James Ramirez

Not on first pass, but maybe later

For this day of awareness i made a starter pack of #disabled/ chronic ill/neurodivergent #artists mostly fellows in #ttrpg scene!
but others too!

go.bsky.app/Qwmnr3P
Check them out!

If this sounds like you please comment below and ill add you this is list is ever growing.

Working on a sidequest that's been brewing for a while:

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Risen World: A Mostly Narrative Strategy Game

Exploring the fall and rise of the an empire, viewed from the borders. Play as the leader of a faction, the heir to nothing rebuilding through stories and communities
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Feedback welcome!

Only for the first post. After that normal service can resume ;)

There once was a girl
Who lived in the forest
She whispered to her best forest friends:
“I’ve had a personal experience”

“Wow!” they exclaimed

A man she never met
Miles, miles away
Heard that “wow” and rose to his feet
Climbed hills
Crossed rivers
Fought dragons
Only to tell her:

“No, you didn’t”

UK FOLKS! I know of two full-time salaried roles in tabletop that will soon be open for:

- Editor
- Games Developer

Ideally based in/willing to move to Nottingham, UK. And I've been asked for recommendations!

I'll be prioritising marginalised folks, so please: DM me for details, comment and tag!

Absolutely worth your vote

I’m road testing it right now and it’s pretty solid

Tragus, finally. Also, old man hairy ears

Anything by @inkle.co to be honest

Dreams on a Pillow - a videogame experience about the 1948 Nakba, based on a true story | LaunchGood A pseudo-3D stealth adventure game about a land full of people being made into a people without land

This fundraiser has reached 1/3 of the goal.
Keep sharing and if we all give a little this vital game can reach its target 👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽🍉🫶🏼

www.launchgood.com/v4/campaign/...

Brief thoughts on women writers being erased from SFF – again Another day, another article* supposedly assessing the cutting edge of Science Fiction written over the decades. Citing twenty five authors. All men. No, I’m not going to link. You can find i…

I see many posts debating the extent or not of misogyny in epic fantasy are citing lists of exclusively male authors. Time to repost this, I see.
www.julietemckenna.com/brief-though...

Welcome, followers new and old; there’s some hints of what I think my musings on here will be in the #Tech and #TTRPG posts a few days ago, but feel from to #AMA

... but thankfully not today

Raise you a 3am wake-up for a 6am flight to London ;)

Developing Secure Software (LFD121) | Linux Foundation Education Learn the security basics to developing secure software that is hardened against attacks, and understand how you can reduce the damage.

Recommending this for the engineers at my current gig: training.linuxfoundation.org/training/dev...

This is straight up some of the best Star Trek I've seen in any medium in about a quarter of a century.
It nails the characters' voices and motivations and back stories. It has a philosophical point to make.

And most of all it has something politically relevant to say. It draws blood.

Black Twitter helped define the internet — so where will the exodus from X lead? Some X users say they’re hoping to create a new “Black Twitter” on other social media platforms.

“Black users on Bluesky are already working to build a community on the site. One user, Rudy Fraser, launched Blacksky, a collection of curated, Black-centered feeds that filter out racism and misogyny to provide a safe, inclusive experience for users.”

And this one recently garnered the British Fantasy Award. @tobithedreamer.bsky.social

Gentle reminder to lift folks up, amplify underrepresented voices and be kind to one another, especially in disagreement

Good to see the pre:invent announcements from AWS doubling down on identity security, with root user management, resource control policies and the re-emphasis on MFA

Staying in a hotel last month, all the sockets had half an inch less space then any of my charger plugs required

Also, some #Tech stuff

Strategising:
- Wardley Maps
- Value Stream Mapping
- Threat Modelling

Reading:
- Cyber for Builders
- Working Backwards

Coding:
- Expanding unit and fuzz tests for a Steampipe plugin
- Potential new Steampipe plugin
- Security and Ops for AWS Org
- Dotfiles with Chezmoi

So, some #TTRPG stuff

Playing:
- Godbound, a homebrew post-Ragnarok setting
- WFRP, 4e and 1e
- Theogenesis

Reading:
- The Monsters Know What They're Doing

Working:
- Feeding a play-by-forum campaign to a LLM
- Embiggening my homebrew settings
- Some interactive fiction
- Rules for a faction game

Blue sky thinking: here for the feels and the opportunity to listen to new voices; to amplify and redefine my echo chamber; to create and to write, be it code or rules, poetry or prose.