Ran a canned food drive for my local D&D Adventurers League - we've got several bags of food to donate this holiday season. It's great to see the community pitch in, and the fact that they get rewards for their characters is a nice added bonus

no one ever had to be forced to use *good* tech.

I deleted and stopped playing Fortnite recently. It was honestly a big comfort game for me but that comfort was very quickly becoming outmatched by how uncomfortable all their decisions were making me.

stand in working class solidarity with voice actors and save your fav media from enshittification in the process

Let me give some insight on this, as a producer in the dub industry who worked with major streamers, who's witnessed first-hand where this push for AI is coming from. tl;dr: Only CEOs want this. Tell them how much you hate it. Be loud, email, call, @, post. You will kill this. 🧵⬇️

Painted up this year's Red Gobbo. Merry Grotmas, ya gitz!

"Never spread the lie in the headline" should be a hard rule of 21st century journalism. Research shows that repeating lies helps to spread them, and people read headlines more than they read stories.

And this is why voice actors are fighting so hard for AI protections in their contracts. g33khq.org/amazon-ai-du...

Why are students having learning challenges? I can't imagine:

AND supporting your local library is super important! If you actually DO want books to be available to everyone, the library *already exists* and is staffed by the people who are deep in the trenches of fighting censorship! Supporting the library is doing actual good for your community!

The thing about CrunchyRoll’s enshittification is that normally I’m a big proponent of supporting official channels but if the money from subscriptions isn’t being used to pay talent and labour and the quality suffers as a result, then morally what’s the purpose of supporting those official means?

When I'm not painting warhams I run a small press publishing company specializing in horror fiction, occult art books, enamel pins, and even an RPG. Anyway, it's all 25% off this week so give me your filthy dollars.

Holy. SHIT. Like........ WOW... It's so much worse than you'd think. Like, before I hit play, I figured it would just be kind of awkward but... wow... ... WOW

Got some good pulls from the Magic: The Gathering Avatar set recently

Wanna get some character art for the holidays? vgen.co/sonybaloneyart

This is in the running for my favorite lecture slide ever

And while I'm shamelessly plugging my stuff, there's also the Black Friday/Cyber Monday/Whatever sales on Redbubble, including t-shirts and other merch using the artwork from these adventures: www.redbubble.com/people/Robgu...

Hey, y'all like sales, right? Well, I've got a bundle of four D&D Adventurers League mods featuring the elusive criminal Carmille Santiago for only five bucks! This is a limited-time bundle, so get it now or... wait for next year, I guess. site.dmsguild.com/product/5037...

Celebrating Turkey Day the way it's meant to be enjoyed: watching MST3K and RiffTrax

i know WHY this is but that just makes it even more of a kick in the pants lmao

Remember: when you see a post saying "share this or bad things will happen to you," ethically it's the right decision to not share it and ensure the bad luck ends with you, rather than share it and risk afflicting even more people with misfortune.

Hey, y'all like sales, right? Well, I've got a bundle of four D&D Adventurers League mods featuring the elusive criminal Carmille Santiago for only five bucks! This is a limited-time bundle, so get it now or... wait for next year, I guess. site.dmsguild.com/product/5037...

It’s the busiest shopping period of the year, so we’re hitting pause on buying from corporations that enable Trump’s fascist agenda: weaintbuyingit.com/?utm_source=bluesky

Lots of people sharing this clip because it's funny and cathartic but I also genuinely believe it's important. We have to win the narrative battle between "I live in a corrupt society and that's just how it is" and "I live in a corrupt society and we are going to defeat and humiliate these ghouls."

After publishing this article, I've heard from many that CR seems to be using AI to produce dub CCs. Now, thanks to a slip-up CR had with episode 6 dub of The Banished Court Magician, we can say that with 100% certainty: Crunchyroll is using the AI service Ollang.com for its dub closed captions!

To whoever needs to hear it: No, you’re not messing everything up, and people don’t hate you all of a sudden. It’s just getting colder and seasonal depression is kicking in.

An excellent primer on the long, horrifying history of antisemitism. ⬇️

After hearing a lot of people go off on One Punch Man S3, all I can say is, we've been seeing headlines like the following below for years at this point. Not sure what people expected to happen in the industry. Maybe it's not laziness but people actually starving.

You’ve been kidnapped. The characters from the last TV show you watched are trying to rescue you. Who’s coming to save you? I'm good.

If you like an author's work, the best thing you can do is buy it. The second best thing you can do is ask your local library to buy it. Or, do both!

My aarakocra paladin to Tiamat during today's game of D&D:

the mama surrendered to rescue apparently IN LABOR decided NOT to have her pups that night (who knew dogs got Braxton Hicks?) but has since released the hostages! Five puppies & mama will need homes, they are a mix of various small breeds. Rescue contact (Simi Valley CA): www.facebook.com/PLMRPLMR/

Hello. My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die, Charlie Brown.

Did a bit of dice making today

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Important update: I have received word from insiders that Crunchyroll executives have deemed the user backlash to be small enough that their subtitle enshittification & OOONA plans will NOT be cancelled, only delayed. I have added an update to the article. There's a summary at the top now too.

Friends, this is a low hanging boycott action. Similar to Hulu and Disney+ actions. You can help turn the tide and it will make other platforms think twice. The working class has much more power than they think.

If you use GMail, AI (Gemini) was turned on yesterday by default and now scans all of your content for machine learning. To turn off, go to Settings>General and scroll down. Uncheck the box for "Smart features." There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.

ARTISTS! You can DISABLE this feature! Protect yourself and don't assume that you're safe if you're an sfw artist!

Remember: don't eat the mid tier fast food chicken, don't play the wizard game, don't shop at the hobby store run by the bad guys from Indiana Jones, and don't donate to the bigot bucket.

This is one of my favorite comics stores in the entire country, and due to the pandemic and some other issues, it is asking for a bit of help. I hope you go look and spread the word, donate a little bit (or a lot) if you can. I'm going to donate some in the morning, hope you will consider it, too.

Cool D&D adventures *AND* cool T-shirts!

Hey authors! Check to see if Anthropic stole your book to train their slop generator on. You’re entitled to $1500 per stolen Work. Look up your work, and if you’re in the database, file a claim secure.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com/lookup/

Spent the weekend playing D&D (and other tabletop games) at KublaCon Fall, so here’s my convention report: g33khq.org/kublacon-fal...

It is genuinely incredible to me how much evidence there is to support investing in the public good and how much animus there is to do this simple, effective thing.

Good.

Bluesky has finally, quietly posted a position for a one-year remote contract Policy Lead, Trust & Safety position. Trans people who qualify, apply here: jobs.gem.com/bluesky/am9i... We need someone competent in this role if this place is going to survive.

One of my favorite pieces that @mariapleasant.bsky.social drew for my D&D mods (aside from all of them) is the Bohemian Rhapsody-inspired piece for "Ice, Ice, Birdie." I liked it so much I got it on a t-shirt back when we published it, so of course we had to make one available for anyone who wants.

Let me be clear: if I die, don’t you fucking dare. You could pour everything I’ve ever written anywhere into an LLM, feed it every story from everyone who knew me, and it still wouldn’t come close to a fraction of a percent of who I am. It would be a sick mimicry, and a surface level one at that.

It cannot be remembered enough that these were the same people who got worked up about drag brunches