Jason Bostwick
@jasonbostwick.bsky.social
Toronto based veggie hawker | he/him | ttrpgs at stockpotpress.itch.io
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re: "Parks are for families" - Chow makes it clear who is and isn't granted personhood in the eyes of the state. Dufferin Grove is a huge park that's continued to be used for all sorts of shit throughout this encampment's life. these policies boil down to the City not wanting homeless people visible
September 19, 2025 at 11:29 PM
re: "Parks are for families" - Chow makes it clear who is and isn't granted personhood in the eyes of the state. Dufferin Grove is a huge park that's continued to be used for all sorts of shit throughout this encampment's life. these policies boil down to the City not wanting homeless people visible
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at least toby keith is dead this time
June 22, 2025 at 1:56 AM
at least toby keith is dead this time
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About today's public transit discourse: I believe that riding public transit is a spiritual good for increasing your empathy and practicing minding your own business. It also helps you internalize that most people mind their own business, e.g. no one is looking at you.
June 16, 2025 at 7:08 PM
About today's public transit discourse: I believe that riding public transit is a spiritual good for increasing your empathy and practicing minding your own business. It also helps you internalize that most people mind their own business, e.g. no one is looking at you.
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We need to build some real social stigma around being afraid of cities. You don't have to like them or live there, but a politics built this strongly around watching TV and going "ewww" is embarrassing, and people should be embarrassed by it. It's like "fear of werewolves" being your top issue.
June 10, 2025 at 3:17 PM
We need to build some real social stigma around being afraid of cities. You don't have to like them or live there, but a politics built this strongly around watching TV and going "ewww" is embarrassing, and people should be embarrassed by it. It's like "fear of werewolves" being your top issue.
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As I've been saying over and over on our book tour for The AI Con, the inevitability argument (including in the form of "AI is here to stay") is an attempt to steal our agency. We don't have to accept that and I encourage everyone to refuse it.
June 8, 2025 at 10:10 PM
As I've been saying over and over on our book tour for The AI Con, the inevitability argument (including in the form of "AI is here to stay") is an attempt to steal our agency. We don't have to accept that and I encourage everyone to refuse it.
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The way nobody can drive well anymore because of GPS — not just atrophied turn-by-turn navigation, but the way ppl no longer know the layouts of their town or the names of roads or what to do when the map doesn’t match the terrain — that’s what genAI is doing to communication skills and literacy
June 4, 2025 at 3:15 PM
The way nobody can drive well anymore because of GPS — not just atrophied turn-by-turn navigation, but the way ppl no longer know the layouts of their town or the names of roads or what to do when the map doesn’t match the terrain — that’s what genAI is doing to communication skills and literacy
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If all porn is made illegal, you can also make illegal the expression of any person you hate by defining them as obscene and pornographic.
"Existing while visibly trans" will be argued to be pornographic. Women dressing insufficiently modestly will be argued to be pornographic.
"Existing while visibly trans" will be argued to be pornographic. Women dressing insufficiently modestly will be argued to be pornographic.
I don’t care if you hate porn. Please for the love of god don’t get stuck there cognitively.
Anti-porn legislation + how trans and NB people (even cis drag queens/kings) are being consistently described as sexually deviant = the groundwork is being laid for all queer expression to be made illegal.
Anti-porn legislation + how trans and NB people (even cis drag queens/kings) are being consistently described as sexually deviant = the groundwork is being laid for all queer expression to be made illegal.
Well, here we go. The GOP has just introduced a bill to effectively outlaw all pornography.
The bill dismantles the Supreme Court's Miller Test for obscenity, removing provisions that the content be patently offensive to community standards.
dailycaller.com/2025/05/08/n...
The bill dismantles the Supreme Court's Miller Test for obscenity, removing provisions that the content be patently offensive to community standards.
dailycaller.com/2025/05/08/n...
May 9, 2025 at 1:32 AM
If all porn is made illegal, you can also make illegal the expression of any person you hate by defining them as obscene and pornographic.
"Existing while visibly trans" will be argued to be pornographic. Women dressing insufficiently modestly will be argued to be pornographic.
"Existing while visibly trans" will be argued to be pornographic. Women dressing insufficiently modestly will be argued to be pornographic.
