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Julia L
@calenmir.bsky.social
SFF/horror #TTRPG + #WritingCommunity (see #AgentGuide). Wants #FriendPromotionFriday to be a thing
Writing site: https://jklafondwriter.wordpress.com/
GM profile: https://startplaying.games/gm/julia_lafond
Calenmir's RPGs: https://www.calenmirsrpgs.com/
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Breaking News: I've just released "Noctopolis", a Mystery module for Apocalypse Keys (a #TTRPG from @evilhat.bsky.social and @temporalhiccup.bsky.social )!

My site: www.calenmirsrpgs.com/shop/p/nocto...
Itch: calenmirs-rpgs.itch.io/noctopolis
DriveThruRPG: www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/5...
Today's thread highlighting people who have reached out for help via Bluesky. 20 today, no bonus posts

1. Frances: bsky.app/profile/fran...
February 16, 2026 at 10:55 PM
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The Fascination campaign has passed $4500, so here are the guinea pigs, adventuring over the garden wall to check out the fantastical and creepy stories from Fascination.

Help them on their adventure: www.kickstarter.com/projects/tyc...
February 16, 2026 at 7:45 PM
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Hey #WritingCommunity, if you like romantic fantasy but hate ICE, consider picking up Kelsey Epler's "The Monsters We Keep" and "The Sins We Reap", because she's donating this month's proceeds to mutual aid in Minnesota!

Available on KU, Goodreads for reference: www.goodreads.com/author/show/...
Kelsey Epler
Author of The Monsters We Keep and The Sins We Reap
www.goodreads.com
February 11, 2026 at 3:48 AM
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If you havent checked out my new collection yet please do! I'm still trying to make enough for rent and bills this month + last; every sale helps. If you can't purchase please boost to give me more visibility!

cvkvlv.com

Goal for January/February: $1767/$6000

Mvto! (Thank you!)

#Beadwork
February 15, 2026 at 7:41 PM
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The No ICE in Minnesota Charity Bundle has officially LAUNCHED!

There are 1,439 games to discover for a $10+ donation to Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota!

Purchase the bundle here: itch.io/b/3484/no-ic...
February 9, 2026 at 2:33 PM
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Lusi can see ghosts. And that’s only the beginning of her problems. In this queer MG fantasy novel, she joins her sister, a ghost girl and some dragons on an adventure halfway across the world to learn about her unusual magic. 🌈📚
books2read.com/u/b6J2E0
vriccithode.itch.io/the-young-ne...
February 16, 2026 at 10:24 PM
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If someone with programming skills wanted to re-create a bad alt text labeler, I'd be willing to help moderate! This labeler should definitely exist but the previous one seems abandoned. #DisabledSky #a11y #accessibility #NEISvoid #disability
Someone who knows how should really remake it. It's such a good labeler, in theory.
February 13, 2026 at 1:47 AM
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Let me tell you a tale of how completely the normies have been mobilized. My 14 year-old niece has done School of Rock for the past 5 years; last summer she was part of their touring band, and the kids loved playing together so much that they decided to keep doing it. (1/?)
February 16, 2026 at 12:45 AM
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Among the reasons I’m burned out and inimical to tech now is in my last job I watched social media companies fund meaningful outside research into halting the use of their platforms by terrorists and violent extremists at a platform design level and then ignore it all or do the exact opposite.
for all this social media research we have we sure don't actually use it to inform the social media we build
February 16, 2026 at 7:23 AM
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Courts have ruled 4,400 times that ICE jailed people illegally. It hasn’t stopped.
www.reuters.com/legal/govern...
Courts have ruled 4,400 times that ICE jailed people illegally. It hasn’t stopped.
The decisions amount to a huge legal rebuke, but the administration has continued jailing people indefinitely.
www.reuters.com
February 14, 2026 at 5:19 PM
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pretend for a moment that the ONLY way you can engage with images online is with a screenreader.

consider how it would feel to listen to a bunch of links read out letter by letter, or a bunch of hashtags, or the words “a poster” or even just “alt text.”

image after image.

would you feel welcome?
Do NOT add things to the ALT that are not relevant to understanding the media.

Things ALT text is NOT for:
- hashtags and/or keyword lists
- URLs (links) and/or code/programming syntax

What ALT text IS FOR:
- proper spelling, grammar, and punctuation so text to voice readers can best understand it
February 16, 2026 at 3:07 AM
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Ring doorbell cameras
February 16, 2026 at 6:06 PM
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Whenever I talk about all US presidents being war criminals, people bring up Jimmy Carter.

