NightlingBug
@nightlingbug.bsky.social
Mazey Veselak
a smaller, softer moon
ennie-winning ttrpg designer
nebula award finalist
(she/her or zey/zem)
Wickedness: http://nightling-bug.itch.io/wickedness
Yazeba's Bed & Breakfast: https://possumcreekgames.com/pages/yazebas-bed-breakfast
a smaller, softer moon
ennie-winning ttrpg designer
nebula award finalist
(she/her or zey/zem)
Wickedness: http://nightling-bug.itch.io/wickedness
Yazeba's Bed & Breakfast: https://possumcreekgames.com/pages/yazebas-bed-breakfast
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What bothers me is that impartiality and balance are two different and incompatible things. Impartiality means that you don't intervene to put your thumb on the scales. Balance necessarily requires that you intervene to artificially make every issue look like a 50/50.
November 10, 2025 at 10:49 AM
What bothers me is that impartiality and balance are two different and incompatible things. Impartiality means that you don't intervene to put your thumb on the scales. Balance necessarily requires that you intervene to artificially make every issue look like a 50/50.
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NOW THAT'S WHAT I'M TALKING ABOUT!!! 🥳
As your politicians caved in Washington, comrades across Texas came together to support trans healthcare by building out 800 HRT Harm Reduction Toolkits.
Fund a kit here: distributeaid.org/hrt-harm-red...
See their post here: www.instagram.com/p/DQ220LxgP4v/
As your politicians caved in Washington, comrades across Texas came together to support trans healthcare by building out 800 HRT Harm Reduction Toolkits.
Fund a kit here: distributeaid.org/hrt-harm-red...
See their post here: www.instagram.com/p/DQ220LxgP4v/
November 10, 2025 at 2:53 AM
NOW THAT'S WHAT I'M TALKING ABOUT!!! 🥳
As your politicians caved in Washington, comrades across Texas came together to support trans healthcare by building out 800 HRT Harm Reduction Toolkits.
Fund a kit here: distributeaid.org/hrt-harm-red...
See their post here: www.instagram.com/p/DQ220LxgP4v/
As your politicians caved in Washington, comrades across Texas came together to support trans healthcare by building out 800 HRT Harm Reduction Toolkits.
Fund a kit here: distributeaid.org/hrt-harm-red...
See their post here: www.instagram.com/p/DQ220LxgP4v/
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This shit fills me with so much contempt. I've had to work on Thanksgiving and Christmas before as a bartender, and you're telling me some fucking senators couldn't suck it up and do that once in order to slow the rise of fascism. Cowards. Pathetic. I hate them so much
It really does seem like there's a decent chance that these senators screwed us because they don't want their personal Thanksgiving plans to be disrupted.
Anyway a great way to radicalize people is for them to realize that you just abandoned their chance at being able to access and afford health care because you didn’t like waiting in line at the airport.
November 10, 2025 at 6:07 AM
This shit fills me with so much contempt. I've had to work on Thanksgiving and Christmas before as a bartender, and you're telling me some fucking senators couldn't suck it up and do that once in order to slow the rise of fascism. Cowards. Pathetic. I hate them so much
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Truly amazing that any time the democrats have to bite the bullet and do something that ruins countless lives, there's always *just* enough votes to get it done, but if there is a vote on something that would actually improve people's lives, they are always one vote short. Crazy how that happens.
November 10, 2025 at 3:36 AM
Truly amazing that any time the democrats have to bite the bullet and do something that ruins countless lives, there's always *just* enough votes to get it done, but if there is a vote on something that would actually improve people's lives, they are always one vote short. Crazy how that happens.
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and now all those senate dems are going to go back to their fabulous mansions with a full belly and excellent healthcare, and sleep like a baby, content knowing they did The Right Thing™, The Only Thing They Could Have POSSIBLY Done™
November 10, 2025 at 4:34 AM
and now all those senate dems are going to go back to their fabulous mansions with a full belly and excellent healthcare, and sleep like a baby, content knowing they did The Right Thing™, The Only Thing They Could Have POSSIBLY Done™
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It really does seem like there's a decent chance that these senators screwed us because they don't want their personal Thanksgiving plans to be disrupted.
Anyway a great way to radicalize people is for them to realize that you just abandoned their chance at being able to access and afford health care because you didn’t like waiting in line at the airport.
November 10, 2025 at 4:21 AM
It really does seem like there's a decent chance that these senators screwed us because they don't want their personal Thanksgiving plans to be disrupted.
I think that the nazi takeover of twitter had a much bigger knock-on effect for all other forms of social media than anyone is willing to admit, even the platforms that were supposed to be trans/queer/POC havens, and that we haven't yet seen the full ripple effect of the villain-moderated internet
November 9, 2025 at 7:45 PM
I think that the nazi takeover of twitter had a much bigger knock-on effect for all other forms of social media than anyone is willing to admit, even the platforms that were supposed to be trans/queer/POC havens, and that we haven't yet seen the full ripple effect of the villain-moderated internet
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This is a beautifully-written piece about a horrifying and worsening situation. I cried.
