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ttrpg game designer | Vineyard RPG, How To GM Romance | novelist | nbi i guess

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What can you do for trans & queer creatives in TTRPG? Follow them and support their work if you are able to monetarily instead of donating money to people who cynically use a plagiarism environmental disaster community destroyer csam printer machine.

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“.. ‘many system vendors will go bankrupt or exit product lines due to a lack of memory. Mobile phone production will be reduced by 200-250 million units, and PC and TV production will be significantly reduced.’ Yikes.”

@pcgamer.com #DRAM
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February 17, 2026 at 6:37 PM
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NEW: ChatGPT and other chatbots are feeding users' fixations on real people, reinforcing users' delusional ideas and obsessions about others as they descend into unwanted harassment, stalking, and/or domestic abuse — traumatizing victims and profoundly altering lives.

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AI Delusions Are Leading to Domestic Abuse, Harassment, and Stalking
ChatGPT and other AI chatbots are reinforcing users' delusions about other people — fueling fixations linked to stalking and other abuses.
futurism.com
February 17, 2026 at 3:58 PM
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Happy belated Valentine's to my favourite cottage witches 💜🖤
A reinterpretation of Hayez' "The Kiss", but with a Critical Role twist. #criticalrole #criticalrolefanart #imodna
February 17, 2026 at 5:25 PM
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February 17, 2026 at 2:18 PM
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I just wrote a column about rich people being accorded the presumption that they’re smart when they’re really dumb and it is publishing tomorrow but …she just skeeted it out.
joyce is going after elon again
February 17, 2026 at 5:07 AM
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I think it’s time for Democratic leaders to start saying “if you’re a pilot or ground crew involved in a deportation that was stayed by a judge, you’ll be held criminally liable for human trafficking.” Everyone involved in these flights should have that fear in the back of their minds.
Overnight, this probable ICE flight landed in Benin and is now returning to Senegal, likely for a crew layover.
February 16, 2026 at 10:57 AM
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February 16, 2026 at 8:56 PM
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Two decades after a small Duke breast cancer vaccine trial, every participant is still alive — a rare outcome for metastatic disease. When researchers looked closer, they found the women’s immune systems still carried “memory” cells that recognised the cancer. buff.ly/MNeRhJh
#ShareGoodNewsToo
A 20-year-old cancer vaccine may hold the key to long-term survival
Two decades after a breast cancer vaccine trial, every participant is still alive—an astonishing result for metastatic disease. Scientists found their immune systems retained long-lasting memory…
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February 16, 2026 at 1:50 PM
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“the democrats are the most pro-trans party in the world” okay and they are still massively transphobic???? is this supposed to make me feel better
February 17, 2026 at 12:13 AM
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please believe and understand: if this is allowed to happen, there is no world where it does not get extended to adult care within a year or two.

they intend to ban all transition care for everyone, all trans health care.
Public comment on Dr Oz's proposed rules to ban gender-affirming care for youth closes 2/17

One rule bans hospital-based care, the other eliminates Medicaid/CHIP coverage

Together they'd make care virtually unavailable nationwide, including in shield law states

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February 16, 2026 at 6:22 PM
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“She’s not from here.”
February 15, 2026 at 11:55 PM
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Cyberpunk Commission
February 16, 2026 at 9:10 PM
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Our Kickstarter Pre-Launch page is now up!

Our zine features 36 artists with 50 pages of art dedicated to beloved robot ocs. Click on the "notify me" icon for when we officially launch in 10 days! 👇
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#zine | #zinesky | #robot | #robotart | #SMYC
Coming soon: Show Me Your Core
Show Me Your Core is a robot zine featuring 36 artists around the shared love of robots through their original characters.
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February 16, 2026 at 6:59 PM
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Basically how I've been internalizing it lol
September 30, 2025 at 7:35 PM
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HELLO I WAS A QUEER TEEN IN THE 1990s AND THE ARGUMENTS AGAINST SOCIAL TRANSITION NOW ARE INDISTINGUISHABLE FROM THE ARGUMENTS AGAINST "LETTING" US BE (at the time, for me) GAY OR LESBIAN THEN.

They all rest on the belief that it's inherently better to be straight (then)/cis (now) and that's BS.
Hilary Cass here arguing for children to be prevented from being known by a preferred name or getting a haircut in case it encourages them to continue later in life to transition.

Hilary Cass acts like gender variant children should have the transness hazed out of them.
February 16, 2026 at 6:32 PM
I guess you could wait until we're all in camps like the Dems did for immigrants /s

(and even then it's such a tepid defense from the moderates, still using the Republican framing of racial profiling of brown criminals)
Is right now a good time for the democrats in Congress to be very public about fighting for trans rights? And I’m not sure what slur you’re accusing me of using, but if I’ve said something wrong please do let me know.
February 16, 2026 at 5:32 PM
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I‘ve mentioned that thanks to the Epstein tranche I learned that one of my PhD advisors, Lee Smolin, continued to have contact with Epstein after 2007, which is not the impression I had

It’s weird to say the least for my professional past to become a public story that demands feminist analysis
Lee Smolin pauses working relationship with Perimeter Institute after being named in Epstein files
Lee Smolin has been asked to “pause” his work by the Perimeter Institute as they review ties to Jeffrey Epstein
www.therecord.com
February 16, 2026 at 1:22 PM
It would be nice if I got an email that wasn't a scam once in a while. What if it was too good and true? Just as a lil treat
February 16, 2026 at 6:19 AM
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fuck modern day seinfeld, give me modern day golden girls. i want blanche to complain about performative men on tinder. i want sophie to ragebait people on twitter. i want dorothy to complain about having to learn about 6 7 from her students. rose get ipad.
February 15, 2026 at 10:17 PM
she called it "clocking into the pussy factory"
This Valentine's Day weekend I'm thankful for my fiance supporting me enough to not have to do sex work anymore
February 16, 2026 at 12:52 AM
If you'd like to do a better job than a "one size fits all player sexual" romance in your tabletop game then I recommend you pick up How To GM Romance.

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February 16, 2026 at 12:34 AM
Wondering if it's just going to exacerbate my depression if I start pushing my GoFundMe for ffs again after my consult.

My healthcare was canceled by the Trump admin this year and I was told by my insurer that I'd need to find another provider for the surgery they approved for me.
February 15, 2026 at 6:00 PM
This Valentine's Day weekend I'm thankful for my fiance supporting me enough to not have to do sex work anymore
February 15, 2026 at 5:38 PM
When I worked at the post office a woman complained that I made her uncomfortable by going to pee in the women's bathroom.

Thankfully the job was union and they told the woman to fuck off.

Terf island sounds pretty wretched
The BBC reporting on Beth Upton’s current employment situation is definitely not in the public interest, and it is insane how much the British press freely get away with harassing her for the crime of simply living her life existing as a trans person in the UK.
February 15, 2026 at 5:26 PM
Happy belated 2 year anniversary to me telling my girlfriend who was across the country on family vaca I was opening the relationship back up via text.

And then when we fought about it over the phone I tried to break up with her and said I was moving out

But she told me no I wasn't
February 15, 2026 at 5:16 PM