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AKA accidentalfrase Canadian TTRPG designer of Sword Noir, Centurion, Nefertiti Overdrive, Sword’s Edge & others

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Fraser @swordsedgepublishing.ca · Aug 3

Just a reminder that F#ck 'Em Up is out there and it's free.

Feel like striking a blow against the status quo and purveyors of brutality with your crew? Time to burn it all down and salt the ashes.
fraserronald.itch.io/fck-em-up

F#ck 'Em Up by Fraser Ronald

F#cking up the status quo

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Auschwitz Memorial @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social · 14h

15 October 1936 | A Dutch Jewish boy, Jacob Vieyra, was born in Rotterdam.

In February 1944 he was deported to #Auschwitz and murdered in a gas chamber after the selection.
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A short video showing the ruins of gas chamber and crematorium III: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/ipQmBPAlJQ8

Vintage black and white photo of a boy sitting outdoors on a wooden chair, petting a small dog. There is a white picket fence in the background with a garden.

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Slate @slate.com · 13h

First stop on the tour: Chicago on Wednesday, Oct. 29, at Park West.

Get your tickets NOW: t.co/eeW8tLclXk

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Slate @slate.com · 13h

Back in 2005, Emily Bazelon, John Dickerson, and David Plotz started gabbing about politics, and the rest is history (literally).

It's been 20 years, and we're throwing a big party. On the road. With you.

The Political Gabfest 20th Anniversary Tour: t.co/eeW8tLclXk

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 15h

Javier Sanchez Mendoza Jr. helped Sofi secure an H-2A visa, promising a job on a Georgia blueberry farm.

When she arrived, she was not sent out to work in the fields like the others.

She was forced to live at his house and sign a marriage license.

By @maxblau.bsky.social

A Farmworkers Visa Promised Her a Better Life. It Was a Trap.

Sofi left behind her child in Mexico for the promise of providing him a better life. She ended up a victim of an operation that is alleged to have exploited the H-2A visa program — and the workers it ...

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Dyson Logos @dysonlogos.bsky.social · 20h

The Warped Crucible

The workshop of the duke's (now missing) alchemist. The combination of two of his half-successful experiments has produced a strange mass that tries to imitate and consume all it meets.

dysonlogos.blog/2025/10/15/t...

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Ferret Every Hour @ferretperhour.bsky.social · 20h

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Elizabeth Little @liz-shrikestudio.bsky.social · 2d

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.

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🇨🇦 Big Bite Games @bigbitegames.ca · 2d

Promptober Day 14: Stars

First thing that came to mind was a set of weird constellations that does not behave like normal stars, each with their own cryptic omen. Add them in your favorite setting and watch your players go banana trying to interpret their omens!

FRAGMENT OF EX ASTRONOMICON CINERIS E VITRI

Recovered fragments from a forbidden celestial codex. Its pages chart constellations no longer acknowledged by any sane astronomer.

Each bears an omen written in a dead tongue, whose meaning only grows more obscure the closer one comes to understanding it.

Roll d10 to see what the fragment contains:

1. The Inverted Crown: a ring of stars hung upside down."When light kneels before shadow, the throne shall remember its weight."
2. The Drowned Lantern: a cluster of stars that flickers as if beneath water."The sea forgets nothing, not even the fires it swallowed."
3. The Unblinking Eye: a single star that never moves."All things watched long enough become their watcher."
4. The Shepherd’s Hook: a curved line of stars pointing north."What strays too far will call your name when it returns."
5. The Spiral Maiden: a swirling cluster of stars that never repeats itself."Love circles until only reflection remains."
6. The Hollow Gate: two lines of stars forming a doorway."Knock, and the silence will answer with your own voice."
7. The Tethered Beast: a jagged chain of stars."Chains remember the pain of what they once restrained."
8. The Singing Chain: a chain of ten stars that flickers at different intervals."Those who sings the pattern will not notice when they stop."
9. The Mirror Bowl: a crescent of stars with one single star in the middle."Drink deep because what you swallow will learn your shape."
10. The Empty Shepherd: thirteen stars. Every year a random star is missing."Every absence tends its flock."

