Sharon (she/her)
@chubacca.bsky.social
Asian American in New England. I like science and stories and TTRPGs and art and polysyndeton.
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I can tell you I’ve been saying for years that Actual Play would be very different in a world of UBI.
In fact, we have some evidence of this, as I’m arguing in my next chapter.
In fact, we have some evidence of this, as I’m arguing in my next chapter.
Honest question: If everyone got Universal Basic Income, no strings attached, what would YOU do with it?
Re-post with your quote or drop your take below.
Re-post with your quote or drop your take below.
November 29, 2025 at 9:53 PM
I can tell you I’ve been saying for years that Actual Play would be very different in a world of UBI.
In fact, we have some evidence of this, as I’m arguing in my next chapter.
In fact, we have some evidence of this, as I’m arguing in my next chapter.
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I think the corollary that a lot of people miss about "write what you know" is that *you have the power to know more things.* Research and talking to people are a central part of writing!
“write only what you know” is bullshit because a man wrote silent hill f and this shit rocks!!!! its feminist core resonates SO strongly if you’re a woman!!!!
November 30, 2025 at 1:57 AM
I think the corollary that a lot of people miss about "write what you know" is that *you have the power to know more things.* Research and talking to people are a central part of writing!
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Always love to see great talent using their platform for unabashed good.
'F*** Off And Let People Be': David Tennant Doubles Down On Support For Trans People
"People are trying to create division... and it's so f***ing unnecessary."
www.huffingtonpost.co.uk
November 29, 2025 at 4:50 AM
Always love to see great talent using their platform for unabashed good.
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“My child, what the fuck did you just say about my team? In our Lord’s name I’ll crack this off on you right in the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit”
November 29, 2025 at 6:04 PM
“My child, what the fuck did you just say about my team? In our Lord’s name I’ll crack this off on you right in the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit”
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Donald Trump is famous for failed deals and bankruptcies.
To make a deal work, it helps to know something about the substance.
So let's talk about rare earths, the attraction of which for Trump is probably that first word. 1/
To make a deal work, it helps to know something about the substance.
So let's talk about rare earths, the attraction of which for Trump is probably that first word. 1/
Extraordinary WSJ reporting today that unveils the extent to which Trump, Witkoff, Kushner and US business executives are salivating over business deals with Russia while Putin’s forces kidnap Ukranian children and bomb civilians in their apartments.
🎁 www.wsj.com/world/russia...
🎁 www.wsj.com/world/russia...
November 29, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Donald Trump is famous for failed deals and bankruptcies.
To make a deal work, it helps to know something about the substance.
So let's talk about rare earths, the attraction of which for Trump is probably that first word. 1/
To make a deal work, it helps to know something about the substance.
So let's talk about rare earths, the attraction of which for Trump is probably that first word. 1/
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A story Stoppard told several times, in several places:
November 29, 2025 at 6:10 PM
A story Stoppard told several times, in several places:
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One of the three trucks in this picture can Carry full size sheets of plywood.
November 29, 2025 at 3:45 PM
One of the three trucks in this picture can Carry full size sheets of plywood.
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We have not been picked out, simply to be abandoned, set loose to find our own way. We are entitled to some direction, I would have thought.
BREAKING: British playwright Tom Stoppard, who won an Academy Award for the screenplay for “Shakespeare In Love," dies at 88.
Playwright Tom Stoppard who won Academy Award for screenplay for “Shakespeare In Love" has died
British playwright Tom Stoppard, who won an Academy Award for the screenplay for 1998’s “Shakespeare In Love” has died. He was 88.
bit.ly
November 29, 2025 at 6:31 PM
We have not been picked out, simply to be abandoned, set loose to find our own way. We are entitled to some direction, I would have thought.
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Thread: this is the opposite of transparency, and it is the opposite of actual scientific and epidemiological investigation:
Dr. Prasad send an email to CBER suggesting changes to the approval for respiratory vaccines based, apparently, on the conclusion of an unpublished investigation into VAERS report by unknown people. A few thoughts beyond what was already reported, based on the full email: 1/n
November 29, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Thread: this is the opposite of transparency, and it is the opposite of actual scientific and epidemiological investigation:
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Jeff de Boer has made an entire career out of crafting tiny plate armor. He's compelled by the idea of the underdog finding an edge; something so small being so well-protected.
