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(She/They) Domestic Errorist 𒀭 𒈹 🏴‍☠️🏳️‍⚧️👽
Poet, Editor, Author, & Publisher
Best of the Net nominee
Author of the Ishtar Cycle, creator of the Galaxy Black RPG, & the Sub-ether and Maenadum zines.
Mors semper tyrannis
https://linktr.ee/GwenScarlet
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the Maenad @dreaminggynoid.bsky.social · Sep 18
Out Now
Space Girl’s Guide to the Empress Imperium – a Galaxy Black companion A setting book and players guide for Galaxy Black and the DCC RPG 436 pages
A galaxy of grimly cheeky, spaced-out, super science , sword & sorcery action.
Purchase links on my linkstree linktr.ee/GwenScarlet
#DCC #DCCRPG
Image of a moon in shadow partially eclipsing a bright orange sun on a black background set onto a white cover. The title reads (in white) Galaxy Black (and in green) Space Girl's Guide to the Empress Imperium. Below the image in black letters the publisher identification reads Dreaming Gynoid Studio and Compatible with DCC respectively.
dreaminggynoid.bsky.social
Good morning! The Dreaming Gynoid Q&A video will be up on YouTube in just right about two hours. In the description there is a link to the full (audio) Q&A - about 33 minutes in total

#GalaxyBlack #DCCRPG #TabletopRPG #DreamingGynoid
#QueerRPGCreators #Sub-ether

www.youtube.com/watch?v=depQ...
Dreaming Gynoid Q&A GALAXY BLACK origins
YouTube video by Gwendolyn Harper
www.youtube.com
December 7, 2025 at 11:14 AM
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korybing.bsky.social
One of my favorite seasonal offerings
anforsorrow.bsky.social Anfor @anforsorrow.bsky.social · 7d
Btw, the ballet dancer who posts every year on TikTok their rat costume for the Nutcracker is already posting their yearly Rat Season.
Credit: @belle_urwin on TikTok
December 4, 2025 at 4:16 PM
dreaminggynoid.bsky.social
On this date in 1980 I first faked being sick to stay home so I could watch Alien when it premiered on The Movie Channel at noon.
I was 8.

Great fucking movie.
Not something I should really have watched alone or maybe at all. Watched it again when it came on at 9pm
From under the covers.
December 1, 2025 at 12:55 PM
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erictopol.bsky.social
Remarkable story of a Georgia high school team who used CRISPR to make a rapid diagnostic test strip for Lyme disease, speeding dx from 2 weeks to days
www.cbsnews.com/news/teens-m...
Teens may have come up with a new way to detect, treat Lyme disease using CRISPR gene editing
To compete at iGEM, a sort of science Olympics, teens at a Georgia high school set their sights on finding a better way to detect and treat Lyme disease. Their approach uses CRISPR gene editing.
www.cbsnews.com
December 1, 2025 at 4:06 AM
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dreaminggynoid.bsky.social
Backers! Today on the Dreaming Gynoid patreon I present to you your first look at the Nuraghi.

Everyone! You can back our Patreon and support a disabled ND trans creator, for as little as one dollar a month!
Updates multiple times a month

Queer punk fantasy SF!

www.patreon.com/posts/144615...
Climbing the skyroots into the endless radio ocean: The Nuraghi | Dreaming Gynoid Studio
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November 28, 2025 at 8:28 PM
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dreaminggynoid.bsky.social
A picture of Venus taken by the Akatsuki Orbiter.
A reminder that we _can_ do amazing things.

Now let's feed and house people, fix the planet, and get rid of dickheads like Trump, Putin, Netanyahu, and the rest of the world's kleptocrats.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akatsuk...
October 30, 2025 at 3:03 PM
dreaminggynoid.bsky.social
OG Cyberpunks -

Remember how the Incorporated States of America were among the _least_ believable, most OTT, things in the 2027 future of Cybergeneration?
Huh. Food for thought.

#Cybergeneration
#EvolveorDie
December 1, 2025 at 1:46 AM
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foxenlock.bsky.social
Grab all five of my books for £1.99!

75% off all weekend

Whether you’re into cyberpunk, supernatural slice of life, or gothic fantasy, there’s something here for everyone.

