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@fromthenotebooks.bsky.social
Indie ttrpg and worldbuilding hobby person, Queer, Vaguely leftist
Been playing ttrpg games and worldbuilding since I was in middle school and am now in university
Current Project: Twilight 800 (a medieval Twilight 2000 supplement)
Been playing ttrpg games and worldbuilding since I was in middle school and am now in university
Current Project: Twilight 800 (a medieval Twilight 2000 supplement)
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The people who make Shein's clothes labor for ten to twelve hours per day (in violation of China's labor laws), some up to seven days a week, and earn as little as 15 to 30 cents per t-shirt.
![Excerpt from a BBC article: ""We usually work, 10, 11 or 12 hours a day," says a 49-year-old woman from Jiangxi unwilling to give her name. "On Sundays we work around three hours less."
She is in an alleyway, where a dozen people are huddled around a row of bulletin boards.
They are reading the job ads on the board, while examining the stitching on a pair of chinos draped over it.
This is Shein's supply chain. The factories are contracted to make clothes on order - some small, some big. If the chinos are a hit, orders will ramp up and so must production. Factories then hire temporary workers to meet the demand their permanent staff cannot fulfil.
The migrant worker from Jiangxi is looking for a short-term contract - and the chinos are an option.
"We earn so little. The cost of living is now so high," she says, adding that she hopes to make enough to send back to her two children who are living with their grandparents.
"We get paid per piece," she explains. "It depends how difficult the item is. Something simple like a t-shirt is one-two yuan [less than a dollar] per piece and I can make around a dozen in an hour.""](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ks3gpa6ftoyaq7hmf6c4qx4c/bafkreiber7g4o5pujmzmjjzsp5dkz7blfexburuwjispfpv6dki7akjb7a@jpeg)
November 20, 2025 at 12:07 AM
The people who make Shein's clothes labor for ten to twelve hours per day (in violation of China's labor laws), some up to seven days a week, and earn as little as 15 to 30 cents per t-shirt.
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One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc
The Shutdown of U.S.A.I.D. Has Already Killed Hundreds of Thousands
The short documentary “Rovina’s Choice” tells the story of what goes when aid goes.
newyorkermag.visitlink.me
November 6, 2025 at 9:00 PM
One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc
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I pass out early because of a week of newborn related insomnia, and I wake up to a blessed TL 🙏
June 25, 2025 at 6:01 AM
I pass out early because of a week of newborn related insomnia, and I wake up to a blessed TL 🙏
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Along the same lines, and also done by @reason.com this piece is evergreen and so important:
November 4, 2025 at 8:37 PM
Along the same lines, and also done by @reason.com this piece is evergreen and so important:
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Sharing a few collages to say: I am open to taking collage comms from people! I am open to doing Individual or Commercial licensing, 8.5x11 or 17x11 (or other sizes)
DM or email me at [email protected] for more info!
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November 4, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Sharing a few collages to say: I am open to taking collage comms from people! I am open to doing Individual or Commercial licensing, 8.5x11 or 17x11 (or other sizes)
DM or email me at [email protected] for more info!
DM or email me at [email protected] for more info!
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Four Bulgarian nationals were jailed in France yesterday for desecrating a Jewish Holocaust memorial. Investigators suspect they did it at the behest of the Russian govt, to drive a wedge between French Jews and French Muslims and feed support for the far-right. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...
Russia link suspected as Bulgarians jailed for vandalising Paris Jewish memorial
Four men given prison terms for desecration that was possibly ‘orchestrated by Russian intelligence services’
www.theguardian.com
November 2, 2025 at 2:20 AM
Four Bulgarian nationals were jailed in France yesterday for desecrating a Jewish Holocaust memorial. Investigators suspect they did it at the behest of the Russian govt, to drive a wedge between French Jews and French Muslims and feed support for the far-right. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...
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When we look at this massacre and many more perpetrated by the RSF, let's be clear who funds, equips & sustains them. It's the UAE. Yes, the same UAE that might own your football club, fly you on your holidays, invests in our national infrastructure. If boycotts work, we should be boycotting now.
“Individuals on the ground sent a message that reached us Monday morning that 1,200 were dead,” Nathaniel Raymond, the lab’s executive director, said. “By that evening, they said 10,000. By Tuesday, we couldn’t reach them anymore. We assume our ground contacts are dead.”
Yale lab reports mass killings in Sudan, calls for student activism
The Humanitarian Research Lab was told this week that over 10,000 people in Sudan were killed within three days.
yaledailynews.com
November 1, 2025 at 12:59 PM
When we look at this massacre and many more perpetrated by the RSF, let's be clear who funds, equips & sustains them. It's the UAE. Yes, the same UAE that might own your football club, fly you on your holidays, invests in our national infrastructure. If boycotts work, we should be boycotting now.
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Dice consumerism is something I really hate about this hobby.
October 29, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Dice consumerism is something I really hate about this hobby.
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my friend Grace is the woman who stood up to the guy in the Nazi SS uniform in those viral videos youve probably seen- he broke her nose with a beer stein - please share & donate and give her a hand with medical expenses, recovery and potential expenses gofund.me/72cb1a415
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October 29, 2025 at 1:19 AM
my friend Grace is the woman who stood up to the guy in the Nazi SS uniform in those viral videos youve probably seen- he broke her nose with a beer stein - please share & donate and give her a hand with medical expenses, recovery and potential expenses gofund.me/72cb1a415
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October 27, 2025 at 4:24 AM
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'The explosive growth in sports gambling is bad for sports, and - most important - it has proved to be bad for millions of Americans who gamble past the point of prudence and move directly to the point of pain. The sports gambling revolution needs more regulation. It may even need termination.'
Opinion | ‘I’m Shocked, Shocked to Find That Gambling Is Going On in Here’
www.nytimes.com
October 26, 2025 at 7:43 PM
'The explosive growth in sports gambling is bad for sports, and - most important - it has proved to be bad for millions of Americans who gamble past the point of prudence and move directly to the point of pain. The sports gambling revolution needs more regulation. It may even need termination.'
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they were also right about alcohol - or, at least, 'the alcohol culture of the period.' Temperance and prohibition movements were largely driven by women aware of how much domestic violence and misery it fueled!
As it turns out the Victorians had at least one moral crusade target they were right about all along.
I do think we have a pretty good chance of turning gambling into a genuine popular moral crusade 19th century style, because it's becoming a social evil that's destroying young men's lives in particular but also making sports coverage really shit.
October 24, 2025 at 7:48 PM
they were also right about alcohol - or, at least, 'the alcohol culture of the period.' Temperance and prohibition movements were largely driven by women aware of how much domestic violence and misery it fueled!
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I do think we have a pretty good chance of turning gambling into a genuine popular moral crusade 19th century style, because it's becoming a social evil that's destroying young men's lives in particular but also making sports coverage really shit.
Almost every major news story this week is about how the entire economy is now gambling, scams, bribes and theft.
October 24, 2025 at 7:46 PM
I do think we have a pretty good chance of turning gambling into a genuine popular moral crusade 19th century style, because it's becoming a social evil that's destroying young men's lives in particular but also making sports coverage really shit.
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Sourcebook/rulebook divide. I am happy to deal with whatever for the former but if I intend to play the game I want a goddamn legal document
October 23, 2025 at 10:33 PM
Sourcebook/rulebook divide. I am happy to deal with whatever for the former but if I intend to play the game I want a goddamn legal document
"Once, men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them" - Reverend Mother Gaius Helen Mohaim
So here’s the thing about the common conception of Dune and the butlerian jihad.
The danger has never been AI “going rogue” or “gaining sentience”. It’s just strings of linear algebra.
The danger is in people surrendering their ability to think to a machine.
The danger has never been AI “going rogue” or “gaining sentience”. It’s just strings of linear algebra.
The danger is in people surrendering their ability to think to a machine.
October 23, 2025 at 6:33 PM
"Once, men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them" - Reverend Mother Gaius Helen Mohaim
The most damning thing of the whole study is the massive gap that persisted between what the developers believed even after they did the work and what the real affect was. Anecdotes on how much it helps someone just can't be trusted unless they are control testing themselves
October 23, 2025 at 5:17 PM
The most damning thing of the whole study is the massive gap that persisted between what the developers believed even after they did the work and what the real affect was. Anecdotes on how much it helps someone just can't be trusted unless they are control testing themselves
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Long Island deserves a Representative who fights for working families and stands up to Trump’s attacks. Meanwhile, Andrew Garbarino can’t even wake up to vote.
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I'm running for Congress because I know we can fight our way out of this. Be a day 1 donor: secure.actblue.com/donate/garre...
October 21, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Long Island deserves a Representative who fights for working families and stands up to Trump’s attacks. Meanwhile, Andrew Garbarino can’t even wake up to vote.
