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Jason Schneiderman
@jadasc.bsky.social
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Editor, proofreader, polyhedral enthusiast.
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haplo.bsky.social
reposting this for the daylight crowd since I posted it during 3am insomnia doomscrolling
scgriffith.bsky.social yoneda sarah @scgriffith.bsky.social · 22h
every trans person i see post about the OU suspension knows that the suspended target is trans & a grad student, & has an innate awareness that this is about purging trans employees. every cis person i see thinks the target is a rando professor & that this is about giving conservatives good grades
December 1, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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bfletcherwatson.bsky.social
Eleven years ago, I wrote to Tom Stoppard to ask about this coup de théâtre from 1949. It took me down an unexpected rabbit hole - in memory of Stoppard, here's what I found.
"Years and years ago, there was a production of The Tempest, out of doors, at an Oxford college on a lawn, which was the stage, and the lawn went back towards the lake in the grounds of the college, and the play began in natural light. But as it developed, and as it became time for Ariel to say his farewell to the world of The Tempest, the evening had started to close in and there was some artificial lighting coming on. And as Ariel uttered his last speech, he turned and he ran across the grass, and he got to the edge of the lake and he just kept running across the top of the water — the producer having thoughtfully provided a kind of walkway an inch beneath the water. And you could see and you could hear the plish, plash as he ran away from you across the top of the lake, until the gloom enveloped him and he disappeared from your view. And as he did so, from the further shore, a firework rocket was ignited, and it went whoosh into the air, and high up there it burst into lots of sparks, and all the sparks went out, and he had gone. "When you look up the stage directions, it says, 'Exit Ariel.”
November 30, 2025 at 1:38 PM
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threesailsstudios.bsky.social
ANNOUNCEMENT: THREE SAILS STUDIOS TO PUBLISH 'CITY OF ESPERS - A STREET-LEVEL PSYCHICS TTRPG', THE NEW GAME BY NATHAN BLADE (@theneoncaster.bsky.social)

Press Release: www.threesailsstudios.com/blog/cityofe...

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Press Release: Three Sails Studios to publish ‘City of Espers’, new TTRPG from Nathan Blades. — Three Sails Studios
December 1st, 2025. Manchester: Three Sails Studios are happy to announce that they are publishing City of Espers - A Street-Level Psychics RPG, the next TTRPG from established designer, streamer, and...
www.threesailsstudios.com
December 1, 2025 at 10:37 AM
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shadowtodd.bsky.social
Star Trekkin' vs. Doctorin' the Tardis
December 1, 2025 at 4:54 AM
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avramg.bsky.social
It blows you up, U 2-3-5.
It may not be a wise decision.
Neutrons pushed to overdrive,
And then some extra, just for fission.
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rachelhands.com Rachel Hands @rachelhands.com · 1d
this is quite the detail
December 1, 2025 at 7:14 AM
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tonygoldmark.bsky.social
Nathan Rabin is one of my favorite pop-culture writers, and right now he needs our help.
December 1, 2025 at 2:50 AM
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arisia.bsky.social
Should the Arisia convention take a one-year break in 2027? Arisia Corp members will vote to decide at the 12/9 Corp meeting (7pm, Zoom) what the con will do in 2027. Anyone who has attended at least one Arisia con will be able to attend and comment. For more info visit  buff.ly/4aMUB4l.
A large, red letter A with steampunk wings and goggles is centered on a field of fast moving stars. !! Very Important !! / Corporate Meeting / December 9th / 7pm
December 1, 2025 at 12:18 AM
jadasc.bsky.social
If you haven’t gotten your copy of Under Hollow Hills yet, here’s a great opportunity to.
lumpley.bsky.social lumpley @lumpley.bsky.social · 3d
Good morning! Meg and I just added community copies to all of our games on Itch.

I always say "if times are tight," but we all know that times are tight.

lumpley.itch.io
Meguey & Vincent Baker, et al
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November 28, 2025 at 3:35 PM
jadasc.bsky.social
Players in my Blades in the Dark campaign: Why does Chef Roselle need us to steal this spice? It seems strange.

The real world:
November 28, 2025 at 12:53 PM
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marchurboston.bsky.social
My not-so-hot take on Post Malone:

It’s wild that this guy could easily be the biggest rock star of this century and he chooses not to be. He’s only 30 so I keep hoping he’ll start doing more stuff like this but we’ll see. youtu.be/bfAot5MuPGs?...
Post Malone - Drain You (Nirvana Tribute)
YouTube video by aweirdtrashcan
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November 27, 2025 at 11:44 AM
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mattcolville.bsky.social
I think I got an idea for how to fix the Mr Roboto storyline.

Why anyone would want to do this is a mystery.
November 27, 2025 at 12:39 AM
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rosemarymosco.com
As the year comes to an end, I'm reposting some of the comics I made this year, including this ridiculous thing.
A six-panel comic. In the first panel, a yellow warbler says "Hey so I'm going to go out on a limb here." In panels two through five, the warbler hops along a long branch against a blue sky with clouds. In panel 6, it stops at the end of the branch and sings.
November 25, 2025 at 3:19 PM
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susanarendt.bsky.social
By the way, it's National Editor Appreciation Day.

Nobody ever reads a great article and thinks, "Dang, that was some tight editing." But editing is a big part of how it got to be great.

So writers, if you've ever worked with a good editor, shout 'em out.
November 24, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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eblong.com
Hey, I bet you didn't hear that Zork 1, 2, and 3 were open-sourced today!

