Maz
@mazistyping.bsky.social
Putting the Rowan in Rowan, Rook and Decard since 2017. Green Party in Sheffield. They/them.
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Maz
@mazistyping.bsky.social
· Nov 24
Spent the weekend at the Green Party’s Path to Parliament event, meeting a lovely bunch of smart, passionate, excited people and getting hopeful (with a brief cameo from @zackpolanski.bsky.social). There’s likely to be more politics on here from me, for a while. It’s time to try and change stuff.
"The world is wildly non-linear now, so little can be predicted with confidence." www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...
Opinion: We need to prepare for the possibility that the U.S. uses military coercion against Canada
After the capture of Venezuela’s president and Trump’s musing about Greenland, Canada must consider the worst-case scenario
www.theglobeandmail.com
January 6, 2026 at 8:01 PM
"The world is wildly non-linear now, so little can be predicted with confidence." www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...
stupid little walk (mushroom)
December 21, 2025 at 3:20 PM
stupid little walk (mushroom)
went out for Christmas dinner, bought a stack of books from the charity shop and then spent two hours carefully organising and labelling tarot card samples with their materials, manufacturing details and print finishes
December 14, 2025 at 7:52 PM
went out for Christmas dinner, bought a stack of books from the charity shop and then spent two hours carefully organising and labelling tarot card samples with their materials, manufacturing details and print finishes
breaking out the T-shirt again
December 14, 2025 at 4:27 PM
breaking out the T-shirt again
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Very sad that I felt I had no choice but to resign from The Infinite Monkey Cage - a victory for the transphobes and other bigots - I did it because so much of the media has chosen to believe the kind and empathetic people are a fiction - they are real and so often unrepresented.
December 13, 2025 at 12:02 AM
Very sad that I felt I had no choice but to resign from The Infinite Monkey Cage - a victory for the transphobes and other bigots - I did it because so much of the media has chosen to believe the kind and empathetic people are a fiction - they are real and so often unrepresented.
@decassette.bsky.social hi I just wanted to say I read A Frog In The Fall yesterday and it was an absolute delight; thanks for making something excellent and beautiful
December 10, 2025 at 8:40 PM
@decassette.bsky.social hi I just wanted to say I read A Frog In The Fall yesterday and it was an absolute delight; thanks for making something excellent and beautiful
This is a thread worth reading in general, but I wanted to explicitly pull out this idea. A lot of indie TTRPG enjoyers care about, and really want, beautiful, well-made, delightful books, in the same way art history nerds do. Sure, the book is not the game, but also the game is not the book.
Specifically, we like to assume that the reasons the market wants the shiny books is because people ate vapid or shallow or don’t understand.
That’s bullshit, and it’s bullshit that’s part of the problem.
That’s bullshit, and it’s bullshit that’s part of the problem.
December 10, 2025 at 3:45 PM
This is a thread worth reading in general, but I wanted to explicitly pull out this idea. A lot of indie TTRPG enjoyers care about, and really want, beautiful, well-made, delightful books, in the same way art history nerds do. Sure, the book is not the game, but also the game is not the book.
to be fair, most of us spend a perfectly normal amount of time talking about paper, I fear I’m very much papers georg in this situation
Please we spend so much time talking about paper
If I could change ONE THING about TTRPG reviews I would force people to engage with the quality of the physical books themselves, not just the content inside.
It feels vanishingly rare to see a reviewer discuss form factor, paper stock, binding, cover treatments, or general durability etc. 1/2
It feels vanishingly rare to see a reviewer discuss form factor, paper stock, binding, cover treatments, or general durability etc. 1/2
December 10, 2025 at 12:11 PM
to be fair, most of us spend a perfectly normal amount of time talking about paper, I fear I’m very much papers georg in this situation
This is going to make Gen Con a real challenge, huh
December 10, 2025 at 9:14 AM
This is going to make Gen Con a real challenge, huh
Getting up early during the Darkest Month to have a long technical conversation about paper opacity. This too is a TTRPG
December 9, 2025 at 9:29 AM
Getting up early during the Darkest Month to have a long technical conversation about paper opacity. This too is a TTRPG
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Two ways to read this. One is “she lost on every substantive claim, completely failed in her attempts to ban trans staff from the workplace, and won mild procedural victories against her employers handling of her case”.
The other way is, I guess, “point one is longer so it must be more important”
The other way is, I guess, “point one is longer so it must be more important”
December 8, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Two ways to read this. One is “she lost on every substantive claim, completely failed in her attempts to ban trans staff from the workplace, and won mild procedural victories against her employers handling of her case”.
The other way is, I guess, “point one is longer so it must be more important”
The other way is, I guess, “point one is longer so it must be more important”
probably my hottest take for the last year or so has been that print media is, in fact, going to come back in some really interesting ways, and the more AI gets splatted at the top of Google the more true I think that becomes
This is awesome. Print is such a good way to get around a bunch of distribution (and surveillance!) mechanisms that seem otherwise mandatory in this very gross economy. It is really nice to see it spelled out like this.