Carter was probably the least harmful president of the last century. He also knowingly gave unlimited weapons to a government committing genocide in East Timor. We simply cannot pretend that didn't happen.
Historians say Jimmy Carter’s human rights legacy includes grim failures
While experts say the late US president set a high bar for human rights, he also had notable failings while in office.
www.aljazeera.com
February 16, 2026 at 5:28 PM
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AWOO!
February 14, 2026 at 10:29 PM
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URGENT PETITION: As students, parents, alumni, staff, faculty, and community members, we call on the UNC System Board of Governors to protect academic freedom as defined by the 1940 @aaup.org Statement.
BOG: Vote against revisions to Chapter VI of The Code.
actionnetwork.org/petitions/pr...
Protect Academic Freedom, Vote No to Revising The Code
The UNC System Board of Governors will vote to amend the UNC System Code with new restrictions on academic freedom at its February 26 meeting. The Board of Governors plans to rewrite the very definiti...
actionnetwork.org
February 13, 2026 at 9:02 PM
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Emily put together her tips on product photography based on what she’s learned taking photos with her phone over the last three years.

If you’ve seen any of our games’ photos then you’ll know the results of simple at home photos!
Product Photography - Graftbound
As a small business creator I want good photos of my products without needing to also become a professional photographer, so here are my tips
graftbound.com
February 16, 2026 at 4:05 PM
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and they're not even, like . . . halfway decent famous white men who treat women well and who could be trusted to leverage their moment as the face of this in service of a wider community of more vulnerable people

they're actually BOTH famous for treating their wives like shit

so. that's fun
So when thousands of women (and children) were being duplicated--including in non-consensual AI porn--it was no big deal. But it took "only a 15-sec clip" of these two famous white men to draw outrage and fear. Gotcha. Cool cool.
It took only a 15-second clip of Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt duking it out on a crumbling rooftop — made by A.I. with a two-sentence prompt and the click of a button — to draw swift outrage, and sizable fear, from Hollywood.

"It’s nothing short of terrifying," one scriptwriter said.
February 16, 2026 at 9:23 PM
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ALL HANDS ON DECK!!
IL's AIPAC-backed Dems want to quietly kill a bill that would repeal the current Anti-BDS law, which blacklists any company deemed to be limiting its economic relationship with Israel from the state pension.
February 16, 2026 at 9:28 PM
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I understand framing the AI bubble RAM supply crisis in terms of stuff like video game consoles because nerds can conceptualize that but the framing does really undersell the sheer magnitude of how it's going to fuck up everything that even touches a computer.
February 16, 2026 at 7:49 PM
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Donnot disturd the me wehn I’m ryding mine invesibal bycicle.
February 16, 2026 at 9:30 PM
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“As if the Ministry of Truth in George Orwell’s 1984 now existed, with its motto ‘Ignorance is Strength,’ this Court is now asked to determine whether the federal government has the power to dissemble and disassemble historical truths when it has some domain over historical facts. It does not.”
Judge compares Trump's removal of slavery exhibit to Orwell's Ministry of Truth in blistering ruling | Arizona Mirror
The ruling against Trump began with an epigraph from the George Orwell novel 1984, describing the erasure of history by a totalitarian government
azmirror.com
February 16, 2026 at 9:24 PM
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It's not just the lost income, yet again, that makes this so hard. It's the rejection. That I've been asking for folks to request my books at libraries, a thing that takes a couple of minutes, *all year* and got *nothing* tells me everything i need to know about how I'm valued. I'm done. I quit.
February 16, 2026 at 9:33 PM
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I know people like to dunk on wearing tiny "ICE OUT" pins, but I think they represent a really important culture shift. Even people who are very conscious about their image and expected to perform in a palatable way are wearing them in very public places.
New York Fashion Week Joins the “ICE OUT” Movement: “It Changes Hearts and Minds”
From designers to front-row regulars, the industry is rallying behind a growing campaign against ICE. Organizers and participants tell ‘Marie Claire’ why this moment matters.
www.marieclaire.com
February 16, 2026 at 8:04 PM
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Minnesota family says ICE agents faked car trouble to lure man out of home

www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/ne...
February 16, 2026 at 6:36 PM
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February 16, 2026 at 8:13 AM