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Long ago on the hell site I made long list of historically interesting things to use in dnd ttrpgs and I'll start dragging them over here starting with

2000 years-old sapphire ring presumably belonged to Roman emperor Caligula, depicting his fourth wife Caesonia.
Blue stone surrounding a gold metal core
November 13, 2025 at 3:51 AM
3rdragon.bsky.social
Boston-area folks, we can see the Aurora borealis right now (bring your coat!)
A faint green horizontal stripe of light in the sky, crossed by a thin pink vertical stripe. There are trees, a playground, and a telephone pole in the foreground. An empty parking lot with a slice of green light just above the horizon, and pale pinkish streaks going upwards above it.
November 12, 2025 at 2:22 AM
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museum.of.emilyk.art
The election of Zohran Mamdani as NYC mayor has exposed a gulf between the younger and older generations of American Jews. I made this zine to explore a significant part of that divide.

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A smartphone shows a social media post of people waving Palestinian flags. At the center it says "(Anti)Zionism, Social Justice, and Jewish Gen Z by Emily K." ANTI-ZIONISM AND SUPPORT FOR THE PALESTINIAN PEOPLE HAVE GROWN AMONG LEFTIST AND LEFTY JEWS, ESPECIALLY AMONG PEOPLE UNDER THE AGE OF 30. AND YET, JEWISH KIDS WERE AND STILL ARE GIVEN A JEWISH EDUCATION THAT IS BROADLY "PRO-ISRAEL." image: Jewish people at a protest carrying signs that say “Free Palestine” and “Boycott Divest Sanction.” I THINK THERE ARE SEVERAL FACTORS AT PLAY, AND NO, I DON'T THINK TIKTOK IS TO BLAME. MILLENNIALS AND ZOOMERS GREW UP IN A SYNAGOGUE CULTURE THAT HAS, IN MY EXPERIENCE, DONE A SUBPAR JOB TEACHING JEWISH HISTORY. MY OWN JEWISH EDUCATION SKEWED HEAVILY TOWARD ASHKENAZI/EASTERN EUROPEAN EXPERIENCES, MADE STORIES OF OPPRESSION AND THE HOLOCAUST A CENTRAL POINT OF OUR CULTURAL HERITAGE, AND GLOSSED OVER THE COMPLEX HISTORY OF THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE STATE OF ISRAEL. Image: an online chat between two friends. Amir_S: Just heard from my Dad. My cousin was killed in the Gaza strikes.. Hannah: Oh my god.. I'm so so sorry Amir_S: My uncle is stranded in the West Bank because his work permit was revoked. He can't get to the funeral, if they can even have one THIS KIND OF EDUCATION LEAVES A VOID OF KNOWLEDGE TO BE FILLED, OFTEN BY FREE-FLOWING INFORMATION ON THE INTERNET. AND WHILE I DON'T THINK SOCIAL MEDIA ITSELF IS A CAUSE OF THE SHIFT IN YOUNG JEWISH ATTITUDES, THE FACT THAT WE ARE MUCH MORE ONLINE THAN PREVIOUS GENERATIONS HAS DOUBTLESSLY AFFECTED OUR VIEWS. FOR ONE THING, IT IS EASIER THAN EVER TO TALK DIRECTLY TO PALESTINIANS. GEN Z HAS NEVER KNOWN AN "UNDERDOG