Just Jait
@justjait.bsky.social
Vancouver Island artist, photographer and philosopher, tabletop gamer and vague existentialist.
Also... @thesemanticground.substack.com
#Photography #TTRPGDesign #Philosophy
Also... @thesemanticground.substack.com
#Photography #TTRPGDesign #Philosophy
JD Vance gets two years in prison for threatening US Vice President.
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J.D. Vance, Not That One, Gets 2 Years in Prison for Threatening the Vice President
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November 20, 2025 at 5:57 AM
JD Vance gets two years in prison for threatening US Vice President.
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Mythos Distortion: Signal and Noise in City of Mist
A mythical story is trying--desperately--to unfold through the player-characters. So much story filtering through a single human life… There’s bound to be bandwidth problems…
#cityofmist #sonfoak #TTRPG #RPG
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A mythical story is trying--desperately--to unfold through the player-characters. So much story filtering through a single human life… There’s bound to be bandwidth problems…
#cityofmist #sonfoak #TTRPG #RPG
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Mythos Distortion: Signal and Noise in City of Mist
Mythic drift as an information-flow problem
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November 14, 2025 at 5:24 AM
Mythos Distortion: Signal and Noise in City of Mist
A mythical story is trying--desperately--to unfold through the player-characters. So much story filtering through a single human life… There’s bound to be bandwidth problems…
#cityofmist #sonfoak #TTRPG #RPG
open.substack.com/pub/reticent...
A mythical story is trying--desperately--to unfold through the player-characters. So much story filtering through a single human life… There’s bound to be bandwidth problems…
#cityofmist #sonfoak #TTRPG #RPG
open.substack.com/pub/reticent...
I love creepy modern urban fantasy. But right now, I need a break and the “pastoral fantasy” of Wanderhome seems lovely.
So, Dorrin Tarn, half blind Mole Caretaker, tends to the forgotten god of abandoned places. Seems like social and spiritual archeology....
So, Dorrin Tarn, half blind Mole Caretaker, tends to the forgotten god of abandoned places. Seems like social and spiritual archeology....
October 31, 2025 at 7:36 AM
I love creepy modern urban fantasy. But right now, I need a break and the “pastoral fantasy” of Wanderhome seems lovely.
So, Dorrin Tarn, half blind Mole Caretaker, tends to the forgotten god of abandoned places. Seems like social and spiritual archeology....
So, Dorrin Tarn, half blind Mole Caretaker, tends to the forgotten god of abandoned places. Seems like social and spiritual archeology....
This is the start of most pandemic movies and television shows, isn't it?
October 29, 2025 at 12:08 AM
This is the start of most pandemic movies and television shows, isn't it?
If Waiting for Godot teaches us anything practical, it’s this:
Don’t take your boots off!
Don’t take your boots off!
October 25, 2025 at 12:30 AM
If Waiting for Godot teaches us anything practical, it’s this:
Don’t take your boots off!
Don’t take your boots off!
Innova RepiarSolutions2 (for the "check engine" light) EULA says it's not responsible for any negative interactions with it's AI, but I should "independently verify any advice or information provided by AI." Customer Service won't tell me how I can identify which "content" is AI generated.
October 23, 2025 at 9:45 PM
Innova RepiarSolutions2 (for the "check engine" light) EULA says it's not responsible for any negative interactions with it's AI, but I should "independently verify any advice or information provided by AI." Customer Service won't tell me how I can identify which "content" is AI generated.
The Voynich Manuscript Can Be Viewed Online in Its Entirety
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This Undecipherable 15th-Century Manuscript Baffles Researchers
Named after the rare books collector Wilfrid Voynich, who acquired it in 1912, the manuscript continues to baffle skilled cryptologists to this day.
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October 20, 2025 at 9:10 PM
The Voynich Manuscript Can Be Viewed Online in Its Entirety
mymodernmet.com/voynich-manu...
mymodernmet.com/voynich-manu...
