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Alex Speidel 🔜 PAXU
@alexspeidel.bsky.social
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Organizer for the Diana Jones Award Winning United Paizo Workers; I tell people what kind of elves they can pretend to be for Paizo Organized Play. He/him, known bisexual.

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Alex Speidel 🔜 PAXU @alexspeidel.bsky.social · Nov 11
I’m Alex. I’m Paizo’s Organized Play Coordinator and a part-time union organizer for CODE-CWA. If you want posts about organizing your workplace or unbearable nerdy gaming & media, I’m your guy.

Also, my husband and I have two really cute cats.
Selfie of Ted and I over the Swiss countryside Two cats (black & white and tabby) sleepily chilling in a cat bed by a window Selfie of me in a Lorcana hat and mask at the Seattle Lorcana Challenge I am GMing a Starfinder game in a very evil manner
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Went 3-1 at #Lorcana league today!

Unfortunately on the way home I started concepting a mono-Emerald deck and now I'm obsessed with the idea.

I'm about to be a terror. Or a failure. Either way!
November 16, 2025 at 3:42 AM
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paizo.com
There's never been a glitch Raia can't fix! Our trusty Starfinder iconic technomancer is pulling out all the stops to make our new website the best it can be! Hang tight through the weekend, and we'll be back on Monday with more updates!
The image is of Raia, the Starfinder iconic lashunta technomancer, operating a hologram with their fingers on a space ship. In the top left corner of the image is the "Starfinder" Second Edition logo.
November 14, 2025 at 10:04 PM
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sbworkersunited.org
As of this morning, Starbucks workers across the country are officially ON STRIKE. And we're prepared for this to become the biggest and longest ULP strike in Starbucks history.

Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX
Don't Buy Starbucks! At any location, today and beyond, while workers are on ULP strike!
November 13, 2025 at 11:33 AM
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innes.bsky.social
"The mainstream understanding of AI is as an interefering piece of shit which doesn't work" pt II

www.askamanager.org/2025/11/the-...
10. The baby announcement At the end of a meeting, a colleague asked their boss to stay on the line for a couple of minutes. The colleague then confidentially shared the great news that they were expecting a baby, and they and their boss talked about a few next steps to plan for parental leave. The AI notetaker then sent out notes to everyone who had attended the meeting with the headline, “Colleague Is Having a Baby.” 19. The equipment I recently saw a ~$50,000 piece of industrial equipment damaged and taken out of commission for about a month because Google AI search told a worker that the tightening torque of a screw was 50 ft*lb instead of 50 in*lb. This resulted in them over-tightening the screw by a factor of 12, which unfortunately didn’t strip the threaded hole (which would have been a smaller problem) but instead warped a bearing assembly that required a full rebuild at considerable difficulty and expense. The kicker is that the correct torque value was clearly printed in the service manual that is stored in the machine. 1. The fake initiative Our execs usually send out a hype email right before the annual employee morale survey, emphasizing wins from the past year, basically trying to put people in a positive frame of mind. Last year’s included the announcement of a major new program we knew employees really wanted. But it was a bit surprising, because it fell in an area my team was responsible for, and we were out of the loop, despite advocating strenuously for this over the years. So I went to the exec to a) convey enthusiasm for his newfound dedication to launching this program and b) ask what support he needed from my team/get us involved again. It turned out the program wasn’t launching at all; he had just asked AI to edit the email to make it sound more exciting and appealing, and it had done so by … launching my initiative. 16. The scam We work with a lot of small businesses just starting up, and as a result are asked to recommend professional services often. Knowing this, a client passed on a discreet warning about the bookkeeping firm we’d recommended to them. They had issues with their accounting software, Quickbooks, and called for help. It was right when Google started providing AI summaries for everything, and apparently their account rep pulled the phone number for Quickbooks’ support out of the AI summary, rather than off the website. You can probably guess where this is going. The number wasn’t legit, but instead put him in contact with a scammer who’d managed astroturf their way into the AI summary. The account rep gave the scammer full access to our client’s accounting software before he realized his error. Our client didn’t share a lot of details about the damages — I got the sense that they were saying very little because they were planning legal action — but they wanted to let us know so we wouldn’t recommend them again.
November 12, 2025 at 8:47 PM
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johngodek.bsky.social
Link for the latest Intrepid Heroes Episode of our Murder in Metal City Starfinder 2 actual play podcast: youtu.be/AGTZvB8Gh24?...
Intrepid Heroes Starfinder 2 Actual Play - Murder in Metal City Session 6
YouTube video by Intrepid Heroes
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November 10, 2025 at 10:26 PM
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austinkelmore.com
When companies think they can fire people to stop unionization efforts and try to get away with it, they teach the workers one of two things:

