PJ Coffey - They/Them @homebrewandhacking@mastodon.ie
@homebrewandhacking.bsky.social
💛 I make tools for GMs for 5e, A5e, and Free5e
🤍 I do developmental editing and design.
💜 I broadcast TTRPG news and support indie devs and artists.
🖤 I chat about funding and publishing TTRPG books.
http://Homebrewandhacking.com
🤍 I do developmental editing and design.
💜 I broadcast TTRPG news and support indie devs and artists.
🖤 I chat about funding and publishing TTRPG books.
http://Homebrewandhacking.com
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"I followed this profile" reaction table (2d6)
Hostile
2- You're selling AI or investment opportunities
3- You're on BS to talk about US politics
4- You expect me to auto follow back
Unfriendly
5- You don't use alt-text
6- You haven't filled in your profile
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Hostile
2- You're selling AI or investment opportunities
3- You're on BS to talk about US politics
4- You expect me to auto follow back
Unfriendly
5- You don't use alt-text
6- You haven't filled in your profile
1/2
I recently cancelled my Spotify subscription because I refuse to fund the CEOs war crimes and AI.
The free version, even with a VPN is appalling compared with a couple of years ago.
It doesn't have to be this way.
I have no clue how to do it but I'm going to set up a plex server and sort this.
The free version, even with a VPN is appalling compared with a couple of years ago.
It doesn't have to be this way.
I have no clue how to do it but I'm going to set up a plex server and sort this.
November 11, 2025 at 12:15 PM
I recently cancelled my Spotify subscription because I refuse to fund the CEOs war crimes and AI.
The free version, even with a VPN is appalling compared with a couple of years ago.
It doesn't have to be this way.
I have no clue how to do it but I'm going to set up a plex server and sort this.
The free version, even with a VPN is appalling compared with a couple of years ago.
It doesn't have to be this way.
I have no clue how to do it but I'm going to set up a plex server and sort this.
Being kind is ultimately a matter of perspective.
On a long enough timeline, being embarrassed out of being an open fascist is better than the WW2 alternatives.
On a long enough timeline, being embarrassed out of being an open fascist is better than the WW2 alternatives.
JCO proving what I’ve been saying for years when it comes to engaging with chuds - they don’t care if you think they’re stupid, or hypocritical, or evil (they’ll like it because they hate you). But if you find the way to accurately show how *uncool* they are, you can really really fuck with them.
November 11, 2025 at 11:09 AM
Being kind is ultimately a matter of perspective.
On a long enough timeline, being embarrassed out of being an open fascist is better than the WW2 alternatives.
On a long enough timeline, being embarrassed out of being an open fascist is better than the WW2 alternatives.
Since I'm still finding my feet here, how about a little throw back to a couple years ago... To the only time when I could trick everyone into thinking I might be intimidating... Right back to @hearthfiretales.bsky.social's Wizard Of Wildspace!
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November 11, 2025 at 10:38 AM
Feeling confident that my decision to join the party was good.
I mean, sure, it's not the wildest stuff I've heard, but you know what? It's an order of magnitude better than war crimes, ID cards, and tuition fees which was my last "progressive" offer.
I mean, sure, it's not the wildest stuff I've heard, but you know what? It's an order of magnitude better than war crimes, ID cards, and tuition fees which was my last "progressive" offer.
"Zealously Pro Palestinian party"
Genocide is bad actually.
Genocide is bad actually.
What happens if the Greens overtake Labour in the polls? All bets are off | Gaby Hinsliff
November 11, 2025 at 10:36 AM
Feeling confident that my decision to join the party was good.
I mean, sure, it's not the wildest stuff I've heard, but you know what? It's an order of magnitude better than war crimes, ID cards, and tuition fees which was my last "progressive" offer.
I mean, sure, it's not the wildest stuff I've heard, but you know what? It's an order of magnitude better than war crimes, ID cards, and tuition fees which was my last "progressive" offer.
Sigh.
I have the following almost ready to go. But no energy/time budget to scale mount layout.
1. A backstory Generator that uses consent to help new players write the fabled backstory.
2. Firearm rules for 5e that address the problems rather than being full simulationist.
The following 1/
I have the following almost ready to go. But no energy/time budget to scale mount layout.
