To be clear: If “TTRPGs” in your scholarship, teaching, & outreach start & end with D&D — or even GMed games — that’s a skill issue you need to reconsider. You’re gonna get left behind.

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Ursula K. Le Guin — 17. Would You Please Fucking Stop?

March 2011 I keep reading books and seeing movies where nobody can fucking say anything except fuck, unless they say shit. I mean they don’t seem to have any adjective to describe fucking except...

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I recently (re)counted how many issues I have and have left so please envision an additional 650 magazines on top of this pile okay thanks

Joey ‘Detchibe' W. 🏳️‍⚧️@thestacks.ca · 10mo ago

I’m currently organising my stacks, so here’s everything I’ve ever scanned and have yet to scan

Every time you use genAI, you're supporting an ongoing genocide in Congo. Earlier this year, the US and UAE (which is, with our help, also committing genocide in Sudan) created a paramilitary force to ensure the flow of cobalt and rare earth minerals extracted by child slaves to create GPUs.

Congo Plans Paramilitary Unit for Mines with US, UAE Funding

The Democratic Republic of Congo will create a paramilitary unit to police its mines with funding from the US and the United Arab Emirates, the country’s General Inspectorate of Mines said.

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Being undocumented in the United States is not a crime. Being undocumented in the United States is not a crime. Being undocumented in the United States is not a crime. Being undocumented in the United States is not a crime. Being undocumented in the United States is not a crime.

btw this has options to sign if you don't make comics but are a fan or colleague of people who do! make number go up, support the union!

Jimmy Presler 🐴@jimmypresler.bsky.social · 4d ago

Sign this petition to show your support for keeping Senior Editors in the Dark Horse Workers Union. actionnetwork.org/petitions/dh...

Mood.

Dr Florence Smith Nicholls@florencesn.bsky.social · 2d ago

Want to play Big Walk but I have to do Big Work instead

I'm back on my game preservation bs with this one.

Unwinnable@unwinnable.com · 2w ago

The wind is rising. This month's issue of Unwinnable Monthly features @autumn-wright.com on The Wind Rises and terror plus our regulars on topics like Marathon, Alan Wake II and Silent Hill f. Buy: buff.ly/ci350lH Subscribe: buff.ly/2FiTW11

a little bit of personal lore: my culture writing career began with a cranky blog about spider-man. for Fansplaining, I imagine the end of that career, with another blog about spider-man fansplaining.com/what-spider-...

What Spider-Man Can’t Save

In which our hero contemplates a career writing about superheroes and pop culture—and imagines an ending.

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starting a collection of quotes like this

For Little White Lies: I wrote about the Lebanese filmmaker Jocelyne Saab's Beirut Trilogy, and the renewed urgency these documentaries have decades later as we witness Israel invade and destroy Lebanon lwlies.com/in-praise-of...

History Chasing Its Tail: On Jocelyne Saab’s Beirut Trilogy

As Lebanon faces attacks from Israel, Jocelyne Saab's films take on a renewed sense of urgency and sadness.

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screenshots of the environment i've been building for one of the levels... did fog cards, local fog, lots of moss and grass... and trees :D it's supposed to look spooky. still lots to do on it tho. lol nature is so much harder than human made spaces (like rooms or cities) #GameDev

Nathalie Lawhead@alienmelon.bsky.social · 2w ago

the game i'm currently working on, with friend belamessex.com ,is called "Lutz Do It! Possessed Skates" and the tagline is "It's an ice day, and these skates will sleigh all day" An online multiplayer game where each player possesses a skate! some screenshots of what we have so far...

This week: Fifty picks past and present--twenty-five new reads, twenty-five from the archives: critical-distance.com/2026/08/02/a...

August 2nd

Welcome back readers. Before we hop in, I just want to offer a quick reminder that the Friendslop Jam we’re hosting is underway, and you’ve got two weeks and change to get your writing …

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juno Rylee Schultz@junoryleejournalism.com · 4d ago

hello, hiii, im very proud to announce my latest journalism, which is all about Kurt Cobain, MTV Unplugged, and the birth of Nirvana it is free to read like all my journalism i survive from tips please consider tipping me and/or sharing my work junoryleejournalism.com/2026/07/26/k...

