Emi (they/them)
@queeringsmite.bsky.social
they/them • (gender)queer • disabled • japanese • prison abolitionist • pro GM & TTRPG reviewer & alleged TTRPG designer • wear a mask & free Palestine
https://queeringsmite.carrd.co/
✉️ EmiRunsGames@gmail.com
https://queeringsmite.carrd.co/
✉️ EmiRunsGames@gmail.com
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New pinned! Hi, I'm Emi. Paladin lover, TTRPG reviewer, and pro GM specializing in games with fairy tale energy.
Trans, abolitionist, disability justice centered, even/especially when I'm talking about games.
TTRPG folks—drop an intro! Say hi! Always open to new friends & collaborators.
Trans, abolitionist, disability justice centered, even/especially when I'm talking about games.
TTRPG folks—drop an intro! Say hi! Always open to new friends & collaborators.
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I had to come to terms with the fact that in order to play some non d&d games while on this island - I'll have to play online.
5min after that I'd signed up for a game with Emi and will be kicking some ass in Draw Steel 😌
Come join me!
5min after that I'd signed up for a game with Emi and will be kicking some ass in Draw Steel 😌
Come join me!
Just ONE (1) seat left in this mini-campaign! Session zero is this Wednesday, so get in if you're getting in!
Hey, plant-lovers, announcing a new Draw Steel 2-3shot, just for you! Level 2, beginner-friendly, Wednesdays 2PM PST.
🌳 Explore a mystical forest!
⚔️ Battle strange plant monsters!
🤔 Solve a 🌵 thorny 🌵 mystery!
Find out what's in the DARK HEART OF THE WOOD!
startplaying.games/adventure/cm...
🌳 Explore a mystical forest!
⚔️ Battle strange plant monsters!
🤔 Solve a 🌵 thorny 🌵 mystery!
Find out what's in the DARK HEART OF THE WOOD!
startplaying.games/adventure/cm...
January 25, 2026 at 11:05 PM
I had to come to terms with the fact that in order to play some non d&d games while on this island - I'll have to play online.
5min after that I'd signed up for a game with Emi and will be kicking some ass in Draw Steel 😌
Come join me!
5min after that I'd signed up for a game with Emi and will be kicking some ass in Draw Steel 😌
Come join me!
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When you're next furious that MN kids are going hungry, well, there's a fund for that; & when you're livid that brave observers may struggle with rent, there's one for that; & when you're heartbroken about pets being left behind when their owners are kidnapped, well, there's a fund for that, too.
go to standwithminnesota.com and pick someone on there and give them $5.
tomorrow go back and give someone else $5.
do it every day for a week and you will have made life immediately & materially better for 7 different people, at the cost of $35, and you will feel so much better than you do now.
tomorrow go back and give someone else $5.
do it every day for a week and you will have made life immediately & materially better for 7 different people, at the cost of $35, and you will feel so much better than you do now.
Stand With Minnesota Donation Directory
Stand With Minnesota is a hub for supporting, learning, and taking action to support Minnesotans impacted by ICE and federal enforcement.
standwithminnesota.com
January 25, 2026 at 10:16 PM
When you're next furious that MN kids are going hungry, well, there's a fund for that; & when you're livid that brave observers may struggle with rent, there's one for that; & when you're heartbroken about pets being left behind when their owners are kidnapped, well, there's a fund for that, too.
Just ONE (1) seat left in this mini-campaign! Session zero is this Wednesday, so get in if you're getting in!
Hey, plant-lovers, announcing a new Draw Steel 2-3shot, just for you! Level 2, beginner-friendly, Wednesdays 2PM PST.
🌳 Explore a mystical forest!
⚔️ Battle strange plant monsters!
🤔 Solve a 🌵 thorny 🌵 mystery!
Find out what's in the DARK HEART OF THE WOOD!
startplaying.games/adventure/cm...
🌳 Explore a mystical forest!
⚔️ Battle strange plant monsters!
🤔 Solve a 🌵 thorny 🌵 mystery!
Find out what's in the DARK HEART OF THE WOOD!
startplaying.games/adventure/cm...