It works great for us, and it'll work great for other places!
It works great for us, and it'll work great for other places!
404 Media is making a print zine! About the surveillance technologies used by ICE. 16 pages, riso printed. Shipping early January. Features reworked versions of our best reporting and a few new things. We're very excited! And hope to do more if people like it:
www.404media.co/404-media-is...
www.404media.co/404-media-is...
December 8, 2025 at 3:53 PM
probably my hottest take for the last year or so has been that print media is, in fact, going to come back in some really interesting ways, and the more AI gets splatted at the top of Google the more true I think that becomes
once again dragging myself up the hill to observe daylight turns out to be annoyingly effective as a mental health support
December 8, 2025 at 3:51 PM
once again dragging myself up the hill to observe daylight turns out to be annoyingly effective as a mental health support
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Absolutely no honest self-analysis whatsoever of what will happen when you spend a year solid telling social liberals to fuck off. Surprise surprise! They fuck off! It's nothing to do with them being 'unserious' - this government just spends quite a lot of its time telling them it hates them!
It really does feel like a lot of the people currently in government never really asked themselves why many of their own supporters went for Corbyn in the first place and, similarly, are unwilling to ask the same question of Polanski's success.
It's a self-revealing kind of ignorance.
It's a self-revealing kind of ignorance.
December 8, 2025 at 9:01 AM
Absolutely no honest self-analysis whatsoever of what will happen when you spend a year solid telling social liberals to fuck off. Surprise surprise! They fuck off! It's nothing to do with them being 'unserious' - this government just spends quite a lot of its time telling them it hates them!
I have now watched Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein and I have OPINIONS
December 6, 2025 at 10:03 PM
I have now watched Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein and I have OPINIONS
genuinely cannot express how delighted I am with the hat
Dragonmeet Haul from RRD
Notable items:
🔹 DK cutaways book Grant found on a charity pile in a service station
🔹 Maz's excellent PDF hat for publishing freaks
Notable items:
🔹 DK cutaways book Grant found on a charity pile in a service station
🔹 Maz's excellent PDF hat for publishing freaks
December 6, 2025 at 8:22 PM
genuinely cannot express how delighted I am with the hat
folks with many books, especially with a chunk either published pre-ISBN or by teeny tiny presses who haven’t done the bar code thing yet - how do you keep track of em? I have hit the stage of needing to know what I’ve got in the library, for both insurance and duplicate avoidance purposes
December 2, 2025 at 4:03 PM
folks with many books, especially with a chunk either published pre-ISBN or by teeny tiny presses who haven’t done the bar code thing yet - how do you keep track of em? I have hit the stage of needing to know what I’ve got in the library, for both insurance and duplicate avoidance purposes
stupid little walk (sky)
December 2, 2025 at 3:46 PM
stupid little walk (sky)
a lot of good things happened today but perhaps most importantly I now own a lilac corduroy baseball cap that says “PDFs”
November 29, 2025 at 10:31 PM
a lot of good things happened today but perhaps most importantly I now own a lilac corduroy baseball cap that says “PDFs”
tapping out of post Dragonmeet drinks due to the devastating frailty of the physical form. what a lovely day, tho
November 29, 2025 at 8:04 PM
tapping out of post Dragonmeet drinks due to the devastating frailty of the physical form. what a lovely day, tho
I think it’s possible one of the smartest things I ever did was to find out what shoes nurses recommend for shift wear and then buy two pairs of them for conventions.
November 29, 2025 at 10:12 AM
I think it’s possible one of the smartest things I ever did was to find out what shoes nurses recommend for shift wear and then buy two pairs of them for conventions.
This afternoon I will be actually on a booth selling actual games like a real TTRPG person. Come say hello and get me to show you the glow lamination on Eat The Reich
We are lurking at Excel, please visit our trap/booth tomorrow
November 29, 2025 at 9:27 AM
This afternoon I will be actually on a booth selling actual games like a real TTRPG person. Come say hello and get me to show you the glow lamination on Eat The Reich
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We are lurking at Excel, please visit our trap/booth tomorrow
November 28, 2025 at 9:22 PM
We are lurking at Excel, please visit our trap/booth tomorrow
At Dragonmeet, after an orrible drive, very much looking forward to the event. Come say hi if you’re about.
November 28, 2025 at 6:08 PM
At Dragonmeet, after an orrible drive, very much looking forward to the event. Come say hi if you’re about.
Reading Color Problems, a 1901 treatise on colour theory by Emily Noyes Vanderpool, in which the author organises her pottery collection (among other things) into 10x10 squares of colours. Extremely neurotypical behaviour
November 27, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Reading Color Problems, a 1901 treatise on colour theory by Emily Noyes Vanderpool, in which the author organises her pottery collection (among other things) into 10x10 squares of colours. Extremely neurotypical behaviour