Zedeck Siew

Here @chincarok.bsky.social is smiling because she has a panna cotta to eat, and a cute baju kurung to wear.

#localhuman

OOOh, straight to the weekend! Sounds like action

Attention @isaacisafraid.bsky.social

Useful tip for folks running A PERFECT WIFE (or any other rpg set in a SEAsian city):

If somebody at your table can't make a session, handwave as: they got stuck in a traffic gridlock, cannot get free for three hours

🚨ENNIE POSTMORTEM ALERT🚨

Some critical analysis about TTRPGs' biggest awards. @explorersdesign.bsky.social 's locus standi for this commentary is impeccable; he served as judge in the most recent Ennies!

Landmark postmortem of the Ennies by @explorersdesign.bsky.social continues:

Post from Threads user rodneyowl: "Ireland has declared the Basic Income for Artists scheme permanent. This will be officially announced in tomorrow’s budget. Details to follow. Congratulations to all who fought for it and the present and future artists of all sorts in Ireland. That includes me 👌We’re just comin to the end of a 3 year pilot scheme. It’s been a roaring success. For every €1 paid out to the 2000 participants, the government got €1.46 back. Can’t argue with that. Other countries are already taking note."

Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy:
www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...

🚨AWARDS POSTMORTEM ALERT🚨

🚨IMPORTANT FUNDRAISER ALERT🚨

Studio Diaries 02 and 03 Death to the old ways

"Zedeck patiently listens through dinner and beyond as I babble on, clutching a pen and notebook. By night's end, I've scribbled out an entirely new show."

Living with @chincarok.bsky.social , I've the privilege to watch new art be born, on the regular:

smokesignals.sharonchin.com/studio-diari...

Threw my back. The ceiling will be my friend for a while.

Hadn't happened in a while, so I got careless: not enough breaks between desk-work sessions; being lazy with my form while exercising.

🚨COOL NEW TTRPG SUPPLEMENT ALERT🚨

CHAPTER SERF: a TTRPG where you play those poor peons sweeping the floor in the background, when Space Marines are being all dour and xenophobic in the foreground.

(I work on it when I'm procrastinating.)

bsky.app/profile/zede...

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Sketch for CHAPTER SERF, my 40k fan game:

"15: BURNISHER
You kept the Astartes’ holy ceramite gleaming. A pauldron in your care had its markings disfigured. What happened? This assignment is your penance.

_ Servo-arm (d6).
_ Armourer’s tools.
_ Buffing unguents.
_ Set of acrylic paints."

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Note to everyone on Itch.io: I switched my payout method to direct & it works just fine! If you have been waiting super long for payouts this is a good solution I think! It is only confusing to get a paypal notice that a mystery person has sent you 10$

Funded and heading towards the first stretch goals!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/emi...

Mothership banning you for life from their third party license if they catch you sneaking AI in your Mothership publication. Much appreciated.

And telling people to not report projects they suspect of using AI and to find a better use of their time if they want to be helpful. Also thankful.

Chart titled "Why dating is hard for lesbians" with two rows of icons for women, with some saying "Out lesbian" or "closeted lesbian" but all the arrows are pointed towards "Enemy mech pilot"

If you've got mech or yuri games, why not join Playtest Zero?! For our US-friendly session, join us next Thursday, 9 October from 6 pm (PT) / 9 pm (ET) to late over at the Session Zero Discord server to do some 1-hour playtests of TTRPGs/game bits and chat with other designers! (Image unrelated)

YouTube video by The Star Israel intercepts 13 Gaza aid boats, sparking international criticism

🍉✊🏽🍉✊🏽🍉

youtu.be/VnOwNeXk-CA?...

Jane Goodall, world-renowned primatologist, dies aged 91 Jane Goodall Institute says ‘tireless advocate’ for natural world died in California during US speaking tour

Pour one out for a real one www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

Israel has just arrested Greta Thunberg and many others.

Statement from the Global Sumud Flotilla:

“People of conscience have been abducted. The flotilla broke no laws. What is illegal is Israel’s genocide, Israel’s illegal blockade of Gaza, and Israel’s use of starvation as a weapon.”
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Heaps and heaps of folks in the streets of Rome

Midnight: Spontaneous demonstrations pro Gaza and in support of the Flotilla in all major Italian cities right now
In the pic below Rome city centre

Pay attention to the language that will be used by much of the media.

The Global Sumud Flotilla never entered Israeli waters.

They are in international waters attempting to reach Palestinian waters.

Israel is once again breaking international law

The Explorateur: Issue #12 Monthly design discoveries for tabletop rpg designers including jams, critique, theory, and tools. Vetted. Looted. Curated.

It looks like the rpg designers are back from summer break, because this month's issue of The Explorateur is over-encumbered with designer reviews, advice, and resources.

What should I do for the anniversary issue next month?

www.explorersdesign.com/the-explorat...

The Idle Digest #11 Idle Cartulary's Digest for September 2025

It's that time of the month, girls: The Idle Digest! SO MUCH going on entering the last quarter, and I try to get on top of as much as possible here! The Idle Digest the newsletter to join if you want to keep a track of me and my thoughts, but don't use an RSS feed! open.substack.com/pub/idlecart...

jesus fuck thank you all! if you were goimg to give money and didnt get the chance to please comsider instead supporting dahnoun mutual aid, a palestinian mutual aid organization led by gawazis providing on the ground support
chuffed.org/project/1152...

🚨HELP JAY OUT ALERT🚨

Here I am stressing out about a rest I should've taken 23 years ago.

Smoulder and simp.

(So many years and still wondering what @chincarok.bsky.social sees in me!)

#localhumans

A photograph of two banners with illustrations of watermelons with eyes inside of them and the text 'All Eyes on Palestine' over them