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Gamel
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music hobbyist, ttrpg collector, accidental cosmere reader
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hodagrpg.bsky.social
Barbarian Sci-fi Game Zine you-know-what-ing next week.

Hand drawn.

Bespoke 2d6 system.

Print and play.

Share this post and one or two might fall off the truck early!

If you wanna review copy for your blog, pm me.

You aren't gonna wanna miss this one!
A scary looking warrior flexes in a fiery landscape.
September 7, 2025 at 11:34 AM
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gilarpgs.bsky.social
About to hit the road for 5 hours. I would love to see Dragon Slayers funded on the other side.

www.kickstarter.com/projects/the...
Dragon Slayers TTRPG
Heroic fantasy roleplaying using the award winning Slayers system. Time to slay a dragon.
www.kickstarter.com
August 3, 2025 at 9:02 PM
r-gamel.bsky.social
There's a lot of bad in the world right now. But opening up the mailbox to find @gilarpgs.bsky.social? That's a good moment.

#ttrpg #tabletopgame #gilarpgs
A copy of Corvid Court, by Spencer Campbell, laying on a table. Next to the zine is a sticker featuring the logo/cover art.
July 3, 2025 at 9:06 PM
r-gamel.bsky.social
“Every day, once a day, give yourself a present. Don't plan it. Don't wait for it. Just let it happen. It could be a new shirt at the men's store, a catnap in your office chair, or two cups of good, hot black coffee.”

― Dale Cooper
July 3, 2025 at 9:04 PM
r-gamel.bsky.social
Crows and Crime -- the most iconic duo. I just backed and so can you!
gilarpgs.bsky.social Gila RPGs @gilarpgs.bsky.social · May 20
Corvid Court Aviary is only running for one week, to help fund a print run of this latest edition. Early bird special gets a discount in the first 24 hours!

If you love crows and crime, this is a great time to join the flock.

www.kickstarter.com/projects/the...
Corvid Court Aviary Edition
Birds of a feather, kill together.
www.kickstarter.com
May 20, 2025 at 3:26 PM
r-gamel.bsky.social
A good mail day is when a @dungeonhavoc.bsky.social game is in your mailbox

#sologame #korg #ttrpg
April 28, 2025 at 9:46 PM
r-gamel.bsky.social
This looks rad! I just claimed my copy
backwardsttrpg.bsky.social Asa Donald | Backwards Tabletop @backwardsttrpg.bsky.social · Apr 27
Play as doomed mech pilots in this grunge solo RPG. PUNCH the big red button for a boost. Color in your upgrades. Rock out to a mixtape with a mind of its own.

Claim it for free on itch now before it releases on May 1st.

backwards-tabletop.itch.io/rust-never-s...
The schematic sheet, illustrated by Mac Teg. A skeuomorphic sheet that is meant to resemble your mech's cockpit.
April 27, 2025 at 10:56 PM
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georgetakei.bsky.social
A reminder that if the government can send migrants to a prison camp without any due process, it can send U.S. citizens there, too. I know because this happened to me and my family in 1942.
April 7, 2025 at 8:30 PM
r-gamel.bsky.social
Played a little Pocket KORG by @dungeonhavoc.bsky.social this evening. I pushed my luck pretty hard at some points, but I got the 5 SCRAP I needed for this month's rent so it's all good.

#sologame #ttrpg
Photo of a notebook with handwritten notes from a game of Pocket KORG. A pen is in the foreground and the cards comprising the game are in the background. At the bottom of the last page of notes is: "5 SCRAP! I can pay rent this month!"
March 18, 2025 at 2:28 AM
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jonathancohn.bsky.social
Trump-friendliest Democratic senators by # of times voting with Trump