One Ring To Rule Them All
(now with raisins!)
(now with raisins!)
October 14, 2025 at 8:20 PM
One Ring To Rule Them All
(now with raisins!)
(now with raisins!)
My first game on DriveThruRPG:
"Only the Changed" is a 24XX RPG where survival rewrites who you are. Your sheet becomes a living record of scars, echoes, and transformation. Because survival Leaves scars. and every scar tells a story.
legacy.drivethrurpg.com/product/5379...
"Only the Changed" is a 24XX RPG where survival rewrites who you are. Your sheet becomes a living record of scars, echoes, and transformation. Because survival Leaves scars. and every scar tells a story.
legacy.drivethrurpg.com/product/5379...
24XX - Only the Changed - Curvature Media | DriveThruRPG.com
Only the Changed
A 24XX-compatible roleplaying game of survival, scars, and transformation
Something catastrophic shatte
legacy.drivethrurpg.com
September 25, 2025 at 5:49 AM
My first game on DriveThruRPG:
"Only the Changed" is a 24XX RPG where survival rewrites who you are. Your sheet becomes a living record of scars, echoes, and transformation. Because survival Leaves scars. and every scar tells a story.
legacy.drivethrurpg.com/product/5379...
"Only the Changed" is a 24XX RPG where survival rewrites who you are. Your sheet becomes a living record of scars, echoes, and transformation. Because survival Leaves scars. and every scar tells a story.
legacy.drivethrurpg.com/product/5379...
Pierre Poilievre wins big in Battle River–Crowfoot with what's looking like 85% of the vote.
His return to Parliament stabilizes Conservative leadership & blunts separatist urgency in Alberta—just as Canada faces U.S. tariff pressure.
#cdnpoli
His return to Parliament stabilizes Conservative leadership & blunts separatist urgency in Alberta—just as Canada faces U.S. tariff pressure.
#cdnpoli
August 19, 2025 at 3:39 AM
Pierre Poilievre wins big in Battle River–Crowfoot with what's looking like 85% of the vote.
His return to Parliament stabilizes Conservative leadership & blunts separatist urgency in Alberta—just as Canada faces U.S. tariff pressure.
#cdnpoli
His return to Parliament stabilizes Conservative leadership & blunts separatist urgency in Alberta—just as Canada faces U.S. tariff pressure.
#cdnpoli
"The Silence Algorithm" by Ted Chiang
Raised by AIs, a deaf child invents a gesture-language that encodes absence. Linguists who decode it begin to forget words, lose identity. Is it a memetic virus or a path beyond fixed meaning?
#FakeBook #TedChiangStyle #BooksThatDontExist
Raised by AIs, a deaf child invents a gesture-language that encodes absence. Linguists who decode it begin to forget words, lose identity. Is it a memetic virus or a path beyond fixed meaning?
#FakeBook #TedChiangStyle #BooksThatDontExist
May 21, 2025 at 5:31 AM
"The Silence Algorithm" by Ted Chiang
Raised by AIs, a deaf child invents a gesture-language that encodes absence. Linguists who decode it begin to forget words, lose identity. Is it a memetic virus or a path beyond fixed meaning?
#FakeBook #TedChiangStyle #BooksThatDontExist
Raised by AIs, a deaf child invents a gesture-language that encodes absence. Linguists who decode it begin to forget words, lose identity. Is it a memetic virus or a path beyond fixed meaning?
#FakeBook #TedChiangStyle #BooksThatDontExist
Linkedin: Locked Out & Left Behind
Locked out, rejected 3 forms of Canadian ID, and met with silence or scripted replies. Chatbots--not human.
🔗 My experience—and the systemic flaws behind it:
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#LinkedIn #Persona #IDVerification #Canada #Privacy
Locked out, rejected 3 forms of Canadian ID, and met with silence or scripted replies. Chatbots--not human.
