Tanya Floaker
@floaker.bsky.social
Game Designer ❖ Writer ❖ Consultant
https://floaker.carrd.co
(they/them)
Avatar: Headshot of a white person w. shaved head, a tuft of pink hair, round glasses, and pink surreal collage background (no AI)
https://floaker.carrd.co
(they/them)
Avatar: Headshot of a white person w. shaved head, a tuft of pink hair, round glasses, and pink surreal collage background (no AI)
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Tanya Floaker
@floaker.bsky.social
· Oct 17
Hello all, time for a #TTRPGIntro!
I'm an award-winning game designer currently based out of Edinburgh, Scotland. I create games from a queer anarchist communist perspective, help organize Edinburgh Indie Gamers, and actively build spaces to promote new creators.
Links in 🧵 below.
I'm an award-winning game designer currently based out of Edinburgh, Scotland. I create games from a queer anarchist communist perspective, help organize Edinburgh Indie Gamers, and actively build spaces to promote new creators.
Links in 🧵 below.
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It's a good game y'all
Pre-orders are now open for #ZhenyasWonderTalesRPG and the pledge management surveys begin this week! Add this gorgeous game to your gaming library! #TTRPGs #RPGs
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www.backerkit.com/c/projects/b...
November 19, 2025 at 9:12 PM
It's a good game y'all
Mum Chums has started landing in strange places... Looks like Al Amarja from Over The Edge in some ways... I wonder what parenting there would be like?
Look what arrived and got photographed in some kind of weird midnight at the oasis/The City from a|state mashup, which pretty much describes the author it's only MUM CHUMS by @floaker.bsky.social and the crowd goes wild
November 19, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Mum Chums has started landing in strange places... Looks like Al Amarja from Over The Edge in some ways... I wonder what parenting there would be like?
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lol just saw a business defending itself by saying they "HAD to use AI to keep up with the competition," which is like saying you HAVE to eat that big pile of horse shit because the guy next to you just put TWO scoops on his plate and now there's hardly any left
Saw some gig posters using Ai and that’s no good. Gig posters are a lot of artists first gig, they’re fucking with the ecosystem of students getting £20 so I’m making stickers because thermal label printers are our cheapest propaganda tool
November 19, 2025 at 4:31 PM
lol just saw a business defending itself by saying they "HAD to use AI to keep up with the competition," which is like saying you HAVE to eat that big pile of horse shit because the guy next to you just put TWO scoops on his plate and now there's hardly any left
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also to Saskia Heijltjes, Dr. Sarah Ruggins, Megan Joy Barclay, and Athlyn Cathcart who all also declined the award. road.cc/content/news...
Several winners of Cycling UK 100 Women in Cycling prize decline award due to exclusion of trans women
Cycling UK say the decision was made following legal advice but that the rule change "doesn't alter our commitment to transgender and non-binary people"
road.cc
November 19, 2025 at 5:20 PM
also to Saskia Heijltjes, Dr. Sarah Ruggins, Megan Joy Barclay, and Athlyn Cathcart who all also declined the award. road.cc/content/news...
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hey cis friends
when i say we need you to be an accomplice, not an ally
this is what i mean
when i say we need you to be an accomplice, not an ally
this is what i mean
November 19, 2025 at 4:39 PM
hey cis friends
when i say we need you to be an accomplice, not an ally
this is what i mean
when i say we need you to be an accomplice, not an ally
this is what i mean
The weather was cold, but the fire in everyone's heart will carry the union to victory!
November 19, 2025 at 4:48 PM
The weather was cold, but the fire in everyone's heart will carry the union to victory!
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When I arrive at the party
November 19, 2025 at 5:53 AM
When I arrive at the party
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🔍 We are conducting research to understand how deepfake technologies are transforming the realities of sx work.
Interested? Take our short survey: www.surveymonkey.com/r/CQCXJH2
⌚ Interview legth: ~ 1 hour
💸 Compensation: 30 euro
Interested? Take our short survey: www.surveymonkey.com/r/CQCXJH2
⌚ Interview legth: ~ 1 hour
💸 Compensation: 30 euro
November 19, 2025 at 9:50 AM
🔍 We are conducting research to understand how deepfake technologies are transforming the realities of sx work.