And they’re all super-duper queer.

itch.io/s/169820/bla...

🌈🚀💫 #Booksky 💙📚
The novels Their Heart A Hive, Black Velvet, A Designer Magick, and Fortitude Waters by Fox N. Locke alongside Trans_lucent by Wayward Sparx on a crumpled paper effect background. Text along the bottom reads '5 books, £1.99, 3 days'
November 28, 2025 at 7:21 AM
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iambrandondiehl.bsky.social
Guys who drive Cybertrucks don't wash their balls.
November 30, 2025 at 11:48 PM
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elfdock.bsky.social
Gadot, who served as a combat trainer in the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) for two years and hosted screenings for Bearing Witness—a 2023 documentary produced by the IDF—told Variety she was “all about humanity” (Note: That humanity does not extend to Palestinians)
November 30, 2025 at 9:21 PM
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himmapaan.bsky.social
And this one with an Edmontosaurus is from 2013.

It was commissioned by the science faculty of the University of Alberta as their Christmas card that year. In the event, they didn't reproduce the image in full but cropped it heavily, losing much of the composition and its various elements.
Illustration in sepia ink on tan toned paper with white highlights. In an oval frame, an Edmontosaurus carrying pannier baskets filled with festive-looking gifts stands in a snowy landscape with two handlers, one in early sixteenth century European clothing and wide-brimmed hat, the other in Ottoman clothing and turban; each carrying a long staff. In the foreground, a Pachyrhinosaurus and a pair of troodontids approach a great pile of food and produce on the ground.
November 29, 2025 at 10:52 PM
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I spent a good chunk of my life living at or near poverty. I learned a lot from those experiences, like helping those in need actually helps build them tf up. The majority of folks just want to do more than simply survive. They want fucking stability to live.
November 30, 2025 at 12:46 AM
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fjowebster.bsky.social
Mark Kelly, "... rocket ship... built by the lowest bidder." 🤣
Brave man...
mollyploofkins.bsky.social Molly Ploofkins @mollyploofkins.bsky.social · 15d
Sen. Mark Kelly: “I’ve had a missile blow up next to my airplane. I’ve been nearly shot down multiple times. I’ve flown a rocket ship into space four times, built by the lowest bidder. I’m not going to be silenced by Donald Trump.”
November 25, 2025 at 7:34 PM
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Re: 29 year old gaming argument – Warhammer Fantasy, first session Shadows Over Bögenhafen

We were both wrong – however, NO WAY Judas had the upper body strength to wield that thing regardless, so you totes win this one.

youtu.be/Dc2wBq8JL_Y?...
How Effective was the Chain Flail in Real Combat??
YouTube video by Tod's Workshop
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November 29, 2025 at 3:54 AM
dreaminggynoid.bsky.social
Backers! Today on the Dreaming Gynoid patreon I present to you your first look at the Nuraghi.

Everyone! You can back our Patreon and support a disabled ND trans creator, for as little as one dollar a month!
Updates multiple times a month

Queer punk fantasy SF!

www.patreon.com/posts/144615...
Climbing the skyroots into the endless radio ocean: The Nuraghi | Dreaming Gynoid Studio
Get more from Dreaming Gynoid Studio on Patreon
www.patreon.com
November 28, 2025 at 8:28 PM
dreaminggynoid.bsky.social
It's the No Black Fridays sale
- everything in the Dreaming Gynoid store is 20% off!

Until Midnight Wednesday the 26th, all 23 Dreaming Gynoid releases are 20% off! But only through Wednesday the 26th, ending at 11:59pm.
Grab em before the holidays!

