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A simple black and white zine from a folded piece of paper, with the title "Why GenAI SUCKS AND YOU SHOULD NOT USE IT" dated June 2025, version 1.1, author Lauren Woolsey. The zine is sitting on a green and gold cloth with a sun motif.

My first ever completed Zine idea! "Why GenAI Sucks and You Should Not Use It" with 20 sources cited on the inside page. Thanks to all the researchers and journalists for the hard work I built from!

The scanned zine to print your own and all the references can be found at padlet.com/laurenUU/antiAI

Don't trust anyone selling you on a course on how to be a better GM/DM.

I'll tell you how to do it:

DO THE WORK.

No one wrote a novel by just wishing for it. They worked hard and wrote every day. You need to do the same with GMing. Carry a journal with you everywhere you go and. Pay. Attention.

mRNA vaccines are one of the most important tools we have for preventing future catastrophic pandemics because we can update them more quickly than any other vaccine technology in response to new emerging viruses & variants.

RFK Jr cancelling millions in mRNA research makes the world far less safe.

Quieter session - it doesn't need to include downtime as such, but slower pace, to leave space to process and reflect

Thank you for that blessing!

16 - in general everyone is far too focused on rules. We should all spend as much time talking about play as we do rules.

This so much!

My hen party is this weekend. I don't know much about what is planned but it's been revealed to me that it will involve some kind of wild, murder mystery custom made ttrpg and I'm excited!

Wise Women
dir. Lucile Hadžihalilović

Starring: Mishel Prada, Paula Malcomson, Wunmi Mosaku, Bridget Everett, and Shohreh Aghdashloo.

One part historical drama, one part surreal folk horror. Five witches are put to the test as they balance hidden identity, personal desire and ethical choice.

It's excellent!

"Is Visa going to tell my grocery they can't sell cereal?"

Is a fantastic turn of phrase that I'm going to be using when discussing this with people outside the indie circle in the future.

The idea that Visa shouldn't be able to say what you can buy is a great universal rallying cry.

illustration shows the outline of a soaring bird, filled in with the colors of the queer and trans pride flags. text over the top reads "QUEER GAMES BUNDLE."

✨ It's finally time. The fifth Queer Games Bundle is live now. For $60 (or $10+), get over 600 games, TTRPGs, zines, and more. Support over 300 queer artists for their survival and future art.

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Coming soon: Full Send: A Doomed Mountaineering RPG A tarot-powered tabletop role-playing game, where you compete to win glory on the mountain and work together to make sure you survive.

Was I up till 3am redesigning this page? Maybe. Do you want to validate that effort by giving it a follow and sharing with a friend? Absolutely!

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LeGuin wrote about the desire for 'unassailable safety' as one of the deep roots of evil, and I think about that a lot.

This.

I cannot emphasize enough how influencer and hustle culture have completely changed the internet from "weird and wonderful things people make for the heck of it" to algorithm chasing joylessness.

Looking forward to getting into it!

A great thread with some great links I need to check out. For my part, the layout on Mum Chums has recently been completed and I'm just about to order print proofs. Download the pdf (community copies available), offer feedback, and if you can give it ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ for the algorithm that would be ace!

It should be clear that executives are hungry to replace employees with LLMs and generative models because it means no pesky human element, no paying wages, negotiating over employment, dealing with sick leave or strikes or employee controversies.

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The general TTRPG move toward high-production-value consumables has made it less obvious and usual for arts & crafts to be part of regular gameplay, and that is Some Bullshit.

I'm just saying, as many have said before me.

Ugh. I mean, my expectations were already low, so I'm not really surprised, but still.

If you want to bypass Bsky age verification in the UK you can quite easily

Open dev tools, refresh the page, go to network, Fetch/XHR and find the app.bsky.unspecced.getAgeAssuranceState http call, right click Override content and replace "unknown" with "assured".

Works for DMs and adult posts

Wishing every inhumane anti-immigrant MP a cold and soggy takeaway. 🙏

Tip your service workers if you can, and if you think you met an undocumented immigrant, no you fucking didn’t.

If your household income is high and you are doing ok you have 2 options in life:

1) shut the fuck up OR
2) loudly advocate for things to change to everyone can do ok too

Residents rejoyce! In celebration of The Prisoner being make FREE FOR ALL* on YouTube, I am placing my game BE SEEING YOU on sale for 6 days.
👁️👌

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Computer vision doesn't hallucinate because of an inscrutable deus inside the machina. It "hallucinates" — such a groovy word for being wrong with confidence-because that is the ideology with which it was encoded.

“AI” doesn’t lie. It’s not deceitful, it doesn’t have feelings: it is broken. Those who are selling AI products encourage people to anthropomorphize it because doing so avoids language that indicates what a garbage product it is they’re selling. Or, as I wrote here: www.artforum.com/features/gen...

“No man earns punishment, no man earns reward. Free your mind of the idea of deserving, the idea of earning, and you will begin to be able to think.” from The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin

The Dispossessed was first published in 1974 by Harper & Row.

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Introducing our panelists for Disability Representation in TTRPGS!

@pennyblake.bsky.social is a Romani, genderfluid, disabled Creator. They're an editor, writer, designer, sensitivity reader, and activist, and a joyful and supportive member of our community.

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I'm so sorry you have to deal with this, it's appalling.

We're accepting short stories for our first anthology, on the theme of FOLKLORE, from now until the end of September. We're looking for stories of 2,000-10,000 words, from writers living in the North of England.

Our anthology call-out for writers in the North of England is open. We're delighted to have received a few submissions already!

There's plenty of time to submit until the deadline at the end of September, so get scribbling - we'd love to read your words.

Oh PLEASE read @madelinepotter.bsky.social 's fantastic post if you want to know even the smallest thing about us 😭 I (many of us) use GRT under duress as one of the limited tools we have for talking with outsiders about our experiences of oppression but it has that same oppression baked into it😭