Remembrance Sunday is a day to mourn the senseless loss of life and to say, never again. With that in mind, how can people turn a blind eye to the deliberate attempt to erase trans people from existence?
Remembrance Sunday is a day to mourn the senseless loss of life and to say, never again. With that in mind, how can people turn a blind eye to the deliberate attempt to erase trans people from existence?
For @teenvogue.com I wrote about the death of trans athlete Lia Smith and how trans youth kind themselves with central pillars of their lives being constantly ripped away from them because of politics. www.teenvogue.com/story/politi...
Politicizing Transgender Athletes Is Dangerous. Lia Smith Deserved Better.
"Let her passing be an inflection point for how you think about trans rights and trans people more generally."
www.teenvogue.com
November 9, 2025 at 12:31 PM
This is a beautifully-written piece about a horrifying and worsening situation. I cried.
Remembrance Sunday is a day to mourn the senseless loss of life and to say, never again. With that in mind, how can people turn a blind eye to the deliberate attempt to erase trans people from existence?
Remembrance Sunday is a day to mourn the senseless loss of life and to say, never again. With that in mind, how can people turn a blind eye to the deliberate attempt to erase trans people from existence?
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There's something deeply and maybe incriminatingly exciting about Yazeba's Bed & Breakfast. It makes me want to play it in a way that honestly few roleplaying game texts do. I just keep reading through the chapters because I want to know what wild idea, what tenderness awaits me on the next page.
November 5, 2025 at 11:48 PM
There's something deeply and maybe incriminatingly exciting about Yazeba's Bed & Breakfast. It makes me want to play it in a way that honestly few roleplaying game texts do. I just keep reading through the chapters because I want to know what wild idea, what tenderness awaits me on the next page.
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Yazeba's Bed & Breakfast was a game that arrived at my house about three days before I had to pack up all my games for moving, so I never got to read it, until now.
HOLY GUACAMOLE is this book good. It's a thing of astonishing depth, breadth, and detail. An incredible achievement. Outstandingly.
HOLY GUACAMOLE is this book good. It's a thing of astonishing depth, breadth, and detail. An incredible achievement. Outstandingly.
November 5, 2025 at 11:36 PM
Yazeba's Bed & Breakfast was a game that arrived at my house about three days before I had to pack up all my games for moving, so I never got to read it, until now.
HOLY GUACAMOLE is this book good. It's a thing of astonishing depth, breadth, and detail. An incredible achievement. Outstandingly.
HOLY GUACAMOLE is this book good. It's a thing of astonishing depth, breadth, and detail. An incredible achievement. Outstandingly.
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Dick Cheney did 9/11 to make New York City racist against Muslims and then died the night before they elected a Muslim mayor. What a world.
November 5, 2025 at 5:05 AM
Dick Cheney did 9/11 to make New York City racist against Muslims and then died the night before they elected a Muslim mayor. What a world.
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never trust the "nation"!
November 4, 2025 at 11:45 PM
never trust the "nation"!
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please retire the phrase "i wish i had time to be depressed"
1) nobody has time to be depressed
2) depression doesn't care if you're busy
3) willing yourself to force through symptoms bc you have stuff to do is only effective for mild-medium depression, not severe
4) it's a shitty thing to say
1) nobody has time to be depressed
2) depression doesn't care if you're busy
3) willing yourself to force through symptoms bc you have stuff to do is only effective for mild-medium depression, not severe
4) it's a shitty thing to say
November 4, 2025 at 10:28 PM
please retire the phrase "i wish i had time to be depressed"
1) nobody has time to be depressed
2) depression doesn't care if you're busy
3) willing yourself to force through symptoms bc you have stuff to do is only effective for mild-medium depression, not severe
4) it's a shitty thing to say
1) nobody has time to be depressed
2) depression doesn't care if you're busy
3) willing yourself to force through symptoms bc you have stuff to do is only effective for mild-medium depression, not severe
4) it's a shitty thing to say
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Every time one of these mass murderers dies without having faced any consequence for the massacres they ordered, the lives they destroyed, the societies they razed to the ground… I realize how far we are from a world with justice. Rest in hell Dick Cheney. Your legacy is death.
November 4, 2025 at 11:47 AM
Every time one of these mass murderers dies without having faced any consequence for the massacres they ordered, the lives they destroyed, the societies they razed to the ground… I realize how far we are from a world with justice. Rest in hell Dick Cheney. Your legacy is death.
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this is such a great encapsulation of why this race feels existential even to people outside NYC. Cuomo as the final boss of everything wrong with the current Democratic Party, Mamdani happily grabbing the third rails everyone’s told are too dangerous to touch (trans people, Muslims, socialism)
It's uncanny how Cuomo has been laser-focused at appealing to the absolute worst qualities in people - their insularity, their tribalism, and now their fear. A campaign monumental in its cynicism, a colossal bet by this man and his billionaire backers that people are basically bad.