Interested? Take our short survey: www.surveymonkey.com/r/CQCXJH2
⌚ Interview legth: ~ 1 hour
💸 Compensation: 30 euro
Interested? Take our short survey: www.surveymonkey.com/r/CQCXJH2
⌚ Interview legth: ~ 1 hour
💸 Compensation: 30 euro
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Horrendous week so far for deadlines and weather. Here’s another from my #scotlandsquared series, it’s Dalton’s Scrapyard in #leith. An industrial holdout in an area of very rapid #gentrification #photography #scotland
November 19, 2025 at 9:51 AM
Horrendous week so far for deadlines and weather. Here’s another from my #scotlandsquared series, it’s Dalton’s Scrapyard in #leith. An industrial holdout in an area of very rapid #gentrification #photography #scotland
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Join Take One Action and friends next month to explore what it might look like to have a radical social centre in central Edinburgh, and to explore together all the different things that a space like this could offer!
Find out more: www.takeoneaction.org.uk/event/how-do...
Find out more: www.takeoneaction.org.uk/event/how-do...
How Do You Make A Radical Social Centre? - Take One Action!
Join Take One Action and friends to explore what it might look like to have a radical social centre in central Edinburgh, and to explore together all the different things […]
www.takeoneaction.org.uk
November 19, 2025 at 10:07 AM
Join Take One Action and friends next month to explore what it might look like to have a radical social centre in central Edinburgh, and to explore together all the different things that a space like this could offer!
Find out more: www.takeoneaction.org.uk/event/how-do...
Find out more: www.takeoneaction.org.uk/event/how-do...
There are paid commissions available for 7 Writers and journalists, 7 Illustrators and artists, and 6 Audio and podcast producers!
Also today, I want to highlight a paid opportunity for emerging trans writers and artists. 🏳️⚧️ www.wearequeeraf.com/telltranshis...
Paid opportunities for 20 Trans+ creatives - Deadline, Dec 2nd 2025
Make official content for Trans+ History Week a week to learn and celebrate the millennia-old history of Trans+ people
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November 19, 2025 at 11:29 AM
There are paid commissions available for 7 Writers and journalists, 7 Illustrators and artists, and 6 Audio and podcast producers!
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great read! funnily enough i've mostly had this kind of experience with ARGs (Vanished and sexymax) and I think blaseball also captured some of this energy. this discord is full of ghosts is also a really great way to get a much smaller version of this going.
#over/under was not one of a kind. I have been playing similar games for the last EIGHT YEARS. Today, I give this medium a name - "Live Text Roleplay" - and help you build a community of your own.
www.valerialoves.com/how-to-repli...
www.valerialoves.com/how-to-repli...
How to Replicate Over/Under
A Guide to Live Text Roleplay
www.valerialoves.com
November 19, 2025 at 10:29 AM
great read! funnily enough i've mostly had this kind of experience with ARGs (Vanished and sexymax) and I think blaseball also captured some of this energy. this discord is full of ghosts is also a really great way to get a much smaller version of this going.
"[The] BHSA is simply a rebrand of the notorious Hunting Office, the organisation that collapsed following the HSA’s publication of leaked webinars that proved that trail hunting is a ‘smokescreen’ designed to conceal illegal hunting."
𝗕𝗥𝗘𝗔𝗞𝗜𝗡𝗚: 𝗛𝗨𝗡𝗧𝗜𝗡𝗚 ‘𝗧𝗢𝗣 𝗕𝗥𝗔𝗦𝗦’ 𝗣𝗥𝗘𝗦𝗘𝗡𝗧 𝗔𝗧 𝗖𝗢𝗡𝗜𝗦𝗧𝗢𝗡 𝗙𝗢𝗫𝗛𝗢𝗨𝗡𝗗𝗦 𝗠𝗘𝗘𝗧
𝗧𝗼𝗱𝗮𝘆 𝘄𝗲 𝗰𝗮𝗻 𝗿𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗮𝗹 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗮 𝗸𝗲𝘆 𝗿𝗲𝗽𝗿𝗲𝘀𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗮𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗳𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗕𝗿𝗶𝘁𝗶𝘀𝗵 𝗛𝗼𝘂𝗻𝗱 𝗦𝗽𝗼𝗿𝘁𝘀 𝗔𝘀𝘀𝗼𝗰𝗶𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 (𝗕𝗛𝗦𝗔), 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗼𝗿𝗴𝗮𝗻𝗶𝘀𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝘀𝘂𝗽𝗽𝗼𝘀𝗲𝗱𝗹𝘆 𝗿𝗲𝗴𝘂𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗲𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗮𝗱𝘃𝗼𝗰𝗮𝘁𝗲𝘀 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗹𝗲𝗴𝗮𝗹 𝗵𝘂𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴, 𝘄𝗮𝘀 𝗽𝗿𝗲𝘀𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗼𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗱𝗮𝘆⬇
www.huntsabs.org.uk/hunting-top-...