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Dianna Gunn Does (Fictional) Murders 🇨🇦 @diannalgunn.bsky.social · 3d

CANADIANS!! The official petition started by a member of Parliament to fight back against payment processors' censorship of legal content is only open for a few more days. Make sure you've signed it: www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...

Petition e-6695 - Petitions

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kat, ghost of helenruthsghost @chaoskat.bsky.social · 4d

Salvation Army seen feeding ICE today. For anyone who doesn't already know about their bigotry, here is more, No need to give them your money this Christmas, or ever.

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 4d

It’s dinner time for the police. Appears to be pizza from a Salvation Army van.

Broadview’s “free speech” curfew starts soon, at 6pm.

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Coyote & Crow Games @coyoteandcrow.bsky.social · 2d

Happy Indigenous Peoples Day! Today we celebrate the heritage, beauty, and perseverance of hundreds of cultures and nations across North America that have thrived and endured here for thousands of years, and will be around for thousands more.
If you want to support this Native: bit.ly/3L67Yrs

A display of Coyote & Crow, the roleplaying game, Wolves, the cooperative board game, Naasii, the Coyote & Crow Dice Game, and a set of custom dice for the RPG. All created by Cherokee Nation citizen, Kenna Alexander.

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Fraser @swordsedgepublishing.ca · 2d

So you're saying that you DON'T have a picture of yourself in the attic that's looking worse for wear?

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Ferret Every Hour @ferretperhour.bsky.social · 3d

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John Harper @johnharper.bsky.social · 8d

Forged in the Dark, you say?

DriveThruRPG @drivethrurpg.com · 8d

The Ghost In The Shell TTRPG - Quickstart is available now from Mana Project Studio!

Get it here: tinyurl.com/ycyfk8kd

Built on a customized Forged in the Dark system, this game lets you create elite Public Security Section agents and dive into high-stakes missions. #TTRPGs

The Ghost In The Shell TTRPG - Quickstart is available now at DriveThruRPG.com

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Fraser @swordsedgepublishing.ca · 2d

And no one has ever seen you together, eh?

Hmmmmmmmmm.

Fraser @swordsedgepublishing.ca · 2d

Was my “go to” D&D movie before HONOR AMONG THIEVES, now it’s my ‘intended story’ D&D movie while HAT is how it eventually happens at the table.

Sexy Henry Kissinger Costume @mightygodking.com · 3d

Watching THE 13TH WARRIOR again just because and man, watching this in HD really brings home that they just sorta ran out of money towards the end and had to finish the movie with whatever footage they had left. "oh we had some test footage in the can? Well that's our establishing shot now"

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Auschwitz Memorial @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social · 3d

New on our YouTube page:

Podcast | "The trial of Rudolf Höss and other SS garrison members of Auschwitz": https://youtu.be/Ir5hQv-NoKY

Follow us on YouTube: youtube.com/auschwitzmemeorial

A historical black-and-white photo showing a group of individuals seated in rows at the Auschwitz trials. Some are taking notes while others listen attentively.

Black and white historical photo of the first commandant of Auschwitz Rudolf Hoess individual in military uniform wearing headphones and sitting at a desk, with another uniformed person in the background.

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🇨🇦 CCUTTRPG @ccuttrpg.ca · 3d

Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD) is a real thing and it does hit harder here in Canada because of how high up North we are compared to the equator.

Read all about SAD and more specifically, how to fight it!

Slay The Dark Dragon: Or How to Fight Back Seasonal Affec...

Join now to unlock exclusive Canadian Creators United content

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Ferret Every Hour @ferretperhour.bsky.social · 3d

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Auschwitz Memorial @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social · 3d

If you want to deepen your knowledge of the history of Auschwitz, listen to our "On Auschwitz" podcast.