ISRAEL.” MILLENNIALS AND GEN Z WERE BORN INTO A WORLD WHERE NOT ONLY DOES ISRAEL EXIST, IT'S A MIGHTY NATION WITH ONE OF THE MOST ADVANCED MILITARIES IN THE WORLD. IT HAS THE UNSHAKING BACKING OF THE UNITED STATES FINANCIALLY AND POLITICALLY, AND HAS RECEIVED LITTLE - IF ANY - PUSHBACK FOR THEIR ACTIONS. BOOMERS REMEMBER THE SIX DAY WAR AND THE YOM KIPPUR WAR, TWO CONFLICTS THAT WERE A REAL THREAT TO ISRAEL'S EXISTENCE. MILLENNIALS REMEMBER THE 2ND INTIFADA, IN WHICH HUNDREDS OF ISRAELIS WERE MURDERED BY TERRORISTS. MANY OF US REMEMBER PRIME MINISTER YITZHAK RABIN'S ASSASSINATION. BUT GEN Z ONLY KNOWS AN ISRAEL WITH AN ENTRENCHED RIGHT WING GOVERNMENT MORE INTERESTED IN UPHOLDING AN UNJUST STATUS QUO THAN ACHIEVING TRUE PEACE. GAZA HAS BEEN UNDER BLOCKADE SINCE 2006. THE OCCUPATION OF THE WEST BANK STARTED DECADES BEFORE THAT. THEY'VE ONLY KNOWN AN ISRAEL AT ODDS WITH THEIR BASIC MORALS. Image: Benjamin Netanyahu, Ben Gvir, and Ayalet Shaked with right wing coalition logos surrounding them. Above them is the word "HaLikud." BACKLASH TO THE STATUS QUO OF JEWISH EDUCATION. I REMEMBER FEELING EXHAUSTED BY HOW THE HOLOCAUST WAS MADE A CENTRAL PART OF MY JEWISH EDUCATION. WHEN JEWISH JOY WAS INCLUDED, IT WAS USUALLY FRAMED AROUND SURVIVAL - MOST OFTEN FROM AN ASHKENAZI PERSPECTIVE. WHERE WAS THE JEWISH JOY THAT CAME FROM WITHIN? WHERE WAS THE BRILLIANT, OFTEN HUMOROUS, TALMUDIC EPHEMERA THAT MADE US SO UNIQUE AS PEOPLE OF SCRIPTURE? WHERE WAS THE MYSTICISM SO CAREFULLY GUARDED BY OUR ANCESTORS? IF ALL WE KNOW IS OPPRESSION, THEN THE SAFEGUARD OF ISRAEL MUST BE DEFENDED AT ALL COSTS. JEWISH YOUTH ARE TAUGHT TO SUPPORT ZIONISM NOT AS A COMPLEX POLITICAL MOVEMENT, BUT AS PART OF THE EXISTENTIAL STRUGGLE AGAINST THE WIDER WORLD'S ANTISEMITISM. SO WHEN THEY LEARN FOR THE FIRST TIME ABOUT THE NAKBA, AND THE HARSH REALITIES OF LIVING UNDER OCCUPATION, ZIONISM MORPHS FROM A MOVEMENT FOR THE SELF-DETERMINATION OF AN OPPRESSED PEOPLE TO AN OPPRESSIVE, RIGHT WING IDEOLOGY THAT WAS ALWAYS INVESTED IN ETHNIC DISPLACEMENT. Images: Nazis torment religious Jews in the shtetl by mocking them and cutting their beards.
November 8, 2025 at 5:23 PM
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rblemberg.bsky.social
Until a few hours ago, my experience with major awards has been "finalist, but not a winner." I've been honored to be a finalist for many major awards. Birdverse works have been repeatedly shortlisted. Major wins up until today - not there. This is the first big win and it's MY FAVORITE AWARD
November 2, 2025 at 7:14 PM
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kaizeal.aquakatpublishing.com
If you're looking to start #AsexualAwarenessWeek off with a bang... check out the #AcePrideWeek itch bundles going on, which ft ace authors, characters, and many ownvoices!

