Alex Speidel 🔜 PAXU
@alexspeidel.bsky.social
Organizer for the Diana Jones Award Winning United Paizo Workers; I tell people what kind of elves they can pretend to be for Paizo Organized Play. He/him, known bisexual.
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I’m Alex. I’m Paizo’s Organized Play Coordinator and a part-time union organizer for CODE-CWA. If you want posts about organizing your workplace or unbearable nerdy gaming & media, I’m your guy.
Also, my husband and I have two really cute cats.
Also, my husband and I have two really cute cats.
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When companies think they can fire people to stop unionization efforts and try to get away with it, they teach the workers one of two things:
1. Don't unionize, or else you'll be fired.
2. Unionize even harder and take bigger, more powerful actions together.
I know which takeaway I've learned.
1. Don't unionize, or else you'll be fired.
2. Unionize even harder and take bigger, more powerful actions together.
I know which takeaway I've learned.
November 10, 2025 at 6:38 PM
When companies think they can fire people to stop unionization efforts and try to get away with it, they teach the workers one of two things:
1. Don't unionize, or else you'll be fired.
2. Unionize even harder and take bigger, more powerful actions together.
I know which takeaway I've learned.
1. Don't unionize, or else you'll be fired.
2. Unionize even harder and take bigger, more powerful actions together.
I know which takeaway I've learned.
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Sunday sunbeams.
November 9, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Sunday sunbeams.
I am part of the problem (bought Christmas Tree Cakes at the store on November 8)
November 8, 2025 at 7:33 PM
I am part of the problem (bought Christmas Tree Cakes at the store on November 8)
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BREAKING: After months of stonewalling by Starbucks, unionized baristas just voted 92% to authorize a ULP strike unless Starbucks finalizes fair contracts & stops union busting.
If forced, our baristas will strike in dozens of cities on November 13 – the company's busiest sales day of the year.
If forced, our baristas will strike in dozens of cities on November 13 – the company's busiest sales day of the year.
Starbucks unionized workers say they'll strike on Nov. 13 if coffee giant doesn't finalize contract
Union members say they are ready to strike on the chain's Red Cup Day if Starbucks doesn't finalize a contract with their union by then.
www.cbsnews.com
November 5, 2025 at 7:51 PM
BREAKING: After months of stonewalling by Starbucks, unionized baristas just voted 92% to authorize a ULP strike unless Starbucks finalizes fair contracts & stops union busting.
If forced, our baristas will strike in dozens of cities on November 13 – the company's busiest sales day of the year.
If forced, our baristas will strike in dozens of cities on November 13 – the company's busiest sales day of the year.
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If companies must tell €2 million fibs, under guidance by platforms, to make crowdfunding work.
Well, then crowdfunding doesn't work.
Well, then crowdfunding doesn't work.
Words must mean something
When is a goal not a goal?
www.rascal.news
November 5, 2025 at 4:51 PM
If companies must tell €2 million fibs, under guidance by platforms, to make crowdfunding work.
Well, then crowdfunding doesn't work.
Well, then crowdfunding doesn't work.
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Looking forward to learning all about how the right should move left to win elections tomorrow. They should maybe dye their hair pink, learn to love pronouns.
November 5, 2025 at 1:48 AM
Looking forward to learning all about how the right should move left to win elections tomorrow. They should maybe dye their hair pink, learn to love pronouns.
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every victory speech is like “to those that did not vote for me just know i will work with you”
nah dawg, we are running lib shit like it’s the four verts offense. gays everywhere. trans folks on every high school field hockey team. get on board or get smoked 42-0 at halftime.
nah dawg, we are running lib shit like it’s the four verts offense. gays everywhere. trans folks on every high school field hockey team. get on board or get smoked 42-0 at halftime.
November 5, 2025 at 1:44 AM
every victory speech is like “to those that did not vote for me just know i will work with you”
nah dawg, we are running lib shit like it’s the four verts offense. gays everywhere. trans folks on every high school field hockey team. get on board or get smoked 42-0 at halftime.
nah dawg, we are running lib shit like it’s the four verts offense. gays everywhere. trans folks on every high school field hockey team. get on board or get smoked 42-0 at halftime.