1. A backstory Generator that uses consent to help new players write the fabled backstory.
2. Firearm rules for 5e that address the problems rather than being full simulationist.
The following 1/
November 11, 2025 at 7:52 AM
Sigh.
I have the following almost ready to go. But no energy/time budget to scale mount layout.
1. A backstory Generator that uses consent to help new players write the fabled backstory.
2. Firearm rules for 5e that address the problems rather than being full simulationist.
The following 1/
I have the following almost ready to go. But no energy/time budget to scale mount layout.
1. A backstory Generator that uses consent to help new players write the fabled backstory.
2. Firearm rules for 5e that address the problems rather than being full simulationist.
The following 1/
Proposal:
Good-good
Vs
Millennial good
Good-good indicating that the art has intellectual or other artistic merit.
Millennial good indicating that it's enjoyable because it's bad.
Good-good
Vs
Millennial good
Good-good indicating that the art has intellectual or other artistic merit.
Millennial good indicating that it's enjoyable because it's bad.
November 11, 2025 at 7:27 AM
Proposal:
Good-good
Vs
Millennial good
Good-good indicating that the art has intellectual or other artistic merit.
Millennial good indicating that it's enjoyable because it's bad.
Good-good
Vs
Millennial good
Good-good indicating that the art has intellectual or other artistic merit.
Millennial good indicating that it's enjoyable because it's bad.
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"Sir, a second Joyce Carol Oates post has hit—"
November 11, 2025 at 5:19 AM
"Sir, a second Joyce Carol Oates post has hit—"
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If games companies don't want to pay voice actors what they could do is just not have spoken dialogue. Games did that for decades. It's fine. Just DON'T USE THE PLAGIARISM SLOP MACHINE OH MY GOD IT IS NOT HARD TO NOT USE IT YOU JUST DON'T USE IT THAT IS ALL. GAMES DO NOT ALL NEED VOICES.
November 10, 2025 at 11:59 PM
If games companies don't want to pay voice actors what they could do is just not have spoken dialogue. Games did that for decades. It's fine. Just DON'T USE THE PLAGIARISM SLOP MACHINE OH MY GOD IT IS NOT HARD TO NOT USE IT YOU JUST DON'T USE IT THAT IS ALL. GAMES DO NOT ALL NEED VOICES.
I just backed Codex of Celestials - a Celestial Pantheon for 5E D&D on @kickstarter.com www.kickstarter.com/projects/170...
Oh cool! Kickstarter has Bluesky links!
Oh cool! Kickstarter has Bluesky links!
Codex of Celestials - a Celestial Pantheon for 5E D&D
A Dungeons & Dragons 5E/5.5E compatible supplement that adds in a Celestial pantheon, their lore, and additional worldbuilding.
www.kickstarter.com
November 10, 2025 at 10:54 PM
I just backed Codex of Celestials - a Celestial Pantheon for 5E D&D on @kickstarter.com www.kickstarter.com/projects/170...
Oh cool! Kickstarter has Bluesky links!
Oh cool! Kickstarter has Bluesky links!
Reposted by PJ Coffey - They/Them @homebrewandhacking@mastodon.ie
The Codex of Celestials has now gone live!
If you're disappointed by the lack of Celestials in DnD, this is the guide is a must have!
With art done by the amazing @joymakesmonsters.bsky.social this project is 100% human made and a great labour of love.
#dnd
www.kickstarter.com/projects/170...
If you're disappointed by the lack of Celestials in DnD, this is the guide is a must have!
With art done by the amazing @joymakesmonsters.bsky.social this project is 100% human made and a great labour of love.
#dnd
www.kickstarter.com/projects/170...
Codex of Celestials - a Celestial Pantheon for 5E D&D
A Dungeons & Dragons 5E/5.5E compatible supplement that adds in a Celestial pantheon, their lore, and additional worldbuilding.
www.kickstarter.com
November 10, 2025 at 9:26 AM
The Codex of Celestials has now gone live!
If you're disappointed by the lack of Celestials in DnD, this is the guide is a must have!
With art done by the amazing @joymakesmonsters.bsky.social this project is 100% human made and a great labour of love.
#dnd
www.kickstarter.com/projects/170...
If you're disappointed by the lack of Celestials in DnD, this is the guide is a must have!