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the thing teenage boys need to hear more than anything else is that it is actually okay if they don't grow up to be men at all. they don't have to feel invested in the political interests of men as a class, bc they dont have to BE men. it's okay if they grow up to be women, or something else :)
May 4, 2025 at 4:38 PM
the thing teenage boys need to hear more than anything else is that it is actually okay if they don't grow up to be men at all. they don't have to feel invested in the political interests of men as a class, bc they dont have to BE men. it's okay if they grow up to be women, or something else :)
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Niamos! (Morlana Club Mix)
February 22, 2024 at 8:12 PM
Niamos! (Morlana Club Mix)
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type of shit i’m on
April 3, 2025 at 12:20 PM
type of shit i’m on
baby solved the sokoban puzzle trapping him in his enclosure and made a beeline for the sprite cans
April 2, 2025 at 1:39 PM
baby solved the sokoban puzzle trapping him in his enclosure and made a beeline for the sprite cans
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Anyone who has ever got delivery via bike should fight for safe lanes & infrastructure as a moral imperative. (Would love to see how many anti bike lane people also enjoy delivery)
Delivery people should be able to charge a weather surcharge. I think if you want someone to ride a bike through rain to bring you food you should have to pay through the nose for it.
March 30, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Anyone who has ever got delivery via bike should fight for safe lanes & infrastructure as a moral imperative. (Would love to see how many anti bike lane people also enjoy delivery)
Managed to get three steamy ‘ships going playing @diceexploder.com ‘s supervillain henchman Desperation Hack at indie game night tonight!
March 30, 2025 at 12:59 AM
Managed to get three steamy ‘ships going playing @diceexploder.com ‘s supervillain henchman Desperation Hack at indie game night tonight!
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One bright side to being forced to live in an AI slop tornado is now I see my artistic mistakes as incredibly endearing. The human machine of my body made that weird line. My worst day of drawing is completely untouchably better than anything AI will ever produce until the heat death of the universe
March 28, 2025 at 1:27 AM
One bright side to being forced to live in an AI slop tornado is now I see my artistic mistakes as incredibly endearing. The human machine of my body made that weird line. My worst day of drawing is completely untouchably better than anything AI will ever produce until the heat death of the universe
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Hey, so, @ehronlime.bsky.social's Ithaca in the Cards/What Should We Have Tomorrow double-shot hasn't hit its funding target yet, and dangit, that's practically criminal. There's only 5 days to go -- get on it, folks!
(I'm particularly excited about Ithaca...)
www.kickstarter.com/projects/ehr...
(I'm particularly excited about Ithaca...)
www.kickstarter.com/projects/ehr...
Ithaca in the Cards 2E & What Should We Have Tomorrow?
A solo journaling game about cooking for your loved ones, and a storygame of doomed travelers on a perilous journey home.
www.kickstarter.com
March 21, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Hey, so, @ehronlime.bsky.social's Ithaca in the Cards/What Should We Have Tomorrow double-shot hasn't hit its funding target yet, and dangit, that's practically criminal. There's only 5 days to go -- get on it, folks!
(I'm particularly excited about Ithaca...)
www.kickstarter.com/projects/ehr...
(I'm particularly excited about Ithaca...)
www.kickstarter.com/projects/ehr...
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This should be the end of every discretionary trip to the States by Canadians & every other national.
March 19, 2025 at 12:59 PM
This should be the end of every discretionary trip to the States by Canadians & every other national.
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breakout was great. i cosplayed as @possibleworlds.bsky.social (w/ @jasonbostwick.bsky.social and @snaxwell.bsky.social)
March 17, 2025 at 5:24 PM
breakout was great. i cosplayed as @possibleworlds.bsky.social (w/ @jasonbostwick.bsky.social and @snaxwell.bsky.social)
Amazing and restorative time seeing friends at Breakout, made some killer zine trades and played with some great people!
Already taking notes for Breakout Bites 2026
Already taking notes for Breakout Bites 2026
March 16, 2025 at 2:22 AM
Amazing and restorative time seeing friends at Breakout, made some killer zine trades and played with some great people!
Already taking notes for Breakout Bites 2026
Already taking notes for Breakout Bites 2026
They call it Breakout Con because it’s when I put away my winter boots and Break Out my Converse
March 14, 2025 at 4:57 PM
They call it Breakout Con because it’s when I put away my winter boots and Break Out my Converse
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Just put together a little zine with my Toronto food recommendations and a map of my favourite bookstores.
If you're going to @breakoutcon.bsky.social this weekend say hi and I'll give you a copy!
stockpotpress.itch.io/breakout-bit...
If you're going to @breakoutcon.bsky.social this weekend say hi and I'll give you a copy!
stockpotpress.itch.io/breakout-bit...
March 13, 2025 at 2:03 AM
Just put together a little zine with my Toronto food recommendations and a map of my favourite bookstores.
If you're going to @breakoutcon.bsky.social this weekend say hi and I'll give you a copy!
stockpotpress.itch.io/breakout-bit...
If you're going to @breakoutcon.bsky.social this weekend say hi and I'll give you a copy!
stockpotpress.itch.io/breakout-bit...
Just put together a little zine with my Toronto food recommendations and a map of my favourite bookstores.
