Fraser
@swordsedgepublishing.ca
AKA accidentalfrase Canadian TTRPG designer of Sword Noir, Centurion, Nefertiti Overdrive, Sword’s Edge & others
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Winter Sale 2025 by Fraser Ronald
A bundle by Fraser Ronald, $125.00 for 37 games
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If you've been thinking about getting any of my games, now's the time to do it. 50% off!
There's a bunch of other games--TTRPG and otherwise--also on sale. Treat yourself this Christmas! 😉
itch.io/s/174383/win...
There's a bunch of other games--TTRPG and otherwise--also on sale. Treat yourself this Christmas! 😉
itch.io/s/174383/win...
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The deployment of “ai” is not a case study in diffusion of innovation or adoption of new technology. It is a case study in coerced implementation, it is social engineering by the elite class and it’s bad for people and bad for the planet
NEW: Data Centers, the Climate Crisis, and Community Defense
How Local Activists are Interrupting Big Tech AI Investments
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How Local Activists are Interrupting Big Tech AI Investments
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Data Centers, the Climate Crisis, and Community Defense - UNICORN RIOT
As Trump’s Energy Secretary Chris Wright claims you should “build data centers” if “you want low electricity prices,” more than 200 environmental organizations have joined to “demand a halt to the bui...
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December 20, 2025 at 5:02 PM
The deployment of “ai” is not a case study in diffusion of innovation or adoption of new technology. It is a case study in coerced implementation, it is social engineering by the elite class and it’s bad for people and bad for the planet
Ferret-y ferret wishes you all a Merry Christmas!
December 25, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Ferret-y ferret wishes you all a Merry Christmas!
My gift from my eldest, to put in my game room.
December 25, 2025 at 2:03 PM
My gift from my eldest, to put in my game room.
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Republicans want to kill the post office and the media is there for it, which is why you have never seen a news story about how the police department has never turned a profit and is a waste
December 25, 2025 at 1:14 AM
Republicans want to kill the post office and the media is there for it, which is why you have never seen a news story about how the police department has never turned a profit and is a waste
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NORAD Santa tracker is Woke
December 25, 2025 at 2:28 AM
NORAD Santa tracker is Woke
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Youngest really wanted a snowy Christmas. She got that. I should make her shovel the driveway. . .
Nah. She’s decided to make Christmas breakfast, so she deserves a snowy landscape out on which to gaze.
Nah. She’s decided to make Christmas breakfast, so she deserves a snowy landscape out on which to gaze.
December 25, 2025 at 1:09 PM
Youngest really wanted a snowy Christmas. She got that. I should make her shovel the driveway. . .
Nah. She’s decided to make Christmas breakfast, so she deserves a snowy landscape out on which to gaze.
Nah. She’s decided to make Christmas breakfast, so she deserves a snowy landscape out on which to gaze.
The girls wanted steak for Christmas Eve dinner. Out on the deck, BBQing in snow up past my ankles.
Worth it.
Merry Christmas to all who celebrate, much love to everybody else. I wish you all can find some spot of joy. You all deserve it.
Worth it.
Merry Christmas to all who celebrate, much love to everybody else. I wish you all can find some spot of joy. You all deserve it.
December 25, 2025 at 2:21 AM
The girls wanted steak for Christmas Eve dinner. Out on the deck, BBQing in snow up past my ankles.
Worth it.
Merry Christmas to all who celebrate, much love to everybody else. I wish you all can find some spot of joy. You all deserve it.
Worth it.
Merry Christmas to all who celebrate, much love to everybody else. I wish you all can find some spot of joy. You all deserve it.
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Seasons greetings Bluesky buddies. Whoever you are, wherever you are, I hope you’ll be spending some time in the next few days with people you care about and who care about you.
Happy Holidays
Happy Holidays
December 24, 2025 at 11:19 PM
Seasons greetings Bluesky buddies. Whoever you are, wherever you are, I hope you’ll be spending some time in the next few days with people you care about and who care about you.
Happy Holidays
Happy Holidays
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Be nice to your postie at Christmas, they are doing a job you would probably find too difficult. 🙏
Only abused by two members of the public yesterday as I delivered their parcels. And called a C**t because I had stopped outside a house to deliver letters. But (I try to keep this in the front of my mind) most people are lovely and polite.
December 23, 2025 at 7:41 AM
Be nice to your postie at Christmas, they are doing a job you would probably find too difficult. 🙏
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you wanna see a dead body
FFC review: AVATAR: FIRE AND ASH (2025), by Walter Chaw (@mangiotto.bsky.social). filmfreakcentral.net/2025/12/avat...
Avatar: Fire and Ash (2025) - FILM FREAK CENTRAL
ZERO STARS/****starring Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldaña, Sigourney Weaver, Kate Winsletscreenplay by James Cameron & Rick Jaffa & Amanda Silverdirected by James Cameron by Walter Chaw I think, for white ...
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December 22, 2025 at 2:57 PM
you wanna see a dead body
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In all sincerity I often sit here and wonder how better people could have given warnings about the rise of global fascism, and I struggle to think what else could have been tried. There were subtle warnings and loud warnings, obnoxious warnings and gentle warnings, the full range. I just don't know.
I keep thinking about this. I was talking to a journalist friend about Project 2025, and he was saying how so much of it is being executed with frightening efficiency. And it is all the more frustrating because everyone with the power to stop it was so thoroughly and repeatedly warned.
