Helena ( @helenareal.bsky.social ) is a brilliant game designer! If you're in the area, don't miss this!

Add this to your new years resolution: No Contract, No Coffee! Pledge now to stop buying Starbucks in 2026 until the company stops union busting and settles a fair contract! www.nocontractnocoffee.org/#pledge

"It’s Time for Democrats to Defend Them." I'm not holding my breath. 😒

this is, indeed, a crusade by the people directly running the New York Times to destroy the rights and lives of trans people in this country they have blood on their hands and they’re proud of it

My fave 2025 #ttrpgs : Going For Broke @lackingceremony.bsky.social Mythic Bastionland @bastionland.bsky.social New to me faves: Trophy Dark & The Between @gauntletrpg.bsky.social & @jesseross.com Black Sword Hack @themerrymushmen.bsky.social Thirsty Sword Lesbians @gayspaceship.bsky.social

Avery’s Going for Broke is my favorite new game this year!! Wonderfully fun, easy to learn game. I had a blast playing it, especially with @madelancholy.bsky.social on stream! youtu.be/xltq4vechgQ?...

The scope of Trump's campaign to drive trans Americans from public life is vast. On the last day of 2025, Evan Urquhart attempts to capture all of what we lost. www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...

A few texts that changed my life: Zinn, People's History Chomsky, Manufacturing Consent Scott, Seeing Like a State Beauvoir, Second Sex Gender Dysphoria Bible Stonewall Reader Serrano, Whipping Girl Gill-Peterson, Short History of Trans Misogyny Ashley, Gender/ Fucking Lorde, Sister Outsider

Jesus christ. www.npr.org/2025/12/30/g...

Ever since I was a child who realized she didn't wanna be a boy, the world taught me that I could not be messy, or difficult, or weird, or else no one would love me. So, to have found folks who not only accept my messy, difficult weirdness, but to joyously embrace it is SO healing. #poetry 1/2

This is also why they are pushing generative AI so hard. Getting everyone used to accepting false information, not having to critically think and outsourcing their brains. Downplaying the role creativity plays in thought and growth by telling people they can just make what they want with AI.

A little #StLouis #punk & #undergroundcomics history. Mid 90s, I went to an all-boy Jesuit HS & got into the punk scene. Came across this little #Zine & the last two panels, below, hit me deeply. Still do. The artist: Jerome Gaynor, comic artist & STLPunk.com founder. Cont., 1/2

I mean, I'm on edge because I'm also trans and in academia. However, the cis instructor who gave the same grade was not removed. I think that's a fairly critical discussion point in this. This was less about "because I think it's on the Bible" and much more about targeting a trans person.

If you’re wondering why your friends in academia are a little on edge right now, it’s because an eighteen-year-old who hasn’t done the reading, doesn’t look at the assignment, and has does no critical thinking skills more complex than “because I think it’s in the Bible” can literally end your career

Lots of reasons! My pockets were too large! I wanted to worry about my clothes falling in the toilet. I was looking for more men to explain things to me, especially topics in my areas of expertise. So many more….

Say good morning to our striking baristas in Champaign-Urbana, IL! ☃️ It's DAY FORTY of our national ULP strike. Want to support baristas? Don't cross the picket line! That means DON'T BUY STARBUCKS (including last minute gift cards!) #NoContractNoCoffee

AI is literally destroying the systems of human knowledge before our eyes. What folks call ‘AI’ is weak AI at a shite facsimile of human intelligence built in exploitation and theft—it is a grift by tech oligarchs to seize power. And it is an existential threat to humanity. AI DELENDA EST.

Do it the old-fashioned way, as the old masters did, and set up a studio and have your apprentices do it! I’m kidding. And to be clear, AI slop is dehumanizing, plagiarizing, brain rotting garbage.

Don't let those conservative, homophobic bastards erase LGBT history. We suffered and died under their oppression, their ignorance, their apathy. Never again.

I'm an "A.i." abolitionist. Here's why. gregpak.net/2025/12/19/i...

Guess I'll post this again

Despite the weather, crowds continue to grow as we get ready to hear from Starbucks baristas on ULP strike. Let's go! #NoContractNoCoffee

Seven years (almost)

folks please call your congresspeople about this ASAP, this is draconian and evil

I did some Xmas decorating and made chili. Tomorrow I’ll do a homemade Ragù alla Bolognese. Now I’m about to play some Trophy Dark! #ttrpg #trans #trophydark

I've watched it drastically degrade our young people's ability to read and write, from kindergarten up to the college level, just in a few years. This is a bigger health crisis than smoking. Period.