I'm running for Congress because I know we can fight our way out of this. Be a day 1 donor: secure.actblue.com/donate/garre...
I'm running for Congress because I know we can fight our way out of this. Be a day 1 donor: secure.actblue.com/donate/garre...
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It’s really cool that whenever men start doing the stuff women have been asking them to do forever — reading feminist literature, being in touch with fashion, listening to “girl music” — they are immediately excoriated on social media, often by women!, for being big shitty predator fakers
October 19, 2025 at 4:21 PM
It’s really cool that whenever men start doing the stuff women have been asking them to do forever — reading feminist literature, being in touch with fashion, listening to “girl music” — they are immediately excoriated on social media, often by women!, for being big shitty predator fakers
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I have friends who wouldn’t be alive if not for the aca, like 95% of trans care being covered is a result of section 1557. Many of us would be dead if not for it
this dickhead didn’t post this to bsky, but fuck you @talsmith.bsky.social . this legislation saved my life. condescending piece of shit.
October 20, 2025 at 12:00 AM
I have friends who wouldn’t be alive if not for the aca, like 95% of trans care being covered is a result of section 1557. Many of us would be dead if not for it
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The ACA allowed me to leave an abusive ex. I had a large, complex ovarian cyst (which I knew about bc I pretended to go to work and went to the ER instead - I was forbidden from going and told it was selfish).
He held the promise of the surgery I needed over my head. Until he couldn't anymore.
He held the promise of the surgery I needed over my head. Until he couldn't anymore.
My best friend was able to leave her abusive husband because the ACA made it possible for her to still get health insurance
October 19, 2025 at 11:57 PM
The ACA allowed me to leave an abusive ex. I had a large, complex ovarian cyst (which I knew about bc I pretended to go to work and went to the ER instead - I was forbidden from going and told it was selfish).
He held the promise of the surgery I needed over my head. Until he couldn't anymore.
He held the promise of the surgery I needed over my head. Until he couldn't anymore.
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Amazon’s Ring to partner with Flock, a network of AI cameras used by ICE, feds, and police
Agencies that use Flock can request that Ring doorbell users share footage to help with "evidence collection and investigative work."
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October 17, 2025 at 9:52 PM
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Is politics weighing on you? Does it ever make you feel alone, like "everyone" is on board with awful things and "no one" cares (or close)?
Then you should go to a No Kings protest. That feeling isn't uncommon, but it's a trick. Go be around some of the many people who agree with you. You'll see.
Then you should go to a No Kings protest. That feeling isn't uncommon, but it's a trick. Go be around some of the many people who agree with you. You'll see.
October 18, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Is politics weighing on you? Does it ever make you feel alone, like "everyone" is on board with awful things and "no one" cares (or close)?
Then you should go to a No Kings protest. That feeling isn't uncommon, but it's a trick. Go be around some of the many people who agree with you. You'll see.
Then you should go to a No Kings protest. That feeling isn't uncommon, but it's a trick. Go be around some of the many people who agree with you. You'll see.
I'd take this further (from my American perspective) that American Football should be banned for under-18s and many other sports restricted.
Our rugby academy equivalents, and boy do we have them, definitely got to go as well.
I think kids should not be recruited for highschool sports ever
Our rugby academy equivalents, and boy do we have them, definitely got to go as well.
I think kids should not be recruited for highschool sports ever
No international sports competitions for under-18s
No school rugby academies
No media reporting of school sports
They are CHILDREN
No school rugby academies
No media reporting of school sports
They are CHILDREN
Do you have any extremely niche, but serious, ethical stances?
October 18, 2025 at 8:43 AM
I'd take this further (from my American perspective) that American Football should be banned for under-18s and many other sports restricted.
Our rugby academy equivalents, and boy do we have them, definitely got to go as well.
I think kids should not be recruited for highschool sports ever
Our rugby academy equivalents, and boy do we have them, definitely got to go as well.
I think kids should not be recruited for highschool sports ever
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Public services should be available to everyone, without any Means Testing, and this even means the rich.
You want rich people to be using these services too, because then they have a reason to push for those services to be good and well-funded.
You want rich people to be using these services too, because then they have a reason to push for those services to be good and well-funded.
Do you have any extremely niche, but serious, ethical stances?
October 18, 2025 at 1:15 AM
Public services should be available to everyone, without any Means Testing, and this even means the rich.
You want rich people to be using these services too, because then they have a reason to push for those services to be good and well-funded.
You want rich people to be using these services too, because then they have a reason to push for those services to be good and well-funded.