Gallego: 36
Shaheen: 36
Fetterman: 34 (would be #1 if he showed up to vote more often)
Hassan: 33
Rosen: 33
Hickenlooper: 32
Slotkin: 32
Peters: 31
Cortez Masto: 29
Kelly: 28
Warner: 28

docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
Tracking Senate Votes 2025
docs.google.com
March 15, 2025 at 9:02 PM
r-gamel.bsky.social
A @dungeonhavoc.bsky.social KS launch day is always a good day. #solo #rpg #ttrpg
March 14, 2025 at 1:49 PM
r-gamel.bsky.social
This is a beautiful book with a rad rules-lite, pick-up-and-play game inside. Do yourself a favor and get one for you and one to share.
February 27, 2025 at 8:52 PM
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sharonk.bsky.social
reading the Declaration of Independence and it is so fucking wild to me how Trump is literally doing like 75% of this
He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither, and raising the conditions of new Appropriations of Lands. He has obstructed the Administration of Justice, by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary powers. He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone, for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries. He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our people, and eat out their substance. He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures. He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power. He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation: For Quartering large bodies of armed troops among us: For protecting them, by a mock Trial, from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States: For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world: For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent: For depriving us in many cases, of the benefits of Trial by Jury: For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences:
February 15, 2025 at 7:06 PM
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newseye.bsky.social
A historic graphic of corruption.

The 11 federal agencies so far targeted for firings or dismantling by Elon Musk have more than 30 ongoing investigations into his companies.