Fuck AI, fuck AI tech bros, and fuck schools and universities that shove it down students' and faculty's mouths.

Every writer who generates a slop image for their work is a class traitor. "I can't afford a visual artist" So your solution is stabbing artists in the back? Stealing from them? Furthermore, slop-generated imagery suggests slop-generated writing. That's how you're presenting yourself.

Everyone should read the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s “Letter From Birmingham Jail.” Set aside some time. It’s not that long. You used to be able to read texts longer than a tweet. Read it. Then sit down and read it with your kids. You wanna help save the world? READ. IT. letterfromjail.com

John Waters famously said, “If you go home with somebody, and they don't have books, don’t fuck ‘em!” I would add, “or if they use ChatGPT or AI art, too.” #johnwaters #books #chatgpt #aisucks

Anti-A.I. stamps! For illustrations, comics, photos and all your creative works, printed and digital! You can download the transparent file for free here: ko-fi.com/i/IT6T718NAKF (but consider donating please 😘)

Bears repeating

Gwendolyn Marshall is an independent author & game designer, working on products that challenge & supplement D&D, like her ENnie Winning best seller, Ancestry & Culture: An Alternative to Race in 5e, & dozens of other titles. breakoutcon.com/articles/202... #breakoutcon #tabletopgames #rpg #ttrpg

*More than half of the GOP believe the 2020 election outcome was the result of fraud *More than 4 out of 10 believe 9/11 was an inside job *37% believe the Holocaust did not happen or was exaggerate *36% believe NASA faked the moon landing *1 in 3 believe vaccines cause autism

Finally getting a chance to play Impossible Landscapes, from @arcdreampublishing.bsky.social . And unsurprised to see that @drgonzo123.bsky.social 's masterpiece is everything I've heard and more! Why this book didn't win more ENnies is beyond me. #deltagreen #impossiblelandscapes #ttrpgs

“Once you decide that a single vulnerable minority can be sacrificed, you’re operating within a fascist logic,” they said. “That means there might be a second one you’re willing to sacrifice and a third, a fourth. Then what happens?”

November 13th-19th is Trans Awareness Week.

Happy Trans Awareness Week to everyone except genitally-obsessed bigots - especially genitally-obsessed bigots who identify as "journalists." 😒 theonion.com/it-is-journa...

New awareness campaign

Hey there! We got a new Dungeon World 2 release! Here's Alpha Red, a new iteration of the rules we're developing with @primarchspencer.bsky.social Get them, read them, play/run them, and please submit your feedback! That's the most important thing for us atm 😊🖤 www.dungeon-world.com/dw2-alpha-re...

I've been recovering from bottom surgery and making little OSR games to pass the time. I've made 7 or 8 so far, I think -- hacks of Thirsty Sword Lesbians, Into the Odd, etc. Today's is original, and made entirely of words of one syllable. drgwenmarshall.itch.io/the-cursed #trans #osr #ttrpg

My nieces and nephews could not comprehend how I could draw, how I was drawing something right in front of them. This sucks.

Five weeks post-surgery and I continue to improve, slowly but surely. I still have a long way to go, but I’m optimistic. #trans #selfie

I love to see stuff like this because it helps explain to people trapped in tech-sponsored information bubbles the actually obvious fact that universities teach people to know & think things, and AI is a way to produce the effect of knowing & thinking things w/o actually knowing & thinking them.

Released 44 years ago "Nazi Punks Fuck Off", the fifth and most important single by the Dead Kennedys Dead Kennedys - Nazi Punks Fuck Off (In Studio) #punk #punks #punkrock #DeadKennedys #nazipunksfuckoff #history #punkrockhistory

Great Scott! Rocky Horror Show: Bride of Rocky Horror is live on @kickstarter.com! Don’t dream it. Back it! Now’s your chance to support @magsvisaggio.com and Noemi Vettori's officially licensed graphic novel and other great exclusives! www.kickstarter.com/projects/bit...

I released another title! This is a #Shadowdark conversion of a D&D #adventure I wrote, now on @itch.io . Great cover art by @jamesdenton.bsky.social , & maps by the awesome @alidasaxon.bsky.social . Check it out out! #TTRPG #trans drgwenmarshall.itch.io/the-shape-of...

I’ve made about 5 little games on @itch.io this month as I recover from surgery. Most recently: Space Rats is a hack of Ben MIlton’s Maze Rats. Maze Rats is all about fantasy dungeon delving. Space Rats is Maze Rats…In Spaaaaace! #osr #mazerats #benmilton #itch drgwenmarshall.itch.io/space-rats