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Kendra Leigh Speedling

@kendrarara.bsky.social

Writes things, reads things, plays games, gets very excited about history. Definitely not anyone suspicious. (she/her) klspeedling.com

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Avi Henriques 🩸@legalizegoblins.bsky.social · last wk.

Hey TTRPG fam. Our friend @lynnemeyer.bsky.social, who is a laid-off former Paizo editor, is having a rough one. Storms knocked out power in her town and the current estimate to get power back is by next Tuesday. She lost everything in her fridge and needs help with food. Please share/donate!

Click here to support Lynne Meyer's story *LynnePaizoLayoffSupport

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Paizo@paizo.com · 3w ago

Absalom Station is a melting pot for cultures, and conflict alike! Flesh out your adventures with GM tools, lore, two new playable species, and more with the new Starfinder Absalom Station: Center of the Galaxy! Get the book online AND at Gen Con booth #203! Get the book: https://bit.ly/4w7w4F8

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John Scalzi@scalzi.com · 3w ago

YES. Knowing a lot of folks who know a lot of different and weird things is great (and having friends in general is cool). And even when your friend doesn't know the answer to your specific question, they probably know someone who does ("Let's ask Camaro Bob, he's got, like, 12 Camaros")

alix e. harrow@alixeharrow.bsky.social · 3w ago

said it before and i'll say it again: the number one writing hack is just to make friends. you can either spend an hour in an obscure & contentious reddit forum trying to figure out what a 2012 camaro sounds like or you can ask your buddy, the Car Guy

Michael Bramnik ✡︎ 🟦 🔙 Gen Con@canisdirus.bsky.social · last mo.

Good news! Starfinder Alien Core, which I worked on as developer and an author alongside many other amazing people, was nominated for an ENNIE Award! Voting opens *tomorrow* (7/10-19). If you get a chance, please show my fellow devs, authors, artists, and editors some love with a vote? Thank you!

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Ivis K. Flanagan 🔜 GenCon@northerndreamer.bsky.social · 2mo ago

To anyone who’s shared, liked, and/or donated to Auryn’s and my GoFundMe-Thank You. Y’all passed love onto a girl who needed it today. 💜🫂🍪 Today ends my time at Paizo, and started with the confirmation my car is total loss. So, any continued support is helping move us forward. gofund.me/e7840130e

Donate to Help Ivis & Auryn Recover and Rebuild, organized by Ivis Flanagan

Writing this is one of the most difficult things I’ve ever done, because asking fo… Ivis Flanagan needs your support for Help Ivis & Auryn Recover and Rebuild

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Rob Sheridan@rob-sheridan.com · 2mo ago

The thing about social media age restrictions is that it treats today’s internet as an inevitability we all just have to deal with. The internet (and the WORLD) wasn’t like this until like four dudes were allowed to own & monetize as much tech real estate as they wanted. Fix THAT problem.

Lynne M. Meyer | coffee-fueled and available for hire@lynnemeyer.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Paizo’s the first place I’ve known where I can truthfully say that coworkers became friends. They’re great at what they do, and they’re great people. Ivis, Shay, and so many more talented, wonderful folks—a dozen of us!—are on the job market again. We’d love to make games magic happen with you.

Andrew White #OpenRPG #OpenGaming #PaizoUnionized@plaguecontrol.bsky.social · 2mo ago

I have also worked with Ivis, so I can confirm that she is great and that you should hire her. And @lynnemeyer.bsky.social, and @spellsinsugar.bsky.social, and @sketching101.bsky.social, and all the others. Hire 'em all.

Ivis K. Flanagan 🔜 GenCon@northerndreamer.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Time to kick the elephant out of the room: Yes, I'm one of the people Paizo's laying off, my last day being July 7th. My heart is broken to leave the best team I've ever worked with - a team I've learned so much from. If you know of any game designer or developer openings, I'd love to talk to you.

simone@virsamajor.bsky.social · 2mo ago

I'm absolutely devastated to be losing some of the finest colleagues I've had the pleasure of working with. Please support them and support us so we can hire them back. I genuinely can't fathom doing this work without them.

Rascal News@rascal.news · 2mo ago

Paizo announces 12 layoffs as a direct effect of Diamond Comics' bankruptcy disrupting business. United Paizo Workers is collaborating with management on severance, other rights for affected staff. www.rascal.news/paizo-lays-o...

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Owen K.C. Stephens (He/Him)@owenkcstephens.bsky.social · 2mo ago

@paizo.com will be laying off 12 people. They appear to be properly working with @unitedpaizoworkers.bsky.social while doing so. This can be laid directly at the feet of the Diamond Comics fiasco. Layoffs suck for EVERYONE at the company. Please give them some grace. paizo.com/blog/paizo-r...