🔗 My experience—and the systemic flaws behind it:
substack.com/home/post/p-...
#LinkedIn #Persona #IDVerification #Canada #Privacy
LinkedIn: Locked Out & Left Behind
A Verification Nightmare for Canadian Users
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May 20, 2025 at 8:23 PM
Linkedin: Locked Out & Left Behind
Locked out, rejected 3 forms of Canadian ID, and met with silence or scripted replies. Chatbots--not human.
🔗 My experience—and the systemic flaws behind it:
substack.com/home/post/p-...
#LinkedIn #Persona #IDVerification #Canada #Privacy
Locked out, rejected 3 forms of Canadian ID, and met with silence or scripted replies. Chatbots--not human.
🔗 My experience—and the systemic flaws behind it:
substack.com/home/post/p-...
#LinkedIn #Persona #IDVerification #Canada #Privacy
Locked out of LinkedIn. Driver’s License and BC Services Card rejected—no explanation. Then my expired passport: LinkedIn never said it had to be valid. No real support. Persona now has 3 ID scans. No path forward. Feels invasive and arbitrary.
#LinkedIn #Persona #IDverification
#LinkedIn #Persona #IDverification
May 9, 2025 at 3:01 AM
Locked out of LinkedIn. Driver’s License and BC Services Card rejected—no explanation. Then my expired passport: LinkedIn never said it had to be valid. No real support. Persona now has 3 ID scans. No path forward. Feels invasive and arbitrary.
#LinkedIn #Persona #IDverification
#LinkedIn #Persona #IDverification
All player-characters in "Into the Dreamwood" are non-combatants—except the house cat.
Conflict must scale to them. No railroad. Just pasts in motion, rippling into the future.
Who we were shapes who we become. How we frame it makes us the hero or the villain.
#TTRPG #DresdenFilesAccelerated
Conflict must scale to them. No railroad. Just pasts in motion, rippling into the future.
Who we were shapes who we become. How we frame it makes us the hero or the villain.
#TTRPG #DresdenFilesAccelerated
May 7, 2025 at 6:09 AM
All player-characters in "Into the Dreamwood" are non-combatants—except the house cat.
Conflict must scale to them. No railroad. Just pasts in motion, rippling into the future.
Who we were shapes who we become. How we frame it makes us the hero or the villain.
#TTRPG #DresdenFilesAccelerated
Conflict must scale to them. No railroad. Just pasts in motion, rippling into the future.
Who we were shapes who we become. How we frame it makes us the hero or the villain.
#TTRPG #DresdenFilesAccelerated
Session 1 of Dresden Files "Into the Dreamwood"
Rhue, Guardian Hound of Tir na Cuimhne gravely injured by a Blightborne near Tolmie House. Bunny's now-adult foster-kids get their first glimpse of the rot at the heart of the Mournwood. It's up to them to figure out what's going on. In her memory.
Rhue, Guardian Hound of Tir na Cuimhne gravely injured by a Blightborne near Tolmie House. Bunny's now-adult foster-kids get their first glimpse of the rot at the heart of the Mournwood. It's up to them to figure out what's going on. In her memory.
May 7, 2025 at 3:50 AM
Session 1 of Dresden Files "Into the Dreamwood"
Rhue, Guardian Hound of Tir na Cuimhne gravely injured by a Blightborne near Tolmie House. Bunny's now-adult foster-kids get their first glimpse of the rot at the heart of the Mournwood. It's up to them to figure out what's going on. In her memory.
Rhue, Guardian Hound of Tir na Cuimhne gravely injured by a Blightborne near Tolmie House. Bunny's now-adult foster-kids get their first glimpse of the rot at the heart of the Mournwood. It's up to them to figure out what's going on. In her memory.
Character creation today for a Dresden Files Vancouver game.
Barbara Bronte made Tolmie House feel like home. Now she’s gone, the Dreamwood stirs, and her paintings bleed ancient griefs. They return to where it began, just as the cost of her magic comes due.
