Ash McAllan
@acegiak.bsky.social
Gamedev Priestess. Game Director at Systemic Reaction Avalanche. Game design, ttrpgs, birds, weird robots.
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Ash McAllan
@acegiak.bsky.social
· Oct 22
Hi I'm Ash! I'm a punk autistic/ADHD Australian queer transgender game designer in Stockholm with multicolored hair and she/her pronouns. Ive worked with Failbetter, HBO, Star Stable, and now I'm game director for Generation Zero. I make games, bad art & crafts, and I think & care deeply about shit.
This thread is dope and has a bunch of amazing games you should check out
Let's get an indie ttrpg HYPE TRAIN going and recommend some cool games for people to buy/gift.
If you're a small #ttrpg creator (or there's an indie game you really love) drop a quick pitch and a link below.
🚅🎲🎲🎲🌟🌟
If you're a small #ttrpg creator (or there's an indie game you really love) drop a quick pitch and a link below.
🚅🎲🎲🎲🌟🌟
November 29, 2025 at 11:35 AM
This thread is dope and has a bunch of amazing games you should check out
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Sorry, just want to make sure everyone saw Buddo.
November 27, 2025 at 7:17 PM
Sorry, just want to make sure everyone saw Buddo.
www.gu.se/en/gnc/extre...
PDA academics: "hey this acronym we use has another common meaning so let's change it to something else"
CBT therapists: *spits tea* "you can do that?!"
PDA academics: "hey this acronym we use has another common meaning so let's change it to something else"
CBT therapists: *spits tea* "you can do that?!"
Extreme demand avoidance (EDA/PDA)
Christopher Gillberg provides an overview of Extreme Demand Avoidance/Pathological Demand Avoidance (EDA/PDA). Definition, background, research, prevalence, comorbidity, interventions, and treatment a...
www.gu.se
November 27, 2025 at 10:55 PM
www.gu.se/en/gnc/extre...
PDA academics: "hey this acronym we use has another common meaning so let's change it to something else"
CBT therapists: *spits tea* "you can do that?!"
PDA academics: "hey this acronym we use has another common meaning so let's change it to something else"
CBT therapists: *spits tea* "you can do that?!"
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Fuck yeah
For avoidance of doubt:
IPR supports trans rights and BIMPOC creators and gamers.
Fascists, Nazis, and TERFs can all fuck right off.
IPR supports trans rights and BIMPOC creators and gamers.
Fascists, Nazis, and TERFs can all fuck right off.
November 26, 2025 at 3:24 AM
Fuck yeah
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Reminder that lesbians have a more positive view of trans people than trans people do
November 25, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Reminder that lesbians have a more positive view of trans people than trans people do
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Australia recorded ZERO cases of cervical cancer in women under 25 for the first time since they started tracking the cancer in the 80s.
This is the power of vaccines.
The HPV vaccine is extremely effective at preventing cancer.
Viruses can be oncogenic. Get your vaccines and protect yourself!
This is the power of vaccines.
The HPV vaccine is extremely effective at preventing cancer.
Viruses can be oncogenic. Get your vaccines and protect yourself!
newsGP - Australia set for world-first cervical cancer elimination
Vaccination programs have played a key role, and GPs remain ‘instrumental’ in boosting screening rates to reach the 2035 target.
www1.racgp.org.au
November 27, 2025 at 3:45 AM
Australia recorded ZERO cases of cervical cancer in women under 25 for the first time since they started tracking the cancer in the 80s.
This is the power of vaccines.
The HPV vaccine is extremely effective at preventing cancer.
Viruses can be oncogenic. Get your vaccines and protect yourself!
This is the power of vaccines.
The HPV vaccine is extremely effective at preventing cancer.
Viruses can be oncogenic. Get your vaccines and protect yourself!
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Spoke with a source who told me the call volume is so high, a call center for both Mastercard & Visa is bringing out pizza and ice cream so agents don’t quite amid the rush. Long waits are causing dropped calls.
What you’re doing is working. Call MC & Visa.
What you’re doing is working. Call MC & Visa.
November 26, 2025 at 12:29 PM
Spoke with a source who told me the call volume is so high, a call center for both Mastercard & Visa is bringing out pizza and ice cream so agents don’t quite amid the rush. Long waits are causing dropped calls.
What you’re doing is working. Call MC & Visa.
What you’re doing is working. Call MC & Visa.
@evilhat.bsky.social have a sale in everything in their catalog celebrating their 20th anniversary, including City Of Red Waters, my blood-soaked colonial alternate setting for Blades In The Dark
evilhat.com/product/city...
www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/4...
Huge congrats to EH team on 20 years!🎉
evilhat.com/product/city...
www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/4...
Huge congrats to EH team on 20 years!🎉
City of Red Waters - Blades in the Dark Setting - Evil Hat
Take your Blades in the Dark TTRPG adventures to a new setting - a complex and dynamic colonial city called Inverrogue - with City of Red Waters.
evilhat.com
November 27, 2025 at 11:05 AM
@evilhat.bsky.social have a sale in everything in their catalog celebrating their 20th anniversary, including City Of Red Waters, my blood-soaked colonial alternate setting for Blades In The Dark
evilhat.com/product/city...
www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/4...
