Karen Twelves
@ktwelves.bsky.social
@ktwelves on the socials
improvforgamers.com
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"Imagine you stole all of the intellectual property in the world. And you're using it to help people write middling emails and make revenge porn about women, and also children. And you're powering this plagiarism and non-consensual porn machine by eating up what's left of humanity's carbon budget."
How to explain AI to your family this holiday season | CNN Business
Politics, football and movies are among the many topics that tend to come up around Thanksgiving. In 2025, a new question may arise at the table: Why the heck is everyone talking about AI, and what sh...
www.cnn.com
November 27, 2025 at 4:04 AM
"Imagine you stole all of the intellectual property in the world. And you're using it to help people write middling emails and make revenge porn about women, and also children. And you're powering this plagiarism and non-consensual porn machine by eating up what's left of humanity's carbon budget."
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As the year winds down we want to take a moment.
2025 marks our twentieth year in business. We are deeply grateful to everyone who has contributed to our little company with their time, money, or talent. Thank you!
To celebrate, we've put our whole catalog on sale.
evilhat.com/roleplaying-...
2025 marks our twentieth year in business. We are deeply grateful to everyone who has contributed to our little company with their time, money, or talent. Thank you!
To celebrate, we've put our whole catalog on sale.
evilhat.com/roleplaying-...
November 26, 2025 at 7:44 PM
As the year winds down we want to take a moment.
2025 marks our twentieth year in business. We are deeply grateful to everyone who has contributed to our little company with their time, money, or talent. Thank you!
To celebrate, we've put our whole catalog on sale.
evilhat.com/roleplaying-...
2025 marks our twentieth year in business. We are deeply grateful to everyone who has contributed to our little company with their time, money, or talent. Thank you!
To celebrate, we've put our whole catalog on sale.
evilhat.com/roleplaying-...
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Lowercase i’s, colons, and semicolons have a common ancestor, now extinct, that I shall resurrect by means of genetic malfeasance.
November 26, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Lowercase i’s, colons, and semicolons have a common ancestor, now extinct, that I shall resurrect by means of genetic malfeasance.
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You can forward your #PaxUnplugged2025 #Booth3071 Square receipt to [email protected] and we'll send you download links for the games you bought that come with PDFs. We've cleared most of the queue so now is a fine time.
November 25, 2025 at 8:05 PM
You can forward your #PaxUnplugged2025 #Booth3071 Square receipt to [email protected] and we'll send you download links for the games you bought that come with PDFs. We've cleared most of the queue so now is a fine time.
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**me looking up as they push the stone slab back over the opening**
“More like Oubliwhat? Amirite? Get it because it’s oubliette and that means a place of…forgetting, so I said what like I had forgo…oh..okay I see why I’m down here now “
“More like Oubliwhat? Amirite? Get it because it’s oubliette and that means a place of…forgetting, so I said what like I had forgo…oh..okay I see why I’m down here now “
November 24, 2025 at 1:33 PM
**me looking up as they push the stone slab back over the opening**
“More like Oubliwhat? Amirite? Get it because it’s oubliette and that means a place of…forgetting, so I said what like I had forgo…oh..okay I see why I’m down here now “
“More like Oubliwhat? Amirite? Get it because it’s oubliette and that means a place of…forgetting, so I said what like I had forgo…oh..okay I see why I’m down here now “
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Improv for Gamers gives us exercises and resources to be better improvisers, storytellers, and roleplayers. It's available online through Deernicorn Distro! #ttrpg #ttrpgs #improv #larp #bigbadcon
November 24, 2025 at 1:47 AM
Improv for Gamers gives us exercises and resources to be better improvisers, storytellers, and roleplayers. It's available online through Deernicorn Distro! #ttrpg #ttrpgs #improv #larp #bigbadcon
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Feel bad for my wife in Stardew Valley, because she thought she was marrying a farmer. In reality, I spend most of my time fighting mummies, befriending feral jungle children, or worst of all, fishing.
November 24, 2025 at 4:54 AM
Feel bad for my wife in Stardew Valley, because she thought she was marrying a farmer. In reality, I spend most of my time fighting mummies, befriending feral jungle children, or worst of all, fishing.
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“AI workers said they distrust the models they work on because of a consistent emphasis on rapid turnaround time at the expense of quality.”
