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bearded woman, grad student, game designer, mostly in that order.

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austinwalker.bsky.social
There's a lot to say about the Roblox CEO interview, and the right place to start is definitely his answers on children's safety, because that's kind of the fire that is hottest and closest.

However, I have to also say, the polymarket stuff is real 'summation of our neoliberal dumpster fire' shit.
Newton: Wait, where are you on Polymarket? Baszucki: So I assume you are both big fans. Newton: We’ve talked a lot about prediction markets on the show. Roose: Yup. Baszucki: So, I don’t know if you had the experience, independent of political party or anything, just a real-time science experiment. On election night, I had four screens, like journalists of all journalists, and like, how do I quickly go from journalist to journalist? And then with my family, we were watching Polymarket as well, and we were comparing Polymarket to the comments of all the journalists. And I do think Polymarket was coming through, like, 30 to 45 minutes ahead of them. And, like, it was an interesting thought experiment to see, like, OK, we’re at 86 percent here, whether you like or dislike the way it was going, and then see various journalists, like, say different things. Newton: Yeah, so you think this is becoming a really interesting signal to understanding what’s happening in the world right now? Baszucki: I think, mathematically, there’s the notion that prediction markets, if they’re liquid and transparent, capture, in a way, all of the world’s information and every signal. And if there is one election counter way out in the corner in some weird county that knows it’s going to go this way, if they could go bet $10,000, like, that’s gonna nudge the thing and make the information more perfect. So, I’m a huge fan of that.
November 21, 2025 at 6:40 PM
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ztul.bsky.social
TRUMP THE DAY AFTER MEETING ME: they're terrific plays, wonderful plays. not all of them, some of them are--you're not supposed to say this but it's the truth. Some of them are not good plays. They're bad plays. [enunciating weirdly] quite! bad! [normal again] But the six or eight we talk about, the Hamlets and the Romeos and the Juliets they're terrific. Just terrific. But who we DO NOT talk about and should, really should, he's the same age as Shakespeare---well he's dead now. It happens. Buh-bye! But they were alive at the same time and writing at the same time and his name was Ben Jonson. A very smart guy. When he wrote a play, it was like Seinfeld.
November 22, 2025 at 2:13 AM
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gonebabygone.bsky.social
In 2010 a Virginia lawmaker suggested God gives women disabled children as punishment for abortions and it was broken by the student journalists covering the state house because the pros had this attitude of "haha oh there Bob goes again"
willbunch.bsky.social Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 3d
You know what media is NOT bending the knee in the Trump era? College journalists! The Harvard Crimson's brutal takedown of the lecherous ex-prez Larry Summers is just the latest example of students showing a failing 'grown-up' media how it's done

My new column www.inquirer.com/columnists/a...
College journalism exposes the rot of ‘grown-ups’ | Will Bunch Newsletter
Plus a history lesson on the real ‘Charlotte’s Web,’ and fascism,
www.inquirer.com
November 21, 2025 at 4:57 PM
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donmoyn.bsky.social
America 2025.
The intern was reportedly shaken, so McBurney offered to drive him home. ICE agents then surrounded the judge's car and demanded everyone to exit the vehicle, threatening to smash in the windows if they did not comply. Dana Smith, Head of Security Operations for R.l. Superior Court, confronted the agents and told both the judge and the intern to stay inside the car. After an argument, ICE confirmed they had misidentified the teen and left. The intern was released once his ID was checked.
November 21, 2025 at 1:44 PM
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austinwalker.bsky.social
Surprise, we're getting pretty close to the final version of REALIS!

ICYMI: I've been making a TTRPG about mystical moons and living spaceships and sentences that can kill you. A preview is available now (see my pinned post), but the full version draws near!

www.kickstarter.com/projects/cru...
Coming soon: Realis
A new tabletop roleplaying game by Austin Walker
www.kickstarter.com
November 19, 2025 at 5:10 PM
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marcelineleiman.bsky.social
Pax Unplugged is right around the corner!!