With art done by the amazing @joymakesmonsters.bsky.social this project is 100% human made and a great labour of love.
#dnd
www.kickstarter.com/projects/170...
This thread is local to Ireland but you may find value in understanding the principles and logic and applying them to your local situation.
I believe in you!
(NB: Middle aged is 40-59).
I believe in you!
(NB: Middle aged is 40-59).
Last year I did a Middle Aged Man Gift Guide and Advice Thread on Mastodon.
Middle Aged Men are difficult to think of gifts for- it is why there are so many jokes about just getting them socks.
But even Middle Aged Men have gift dreams- even if they don’t know what they are themselves.
I'll help
Middle Aged Men are difficult to think of gifts for- it is why there are so many jokes about just getting them socks.
But even Middle Aged Men have gift dreams- even if they don’t know what they are themselves.
I'll help
November 10, 2025 at 10:22 PM
This thread is local to Ireland but you may find value in understanding the principles and logic and applying them to your local situation.
I believe in you!
(NB: Middle aged is 40-59).
I believe in you!
(NB: Middle aged is 40-59).
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Blanket of Protection From Monsters.
he Type 1 protects you from underbed monsters... as long as you stay under it and keep your feet covered.
he Type 1 protects you from underbed monsters... as long as you stay under it and keep your feet covered.
November 10, 2025 at 10:16 PM
Blanket of Protection From Monsters.
he Type 1 protects you from underbed monsters... as long as you stay under it and keep your feet covered.
he Type 1 protects you from underbed monsters... as long as you stay under it and keep your feet covered.
AI busy solving the problem of wages...
Many well paid specialists will never recover. They can’t pivot fast or hard enough. This is a calamity for the 60-80th percentile of US wage earners.
November 10, 2025 at 2:38 PM
AI busy solving the problem of wages...
Ohhhh...
I mean it doesn't think but copy and pasting from Stack Overflow but really quick would definitely qualify it for "junior programmer" status.
I mean it doesn't think but copy and pasting from Stack Overflow but really quick would definitely qualify it for "junior programmer" status.
Generative AI is the apotheosis of this process. It's praised for doing better than a human on certain tasks, but those tasks were *made for computer logic* in the first place.
The new world will try to convince you that this computer logic is more valuable than your human thought. Defy it.
The new world will try to convince you that this computer logic is more valuable than your human thought. Defy it.
November 10, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Ohhhh...
I mean it doesn't think but copy and pasting from Stack Overflow but really quick would definitely qualify it for "junior programmer" status.
I mean it doesn't think but copy and pasting from Stack Overflow but really quick would definitely qualify it for "junior programmer" status.
November 9, 2025 at 5:35 PM
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Just four hours left in the campaign and we are FUNDED! Thank you to everyone for your support!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/287...
If you haven't backed yet, don't miss your chance!
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#ttrpg #tabletop #TheSpyGame
www.kickstarter.com/projects/287...
If you haven't backed yet, don't miss your chance!
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#ttrpg #tabletop #TheSpyGame
November 9, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Just four hours left in the campaign and we are FUNDED! Thank you to everyone for your support!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/287...
If you haven't backed yet, don't miss your chance!
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#ttrpg #tabletop #TheSpyGame
www.kickstarter.com/projects/287...
If you haven't backed yet, don't miss your chance!
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#ttrpg #tabletop #TheSpyGame
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I guess it's thrilling to imagine oneself to be part of a mad chase to the creation of artificial life. But it's not just fun and games when that chase is being used to concentrate wealth & power and involves despoiling the physical & information ecosystems + massive labor exploitation.
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November 9, 2025 at 3:05 PM
I guess it's thrilling to imagine oneself to be part of a mad chase to the creation of artificial life. But it's not just fun and games when that chase is being used to concentrate wealth & power and involves despoiling the physical & information ecosystems + massive labor exploitation.
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Instead, "AI" is completely in the thrall of billionaires and TESCREALists -- how else to explain anyone taking the paper-shaped objects out of corporate labs seriously?
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November 9, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Instead, "AI" is completely in the thrall of billionaires and TESCREALists -- how else to explain anyone taking the paper-shaped objects out of corporate labs seriously?