Meet the AI workers who tell their friends and family to stay away from AI
When the people making AI seem trustworthy are the ones who trust it the least, it shows that incentives for speed are overtaking safety, experts say
www.theguardian.com
November 22, 2025 at 5:12 PM
“AI workers said they distrust the models they work on because of a consistent emphasis on rapid turnaround time at the expense of quality.”
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*Normal Brain* Researching weather science to model weather for your D&D campaign.
*Genius Brain* Realizing weather is controlled by the Gods
*Galaxy Brain* Researching family systems theory to model weather for you D&D campaign.
*Genius Brain* Realizing weather is controlled by the Gods
*Galaxy Brain* Researching family systems theory to model weather for you D&D campaign.
November 20, 2025 at 8:18 PM
*Normal Brain* Researching weather science to model weather for your D&D campaign.
*Genius Brain* Realizing weather is controlled by the Gods
*Galaxy Brain* Researching family systems theory to model weather for you D&D campaign.
*Genius Brain* Realizing weather is controlled by the Gods
*Galaxy Brain* Researching family systems theory to model weather for you D&D campaign.
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It's the final few hours for Designers & Dragons: Origins!
Delve deep into the triumphs (and stumbles) from the early days of TSR as @shannonappelcline.bsky.social takes you through every single product they produced for OD&D, B/X BECMI, and AD&D 1e.
Back it here:
www.backerkit.com/c/projects/e...
Delve deep into the triumphs (and stumbles) from the early days of TSR as @shannonappelcline.bsky.social takes you through every single product they produced for OD&D, B/X BECMI, and AD&D 1e.
Back it here:
www.backerkit.com/c/projects/e...
November 20, 2025 at 8:48 PM
It's the final few hours for Designers & Dragons: Origins!
Delve deep into the triumphs (and stumbles) from the early days of TSR as @shannonappelcline.bsky.social takes you through every single product they produced for OD&D, B/X BECMI, and AD&D 1e.
Back it here:
www.backerkit.com/c/projects/e...
Delve deep into the triumphs (and stumbles) from the early days of TSR as @shannonappelcline.bsky.social takes you through every single product they produced for OD&D, B/X BECMI, and AD&D 1e.
Back it here:
www.backerkit.com/c/projects/e...
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Zhenya wants you to know the pre-orders are now open for #ZhenyasWonderTalesRPG - so don't waver and add a copy to your shelves! #TTRPGs #RPGs
www.backerkit.com/c/projects/b...
www.backerkit.com/c/projects/b...
November 20, 2025 at 8:50 PM
Zhenya wants you to know the pre-orders are now open for #ZhenyasWonderTalesRPG - so don't waver and add a copy to your shelves! #TTRPGs #RPGs
www.backerkit.com/c/projects/b...
www.backerkit.com/c/projects/b...
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I think we should put giraffe DNA into trees so when fall comes around, the trees can just eat their leaves.
November 20, 2025 at 4:56 AM
I think we should put giraffe DNA into trees so when fall comes around, the trees can just eat their leaves.
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What it a forecast of “30% chance of rain” means:
🚫 3 out of 10 odds it rains in your area
✅ each rain drop has a 30% to hit chance BEFORE defensive modifiers are applied
🚫 3 out of 10 odds it rains in your area
✅ each rain drop has a 30% to hit chance BEFORE defensive modifiers are applied
November 18, 2025 at 2:36 AM
What it a forecast of “30% chance of rain” means:
🚫 3 out of 10 odds it rains in your area
✅ each rain drop has a 30% to hit chance BEFORE defensive modifiers are applied
🚫 3 out of 10 odds it rains in your area
✅ each rain drop has a 30% to hit chance BEFORE defensive modifiers are applied
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Why am I so against generative AI in games?
Because I simply do not want my initial reaction to art to be one of suspicion and scrutiny, AI slop is fundamentally damaging my relationship to art and artistry, and I am deeply resentful that it is forcing me to be guarded when I should be wowed.
Because I simply do not want my initial reaction to art to be one of suspicion and scrutiny, AI slop is fundamentally damaging my relationship to art and artistry, and I am deeply resentful that it is forcing me to be guarded when I should be wowed.
November 17, 2025 at 6:54 PM
Why am I so against generative AI in games?
Because I simply do not want my initial reaction to art to be one of suspicion and scrutiny, AI slop is fundamentally damaging my relationship to art and artistry, and I am deeply resentful that it is forcing me to be guarded when I should be wowed.