Looking back at all the IGNM coverage—I’m so proud and impressed at how much our community came together to promote these awesome indie works!

There’s a game for everyone in this lot!

Here’s a thread of all the incredible coverage of IGNM 2025: 🧵 🎲✂️
November 19, 2025 at 3:56 PM
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amabel.bsky.social
absolutely loved reading this
City of Six Moons Rules: This seemed too easy? Maybe I played something wrong? Ideas? [Spoilers, a lot] [@Zahariel: By "translation notes" I mean the last page of the rule booklet, which includes some of Amabel Holland's "notes" (in English) from her single viewing of the game being played by the original creators.] I've only just started playing my copy of this yesterday, but I will point out a flaw in your logic: you are proceeding from the assumption that the translation notes are correct. I'm a medievalist who's done some work interpreting and recreating historical games, so I have some prior experience with this sort of endeavor broadly. A phenomenon of translations is that all translators have to make choices, and those choices will be colored by the cultural biases of the translator. So the language that "Amabel the Translator" uses on the back of rule booklet reflects a person who is making interpretations from a given set of biases - if you want to figure out what's really going on (and you probably won't), you have to challenge very fundamental biases held by the translator (which means both Amabel and us). The text gives you some clues that the translator is probably off the mark in some way. Spoiler for those who'd rather skip my musings: I've focused a lot on the "when I asked about this they seemed quite upset" line vis-a-vis the "rival civilizations" tracking separate token accumulation; if the aliens became upset, perhaps it's because the translator's choice of words reflected a deep misunderstanding about what was going on, to the point that it goes against the very purpose of the game. I use that line of thinking to eschew the notion of "rival civilizations" completely, and from that basis attempt to understand the game differently than I've seen others trying to understand it. I don't know if it's fruitful yet or not, but I think it's worth considering that this game might be about seeking balance or cooperation, rather than telling the story of r…
November 16, 2025 at 1:15 PM
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megueyb.bsky.social
Ok, I’m going to do a little #LHSRescue thread as a reward to myself for the day. That’s Local History Site Rescue, for those of you new to the hashtag. Sometimes this is for a work thing, sometimes it’s just the stuff that finds its way to me, like this bag of “this looks old, give it to Meg.”
People do this sometimes. I love it and never question it. This came from the lovely folks at my beloved local creative textile reuse place.
November 16, 2025 at 12:33 AM
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planesailinggames.com
Last weekend I was at Metatopia, a convention for game designers in New Jersey. It is brilliant (as always) and I’ve written up details about all the games I played - it’s a moderately long read, but I’m excited by upcoming games! Please take a read and share! planesailinggames.com/review/2025-...
Metatopia 2025
Metatopia continues to be a brilliant convention for game designers who want to alpha- and beta- test their game designs with smart, capable people from the design and playtest community
planesailinggames.com
November 13, 2025 at 6:07 PM
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jeffstormer.gobirds.online
Aurora Borealis might be visible from my kitchen tonight, which, without getting into details, is a huge relief for this luncheon I'm planning with my boss
November 11, 2025 at 8:19 PM
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s-che.bsky.social
gonna be out of town during paxu but i am nothing if not a conscientious host. reply to this post and i'll give you one (1) bespoke Philadelphia Fact
November 11, 2025 at 3:52 AM
s-che.bsky.social
gonna be out of town during paxu but i am nothing if not a conscientious host. reply to this post and i'll give you one (1) bespoke Philadelphia Fact
November 11, 2025 at 3:52 AM
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ditzkoff.bsky.social
Joyce Carol Oates quoting a tweet that says “wherever he [Elon Musk] goes, he wants to leave”: "wherever he goes, he wants to leave"-- that's because when he gets there, he has brought his own self along; & whatever club he's invited to join has been devalued by the invitation. Boy watching Homer beat up the krusty burglar: Stop! He’s already dead!
November 11, 2025 at 2:56 AM
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rowanzeoli.bsky.social
I'm going to be at Pax Unplugged later this month! If you have a project you want to set up an interview for, or a tip you want to share, please reach out so we can get something on my schedule
November 10, 2025 at 4:01 PM
s-che.bsky.social
metatopia accomplished. increasingly convinced i have not written a game so much as produced a cognitohazard.
November 9, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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jdragsky.bsky.social
im working on a stretch goal for the extremely cool Ambition! it's currently $1k out from my goal 🥰 i'm doing some hound/handler shit with gun-witches in an academy haunted by fucked up jellyfish
the tragedy of cair dormach by jay dragon featuring art of a dark skinned androgynous witch in a veil with schematic tattoos all over their body, an animal jawbone over their own, and a revolver
November 9, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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austinwalker.bsky.social
Year of the Ring, babyyyyy

