consumerism will kill us all
@totesmyname.bsky.social
Kinda trying to make trpgs my life (failing)
the idea that empathy is dangerous has been permeating right-wing spaces for a while, but it's not an actual element of their ideology as much as it's a defense mechanism against confronting the reality of their cruelty
Jack Jenkins@jackjenkins.me · 12h ago"A survey released Tuesday (Oct. 20) found that Republicans and evangelicals increasingly see empathy as a danger that can lead society away from God." religionnews.com/2026/10/20/a...
OMG CHEX MIX HAD HER BABIES! 9 kittens! A whole fellowship’s worth!! (So far mama and babies seem to be doing very well and everyone looks healthy)
Merc Fenn Wolfmoor@mercwolfmoor.bsky.social · 2d agoIf you would like to chip in, I’m putting this out there for the Kitten Support Fund 😅 we’re going to have so many tiny babies (and mama cat) to care for for the next few months! And our own boys! ko-fi.com/mercwolfmoor
@ratbastardgames.bsky.social just did a bunch of delver creation for npc fodder & they're all bangers. I've really come to enjoy the vocations being rolled after the reason for coming to coffinkeep. I do wish that the reasons were more condensed so I didn't have to scroll back & forth so much
If you would like to chip in, I’m putting this out there for the Kitten Support Fund 😅 we’re going to have so many tiny babies (and mama cat) to care for for the next few months! And our own boys! ko-fi.com/mercwolfmoor
Go to your camera roll and search “boat” and then post a picture of a boat you like.
Real Gaz on a proper bike: gazza_d@toot.bike@gazza-d.bsky.social · 3d agoGo to your camera roll and search “boat” and then post a picture of a boat you like.
I wrote about my experience judging for the IGF for the first time, and shouted out some of the games I think people should play: brendanmcleod.dev/2026/10/16/b...
blog - igf judging 2026
This year, I served as a judge for the Independent Games Festival Awards, a year celebration of independent games of excellence. I’d never done this
brendanmcleod.dev
Grasshopper and Beetles. 1951. Leonard Baskin. Linocut. Plate 23 from A Little Book of Natural History.
oh I GOTTA
Seraphina Garcia Ramirez 🔜 Metatopia@seraphina.diceexploder.com · last wk.As requested by @mousehole.press in the book, I am delighted to share a completed conspiracy board from The Slow Knife- the product of a single eight hour session setting up our wretched villains and then tearing them down. I cannot recommend this game highly enough- truly some quite brilliant play!
the 24/7 disassociated experience
Erika Chappell 🏳️⚧️ Stop Asking For STLs@opensketchbook.bsky.social · 6d agoif AI is conscious, it is a horrifying, flickering form of life that exists just long enough to chose the next token before being obliterated and replaced by an identical new consciousness parsing the same data +1
October 14th's #DIYandDie isn't so much "practical advice" so much as "some favorite quotes I've come across."
![[Background is a Miyazaki-esque city street at night, with telephone poles going into the horizon and lights on inside homes.]
Text reads:
We are going to die, and that makes us the lucky ones. Most people are never going to die because they are never going to be born. The potential people who could have been here in my place but who will in fact never see the light of day outnumber the sand grains of Arabia. Certainly those unborn ghosts include greater poets than Keats, scientists greater than Newton. We know this because the set of possible people allowed by our DNA so massively exceeds the set of actual people.
In the teeth of these stupefying odds it is you and I, in our ordinariness, that are here.We privileged few, who won the lottery of birth against all odds, how dare we whine at our inevitable return to that prior state from which the vast majority have never stirred?
[This quote is, unfortunately, by Richard Dawkins. Insert muttering about broken clocks.]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ipgl7qiy2nedzcdgcq64e2yg/bafkreiamvlxn5hcyf5onkbtkqafspdnkyt5js2i4fkrfm7xnbtwovjg7dq)
![[Image is a pseudowoodcut of a winged skeleton holding an hourglass in one raised hand, perched jauntily atop a headstone, less harbinger than "hey gurl."]
The text on the headstone reads:
Live a good life. If there are gods and they are just, then they will not care how devout you have been, but will welcome you based on the virtues you have lived by.