(📸 Malika Khurana for NYT)
The graphic shows arrows going from 11 general agencies and institutions to Musk companies which include SpaceX, Tesla. neuralink, x, and Musk himself. The text at the top reads: Trump firings hit agencies with oversight of Musk's companies Staffing changes, including the firing of several top officials, have affected agencies with federal investigations into or regulatory battles with Elon Musk's companies. The graphic is credit to Malika Khurana for the New York Times
February 12, 2025 at 1:27 PM
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dell.bsky.social
“…you must be aware that it is not a
crime for anyone — whether WIRED journalists, X posters, or otherwise — to identify individuals openly conducting government work that is of the utmost public concern.”
February 4, 2025 Edward R. Martin, Jr. U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia Patrick Henry Building 601 D Street NW Washington, D.C. 20530 Transmitted via email Re: Threats to prosecute critics of DOGE Dear Interim U.S. Attorney for D.C. Edward R. Martin, Jr.: We write to raise serious concerns about your recent public statements threatening to prosecute those who "target" or "impede" Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) within the Executive Office of the President. We request that you publicly commit to abide by the First Amendment, which your office is sworn to uphold and Musk himself claims to champion, in any DOGE-related investigations or prosecutions you may pursue. On Monday, you tweeted a letter to Musk asking him to use the Office of the U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia to protect DOGE staff and their work and directing him to refer "any questionable conduct or details that [Musk] find[s] or notice[s]" to your office.' In the letter, you assert that "actions in any way that impact [DOGE's] work may break numerous laws," and that you commit to the pursuit of "all legal action against anyone who impedes [Musk's) work or threatens [Musk's] people." You also state that you will "protect DOGE and other workers no matter what," citing past protests in Washington, D.C., which you refer to as riots. As you know, DOGE, or the United States DOGE Service as it is formally known, is a government entity established within the Executive Office of the President; by executive order, DOGE is supposed to access only "unclassified agency records." The day before your letter, WIRED reported about and named six young engineers working for DOGE — Akash Bobba, Edward Coristine, Luke Farritor, Gautier Cole Killian, Gavin Kliger, and Ethan Shaotran. The experience and qualifications of public employees is of significant public interest. Following this news report, a user on X — the social media platform owned by Mr. Musk — made a post also naming th… X has since suspended the account of the user who posted the names. As an experienced attorney holding such an important public position, you must be aware that it is not a crime for anyone — whether WIRED journalists, X posters, or otherwise — to identify individuals openly conducting government work that is of the utmost public concern. The Supreme Court has repeatedly held that the First Amendment protects the right to publish newsworthy information that the publisher lawfully obtains, including names far more sensitive than those of government personnel.' Musk himself has publicly touted DOGE's engineers while citing "media reports" regarding them. Nor is it a crime to harshly criticize government employees and officials, even if transparency and criticism "impede" their work? Moreover, while certain true threats are unprotected and may be criminally punished, they are limited to serious expression[s]' conveying that a speaker means to 'commit an act of unlawful violence."$ Hyperbolic speech, even using threatening language, is entitled to full First Amendment protection.' You must also surely be aware that the First Amendment protects Americans' right to peaceably assemble, especially to protest government actions.' The First Amendment severely constrains the government's ability to limit protests in public forums, such as the public streets of Washington, D.C." The government also cannot ban or restrict future protests based on unlawful conduct alleged to have occurred at past protests. 2 Threatening to prosecute First Amendment speech and activity is not only at odds with the U.S. Constitution, it is also entirely inconsistent with Musk's own stated principles and the right of the American people to know what the government is up to. Musk describes himself as a free speech absolutist and has proposed a massive declassification of government records, opining that all government records should be public by default. '3 Just three months ago, Musk publicly posted… government employees with whom he disagrees on X.' If it is Musk's intention for the U.S. Attorney's Office to censor the press and public from identifying and discussing those conducting DOGE's work on his behalf, that would be incredibly hypocritical. It is also vital that the U.S. Attorney's Office maintain the highest ethical standards and avoid even the appearance of impropriety. Rule 3.1 of the Rules of Professional Conduct for the Washington, D.C. Bar, of which you are a member, states: "A lawyer shall not bring or defend a proceeding, or assert or controvert an issue therein, unless there is a basis in law and fact for doing so that is not frivolous."Is Under Rule 3.8, prosecutors are additionally prohibited from filing in court or maintaining a charge "that the prosecutor knows is not supported by probable cause."l6 The same rule provides that "[i]n exercising discretion to investigate or to prosecute," prosecutors shall not "improperly favor or invidiously discriminate against any person."17 Threatening to file frivolous charges against Americans and vaguely insinuating that wide swaths of constitutionally-protected speech and activity could invite criminal investigations and prosecutions may already violate these and other rules of professional conduct. Actually doing so almost certainly would. Additionally, publicly offering the Office of the U.S. Attorney's services to Musk in the context of his asserting that protected expression is a criminal act is unbecoming of your public office and your duties as a public servant. Your oath is to the U.S. Constitution - including the First Amendment - not to President Donald Trump, Musk, or DOGE's desire to operate in secrecy and without criticism. We request that you immediately (a) identify the specific "targeting" of DOGE staff your letter to Musk was referring to and what specific laws you contend it violated, (b) publicly commit to not investigate or prosecute journalists or others for reporting on