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David J Prokopetz @prokopetz.bsky.social · 1d

Our final stretch goal playset has been announced: "The Ninefold City" by @jeeyon.bsky.social. Confront familiar-yet-legally-distinct divine lawgivers in their shining heavenly city and show them what you think of their god-given mandate – if we hit our final goal!

David J Prokopetz @prokopetz.bsky.social · 15d

"Eat God" is live on Kickstarter:

www.kickstarter.com/projects/pen...

Be a blue-furred social justice advocate with detachable limbs, a many-eyed horror with strong opinions about metaphysics, or a jet-powered telepathic crab and stick it to the Man though the power of gratuitous cartoon violence.

Eat God

a tabletop roleplaying game about causing problems on purpose

www.kickstarter.com

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Disco Elysium Quotes @discoelysiumbot.bsky.social · 1d

ESPRIT DE CORPS - Kim Kitsuragi is a nice guy. Wish he was here right now.

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The Deadlands @thedeadlands.com · 1d

did you know that right now, we're only a partial skeleton? we're not fully funded, and so we're missing some critical bones.

this is truth

and sadly not sustainable

help us be a full skeleton?

patreon 🖤 www.patreon.com/c/the_deadla...

our coin fundraiser 💀 psychopomp.com/the-deadland...

An old looking skull lays on a cement path covered lightly in brown leaves.

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Alistair the Friendly Neighborhood Librarian @unnaturalhistory.bsky.social · 1d

Absolutely cannot wait to try this out, I love a solo ttrpg and one that encourages me to mark up a physical book? Love the idea.

Asa Donald | Backwards Tabletop @backwardsttrpg.bsky.social · 2d

SPINE has been released on itch! You can download your PDF or a printable booklet today to start playing!

I'm keeping it FREE through the end of October.

backwards-tabletop.itch.io/spine

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.

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Holly @pterosaur.bsky.social · 3d

tea kettle guys

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Alistair the Friendly Neighborhood Librarian @unnaturalhistory.bsky.social · 3d

Other duties as assigned.

spooky murwolf the wereduck 〓〓🏳️‍🌈𓅄✊🐺🪄🎡 @murduck.bsky.social · 3d

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

Circumstances within your control

LA Legault ⚜️ @lalegault.bsky.social · 3d

Missed the filing date.

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yixura @yixura.bsky.social · 5d

mystery wrestling needs 10 million dollars to make this a reality

Richard @sirlariato.bsky.social · 5d

Reminds me of the gimmick match that came to me in a fever dream a few years back; 16 wrestlers, 4 rings, 1 waterpark eliminator match.

An interior cage divides the 4 rings, with 4 wrestlers starting in each. If a wrestler is thrown into the pool they can only return to a ring via waterslide.

A crude pencil drawing of a waterpark containing four floating wrestling rings, an interior cage dividing the four rings and four waterslides leading to each of the rings.

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Charlie Jane "Lessons in Magic and Disaster" Anders 🏳️‍⚧ @charliejane.bsky.social · Sep 16

Hey, I know books are expensive and money is tight right now.

But if there's a brand new book you really wanna read — including my own Lessons in Magic and Disaster — you can help get the book into way more hands by requesting it from your local library!

It's easy! Check your library's website.

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AEGIS Combining Robots @ PAX Unplugged @zephyrworkshop.bsky.social · 5d

we must make it happen

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Alistair the Friendly Neighborhood Librarian @unnaturalhistory.bsky.social · 6d

this is so sick.
please read hotblood.

ALKALI BLUE @alkaliblue.bsky.social · 6d

Toril Orlesky's cult classic webcomic HOTBLOOD! is back with a revised print serialization. It's been a blast collaborating with her to bring the new art to life! 🐎💨

🐴Full PV >> youtu.be/AzioM_FIyEY

#hotblood #yaoi #centaur #comic #indiecomic #indieanimation #animation #trailer

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Gretchen Felker-Martin 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 7d

15 pages on ULYSSES in the five hours before it was due. I believe I B+'d it.