This isn't a closing election argument, it's Vidkun Quisling explaining why surrender is better than resistance.
November 4, 2025 at 5:45 AM
this is such a great encapsulation of why this race feels existential even to people outside NYC. Cuomo as the final boss of everything wrong with the current Democratic Party, Mamdani happily grabbing the third rails everyone’s told are too dangerous to touch (trans people, Muslims, socialism)
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just watched videos of the national guard attacking children in dc
ppl are not fucking angry enough
ppl are not fucking angry enough
November 3, 2025 at 4:01 PM
just watched videos of the national guard attacking children in dc
ppl are not fucking angry enough
ppl are not fucking angry enough
if the democrats had spent half as much effort on winning the presidential election as they have on trying to keep their own mominee from becoming mayor of a single city...
October 31, 2025 at 8:32 PM
if the democrats had spent half as much effort on winning the presidential election as they have on trying to keep their own mominee from becoming mayor of a single city...
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How did I miss this?! Belated congratulations to @wederrakeep.bsky.social ! One of my absolute favorite podcasts, much deserved.
October 22, 2025 at 11:57 AM
How did I miss this?! Belated congratulations to @wederrakeep.bsky.social ! One of my absolute favorite podcasts, much deserved.
I don't give a shit about the white house, a building only accessible to awful war criminals. Where was this energy for the national parks service?
October 22, 2025 at 1:37 AM
I don't give a shit about the white house, a building only accessible to awful war criminals. Where was this energy for the national parks service?
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ultimately, zohran mamdani is a reminder that politicians can be younger than 80 years old
October 17, 2025 at 3:39 PM
ultimately, zohran mamdani is a reminder that politicians can be younger than 80 years old
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We face things that others have *no* idea about…
#Spoonie #Spoons #ChronicPain #ChronicIllness #Arthritis #Fibromyalgia #MentalHealth #Disability #Flare #Pain #Exhaustion #PainManagement #ChronicFatigue #SelfCare #InvisibleIllness #PainManagement
#Spoonie #Spoons #ChronicPain #ChronicIllness #Arthritis #Fibromyalgia #MentalHealth #Disability #Flare #Pain #Exhaustion #PainManagement #ChronicFatigue #SelfCare #InvisibleIllness #PainManagement
October 17, 2025 at 5:52 PM
We face things that others have *no* idea about…
#Spoonie #Spoons #ChronicPain #ChronicIllness #Arthritis #Fibromyalgia #MentalHealth #Disability #Flare #Pain #Exhaustion #PainManagement #ChronicFatigue #SelfCare #InvisibleIllness #PainManagement
#Spoonie #Spoons #ChronicPain #ChronicIllness #Arthritis #Fibromyalgia #MentalHealth #Disability #Flare #Pain #Exhaustion #PainManagement #ChronicFatigue #SelfCare #InvisibleIllness #PainManagement
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Posts about people returning to their homes are designed to elicit a sense of conclusion, of normality, that simply does not exist when Israel dropped the equivalent of multiple nuclear weapons on an area the size of Seattle.
October 14, 2025 at 10:54 PM
Posts about people returning to their homes are designed to elicit a sense of conclusion, of normality, that simply does not exist when Israel dropped the equivalent of multiple nuclear weapons on an area the size of Seattle.
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I think what's bothering me about all these statements I'm seeing from politicians that are variations of "Israeli hostages and Palestinians are returning to their homes, yay" is that Israelis are returning to their homes and Palestinians are returning to uninhabitable post apocalyptic rubble.
October 14, 2025 at 10:51 PM
I think what's bothering me about all these statements I'm seeing from politicians that are variations of "Israeli hostages and Palestinians are returning to their homes, yay" is that Israelis are returning to their homes and Palestinians are returning to uninhabitable post apocalyptic rubble.
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The full 5 episode run of City of Strays: A Wickedness Tale is now on YouTube. Experience the thrills of an urban fantasy tale of liminal horror told via @nightlingbug.bsky.social Wickedness Tarot TTRPG from @possumcreekgames.com . #TTRPG #Tarot #ActualPlay #Liminal #Horror #UrbanFantasy
City of Strays - YouTube
City of Strays, an urban fantasy horror saga set in a surrealist liminal cityscape using Mazey Veselak's Wickedness Tarot TTRPG published by Possum Creek Games.
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October 15, 2025 at 1:12 AM
The full 5 episode run of City of Strays: A Wickedness Tale is now on YouTube. Experience the thrills of an urban fantasy tale of liminal horror told via @nightlingbug.bsky.social Wickedness Tarot TTRPG from @possumcreekgames.com . #TTRPG #Tarot #ActualPlay #Liminal #Horror #UrbanFantasy