jenn martin is trying
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Chicago-adjacent ttrpg designer (Dead After Dinner) & editor (Apocalypse Keys, The Zone & more), SFWA member and AFT/IFT 604 union member, people>profit | she/her
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I feel like I know some folks who would be very excited about this!
(I'm not qualified, but would be tempted to apply anyway if I lived in the required area)
(I'm not qualified, but would be tempted to apply anyway if I lived in the required area)
come work with me... even more directly!?
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January 9, 2026 at 9:30 PM
I feel like I know some folks who would be very excited about this!
(I'm not qualified, but would be tempted to apply anyway if I lived in the required area)
(I'm not qualified, but would be tempted to apply anyway if I lived in the required area)
January 6, 2026 at 2:27 AM
Contact by Carl Sagan
It's not necessarily my all time favorite book, but it's easily the most sacred to me.
It's not necessarily my all time favorite book, but it's easily the most sacred to me.
Ok, everyone, what book is sacred enough to you to get sworn in on?
Strange takes on Mayor Zamdani swearing his oath on the Qu’ran. It has nothing to do with church & state. The point of the oath is for the person swearing in to do so upon some text that is sacred TO THEM. Some Presidents swore in w/o any book. John Quincy Adams was sworn on a law book. His choice.
January 2, 2026 at 5:03 AM
Contact by Carl Sagan
It's not necessarily my all time favorite book, but it's easily the most sacred to me.
It's not necessarily my all time favorite book, but it's easily the most sacred to me.
If you go to bed before midnight on December 31st, you don't have to remember the lyrics to Auld Lang Syne 😎
January 1, 2026 at 2:34 PM
If you go to bed before midnight on December 31st, you don't have to remember the lyrics to Auld Lang Syne 😎
Accomplishments are great, but 2025 was the year I got a laminator.
December 31, 2025 at 10:13 PM
Accomplishments are great, but 2025 was the year I got a laminator.
"You’d ask a bot for a summary and forget what it told you, then proceed with your day, unchanged by words you did not read and ideas you did not consider."
Great post about generative AI. Happy Holidays. Don't say I never gave you anything. anthonymoser.github.io/writing/ai/h...
December 29, 2025 at 4:55 PM
"You’d ask a bot for a summary and forget what it told you, then proceed with your day, unchanged by words you did not read and ideas you did not consider."
AI cannot make art that changes the way I see the world, so I'm just not interested in whatever it can do (other than guzzle water and electricity and give rich people another way to hoard money)
December 29, 2025 at 2:44 PM
AI cannot make art that changes the way I see the world, so I'm just not interested in whatever it can do (other than guzzle water and electricity and give rich people another way to hoard money)
My current proofreading project has tipped me over 1.5 million words of game text I've been paid to read!
December 28, 2025 at 11:02 PM
My current proofreading project has tipped me over 1.5 million words of game text I've been paid to read!
I went back to the National Mississippi River Museum and Aquarium for my birthday to meet their new Giant Pacific octopus and she was initially a bit shy, but came over after she got her shrimps and it was *amazing*!
December 24, 2025 at 5:12 AM
I went back to the National Mississippi River Museum and Aquarium for my birthday to meet their new Giant Pacific octopus and she was initially a bit shy, but came over after she got her shrimps and it was *amazing*!
I forgot to get cake for my birthday yesterday, so I made @smittenkitchen.bsky.social's Gingerbread Snacking Cake today!
I don't know that I mixed the flour enough (you can see little lighter flecks on the top), but it's still very tasty!
I don't know that I mixed the flour enough (you can see little lighter flecks on the top), but it's still very tasty!
December 23, 2025 at 10:28 PM
I forgot to get cake for my birthday yesterday, so I made @smittenkitchen.bsky.social's Gingerbread Snacking Cake today!
I don't know that I mixed the flour enough (you can see little lighter flecks on the top), but it's still very tasty!