𝗧𝗼𝗱𝗮𝘆 𝘄𝗲 𝗰𝗮𝗻 𝗿𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗮𝗹 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗮 𝗸𝗲𝘆 𝗿𝗲𝗽𝗿𝗲𝘀𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗮𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗳𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗕𝗿𝗶𝘁𝗶𝘀𝗵 𝗛𝗼𝘂𝗻𝗱 𝗦𝗽𝗼𝗿𝘁𝘀 𝗔𝘀𝘀𝗼𝗰𝗶𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 (𝗕𝗛𝗦𝗔), 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗼𝗿𝗴𝗮𝗻𝗶𝘀𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝘀𝘂𝗽𝗽𝗼𝘀𝗲𝗱𝗹𝘆 𝗿𝗲𝗴𝘂𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗲𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗮𝗱𝘃𝗼𝗰𝗮𝘁𝗲𝘀 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗹𝗲𝗴𝗮𝗹 𝗵𝘂𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴, 𝘄𝗮𝘀 𝗽𝗿𝗲𝘀𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗼𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗱𝗮𝘆⬇
www.huntsabs.org.uk/hunting-top-...
Hunting ‘Top Brass’ Present At Coniston Foxhounds Meet - Hunt Saboteurs Association
Last Wednesday, the HSA published harrowing drone footage - shot by heroic Lake District Hunt Sabs - of the Coniston Foxhounds digging out a fox and ripping her to pieces. At least seven people have b...
www.huntsabs.org.uk
November 19, 2025 at 8:42 AM
"[The] BHSA is simply a rebrand of the notorious Hunting Office, the organisation that collapsed following the HSA’s publication of leaked webinars that proved that trail hunting is a ‘smokescreen’ designed to conceal illegal hunting."
Share a TV series you've watched from beginning to end more than once.
November 19, 2025 at 8:32 AM
Share a TV series you've watched from beginning to end more than once.
Hard agree. A lot of peeps said the move away from saying we are "transgendered" was a huge mistake while it took place. We are gendered, cis and trans.
Also no one actually wants to think about gender as something imposed on you, as something that constrains and marks you and designates what kinds of labor can/should be extracted from you.
Doesn't help that reminding people about the hierarchy gender places you in is taken as oppressive.
Doesn't help that reminding people about the hierarchy gender places you in is taken as oppressive.
not to like, import discourse from twitter, but this hits the nail on the fucking head what we refer to as "gender" is actually a whole bunch of different things that people keep conflating and any discourse that doesn't detail what aspect we're speaking about is destined to fail
November 18, 2025 at 11:26 PM
Hard agree. A lot of peeps said the move away from saying we are "transgendered" was a huge mistake while it took place. We are gendered, cis and trans.
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maybe this really is the year of Linux on the desktop
Microsoft warns Windows 11 agentic OS may face Xpia malware risks
Microsoft is pushing ahead with its plan to add agentic capabilities to Windows 11, but issued a security warning for anyone who is interested in trying it out.
www.windowscentral.com
November 18, 2025 at 11:00 PM
maybe this really is the year of Linux on the desktop
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By plugging tens of billions of phone numbers into WhatsApp’s contact discovery tool, researchers found “the most extensive exposure of phone numbers” ever—along with profile photos and more.
Read more: wrd.cm/483paGa
Read more: wrd.cm/483paGa
November 18, 2025 at 6:51 PM
By plugging tens of billions of phone numbers into WhatsApp’s contact discovery tool, researchers found “the most extensive exposure of phone numbers” ever—along with profile photos and more.
Read more: wrd.cm/483paGa
Read more: wrd.cm/483paGa
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I've been looking at When The Walls Fall and Star Crossed for for #NaGaDeMon.
WTWF has too many prompts for me to go 1:1 and is too broad, Star Crossed is too failure-coded.
Bits of those two, and maybe a dash of Lost Among The Starlit Wreckage, might be the ingredients for a good cocktail though.
WTWF has too many prompts for me to go 1:1 and is too broad, Star Crossed is too failure-coded.
