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guyintheblackhat.bsky.social
Their policy position is "I should be able to take whatever I want, tell whatever story I want about it and be believed, and consign all my critics to silence, prison, and death."

That's *what* they believe, as expressed through statements and action.

We need them as far from power as possible!
November 15, 2025 at 11:32 AM
timhutchings.bsky.social
This makes me a lot more interested in using KS next time around.
kickstarterunited.org Kickstarter United @kickstarterunited.org · 4d
WE WON! After 42 days of striking we have a tentative agreement in hand that protects our existing 4 day work week, establishes a minimum salary, and adds protections against AI replacing jobs at our workplace!
Graphic celebrating our strike ending. It reads: November 12, 2025 The Strike is Over! with a raised fist and the Kickstarter United logo in each corner After 7 months of bargaining, and 42 days of striking Kickstarter United has voted to end the strike Graphic with multiple picket signs that reads "[up arrow] Minimum Salary", "4 day Work Week", and a big cancel sign over "AI Replacing Jobs" and so much more. Go to kickstarterunited.org to see it all!
November 13, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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tenpenjenn.com
If you donate food/money/time to a food bank or to help folks who didn't get SNAP benefits, I want to mail you a print copy of my goose game!

DM me your address and what you donated (I don't need receipts) and the goose will be on its way!

International is ok! I have a dozen to send out! HONK
A picture of multiple copies of the tabletop RPG game The Goose of Grillner Grove. The game is printed as a tri-fold brochure, with one inner flap showing a picture of a Canada goose and a speech bubble that says "HONK".
November 2, 2025 at 7:22 PM
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ktwelves.bsky.social
Some larps to play tonight by @timhutchings.bsky.social and Jay Treat!
timhutchings.itch.io/halloween?sy...
www.goldencobra.org/pdf/2015/Hal...
October 31, 2025 at 3:24 PM
timhutchings.bsky.social
Fights in Tight Spaces is one of my favorite computer games. I could not get into Knights in Tight Spaces. It feels wrong in a way that didn't soften with time.

The Far Sails sequel was the same. It just never had the same feeling of quality as the first game, controls felt wrong.
October 19, 2025 at 5:30 AM
timhutchings.bsky.social
I read bad.

I solved the daily Clues by Sam (Oct 14th 2025) in 04:55
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cluesbysam.com
Clues by Sam
A daily logic puzzle where you deduce who are criminals and who are innocent!
cluesbysam.com
October 14, 2025 at 10:25 PM
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heartofthedeernicorn.com
Old Morris Cave is great for letting your mind wander through history #ttrpgs #ttrpg
October 13, 2025 at 7:16 PM
timhutchings.bsky.social
Fell on my face right out of the gate:

I solved the daily Clues by Sam (Oct 13th 2025) in 05:16
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cluesbysam.com
October 13, 2025 at 5:10 PM
timhutchings.bsky.social
If you normally receive the TYOV newsletter please let me know if you -don't- receive one today. For the second time the Shopify newsletter system has given me an outrageously atypical undeliverable report and I am curious if the report itself is trustworthy.
a series of delivery percentages
October 13, 2025 at 3:52 PM
timhutchings.bsky.social
Had to ask for a clue and am ashamed.

I solved the daily Clues by Sam (Oct 9th 2025) in less than 8 minutes
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cluesbysam.com
Clues by Sam
A daily logic puzzle where you deduce who are criminals and who are innocent!
cluesbysam.com
October 9, 2025 at 3:05 PM
timhutchings.bsky.social
'Noem also claimed federal agents in Portland recently arrested "the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa."

I don't think I've ever been so certain a statement was satire and been wrong.

www.kgw.com/article/news...
Kristi Noem accuses Oregon leaders of 'covering up terrorism' after visit to Portland
The DHS secretary said ICE officers told her Portland police cheered on "rioters." Portland's police chief called the claim "an abhorrent allegation."
www.kgw.com
October 9, 2025 at 2:57 PM
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sivav.bsky.social
The “compact” for higher ed is an unserious document written by unserious people from a position of spectacular ignorance. No one should take it seriously. Sadly, my bosses are taking it seriously.

newrepublic.com/article/2013...
Why This Essay Could Cause the University of Virginia to Shut Down
How Linda McMahon’s latest “compact” would do deep and permanent harm to American higher education
newrepublic.com
October 8, 2025 at 3:03 PM
timhutchings.bsky.social
This one was tricky.

I solved the daily Clues by Sam (Oct 7th 2025) in less than 9 minutes
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cluesbysam.com
Clues by Sam
A daily logic puzzle where you deduce who are criminals and who are innocent!
cluesbysam.com
October 7, 2025 at 10:05 PM
timhutchings.bsky.social
Butchered an easy one:

I solved the daily Clues by Sam (Oct 6th 2025) in 04:24
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cluesbysam.com
Clues by Sam
A daily logic puzzle where you deduce who are criminals and who are innocent!
cluesbysam.com
October 6, 2025 at 10:08 PM
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docwebb.bsky.social
@timhutchings.bsky.social Really nice write up of Art & System in the newest Wyrd Science!
A full-page article about Art & System in a print magazine.
October 6, 2025 at 8:54 PM
timhutchings.bsky.social
The Apollo 47 print book is only available at drivethrurpg.com/en/product/246241

I share because the article links to the PDF which ain't the same at all.
October 3, 2025 at 2:34 PM
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backwardsttrpg.bsky.social
In SPINE, I want players to play with the ttrpg's rulebook in innovative ways.