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November 9, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Hadn't appreciated that he'd fallen for the Bell Curve so hard. Those neat little graphs sure look convincing! Until you find out that the data underneath is so messy. And I guess he didn't intuit reading "the mismeasure of man" was worth his while.
*smh* gotta interrogate those attitudes.
*smh* gotta interrogate those attitudes.
Perhaps try reading this, written by Sharon Begley in 2021 before she died, as a counter to all the "Oh, Watson wasn't really sexist or racist. His denigration of Franklin was a bit to show that biology was fun, and hey, he went to Africa!" hagiographies.
www.statnews.com/2025/11/07/j...
www.statnews.com/2025/11/07/j...
James Watson, dead at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers
James Watson, the co-discoverer of the structure of DNA who died Thursday at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers.
www.statnews.com
November 9, 2025 at 1:05 PM
Hadn't appreciated that he'd fallen for the Bell Curve so hard. Those neat little graphs sure look convincing! Until you find out that the data underneath is so messy. And I guess he didn't intuit reading "the mismeasure of man" was worth his while.
*smh* gotta interrogate those attitudes.
*smh* gotta interrogate those attitudes.
@losthavenart.bsky.social
I'm writing to those people and asking them to reconsider their terrible, terrible "neutral" stance.
If they don't then that'll be it from me too.
I'm writing to those people and asking them to reconsider their terrible, terrible "neutral" stance.
If they don't then that'll be it from me too.
November 8, 2025 at 10:02 PM
@losthavenart.bsky.social
I'm writing to those people and asking them to reconsider their terrible, terrible "neutral" stance.
If they don't then that'll be it from me too.
I'm writing to those people and asking them to reconsider their terrible, terrible "neutral" stance.
If they don't then that'll be it from me too.
If you like my spicy takes on genAI
"No. Did chatGPT tell you to think that?"
Support my work on moving beyond species! Include cultures in your games!
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"No. Did chatGPT tell you to think that?"
Support my work on moving beyond species! Include cultures in your games!
How you were raised has a big impact!
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November 8, 2025 at 9:57 PM
If you like my spicy takes on genAI
"No. Did chatGPT tell you to think that?"
Support my work on moving beyond species! Include cultures in your games!
How you were raised has a big impact!
www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/5...
2e of electrum selling
www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/3...
1/ DnD
"No. Did chatGPT tell you to think that?"
Support my work on moving beyond species! Include cultures in your games!
How you were raised has a big impact!
www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/5...
2e of electrum selling
www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/3...
1/ DnD
"If someone thinks they can slap an LLM into their company7 and it’ll solve their problems...you don’t want them as a customer."
Another banger from ludic.mataroa.blog/blog/i-am-ou...
Another banger from ludic.mataroa.blog/blog/i-am-ou...
November 8, 2025 at 7:25 PM
"If someone thinks they can slap an LLM into their company7 and it’ll solve their problems...you don’t want them as a customer."
Another banger from ludic.mataroa.blog/blog/i-am-ou...
Another banger from ludic.mataroa.blog/blog/i-am-ou...
A morning spent recording entries for the audiobook version of Free5e. Because I wouldn't let Dale use AI on it and then the community rallied round to keep the clankers out.
And now a rather jolly afternoon chatting about TTRPG news on the podcast. :)
And now a rather jolly afternoon chatting about TTRPG news on the podcast. :)
November 7, 2025 at 2:57 PM
A morning spent recording entries for the audiobook version of Free5e. Because I wouldn't let Dale use AI on it and then the community rallied round to keep the clankers out.
And now a rather jolly afternoon chatting about TTRPG news on the podcast. :)
And now a rather jolly afternoon chatting about TTRPG news on the podcast. :)
"AI is a neutral technology" say people who share it's biases.
I had explained to me “AI isn’t a political tool.”
Yeah, that’s baloney.
It’s bankrolled by key political actors and it’s used by those holding political office as a disinformation machine.
Now read this,
Yeah, that’s baloney.
It’s bankrolled by key political actors and it’s used by those holding political office as a disinformation machine.
Now read this,
"Fascism and AI, whether or not they have the same goals, they sure are working to accelerate one another."
🗣️📢
www.404media.co/ai-is-superc...
🗣️📢
www.404media.co/ai-is-superc...
November 7, 2025 at 7:19 AM
"AI is a neutral technology" say people who share it's biases.