1. Don't unionize, or else you'll be fired.
2. Unionize even harder and take bigger, more powerful actions together.

I know which takeaway I've learned.
November 10, 2025 at 6:38 PM
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tedb.bsky.social
Family portrait 😻
Portrait of Alex cradling Mochi while smiling, styled in black & white to accentuate her striking fur markings.
November 10, 2025 at 5:33 AM
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Sunday sunbeams.
A tabby cat lays on a window shelf in the sun A black & white cat loafs on the floor, dramatically lit by a sunbeam
November 9, 2025 at 6:12 PM
alexspeidel.bsky.social
I am part of the problem (bought Christmas Tree Cakes at the store on November 8)
November 8, 2025 at 7:33 PM
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sbworkersunited.org
BREAKING: After months of stonewalling by Starbucks, unionized baristas just voted 92% to authorize a ULP strike unless Starbucks finalizes fair contracts & stops union busting.

If forced, our baristas will strike in dozens of cities on November 13 – the company's busiest sales day of the year.
Starbucks unionized workers say they'll strike on Nov. 13 if coffee giant doesn't finalize contract
Union members say they are ready to strike on the chain's Red Cup Day if Starbucks doesn't finalize a contract with their union by then.
www.cbsnews.com
November 5, 2025 at 7:51 PM
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rascal.news
If companies must tell €2 million fibs, under guidance by platforms, to make crowdfunding work.

Well, then crowdfunding doesn't work.
Words must mean something
When is a goal not a goal?
www.rascal.news
November 5, 2025 at 4:51 PM
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kashana.blacksky.app
Looking forward to learning all about how the right should move left to win elections tomorrow. They should maybe dye their hair pink, learn to love pronouns.
November 5, 2025 at 1:48 AM
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famousartthief.bsky.social
every victory speech is like “to those that did not vote for me just know i will work with you”

nah dawg, we are running lib shit like it’s the four verts offense. gays everywhere. trans folks on every high school field hockey team. get on board or get smoked 42-0 at halftime.
November 5, 2025 at 1:44 AM
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ilananight.bsky.social
For anyone going to PAX Unplugged: World Builders Club is hosting a game night! They will be unveiling Democracy by Dice: a resistance-forward one-shot where community organizing is your best weapon! Plus—I'll be there to GM a table! Free entry AND free food! RSVP here: bit.ly/DemoByDice
A promo image for Democracy By Dice, featuring my headshot.
November 3, 2025 at 7:17 PM
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abyssalbrews.com
Try not to get caught in it.