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For anyone going to PAX Unplugged: World Builders Club is hosting a game night! They will be unveiling Democracy by Dice: a resistance-forward one-shot where community organizing is your best weapon! Plus—I'll be there to GM a table! Free entry AND free food! RSVP here: bit.ly/DemoByDice
November 3, 2025 at 7:17 PM
For anyone going to PAX Unplugged: World Builders Club is hosting a game night! They will be unveiling Democracy by Dice: a resistance-forward one-shot where community organizing is your best weapon! Plus—I'll be there to GM a table! Free entry AND free food! RSVP here: bit.ly/DemoByDice
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Try not to get caught in it.
We make things for you to terrorize your players with sometimes. This is perhaps one of the scariest things we've ever made for #Pathfinder2E. Get all of our creations over on the Patreon! patreon.com/abyssalbrews
We make things for you to terrorize your players with sometimes. This is perhaps one of the scariest things we've ever made for #Pathfinder2E. Get all of our creations over on the Patreon! patreon.com/abyssalbrews
![Doomscroll
ITEM 7
Consumable, Curse, Magical, Missive
Price 60 gp
Usage held in 1 hand
Activate [2] (concentrate, manipulate)
This odd stone tablet contains a magicked scroll that wraps around two rolls allowing it to seemingly continue to be rolled forever. The tablet itself is unremarkable, but the soft and alluring blue glow it produces seems to draw viewers towards it, inviting them to take it into their hands and see what it has to say. It occasionally softly buzzes and emits a bell-like sound if left alone for a period of time, attempting to make itself noticed to anyone around. Composing the missive requires you to write vapid, but inflammatory snippets of text that stoke fear, laughter, and anxiety in a dizzying array of half-truths.
The activating creature must succeed on a DC 24 Will save or become obsessed with the words on the tablet for 1 hour, taking a -1 status penalty to Arcana, Diplomacy, Religion, and Society checks. During this time, if they attempt to have an involved conversation or argument with another creature, they become stupefied 1 for the rest of the duration of the effects of this missive. When they recover from this stupefied condition, the missive's effects end. You choose when composing the missive whether it remains as a non-magical tablet or burns to ash after imparting its magic.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:pb7cm7pnmngs2wlas6ug5jqf/bafkreifconukox2ntmzqo7gwy4m5z2qbab2m7kwwr5zxfo55dsrjtu5i64@jpeg)
November 3, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Try not to get caught in it.
We make things for you to terrorize your players with sometimes. This is perhaps one of the scariest things we've ever made for #Pathfinder2E. Get all of our creations over on the Patreon! patreon.com/abyssalbrews
We make things for you to terrorize your players with sometimes. This is perhaps one of the scariest things we've ever made for #Pathfinder2E. Get all of our creations over on the Patreon! patreon.com/abyssalbrews
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All of my political views and policy ideas have basically collapsed to "Punish the Villains" and I mumble it to myself every time I see a news article these days
August 11, 2025 at 1:36 PM
All of my political views and policy ideas have basically collapsed to "Punish the Villains" and I mumble it to myself every time I see a news article these days
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Japan's "Mundane Halloween" costume contest is back!
Each year website DailyPortalZ holds a contest where people dress up as something super duper ordinary.
Here's a thread of some of my favorites from the 2025 contest!
#MundaneHalloween
Each year website DailyPortalZ holds a contest where people dress up as something super duper ordinary.
Here's a thread of some of my favorites from the 2025 contest!
#MundaneHalloween
November 2, 2025 at 9:15 AM
Japan's "Mundane Halloween" costume contest is back!
Each year website DailyPortalZ holds a contest where people dress up as something super duper ordinary.
Here's a thread of some of my favorites from the 2025 contest!
#MundaneHalloween
Each year website DailyPortalZ holds a contest where people dress up as something super duper ordinary.
Here's a thread of some of my favorites from the 2025 contest!