This artist designs intricate suits of armor. The intended wearer? A humble mouse
Jeff de Boer has made an entire career out of crafting tiny plate armor. He's compelled by the idea of the underdog finding an edge; something so small being so well-protected.
n.pr
November 29, 2025 at 2:53 AM
Jeff de Boer has made an entire career out of crafting tiny plate armor. He's compelled by the idea of the underdog finding an edge; something so small being so well-protected.
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the covid vaccine prevents many more cases of myocarditis than it potentially causes in kids and adults. this is a conclusive fact from dozens of massive rigorous studies.
vinay prasad is an expert in using statistics to lie, and he is credentialed — that makes this even more dangerous.
vinay prasad is an expert in using statistics to lie, and he is credentialed — that makes this even more dangerous.
Internal memo at the FDA claims 10 deaths in children as a result of Covid vaccines — but does not include data
Explosive story by @by-cjewett.bsky.social
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/28/h...
Explosive story by @by-cjewett.bsky.social
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/28/h...
F.D.A. Attributes 10 Children’s Deaths to Covid Vaccines
www.nytimes.com
November 29, 2025 at 4:07 AM
the covid vaccine prevents many more cases of myocarditis than it potentially causes in kids and adults. this is a conclusive fact from dozens of massive rigorous studies.
vinay prasad is an expert in using statistics to lie, and he is credentialed — that makes this even more dangerous.
vinay prasad is an expert in using statistics to lie, and he is credentialed — that makes this even more dangerous.
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i don’t care if you can convict. As soon as we have the House, the sole business of the House should be impeaching the President. and when the impeachment fails in the Senate, the next thing the House should do is impeach him again
in the midst of our supposed campaign against Venezuelan drug traffickers the President of the United States has chosen to pardon the Former President of Honduras, freeing him from his long prison sentence earned for trafficking more than 400 tons of cocaine into the United States
November 29, 2025 at 12:06 AM
i don’t care if you can convict. As soon as we have the House, the sole business of the House should be impeaching the President. and when the impeachment fails in the Senate, the next thing the House should do is impeach him again
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Imagine posing for a photographer friend who sells your image to iStock and a year later, you see this is what The Washington Post has done with the image of you walking on a beautiful fall day
November 29, 2025 at 6:02 AM
Imagine posing for a photographer friend who sells your image to iStock and a year later, you see this is what The Washington Post has done with the image of you walking on a beautiful fall day
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Mass pardons are coming. There will be no accountability without treating those as null and void. And that means a future administration taking an official position that Trump is not the legitimate president right now because he is disqualified by the 14th Amendment. The two things are inextricable.
November 28, 2025 at 9:36 PM
Mass pardons are coming. There will be no accountability without treating those as null and void. And that means a future administration taking an official position that Trump is not the legitimate president right now because he is disqualified by the 14th Amendment. The two things are inextricable.
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By turning away Afghan refugees, many of whom have worked directly with the United States before the Taliban took over, this is what Trump is condemning tens of thousands of innocent people to: a regime where religious leaders can decide when you can use the Internet or call your business partners.
“100% of our communication is done through mobile phones,” farmer Iqbal Momand says. “When the blackout happened, everything came to a standstill. We could not contact the markets. Our harvested crops could not be transported.”
The Taliban's Internet Blackouts Are Devastating Afghan Farmers
When the Afghan government shut down all communication channels for two days due to political reasons, farmers were unable to contact buyers and transporters, resulting in significant losses.
www.thexylom.com
November 28, 2025 at 2:22 AM
By turning away Afghan refugees, many of whom have worked directly with the United States before the Taliban took over, this is what Trump is condemning tens of thousands of innocent people to: a regime where religious leaders can decide when you can use the Internet or call your business partners.
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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 28, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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.
🚅🎲🎲🎲🌟🌟
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They've got free shipping this weekend!
And if you'd like some recommendations, I've got an affiliate storefront: bookshop.org/shop/cassrmo...
And if you'd like some recommendations, I've got an affiliate storefront: bookshop.org/shop/cassrmo...
