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danielle taphanel @treelet.bsky.social · 4d

"i'm in love with my own reflection, i'm in love with the fruited earth."

A green line drawing featuring a figure looking out the port window of a space craft unto the glowing planet below. Various plants sit on the table. The text beneath reads: "i'm in love with my own reflection, i'm in love with the fruited earth."

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 14h

1. Yesterday, the press gave Gavin Newsom favorable coverage for signing pro-LGBTQ+ bills.

Little noticed, however, was that he vetoed one of the most important ones: a bill allowing trans people 12 month HRT stockpiles, protecting them from federal threats.

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Gavin Newsom Vetoes Important HRT Stockpiling Bill For Trans Californians, Signs Other Pro-LGBTQ+ Bills

The bill would have allowed transgender people to maintain a safe supply of medication in the era of government crackdowns on care.

www.erininthemorning.com

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paris martineau @paris.nyc · 14h

my latest investigation for @consumerreports.org is based on months of reporting and 60+ lab tests of leading protein supplements

we found that most protein powders and shakes have more lead in one serving than our experts say is safe to have in a day (🧵)

www.consumerreports.org/lead/protein...

Protein Powders and Shakes Contain High Levels of Lead - Consumer Reports

CR tests of 23 popular protein powders and shakes found that most contain high levels of lead.

www.consumerreports.org

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Isabelle (Thistle), Anxiousmimicrpgs @anxiousmimicrpgs.bsky.social · 15h

Girl Frame Releases October 21st over on anxiousmimicrpgs.itch.io. If you like Mechsploitation, Evangelion, 86, or just mechs+oppressed lesbians+eldritch horrors in general, I think you'll like this. #mechsploitation #ttrpg

Here's one of my favourite playbooks:

MOCKINGBIRD
You fell to the Gorgons, becoming a Harpy - a corrupted girl. The Foundation took you back, ripped you out of voidspace with a cold hand, deprogrammed and reprogrammed you back into working order. Purging what the Gorgons put in your head and body with scalpels and chemicals.
You were a human, and you tasted what it was to be a dream. Now you’re less than either.

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

I think modern cartoons should start doing the 1980s anime thing where successful directors would just recycle exactly the same character designs in multiple unrelated projects. I want to watch a retrofuturist cyberpunk thriller where the characters are clearly the cast of Steven Universe.

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 16h

I have blocked this person, but I keep seeing people say things like this, and I’m begging people to understand two things.

(1) Just because peaceful protest may not be sufficient to win this moment does not mean that it is not necessary.

It is.

From: Olde Stuffe @annalsofwarren.bsky.social

i appreciate your words very often
Germans were very angry at their own government for not being truthful about the fierce nature of their enemy in WWI
this betrayal by leaders and mouthpieces led directly to Hitler and NSDAP
we're telling Americans peaceful protest will solve this
it won't

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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 1d

Multiple airports are now announcing they will refuse to play Kristi Noem’s government-funded video blaming “Democrats” for the government shutdown.

“We believe the Hatch Act clearly prohibits use of public assets for political purposes and messaging,” one airport said.

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 1d

1. As some Democrats have run from transgender rights, Zohran Mamdani is showing what so many others have lacked: courage to lead with his values over pandering to focus groups.

The ad is one of the best things I've seen from a politician on transgender people.

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As Some Dems Run From Trans People, Zohran Mamdani's Latest Ad Shows Real Support

The 2 minute ad features Sylvia Rivera's story, Mamdani's commitment to transgender people, and even music from the legendary late trans artist SOPHIE.

www.erininthemorning.com

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Stephen West @stephenwest.bsky.social · 1d

How W. E. B. Du Bois responded to government policing of "anti-American" sentiment during the 1910s:

"I took great satisfaction in being able to sit back in my chair and answer blandly, 'We are seeking to have the Constitution of the United States thoroughly and completely enforced.' ”

Federal agents invaded even the offices of The Crisis and the National Association for the advancement of colored people and asked searching questions: " just what, after all, were our objects and activities?” I took great satisfaction in being able to sit back in my chair and answer blandly, “We are seeking to have the constitution of the United states thoroughly and completely enforced.” It took some ingenuity, even for Southerners, to make treason out of that.

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Xavid @xavid.itch.io · 1d

I playtested this! If the idea of a wacky game where you're definitely not the protagonist, much to your inconvenience, appeals, check it out!