We make things for you to terrorize your players with sometimes. This is perhaps one of the scariest things we've ever made for #Pathfinder2E. Get all of our creations over on the Patreon! patreon.com/abyssalbrews
Doomscroll ITEM 7 Consumable, Curse, Magical, Missive Price 60 gp Usage held in 1 hand Activate [2] (concentrate, manipulate) This odd stone tablet contains a magicked scroll that wraps around two rolls allowing it to seemingly continue to be rolled forever. The tablet itself is unremarkable, but the soft and alluring blue glow it produces seems to draw viewers towards it, inviting them to take it into their hands and see what it has to say. It occasionally softly buzzes and emits a bell-like sound if left alone for a period of time, attempting to make itself noticed to anyone around. Composing the missive requires you to write vapid, but inflammatory snippets of text that stoke fear, laughter, and anxiety in a dizzying array of half-truths. The activating creature must succeed on a DC 24 Will save or become obsessed with the words on the tablet for 1 hour, taking a -1 status penalty to Arcana, Diplomacy, Religion, and Society checks. During this time, if they attempt to have an involved conversation or argument with another creature, they become stupefied 1 for the rest of the duration of the effects of this missive. When they recover from this stupefied condition, the missive's effects end. You choose when composing the missive whether it remains as a non-magical tablet or burns to ash after imparting its magic.
November 3, 2025 at 2:25 PM
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internethippo.bsky.social
All of my political views and policy ideas have basically collapsed to "Punish the Villains" and I mumble it to myself every time I see a news article these days
August 11, 2025 at 1:36 PM
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nickkapur.bsky.social
Japan's "Mundane Halloween" costume contest is back!

Each year website DailyPortalZ holds a contest where people dress up as something super duper ordinary.

Here's a thread of some of my favorites from the 2025 contest!

#MundaneHalloween
November 2, 2025 at 9:15 AM
alexspeidel.bsky.social
Current status: my fucked-up Midwestern brain is going 😁😁😁😁 at a pouring rainstorm
November 1, 2025 at 6:53 PM
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videogameworkers.bsky.social
Scare your boss this Halloween by talking to your coworkers (on your personal devices outside of company time, ideally on an encrypted app like Signal) about organizing your workplace 👻
October 31, 2025 at 10:12 PM
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iwgbunion.bsky.social
Rockstar: not only making history in terms of profits, but in enacting the most brazen act of union busting the games industry has ever seen.
gameworkers.co.uk IWGB Game Workers Union @gameworkers.co.uk · 15d
This is the most ruthless act of union busting in the history of the UK games industry. Yesterday, @rockstargames.com unfairly fired over 30 employees for union activity.

We won't back down, and we're not scared - we will fight for every member to be reinstated.
jasonschreier.bsky.social Jason Schreier @jasonschreier.bsky.social · 15d
BREAKING: Yesterday Grand Theft Auto VI maker Rockstar Games fired dozens of people, all of whom were involved in union efforts. A British union calls it "blatant and ruthless" union-busting. Take-Two Interactive says it was due to misconduct.

Here's the scoop: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
October 31, 2025 at 8:04 PM
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steelydad.bsky.social
all I need in the world
a grilled cheese sandwich and bowl of tomato soup captioned “this and never opening Microsoft Outlook again”
October 31, 2025 at 3:37 PM
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dieworkwear.bsky.social
I'm pro-union because I think workers should organize to balance the power that business owners have in various negotiations. It's true that unions have been weakened, but it's not because of multiculturalism. I would argue, it's because people seek to exploit divisions for their material interests.
A cartoon showing a man between a white construction worker and a black man. He points to the black man and says "Careful mate ... that foreigner wants your cookie" The man in the middle has a plate full of cookies; the construction worker has one cookie; the black man has no cookies.
October 30, 2025 at 8:07 AM
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johngodek.bsky.social
Link to the latest episode of our Intrepid Heroes Starfinder 2 Actual Play Podcast of the Murder in Metal City Adventure: youtu.be/kur0O1GR6fI?...
Intrepid Heroes Starfinder 2 Actual Play - Murder in Metal City Session 5
YouTube video by Intrepid Heroes
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October 29, 2025 at 4:39 PM
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planetoffinks.bsky.social
the thing about AI boosters is that everything they promise is a lie and the correct response to 100% of it is "no it isn't. that isn't true."
October 29, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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smittermeier.bsky.social
The vibe I bring to the function
Guillermo del Toro at a Frankenstein screening with a mic in hand Subtitles „thank you very much“ „and fuck AI“
October 22, 2025 at 10:32 PM