Hugh is making Grow Forth!
@haindesigns.com
Creator of EGADS! TTRPG
Solarpunk writer, artist, doer and teacher of design from Magan-djin
📝🎲🪐☀️🌾
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haindesigns.com
Solarpunk writer, artist, doer and teacher of design from Magan-djin
📝🎲🪐☀️🌾
they/them
haindesigns.com
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Hey new people! I'm Hugh and I do visual design, illustration, and make solarpunk TTRPG stuff.
I also teach design at university and love worldbuilding, hopeful media, and my very long dog. 🤟
I also teach design at university and love worldbuilding, hopeful media, and my very long dog. 🤟
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I’m sharing a Palestinian account every day and today is Aya. Before the war Aya was an Arabic language teacher at a kindergarten. She was forced to flee her home and this week in addition to the floods her tent also burned. She has four children Omar, 10, Mohammed, 8, Wasim, 5 and Yasmine, 3 months
November 18, 2025 at 9:51 AM
I’m sharing a Palestinian account every day and today is Aya. Before the war Aya was an Arabic language teacher at a kindergarten. She was forced to flee her home and this week in addition to the floods her tent also burned. She has four children Omar, 10, Mohammed, 8, Wasim, 5 and Yasmine, 3 months
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Another cool games story up today Mietta Adams and Charlie McLean in the Pilbara office.
Game designed to save dying Aboriginal language wins global awards www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
Game designed to save dying Aboriginal language wins global awards www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
Game designed to save dying Aboriginal language wins global awards
With only eight fluent Nyiyaparli speakers remaining, an Aboriginal group is racing against time to save their 41,000-year-old language.
www.abc.net.au
November 19, 2025 at 1:49 AM
Another cool games story up today Mietta Adams and Charlie McLean in the Pilbara office.
Game designed to save dying Aboriginal language wins global awards www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
Game designed to save dying Aboriginal language wins global awards www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
Fit check under a ginkgo tree in Nakano Central Park
November 19, 2025 at 9:26 AM
Fit check under a ginkgo tree in Nakano Central Park
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This launches in 2 days! Be sure to jump on the Kickstarter @guardianmaia.bsky.social
www.kickstarter.com/projects/gua...
www.kickstarter.com/projects/gua...
November 18, 2025 at 8:26 AM
This launches in 2 days! Be sure to jump on the Kickstarter @guardianmaia.bsky.social
www.kickstarter.com/projects/gua...
www.kickstarter.com/projects/gua...
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Bluesky has finally, quietly posted a position for a one-year remote contract Policy Lead, Trust & Safety position.
Trans people who qualify, apply here: jobs.gem.com/bluesky/am9i...
We need someone competent in this role if this place is going to survive.
Trans people who qualify, apply here: jobs.gem.com/bluesky/am9i...
We need someone competent in this role if this place is going to survive.
November 17, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Bluesky has finally, quietly posted a position for a one-year remote contract Policy Lead, Trust & Safety position.
Trans people who qualify, apply here: jobs.gem.com/bluesky/am9i...
We need someone competent in this role if this place is going to survive.
Trans people who qualify, apply here: jobs.gem.com/bluesky/am9i...
We need someone competent in this role if this place is going to survive.
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Emergency Help Needed for My Family 🙏
Last night the rain flooded our tent. Water filled everything ,our blankets, clothes, and food
The children shivered all night and we couldn’t keep them warm
We are exhausted and have nothing dry left
Please help us get a safe, warm shelter
gofund.me/77a751af7
Last night the rain flooded our tent. Water filled everything ,our blankets, clothes, and food
The children shivered all night and we couldn’t keep them warm
We are exhausted and have nothing dry left
Please help us get a safe, warm shelter
gofund.me/77a751af7
November 16, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Emergency Help Needed for My Family 🙏
Last night the rain flooded our tent. Water filled everything ,our blankets, clothes, and food
The children shivered all night and we couldn’t keep them warm
We are exhausted and have nothing dry left
Please help us get a safe, warm shelter
gofund.me/77a751af7
Last night the rain flooded our tent. Water filled everything ,our blankets, clothes, and food
The children shivered all night and we couldn’t keep them warm
We are exhausted and have nothing dry left
Please help us get a safe, warm shelter
gofund.me/77a751af7
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My tent is flooding in the winter rain, and the water is soaking my children’s clothes and our bedding. We spend the nights shivering with no safe shelter and no blankets to keep us warm. Please help me get covers and basic protection for my family. Your support keeps us alive."
gofund.me/35fdca7d
gofund.me/35fdca7d
November 15, 2025 at 5:27 PM
My tent is flooding in the winter rain, and the water is soaking my children’s clothes and our bedding. We spend the nights shivering with no safe shelter and no blankets to keep us warm. Please help me get covers and basic protection for my family. Your support keeps us alive."
gofund.me/35fdca7d
gofund.me/35fdca7d
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The situation is unbearable… the tents are tearing and the rain is flooding us 💔
We are living in the cold and fear, without shelter to protect my family.