time to talk about these books that have deeply shaped all of fantasy fiction, and which a bunch of reactionary techboys actively and eagerly misunderstand
rangedtouch.bsky.social Ranged Touch @rangedtouch.bsky.social · 14d
Let's make it official:

SHELVED BY GENRE's next unit, spanning ALL of 2026, will be a delve into the depths of modern genre with J.R.R. Tolkien's THE HOBBIT, THE LORD OF THE RINGS, and THE SILMARILLION.

If you don't have those, you can grab them through our Bookshop:

bookshop.org/lists/shelve...
Shelved By Genre
These are books discussed on the podcast Shelved by Genre!
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November 7, 2025 at 8:32 PM
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jessfrom.online
ANNOUNCING: i'm now available for pro-GMing w/ StartPlaying—play with an AP performer & award-winning game designer!

🎲 Mothership "A Pound of Flesh" sandbox campaigns weekly Mon @ 3pm ET
🎲 Mothership "Gradient Descent" one-shot Tue 11/25 @ 2pm ET
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GM for Hire. GM Specialties: open-world gameplay, stylized character performances, and dynamic factions and NPC relationships. Includes info in the post, and then also on demand games like Orbital Blues, CBR+PNK, Fiasco, and Dialect, and "GM AS SEEN ON" A More Civilized Age, Role Playing Public Radio, Party of One, Plus One Exp, and more. Also includes a photo of me, and the invitation that if you want to play a different system or frequency at a listed time, just get in touch!
November 7, 2025 at 6:24 PM
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ztul.bsky.social
there's a lot of people here slinging accusations about the staff automatically hiding posts with the label "rude" and while i bear them no great love i don't think the issue is some conniving plot by the staff; i think what has happened is they have built a kind of shitty website?
November 6, 2025 at 8:29 PM
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jacobgeller.com
My (previously sold-out) talk in Boston next Tuesday just added a bunch of seats! I'd love to see you there! ticketing.bostonjfilm.org/websales/pag...
November 6, 2025 at 8:27 PM
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johnharper.bsky.social
Apocalypse World is far and away my favorite game, period, and this new edition is *even better*.
November 6, 2025 at 8:27 PM
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ckunzelman.bsky.social
hell yeah brother
November 6, 2025 at 8:28 PM
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notquitereal.bsky.social
part of the fun of media club plus is that we can really do a close reading of "why doesn't this scene of a man getting eaten by lions work"
November 3, 2025 at 11:49 PM
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dukepress.bsky.social
The Weekly Read is "Archival Irruptions" by @ktgerbs.bsky.social, which traces how British colonial authorities in mid-eighteenth-century Jamaica came to criminalize Obeah, a religious practice held by enslaved Africans. Read the entire book now, for free!
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Cover of Archival Irruptions: Constructing Religion and Criminalizing Obeah in Eighteenth-Century Jamaica by Katharine Gerbner. Features an image of an old handwritten ledger or registry page with rows and columns filled with cursive names and annotations and what appears to be an ink smudge at the bottom. The title is overlaid in large black serif font with the subtitle below in smaller black text and the author's name is at the bottom. A vertical red stripe runs along the left edge of the cover.
November 1, 2025 at 2:01 PM