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I keep coming back the fact that to some people using the defence that Elon just did a motion that happened to look like a Nazi salute, that he reinvented one of the most famous hate symbols from first principles by accident. Which is obvious nonsense. The man can’t invent anything himself.

submitted 124 days ago • 15 comments

Right, not much to celebrate today but solely because of this site we had our best ever DriveThruRPG sales this weekend, which was v. unexpected So to say thanks, we'll send 1 person who reposts this every copy of the mag in stock (issues 3-4) & 1 of each of our Johan Nohr & Łukasz Kowalczuk tees

submitted 125 days ago • 4 comments

Nazi oligarchs fuck off.

submitted 125 days ago • 9 comments

Recommendations straight from the maestro. Reminds me: I really need to try FIST one of these days.

submitted 132 days ago • 0 comments

Nah, we can quietly ignore the dragon and just let it die. De-center Hasbro in the hobby, don’t challenge it. They’re a big, dying fish, there are far more interesting depths in this pond.

submitted 132 days ago • 1 comment

This is your periodic reminder that: "AI" is artificial, but not currently intelligent "hallucinations" are actually incorrect or misleading output (errors) "AI" cannot "join the workforce" any more than a broken clock can When we use their marketing terms we only help them perpetuate the scam.

submitted 132 days ago • 33 comments

i love seeing my chickens just hanging out. The dynamics of their little friend groups.

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Friends, a petition I've created to go to Parliament for the protection of Trans Healthcare in the UK has just gone live. If you are in the United Kingdom, please sign and share this. If you are not in the United Kingdom, please share it. #Trans #LGBTQ #UK petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...

submitted 136 days ago • 62 comments

Ursula K. LeGuin: "American science fiction has assumed a permanent hierarchy of superiors and inferiors, with rich, ambitious, aggressive males at the top, then a great gap, and then at the bottom the poor, the uneducated, the faceless masses, and all the women."

submitted 136 days ago • 56 comments

If it's an 'authoritarian drive' in China to remove trans people from public view, what's it called in the UK and US?

submitted 141 days ago • 45 comments

Introducing the Designing Dungeons Course: a free, 14 step, hands-on tutorial that walks you through the process of creating a 30-room dungeon from scratch. I just launched the first two chapters. More chapters forthcoming every week. I hope you'll check it out! dungeons.hismajestytheworm.games

submitted 141 days ago • 13 comments

Happy new year, everyone! I wrote a manifesto for 2025! In 2025, I'm doing to review as many ZUNGEONS as I can get my hands on. Let's lower the bar on making dungeons, but keep in gorgeous. Here's how to make a zungeon. playfulvoid.game.blog/2025/01/01/t... #osr

submitted 145 days ago • 16 comments

This is a helpful read, re: Recent goings-on in the #osr and points to a thing I strongly suspected: Yochai is, as many have noted, a community-builder. Bluesky is not a community-oriented site; it's a network, at most able to host a scene. newschoolrevolution.com/blue-skies-a...

submitted 143 days ago • 2 comments

Amid all the controversy, I keep coming back to this take. Seems to me that YG's biggest sin in all of this is being bad at internet (which, for a community organiser/champion, is not nothing).

submitted 143 days ago • 0 comments

if you see this post, your actions are: - if you have a spare buck, give it to Wikipedia, then repost this - if you don't have a spare buck, just repost your action is mandatory for the world's best source of information to survive

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I have a colleague (not on social media) who likes to say that works don't fall into the public domain, they ascend into the public domain. I really love that.

submitted 144 days ago • 29 comments

Jimmy Carter has died at 100. With the battle for democracy in South Korea in the news, it's worth pointing out that Carter backed Chun Doo-hwan in crushing the 1980 Gwangju Uprising — a 10 day student revolt against Chun's military coup. Hundreds killed w/ hundreds more tortured in military prison.

submitted 147 days ago • 10 comments

A new version of DURF Expanded is up on the Patreon! It includes a bunch of new art and reworks the structure of the book to make it a lot easier for new players to jump in ✨ www.patreon.com/c/emielboven

submitted 206 days ago • 4 comments

Lmfao

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Having a moment of hobby euphoria. Feeling grateful to be living through a golden age for ttrpgs. This year alone: Mothership 1e, Pendragon 6e, Lancer reprint, Moria supplement for The One Ring, Wildendrem: Valley of Flowers. All such brilliant works of creativity!

submitted 303 days ago • 1 comment

Hey, BlueSky folks: are you a Photobucket user or have you ever been in the past? They just updated their ToS & it includes a rather shocking element. If they used your photos to train AI that would be an improvement over their new policy. They're selling your uploaded media to biometric companies.

submitted 310 days ago • 9 comments

We are overjoyed to reveal a graphic novel edition of Ursula K. Le Guin's fantasy classic A Wizard of Earthsea, coming 2025 reactormag.com/cover-reveal...

submitted 311 days ago • 2 comments

PSA

submitted 597 days ago • 45 comments

this absolutely blew my mind it's the coolest thing i've read in a minute www.smithsonianmag.com/history/hidd...

submitted 322 days ago • 9 comments

i know i complained too many people sent me this but "I will fucking piledrive you if you mention AI again" is very very funny ludic.mataroa.blog/blog/i-will-...

submitted 332 days ago • 7 comments

It is very exhausting to see people doing "ha ha look how dumb Chat GPT is it can't get basic questions right" right as we are getting constant stories about how much energy even basic queries for AI uses up. Just don't use it! The bit isn't that funny!

submitted 333 days ago • 7 comments

Reminder that Aaron Swartz was facing 35 years in prison and financial devastation for trying to programmatically download and open the contents of JSTOR, which led to him taking his own life. But OpenAI is going to scrape all of academia and make billions by plagiarizing it.

submitted 337 days ago • 53 comments

TTRPG podcasters: it's been four years since Mörk Borg was released. I can't remember if exaggerated mispronunciations of the title were ever especially funny but please (I'm begging you) get a new joke.

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