I need your help to build a simple shelter to protect us from this harsh winter 🙏
Show me your support ⬇️🫂
chuffed.org/project/157281
We are living in the cold and fear, without shelter to protect my family.
I need your help to build a simple shelter to protect us from this harsh winter 🙏
Show me your support ⬇️🫂
chuffed.org/project/157281
November 17, 2025 at 3:37 PM
The situation is unbearable… the tents are tearing and the rain is flooding us 💔
We are living in the cold and fear, without shelter to protect my family.
I need your help to build a simple shelter to protect us from this harsh winter 🙏
Show me your support ⬇️🫂
chuffed.org/project/157281
We are living in the cold and fear, without shelter to protect my family.
I need your help to build a simple shelter to protect us from this harsh winter 🙏
Show me your support ⬇️🫂
chuffed.org/project/157281
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Yeeeeeah Microsoft has been under the impression that they're the only game in town just because corporate inertia favored Office.
But you fucking push somebody and they're going to realize Office-style software is pretty straightforward to make and there are gobs of competitors in that space.
But you fucking push somebody and they're going to realize Office-style software is pretty straightforward to make and there are gobs of competitors in that space.
The International Criminal Court is ditching Microsoft Office, saying it’s too dependent on US tech, in favor of Open Desk, a German open source alternative.
The move comes after Microsoft revoked ICC head Karim Khan’s email access when he was sanctioned by the US for the warrant against Netanyahu.
The move comes after Microsoft revoked ICC head Karim Khan’s email access when he was sanctioned by the US for the warrant against Netanyahu.
International Criminal Court to ditch Microsoft Office for European open source alternative | Euractiv
The court will move its internal work environment to Open Desk, a German-developed open source software
www.euractiv.com
November 15, 2025 at 12:17 PM
Yeeeeeah Microsoft has been under the impression that they're the only game in town just because corporate inertia favored Office.
But you fucking push somebody and they're going to realize Office-style software is pretty straightforward to make and there are gobs of competitors in that space.
But you fucking push somebody and they're going to realize Office-style software is pretty straightforward to make and there are gobs of competitors in that space.
Omg no way - the military propaganda and war crime justification game used anti-art technology?? Who could have foreseen this!
November 16, 2025 at 12:00 AM
Omg no way - the military propaganda and war crime justification game used anti-art technology?? Who could have foreseen this!
Packing for our Japan trip and it's finally becoming real to me 🤩 this trip got postponed by the pandemic and I had to save up all over again but now its finally coming
November 15, 2025 at 10:03 AM
Packing for our Japan trip and it's finally becoming real to me 🤩 this trip got postponed by the pandemic and I had to save up all over again but now its finally coming
Public submissions to prevent the destructive development of Coochin Creek's natural sanctuaries are open until the 17th! Help out if you can, especially if you're in the Sunshine Coast area
www.scec.org.au/n/community-...
www.scec.org.au/n/community-...
Community Coalition Urges Public to Have Their Say on Coochin Creek Tourist Park
www.scec.org.au
November 14, 2025 at 11:24 AM
Public submissions to prevent the destructive development of Coochin Creek's natural sanctuaries are open until the 17th! Help out if you can, especially if you're in the Sunshine Coast area
www.scec.org.au/n/community-...
www.scec.org.au/n/community-...
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I had the honor of making this painting for Guillermo del Toro's Frankenstein.
November 13, 2025 at 5:36 PM
I had the honor of making this painting for Guillermo del Toro's Frankenstein.
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New: Google has chosen a side in Trump's mass deportation campaign. Google is hosting a CBP facial recognition app to hunt immigrants; no indication Google will remove. At same time Google takes down apps for reporting ICE sightings
“Big tech has made their choice”
www.404media.co/google-has-c...
“Big tech has made their choice”
www.404media.co/google-has-c...
Google Has Chosen a Side in Trump's Mass Deportation Effort
Google is hosting a CBP app that uses facial recognition to identify immigrants, while simultaneously removing apps that report the location of ICE officials because Google sees ICE as a vulnerable gr...
www.404media.co
November 13, 2025 at 2:11 PM
New: Google has chosen a side in Trump's mass deportation campaign. Google is hosting a CBP facial recognition app to hunt immigrants; no indication Google will remove. At same time Google takes down apps for reporting ICE sightings
“Big tech has made their choice”
www.404media.co/google-has-c...
“Big tech has made their choice”
www.404media.co/google-has-c...