#urbanfantasy #dresdenfiles #ttrpg
Barbara Bronte made Tolmie House feel like home. Now she’s gone, the Dreamwood stirs, and her paintings bleed ancient griefs. They return to where it began, just as the cost of her magic comes due.
#urbanfantasy #dresdenfiles #ttrpg
April 30, 2025 at 3:34 AM
Character creation today for a Dresden Files Vancouver game.
Barbara Bronte made Tolmie House feel like home. Now she’s gone, the Dreamwood stirs, and her paintings bleed ancient griefs. They return to where it began, just as the cost of her magic comes due.
#urbanfantasy #dresdenfiles #ttrpg
Barbara Bronte made Tolmie House feel like home. Now she’s gone, the Dreamwood stirs, and her paintings bleed ancient griefs. They return to where it began, just as the cost of her magic comes due.
#urbanfantasy #dresdenfiles #ttrpg
Rifts of Joy: Ame-no-Uzume, the Laughing Dawn
From Japanese myth
The goddess who danced naked to lure Amaterasu from her cave. Now? A burlesque emcee with a laugh that pulls people from despair. Her joy is shameless, sacred spectacle.
#CityOfMist #RiftOfJoy #ShintoMyth
From Japanese myth
The goddess who danced naked to lure Amaterasu from her cave. Now? A burlesque emcee with a laugh that pulls people from despair. Her joy is shameless, sacred spectacle.
#CityOfMist #RiftOfJoy #ShintoMyth
April 14, 2025 at 6:04 AM
Rifts of Joy: Ame-no-Uzume, the Laughing Dawn
From Japanese myth
The goddess who danced naked to lure Amaterasu from her cave. Now? A burlesque emcee with a laugh that pulls people from despair. Her joy is shameless, sacred spectacle.
#CityOfMist #RiftOfJoy #ShintoMyth
From Japanese myth
The goddess who danced naked to lure Amaterasu from her cave. Now? A burlesque emcee with a laugh that pulls people from despair. Her joy is shameless, sacred spectacle.
#CityOfMist #RiftOfJoy #ShintoMyth
I've been running a City of Mist game for 2 years now.
Supernatural noir can get heavy. I started wondering: where’s the joy? Surely there are Rifts that embody celebration, delight, exaltation!
So I’m hunting them now. The Avatars of joy.
More coming.
#CityOfMist #TTRPG
Supernatural noir can get heavy. I started wondering: where’s the joy? Surely there are Rifts that embody celebration, delight, exaltation!
So I’m hunting them now. The Avatars of joy.
More coming.
#CityOfMist #TTRPG
April 14, 2025 at 6:02 AM
I've been running a City of Mist game for 2 years now.
Supernatural noir can get heavy. I started wondering: where’s the joy? Surely there are Rifts that embody celebration, delight, exaltation!
So I’m hunting them now. The Avatars of joy.
More coming.
#CityOfMist #TTRPG
Supernatural noir can get heavy. I started wondering: where’s the joy? Surely there are Rifts that embody celebration, delight, exaltation!
So I’m hunting them now. The Avatars of joy.
More coming.
#CityOfMist #TTRPG
Rifts of Joy: Pabilsag, the Jovial Chimera
An obscure Mesopotamian god—scorpion-tailed, lion-faced, winged centaur.
In the city, they’re a drag performer and liminal guardian. Joy in hybridity. Joy in being too much.
#CityOfMist #RiftOfJoy #MesopotamianMyth
An obscure Mesopotamian god—scorpion-tailed, lion-faced, winged centaur.
In the city, they’re a drag performer and liminal guardian. Joy in hybridity. Joy in being too much.
#CityOfMist #RiftOfJoy #MesopotamianMyth
April 14, 2025 at 5:56 AM
Rifts of Joy: Pabilsag, the Jovial Chimera
An obscure Mesopotamian god—scorpion-tailed, lion-faced, winged centaur.