Join Dark Heart of the Wood | Draw Steel Mini-Campaign 🌈 - Discord / Owlbear Rodeo - Draw Steel | StartPlaying Games
Trouble is afoot in the neighboring village. Mysterious drought and famine are slowly starving the citizens, and now travelers are going missing—they go into the valley, then never come out again. In ...
startplaying.games
January 25, 2026 at 10:23 PM
Just ONE (1) seat left in this mini-campaign! Session zero is this Wednesday, so get in if you're getting in!
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There's a prison revolt at a concentration camp in Texas in solidarity with Minneapolis:
January 24, 2026 at 11:04 PM
There's a prison revolt at a concentration camp in Texas in solidarity with Minneapolis:
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It seems clear Alex Pretti, a healthcare worker, was murdered for engaging in the exact kind of community care we hope all care workers to embody: the kind that doesn’t stop at the threshold of the hospital, the clinic, but that aims to care for and support the community where and how they can
January 24, 2026 at 7:05 PM
It seems clear Alex Pretti, a healthcare worker, was murdered for engaging in the exact kind of community care we hope all care workers to embody: the kind that doesn’t stop at the threshold of the hospital, the clinic, but that aims to care for and support the community where and how they can
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You know me I don't share fundraisers unless I can tell you I trust them with my whole heart and my own wallet. This one gets protective gear to legal observers in Minneapolis / Saint Paul
www.gofundme.com/f/help-equip...
www.gofundme.com/f/help-equip...
Donate to Help Equip Twin Cities Legal Observers with PPE, organized by Jac Kovarik
I have been involved in rapid response in the Twin Cities area since the b… Jac Kovarik needs your support for Help Equip Twin Cities Legal Observers with PPE
www.gofundme.com
January 24, 2026 at 6:26 PM
You know me I don't share fundraisers unless I can tell you I trust them with my whole heart and my own wallet. This one gets protective gear to legal observers in Minneapolis / Saint Paul
www.gofundme.com/f/help-equip...
www.gofundme.com/f/help-equip...
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At the end of the day, the Black Lives Matter era was about whether people should be killed in the street, and lots of people decided yeah and put those little blue flags on their cars. It spread to everyone because it stopped for no one.
January 24, 2026 at 4:45 PM
At the end of the day, the Black Lives Matter era was about whether people should be killed in the street, and lots of people decided yeah and put those little blue flags on their cars. It spread to everyone because it stopped for no one.
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I don’t think we should be using words like “innocent” or “US citizen” or “bystander” or things like that because — what if someone was an undocumented immigrant with a criminal record? Would they deserve this? No one deserves to be executed on the street in cold blood.
January 24, 2026 at 5:37 PM
I don’t think we should be using words like “innocent” or “US citizen” or “bystander” or things like that because — what if someone was an undocumented immigrant with a criminal record? Would they deserve this? No one deserves to be executed on the street in cold blood.
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there are so many gutting stories, but this one is hitting me extra hard. just imagining wael tarabishi slowly dying without his dad there to care for him because he was jailed by ICE makes me…i don’t have words. this country is disgusting.
Disabled son of ICE detainee dies after 30 days of hospitalization
It had been months since Wael Tarabishi seen his father. The family is calling on ICE to release Maher Tarabishi so he may attend his son's funeral.
www.wfaa.com
January 24, 2026 at 4:01 AM
there are so many gutting stories, but this one is hitting me extra hard. just imagining wael tarabishi slowly dying without his dad there to care for him because he was jailed by ICE makes me…i don’t have words. this country is disgusting.
my Draw Steel players are also drawing each other's characters...making minis of them and mailing them to each other...beautiful things happening in this group 🥲
January 24, 2026 at 6:39 AM
my Draw Steel players are also drawing each other's characters...making minis of them and mailing them to each other...beautiful things happening in this group 🥲
another incredible Draw Steel tonight! our heroes somehow created MORE weird rumors about themselves in town, then nearly drowned, then finally faced the werewolf they've been hunting for weeks. next time we'll find out how many of THEM are werewolves now :)
January 24, 2026 at 5:35 AM
another incredible Draw Steel tonight! our heroes somehow created MORE weird rumors about themselves in town, then nearly drowned, then finally faced the werewolf they've been hunting for weeks. next time we'll find out how many of THEM are werewolves now :)
Zoom turned its goddamn AI features back on again today. I've literally never touched them. I turned them off the second they were forced upon me. and yet. HATE it here
January 24, 2026 at 12:29 AM
Zoom turned its goddamn AI features back on again today. I've literally never touched them. I turned them off the second they were forced upon me. and yet. HATE it here
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Hey, plant-lovers, announcing a new Draw Steel 2-3shot, just for you! Level 2, beginner-friendly, Wednesdays 2PM PST.
