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Talia B.

@taliadoesrpgs.bsky.social

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Professional GM, author, and game designer. I also reblog art of various spice levels. Ask me about The Wonders of Mundus, on sale at taliaellib.itch.io; Email [email protected] regarding commissions and paperback orders. AI delenda est.

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Talia B. @taliadoesrpgs.bsky.social · Jul 24

For now, you can pick up Book 1 of The Wonders of Mundus, my transgender awakening isekai story, in paperback through these links: shop.ingramspark.com/b/084?params...

I will also make the ebooks available through my store on my Patreon: patreon.com/taliaellib?u...

The Wonders of Mundus, Part 1: Reborn on the Shores of Awakening

A closeted transgender woman is about to get way too into her favorite MMO. It's 2047, and our protagonist wakes up face-down in the sands of the Shores of Awakening - a starter area of their favor...

shop.ingramspark.com

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Beedok/Fern 🏳️‍⚧️🇨🇦 @beedokfern.bsky.social · 2h

Happy (Canadian) Thanksgiving and (American) Indigenous People's Day!

(With American Thanksgiving and Canadian Indigenous Peoples' Day being in different months, of course.)

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Talia B. @taliadoesrpgs.bsky.social · 4h

Amerigo Vespucci

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PSX Bunlith 🪄 BLM ACAB 🇵🇸 @b0tster.yeag.gay · 5h

yeag days tomorrow. whats yeag day? i dont remember. lol. mark ur calendars 📝

screenshot of a calendar app for october 14th, which is listed as yeag day

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oldmanofthefire @oldmanofthefire.bsky.social · 5h

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Jane @fightingpride93.bsky.social · 6h

May all trans people reading this have gender euphoria and be happy. 🙏🤞

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amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 1d

The inflatables have made it to Broadview.

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World Champ 🔜 Gamehole @worldchamp.bsky.social · 1d

Not every game is a product.
Not every booklet is a zine.
Not every idea is a kickstarter.
Not every conversation is content.
Not every collab is a stretch goal.
Not every designer is a peer.

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RJB / Mallacore 🇨🇦 @rjb-mallacore.bsky.social · 6h

Thank you for the artshare!

I'm RJB / Mallacore. 3d modeler and digital artist.

I love sci-fi and especially spaceships. I've been bring many ship designs to life in vivid and color space scenes.

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Talia B. @taliadoesrpgs.bsky.social · 6h

In honour of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand:

Which do I roll?

Sawph 🔪 @flannelqueen.bsky.social · 6h

In honour of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand:

Thousand tickets, no HHT.

James Geary @jamesmgeary.bsky.social · 6h

In honour of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand:

pH meter calibration failed.

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∘⊰ Spooky the Orc ⊱∘ @roogytheorc.bsky.social · 1d

Whether you believe it's real and need to understand why it's not, or you already get it and need a link to arm yourself against misinformation, here ya go ♡

www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/wome...

An article from Psychology Today

Headline: Science Stopped Believing in Porn Addiction. You Should, Too

Subtitle: What does it mean that religion, not porn use, predicts porn-related problems?

David J. Ley, Ph.D

Updated April 4, 2025

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Erika Chappell 🏳️‍⚧️ Stop Asking For STLs @opensketchbook.bsky.social · 16h

"jim crow inspired the nuremberg laws" is a corruption of what actually happened, which is that nazi lawyers looked at jim crow laws hoping to mine its justifications and language for the creation of legal race categories, and by and large outright failed

chbarts @chbarts.bsky.social · 1d

Post like this and I unfollow and mute. This is erasing centuries of European pogroms and other violence prior to WWII by making America the sin-eater for the entire Western world. I won't have it and I won't let it slide:

Cærsten (@cara.city) posted:

"we didn't cause Nazism" dude Hitler based the Nuremberg Laws on the Jim Crow south and Lebensraum was partially inspired by the native genocide of the 19th century idk what to tell you
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By quote-posting:
Will Stancil‬ (@whstancil.bsky.social‬):

we didn’t cause Nazism. whatever caused incumbents to tank in 2024, it wasn’t unique to us. we aren’t uniquely corrupt, or violent, or authoritarian. there are good things and bad things about our country like any other, and Americans work a lot like people anywhere

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 21h

This two-parter below is exactly why it's hard to make clothes in the United States.

Let's look at how much it costs to produce a button-up shirt in the US. 🧵

Someone on Twitter replies to me: "meh. buy american or stfu."

Two hours later, in a separate thread, the write: "$30 for a single button-up is ridiculous unless it is decent quality silk."

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Tapling: Queer Zines 🏳️‍🌈 @taplingzines.bsky.social · 1d

We're tired of LGBTQ+ content being censored.

Tired of people pretending that being queer or trans is a new "fad", and not something that’s existed, perfectly naturally, for as long as people have been around.