#MundaneHalloween
Current status: my fucked-up Midwestern brain is going 😁😁😁😁 at a pouring rainstorm
November 1, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Current status: my fucked-up Midwestern brain is going 😁😁😁😁 at a pouring rainstorm
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Scare your boss this Halloween by talking to your coworkers (on your personal devices outside of company time, ideally on an encrypted app like Signal) about organizing your workplace 👻
October 31, 2025 at 10:12 PM
Scare your boss this Halloween by talking to your coworkers (on your personal devices outside of company time, ideally on an encrypted app like Signal) about organizing your workplace 👻
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Rockstar: not only making history in terms of profits, but in enacting the most brazen act of union busting the games industry has ever seen.
This is the most ruthless act of union busting in the history of the UK games industry. Yesterday, @rockstargames.com unfairly fired over 30 employees for union activity.
We won't back down, and we're not scared - we will fight for every member to be reinstated.
We won't back down, and we're not scared - we will fight for every member to be reinstated.
BREAKING: Yesterday Grand Theft Auto VI maker Rockstar Games fired dozens of people, all of whom were involved in union efforts. A British union calls it "blatant and ruthless" union-busting. Take-Two Interactive says it was due to misconduct.
Here's the scoop: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Here's the scoop: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
October 31, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Rockstar: not only making history in terms of profits, but in enacting the most brazen act of union busting the games industry has ever seen.
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all I need in the world
October 31, 2025 at 3:37 PM
all I need in the world
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I'm pro-union because I think workers should organize to balance the power that business owners have in various negotiations. It's true that unions have been weakened, but it's not because of multiculturalism. I would argue, it's because people seek to exploit divisions for their material interests.
October 30, 2025 at 8:07 AM
I'm pro-union because I think workers should organize to balance the power that business owners have in various negotiations. It's true that unions have been weakened, but it's not because of multiculturalism. I would argue, it's because people seek to exploit divisions for their material interests.
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Link to the latest episode of our Intrepid Heroes Starfinder 2 Actual Play Podcast of the Murder in Metal City Adventure: youtu.be/kur0O1GR6fI?...
Intrepid Heroes Starfinder 2 Actual Play - Murder in Metal City Session 5
YouTube video by Intrepid Heroes
youtu.be
October 29, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Link to the latest episode of our Intrepid Heroes Starfinder 2 Actual Play Podcast of the Murder in Metal City Adventure: youtu.be/kur0O1GR6fI?...
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the thing about AI boosters is that everything they promise is a lie and the correct response to 100% of it is "no it isn't. that isn't true."
October 29, 2025 at 5:16 PM
the thing about AI boosters is that everything they promise is a lie and the correct response to 100% of it is "no it isn't. that isn't true."
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The vibe I bring to the function
October 22, 2025 at 10:32 PM
The vibe I bring to the function
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Had a great internal playtest for Starfinder Starship Combat today. Fought against three Azlanti Starships. Partway through the fight, we had them depositing Aeon Guard onto our starship via breaching pods to deal with. Cannot wait to share more of this.
a man in a suit and tie is giving a thumbs up while sitting in a chair .
ALT: a man in a suit and tie is giving a thumbs up while sitting in a chair .
media.tenor.com
October 28, 2025 at 11:36 PM
Had a great internal playtest for Starfinder Starship Combat today. Fought against three Azlanti Starships. Partway through the fight, we had them depositing Aeon Guard onto our starship via breaching pods to deal with. Cannot wait to share more of this.
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Hey Dungeon Masters. New dragon just dropped.
October 26, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Hey Dungeon Masters. New dragon just dropped.
All ready and official for the DLC tomorrow! #DLCMilwaukee #Lorcana
October 24, 2025 at 11:30 PM
All ready and official for the DLC tomorrow! #DLCMilwaukee #Lorcana
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[Chelaxian business magnate yelling furiously at teenagers] "it's ASPIS consortium! it's a snake!! ASPIS!!!!"
October 24, 2025 at 6:20 PM
[Chelaxian business magnate yelling furiously at teenagers] "it's ASPIS consortium! it's a snake!! ASPIS!!!!"
I can't stop watching this. It's like a fever dream.
Oh my god some fucking tech dingdong posted this on Twitter with the caption "AI games are going to be amazing" totally seriously, you have to watch it. You have to. In full screen.
October 24, 2025 at 3:26 PM
I can't stop watching this. It's like a fever dream.