…Oh, you have heard. Yeah. Way ahead of me. :)

Here's my comments, and some details that you might not have seen.

blog.zarfhome.com/2025/11/zork...
Zork is now open source
Two years ago, I wrote: Microsoft-the-company does not care about Infocom. But a lot of people in Microsoft must care. Microsoft is heavily populated by greying GenX nerds just like me. Folks who grew...
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November 21, 2025 at 3:19 AM
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paulgcornish.bsky.social
Just when I think I know everything there is to know about Superman, I learn that Vladimir Nabokov wrote a poem about him in 1942 that got rejected by the New Yorker.
www.theguardian.com/books/2021/m...
The Man of To-morrow's Lament I have to wear these glasses - otherwise, when I caress her with my super-eyes, her lungs and liver are too plainly seen throbbing, like deep-sea creatures, in between dim bones. Oh, I am sick of loitering here, a banished trunk (like my namesake in «Lear»), but when I switch to tights, still less I prize my splendid torso, my tremendous thighs, the dark-blue forelock on my narrow brow, the heavy jaw; for I shall tell you now my fatal limitation ... not the pact between the worlds of Fantasy and Fact which makes me shun such an attractive spot as Berchtesgaden, say; and also not that little business of my draft; but worse: a tragic misadjustment and a curse. I'm young and bursting with prodigious sap, — and I'm in love like any healthy chap - and I must throttle my dynamic heart for marriage would be murder on my part, an earthquake, wrecking on the night of nights a woman's life, some palmtrees, all the lights, the big hotel, a smaller one next door and half a dozen army trucks — or more. But even if that blast of love should spare her fragile frame - what children would she bear? What monstrous babe, knocking the surgeon down, would waddle out into the awestruck town? When two years old he'd break the strongest chairs, fall through the floor and terrorize the stairs; at four, he'd dive into a well; at five, explore a roaring furnace - and survive; at eight, he'd ruin the longest railway line by playing trains with real ones; and at nine, release all my old enemies from jail, and then I'd try to break his head — and fail. So this is why, no matter where I fly, red-cloaked, blue-hosed, across the yellow sky, I feel no thrill in chasing thugs and thieves - and gloomily broad-shouldered Kent retrieves his coat and trousers from the garbage can and tucks away the cloak of Superman; and when she sighs - somewhere in Central Park where my immense bronze statue looms - «Oh, Clark ... Isn't he wonderful!?!», I stare ahead and long to be a normal guy instead.
November 20, 2025 at 11:29 PM
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chattydm.bsky.social
You know you're hungry when you're building a Magic the Gathering: Commander deck and you search for a card called "Dark Provolone" instead of "Dark Privilege".

I guess I'm building a "The Cheese Stands Alone" deck.

It's a Gouda-dea when you think about it especially for playing Swiss rounds.
November 20, 2025 at 7:48 PM
jadasc.bsky.social
Reminds me of that @foldablehuman.bsky.social video about the geocentrists.
ianxcarlos.bsky.social Ian Carlos @ianxcarlos.bsky.social · 11d
Wait holy shit, a nice correction on this story - THESE CELEBS DIDNT KNOW ABOUT THIS PROJECT. They recorded voices 15 years ago for an audio bible project and Fox is repurposing it bsky.app/profile/falc...
November 20, 2025 at 6:33 PM
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tardiscaptain.bsky.social
Just a heads up that the 2026 #CharacterCreationChallenge is starting soon in January. Prep now to make 31 #TTRPG characters in 31 days. This is the 6th year of the challenge.

tardiscaptain.com/2025/11/18/2...
2026 Character Creation Challenge – TardisCaptain's Blog of Holding
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November 19, 2025 at 6:12 PM
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explorersdesign.bsky.social
I love the genre mashup. Give me all the Golden Girls/Cthulhus and WWII/Draculas you've got.

But I'm also looking for non-mashups. Sometimes it feels like the industry has an allergy. Westerns without magic. Drama without aliens. Detectives without Cthulhu.

www.explorersdesign.com/one-genre-ga...
Dare to Play it Straight
The rarest tabletop genre is the simplest one. A call for more anti-mashups.
www.explorersdesign.com
November 19, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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adrianhon.bsky.social
Re-upping for the morning crowd: I'm organising a Jubensha Convention in London for 8-9th May 2026!

Come and play jubensha, meet top game designers, and learn how it's designed. It's *probably* the first jubensha English-language convention in the world...

Tickets will be around £15!
Pre-announcing my Jubensha Convention
Come to my Jubensha convention in London on 8-9th May 2026!
mssv.net
November 19, 2025 at 9:45 AM
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marchurboston.bsky.social
Opening alert -- The Hollows has opened in Somerville's Teele Square, taking over the old Rudy's space. bostonrestaurants.blogspot.com/2025/11/the-...

#restaurant #somerville
The Hollows Opens in Somerville's Teele Square
Early this year, it was reported that a new restaurant was replacing a decades-old Tex-Mex spot in Somerville, and now we have learned that ...
bostonrestaurants.blogspot.com
November 18, 2025 at 3:31 PM
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November 17, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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stevenmarsh.bsky.social
The water's most
sensational
And those we host
crustaceanal

Shrimply having a wonderful Christmastime (x2)

The party's here:
Pacific rim
My only fear:
Can Santa swim?

Shrimply having a wonderful Christmastime (x2)

The cheer-y choir sings like a boss
But who brought cocktail sauce?

Shrimply hav-
November 17, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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alyankovic.bsky.social
All 2026 tour dates and ticket info up RIGHT NOW at
www.weirdal.com/tour
November 17, 2025 at 7:39 PM
jadasc.bsky.social
The dates are out, and it's a lot of arenas and stadiums. He's playing the TD Garden on 7/18 in 2026.
November 17, 2025 at 7:30 PM