My new Patreon tier is live! Lost Pages includes: - Craft dive: monthly post on writing/artistic creation or behind-the-scenes peaks (on nonNDA things ☺️) - Flash fiction: a monthly story - Monthly cowork/relaxed game stream - Monthly doodle post Check it out here: www.patreon.com/BrianneBattye

Brianne Battye — writer of fiction, poetry, and video games

Get more from Brianne Battye on Patreon. writer of fiction, poetry, and video games. Support Brianne Battye and get exclusive access to their work.

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I published a new zine! Creativity at the Margins uses mushrooms as an analogy to argue for the value of human creativity in toxic social media ecosystems. 📚🌿 #writersky #anticapitalism #zines 🍄 digitalterrarium.itch.io/creativity-z... 🍄 www.etsy.com/listing/4542...

This entry to my column was inspired by a conversation @oma-metal-flesh.bsky.social had here on Bluesky recently after the Sony announcement of discontinuing their disc-printing.

Stu Horvath@stuhorvath.com · last wk.

"Perhaps the way forward for games and their subculture is for us to embrace the instability and transformative elements of play and design." @phoenixwritesdown.bsky.social wonders about the importance of forgetting.

More about this horrible, horrible decision of ending TPS, from a Haitian perspective, here: globalvoices.org/2026/07/04/w...

What the ending of the U.S.’ Temporary Protection Status could mean for Haiti

“Haiti remains gripped by armed violence [...] and a profound humanitarian crisis [and] the Supreme Court has given a green light to treat hundreds of thousands of Haitian families as disposable.”

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Catherine Rampell@crampell.bsky.social · last wk.

TPS for Haitians officially expires tomorrow. ICE is planning big operations, with Springfield, Ohio among the targets www.cbsnews.com/news/ice-hai...

Here's what the media won't show you: three formerly incarcerated Black men who are now authors. You can learn a lot from their stories. This BLACK-owned online bookstore has their books in stock ✊🏾📚 #booksky #blackbooksky #blacksky

When a book gets banned I like to buy several copies and share them into the local book exchanges. A Banned Book Club Blooms in Alberta by Ximena Gonzalez via @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/Culture/2026... #Canada #books #Booksky

A Banned Book Club Blooms in Alberta | The Tyee

The club sends members titles that have been pulled from public library shelves. It joins a widespread fight against censorship across North America.

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My second pitch:

Toshiro Mifune as a Samurai in Yojimbo

Alt: Toshiro Mifune as a Samurai in Yojimbo

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My pitch:

Leepace The Fall

Alt: Lee Pace in The Fall. He is dressed as a bandit and stands before a blood red drape. He lifts his bloody hand and says "Are you with me, bandits?"

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Dawn@502eire.bsky.social · 2w ago

there is a recurring prompt around what’s the best that anyone has ever looked on camera and I never have an answer but I’m watching right now and I think it’s gotta be George Clooney in Ocean’s 11

Yes! The fundamental flaw is the amount of time it takes to actually means test Additionally it turns people who have the most free time and capital to be political,is middle class, against it because it's something the middle class doesn't get.

Keezy Young🌼@keezyyoung.bsky.social · 2w ago

means testing is inherently flawed because: not everybody who needs is able or capable of fulfilling it, in fact the most in need are the least capable; bc it's overall WAY more expensive than just giving people fucking food etc; bc bureaucratic delays mean death for many; and bc I don't give a--

companies are sourcing millions of printed books for AI labs that scan them for training data, then destroy them. printed books are more valuable because they're free of AI slop, and AI labs know destroying them is an "optics problem." www.404media.co/ai-companies...

AI Companies Are Buying Tons of Old Books Because They're Free of AI Slop

ISBNdb, a company that sources printed books for AI companies to turn into training data, tells clients “the optics problem is real.”

404media.co

Many folk go through life under the assumption that all their good fortune is solely the sum of their good choices. Gotta be one of capitalism's biggest lies. It's an appealing lie! Because the alternative, that we are all at the mercy of larger systems or chance, is scary to contemplate.

Been some week for dumb cunts showing the depths of their ignorance on poverty. It's not uncommon. Even among nominally progressive people I hear this argument, total denial anyone could be so poor, that it must be an individual failing. Because otherwise it could happen to anyone. To them.

LBC@lbc.co.uk · 2w ago

"You're telling me people in this country can't afford a 50p toothbrush?" "Yes." @nickferrarilbc.bsky.social is in disbelief at the Joseph Rowntree Foundation's latest study into the cost of living.