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Kira Magrann@kiraserpentine.bsky.social |
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Kira Magrann (no pronouns) ✨multi-award-winning game designer 🌈queer nonbinary 🐍 mother of snakes and humans 🎲🎲🎲designer of A Cozy Den and Something Is Wrong Here 🌎 Columbus, Ohio/Hopewell and Miami territory
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G. Willow Wilson
@gwillow.me
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I’ve been skeptical about the idea that there is an actual rightward turn underway at the NYT, and assumed their recent baffling editorial decisions were a result of the usual tepid liberal both sides-ism. Today I’m canceling my subscription.
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Iron Spike
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Didn’t even need to click through to guess the author’s race an gender. Do you what you want, fucker. But too many people got savaged by dogs, blasted with fire hoses, and hung from trees to get me into the voting booth for me to ever opt out.
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Zinnia Jones 🐍
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www.reuters.com/legal/govern...
www.reuters.com/legal/us-jud...
Twice in a day! Losing Chevron deference has fucked us irreversibly
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Kira Magrann
@kiraserpentine.bsky.social
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Screen capped it but you can go to clean air club for more info
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Scott Crosson 🐟📈
@fishecon.bsky.social
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“A Conservative Farm Town Went Green Without Really Trying
Tiny Morris, Minn., adopted wind turbines, solar panels and composting to save money, not the planet—and now it has become a model for other rural towns”
www.wsj.com/us-news/clim...
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Dr Sarah Hendrica Bickerton 🏳️🌈
@sarahhbickerton.bsky.social
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We told you this would happen with the removal of Chevron.
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Kira Magrann
@kiraserpentine.bsky.social
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Updated testing info useful during a month when everyone is getting sick. July. 🫠
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Kira Magrann
@kiraserpentine.bsky.social
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I needed to hear it so I figured others did too!
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scott⚡️mccloud
@scottmccloud.bsky.social
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As well-meaning publishers try to navigate the coming storm of state laws against diversity, I hope they'll consider Timothy Snyder's Rule #1 (from his slim book ON TYRANNY).
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Kira Magrann
@kiraserpentine.bsky.social
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I found this essay and list comforting, as the best way to survive the coming decades will be with the support we can give to each other
ijeomaoluo.substack.com/p/how-we-get...
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Kira Magrann
@kiraserpentine.bsky.social
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We still need to take action in all possible ways, take care of each other when systems fail us, have plans so we know what to do, keep building a better world regardless for those who come after us, do not despair but instead stay with the trouble and hold both fear and hope in our hands
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Kira Magrann
@kiraserpentine.bsky.social
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I’m definitely overwhelmed thinking about the future of this country and how to prepare and how to fight and what to do. On top of you know, the rest of the catastrophes currently besieging our end of capitalist world
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Christine Morales
@chrismo.bsky.social
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@macfarlanenews.bsky.social
NEW: Rep Joe Morelle (D-NY)
“I will introduce a constitutional amendment to reverse SCOTUS’ harmful decision and ensure that no president is above the law. This amendment will do what SCOTUS failed to do—prioritize our democracy”
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Emma Evans
@trance.bsky.social
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I remember when Trump was defeated, seeing people non violently celebrating in the streets and I remember the cops, especially NYPD, crying. You should remember this too. You should REALLY remember this.
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Sean
@publichealth.bsky.social
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a republican taking the white house (fairly won or not) is the most serious threat to planetary public health in my lifetime, in both the short and long terms. i do not say this lightly
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Kaitlin Has Had Enough
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Again, Black people are an exception here, as basically anyone who stayed in the Jim Crow South has a living memory of living under what amounted to fascism, including the “always walking on eggshells/lack of social trust/long periods of boring endurance/randomized terrifying violence”
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Kalum
@rolistespod.bsky.social
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I'm just gonna #shamelessplug this episode of The RPG Academy Film Studies here. 😏
rolistespod.com/2022/8/6/fil...
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Judith Butlerian Jihad
@xanindigo.bsky.social
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Everyone knows Coca-Cola used to contain cocaine, but people don't talk as much about how 7 Up used to contain lithium as a mood stabiliser.
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Jen the Bad Decision Fairy
@jenkatwrites.bsky.social
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this is something I would say I would be "marketing selectively" (sending directly to people who express interest in it lol) but I should let you know: the text-only commentary edition of The Price of Coal is on itchio now jen-adcock15.itch.io/the-price-of...
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(Mike) Draco 🧙🏻♂️
@dmdraco.bsky.social
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Recently become super enamored with the art of Simon Hintermann.
linktr.ee/Aurumek
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Kira Magrann
@kiraserpentine.bsky.social
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Any larps that revolve around spies? I’m curious about fun mechanics and stories that aren’t just about rooting out spies where some players are and aren’t spies!
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❤️🖤 tiffani 🤍💚
@tranniehathaway.bsky.social
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Kick em again
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Kira Magrann
@kiraserpentine.bsky.social
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Hahaha yessssssssssss I just want to see the ensuing sword fight that leads to holding hands under the moon
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Arkady Martine | Dr. AnnaLinden Weller
@byzantienne.bsky.social
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PERFORMATIVE DESPAIR IS NOT A POLITICAL STRATEGY. Do not conjure your own imagined demise. In particular, don't do it collectively, on a communication system meant to amplify emotional contagion. (simpler/more esoteric: don't do death magic at collective scale on your own minds, for fuck's sake)
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Brandon O’Brien
@therisingtithes.bsky.social
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I made a thing.
If you like John Wick, or movies with bisexual mood lighting, I hope you'll play THE GOD OF SPITE AND VIOLENCE.