🌳 Explore a mystical forest!
⚔️ Battle strange plant monsters!
🤔 Solve a 🌵 thorny 🌵 mystery!
Find out what's in the DARK HEART OF THE WOOD!
startplaying.games/adventure/cm...
🌳 Explore a mystical forest!
⚔️ Battle strange plant monsters!
🤔 Solve a 🌵 thorny 🌵 mystery!
Find out what's in the DARK HEART OF THE WOOD!
startplaying.games/adventure/cm...
Join Dark Heart of the Wood | Draw Steel Mini-Campaign 🌈 - Discord / Owlbear Rodeo - Draw Steel | StartPlaying Games
Trouble is afoot in the neighboring village. Mysterious drought and famine are slowly starving the citizens, and now travelers are going missing—they go into the valley, then never come out again. In ...
startplaying.games
January 23, 2026 at 1:06 AM
Hey, plant-lovers, announcing a new Draw Steel 2-3shot, just for you! Level 2, beginner-friendly, Wednesdays 2PM PST.
🌳 Explore a mystical forest!
⚔️ Battle strange plant monsters!
🤔 Solve a 🌵 thorny 🌵 mystery!
Find out what's in the DARK HEART OF THE WOOD!
startplaying.games/adventure/cm...
🌳 Explore a mystical forest!
⚔️ Battle strange plant monsters!
🤔 Solve a 🌵 thorny 🌵 mystery!
Find out what's in the DARK HEART OF THE WOOD!
startplaying.games/adventure/cm...
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In Pakistan, the CIA went around door-to-door pretending to be giving polio vaccines, while secretly hunting for Osama bin Laden. The result was that real health care workers were ignored or even killed, and hundreds of people got polio, which had otherwise been nearly eradicated worldwide.
There is no level to which these heartless shit-for-brains won’t stoop to inflict cruelty and suffering.
January 22, 2026 at 10:24 PM
In Pakistan, the CIA went around door-to-door pretending to be giving polio vaccines, while secretly hunting for Osama bin Laden. The result was that real health care workers were ignored or even killed, and hundreds of people got polio, which had otherwise been nearly eradicated worldwide.
Hey, plant-lovers, announcing a new Draw Steel 2-3shot, just for you! Level 2, beginner-friendly, Wednesdays 2PM PST.
🌳 Explore a mystical forest!
⚔️ Battle strange plant monsters!
🤔 Solve a 🌵 thorny 🌵 mystery!
Find out what's in the DARK HEART OF THE WOOD!
startplaying.games/adventure/cm...
🌳 Explore a mystical forest!
⚔️ Battle strange plant monsters!
🤔 Solve a 🌵 thorny 🌵 mystery!
Find out what's in the DARK HEART OF THE WOOD!
startplaying.games/adventure/cm...
Join Dark Heart of the Wood | Draw Steel Mini-Campaign 🌈 - Discord / Owlbear Rodeo - Draw Steel | StartPlaying Games
Trouble is afoot in the neighboring village. Mysterious drought and famine are slowly starving the citizens, and now travelers are going missing—they go into the valley, then never come out again. In ...
startplaying.games
January 23, 2026 at 1:06 AM
Hey, plant-lovers, announcing a new Draw Steel 2-3shot, just for you! Level 2, beginner-friendly, Wednesdays 2PM PST.
🌳 Explore a mystical forest!
⚔️ Battle strange plant monsters!
🤔 Solve a 🌵 thorny 🌵 mystery!
Find out what's in the DARK HEART OF THE WOOD!
startplaying.games/adventure/cm...
🌳 Explore a mystical forest!
⚔️ Battle strange plant monsters!