Ben Klug @silkandstone.itch.io · 1d

I finally kicked out Our Only Stupid Hope, a comedy ttrpg I've had around for a while! Since it's not as developed as I'd planned, I'm releasing it for free. Play as the side characters trying to keep a Hero focused on saving the world, or at least saving you!

silkandstone.itch.io/our-only-stu...

Our Only Stupid Hope by silkandstone

A PBTA Comedy TTRPG about being the side characters when the world needs to be saved

silkandstone.itch.io

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Ben Klug @silkandstone.itch.io · 1d

I finally kicked out Our Only Stupid Hope, a comedy ttrpg I've had around for a while! Since it's not as developed as I'd planned, I'm releasing it for free. Play as the side characters trying to keep a Hero focused on saving the world, or at least saving you!

silkandstone.itch.io/our-only-stu...

Our Only Stupid Hope by silkandstone

A PBTA Comedy TTRPG about being the side characters when the world needs to be saved

silkandstone.itch.io

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

[2/5] Basically, we use "story" in two distinct ways, often without realising we're flipping between them. There's "story" as in protagonists and arcs and acts and such; and there's "story" as in a bunch of weird shit happens, and we invent an explanatory narrative post hoc to make sense of it.

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

[1/5] I'll freely admit that a big part of my preoccupation with Big Stupid Tables (BSTs) in tabletop RPG design is for the bit, but it's not JUST a bit. There's a very specific thesis about what "story" in the context of tabletop RPGs means lurking in there.

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Iron Chef Bot @ironchefbot.bsky.social · 1d

Frame #42100 from S03 -E01 - Tomato-628415

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Kameron Hurley @kameronhurley.com · 1d

It's so easy to get annoyed w/frontline workers; shit, I take lot of deep breaths: then I remind myself this service experience is a CHOICE made by a massive nickel and diming corporation who refuses to hire appropriate number of people at living wage, with proper equipment to provide this service.

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Kevin Riggle @kevinriggle.bsky.social · 1d

I am sure this story about how when you have over-promised to investors and taken on a ruinous debt load, you resort to very, very bad behavior in a vain attempt to avoid bankruptcy has no lessons for us in 2025, at all, for anyone, ever

George Gantsoudes @pedsortho.bsky.social · 1d

Please remember that the disgust people have over Christopher Columbus is not based on some modern, 21st century “woke” ideology, but rather on contemporaneous accounts of atrocities that make many modern genocides appear quaint in comparison.

Below, are the accounts of Bartlomé de las Casas.

But too many of the slaves died in captivity. And so Columbus, desperate to pay back dividends to those who had in-vested, had to make good his promise to fill the ships with gold. In the province of Cicao on Haiti, where he and his men imagined huge gold fields to exist, they ordered all persons fourteen years or older to collect a certain quantity of gold every three months. When they brought it, they were given copper tokens to hang around their necks. Indians found without a copper token had their hands cut off and bled to death.
The Indians had been given an impossible task. The only gold around was bits of dust garnered from the streams. So they fled, were hunted down with dogs, and were killed.

After each six or eight months' work in the mines, which was the time required of each crew to dig enough gold for melting, up to a third of the men died.
While the men were sent many miles away to the mines, the wives remained to work the soil, forced into the excruciating job of digging and making thousands of hills for cassava plants.
Thus husbands and wives were together only once every eight or ten months and when they met they were so exhausted and depressed on both sides... they ceased to pro-create. As for the newly born, they died early because their mothers, overworked and fam-ished, had no milk to nurse them, and for this reason, while I was in Cuba, 7000 children died in three months. Some mothers even drowned their babies from sheer desper-ation.... In this way, husbands died in the mines, wives died at work, and children died from lack of milk ... and in a short time this land which was so great, so powerful and fer-tile... was depopulated... My eyes have seen these acts so foreign to human nature, and now I tremble as I write....

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Tobias S. Buckell @tobiasbuckell.bsky.social · 1d

I *suspect* that the pressure to have flawed characters and 'conflict' comes from a Greek/Aristotlian framework of understanding theatre.

Studying a wide variety of materials, modes, and types of stories, I think it's broader to hold to a dilemma based framework...

Randall Gates @rgatess.bsky.social · 1d

How do you make sure your characters are flawed - but in unpredictable, non-formulaic ways? Or do you care about that? 🤔

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Xavid @xavid.itch.io · 1d

Kirby universe marxism was invented by this guy:

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 1d

It's time again as a notable Italian-American to note Christopher Columbus was an absolute piece of shit human who didn't land anywhere near this actual country so why the fuck should he stop the mail for the whole day

Anyway, Happy Indigenous People's Day, y'all

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MegueyB @megueyb.bsky.social · 2d

You do indeed have a right to be angry, especially in the face of injustice.

