I’m NOT excited and I’m NOT thrilled. I’m honestly scared to share this, but I’m not a coward. I have to show you what you helped us create. None of this would have been possible without your help, and we can’t finish it without your support www.launchgood.com/1948 youtu.be/D4qh1FAPEUo

Rasheed is literally risking his life for this game. Israelis could decide to capture, torture, or murder him at any point for daring to share the truth of the Nakba or Palestinian culture. He truly believes in games and their power to tell these stories. Please help his courage not be in vain.

I wrote this for Nakba day a few months before October 7th www.newarab.com/opinion/nakb...

Today, Palestinians around the world remember the Nakba – “the catastrophe” in Arabic – the mass displacement and dispossession of Palestinians in 1948, when more than 750,000 people were driven from their homes and hundreds of villages and towns were erased. (1/5)

It's heartbreaking that games as a medium remain out of reach for people telling the stories worth telling most. www.aljazeera.com/video/newsfe...

Today is Nakba Day. You cannot understand what lies at the heart of conflict in the Middle East unless you understand what happened to 85% of Palestinians in 1948. Here Eugene Rogan explains how hundred of thousands ended up as homeless refugees in Gaza

Language is never sufficient. This is not some abstraction but a very real expression of power-the privilege of describing a thing vaguely, incompletely, dishonestly, is inseparable from the privilege of looking away. Omar El Akkad, One Day, Everyone will have been Against This (2025, 68). #NakbaDay

folx, I’ve been working on AI "ethics" for almost a decade now & hate to tell you there’s no such thing as "ethical AI" the only "ethical principle" that works is regulating the shit out of the industry & to take back control of our autonomy, fundamental rights, freedoms & right to exist w/out AI

still not quite over the fact that i watched 15 year olds get sued for millions of dollars for downloading twelve songs and now we all have to accept AI slop because every tech company in the known universe decided that IP laws don't exist now that they're inconvenient for them

Now live with Red Markets: The Hand That Feeds! Session 4: Spies The one that really sets the plot in motion. And of course, the crew nearly came to blows last session, so we will see the aftermath of that as well. twitch.tv/findoutproductions #ttrpg #actualplay

People will be like ‘Bluesky is all academics & historians’ & I’ll be like, ‘You mean the people who enthusiastically tell me the coolest shit I ever heard?????’

Reigniting Imagination, Creativity, and Joy as Liberatory Trauma Work! www.eventbrite.com/e/reigniting... This training will explore how we can use exploration and activities of imagination, creativity, pleasure, and joy to heal from trauma #BlueskyTherapists #SocialWorkSky

We really needed to start stamping out, "...and I'm making it everyone's problem," behavior when it started. I feel like, "I don't like [thing]/[thing] doesn't cater to me personally/[thing] made me experience discomfort... and I'm making it everyone's problem," content ruined so many things. 😞💖

That was the goal

We had fun with my hair this shoot! ^_^ You should be absolutely feral for my pack and maybe Abbey will do a next time and I'll get to bring my long bow, sword, and scale mail amour.

Tomorrow, Red Markets: The Hand That Feeds returns! Things got heated during the last job, and now the Takers need to do what they can with their meager earnings and find a way to work together again. And they happen to walk into a mission that sets up the plot for the rest of the game.

They aren't banning it for "LGBTQ" history ties. They are banning it for its trans history, specifically. They are banning an instumental piece with no words because it was written in honor of Marsha P. Johnson.

Osprey Games have just announced that their owners, Bloomsbury Publishing, has made the decision to sell the card and board game division. www.tabletopsentinel.com/news/hobby/o...

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OMG y'all! I'm so excited! Often in Mental Health we talk about art, body positivity, self-love, and size inclusivity. But it can still be hard to find and connect clients to pictures and references for the work. Working with the TruRef folks was amazing & getting back to modeling was life giving.

Nothing to see here. (Did you do both of just "yours")

Don't worry we got you covered!

Tuesday Tea & Co-Working is live with more Greenhearth Necromancer! 🔴 www.twitch.tv/mentallamia Lets get work done and chat.

I don't really know how else to explain how precarious it feels to be Black in America right now to people who are motivated to misread these moments. It's difficult to trust and even harder to expect solidarity from people still looking for common ground with these Confederates.

Hey, did you know that there is a bill in the IL Congress that is trying to protect our right to protect ourselves by wearing masks? We need everyone (even outside IL) to fill out a witness slip as a proponent of the right to mask bill. Instructions: docs.google.com/document/u/2...