🤔 Solve a 🌵 thorny 🌵 mystery!
Find out what's in the DARK HEART OF THE WOOD!
startplaying.games/adventure/cm...
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I'm sorry, abolishing ICE is now off the table as the centrist compromise.
The floor is now The Hague.
The floor is now The Hague.
Minnesota: "School officials say the [5-year-old] child was used as bait. They say [ICE] agents made little Liam knock on the door to ask to be let in in order to see if anyone else was home."
January 22, 2026 at 1:18 AM
I'm sorry, abolishing ICE is now off the table as the centrist compromise.
The floor is now The Hague.
The floor is now The Hague.
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Please help us bring Liam Adrian Cornejo Ramos (he’s only 5 years of age and is currently in pre-K. Yesterday, he and his father were kidnapped by ICE. This will help the family with legal services to help reunite Liam and his dad with their family.
gofund.me/be8a1b2ab
gofund.me/be8a1b2ab
Donate to Help Bring 5-Year-Old Liam Home, organized by sarai Orquiz
Liam Adrian Cornejo Ramos is just 5 years old and currently in pre-K. Yesterday, he and h… sarai Orquiz needs your support for Help Bring 5-Year-Old Liam Home
gofund.me
January 22, 2026 at 2:44 AM
Please help us bring Liam Adrian Cornejo Ramos (he’s only 5 years of age and is currently in pre-K. Yesterday, he and his father were kidnapped by ICE. This will help the family with legal services to help reunite Liam and his dad with their family.
gofund.me/be8a1b2ab
gofund.me/be8a1b2ab
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right now the floor for me is abolish ICE and put every agent on trial and the average elected democrat is like what if we told them to cut it out
January 22, 2026 at 12:31 AM
right now the floor for me is abolish ICE and put every agent on trial and the average elected democrat is like what if we told them to cut it out
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God bless Minneapolis.
Border Patrol agents are very sad that everyone in Minnesota hates them.
“At each gas station where the agents stopped to use the restroom, groups of agitators appeared, yelled at them, stalked them, and even tried to prevent law enforcement vehicles from leaving…”
“At each gas station where the agents stopped to use the restroom, groups of agitators appeared, yelled at them, stalked them, and even tried to prevent law enforcement vehicles from leaving…”
January 22, 2026 at 2:10 AM
God bless Minneapolis.
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Washington folks! I'm a little late to this but sex workers in your state NEED your help!
Call your reps and tell them to oppose HB 2526, which wants to turn prostitution into a FULL ON felony for both parties.
Stand with sex workers: tell your reps how much this shit upsets you and is wrong.
Call your reps and tell them to oppose HB 2526, which wants to turn prostitution into a FULL ON felony for both parties.
Stand with sex workers: tell your reps how much this shit upsets you and is wrong.
Action alert #waleg : Bill further criminalizing sex trade is coming to hearing Tuesday 1/20 rightsandsafety.org/action-alert... "Increased policing and criminalization of sex buyers drives sex trade further underground, which threatens safety for people who engage in the sex trade." …
Action Alert: Bill further criminalizing sex trade is coming to hearing on Tuesday 1/20 @ 4pm
On Tuesday, January 20th at 4pm, House Community Safety committee will hold a hearing on HB 2526, which is so far identical to another bill that was introduced (and we fought against) last year, thoug...
rightsandsafety.org
January 21, 2026 at 5:59 AM
Washington folks! I'm a little late to this but sex workers in your state NEED your help!
Call your reps and tell them to oppose HB 2526, which wants to turn prostitution into a FULL ON felony for both parties.
Stand with sex workers: tell your reps how much this shit upsets you and is wrong.
Call your reps and tell them to oppose HB 2526, which wants to turn prostitution into a FULL ON felony for both parties.
Stand with sex workers: tell your reps how much this shit upsets you and is wrong.
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NEW: Last year, Google agreed to throw a few crumbs to California newsrooms, whose work they handsomely profit off of.
Now even those crumbs are being swept off the table as Gavin Newsom balked on the state's end of the deal.
Californians deserve better.
www.latimes.com/politics/sto...
Now even those crumbs are being swept off the table as Gavin Newsom balked on the state's end of the deal.