Megabundle 🔗 riyati.ink/acepride2025
Bundle 1 🔗 riyati.ink/ace2025-1
Bundle 2 🔗 riyati.ink/ace2025-2

📚📢📚💙 🌈📚🌎 🪐📚⚔️🌈🚀
Ace Pride Week itch.io mega bundle Oct 19 - 25 | 50+ books for $50! Book covers for the following books are listed top left to bottom right: Non-player Character - Veo Corva A Dragon’s Treasure - Elis Madsen The Blood Divide - Zan Lowell The Grand Duke’s Masseur Child of the Forest - Audrey Simmons Wherever the Stars Call - S. Jean How Six Saved the Grogs - Blaine D. Arden City of Strike - Claudie Arseneault In Spite of the Inevitable - Morgan Biscup Structural Integrity - Tabitha O’Connell Of Spells and Love - Odessa Silver Inarora’s Excursion - Astrid E. Abell Puppetry - Nina Waters Sidetracked - S. K. Kelley Lost Blades - Liz Sauco Claimed by the Undead - C. L. Carhart The Star-Crossed Empire - Maya Darjani Triple Strike Threads of Fate - G. M. Grey Curse of Souls - Niranjan Courtly Love - T. D. Cloud Song of the Wolf - T. C. Smith Blood - D. C. Hart Chai and Cat-tales - Lynn Strong The Thirteenth Key - Cara Nox The Dragon Next Door - Vanessa Ricci-Thode Walking the Knife’s Edge - Elise Carlson Yours Celestically - Al Hess Pet - H. S. Kallinger The One He Brought Home - Skye Kilaen Junk Junction - Sara Codair Secondhand Origin Storie - Lee Brontido Riyati Rebirth - Kai Zeal Bridges of Smoke - Julie March The Whisperer in White - Y. R. Liu In the Eye of the Beholder - Beverly Anne Michel Peace in the Sky - Caye Marsh A Spark in Space - Janina Franck Journey Home - May Barros Doce Drosera - Anita The Audacity - Carmen Loup Bloody Space - Brittany M. Willows Enemies to Enemies - Ash Kreider Devil’s Deal - Tessa Hastjarjanto Merchants of Knowledge and Magic - Erika McCorkle A Life in Too Many Margins - S. E. Thomson Where We Converge - A. E. Bross Lantern - Burgundy Athena Pendragon A Designer Magick - Fox N. Locke The Harmony of Falling Snow - Andora Brohaw The Thread That Binds - Cedar McCloud Towers of Nine - Alyssa Louttit All books by ace authors and/or ft. ace characters across a variety of genres! riyati.ink/acepride2025 Ace Pride Week itch.io bundle 1 Oct 19 - 25 | 25 books for $25! Book covers for the following books are listed top left to bottom right: Enemies to Enemies - Ash Kreider Devil’s Deal - Tessa Hastjarjanto A Spark in Space - Janina Franck Child of the Forest - Audrey Simmons A Dragon’s Treasure - Elis Madsen How Six Saved the Frogs - Blaine D. Arden City of Strife - Claudie Arseneault In Spite of the Inevitable - Morgan Biscup Peace in the Sky - Caye Marsh Bridges of Smoke - Julie March Where We Converge - A. E. Bross Sidetracked - S. K. Kelley Lost Blades - Liz Sauco Claimed by the Undead - C. L. Carhart Pet - H. S. Kallinger Chai and Cat-tales - Lynn Strong The One He Brought Home - Skye Kilean Puppetry - Nina Waters A Life in Too Many Margins - S. E. Thomson Doce Drosera - Anita Merchants of Knowledge and Magic - Erika McCorkle Secondhand Origin Storie - Lee Brontide The Harmony of Falling Snow - Audora Brokaw Riyati Rebirth - Kai Zeal The Whisperer in White - Y. R. Liu All books by ace authors and/or ft. ace characters across a variety of genres! riyati.ink/ace2025-1 Ace Pride Week itch.io bundle 1 Oct 19 - 25 | 26 books for $26! Book covers for the following books are listed top left to bottom right: Non-player Character - Veo Corva The Blood Divide - Zan Lowell The Grand Duke’s Masseur Wherever the Stars Call - S. Jean Structural Integrity - Tabitha O’Connell Inarora’s Excursion - Astrid E. Abell The Star-Crossed Empire - Maya Darjani Triple Strike Threads of Fate - G. M. Grey Curse of Souls - Niranjan Courtly Love - T. D. Cloud The Thirteenth Key - Cara Nox Of Spells and Love - Odessa Silver The Thread That Binds - Cedar McCloud Yours Celestially - Al Hess Walking the Knife’s Edge - Elise Carlson Junk Junction - Sara Codair Song of the Wolf - T. C. Smith In the Eye of the Beholder - Beverly Anne Michel Journey Home - Mary Barros Towers of Nine - Alyssa Louttit The Audacity - Carmen Loup Bloody Spade - Brittany M. Willows Lantern - Burgundy Athena Pendragon Blood - D. C. Hart The Dragon Next Door - Vanessa Ricci-Thode A Designer Magick - Fox N. Locke All books by ace authors and/or ft. ace characters across a variety of genres! riyati.ink/ace2025-1
October 19, 2025 at 12:52 PM
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theaparker.bsky.social
#rabbit 🐰🐰🐰