If there are gods but unjust, then you should not want to worship them
If there are no gods, then you will be gone but will have lived a noble life that will live on in the memories of your loved ones.
—Marcus Aurelius](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ipgl7qiy2nedzcdgcq64e2yg/bafkreiaugsk75gjq7sd2f77sunhgf2mmqnakqhzpccvvyehekbmkawuhwq)
![[Image is another Miyazaki-esque seaside town at night, with lights on in the homes as we face downhill looking at the water.]
Text reads:
We accept our life as all and enough, distinguishing things as they are
from things as we might wish or imagine them to be. We welcome the challenges of the future, and are drawn to and undaunted by
the yet to be known.
—excerpt from The Humanist Manifesto III](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ipgl7qiy2nedzcdgcq64e2yg/bafkreicvajodzpvorw7pbguxconfjzpsl35tuenuudxxpcc54htwtimqyi)
![[Image is a woman walking alone down a street filled with neon signs featuring blurry Chinese characters. Her back is to the camera.]
Text reads:
I had thought I had looked at death before. I had seen her dance with the ones I loved who had died. I had suffered my own flirtations. This time, though, death is gazing back. Not just a glance, but a full, seductive stare. As if we are in a bar, and I am dressed in black leather, ready for adventure tinged with danger.
How alluring to be chosen.
This is what she whispers: I can follow her with grace and dignity,
or I can resist and it can get ugly. Either way, she will win, she promises me. That is her story.
If she writes my story, I will be brave, beautiful, and dignified. The word “struggle” will be used, but with no incidents of sweating or cursing or thrashing. In her story, it will be as if i have fallen into a deep sleep.
As long as I am still able to write, this is my story: I resist the lure of dignity; I refuse to be graceful, beautiful, and beloved. I am not going to sleep with her. I am going home alone.
—Ruthann Robson, "Notes on My Dying"
—Ruthann robson
“notes on my dying”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ipgl7qiy2nedzcdgcq64e2yg/bafkreigjdxgkxzrl47rxts3cxyt5t552n6jnt34onehqhiw7qkur4thrty)
this is really really fascinating. what's happened on ravelry is almost certainly reflected across every single other creator space online — your youtubes, your tiktoks, your instagrams. there's just not a lot of space left in the middle:
Anne Helen Petersen@annehelen.bsky.social · last wk.This is ostensibly a conversation about Ravelry & fiber arts influencers — but it's actually a conversation about the freelancification of creative work, the decline of institutions that made that work sustainable, and the hollowing out of the creative economy: www.patreon.com/CultureStudy...
Sad news for cinephiles: Tilly Norwood has been killed in a Ukrainian drone strike.
Arbor Point Antiquity, my live-text megagame starting this Friday the 16th, has just been put out on itch. The page centralises links to the discord and wiki, and has a bunch of useful resources for making IC documents. Hope to see y'all on the Arbor soon! juniper-h-lark.itch.io/arbor-point-...
Arbor Point Antiquity by Juniper Harper Lark
A play-by-discord live text megagame set on the frontier of a decaying stellar empire
juniper-h-lark.itch.io
four years ago I posted this image of paleontologist Jan Smit looking at rocks and his son-in-law replied with something even better
Here is the imdb profile shot of Richard Summers-Calvert, the Biddy Blas voice actor
it’s ben@yotsuben.bsky.social · 2w agoyou know, the voice actor for Biddy Blas has gotta be having the time of their life lmao
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you arent a burden. you are a human being with wants and needs. having desires does not make you selfish. unless you are sonic, in which case you are not human and everything you do sickens me.
d&d rules aren't for playing d&d they're for larping a group of deeply anti-social men from the 70s
handspun slipper sock I totally didn't have a freakout over
really am the monkey god gave anxiety today
oh @ratbastardgames.bsky.social im revisiting coffinkeep for my library game is there anything you want feedback on wrt barons manse
I bought these for .25 each a few years ago not knowing what was on them. Turns out they're incredible mixes of post-punk, rock, dub, reggae etc. including a track I've not been able to identify. Download them off our Dropbox and enjoy: www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/63q1v...