You can get a copy of this game over on my Ko-Fi page! Your purchase this month will help me pay bills and other expenses!
ko-fi.com/s/1ff8f2b883
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Kira Magrann
@kiraserpentine.bsky.social
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The two costume drama romance genders: Interview with a Vampire vs Bridgerton
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Kira Magrann
@kiraserpentine.bsky.social
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Woah second season interview with a vampire is RIVETING GAY HORROR I am on the edge of my seat! Wasn’t ready lol!
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Kira Magrann
@kiraserpentine.bsky.social
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Sunset hydrangeas and milkweed
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Ars Technica
@arstechnica.com
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"We still want actors and characters and spectacle. For as long as we make first-person experiences mediated by a computer, we'll be making new interactive fiction."
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Jeff Stormer
@jeffstormer.bsky.social
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The death of Twitter has made finding new games, and finding games by designers who'd enjoy having their work on the pod, SIGNIFICANTLY more difficult--filling out direct contact via the form dramatically helps my ability to do what I do best (pitching hyperspecific games to guests)
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Dr. Lucky Tran
@luckytran.bsky.social
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Tips to beat the heat: 💧 Drink water 👕 Wear light and loose clothing 🏡 Stay indoors ✊ Dismantle the fossil fuel industry
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Tobias S. Buckell
@tobiasbuckell.bsky.social
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I’ve seen online communities you noobs wouldn’t believe. Attacking comments in the forums of Usenet. I’ve seen Geocities blinking under a million construction GIFS, and threaded flame wars spanning hundreds of LiveJournals. These memories will be lost…like tears in rain…
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Kira Magrann
@kiraserpentine.bsky.social
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Thank you it is a lot!!! I’m glad I know some people who are likeminded but finding a community of parents who have kids my child age has been pretty impossible. Gonna keep trying tho!
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Kira Magrann
@kiraserpentine.bsky.social
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It has been more bananas than I thought it possibly could’ve been having a child in 2022 amidst an ongoing pandemic. Even more social isolation than normal and people not giving a shit about the health of your child and everything back to normal for children despite ongoing illnesses for them… :(
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Bo Thompson
@gaudipern.bsky.social
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Today, on Juneteenth, if you are a descendant of a formerly enslaved person I invite you to take a moment to acknowledge, mourn, and cherish all it means. If you are a descendant of a people who benefited from slavery I invite you to explore what steps remain to address the legacy of that injustice.
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Kira Magrann
@kiraserpentine.bsky.social
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Thanks Steven! It is, in ways I’m still figuring out I think! Just wild
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Kira Magrann
@kiraserpentine.bsky.social
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Yea… the likelihood of more pandemic popping up soon is pretty high, it’s one of the things that goes hand in hand with climate change climate
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Kira Magrann
@kiraserpentine.bsky.social
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Yea it really required a lot of things to align and a lot of luck. I’m hoping things will be better in the future for me but, until then I feel pretty sad and isolated from a thing that was such a huge part of my life in the before times :(
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Kira Magrann
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Yea I really just keep waiting for things to improve and they’re actively getting worse! Whole prta of the world that used to be such a big part of my life are now just inaccessible. It really makes sense why I feel so isolated a lot of the time, on top of parenting etc
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Kira Magrann
@kiraserpentine.bsky.social
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lol my sibling in Christ. Yea that’s how I feel too. I ran a lot of panels as well and now just… don’t. I’m certain it’s hurt my business. I keep hoping next year will be the year and things just keep getting actively worse
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Kira Magrann
@kiraserpentine.bsky.social
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I miss going to game conventions Pre 2020 I attended multiple conventions a year and sell my games, promote, gather with colleagues, play games, party, dine with friends all over the world I haven’t done it in four years and I’m starting to feel really sad about it Cost, risk, childcare too much
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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈
@whysharksmatter.bsky.social
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In the weeks after President Biden's administration, the Union of Concerned Scientists asked me to write a reach-for-the-stars wildest-dream wishlist for science policy.
I wrote it, and was shocked to learn that they had already done everything on it.
blog.ucsusa.org/science-blog...
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Dan Greene
@dmgreene.bsky.social
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This is great let's make it 900,000
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Kira Magrann
@kiraserpentine.bsky.social
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Ahhhhh 🥰 thank you thank you I’m so glad it had such an impact
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Kathleen "zaftikat" Zaftikat
@zaftikat.bsky.social
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this game rules. it was my intro into the world of indie ttrpgs and one of two games i cite as reasons why i started making games. if y'all are at origins this weekend, buy a copy!
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Kira Magrann
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Omg thank you this made me tear up 😭 being an inspiration is like one of the things I love most so happy to hear it ahhhhhhhhh
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Kira Magrann
@kiraserpentine.bsky.social
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Something Is Wrong Here will be at the IPR booth this weekend at Origins!!!
It’s my game of uncanny David Lynch inspired feels
Stop by their booth to see all the other rad games they have too!
@ipr.bsky.social
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Alyssa Harad
@alyssaharad.bsky.social
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If you can’t bring yourself to admit that we need masks for wildfire smoke, Covid and whatever the next pandemic will be, I hope you can at least see that this is about intensifying hyper surveillance and comes straight from the cops.
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Kira Magrann
@kiraserpentine.bsky.social
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Hahahah yes! Imagine!!! Anyway it’s hard to be visible these days beyond insular ways. Maybe insular and local is just best for our current world and economy! I have no answers but want to hear what others think might be ways forward
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Kira Magrann
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Absolutely! A major problem with internet archives during the 2000-2020 era in general. But yea our constant loss of history in ttrpgs is astounding lol. Some academia is picking this up but can only do so much and most people don’t read! We need people’s history or something.
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