or publish… Common Cause Courage Foundation Defending Rights & Dissent Demand Progress Education Fund Democracy Matters First Amendment Coalition First Amendment Foundation Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE) Freedom of the Press Foundation Government Information Watch GovTrack.us Greenpeace USA Muslims for Just Futures Partnership for Civil Justice Fund PEN America Project On Government Oversight Radio Television Digital News Association Reporters Without Borders (RSF) Revolving Door Project RootsAction.org Social Security Works Society of Environmental Journalists Society of Professional Journalists The Authors Guild The Freedom BLOC Whistleblower & Source Protection Program (WHISPeR) at ExposeFacts Woodhull Freedom Foundation CC: All House, All Senate Senate Majority Leader John Thune Speaker of the House Mike Johnson House Majority Leader Steve Scalise Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries Senate Judiciary Committee Chair Chuck Grassley Senate Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Dick Durbin House Judiciary Committee Chair Jim Jordan House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Jamie Raskin 4
February 6, 2025 at 3:42 AM
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carlbergstrom.com
What’s his beef against USAID in particu….oh. Wow.
X post: Elon Musk @elonmusk We spent the weekend feeding USAID into the wood chipper. Could gone to some great parties. Did that instead. U.S. policy was to help bring an end to apartheid and establish a nonracial, democratic government. In response to this policy and the Act, USAID/South Africa was responsible for financing projects that apartheid victims viewed as critical in promoting social, political, and economic change through peaceful means. The mission enabled community consultation and ensured that the United States did not impose foreign-defined solutions to local problems. USAID created projects and activities to respond to the priorities of the black community and its leaders, maximized black participation and leadership, and ensured activities had a linkage to the general objectives of U.S. policy. First-year funding for the program was $25 million, which was raised to $50 million the second year. The main project areas were community outreach and leadership development to redress the repression of black-led institutions; educational support and training to address the educational crisis in South Africa; black private enterprise development to combat the inhibiting effects of apartheid–induced discrimination in private enterprise; university grants to help create a new generation of economic and political leaders; human rights; legal assistance; labor union training; and health and nutrition
February 3, 2025 at 11:19 AM
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dngnclub.itch.io
Go back this! I'm so excited to play it!
andrewbeauman.com Andrew Beauman @andrewbeauman.com · Feb 3
Holy cow! 80% funded. We're so close. Please if you're waiting to back, 🙏DO IT. I'd love to be fully funded in the first few days so I can focus on just adding awesome stuff for the rest of the month!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/and...
Out of Orbit: A Troupe Survival TTRPG
You're LOST. Crash landed on a rogue planet with no ability to leave. Will you be able to guide the survivors to get... out of orbit?
www.kickstarter.com
February 3, 2025 at 11:07 PM
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bwreed.bsky.social
Akash Bobba, Edward Coristine, Luke Farritor, Gautier Cole Killian, Gavin Kliger, and Ethan Shaotran
marisakabas.bsky.social Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · Feb 3
this is fucking scary y'all. prosecuting people for the crime of...tweeting names of fake government staffers.
noturtlesoup17.bsky.social amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · Feb 3
Update - Ed Martin has announced he’s in contact with the FBI, and has his prosecutors preparing to go after those who he feels “have committed acts that appear to violate the law in targeting DOGE employees.”
February 3, 2025 at 10:53 PM
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wonkykrystol.bsky.social
I got very distracted (and tired) so we are getting caught up on #HourlyComicDay finally!
two panel comic drawn in a scribbly pencil texture style, labeled 7:30-8:30 am. panel one is of my partner and i laying in bed, with alarm clock noises going off. the caption reads “get up for work and tey not to think about the horrors” panel two is of me running across the street. the caption reads “walk to work but forget hat so get cold ears :)”
February 1, 2025 at 11:16 PM
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adzebill.bsky.social
The Internet Archive has to date downloaded 500 terabytes of US government websites, which it crawls at the end of every presidential term. The whole archive is fully searchable. This effort's housed by a donation-funded nonprofit, not a branch of the US government. blog.archive.org/2024/05/08/e...
End of Term Web Archive – Preserving the Transition of a Nation | Internet Archive Blogs
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February 1, 2025 at 12:58 AM
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andrewbeauman.com
My game, Out of Orbit, is LIVE on @kickstarter.com as a part of Zine Quest 2025. Please consider backing the project. I'm so excited about this game and I hope you are too.
#ttrpg #ttrpgteaser #titterpig #zinemonth #zinequest #kickstarter
February 1, 2025 at 2:15 PM
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mychal3ts.bsky.social
When Congressman John Lewis was a child, he tried to get a library card. He was turned away & told “The Library is not for coloureds” 💔

He’s a civil rights icon, lover of books, recipient of the National Book Award for Young People’s Literature.

“The Library IS for Everyone” 💚
#BlackHistoryMonth
Mychal smiles in his “The Library is for Everyone” shirt from Out of Print clothing UNSTOPPABLE JOHN: How John Lewis Got His Library Card-and Helped Change History BY NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR PAT ZIETLOW MILLER, ILLUSTRATED BY JERRY JORDAN
February 1, 2025 at 2:22 PM
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pronounced-ing.bsky.social
Okay, I cannot recommend 5calls.org enough. Enter your address and it will find all your reps (federal and state). AND give you a list of issues to call about AND which reps to call about each of them AND a little script for each, in case it's helpful. They have an app, too.
5 Calls
Spend 5 minutes. Make 5 calls. Make your voice heard.
5calls.org
January 30, 2025 at 5:08 PM
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chrishallbeck.bsky.social
Weather conditions.
January 30, 2025 at 8:50 PM