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Brandon Eby

@thebrandoneby.bsky.social

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ttrpg enjoyer, Anarchist. AI is for losers. Roma. Disabed. They/them Comms: [email protected] Ko-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/brandonwritesgames Dieselpunk 1921: https://brandonwritesgames.itch.io/dieselpunk1921-free-edition

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Brandon Eby @thebrandoneby.bsky.social · 9d

Oh yeah, I made a post on the Blog I write on /very occasionally/

This time about the reenactment event I attended

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Deed of the Red Knight – A Reflection – The Critical Romani Storyteller's Blog

Sociology, anthropology, and activism

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Rayne Grimm ➡️Furpocalypse @raynegrimm.bsky.social · 1d

Ngl it feels like we really lost momentum on keeping pressure on bluesky, especially as those changes are still coming to the tos

Rayne Grimm ➡️Furpocalypse @raynegrimm.bsky.social · 12d

OK so wow not only is the bluesky ceo really ramping up the rhetoric they re now doing so with ai genned jank! What the actual fuck

I don't think I've seen a site self implode this fast since Tumblr

A screenshot of one of the bluesky admins admitting that they did the art for a recent post on their laptop
"why @why.bsky.team

I did the art, on my laptop

Monty Quantum @montyqua...

What program did you use? Id love to see the timelapse!

Why @why.bsky.team

Chat gipetto 5"

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Dennis Detwiller @drgonzo123.bsky.social · 1d

Rob Wieland was a hobby ambassador, a game designer and a family man.

Let’s do what Rob would have wanted us to, and help out his family. Please pitch in.

Share the link if you can.

Donate to Family of Robert Wieland, organized by Vickie ONeill

Friends of Robert Wieland have requested that we set up goFundMe page for the benefit of his f… Vickie ONeill needs your support for Family of Robert Wieland

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Brandon Eby @thebrandoneby.bsky.social · 1d

If you see this, QTP with a sword ⚔️

Naturally I need to use one of mine

Brandon Eby @thebrandoneby.bsky.social · 1d

Fate cursed me by not letting me roll more than 1 success in my vtm games. if I could roll more I'd be doing so well

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Rami Ismail (رامي) @ramiismail.com · 1d

Hey look, Israel broke the cease-fire, twice, in two different ways, within 24 hours - again.

Mondoweiss @mondoweiss.net · 2d

NEW: Israel informed the UN it will permit only 300 aid trucks into Gaza daily, not the 600 mandated by the ceasefire it just signed.

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Brandon Eby @thebrandoneby.bsky.social · 1d

Preeety

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Asa Donald | Backwards Tabletop @backwardsttrpg.bsky.social · 16d

SPINE is a solo tabletop RPG that looks like a book. It is your anchor to the fictional world, a prop, and a work of art — a keepsake — that you co-create, all in one.

In SPINE, you quite literally embody a researcher who is reading and marking up the physical book in front of you.

Embody the researcher who is reading and marking up the physical book in front of you.

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Viktor | The Crown of Jarajakti on Kickstarter @navypink.itch.io · 2d

Hello #PortfolioDay, I'm a writer and artist from Poland working on adventures for my #ttrpg setting ✨
I love drawing elves, queer people, and overly complicated fashion 🌈

Back my latest adventure on Kickstarter: www.kickstarter.com/projects/161...

An illustration of an elf sat upon an elaborate throne held up by two statues of succubi in a throne room resembling a medieval cathedral. He has white skin and hair, with some parts of his skin being covered in golden scales and others being black with golden veins. He has three pairs of mismatched horns on his head. He wears black and white robes with golden jewelry. Beside the throne are two other characters: a red-haired elf with a scarred face and a tiefling in heavy armor wielding a zweihander sword.

A full-body illustration of a floating lich. He wears a robe crafted from the hide of a blue dragon, a crown of horns, and golden jewelry. Lightning strikes in the background.

An illustration of an elf perched atop a tree branch at night. Her eyes shine the same silver glow as the moon behind her. She has an additional pair of arms hidden behind her in the shadows. She wears South Asian-inspired clothing and jewelry. She carries a curved sword.

Cropped illustration of a succubus demon. She has purple skin, black and white hair, and golden eyes with black sclerae. Her face is smeared with red blood.

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Alice Ruppert 🐴🎮 @malicedafirenze.bsky.social · 3d

Good News folks, you CAN now in fact, play this

The free demo for Legend of Khiimori is now available on Steam for everyone. Check it out, give it a try, tell a friend. Show everyone how much you want horse games 💪❤

Screenshot from the game The Legend of Khiimori, showing a horse and rider on a steppe landscape

Screenshot of The Legend of Khiimori in a Steam library. It has a "Demo" tag on the top left

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Brandon Eby @thebrandoneby.bsky.social · 3d

The lion does not concern themself with a coherent marketing strategy

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Dieselpunk 1921 Free Edition - BrandonWritesGames | DriveThruRPG

Dieselpunk 1921 Dieselpunk 1921 is an 125 page all-in-one book presenting an alternate history world, where the streets are dominated by towering machines and complicated characters fighting for their...