I don't know that I mixed the flour enough (you can see little lighter flecks on the top), but it's still very tasty!
It's plurbin time!
December 19, 2025 at 2:47 AM
It's plurbin time!
If "good ideas" = low risk/high return investment projects, maybe we are.
But "investors are running out of ideas they are willing to tolerate risk for" is a headline no one would talk about- I yawned just writing it.
But "investors are running out of ideas they are willing to tolerate risk for" is a headline no one would talk about- I yawned just writing it.
This column on Vox is the biggest pile of steaming AI crap I've seen this year. Human's aren't running out of ideas. Instead, those with power and money don't want to listen to ideas that threaten their power and money.
Ideas are plentiful. Putting those ideas into action is the hard part.
Ideas are plentiful. Putting those ideas into action is the hard part.
We’re running out of good ideas. AI might be how we find new ones.
What if the best use of AI is restarting the world’s idea machine?
www.vox.com
December 14, 2025 at 7:10 PM
If "good ideas" = low risk/high return investment projects, maybe we are.
But "investors are running out of ideas they are willing to tolerate risk for" is a headline no one would talk about- I yawned just writing it.
But "investors are running out of ideas they are willing to tolerate risk for" is a headline no one would talk about- I yawned just writing it.
I cannot nuke copilot from orbit off my work computer because of permissions and it's creating a hostile work environment.
December 10, 2025 at 2:46 PM
I cannot nuke copilot from orbit off my work computer because of permissions and it's creating a hostile work environment.
Got some Real Good News in my email this morning and I actually cried happy tears
December 8, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Got some Real Good News in my email this morning and I actually cried happy tears
I got a little ahead on proofreading today and I'm going to bed before 11pm, much better than yesterday!
December 7, 2025 at 4:50 AM
I got a little ahead on proofreading today and I'm going to bed before 11pm, much better than yesterday!
I need to go to bed, but my brain has been fighting it for an hour. Revenge bedtime procrastination got me again.
December 6, 2025 at 5:35 AM
I need to go to bed, but my brain has been fighting it for an hour. Revenge bedtime procrastination got me again.
This is the best idea I've ever had and if you do this you have to tell me about it.
Run two competing games of The Climb by @jmstar.bsky.social and see who gets to the summit fastest and who doesn't come home.
December 4, 2025 at 9:21 PM
This is the best idea I've ever had and if you do this you have to tell me about it.
Just printed out the 25/26 Year Compass booklet!
I do this every year and it's a lovely way to remember what I did this year and give myself support for next year.
yearcompass.com
I do this every year and it's a lovely way to remember what I did this year and give myself support for next year.
yearcompass.com
YearCompass
YearCompass | The booklet that helps close your year and plan the next one.
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December 2, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Just printed out the 25/26 Year Compass booklet!
I do this every year and it's a lovely way to remember what I did this year and give myself support for next year.
yearcompass.com
I do this every year and it's a lovely way to remember what I did this year and give myself support for next year.
yearcompass.com
Finally, someone acknowledges BPG's *unhinged* back catalog!
In all seriousness, it's a very good review of Desperation, and I hope it means more people will check out the game. I helped make the Roll20 version and I'm very proud of it!
In all seriousness, it's a very good review of Desperation, and I hope it means more people will check out the game. I helped make the Roll20 version and I'm very proud of it!
"I adore #Desperation. It's proof, as if it was needed, that designer @jmstar.bsky.social is an absolute legend, a titan of the tabletop scene. And together with the rest of the team at publishers Bully Pulpit, they've put together like, a gothic narrative train set." - @itsquinns.bsky.social
Quinns Quest Reviews: The Boxed RPG Special!
YouTube video by Quinns Quest
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November 29, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Finally, someone acknowledges BPG's *unhinged* back catalog!
In all seriousness, it's a very good review of Desperation, and I hope it means more people will check out the game. I helped make the Roll20 version and I'm very proud of it!