Black Friday reminder: You can support independent bookstores and get great deals without lining the pockets of billionaires 😌
November 28, 2025 at 3:11 PM
They've got free shipping this weekend!
And if you'd like some recommendations, I've got an affiliate storefront: bookshop.org/shop/cassrmo...
And if you'd like some recommendations, I've got an affiliate storefront: bookshop.org/shop/cassrmo...
Introduce yourself with five animals you have seen in the wild
Brown bear cub
Mountain bluebird
Sea lions
Taiwanese blue magpie
Beaver
Brown bear cub
Mountain bluebird
Sea lions
Taiwanese blue magpie
Beaver
Introduce yourself with five animals you have seen in the wild
Guanaco
Brown tarantula
Eastern newt
Caribou
Western blue jay
Guanaco
Brown tarantula
Eastern newt
Caribou
Western blue jay
Introduce yourself with five animals you have seen in the wild:
Moose
Wolves
Grey/harbor seals
Otter
Fin whales
Moose
Wolves
Grey/harbor seals
Otter
Fin whales
November 28, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Introduce yourself with five animals you have seen in the wild
Brown bear cub
Mountain bluebird
Sea lions
Taiwanese blue magpie
Beaver
Brown bear cub
Mountain bluebird
Sea lions
Taiwanese blue magpie
Beaver
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Just read this list. It's cool
Long ago on the hell site I made long list of historically interesting things to use in dnd ttrpgs and I'll start dragging them over here starting with
2000 years-old sapphire ring presumably belonged to Roman emperor Caligula, depicting his fourth wife Caesonia.
2000 years-old sapphire ring presumably belonged to Roman emperor Caligula, depicting his fourth wife Caesonia.
November 28, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Just read this list. It's cool
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So this happened in Oslo yesterday. Four articulated buses got stuck in a roundabout.
November 25, 2025 at 8:23 AM
So this happened in Oslo yesterday. Four articulated buses got stuck in a roundabout.
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Not to be the 'it was always about power' guy, but...
November 28, 2025 at 11:14 AM
Not to be the 'it was always about power' guy, but...
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The domestic cat may be a far more recent arrival to Europe than previously thought, a new Science study. finds. The results offer new insight into one of humanity’s most enigmatic animal companions and identify North Africa as the cradle of the modern housecat.
Learn more: https://scim.ag/44kov1S
Learn more: https://scim.ag/44kov1S
November 27, 2025 at 7:05 PM
The domestic cat may be a far more recent arrival to Europe than previously thought, a new Science study. finds. The results offer new insight into one of humanity’s most enigmatic animal companions and identify North Africa as the cradle of the modern housecat.
Learn more: https://scim.ag/44kov1S
Learn more: https://scim.ag/44kov1S
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Elon Musk and the Trump administration gleefully shutting down USAID “has already caused the deaths of six hundred thousand people, two-thirds of them children.”
People throw around terms like genocide quite freely online but it’s hard to find other words to describe this level of man-made death.
People throw around terms like genocide quite freely online but it’s hard to find other words to describe this level of man-made death.
USAID shutdown has led to hundreds of thousands of deaths | Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
The Trump administration’s decision to shut down the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) has resulted in hundreds of thousands of deaths from infectious diseases and malnutrition, accord...
hsph.harvard.edu
November 28, 2025 at 11:24 AM
Elon Musk and the Trump administration gleefully shutting down USAID “has already caused the deaths of six hundred thousand people, two-thirds of them children.”
People throw around terms like genocide quite freely online but it’s hard to find other words to describe this level of man-made death.
People throw around terms like genocide quite freely online but it’s hard to find other words to describe this level of man-made death.
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The Trump administration has never met a crisis it couldn't make worse.
The Trump administration has reacted to a small scale lone wolf attack by in DC announcing a sweeping collective punishment, using the organs of government to heap blame on partisan rivals, and potentially dissuading anyone from collaborating with US forces abroad for a generation.
CIA statement about the Afghan man identified as the gunman who shot two National Guardsmen in Washington
November 27, 2025 at 3:34 PM
The Trump administration has never met a crisis it couldn't make worse.