Check out our mission, and join us in fighting censorship. 🏳️‍🌈
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Rainbow stripes with a white text box over it, and an image below of a person holding the intersectional pride flag over their back. The text box reads: "As a team of two trans (Sapling is nonbinary and Felix is two-spirit!) husbands, we’ve felt exhausted online lately, with censorship closing in on us all. Queer content is being banned, restricted, under fire, and we’re sick of it. So we’re creating something offline, a physical art book, a collaborative community project. Something to give us all hope. Something to connect us through our many cultures, all across the world. With our first zine, “We’ve Always Been Here,” we aim to show just this: that we’ve always been a part of history, and we’ll always be a part of the future too."

Rainbow stripes with a white text box, and an image below of two Black men getting close, with one kissing the other on the cheek. The text box reads: "'We’ve Always Been Here' focuses on the 'unseen' queer history of the world. There’s plenty of names we all know of real people who have made their mark: Marsha P. Johnson, Alan Turing, Audre Lorde, Oscar Wilde, Frida Kahlo, and many, many more. But what about those that didn’t ‘go down in history’? What about the woman down the street from your great grandmother, who lived with her ‘best friend’ for decades until she passed? What about the medieval king who kept his lover secret his whole life? What about the cowboys who used the wide, open ranges with no one else around to keep their relationships a secret?"

Rainbow stripes with a white textbox, and below are three circular images of two Korean women walking together, two African men laughing as they talk, and two Indian women chatting and laughing. The text box reads: "Our zine focuses on this, on the everyday people that no one knew about, that no one wrote about. The people that modern society wants to pretend never existed. LGBTQ+ people just living their lives, throughout all of history and all of the world. We want to show one simple thing to the world with this collaborative zine: We’ve always been here. And we always will be."

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Sardonicus @sardonicus.eu · 1d

Tired Of Reality? Press advertisement for London’s Games Workshop

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DeadSlug @deadslug.bsky.social · Aug 2

Gus the big bros

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Aubrey Gilleran @aubreygilleran.bsky.social · 1d

There are many other ways in which the kids are not all right. Widespread concerns about reading comprehension are valid and threaten democracy in other ways. But in terms of being broadly accepting of racial and sexual diversity, the game's over, and the libs won. 2/2

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Talia B. @taliadoesrpgs.bsky.social · 1d

This is still by far my favorite Wonders of Mundus image and hats off to @pasteldaemon.bsky.social for her perfect interpretation of what I wanted.

(Wonders of Mundus is of course my cyberpunk isekai transgender coming of age story, check it out at taliaellib.itch.io)

An image titled "Look at what woke VRMMOs have done to our men." To the left, labeled "2039," is an image of a pasty, depressed man with unkempt black hair who looks like an overweight sad wet Markiplier, the "Saddest Man Alive." To the right, labeled 2047, is a foxgirl with tan skin, bright blue eyes and red hair in a Shaolin-like outfit who's smiling, the "Most Beautiful Woman You've Ever Met."

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Dana Simpson’s Treehouse of Horror 🎃 @danacorn.bsky.social · 7d

Someone told me it was #foxtober.

I vaguely feel like foxes had another month earlier on? Like maybe this is all…made up? See? I’m clever. Like a fox.

Here’s Ozy and Milo on a fall day.

Ozy and Milo, two Fox boys, one gray and wearing a top hat, scarf and long black coat, the other red and wearing a beanie that covers his ears. And of course they have cocoa. General autumn theme.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 1d

seems like a non-insignificant percentage of rage against the machine's fanbase are young republican men driving SUVs bopping their head to anti-oil, pro-immigrant songs thinking the lyrics are about how they wish their suburban parents would get off their back

Tom Morello tweets: "Fascinating that all those “don’t tread on me” posers and their AR-15’s are nowhere to be seen and government tyranny is instead being opposed by a guy in an inflatable frog suit."

Someone named Manny replies: "@grok
why do some people say Tom Morello and band mates are RAGE FOR THE MACHINE and not against ?"

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Rappenem @rappenem.bsky.social · 1d

Ball of fire

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Yuri Covizzi @ycovizzi.bsky.social · 2d

#animação #animação2d #2danimation #animation #anthro #cartoon #noir #brart

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Social Media Lab @socialmedialab.ca · 1d

"Pope Leo XIV encouraged international news agencies on Thursday to stand firm as a bulwark against the “ancient art of lying” and manipulation, as he strongly backed a free, independent and objective press." apnews.com/article/pope...

Pope urges news agencies to stand as bulwark against lies, manipulation and post-truths

Pope Leo XIV has encouraged international news agencies to stand firm as a bulwark against the “ancient art of lying” and manipulation.

apnews.com

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Matt Alt @mattalt.bsky.social · 3d

“Very few people here in America have the balls to do what anime does,” a veteran Hollywood animation director told me.

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Why Hollywood stars are saying “F*** anime”

And why they’re right to be scared

blog.pureinventionbook.com

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

STEPHANOPOULOS: I didn't insinuate anything. I asked you whether Tom Homan accepted $50k as was heard on an audio tape recorded by the FBI in September 2024. You did not answer the question. Thank you for your time.

VANCE: No, George, I sai--

STEPHANOPOULOS: We'll be right back

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Lynn Stahl @msbtterswrth.altgov.info · 2d

Hot off the presses! If you need a bigger size to print your stickers let me know!

The Portland frog as a founding father, surround by the words "give me ribberty or give me death"

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