If you're going to @breakoutcon.bsky.social this weekend say hi and I'll give you a copy!
stockpotpress.itch.io/breakout-bit...
If you're going to @breakoutcon.bsky.social this weekend say hi and I'll give you a copy!
stockpotpress.itch.io/breakout-bit...
March 13, 2025 at 2:03 AM
Just put together a little zine with my Toronto food recommendations and a map of my favourite bookstores.
If you're going to @breakoutcon.bsky.social this weekend say hi and I'll give you a copy!
stockpotpress.itch.io/breakout-bit...
If you're going to @breakoutcon.bsky.social this weekend say hi and I'll give you a copy!
stockpotpress.itch.io/breakout-bit...
Dream episode, RTFM weighs in on New York Fries vs the city hall chip trucks …
New episode of RTFM, the RPG book club podcast! This week, @snaxwell.bsky.social and I interview Austin Walker and Tyler Crumrine. Tyler takes over, we talk Realis and influences, and battle it out about Wawa versus Sheetz. creators.spotify.com/pod/show/aar...
RTFM Interview: Austin Walker & Tyler Crumrine by RTFM
The RTFM interview series continues. We talk to Austin Walker and Tyler Crumrine about Realis, the meaning of "ashcan," and Wawa versus Sheetz.Max Lander and Aaron King...
creators.spotify.com
February 26, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Dream episode, RTFM weighs in on New York Fries vs the city hall chip trucks …
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One of the most important things about EP Thompson's work that is not often noted is that he chronicles the absolute annihilation of English and Welsh working class and peasant culture. Literally nothing survived the industrial revolution - everything left is a partial Victorian revival.
I think one thing that people who aren't British often fail to understand, without wanting to draw a false equivalence, is that the first people the British colonised were the British, with our ruling class not even adopting the language for hundreds of years after conquest.
January 4, 2025 at 12:36 PM
One of the most important things about EP Thompson's work that is not often noted is that he chronicles the absolute annihilation of English and Welsh working class and peasant culture. Literally nothing survived the industrial revolution - everything left is a partial Victorian revival.
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THIS IS NOT A PLACE OF SAUNA.
NO HIGHLY STEAMED DUDE IS COMMEMORATED HERE.
Enter my sauna dungeon, created for @idlecartulary.itch.io's Zungeon Jam. It's pay what you want (including free). I'll add some art once I'm not dogsitting. erinking.itch.io/sauna
NO HIGHLY STEAMED DUDE IS COMMEMORATED HERE.
Enter my sauna dungeon, created for @idlecartulary.itch.io's Zungeon Jam. It's pay what you want (including free). I'll add some art once I'm not dogsitting. erinking.itch.io/sauna
January 2, 2025 at 1:10 AM
THIS IS NOT A PLACE OF SAUNA.
NO HIGHLY STEAMED DUDE IS COMMEMORATED HERE.
Enter my sauna dungeon, created for @idlecartulary.itch.io's Zungeon Jam. It's pay what you want (including free). I'll add some art once I'm not dogsitting. erinking.itch.io/sauna
NO HIGHLY STEAMED DUDE IS COMMEMORATED HERE.
Enter my sauna dungeon, created for @idlecartulary.itch.io's Zungeon Jam. It's pay what you want (including free). I'll add some art once I'm not dogsitting. erinking.itch.io/sauna
Furthest North: Reykjavik, Iceland
Furthest South: Buenos Aires, Argentina
Furthest East: Moscow, Russia
Furthest West: Tofino, Canada
Furthest South: Buenos Aires, Argentina
Furthest East: Moscow, Russia
Furthest West: Tofino, Canada
Furthest North: Narvik, Norway - I went interrailing and got an overnight train from Svolvær to Stockholm
Furthest South: the east coast of Spain on a family holiday
Furthest West: does Ayrshire count? 😂
Furthest East: Lublin, Poland
Look I have Europe DOWN, but I’d love to go out sometime
Furthest South: the east coast of Spain on a family holiday
Furthest West: does Ayrshire count? 😂
Furthest East: Lublin, Poland
Look I have Europe DOWN, but I’d love to go out sometime
Furthest North: Norrköping, Sweden
Furthest South: Pucon, Chili
Furthest West: San Francisco, USA
Furthest East: Busan, South Korea
Furthest South: Pucon, Chili
Furthest West: San Francisco, USA
Furthest East: Busan, South Korea
December 24, 2024 at 1:11 PM
Furthest North: Reykjavik, Iceland
Furthest South: Buenos Aires, Argentina
Furthest East: Moscow, Russia
Furthest West: Tofino, Canada
Furthest South: Buenos Aires, Argentina
Furthest East: Moscow, Russia
Furthest West: Tofino, Canada