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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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Brandon Eby @thebrandoneby.bsky.social · 5d

Swords: on wall. And it only took me a month to put the hooks up

Two longswords, a Grossemesser, and a Hungarian Sabre hanging from hooks on a white wall

Brandon Eby @thebrandoneby.bsky.social · 5d

having big ouchies in the ol' bones

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Alan Baxter @alanbaxter.bsky.social · 6d

"Put simply, only the extremely wealthy appear to be benefiting from all of this."

Bank of England Warns of Impending AI Disaster

The Bank of England has sounded the alarm, warning of an intensifying risk of a "sudden correction" due to an AI spending frenzy.

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Zach Hazard Vaupen @emo-sludge.com · 7d

The idea of the IDF using royalty free assets (meant to help artists build out scenes for concept art etc) for genocide is so sickening.

Jack Sapoch @jacksapoch.bsky.social · 8d

We traced over 30 unique assets to Washington-based 3D creator Ian Hubert, who makes bespoke models created for his sci-fi project Dynamo Dream, available to his Patreon subscribers.

Scans of parking lots, antennas, and pipes were repurposed as Hamas and Iranian military sites

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Brandon Eby @thebrandoneby.bsky.social · 7d

Presentation day.

Made sure to choose a light reading to talk about

A slideshow title featuring an archaeological site in the Amazon rainforest, with text that reads:
"Gesturing towards decolonial futures: preparing for the end of the world as we know it."

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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 7d

A striking thing about articles I’ve read claiming to “study the effects” of generative AI on student writing skills and consumption of information is that (1) they nearly always find the effects are negative and (2) most “conclusions” are still written assuming that we must use AI, for some reason.

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Brandon Eby @thebrandoneby.bsky.social · 7d

I am deeply concerned about what affinity is going to do.

Max! @littlepolygon.bsky.social · 7d

Serif has stopped purchases for #Affinity apps in preparation for a "big announcement" and are responding to user concerns about subscriptions or genai with meaningless doublespeak. Feels bad!!

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Creative Freedom Is Coming - Affinity

Creative Freedom Is Coming. October 30

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Brandon Eby @thebrandoneby.bsky.social · 8d

Americans need to stop pretending like they're not living through a civil war right now. That mindset is getting people killed.

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Jay Edidin @edidin.bsky.social · 18d

White PDXers, now is the time to reach out to and be ready to close ranks around your BIPOC neighbors. You are the whitest metro city in the US, and that is going to paint instant targets on the backs of anyone who isn’t.

Jay Edidin @edidin.bsky.social · 18d

FUCK. stay safe, my beloveds. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Donald Trump says he is deploying troops to Portland, Oregon

Apparently misled by hyperbolic reporting from conservative outlets on a single small protest, president described peaceful city as ‘war ravaged’

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Jon Smejkal @cyberook.bsky.social · 8d

Useful creativity tips, regardless of what you’re working on:

Exeunt Press 💀 @exeunt.press · 8d

10 tips for making daily creations

I asked for your best creativity tips and hacks and you delivered. Here are the top ones received so you can make the most of the #MÖRKTOBER season: omnes.exeunt.press/p/daily-crea...

10 tips for making daily creations

I asked for your best creativity tips and hacks and you delivered. Here are the top ones received so you can make the most of the MÖRKTOBER season. Make it dark. Make it weird.

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Nadia Shammas @nadiashammas.bsky.social · 9d

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Brandon Eby @thebrandoneby.bsky.social · 8d

Sword

A bronze hilted sabre sitting on top of an olive-green jacket

A bronze hilted sabre sitting on top of an olive-green jacket featuring a well-polished blade

Brandon Eby @thebrandoneby.bsky.social · 9d

so Bluesky is not training your data to create their own LLM or image generation software, their moderation company is.

Brandon Eby @thebrandoneby.bsky.social · 9d

actually gonna stress this point really hard because a lot of people have been saying "well the moderation software deletes data after 14 days". Their affiliates don't, and are not required to. That is the only reason Hive would be sharing data with affiliates.

Brandon Eby @thebrandoneby.bsky.social · 9d

I also recognize that Hive ai's privacy policy states that customer data is deleted after 14 days by default. Which would be fine if they did not also state that they share data with their affiliates (per the Privacy Policy), which do not have the same privacy policy or ethics policy.