In the city, they’re a drag performer and liminal guardian. Joy in hybridity. Joy in being too much.
#CityOfMist #RiftOfJoy #MesopotamianMyth
An obscure Mesopotamian god—scorpion-tailed, lion-faced, winged centaur.
In the city, they’re a drag performer and liminal guardian. Joy in hybridity. Joy in being too much.
#CityOfMist #RiftOfJoy #MesopotamianMyth
Rifts of Joy: Anansi’s Granddaughter
Anansi, West African spider-trickster, god of stories. His legacy lives on in her: a street poet whose tales stick and change you. Her joy is the laughter that frees—or traps—you.
#CityOfMist #RiftOfJoy #AfricanMyth
Anansi, West African spider-trickster, god of stories. His legacy lives on in her: a street poet whose tales stick and change you. Her joy is the laughter that frees—or traps—you.
#CityOfMist #RiftOfJoy #AfricanMyth
April 12, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Rifts of Joy: Anansi’s Granddaughter
Anansi, West African spider-trickster, god of stories. His legacy lives on in her: a street poet whose tales stick and change you. Her joy is the laughter that frees—or traps—you.
#CityOfMist #RiftOfJoy #AfricanMyth
Anansi, West African spider-trickster, god of stories. His legacy lives on in her: a street poet whose tales stick and change you. Her joy is the laughter that frees—or traps—you.
#CityOfMist #RiftOfJoy #AfricanMyth
Rifts of Joy: Baucis, the Hearth-Keeper
In Greek myth, Baucis welcomed gods disguised as strangers. Now she runs a late-night diner where monsters find soup and forgiveness. Her joy is hospitality—but the door must stay open. Her blessing helps you survive the flood.
#CityOfMist #Mythos #GreekMyth
In Greek myth, Baucis welcomed gods disguised as strangers. Now she runs a late-night diner where monsters find soup and forgiveness. Her joy is hospitality—but the door must stay open. Her blessing helps you survive the flood.
#CityOfMist #Mythos #GreekMyth
April 12, 2025 at 5:53 AM
Rifts of Joy: Baucis, the Hearth-Keeper
In Greek myth, Baucis welcomed gods disguised as strangers. Now she runs a late-night diner where monsters find soup and forgiveness. Her joy is hospitality—but the door must stay open. Her blessing helps you survive the flood.
#CityOfMist #Mythos #GreekMyth
In Greek myth, Baucis welcomed gods disguised as strangers. Now she runs a late-night diner where monsters find soup and forgiveness. Her joy is hospitality—but the door must stay open. Her blessing helps you survive the flood.
#CityOfMist #Mythos #GreekMyth
Rifts of Joy: Ratatoskr, the Roastmaster of Yggdrasil
The squirrel who ferried insults between the Norse gods. Now he runs an underground comedy mic where truth bombs always land. The Roast is sacred to him—joy through chaos, laughter with teeth.
#CityOfMist #Trickster #NorseMyth #RiftOfJoy
The squirrel who ferried insults between the Norse gods. Now he runs an underground comedy mic where truth bombs always land. The Roast is sacred to him—joy through chaos, laughter with teeth.
#CityOfMist #Trickster #NorseMyth #RiftOfJoy
April 12, 2025 at 5:50 AM
Rifts of Joy: Ratatoskr, the Roastmaster of Yggdrasil
The squirrel who ferried insults between the Norse gods. Now he runs an underground comedy mic where truth bombs always land. The Roast is sacred to him—joy through chaos, laughter with teeth.
#CityOfMist #Trickster #NorseMyth #RiftOfJoy
The squirrel who ferried insults between the Norse gods. Now he runs an underground comedy mic where truth bombs always land. The Roast is sacred to him—joy through chaos, laughter with teeth.
#CityOfMist #Trickster #NorseMyth #RiftOfJoy