AAMilne drew this to be printed on a book bag for library fundraiser!
I’d make that donation!
October 18, 2025 at 10:07 PM
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tonyatemplar.bsky.social
All the #Murderbot #crochet book covers 😍 @marthawells.com. This is one of my favourite book series from this year. "As a heartless killing machine, I was a terrible failure."
"There needs to be an error code that means “I received your request but decided to ignore you."
#booksky #books #craft
A collage of the 7 Murderbot books by Martha Wells with their matching Crochet book cover squares.
September 29, 2025 at 1:03 PM
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clh2oars.bsky.social
PAINTED FLOCK deals heavily with compulsory romance and toxic ideas around romantic relationships. "More than friends" as an expression to mean sexual-romantic partners irks me to no end, so of course it's right there in the thick of the narration.

buy.bookfunnel.com/prdyz5509q
September 22, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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dovelynnwriter.bsky.social
I love Claudie’s work. So if I tell you this is one of the most powerful books I have ever read by “autolove autobuy” standards of good… I’m just saying it is really damned good and I urge you to add it to your immediate next read spot.
clh2oars.bsky.social Claudie @clh2oars.bsky.social · Sep 14
A brilliant engineer must work with the scientist who trapped thousands in small gems to save them, but to do so, they will need to learn to trust one another—with the science, with their loved ones, and with their confused aro hearts.

Aromantic fantasy novel! buy.bookfunnel.com/prdyz5509q

🌈📚
September 14, 2025 at 1:46 PM
3rdragon.bsky.social
I had a chance to read the ARC of this and it's utterly delightful! Highly recommended if you want something that's both sweet and fluffy and also thoughtful.
lynnstrong.bsky.social Lynn Strong | Cozy fantasy author @lynnstrong.bsky.social · Sep 12
💙 📚 🪐 📚 🌈 #cozyfantasy #newrelease Who needs a romp?

lynnstrong.com/books/haroun: Off the chain on Sept 13!

😎 Crimes of fashion
🧶 Weaponized fiber arts
😺 🤝 🐶 Cats & dogs living together
♿ A blind dogfolk & his seeing eye human
😱 50 pg bonus recipes!

Game time: 1 repost = 1 backstage trivia 😁
Available September 13: Unleash the hounds! Mischief included! Haroun and the Study of Mischief by Lynn Strong, also available at lynnstrong.com/books/haroun
September 13, 2025 at 3:39 PM
3rdragon.bsky.social
In case your timeline needed a greyhound attempting to eat a quail egg.
September 13, 2025 at 2:15 PM
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littlebadger.bsky.social
Outtake
A pug sits with a beaded bracelet on her forehead
September 10, 2025 at 10:11 PM
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maybarros.com.br
@augursociety.bsky.social #AugurMicros2025

Actual story was too long for the post, so it's in an image with alt text
If it was up to her, it would all burn. But, unfortunately, that wouldn't actually solve anything. So she did as she was trained to do: picked up her sword, put on some lipstick and went hunting for those who smelled of money. You see, once you amass such a wealth human minds can't fathom, you become a dragon and princesses are trained to deal with dragons. It's silly to think princesses need to be saved from what is their natural prey. And she was the best one yet.
September 6, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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lynnstrong.bsky.social
Well, this puts some very useful words around something I tripped over when I first had the chance to identify myself without my body and voice being part of folks' language assignments?
juliekliegman.com Julie Kliegman @juliekliegman.com · Sep 5
Howdy! I’ve got a new @slate.com story, about some really fascinating work researcher @cantonwiner.bsky.social is doing around asexuality and a concept he coined called “gender detachment”
A Researcher Was Studying How to Classify Gender—and Found a Startling New Answer
Turns out there’s more to the gender spectrum than we’d imagined.
slate.com
September 5, 2025 at 6:23 PM
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zenithmartlet.bsky.social
Hey Firefox users.
Screenshot from a Tumblr post by ralfmaximus: Mozilla, in its finite wisdom, embedded LLM bots into recent versions of Firefox for the vitally-important purpose of… naming tab groups. Now, some users are noticing CPU and power usage spikes caused by a background process called Inference. Ugh. Reminder again for Firefox users to visit your about:config page, search for the browser.ml.chat.enabled key, and set that to false: If yours says true then double-click it until it reads false. Doing that turns off the AI chatbot features in Firefox, but also the stupid new LLM tab-naming feature that's rolling out
August 29, 2025 at 9:15 PM
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lynnstrong.bsky.social
💙📚🌈🤝📚 #arc #cozyfantasy review of Haroun by Joy in the Dance - I'm honored! 💕