Visit podcast.auschwitz.org to find all episodes, access transcripts, and find links to podcast platforms.

If the podcast resonates with you, leave a review, comment, or share it with others.

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Matthew Sullivan @sulli864.bsky.social · 4d

Somewhere on this globe it is still Elmore Leonard’s 100th birthday. Many happy returns to the ‘poet laureate of wild assholes with revolvers’ as the NME, (I think) called him. Away for a fortnight & before I knew it was his centenary 6 of the 12 books I packed were his.

Glitz, Bandits, 52 Pick Up & Gunsights, all in paperback, all by Mr Elmore Leonard.

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🇨🇦 Big Bite Games @bigbitegames.ca · 3d

Promptober Day 12: Liminal Space

Not being familiar with the genre, I tried my best but have to admit it was challenging for me. So here's for you, a Mini-Module Pitch for The Nowhere Terminal. Now with props (Yeah I got carried away a bit!)

#promptober

MINI-MODULE PITCH: THE NOWHERE TERMINAL
A LIMINAL HORROR ONE-SHOT FOR 2 TO 4 PLAYERS

SETTING
An endless, vintage looking bus terminal, with flickering lights and hazy atmosphere that exists between worlds. Part dream, part purgatory, part limbo. The clocks are frozen, the vending machines hum softly, and every door leads to another waiting room. Buses arrive, but depart when players are not looking or never do.

HOOK
The players awaken in the terminal with no memory of how they arrived. A handful of other passengers wait silently (and those who talks are very forgetful), clutching strange tickets stamped with unfamiliar destinations. Something is wrong with the light as it hums louder when anyone speaks of leaving.

Exploration unfolds in looping corridors, flickering platforms, and forgotten restrooms.

Each “area” contains an encounter that always feels a little off:
A janitor sweeping endlessly in a loop.
An announcement repeating a name no one recognizes or one of the player.
A vending machine that dispenses:
A steaming paper cup of coffee that never cools, never empties.
A folded newspaper dated tomorrow, the headlines half-erased.
A small paperback whose text rearranges itself between reads.

Players will have to make great sacrifices to get out of Nowhere Terminal.

THE TICKET SYSTEM
Each player starts with a bus ticket. Once per session, a player may punch their ticket to change the narrative: reveal a clue, alter time, or pull something impossible into being. Each punch, however, weakens the terminal’s reality. Lights falter, echoes stretch, and shadows start moving on their own. Every time a player uses their ticket, reality collapses a bit more. The station forgets it was ever real. Faces blur, announcements turn to static, and the liminal horror intensifies.

No one can tell if the next bus leads home… or somewhere far worse.

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Auschwitz Memorial @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social · 3d

12 October 1892 | Edith Stein was born in Wrocław. She was a German Jewish philosopher who converted to Catholicism & became a theologian & a Carmelite nun.

She was murdered in #Auschwitz in August 1942.
Stein was beatified in 1987 and canonized in October 1998.

Black and white portrait of Edith Stein seated with hands clasped, wearing a dark blouse and a wristwatch, looking directly at the camera.

Black and white photo of Edith Stein wearing a traditional Carmelite religious habit, featuring a solemn facial expression.

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Slurmsadako MacKenzie @slurmsmackenzie.bsky.social · 4d

GenAI truly was the worst technology to come along at this moment.

An energy and water guzzler when we most urgently need to take climate action.

A disinformation machine as our journalism fails.

A bias machine as fascism takes root.

A job killer in a cost of living crisis.

Bria "tries to write a book" Horses @thevoidencore.bsky.social · 9d

The "cognitive decline and brain damage from repeat COVID infections" and "easy to use robot that makes slop and melts your critical thinking skills" is a hell of a combo in a post-fact media ecosystem

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Fraser @swordsedgepublishing.ca · 3d

Here's to a great process and a smooth road!

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