Client no show means surprise stream! Join me for some gardening!! 🔴Live Now! www.twitch.tv/mentallamia

WCN Episode 25 is Out Now! It is a talkback and there is so much to talk about following the 2nd seal. www.buzzsprout.com/1211549/epis... Cast: @thedragonemrys.bsky.social @kyngvee.bsky.social @synxiec.blacksky.app Storyteller: @intersectionscch.blacksky.app Editor: @sassy-composer.bsky.social

We've had decades of "X is ruining children's minds." Comics TV Video games But now we have a new technology that is actually, literally driving people, adults and children alike, to psychosis. Documented cases. Genuinely ruining children's minds. ...and we're scrambling to put it in schools?

For all the “TTRPG Legends” infuriated by the misuse of their likenesses and elements of their IP on clearly-commercial grifting sites…

Marketing professional here. Don’t do this. You’re asking to be sued for misappropriation of someone’s likeness for false promotion. Very clear this staff has no PR or legal team.

There are several lawyers in the TTRPG/games space. So I can't wait to see what happens when a group of people get together to hire a lawyer to go after these 4 Pillars Games jerks.

I'm (barely) old enough to remember when product liability lawsuits were leveled on toy companies over the death of one child swallowing a plastic missile. There has got to be an attorney who wants this pelt on their wall.

Session 3 Red Markets: The Hand That Feeds is up on Youtube! youtu.be/-EjzpZ9SoD8 This is where you can really see the character dynamics, as the mission the crew goes on, and the promise of a big pay day, expose the fault lines between the characters. And there are zombies. #ttrpg #actualplay

We got through all the cards and need to wait to play more for GreenHearth so... we are finally starting Scarlet Hollow!! You know I love Black Tabby Games so join us as we dive into another horror masterpiece.

"You see the Torment Nexus only went evil because of the book Do Not Build The Torment Nexus"

Live NOW! 🔴 www.twitch.tv/mentallamia Come celebrate my entry into the Twitch Black Guild as we take an early access look at the full GreenHearth Necromancer game which releases tomorrow! I will also do tarot card pulls for subs, gift subs, and ko-fi in increments of $5. ko-fi.com/wokementalwe...

Good News! I got accepted as a member of Twitch's Black Guild! ^_^ Come celebrate with me as we take an early access look at the full GreenHearth Necromancer game which releases Tomorrow! Going live in 30 minutes at 11:30a CDT www.twitch.tv/mentallamia

Here is the VOD for anyone who wants to watch! #Monsterhearts #ActualPlay #TTRPG #MHWTDL

SATURDAY MORNING MONSTERS ARE LIVE! Join us on www.twitch.tv/ctrlaltquin For a Monsterhearts 2 One Shot that highlights the upcoming Monsterhearts Videogame!

Starting in 20 minutes!!

This may be helpful: If an account is visible from Bluesky’s app (including .blacksky.app accounts) Google can index it Solution is Settings -> Privacy and Security -> check the box on “Discourage apps from showing my account to logged out users”

One side is like “can we disenfranchise all the Black voters by this weekend” and the other is like gotta follow the rules that govern the rules that control the rulebook

What I wish for everybody to remember when Canvas comes back online: The reason OUR data can be held for ransom is because Instructure, their owners (KKR private equity & Dragoneer venture capital), & our own employers (see ASU Atomic) monetize it. It's Canvas that hacked education & stole our IP.

Saturday Morning you should come hang out for some Monsterhearts 2. It'll be like Saturday morning cartoons but with murder, flirting and cults.

🩸WHAT LURKS BENEATH🩸 A #Monsterhearts 2 One-Shot GM: @ssambrose.bsky.social Producer: @ctrlaltquin.bsky.social Cast: @youngles.bsky.social @intersectionscch.blacksky.app @radiantg.bsky.social @vynvox.com @monroeroe.bsky.social Tune in: Saturday May 9 @ 10am ET! #MH2 #IndieGame #ActualPlay #TTRPG

And I'll remind the court at this time that the FIRST sign of this coming happening during this rancid papaya's *first term* when all of the people with multiple presidencies of knowledge walked out or got fired. It's the same fire. The same poison. Vintage 2016.

As a mental health x Tech/Games professional who has been trying to warn people and mitigate this, I have to say that Behind the Bastards is doing a very good job covering the topic and you should give it a listen.

Yup. Your job as regular person is not to parse whether particular policies are 'realistic' or 'possible.' You are supposed to actually demand what you need to live a dignified life.

Happening now: Cook County officials, the Illinois Coalition for Immigrant & Refugee Rights and other immigrant advocacy groups are holding a presser outside the county's Domestic Violence Court in Chicago, re: federal immigration agents being spotted at 4 separate Cook County courthouses today.

The term “POC” is just vague enough that it can be used to perform inclusion while still excluding the people being directly and actively oppressed in your little corner of the empire.