Californians deserve better.
www.latimes.com/politics/sto...
Commentary: California is suffering truth decay. Sacramento should do something about it
A Google deal to bolster local journalism is foundering after Gov. Newsom zeroed out the program in his budget. The state's reporting ranks have been decimated.
www.latimes.com
January 21, 2026 at 3:20 PM
NEW: Last year, Google agreed to throw a few crumbs to California newsrooms, whose work they handsomely profit off of.
Now even those crumbs are being swept off the table as Gavin Newsom balked on the state's end of the deal.
Californians deserve better.
www.latimes.com/politics/sto...
Now even those crumbs are being swept off the table as Gavin Newsom balked on the state's end of the deal.
Californians deserve better.
www.latimes.com/politics/sto...
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It's so easy to ignore this post.
But if you truly care about the safety of children like my daughter Talia, please share this post and donate via the link below
Talia's life is in danger. I can't bear to see her in danger any longer; she's still just a baby.
- Sama’a 🤍
chuffed.org/project/157569
But if you truly care about the safety of children like my daughter Talia, please share this post and donate via the link below
Talia's life is in danger. I can't bear to see her in danger any longer; she's still just a baby.
- Sama’a 🤍
chuffed.org/project/157569
January 21, 2026 at 6:13 AM
It's so easy to ignore this post.
But if you truly care about the safety of children like my daughter Talia, please share this post and donate via the link below
Talia's life is in danger. I can't bear to see her in danger any longer; she's still just a baby.
- Sama’a 🤍
chuffed.org/project/157569
But if you truly care about the safety of children like my daughter Talia, please share this post and donate via the link below
Talia's life is in danger. I can't bear to see her in danger any longer; she's still just a baby.
- Sama’a 🤍
chuffed.org/project/157569
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TWIN CITIES FOLKS WHO WANT TO HELP AND DON'T KNOW WHERE TO START: I put together a big list of resources. Do you want to deliver groceries? do people's laundry? work in community defense? I want to help you get connected!
naomikritzer.com/2026/01/19/h...
naomikritzer.com/2026/01/19/h...
How to Help: Twin Cities Residents
This is a post for people in Minnesota. I’m going to do a separate post for the non-Minnesotans when I’m done with this one. (If you’re in a hurry you can go to Stand With Minneso…
naomikritzer.com
January 19, 2026 at 10:40 PM
TWIN CITIES FOLKS WHO WANT TO HELP AND DON'T KNOW WHERE TO START: I put together a big list of resources. Do you want to deliver groceries? do people's laundry? work in community defense? I want to help you get connected!
naomikritzer.com/2026/01/19/h...
naomikritzer.com/2026/01/19/h...
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Catastrophe: Florida's Department of Health is stopping coverage for antivirals to 10,000 low-income people with HIV infection, blaming impending federal cuts to the AIDS Drug Assistance Program. 12.5% of Americans with HIV live in Florida.
Thousands to lose access to HIV drugs with new cuts
An estimated 10,000 people are about to lose access to their HIV medication as the Florida Department of Health makes cuts to the AIDS Drug Assistance Program (ADAP).
www.fox13news.com
January 19, 2026 at 3:38 PM
Catastrophe: Florida's Department of Health is stopping coverage for antivirals to 10,000 low-income people with HIV infection, blaming impending federal cuts to the AIDS Drug Assistance Program. 12.5% of Americans with HIV live in Florida.
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New — I wrote about ChongLy Scott Thao, the elderly Hmong American wrongly arrested and forced out of his home by ICE in his underwear during the punishing Minnesota winter, what witnesses saw, and DHS's racist claim that he fit the description of another Asian man they were looking for.
My story:
My story:
Behind the disturbing image of ICE snatching a half-naked, elderly Hmong American from his home
DHS has claimed without evidence that they were looking for someone else when they took ChongLy Scott Thao.
www.thehandbasket.co
January 20, 2026 at 12:29 AM
New — I wrote about ChongLy Scott Thao, the elderly Hmong American wrongly arrested and forced out of his home by ICE in his underwear during the punishing Minnesota winter, what witnesses saw, and DHS's racist claim that he fit the description of another Asian man they were looking for.
My story:
My story: