyofseax...

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Strawberry Raid V, 2026

This isn't so much an event report as an index post, from which I can link more posts as I make them. You can expect posts on: Thoughts on Camp Coordination Teaching Cooking by Doing Cooking The...

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"Introduce yourself with 10 bands/musicians you've seen live" Red Hot Chili Peppers Warlords of Pez Jethro Tull Ensiferum Korpiklaani Loyko M(h)aol Eluveitie Frank Black Volbeat

Lughnasa Healy-Rae Nua@t4rbh.bsky.social · 5mo ago

"Introduce yourself with 10 bands/musicians you've seen live" R.E.M. Pulp The Cure Pearl Jam Sinéad O'Connor The Hu The Waterboys Alanis Morrisette Sigur Ros Gorillaz

This is the correct way forward. The current situation is benefitting a small number of landlords, and nobody else. Of course, our glorious leaders are either landlords or have them in the close family, so it's going to take some pressure for this to happen. www.thejournal.ie/readme/kelly...

The housing crisis: Like wildfire, we need to abandon the delusion it’ll burn itself out

The only real way out of the housing crisis is through the introduction of a state construction company, argues Kelly Earley.

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Idk man I feel like even if AI scraped from 100% ethical sources, had zero impact on the environment, and produced gorgeous work, I’d still think you were a bitch for using it

You start off with perfectly sensible sentences like "I fed the cat". And then maybe, "the cat has been fed". And before you know it, you're on "sustenance has been cast into the gaping maw".

I need to know where Jasmine Bhullar got that Planescape t-shirt.

Every year, seeing this blows my mind. Far side of the fence, grazed by sheep: a deadzone. Our side of the fence: full of wild native trees, flowers, insects, birds. WHY are we not giving hill farmers other livelihood options that *benefit*, instead of destroy, nature, like paying them to rewild?

"Spanish explorers first found goobers in Peru and carried them back to Spain, where they were grown and from whence they were traded to Africa." Tastes & Tales from Texas: A Collection of Texas Recipes by Peg Hein. Admittedly, the first 3 closest books were my own notebooks; less interesting.

Gareth Hanrahan@mytholder.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Pick up the nearest book, turn to p. 42, and post the second sentence: A group of about fifty riders moved on the open ground between the Burgundian camp that besieged Neuss and her own Imperial camp that (theoretically) was here to relieve the town. (ASH: A Secret History, Mary Gentle)

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“The Irish government balked at introducing any such moderate, sensible energy-saving measures, presumably fearful of backlash from a public conditioned to believe that any sacrifice, no matter how small, is intolerable”. My take is in @thejournal.ie today. www.thejournal.ie/readme/carbo...

Opinion: Carbon tax may be the tax we love to hate, but it's the one we can't afford to scrap

Carbon tax may be unpopular, but we need it to avoid a far more expensive future, and the government was wrong to cave in after protests, writes John Gibbons.

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Hey @realfollowers.bsky.social - tell me things.