I wrote this essay to think through the design. It describes the various ways we play with books in ttrpgs, with examples of how we use books as props, as anchors for fictions, and how we recreate them as art.
Bookplay in TTRPGs
An essay on how we play with books in ttrpgs
www.backwardstabletop.com
October 3, 2025 at 3:58 AM
timhutchings.bsky.social
Flying along then got hung up at the end.

I solved the daily Clues by Sam (Oct 1st 2025) in less than 8 minutes
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cluesbysam.com
Clues by Sam
A daily logic puzzle where you deduce who are criminals and who are innocent!
cluesbysam.com
October 1, 2025 at 5:24 AM
Reposted by Tim Hutchings
fattig.bsky.social
Then Satan rose up from hell and bellowed, “Little bunny Foo Foo! My most dedicated worshipper! Continue your reign of terror against the field mice in my name.”
September 30, 2025 at 4:45 PM
timhutchings.bsky.social
I took a break for a three minute phone call.

I solved the daily Clues by Sam (Sep 30th 2025) in less than 12 minutes
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cluesbysam.com
Clues by Sam
A daily logic puzzle where you deduce who are criminals and who are innocent!
cluesbysam.com
September 30, 2025 at 4:45 PM
timhutchings.bsky.social
I appreciate the newsletter reminding me about these puzzles. I hadn't done one in awhile.

I solved the daily Clues by Sam (Sep 29th 2025) in 03:50
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cluesbysam.com
Clues by Sam
A daily logic puzzle where you deduce who are criminals and who are innocent!
cluesbysam.com
September 29, 2025 at 5:50 PM
timhutchings.bsky.social
How much does it cost to put 8+ federal/mystery employees in the field for however many hours they spent waiting for that guy? Did taxpayers pay for that guy to have a "this is my personality" cowboy hat?
wutangforchildren.bsky.social WuTangIsForTheChildren @wutangforchildren.bsky.social · Sep 29
ICE Nazis in Chicago tried to kidnap a food delivery worker but my man was too fast for those slow bastards
September 29, 2025 at 5:45 PM
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cyborgurl.bsky.social
look at dat cover
cmichpress.bsky.social Central Michigan University Press @cmichpress.bsky.social · Sep 24
It's the perfect time to catch up on @cyborgurl.bsky.social's actual play of Thaumaturge, the new RPG debuting with Princess with a Cursed Sword (bound edition). Read the latest entry: https://bit.ly/4pTKmqe
Crowdfunding starts October 1st: https://bit.ly/4mE1Ncn
Art by @evlynmoreau.bsky.social
Cover of book featuring a glowing sword with a skull on the handle. Text Princess with a Cursed Sword A Book of Solo Journaling Games By Anna Anthropy. The words are written on curling banners.
September 24, 2025 at 10:45 PM
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cyborgurl.bsky.social
I'm excited to announce I'm going to be running a four-week remote workshop on creating interactive fiction with #bitsy starting at the end of September! Games created in the workshop will be featured in an exhibition at Accent Sisters in New York, with whom I'm partnering on this project!
Crafting Interactive Fiction with Bitsy. With Anna Anthropy. September 28 to October 19. 4 weeks online workshop, 150 minutes per session. What if a work of fiction were more like a space – something readers could wander, struggle against, push at the boundaries of? Digital games let us weave interactivity, spatiality and friction into storytelling. In this class, we’ll use Adam Le Doux’s Bitsy – a free browser-based game tool – to create interactive narratives. If you love storytelling and want experiment with new tools to tell new kinds of stories, this class is for you. Beijing Time: September 28, October 5, October 12, October 19, Sundays, 9:00 - 11:30 AM New York Time: September 27, October 4, October 11, October 18, Saturdays, 9:00 - 11:30 PM Our 150-minute workshops will consist of guided tutorials, artistic discussions and creative exercises. Over the course of four meetings, participants will write, develop and revise a work of original interactive fiction. At the end of the class, outstanding projects will have the opportunity to be featured in an exhibition at Accent Sisters in New York. Anna Anthropy is a game designer, educator and cyborg. Her work, both digital and tabletop, explores themes of queerness, kink and disability. Her most well-known digital games include dys4ia and Lesbian Spider-Queens of Mars; some of her recent tabletop work includes Coldbloods, The Fool's Journey, and the award-winning Forgotten Palaces. Anna is the author of several books on games and game design, including A Game Design Vocabulary, Rise of the Video Game Zinesters, ZZT, and the Make Your Own Video Games! series from No Starch press. She has shown work in the Victoria & Albert Museum in London, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, and the Museum of the Moving Image in New York. She lives in Chicago with a little black cat named Encyclopedia Frown.
August 23, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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grahamwalmsley.bsky.social
Here's a thread on how to win a Golden Cobra. I've won it twice and judged it once, not that that's any guarantee.

(Golden Cobra is a larp competition, which launched today, and you should totally enter).

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goldencobra.bsky.social The Golden Cobra Challenge @goldencobra.bsky.social · Sep 8
The Golden Cobra Challenge 2025 is NOW LIVE!

Get your gamesss in by October 13th!

goldencobra.org
September 8, 2025 at 3:05 PM