Because I simply do not want my initial reaction to art to be one of suspicion and scrutiny, AI slop is fundamentally damaging my relationship to art and artistry, and I am deeply resentful that it is forcing me to be guarded when I should be wowed.
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s/warned/promised/
Definitely ruin the industry that thought it could profit on stolen creativity.
Definitely ruin the industry that thought it could profit on stolen creativity.
AI advocates have warned that if every author in the class action filed a claim, it would "financially ruin" the entire industry.
Authors celebrate “historic” settlement coming soon in Anthropic class action
Advocates fear such settlements will “financially ruin” the AI industry.
arstechnica.com
November 18, 2025 at 6:15 PM
s/warned/promised/
Definitely ruin the industry that thought it could profit on stolen creativity.
Definitely ruin the industry that thought it could profit on stolen creativity.
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So, just to be clear, in addition to sending queer people out into the cold to starve or freeze to death, the SA also:
- provides food services for ICE
- provides correctional services to the carceral system
- union busts
They’re almost comedically evil.
- provides food services for ICE
- provides correctional services to the carceral system
- union busts
They’re almost comedically evil.
The apartment building my Grandparents were living in burned down when my mother was a baby. The Salvation Army assisted the other tenants with emergency housing. They wouldn't help my Mom's family because they were Jewish.
I know it's a tad early but I know those bitches with the buckets will be out soon. Don't gove them a penny. The volunteers may not know but the salvation army is no ally and actively combative and harmful to many queer minorities especially during the holiday season
November 18, 2025 at 4:56 PM
So, just to be clear, in addition to sending queer people out into the cold to starve or freeze to death, the SA also:
- provides food services for ICE
- provides correctional services to the carceral system
- union busts
They’re almost comedically evil.
- provides food services for ICE
- provides correctional services to the carceral system
- union busts
They’re almost comedically evil.
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You mean the company that's currently being struck by its workers and the company that's currently being boycotted because of its terrible DEI policy rollbacks? Why not just call this the Chocolate Mint Racist Scab Frostie?
Beginning Monday, a Frozen Peppermint Hot Chocolate drink will be available exclusively at Starbucks cafés inside Target stores.
The chains are hoping the drink can drum up excitement from customers this holiday season.
🔗https://tinyurl.com/yrshv45s
The chains are hoping the drink can drum up excitement from customers this holiday season.
🔗https://tinyurl.com/yrshv45s
November 17, 2025 at 8:49 PM
You mean the company that's currently being struck by its workers and the company that's currently being boycotted because of its terrible DEI policy rollbacks? Why not just call this the Chocolate Mint Racist Scab Frostie?
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Come visit Doskvol, the jewel of Akoros, in '68. Home of the original bluetime (first and best). Crime rates are better than before*
November 16, 2025 at 11:26 PM
Come visit Doskvol, the jewel of Akoros, in '68. Home of the original bluetime (first and best). Crime rates are better than before*
Heaven has been here all along
November 16, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Heaven has been here all along
Sometimes you just gotta watch Back to the Future and pretend everything's okay for two hours.
November 16, 2025 at 1:06 AM
Sometimes you just gotta watch Back to the Future and pretend everything's okay for two hours.
A good ol fashioned wholesome comment thread
getting a text in the middle of the night and it's just my loathsome vizier saying "Your enemies lie in wait, my lord!!" what am I supposed to do with that. its four in the morning
November 16, 2025 at 12:41 AM
A good ol fashioned wholesome comment thread
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I made a bunch of games and game-like objects that fit in vending machine 1" capsules
Will you be at #PAXU? Stop by Booth #4349 and check out our cool Bubble Gum Games machine!
PAXU and Bubble Gum Games | Bully Pulpit Games
Get more from Bully Pulpit Games on Patreon
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November 13, 2025 at 9:19 PM
I made a bunch of games and game-like objects that fit in vending machine 1" capsules
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As of this morning, Starbucks workers across the country are officially ON STRIKE. And we're prepared for this to become the biggest and longest ULP strike in Starbucks history.
Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX
Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX
November 13, 2025 at 11:33 AM
As of this morning, Starbucks workers across the country are officially ON STRIKE. And we're prepared for this to become the biggest and longest ULP strike in Starbucks history.
Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX
Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX