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🍁 Levi Kornelsen

@levikornelsen.bsky.social

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Canadian maker of tabletop RPG bits and assorted weirdness. Most of my things are at: https://levikornelsen.itch.io/

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🍁 Levi Kornelsen @levikornelsen.bsky.social · Nov 14

Having reached a thousand followers here (!), it's clearly time for me to do a big ol' self-promo thread of "Here's the parts of my TTRPG work I think you should know about!".

So here we go:

#ttrpg

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🍁 Levi Kornelsen @levikornelsen.bsky.social · 3h

Punching up maps for robo-coding, so I grabbed my pixel art tiles, and... Yeah.

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🍁 Levi Kornelsen @levikornelsen.bsky.social · 8h

"Chat GPT will soon produce unlimited shitty porn" is a clarion call of "Single guys, now is the time to hit the gym or otherwise up your dating game, because the biggest losers are going to vanish from that scene shortly."

🍁 Levi Kornelsen @levikornelsen.bsky.social · 8h

"Voltron Flatmates"

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🍁 Levi Kornelsen @levikornelsen.bsky.social · 8h

Okay, so, the next generation of Republican are not an improvement over the current ones, should it ever be in question.

Politico @politico.com · 12h

EXCLUSIVE: Thousands of leaked messages show leaders of Young Republican groups joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape in a private Telegram chat.

Inside rising GOP leaders’ racist chats — obtained by POLITICO and spanning more than 7 months👇

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat

Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

www.politico.com

🍁 Levi Kornelsen @levikornelsen.bsky.social · 9h

Yeah, grabbed the copy where I was working on "Make these arrows thicker", derp.

🍁 Levi Kornelsen @levikornelsen.bsky.social · 9h

Something odd with that one rotate, there, suddenly...

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🍁 Levi Kornelsen @levikornelsen.bsky.social · 9h

U-Turn: Yes. The arrows on repeat seemed too easy to confuse for a spin move, so changed it up entirely....

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🍁 Levi Kornelsen @levikornelsen.bsky.social · 10h

The villain we deserve, but not among the ones we got.

🍁 Levi Kornelsen @levikornelsen.bsky.social · 10h

Wafrn is the Fediverse (as in, connects smoothly to Mastodon) version of Tumblr and it's... I don't even know? A silly place, it seems.

wedistribute.org/2025/10/wafr...

Wafrn is for People Who Miss Tumblr’s Chaotic Energy

What started as a Tumblr-inspired publishing platform has taken on a life of its own within the Fediverse, evolving into something far more wild.

wedistribute.org

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🍁 Levi Kornelsen @levikornelsen.bsky.social · 10h

That might work, yeah; will give it a go...

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🍁 Levi Kornelsen @levikornelsen.bsky.social · 10h

Absolutely! Though kiddo has final say - they're for *her* educational toy, ultimately.

🍁 Levi Kornelsen @levikornelsen.bsky.social · 10h

Command cards redone after aesthetic consultation with 6yo.

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🍁 Levi Kornelsen @levikornelsen.bsky.social · 11h

Remember, always, that Manga Sailor Moon wipes the floor with basically everyone's favourite toughies in those "Who is stronger" comparisons, and it's not close.

(Destroys and recreates universe)

🍁 Levi Kornelsen @levikornelsen.bsky.social · 11h

Tried out the robot coding exercises on the 6yo, and she breezed through the basic commands ones, and asked for something more tricky - so I gave her the next ones (the functions), and... She worked her way through them without a big problem, but wasn't having *fun.*

Longer ramp-up needed.

🍁 Levi Kornelsen @levikornelsen.bsky.social · 12h

Fun news, everyone!

It's easy to create vulnerabilities in LLMs with poisoned data, regardless of scale!

Good, because "swallow the internet" is going to be a PROBLEM for AIs once poisoners get good at this.

Bad, because "Your AI scraper is my data collector".

www.anthropic.com/research/sma...

A small number of samples can poison LLMs of any size

Anthropic research on data-poisoning attacks in large language models

www.anthropic.com

🍁 Levi Kornelsen @levikornelsen.bsky.social · 14h

Making silly robot art out of basic shapes while kiddo does worksheets is surprisingly relaxing.

Reposted by 🍁 Levi Kornelsen

Elizabeth Little @liz-shrikestudio.bsky.social · 23h

gamefound.com/en/projects/...

Oh, right, this goes live today. I should probably say something.

You Will Die In This Place by Shrike Studio - Gamefound

You Will Die In This Place is a nihilistic survival-horror dungeon crawl TTRPG about exile, decay, and the inevitability of death.

gamefound.com

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🍁 Levi Kornelsen @levikornelsen.bsky.social · 1d

Protesting has the most impact when it's also a locus of media attention, a counter-narrative, a site of further organisation, and, *sometimes,* an outright threat.

Or, in the words of Top Dollar, "A fire so goddamn big the gods will notice us again".

Looks like that's coming up, stateside. So.

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🍁 Levi Kornelsen @levikornelsen.bsky.social · 1d

...More later, but this is the basic idea.

Theoretically, after functions comes loops, then conditions, then variables, but I'm working on loops now, and I think conditions MIGHT maximize the complexity this thing can bear before it becomes boring to play, no matter how colourful?

Will see.

🍁 Levi Kornelsen @levikornelsen.bsky.social · 1d

And then, the escalation into teaching functions, with Beboop....

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🍁 Levi Kornelsen @levikornelsen.bsky.social · 1d

The second bot, Zooch (I'm very creative). Still working on basic commands here...

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🍁 Levi Kornelsen @levikornelsen.bsky.social · 1d

Robocoding exercises, a thread!

The first bot, Skootch, commands, and maps:

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🍁 Levi Kornelsen @levikornelsen.bsky.social · 1d

I both agree with this entirely AND simultaneously suspect my idea of what DOES have merit is not going to match that of anyone else particularly well.

🍁 Levi Kornelsen @levikornelsen.bsky.social · 1d

The pinnacle of High Art, in literature, theatre, and visual arts, is "making the audience think about death AND about serious, down and dirty fucking, in precisely such a way that rich people do not find it crude".

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 1d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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🍁 Levi Kornelsen @levikornelsen.bsky.social · 1d

*Flips on forum for an existing thing that's mostly ignored, goes through moderation options*

If there is, it's not at all apparent - and there aren't a lot of places it could be hiding.

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