Dane 🔜 NYCC AA L-34 @monkeyminion.com · 7d

I wrote a 15 page report on heraldic symbolism in medieval armor and weapon design for my art history class the night before it was due (8am class). Made up 90% of it (only found one book for reference) and got an A. GenAI could fucking never.

wrote 20 pages on Faulkner's The Bear four hours before final papers were due on trucker pills and coffee and cigarettes and got an A, fuck you.
You people couldn't hang with real slackers.
finn
wokeupchic • 4d
It's fuck Al till your homework due in 25 minutes

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👁️🍄🪸 @bloomfilters.bsky.social · 12d

tbh the stark reality is that for nonbinary gender existence to gain much stronger mass traction among the public, it's basically imperative that people also 'allow the body to be nonbinary' i.e. question sexing of the body itself. there's basically no way binary sex & nonbinary gender can coexist

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1000xRESIST | Available Now @sunsetvisitor.studio · 17d

Give it up for sale #3!! 🗣️🗣️🗣️

1000xRESIST continues to be 30% off as part of the Steam Autumn Sale! We’ve also just released the third Piano Book!

Run, don’t walk, to play the game that Game Informer calls, “one of the most groundbreaking stories in video game history.”

➡️ s.team/a/1675830/

A visual of Knower from 1000xRESIST looking at the camera. The title of the game is to the center left, with the words “Piano Book Vol. 3” underneath in smaller text.

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 17d

Klein kept asking "what do you do when 30% of the country believes things that are beyond the pale?" and the answer is that you hold the line even more firmly!

He seems to think that we should should compromise with them but that's a doomed project electorally and indefensible morally.

Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 17d

Yep. This entire interview with Coates was one massive Kinsley Gaffe.

Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 18d

👇🎯 The polite way to say what this conversation reveals is that Coates is operating on a totally different moral plane & Klein is only vaguely able/willing to grasp that difference.

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Alistair the Friendly Neighborhood Librarian @unnaturalhistory.bsky.social · 17d

i haven't posted on ao3 for about 5 years so it's always a pleasant surprise to get an email about kudos. today i got *two* emails about comments. i'm a happy writer.

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divine beastmode @gunstreet.bsky.social · 20d

the post office is a public service. it doesn’t need to make money. public transit doesn’t need to make money. the library doesn’t need to make money. some things exist for the public good and we desperately need lawmakers to stop thinking about them in terms of capitalism. these are not businesses.

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Alistair the Friendly Neighborhood Librarian @unnaturalhistory.bsky.social · 20d

i do not think he would get the job unfortunately

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Alistair the Friendly Neighborhood Librarian @unnaturalhistory.bsky.social · 20d

thing i should be doing: preparing for my interview tomorrow
thing i am actually doing: writing half-formed thoughts about new oc blorbo

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Mark Robertson @markrobbie.bsky.social · 23d

I mean c'mon 🥹 🪶

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Alistair the Friendly Neighborhood Librarian @unnaturalhistory.bsky.social · 24d

so maybe the fact that any time i have significant downtime instead of relaxing i just spiral into depression and self loathing is. a bad sign.

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Alistair the Friendly Neighborhood Librarian @unnaturalhistory.bsky.social · 24d

I'm actually looking into stopping T (maybe permanently maybe not), but thank you!

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Alistair the Friendly Neighborhood Librarian @unnaturalhistory.bsky.social · 24d

Entirely possible!

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Alistair the Friendly Neighborhood Librarian @unnaturalhistory.bsky.social · 24d

No, I have Sunday/Monday off usually. I think it's more that I have the time and space to get stuck in my own head which I don't have on work days haha

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Alistair the Friendly Neighborhood Librarian @unnaturalhistory.bsky.social · 24d

why is it that every sunday like clockwork i feel terrible about myself

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Alistair the Friendly Neighborhood Librarian @unnaturalhistory.bsky.social · Sep 15

damn, I'll remember that for next time

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