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Elliot Wilson

@islandwarlock.bsky.social

He/They | Excel Wizard by day, RPG Design by night | OMEGA Steering | Asynchronous gaming enthusiast | Minneapolis/Twin Cities politics junkie You should play a #megagame: Online: https://discord.gg/qEVHXr5UaA In-person: https://www.megagameassembly.com

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Soraya Nadia McDonald@soraya.press · 3d ago

It is 2006. I am 22. The US is mired in a costly Forever War. A predictable historic market collapse looms. I do not have health insurance. It is 2026. I am 42. The US is mired in a costly Forever War. A predictable historic market collapse looms. I do not have health insurance.

Dr. Manhattan on mars meme
Kyle Tam is Climbing Mt Moriah@percypropa.bsky.social · 4w ago

CONGRATULATIONS AND THANK YOU! To the team, to PlusOneExp, to our backers - holy cow thank you each and every one of you. We have a wonderful game ahead and we are going to work hard to make this the best version of MORIAH it can be.

Plus One Exp @ 🔜 GenCon Booth 449@plusoneexp.bsky.social · 4w ago

And with 5 minutes to go that was $10,000 and the top of the mountain! Congrats to @percypropa.bsky.social and the Moriah team! Thank you to all backers! We have about 6 weeks worth of work and then will send the game to print! ttrpg.link/moriah 14/14

Dex Anderson@dexanderson.com · last mo.

Luna and I spent a long time talking about this decision, and I fully understand and support her in this choice to resign. I am saddened that the lack of movement within the DFL has meant that we are losing a fierce trans woman's voice within our party. It fucking sucks.

luna stargays 🏳️‍⚧️@stargays.bsky.social · last mo.

Today, I resigned all my DFL positions. I can no longer in good conscience support Amy Klobuchar for Governor, due to her votes for bills restricting trans healthcare and trans rights, and due to her making no effort to apologize for or atone for that. I can't go into Pride weekend supporting her.

Richard, Brian, and Michael, I am writing to inform you of my decision to resign all my DFL posts (including Director in Stonewall DFL and Central Committee Member in SD62), effective immediately. This is not a decision I make lightly, but it felt like the only moral path forward for me. Over the past year or two, I’ve spent a lot of my time and energy specifically on making the DFL better for trans people, especially trans women. It’s been a hard road, especially as more and more people kept saying and doing transphobic things within the party, as I wrote about here a couple months ago. I feel like in that time I have made some progress! There are more trans people in leadership roles within the party than there were previously, my trainings on how to talk about trans people have been successful, and I feel I’ve done my part to help continue mobilizing a real movement for trans rights both in the party and in the way elected DFL officials use their power. I’m grateful for the allyship many (including the three of you) have shown in these efforts. But I can no longer in good conscience support Amy Klobuchar for Governor, and I cannot bring myself to stay silent about the ways in which she’s failed the trans community in the past and in which she may continue to harm us as Governor.
luna stargays 🏳️‍⚧️@stargays.bsky.social · last mo.

Today, I resigned all my DFL positions. I can no longer in good conscience support Amy Klobuchar for Governor, due to her votes for bills restricting trans healthcare and trans rights, and due to her making no effort to apologize for or atone for that. I can't go into Pride weekend supporting her.

Richard, Brian, and Michael, I am writing to inform you of my decision to resign all my DFL posts (including Director in Stonewall DFL and Central Committee Member in SD62), effective immediately. This is not a decision I make lightly, but it felt like the only moral path forward for me. Over the past year or two, I’ve spent a lot of my time and energy specifically on making the DFL better for trans people, especially trans women. It’s been a hard road, especially as more and more people kept saying and doing transphobic things within the party, as I wrote about here a couple months ago. I feel like in that time I have made some progress! There are more trans people in leadership roles within the party than there were previously, my trainings on how to talk about trans people have been successful, and I feel I’ve done my part to help continue mobilizing a real movement for trans rights both in the party and in the way elected DFL officials use their power. I’m grateful for the allyship many (including the three of you) have shown in these efforts. But I can no longer in good conscience support Amy Klobuchar for Governor, and I cannot bring myself to stay silent about the ways in which she’s failed the trans community in the past and in which she may continue to harm us as Governor.On December 18, 2024, Senator Amy Klobuchar voted to pass 2025’s National Defense Authorization Act, which banned TRICARE (health insurance for military servicemembers and their families) from covering trans healthcare for minors. Moreover, on October 9, 2025, Senator Klobuchar voted to pass the next year’s NDAA, which banned trans healthcare coverage for all TRICARE members, banned trans women from women’s sports at military academies, and banned trans people from using appropriate restrooms and locker rooms at all military installations. Senator Klobuchar’s complicity in blocking coverage for live-saving healthcare and in instituting discriminatory and bigoted policies in the Department of Defense is unconscionable. These are two of the first anti-2SLGBTQIA+ bills to pass Congress in decades, and Klobuchar voted for both of them. Since then, Klobuchar has done nothing to apologize or to make amends with the trans community. She has not stood in solidarity with us as we continue to be attacked from all sides. She has not stated whether she will defend the current protections for trans people that the MN legislature passed into law under the leadership of Melissa Hortman and Kari Dziedzic. Despite many people expressing concerns about this to her campaign, there has been no expression of support for the trans community, and no efforts to earn our votes. I cannot bring myself to stand by and allow her to be coronated as the DFL nominee for Governor when it risks the lives and well-being of myself and my trans neighbors across this state. I can't go into Pride weekend granting her campaign tacit support. Unless she changes her approach, dramatically and soon, I must urge everyone to vote against her in the primary. It is for this reason that I humbly resign from my posts, rather than force the party to remove me for malfeasance. Sincerely and regretfully, Luna Brekke (she/her)
Gareth Watkins@garethwatkins.bsky.social · last mo.

Me: Okay, there's been a thunderstorm, the heatwave should be over now. (New health bar appears) (The sun is now named 'Sol, Starflame of Regret') (Objectively the greatest piece of classical music ever recorded starts playing).

Putri Prihatini@putriprihatini.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Singaporean artist Leia Ham reimagined LotR as Tale of the Middle Kingdom, since Chinese name for China (Zhōngguó) means "The Middle Kingdom." Her concept art includes the Fellowship, armors, buildings like Bag End, props like Aragorn's banner and Fellowship brooches, and more. #TolkienTrewsday

An illustration of the Fellowship, reimagined with Chinese-style period outfits.An illustration of armors of Gondor, Rohan, and Rivendell Elves, reimagined using different periods of Chinese armors as concepts. On the top right are three side profiles of Rohan man, Gondorian, and Elf with different Chinese hairstyles. On the bottom right is Aragorn's banner redrawn with Chinese influence.A concept art of Bag End reimagined as Chinese court houses, with tall stone gates, round wooden doors, curved roofs, and open courtyard, nestled in a hill.A concept art of Rivendell in the style of Chinese painting. Next to it are several props drawn in Chinese style such as Fellowship brooch based on gingko leaves, lembas in the shape of mooncake, Elfstone as round jade, Galadriel's phial in a green jade bottle, and shards of Narsil.
J. Anderson Coats (she/her)@jandersoncoats.bsky.social · 2mo ago

My day job is at a rural branch of a public library, and we have a Pride display. Yesterday I was at the desk when a man came in. Fifties, maybe, or sixties. Plaid shirt, mesh trucker cap, suspenders. He went up to the display and just stood there for a long moment. Then he came up to the desk. 🧵 1/