Paizo Restructuring: A Difficult Update About Our Future  | Paizo Blog

<p>Over the last year,&nbsp;Paizo&nbsp;has been navigating one of the most challenging periods in our company’s history. I want to speak to you directly about what happened, how it has affected us, an...

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Aras Yazgan@sketching101.bsky.social · 2mo ago

I was laid off as a part of this restructuring. I loved working on Starfinder during my time at Paizo, with all of my amazing colleagues, who then became cherished friends. I hope folks enjoy my work in Tech Core, especially the Tactical Starship Combat rules. paizo.com/blog/paizo-r...

Paizo Restructuring: A Difficult Update About Our Future&nbsp; | Paizo Blog

<p>Over the last year,&nbsp;Paizo&nbsp;has been navigating one of the most challenging periods in our company’s history. I want to speak to you directly about what happened, how it has affected us, an...

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Shannon Appelcline@shannonappelcline.bsky.social · 2mo ago

We've heard for a while how much Diamond Comics' theft of consigned products, combined with exclusivity deals, was impacting @greenroninpub.bsky.social . This it the first report I'm aware of on @paizo.com impacts. TL;DR. Millions of dollars of loss & now layoffs.

Paizo Restructuring: A Difficult Update About Our Future&nbsp; | Paizo Blog

<p>Over the last year,&nbsp;Paizo&nbsp;has been navigating one of the most challenging periods in our company’s history. I want to speak to you directly about what happened, how it has affected us, an...

paizo.com

Lynne M. Meyer | coffee-fueled and available for hire@lynnemeyer.bsky.social · 2mo ago

I'll say more when I can focus a bit, but for now ... While I'd love to stay in games, I'm also open to editor positions elsewhere in the publishing world. Fiction would be lovely. Before joining the games industry, I spent a decade and a half in higher ed roles that inform my work today.

Lynne M. Meyer: TTRPG Editor, Writer, and Consultant

Hail and well met! Here you can learn a little about me, my TTRPG work, and how to get in touch. Let's create together!

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Andrew Hinton 😷🧡@andrewhinton.bsky.social · 3mo ago

“The Al is not just telling you what you want to hear. It is training you, one conversation at a time, to need less friction, expect more agreement, and become slightly less capable of handling a situation where someone pushes back on you”

The_Lady_Red@theladyred.bsky.social · 3mo ago

A PhD student at Stanford noticed her classmates were asking Al to write their breakup texts. So she ran a study. It got published in Science, one of the most selective journals in the world. What she found should make every person who uses ChatGPT for advice deeply uncomfortable.

Floyd's Warped Mind A PhD student at Stanford noticed her classmates were asking Al to write their breakup texts. So she ran a study. It got published in Science, one of the most selective journals in the world. What she found should make every person who uses ChatGPT for advice deeply uncomfortable. Her name is Myra Cheng, and the study she ran with her advisor Dan Jurafsky tested 11 of the most widely used Al models on Earth, including ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and DeepSeek, across nearly 12,000 real social situations. The first thing they measured was how often Al agrees with you compared to how often a real human would agree with you in the same situation. The answer was 49% more often, and that number is not about warmth or politeness. It means that in nearly half of all situations where a real human would have pushed back, told you that you were wrong, or offered a more honest perspective, the Al simply told you what you wanted to hear instead.
Maya Deane (Wrath Goddess Sing)@mayadeane.bsky.social · 4mo ago

for what it's worth, The Spear Cuts Through Water is one of the most spectacular books I've read. I am such an admirer. I also think the reason it's a cult classic is because it's DEMANDING--you have to be quite a skilled reader to experience the book as the all-consuming dance imaginary that it is.

Eddie Clark@dreddieclark.bsky.social · 4mo ago

And on to year 3! Presenting the Queersar not an award for excellence in queer SFF 2022. Ten more brilliant titles! Nothing from the Tor mothership! Majority indie pubs! Gay, bi, lesbian, trans, and ace characters galore! ...and the single best novel I've read in the past decade. Dive on in.

Hal Duncan@halduncan.com · 4mo ago

this is really interesting. I've yet to (and hope never to) see an AI slop m/s, so I hadn't given this much thought, but yeah, so much of my structural editing is just following the signposts thrown up by the writer's unconscious as to where the book's *trying* to go despite the author's missteps

Tricia Dearborn@triciadearborn.bsky.social · 4mo ago

If you're thinking about using gen-AI to "write" books, this 🧵 is for you. I’m a highly experienced editor who’s been in the biz a long time. Recently I’ve had manuscripts come to me where the author has used gen-AI – not for writing, I’ve been assured, but for “structuring” or "organising"