Bits of those two, and maybe a dash of Lost Among The Starlit Wreckage, might be the ingredients for a good cocktail though.
November 16, 2025 at 1:25 AM
I've been looking at When The Walls Fall and Star Crossed for for #NaGaDeMon.
WTWF has too many prompts for me to go 1:1 and is too broad, Star Crossed is too failure-coded.
Bits of those two, and maybe a dash of Lost Among The Starlit Wreckage, might be the ingredients for a good cocktail though.
WTWF has too many prompts for me to go 1:1 and is too broad, Star Crossed is too failure-coded.
Bits of those two, and maybe a dash of Lost Among The Starlit Wreckage, might be the ingredients for a good cocktail though.
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Here's Week 2's progress report for #NaGaDeMon25 ! This is for the The Amazing Digital Circus TTRPG. I didn’t do much, but I did start writing about the dice! Read more here: www.tumblr.com/norbezjones/...
#TADC #nagademon #pillowrimo
#TADC #nagademon #pillowrimo
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💬 0 🔁 0 ❤️ 0 · National Game Design Month (TADC TTRPG): Week 2 Summary · Hey! In case you missed it on my socials and Patreon, I’m participating in National Game Design Month (NaGaDeMon) 2025 du…
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November 17, 2025 at 2:38 AM
Here's Week 2's progress report for #NaGaDeMon25 ! This is for the The Amazing Digital Circus TTRPG. I didn’t do much, but I did start writing about the dice! Read more here: www.tumblr.com/norbezjones/...
#TADC #nagademon #pillowrimo
#TADC #nagademon #pillowrimo
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A little more progress on #EscapeFromSunnytown
Setting up all the menus is going to be a bit of work, but we'll get there.
#NaGaDeMon
#Indiegamedev
Setting up all the menus is going to be a bit of work, but we'll get there.
#NaGaDeMon
#Indiegamedev
November 17, 2025 at 9:31 PM
A little more progress on #EscapeFromSunnytown
Setting up all the menus is going to be a bit of work, but we'll get there.
#NaGaDeMon
#Indiegamedev
Setting up all the menus is going to be a bit of work, but we'll get there.
#NaGaDeMon
#Indiegamedev
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Waterstones to open about 100m from Argonaut, a particularly nice indie bookshop. Quote from Waterstones management makes it sound like they got Argonaut mixed up with the gaming café next door.
www.heraldscotland.com/news/2562908...
www.heraldscotland.com/news/2562908...
Anger as Waterstones snaps up prime site on doorstep of independent bookshop
UK's biggest bookselling chain under fire over plans for new store beside Edinburgh tram line.
www.heraldscotland.com
November 18, 2025 at 9:19 AM
Waterstones to open about 100m from Argonaut, a particularly nice indie bookshop. Quote from Waterstones management makes it sound like they got Argonaut mixed up with the gaming café next door.
www.heraldscotland.com/news/2562908...
www.heraldscotland.com/news/2562908...
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It’s going to be one of those days.
November 18, 2025 at 11:38 AM
It’s going to be one of those days.
Hoping Leith turns it's back on Watersons. Totally not welcome just yards from a local fave.
We need your help.
@waterstones.bsky.social, without any direct communication with us, will be opening their 6th Edinburgh branch less than 100 metres from our front door at the Foot of the Walk in Leith.
Please read on for more information
www.heraldscotland.com/news/2562908...
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@waterstones.bsky.social, without any direct communication with us, will be opening their 6th Edinburgh branch less than 100 metres from our front door at the Foot of the Walk in Leith.
Please read on for more information
www.heraldscotland.com/news/2562908...
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Anger as Waterstones snaps up prime site on doorstep of independent bookshop
UK's biggest bookselling chain under fire over plans for new store beside Edinburgh tram line.
www.heraldscotland.com
November 18, 2025 at 12:25 PM
Hoping Leith turns it's back on Watersons. Totally not welcome just yards from a local fave.
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Independent businesses support each other and the communities around them. Chains serve their purpose, with a mycelium root network shifting profits about to survive hard times. But we need bio-diversity if the arts are to survive, and Argonaut books is both a rare orchid and a hardy breed.
November 18, 2025 at 11:52 AM
Independent businesses support each other and the communities around them. Chains serve their purpose, with a mycelium root network shifting profits about to survive hard times. But we need bio-diversity if the arts are to survive, and Argonaut books is both a rare orchid and a hardy breed.