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@spannerlab.bsky.social

He/him. Manchester, UK. Chess arbiter, teacher and Dungeon Master. Got out of The Bad Place a long time ago and am trying not to be feral online for financial reasons.

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Poster to fight against ai. Visualized is a cave painting inspired horse, with text that reads "art has always been accessible"

Poster to fight against ai. Visualized is a cave painting inspired horse, with text that reads "art has always been accessible"

I hear a lot of people saying that ai makes art accessible.. well I personally think that's bullshit- so I made this to drive my point home.
#regalsart #illustration #fuckai #digitalart

11.02.2026 22:30 β€” πŸ‘ 6834    πŸ” 2709    πŸ’¬ 33    πŸ“Œ 26

To "give back" to community requires actually having enough to share in the first place.
Volunteering is a privilege. I do volunteer, but I wish I could do it all the time.

06.02.2026 16:41 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Imma kick off in the arbiters' group chat

06.02.2026 15:18 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Subbed. Let's goooo!

06.02.2026 07:28 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

S/o to a real one, the best to ever do it. Say goodnight, JV.

05.02.2026 06:44 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Happy tax return deadline day to all who observe

30.01.2026 10:12 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Got myself a push scooter cause I'm bored of walking to work.
Bloke yelled out of the window of a white van that I should "grow up".
Very affirming to know I'm living my life in a way that boils dickheads' piss.

26.01.2026 15:17 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Some people are on social media to interact socially and some people are on social media to scream into the void without any sense that they're being perceived, and also sometimes they're the same person in the same post

17.01.2026 22:15 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

This was the only bit I watched really intently because it was so unhinged I was trying to work out what I was missing. Still no clue.

17.01.2026 10:17 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Delete Spotify

16.01.2026 04:16 β€” πŸ‘ 1871    πŸ” 815    πŸ’¬ 15    πŸ“Œ 12

Ithelia denialist and proud

16.01.2026 06:32 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

in every sense

16.01.2026 06:30 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

36 hours of tasks in a 24 hour bag, let's goooo

15.01.2026 06:27 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Oh, this one is especially beautiful. Thank you for sharing it!

15.01.2026 06:15 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Last time I got home from working away, my laptop cover fell into [stupid place] and I was like "oh, I'm so tired- when I need to go away again I will simply recover the laptop cover from [stupid place] because it's just so absurd that of course I will remember it".
Reader. You may not believe this,

14.01.2026 11:20 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

OH I forgot to announce. My first ECF chief arbiter role. It's happening.

12.01.2026 15:44 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Woke up this morning at 5:40am and started frantically scribbling the first draft of a tabletop game. Should have a prototype finished by lunchtime tomorrow. ADHD is fun sometimes.

12.01.2026 15:43 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

The "traditional" structure of TTRPGs puts an enormous amount of pressure on the GM to learn/refine & very little on the players.

Which is somehow seen as more reasonable than spreading the load of learning/contribution across the whole table.

Broader implications about community in there, y'all.

11.01.2026 17:05 β€” πŸ‘ 394    πŸ” 81    πŸ’¬ 21    πŸ“Œ 44

Conveniently turned off replies so I can't let them know this isn't Discord adding these bots in- it's people in the server.
gist.github.com/TwilightZebb...

11.01.2026 07:36 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Thank you :)

11.01.2026 07:25 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

What year is this from, do you know?

08.01.2026 06:32 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I'm so disappointed to see people willing to throw translation under the bus. So deeply disappointed.

20.12.2025 14:26 β€” πŸ‘ 92    πŸ” 22    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 2

My to do list this morning informed me that it's time to cold stratisfy the peach seeds and I wanted to go back in time four months to when I wrote that, grab myself by the lapels and just start screaming

11.12.2025 11:22 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
10.12.2025 18:44 β€” πŸ‘ 11237    πŸ” 4428    πŸ’¬ 20    πŸ“Œ 16

Don't put your business up on Google maps. Just don't. Trying to get mine taken down (because I no longer really work with the public) and it's been a nightmare

11.12.2025 11:04 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Mod Organiser X

02.12.2025 10:03 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I did this. The bottles exploded. Lessons learnt.

02.12.2025 07:29 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Preview
Epic Royalty-Free Music Collection Vol. 3 Get a library of epic, royalty-free music for any situationβ€”professional-quality audio for recording, blogging, streaming, and moreβ€”for a price you choose!

There is a huge royalty-free music bundle starting on Humble Bundle for less than a quid. There is literally no reason to ever use gen AI, not even as a placeholder.

02.12.2025 07:28 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Honestly, people calling creators the "petite bourgeoisie" makes me want to snap.

We're working folk. And we work really hard. For next to nothing.

We're not lounging around eating bonbons. We're trying to figure out how we're going to be able to pay rent next month.

25.11.2025 19:30 β€” πŸ‘ 1877    πŸ” 374    πŸ’¬ 11    πŸ“Œ 70

one of the things that makes me most mad about genAI (and there are many) is we've been told there's not enough money for hiring. but there's billions poured into ai.

so not enough money to hire workers. but infinite money to pour into technology whose goal is never having to pay workers again.

23.11.2025 19:50 β€” πŸ‘ 984    πŸ” 376    πŸ’¬ 10    πŸ“Œ 12

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