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NEW VIDEO: Thanks to our anti-social social order, many people are struggling with a lack of community in their lives. I believe we can change that. Let's revisit the village of the past, then sketch out a radical vision for the future of community.
youtu.be/1-Xl6dhDV3Q
youtu.be/1-Xl6dhDV3Q
Can We Bring Back Community?
YouTube video by Andrewism
youtu.be
November 12, 2025 at 8:04 PM
NEW VIDEO: Thanks to our anti-social social order, many people are struggling with a lack of community in their lives. I believe we can change that. Let's revisit the village of the past, then sketch out a radical vision for the future of community.
youtu.be/1-Xl6dhDV3Q
youtu.be/1-Xl6dhDV3Q
So the govt and media used every tool they had to smear the pro-Palestine marches and any activist who spoke out against it, but now that neo-nazis are planning to form an official political party, despite clearly breaking hate crime laws, and there's no action being taken to prevent this?
November 13, 2025 at 6:11 AM
So the govt and media used every tool they had to smear the pro-Palestine marches and any activist who spoke out against it, but now that neo-nazis are planning to form an official political party, despite clearly breaking hate crime laws, and there's no action being taken to prevent this?
The purpose of a system is what it does - if a support system is inaccessible it's because the govt funding it fundamentally does not want to support the needs of its population.
A govt's responsibility is to serve the nation's needs - if it can't fulfill that it has no purpose
A govt's responsibility is to serve the nation's needs - if it can't fulfill that it has no purpose
November 12, 2025 at 7:34 AM
The purpose of a system is what it does - if a support system is inaccessible it's because the govt funding it fundamentally does not want to support the needs of its population.
A govt's responsibility is to serve the nation's needs - if it can't fulfill that it has no purpose
A govt's responsibility is to serve the nation's needs - if it can't fulfill that it has no purpose
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Meanwhile www.smh.com.au/politics/fed...
November 12, 2025 at 6:42 AM
Meanwhile www.smh.com.au/politics/fed...
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A Memory Called Empire by Arkady Martine showed me that I don't have to sacrifice the flowers or the thorns in my writing; the deeply personal and the galaxy-wide, the poetry and the exposition, there's a path and a practise where it can act in concert if you do the work
performative reading, lack of reading skills, nobody's reading anymore -- NO!
tell me about a book that changed you
for me? the *extremely* ahistorical novel, THE AGONY AND THE ECSTASY which I read at 13 and was like, "Oh, art can be *everything* to a maker, for good and bad"
tell me about a book that changed you
for me? the *extremely* ahistorical novel, THE AGONY AND THE ECSTASY which I read at 13 and was like, "Oh, art can be *everything* to a maker, for good and bad"
November 12, 2025 at 6:18 AM
A Memory Called Empire by Arkady Martine showed me that I don't have to sacrifice the flowers or the thorns in my writing; the deeply personal and the galaxy-wide, the poetry and the exposition, there's a path and a practise where it can act in concert if you do the work
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Shit on a shingle, #auspol, can you deal with the Neo-Nazis?
Or are you too ashamed to admit you'd be locking family and friends up?
Or are you too ashamed to admit you'd be locking family and friends up?
Children could face life sentences for serious offences under Victorian government ‘adult time’ plan
Children could face life sentences for serious offences under Victorian government ‘adult time’ plan
Youth offenders, aged as young as 14, could face 20 year jail terms for violent crimes under proposal
Children as young as 14 who commit “serious crimes” will be sentenced as adults under a Victorian government plan to combat youth crime.
The state government said on Wednesday that it will adopt an “adult time for violent crime” laws similar to those in Queensland, which implemented the tough approach in 2024. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
November 11, 2025 at 11:17 PM
Shit on a shingle, #auspol, can you deal with the Neo-Nazis?
Or are you too ashamed to admit you'd be locking family and friends up?
Or are you too ashamed to admit you'd be locking family and friends up?
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I got a very moving Ask about avoiding defeatism on the forbidden website, and I wanted to share it because it's something I believe very strongly
November 12, 2025 at 12:58 AM
I got a very moving Ask about avoiding defeatism on the forbidden website, and I wanted to share it because it's something I believe very strongly
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Shereen told me that she cried when she watched the other little children in the neighborhood go to kindergarten because she can’t afford the cost due to her husband being seriously injured from an Israeli aircraft. She wanted to make sure everyone knew she started the fundraiser just for Ahmed ❤️
I’m sharing a Palestinian account every day and today is Shereen. Shereen and her husband (a house painter) fled their home early in the war thinking it would only be for 2 days. She lost everything as well as many family members. Her main concern is getting her son, Ahmed, 4 into a kindergarten.
November 12, 2025 at 1:22 AM
Shereen told me that she cried when she watched the other little children in the neighborhood go to kindergarten because she can’t afford the cost due to her husband being seriously injured from an Israeli aircraft. She wanted to make sure everyone knew she started the fundraiser just for Ahmed ❤️