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Fix your hearts or die.

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They want 1939 Germany, Let’s give them 1789 France.

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#GenCon Badge bought. I'll likely run games under one banner or another, maybe both (see Bio!) depending on how schedules can be coordinated, but I'm not gonna rely on either for a badge in case my plans get derailed, because gross to have to cancel games and still get a free badge. (1/5)

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Friday Fun: Boss Monster Edition ⚔ Since now is the time of monsters, let's all be badass Soulsborne boss ones 🎮 REPLY here to be assigned a new Name, Title, & a description of your Special or Loot Drop #Zinequest & #ZiMo aren't over, so there's still time for me to be your #TTRPG stretch goal! 🎲

submitted 2 days ago • 7 comments

The remarkable extent to which the entire tech sector has become a truly gigantic, world-altering, pump-&-dump scheme...

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Does RFK Jr. not know how much $$ Pharma companies make from the various meds he's looking to remove? I mean, sure, make enemies, but taking them on seems like a great way to get [REDACTED] with a [REDACTED] while being [REDACTED][REDACTED][SO VERY VERY REDACTED] and maybe even fired!

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America's first gender neutral bathroom was Rush Limbaugh's gravesite.

submitted 5 days ago • 599 comments

somebody recommended a buckwheat pillow and the website for this brand, oh my god the website, i feel like i just went fishing and pulled up a coelacanth

submitted 4 days ago • 23 comments

How many ways I can say referring to a country of ten provinces and three territories - effectively 13 states - as a single state to be forcibly annexed for "votes" is BEYOND OFFENSIVE? #canadasky is not hapless simpletons. We are sovereign. This is like a bad South Park sketch and we're over it.

submitted 4 days ago • 5 comments

My Omni arrived! This thing is gorgeous. Like, it's so pristine I think it might need some cosmetic distressing to look like it's a well-used tool of a Voyager. It's not a functional hero-prop - no lights, the dials don't individually move - but so F-ing what? It's really well done, I'm diggin' it.

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

Looking for a colorist for a project. Link me your portfolio!

submitted 5 days ago • 32 comments

we need an associate to join the firm as soon as possible. various reasons inc. half the fed gov't being fired. employment, civil rights, a bit of suing Elon Musk, some other stuff. Virginia bar required. I'll get around to posting something formal but email me a resume if you want to apply.

submitted 5 days ago • 10 comments

this is sublime

submitted 255 days ago • 18 comments

One week until RECALL is out. Probably my most violent book - if you enjoy loads of fighting and gunplay and high-octane supernatural action, this'll scratch that itch. Think John Wick x The Frighteners and it's something close. And remember, memory can't be trusted.

submitted 6 days ago • 2 comments

Massive layoffs only serve to swell the job market with candidates and give employers more power over pay and benefits. It's just another oligarchy strategy that they sell you on with "efficiency" as if the government will ever be efficient or taxes will ever go away.

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

People aren't doing the things we do for love like they used to.

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Gemini admitted to me that its design will result in discriminatory and biased responses, so we'll just be scrolling past Google's AI overview from now on.

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

People don't have peaceful, easy feelings like they used to.

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The measles outbreak in Texas is reminding me of the public letter Roald Dahl wrote about losing his daughter to measles in 1962, just before the vaccine was publicly available.

submitted 8 days ago • 410 comments

#NOH8

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Roses are red, Elon's a knob,

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We're stoked to introduce the 'No Gen AI' seal for indie games! Indie devs can use it on their game's store page to assure potential players that their game was made without the use of Generative AI. You can grab it from the Polygon Treehouse website:- www.polygon-treehouse.com/no-gen-ai-seal

submitted 8 days ago • 124 comments

If you’re an LGB without the T/Q person, block me and fuck off.

submitted 8 days ago • 15 comments

Recreating this post with Alt text and link to Mike's BSky account. I don't plan to import any other Tweets, but this is a great one. @mikeokuda.bsky.social of ST:TNG fame with an amazing way to make it clear vaccines are a miracle. I can't find a BSky version of this post, hence the import.

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

ok but like, how are we getting any work done. i'm trying to tippy tap away at my silly little keyboard but every fifteen minutes or so the new stupidest thing anyone's ever done happens.

submitted 8 days ago • 94 comments

I got my small Fed and State Tax Returns today. No lie, I wasn't sure the fucking IRS would still be functioning long enough to process my incredibly simple return.

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The Govt effort to standardize on 'LGB' is vile. It erases huge swaths of the community in the public mind so that they can be more easily Othered and abused and LITERALLY erased. It's also a clear effort to sow division within the community itself. Don't fall for it. Don't accept it. Solidarity.

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The Stonewall Inn released a response to the National Parks Service removing the word transgender from the park outside of the Inn. A great reminder that we have to look after each other

submitted 9 days ago • 16 comments

Do you remember that time Pence tried to see Hamilton and the cast called him out. Or when McConnell was chased out of a resraurant and not allowed a peaceful meal. Or when Cruz abandoned Texas during the deep freeze and we shamed him into going home. That. Do that.

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Friends, you know what would help to get me through this stressful and expensive time? Pre-order RECALL, out on Feb 25th. It really helps! Thank you (and please share.) Links in the replies!

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

Gotta head out & run some errands. Gonna put out another call to see if I can land some work. If you're lookin for some fancy baubles & barware, I recently did a massive price drop across both my shops to help it be more affordable in this gods forsaken economy. Customs welcome. linktr.ee/punklenix

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The Govt effort to standardize on 'LGB' is vile. It erases huge swaths of the community in the public mind so that they can be more easily Othered and abused and LITERALLY erased. It's also a clear effort to sow division within the community itself. Don't fall for it. Don't accept it. Solidarity.

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It may feel weird or somehow improper to talk about your art or your writing, but we need it. It can’t be wall-to-wall nightmare all the time. Art is both counterweight and context. It’s escape and enlightenment and a mirror of our own exasperation. We need it. We NEED it. Keep showing us.

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NY State AG Letitia James ought to issue a warrant for Elon Musk and his incel clown posse for wire fraud and grand larceny. They took $80 million of federally allocated funds from a bank account that wasn't theirs. Indict them, issue warrants, and arrest them now. End this madness.

submitted 10 days ago • 21 comments

The HRT Harm Reduction Toolkit #ttrpg bundle is live! 100% of the proceeds of this bundle go directly toward Distribute Aid's efforts to supply kits of 1 year's necessary medical equipment into the hands of trans people in needs for free. Check it out & spread the word!! itch.io/b/2889/hrt-h...

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‘You Can’t Let This Happen,’ Says Fundraising Email From Sitting U.S. Congressperson

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Just 24 hours left to get the exclusive Magnus Institute Patch FREE with any Pledge for The Magnus Archives RPG! Don't miss out—once it's gone, it's gone! Get the Magnus Archives core book and two vinyl stickers (and more coming) free with every single pledge! 📼📕🕷️ mymcg.info/tangled

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Basically traps AI crawlers and sends them down an "infinite maze" of static files with no exit links, where they get stuck and thrash around for months. Once trapped, the crawlers can be fed gibberish data, aka Markov babble, which is designed to poison AI models arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...

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