In all seriousness, it's a very good review of Desperation, and I hope it means more people will check out the game. I helped make the Roll20 version and I'm very proud of it!
Also I mildly shamed a semi-famous ttrpg white guy who I will not name. What a thrill
Highlights from PaxU:
Teaming up with @segedy.bsky.social & @nathanblack.com
Friends who stopped by the booth to say hi (including @shervyn.bsky.social, who I sadly missed)
The Mushulu, Dim Sum Garden, Terakawa Ramen & Elixr coffee/tea/pastries
Selling 18 copies of my weird goose game!
Teaming up with @segedy.bsky.social & @nathanblack.com
Friends who stopped by the booth to say hi (including @shervyn.bsky.social, who I sadly missed)
The Mushulu, Dim Sum Garden, Terakawa Ramen & Elixr coffee/tea/pastries
Selling 18 copies of my weird goose game!
November 25, 2025 at 11:44 PM
Also I mildly shamed a semi-famous ttrpg white guy who I will not name. What a thrill
Highlights from PaxU:
Teaming up with @segedy.bsky.social & @nathanblack.com
Friends who stopped by the booth to say hi (including @shervyn.bsky.social, who I sadly missed)
The Mushulu, Dim Sum Garden, Terakawa Ramen & Elixr coffee/tea/pastries
Selling 18 copies of my weird goose game!
Teaming up with @segedy.bsky.social & @nathanblack.com
Friends who stopped by the booth to say hi (including @shervyn.bsky.social, who I sadly missed)
The Mushulu, Dim Sum Garden, Terakawa Ramen & Elixr coffee/tea/pastries
Selling 18 copies of my weird goose game!
November 25, 2025 at 11:27 PM
Highlights from PaxU:
Teaming up with @segedy.bsky.social & @nathanblack.com
Friends who stopped by the booth to say hi (including @shervyn.bsky.social, who I sadly missed)
The Mushulu, Dim Sum Garden, Terakawa Ramen & Elixr coffee/tea/pastries
Selling 18 copies of my weird goose game!
Teaming up with @segedy.bsky.social & @nathanblack.com
Friends who stopped by the booth to say hi (including @shervyn.bsky.social, who I sadly missed)
The Mushulu, Dim Sum Garden, Terakawa Ramen & Elixr coffee/tea/pastries
Selling 18 copies of my weird goose game!
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I wanted to highlight some of the weirder offerings we have at #paxunplugged!
I’ll start with Public Guest 5. It’s our solo TTRPG about living beneath an artificial menacing planet. You roll 2 dice once every real-world day until your world explodes. Until it does, you live your life well.
I’ll start with Public Guest 5. It’s our solo TTRPG about living beneath an artificial menacing planet. You roll 2 dice once every real-world day until your world explodes. Until it does, you live your life well.
November 23, 2025 at 3:42 PM
I wanted to highlight some of the weirder offerings we have at #paxunplugged!
I’ll start with Public Guest 5. It’s our solo TTRPG about living beneath an artificial menacing planet. You roll 2 dice once every real-world day until your world explodes. Until it does, you live your life well.
I’ll start with Public Guest 5. It’s our solo TTRPG about living beneath an artificial menacing planet. You roll 2 dice once every real-world day until your world explodes. Until it does, you live your life well.
Today: Packed as much as I could and tested negative! I also finished knitting a pair of fingerless gloves (with stash yarn, even! Please clap for me).
Tomorrow: Get to work early so I can check into my flight while not in the car.
Tomorrow: Get to work early so I can check into my flight while not in the car.
Today: hit page 299 out of 784 on proofreading
Tomorrow: covid test & pack for Pax
Tomorrow: covid test & pack for Pax
November 18, 2025 at 2:47 AM
Today: Packed as much as I could and tested negative! I also finished knitting a pair of fingerless gloves (with stash yarn, even! Please clap for me).
Tomorrow: Get to work early so I can check into my flight while not in the car.
Tomorrow: Get to work early so I can check into my flight while not in the car.