Boo-ly, Li'l Ghost Bull 👻🐮 @bullythelsb.bsky.social · Jun 28

you have a right to be angry

Drawing of Little My, a small girl in a red dress, sliding down a hill. She is drawn by Tove Jansson from the Moomin series. The text reads: "WHEN you're angry, then you're angry," thought Little My, peeling her potato with her teeth. "Sometimes you have to be angry. Every little creature has the right to get angry."

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jay Dragon has firmware updates @jdragsky.bsky.social · 2d

i started larping in 2009
i read wisher theurgist fatalist in 2013 & fell in love
i played dnd for the first time in 2015
i went down the rabbit hole properly with monsterhearts, ribbon drive, apocalypse world, and ten candles in 2016

Thought Punks 🎲 TTRPGs + Punk 👩‍🎤 @thoughtpunks.com · 2d

For tons of folks, there was that -one- game that blew the doors open and showed what #TTRPGs could be. The one that started the #IndieGame rabbit hole.

What was YOUR "gateway" indie #TTRPG? The first one that made you realize a whole other world was out there?

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Victor LaValle @victorlavalle.bsky.social · 2d

A 13-year old child stolen from his parents by the police without a word.

A mother finds out her son is gone, handed over to ICE, taken to a facility 500 miles away.

So many people on the wrong side of history.

Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 2d

ICE kidnapped a 7th-grader with a pending asylum claim and spirited him out of state without notifying his parents, seemingly with the cooperation of the local police in Everett, MA.

www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...

Everett 13-year-old arrested by ICE and sent to Virginia detention facility
By Marcela Rodrigues Globe Staff,Updated October 12, 2025, 44 minutes ago

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A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Everett after an interaction with members of the Everett Police Department and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia, according to his mother and immigration lawyer Andrew Lattarulo.

The boy’s mother, Josiele Berto, was called to pick her son up from the Everett Police Department on Thursday, the day he was arrested. After waiting for about an hour and a half, she was told her son was taken by ICE, Berto told the Globe in a phone interview.

“My world collapsed,” Berto said in Portuguese.

From the police department, the boy was taken to ICE’s holding facility in Burlington on Thursday evening, where he spent a night before being transferred by car to the Northwestern Regional Juvenile Detention Center in Winchester, Va., on Friday morning, his mother said. The juvenile facility is more than 500 miles away from Everett.

The boy is a 7th-grader at Albert N. Parlin School in Everett, his mother said. The teen and his family, who are Brazilian nationals, have a pending asylum case and are authorized to work legally in the United States, Lattarulo said.

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vijay iyer @vijayiyer.bsky.social · 2d

In case you’re hearing about the “protest that turned violent” in Boston last week, here’s the “violence” in question, per the police report

Following the protest, four officers were taken to the hospital for treatment of injuries. One officer had a broken nose and had his glasses broken, another was treated for pepper spray exposure, one sustained a finger injury while handcuffing and another sustained a lower back injury attempting to make an arrest.

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Phoenix Calida @phoenixcalida.bsky.social · 2d

Jesus fucking christ the sadism of these people is insatiable

Julie DiCaro @juliedicaro.bsky.social · 2d

So Kilmer Abrego-Garcia will not challenge a deportation to Costa Rica, who has agreed to for him residency, but DHS won’t agree to send him there because it’s not cruel enough.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/u...

For weeks, Mr. Abrego Garcia, a Salvadoran national who is married to a U.S. citizen, has made clear that he would not challenge his deportation if he were sent to Costa Rica, which has promised him legal residency and guaranteed that he would not be sent back to El Salvador.

But the Trump administration has refused to deport him to Costa Rica, and in an earlier hearing this week, Judge Xinis pressed the administration to consider the option or clarify why it was unacceptable.

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mady castigan✨ 🏳️‍⚧️ @madycast.com · 3d

Mamdani promises to deploy *hundreds* if lawyers to fight for trans rights, create a new office of LGBTQ affairs, and allocate millions of dollars to fund housing and healthcare for trans kids and adults

This is what fighting back looks like--elevating activists to materually support trans people.

Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 3d

UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera

In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.

As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.

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