I mean I think the people who underestimated the fascists are the stupids in this equation. The fascists had a 60 year plan, they documented the last year of it very publicly, and they are successfully implementing all of it.
December 22, 2025 at 8:36 PM
In all sincerity I often sit here and wonder how better people could have given warnings about the rise of global fascism, and I struggle to think what else could have been tried. There were subtle warnings and loud warnings, obnoxious warnings and gentle warnings, the full range. I just don't know.
If you've been thinking about getting any of my games, now's the time to do it. 50% off!
There's a bunch of other games--TTRPG and otherwise--also on sale. Treat yourself this Christmas! 😉
itch.io/s/174383/win...
There's a bunch of other games--TTRPG and otherwise--also on sale. Treat yourself this Christmas! 😉
itch.io/s/174383/win...
Winter Sale 2025 by Fraser Ronald
A bundle by Fraser Ronald, $125.00 for 37 games
itch.io
December 22, 2025 at 3:57 PM
If you've been thinking about getting any of my games, now's the time to do it. 50% off!
There's a bunch of other games--TTRPG and otherwise--also on sale. Treat yourself this Christmas! 😉
itch.io/s/174383/win...
There's a bunch of other games--TTRPG and otherwise--also on sale. Treat yourself this Christmas! 😉
itch.io/s/174383/win...
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*laughs in archivist* anyone who thinks it's all been digitized is out of their goddamn mind. We don't have the staff, resources, or digital infrastructure to digitize, store, check, and maintain at preservations standards a digital copy of every single item in our collections.
When we say "no, everything hasn't been digitized," I need you to understand that we really mean is that virtually nothing has been digitized. This is because the realm of primary sources that historians use is incomprehensibly large.
Seems like it's worth posting this one again.
December 22, 2025 at 2:49 AM
*laughs in archivist* anyone who thinks it's all been digitized is out of their goddamn mind. We don't have the staff, resources, or digital infrastructure to digitize, store, check, and maintain at preservations standards a digital copy of every single item in our collections.
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About my current branding change.
Same Apetite, New Name
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December 21, 2025 at 6:31 PM
About my current branding change.
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I do think this is true. I'm often guilty myself of underplaying what the work I do looks like or how much time and effort it takes. Research isn't 'just reading' or a question of sucking up summaries others have created. It's knowledge creation.
So let me go through the process with an example 1/
So let me go through the process with an example 1/
What historians (and other scholars do) is create knowledge. We should use that phrase more and talk about what it means. I think we don't, and it's part of why AI enthusiasts are confused when we don't readily agree that our work can be replicated/replaced by their products.
December 22, 2025 at 1:12 AM
I do think this is true. I'm often guilty myself of underplaying what the work I do looks like or how much time and effort it takes. Research isn't 'just reading' or a question of sucking up summaries others have created. It's knowledge creation.
So let me go through the process with an example 1/
So let me go through the process with an example 1/
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You start to get cynical & bitter & then you find out one of your state's snow plows this year is named Clearopathra & you remember there is no limit to human brilliance
December 21, 2025 at 12:31 AM
You start to get cynical & bitter & then you find out one of your state's snow plows this year is named Clearopathra & you remember there is no limit to human brilliance
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The real task for me as a teacher (and human being) is to make sure that I keep my eyes on the real villain in the whole AI debacle--capital and its captains.
It is not my students.
And I won't let this mess turn me into a cop.
It is not my students.
And I won't let this mess turn me into a cop.
December 20, 2025 at 5:24 PM
The real task for me as a teacher (and human being) is to make sure that I keep my eyes on the real villain in the whole AI debacle--capital and its captains.
It is not my students.
And I won't let this mess turn me into a cop.
It is not my students.
And I won't let this mess turn me into a cop.
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You know who else died of a medical emergency in a detention center?
Anne Frank
Anne Frank
December 20, 2025 at 12:00 PM
You know who else died of a medical emergency in a detention center?
Anne Frank
Anne Frank
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genAI is STOLEN WORK. Using genAI in *any* capacity is trafficking in stolen work, supporting the plunder. Period. These facts aren't even denied by the AI companies, they just find ways to make that plunder seem benevolent. Using their product enables that lie. Stop enabling the theft of our work.
"we only use AI for coming up with ideas" no you don't. you use AI to come up with the a bland version of other people's ideas. there is currently NOBODY more replaceable than you
December 20, 2025 at 1:20 PM
genAI is STOLEN WORK. Using genAI in *any* capacity is trafficking in stolen work, supporting the plunder. Period. These facts aren't even denied by the AI companies, they just find ways to make that plunder seem benevolent. Using their product enables that lie. Stop enabling the theft of our work.
Admiral Yi Sun Sin—generally ranked as one the greatest naval commanders of history, alongside Nelson—failed his first attempt at the military exam and scored 12th out of 28th when he did pass—a level C officer.
Just might be a lesson there about the criteria of others and your own potential.
Just might be a lesson there about the criteria of others and your own potential.
December 20, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Admiral Yi Sun Sin—generally ranked as one the greatest naval commanders of history, alongside Nelson—failed his first attempt at the military exam and scored 12th out of 28th when he did pass—a level C officer.
Just might be a lesson there about the criteria of others and your own potential.
Just might be a lesson there about the criteria of others and your own potential.