Huge congrats to EH team on 20 years!🎉
evilhat.com/product/city...
www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/4...
Huge congrats to EH team on 20 years!🎉
Ten years apart 🏳️⚧️
It's kinda wild to me the first one isn't pre-transition. I've been living authentically for a third of my life. Wtf that's amazing.
It's kinda wild to me the first one isn't pre-transition. I've been living authentically for a third of my life. Wtf that's amazing.
November 27, 2025 at 9:57 AM
Ten years apart 🏳️⚧️
It's kinda wild to me the first one isn't pre-transition. I've been living authentically for a third of my life. Wtf that's amazing.
It's kinda wild to me the first one isn't pre-transition. I've been living authentically for a third of my life. Wtf that's amazing.
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did someone say veronica? music? album? release? the? veronicalacuna.bandcamp.com/album/hello-...
Hello Cowards, by Veronica Lacuna
10 track album
veronicalacuna.bandcamp.com
November 24, 2025 at 11:51 AM
did someone say veronica? music? album? release? the? veronicalacuna.bandcamp.com/album/hello-...
Last saved meme is your moral philosophy.
November 18, 2025 at 12:01 PM
Last saved meme is your moral philosophy.
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In 2016, the Apocalypse World 2nd Ed campaign ended at $149,681. We'd like to beat that!
At $149,682, we'll get with the original authors and update three classic playbooks:
• The Faceless by Bret Gillan
• The News by Josh Savoie
• The Show by Elliot Baker
At $149,682, we'll get with the original authors and update three classic playbooks:
• The Faceless by Bret Gillan
• The News by Josh Savoie
• The Show by Elliot Baker
Apocalypse World: Burned Over
The 3rd edition of the groundbreaking original.
www.kickstarter.com
November 17, 2025 at 5:11 PM
In 2016, the Apocalypse World 2nd Ed campaign ended at $149,681. We'd like to beat that!
At $149,682, we'll get with the original authors and update three classic playbooks:
• The Faceless by Bret Gillan
• The News by Josh Savoie
• The Show by Elliot Baker
At $149,682, we'll get with the original authors and update three classic playbooks:
• The Faceless by Bret Gillan
• The News by Josh Savoie
• The Show by Elliot Baker
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Firings at Condé Nast hit trans journalists hard. When union representatives attempted to question the decision, they were fired in what the union says is illegal retaliation.
That and more trans news leading off the week this Monday AM.
www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...
That and more trans news leading off the week this Monday AM.
www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...
Trans People Fight Reprisals by Condé Nast and Trump Regime — Assigned
Leading Off: The media corporation is union busting, the NewsGuild says. Trans troops take Trump to court over broken promises. The week’s top story lines.
www.assignedmedia.org
November 17, 2025 at 11:39 AM
Firings at Condé Nast hit trans journalists hard. When union representatives attempted to question the decision, they were fired in what the union says is illegal retaliation.
That and more trans news leading off the week this Monday AM.
www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...
That and more trans news leading off the week this Monday AM.
www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...
If you create a culture of rampant individualism at some point people are going to stop trying to become better and instead just resent those who do and support leaders whose pettiness and ineptitude doesn't make them feel bad about themselves.
“The juvenile actions and accusatory language spouting from every orifice of government may be among the most superficial features of our current crisis, but it is symptomatic of a larger disrespect for professionalism and professional competence.” www.liberalcurrents.com/the-war-on-p...
The War on Professionalism and Professional Competence
Incompetence and sloppiness are the self-conscious ethos of the administration.
www.liberalcurrents.com
November 17, 2025 at 11:59 AM
If you create a culture of rampant individualism at some point people are going to stop trying to become better and instead just resent those who do and support leaders whose pettiness and ineptitude doesn't make them feel bad about themselves.
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There is a Canadian in this cafe explaining, loudly and in extensive detail, 15 years of Canadian politics from his center left perspective, to some poor Swede who is clearly too polite to do anything than quietly feign interest the entire time. It's like a shaggy dog story but worse. Stunning. 🤣
November 15, 2025 at 9:28 AM
There is a Canadian in this cafe explaining, loudly and in extensive detail, 15 years of Canadian politics from his center left perspective, to some poor Swede who is clearly too polite to do anything than quietly feign interest the entire time. It's like a shaggy dog story but worse. Stunning. 🤣
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Hey. This is the BEST POSSIBLE SEASON to badger Visa and Mastercard into fucking off about their shitty fake-moral-panic over LGBTQ+ spending habits and content on retail platforms.
Fuck ALL THE WAY OFF, VISA and Mastercard. No one wants to hear jack shit from you. You're a fucking receipt printer.
Fuck ALL THE WAY OFF, VISA and Mastercard. No one wants to hear jack shit from you. You're a fucking receipt printer.
Please continue making calls to Visa and Mastercard, because they are working alongside conservative legislators to crack down on free speech and expression!
A dual pronged offense requires a dual pronged defense!
A dual pronged offense requires a dual pronged defense!
#SaveSpeech
starting Nov 1st we're entering the holiday season, which is a big stress point for big businesses like Mastercard and Visa. These Paypros havent stopped cracking down on Adult Content, so we need to jump back into calling them in full force again!
stop-paypros.neocities.org
starting Nov 1st we're entering the holiday season, which is a big stress point for big businesses like Mastercard and Visa. These Paypros havent stopped cracking down on Adult Content, so we need to jump back into calling them in full force again!
stop-paypros.neocities.org
November 15, 2025 at 5:39 AM
Hey. This is the BEST POSSIBLE SEASON to badger Visa and Mastercard into fucking off about their shitty fake-moral-panic over LGBTQ+ spending habits and content on retail platforms.
Fuck ALL THE WAY OFF, VISA and Mastercard. No one wants to hear jack shit from you. You're a fucking receipt printer.
Fuck ALL THE WAY OFF, VISA and Mastercard. No one wants to hear jack shit from you. You're a fucking receipt printer.
I went from DnD to Pathfinder, back to DnD for 5th and then straight into PBTA and story games where suddenly names like Baker, Alder, Harper, Koebel and LaTorra, Crane, and Morningstar suddenly meant something and stuck in my mind alongside the friends I was designing games with.
Conversation with @deadlyfredly.bsky.social has me trying to remember the first time I consciously remembered the name of an RPG designer who wasn’t Gygax. Embarrassingly, I am pretty sure it wasn’t until college, after I’d been playing for years and had been exposed to many games.
November 15, 2025 at 9:07 AM
I went from DnD to Pathfinder, back to DnD for 5th and then straight into PBTA and story games where suddenly names like Baker, Alder, Harper, Koebel and LaTorra, Crane, and Morningstar suddenly meant something and stuck in my mind alongside the friends I was designing games with.
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My fellow Europeans, I'm once again asking you to write or call your EU representatives and tell them this is unacceptable. They're essentially selling our sensitive data to companies, effectively destroying our privacy and risking our digital well-being.
Check the site!
fightchatcontrol.eu
Check the site!
fightchatcontrol.eu
November 13, 2025 at 8:05 AM
My fellow Europeans, I'm once again asking you to write or call your EU representatives and tell them this is unacceptable. They're essentially selling our sensitive data to companies, effectively destroying our privacy and risking our digital well-being.
Check the site!
fightchatcontrol.eu
Check the site!
fightchatcontrol.eu
Microsoft: we're withdrawing from the console space
Everyone: the console wars are over!
Valve: hold my beer
Everyone: the console wars are over!
Valve: hold my beer
November 13, 2025 at 11:16 AM
Microsoft: we're withdrawing from the console space
Everyone: the console wars are over!
Valve: hold my beer
Everyone: the console wars are over!
Valve: hold my beer
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Don't forget Transanta is happening again this year for the holidays
buy.transanta.com
buy.transanta.com
November 12, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Don't forget Transanta is happening again this year for the holidays
buy.transanta.com
buy.transanta.com
Ok, y'all. The mortifying ordeal of being known. I expected y'all to wreck me
November 10, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Ok, y'all. The mortifying ordeal of being known. I expected y'all to wreck me
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"Kerala expropriated private land and redistributed it to landless workers. This laid the foundations for Kerala’s remarkable social indicators: near-universal literacy, one of the lowest infant mortality rates in the global south, and the highest life expectancy in India”
November 10, 2025 at 7:41 AM
"Kerala expropriated private land and redistributed it to landless workers. This laid the foundations for Kerala’s remarkable social indicators: near-universal literacy, one of the lowest infant mortality rates in the global south, and the highest life expectancy in India”
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The Mamdani sign generator is an op to make us hate the iconography of a socialist win as quickly as possible by flooding the zone with absolutely unfunny nothing.
It is the weapon of our enemy and we do not need it. We will not use it.
It is the weapon of our enemy and we do not need it. We will not use it.
November 9, 2025 at 8:36 PM
The Mamdani sign generator is an op to make us hate the iconography of a socialist win as quickly as possible by flooding the zone with absolutely unfunny nothing.
It is the weapon of our enemy and we do not need it. We will not use it.
It is the weapon of our enemy and we do not need it. We will not use it.
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Somehow none of these articles ever seem to mention that all of this antitrans rhetoric is coming from billionaire American mega 'Christians'.
🏊♀️The women who swim at Kenwood Ladies Pond have already made their decision.
In 2024, almost 900 members voted to keep their trans-inclusive policy - a policy that has worked peacefully since 2019.
Now, a small campaign group is seeking to overturn that democratic decision through the courts.
1/5
In 2024, almost 900 members voted to keep their trans-inclusive policy - a policy that has worked peacefully since 2019.
Now, a small campaign group is seeking to overturn that democratic decision through the courts.
1/5
November 7, 2025 at 9:49 AM
Somehow none of these articles ever seem to mention that all of this antitrans rhetoric is coming from billionaire American mega 'Christians'.