"Highly recommended if you want a book that feels like a romp combined with a comforting hug, and is also thoughtful, insightful, and well-written."

app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/d65a...
Review by joy_in_the_dance - Haroun and the Study of Mischief
After reading Chai and Cat-Tales, I was hoping that Haroun and the Study of Mischief would be ...
app.thestorygraph.com
August 23, 2025 at 12:52 PM
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mayorwu.boston.gov
Last week, Boston received a letter from AG Bondi threatening to prosecute officials and withhold funds unless we cooperate with carrying out mass deportations.

The US Attorney General asked for a response by today, so here it is: stop attacking our cities to hide your administration’s failures.
August 19, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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littlebadger.bsky.social
Sheine Lende, a book inspired by my family’s history in Texas, just won THE LODESTAR award at the Hugos, and I am so immensely grateful to everyone who supported my story 😭❤️ I walked the stage in a Lipan camp dress that was hand-sewn by my mother.
Darcie stands on a stage and holds a little silver robot statue Darcie stands on a stage and holds a little silver robot statue
August 17, 2025 at 11:27 PM
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uncannymagazine.bsky.social
PLEASE REPOST! WRITERS! Uncanny Magazine will be open to Short Story Submissions from August 25 to September 8! Uncanny Magazine will be open to Poetry Submissions from August 9 to August 26. WE WANT TO SEE YOUR SHINY WORDS! buff.ly/9AyStcb
Space Unicorn!
August 4, 2025 at 3:03 PM
3rdragon.bsky.social
@lynnstrong.bsky.social I enjoyed Chai and Cat-Tales! It was cute and sweet and generally delightful.
March 29, 2025 at 1:50 AM
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clh2oars.bsky.social
We're in our last stretch everyone!!

💚 aromantic MCs
🧡 science fiction and fantasy
💚 a focus on platonic relationships!

KS campaign ends today at 7 PM EDT ✨

www.kickstarter.com/projects/cla...

💙📚 🌈📚 #AspecAuthors #QueerAdultSFF 🌈🚀💫
The cover for Common Bonds 2 (two friends knitting a sweater in the middle of autumnal leaves) in paperback and tablet mock ups. It is decorated with loops of blue wools and autumnal leaves that match the cover, and the background is a pale orange. On top of it is written "Last 12 hours" and "help us fund the audiobook"
March 10, 2025 at 12:17 PM
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nickydrayden.bsky.social
We'll have an official announcement soon, but @suyidavies.com and I are working on a tabletop card game called Prosper with Dragons and we'd be delighted if you sign up to be notified when our Kicksrarter goes live: www.kickstarter.com/projects/115...
Prosper with Dragons cards laid out showing dragon artwork
November 29, 2024 at 5:06 PM
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arthur.qeng-ho.org
We have discovered a cause for lupus and may have a way to treat it.

#ShareGoodNewsToo

news.feinberg.northwestern.edu/2024/07/10/s...
Scientists Discover a Cause of Lupus and a Possible Way to Reverse It
Scientists have discovered a molecular defect that promotes the pathologic immune response in lupus and demonstrated that reversing the defect may potentially reverse the disease.
news.feinberg.northwestern.edu
July 12, 2024 at 2:04 PM
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maggieww.bsky.social
Hidden behind a dozen Biden stories is this important story about what Elon and his SpaceX are costing us all - and the earth. Gift article. www.nytimes.com/2024/07/07/u...
Wildlife Protections Take a Back Seat to SpaceX’s Ambitions
A New York Times investigation found that Elon Musk exploited federal agencies’ competing missions to achieve his goals for space travel.
www.nytimes.com
July 8, 2024 at 12:54 PM