www.drivethrurpg.com/en/publisher...
November 24, 2025 at 2:33 PM
dreaminggynoid.bsky.social
Remember today our trans & GNC siblings locked away in ICE concentration camps, hidden away from the world, facing an uncertain future of darkness.
They must be freed. Everyone in detention must be Free.
#TransLiberationNow
#SmashICE
#TransDayofRememberance
#TDoR2025

www.vera.org/news/ice-is-...
ICE is Excluding Data on Transgender People in Detention
Illustration by Bea Hayward. On the first day of his presidency, Donald Trump signed an executive order requiring that people in federal custody…
www.vera.org
November 20, 2025 at 6:47 PM
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angelic.style
its so cool that our two trans holidays are "please remember we exist" and "please stop killing us"
November 20, 2025 at 3:51 PM
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transgenderarchive.bsky.social
On Transgender Day of Remembrance, we honor the lives taken by transphobic violence. This day is credited to Gwendolyn Smith, who started the tradition in 1999 with a vigil for Rita Hester. Pictured is an earlier vigil for Marsha P. Johnson (1992).
Courtesy of NYC LGBT Center.
#TransHistory #TDOR
Pictured: scan of four colored Polaroid photos. Top left: empty bottles lined in an oblong shape, with flowers piled in the middle. Top right: three people crouching next to the memorial with their heads bowed. Bottom left: person bending at the waist and arranging the flowers, while three people lean against a parking barrier in the background. Bottom right: two people crouching next to the memorial with another person standing nearby and another leaning against a parking barrier in the background
November 20, 2025 at 5:56 PM
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Today on the Dreaming Gynoid patreon, the full writeup for VALI-SA, the Prismatic Satellite, one of those rarest of things, a patron of benevolence.
Unlock this and a multitude of other treasures at our Patreon!

#GalaxyBlack
#DCCRPG
#DCC
#TabletopRPG
#patreonpost

www.patreon.com/posts/patron...
Patrons of the Known Galaxies - SYSTEM ALEPH (VALI-SA) | Dreaming Gynoid Studio
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November 14, 2025 at 6:04 PM
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Hands off Our Neighbors

Seen at Capitol Hill light rail station, Seattle Washington
November 4, 2025

#SMASHICE
#Resist
#NoHumanIsIllegal
Blocky pink chalk writing on the concrete near a pair of speed barriers at the entrance to Capitol Hill light rail Station in Seattle, Washington. The writing reads HANDS OFF OUR NEIGHBORS
November 4, 2025 at 8:31 PM
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mikez.bsky.social
Pondering.
#art
A mechanical being with a glass bubble head full of mushrooms strikes a pondering pose. Watercolor and white gouache on toned paper.
November 19, 2025 at 1:13 AM
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November 15, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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It's being reported that New Zealand has banned puberty blockers for transgender youth. I removed New Zealand from my recommendations to families fleeing a while back after the far right saw a surge in power in the country.

Sad day for NZ trans youth.
Cabinet has agreed to introduce new safeguards on the prescribing of gonadotropin-releasing hormone analogues, while ensuring patients with medical needs can continue to access appropriate care, Health Minister Simeon Brown says. "We are putting in place stronger safeguards so families can have confidence that any treatment is clinically sound and in the best interests of the young person or child. "Gonadotropin-releasing hormone analogues play an important role in treating a range of medical conditions. We are ensuring they remain available for patients who need them for conditions such as early-onset puberty, endometriosis, or prostate cancer, where there is strong clinical evidence of benefit." The Ministry of Health’s evidence brief found that there is a lack of high-quality evidence that demonstrates the benefits or risks of the use of gonadotropin-releasing hormone analogues for the treatment of gender dysphoria or incongruence. While this uncertainty persists, the Government is taking a precautionary approach. Following public consultation, Cabinet has agreed to introduce new regulations under the Medicines Act to align New Zealand's approach with the United Kingdom: New patients seeking treatment for gender dysphoria or incongruence can no longer be prescribed gonadotropin-releasing hormone analogues, pending the completion of the United Kingdom's clinical trial on their use in this context. Ensure existing youth gender services are maintained for young people experiencing gender dysphoria or incongruence and bringing these services together through a central, accessible online resource. "These changes will ensure a more consistent and carefully monitored approach. This mirrors steps taken in other countries, such as the United Kingdom, Finland, Norway, and Sweden, where additional safeguards have recently been implemented to ensure decisions are made in line with the best available evidence," Mr Brown says. The new approach will not impact patients cu…
November 19, 2025 at 4:35 AM
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The Salvation Army are a hate group. Do not forget that this winter.
November 17, 2025 at 5:04 PM