On this day sixty years ago, the Batman TV series starring Adam West and Burt Ward debuted on ABC Television.

Anyone out there know how to say "Rome must be destroyed" in Carthaginian / Punic? (No need to write it out with their alphabet.)

I think its really funny that people play up the idea that thac0 got a lot of pushback at the time of 2e and folks coming back to it from later editions find it arcane but its so much better than the attack matrix that a LOT of retroclones and OSR takes on OD&D backport it. #ttrpgrub

Frozen in the past 11x17 pen and paper #surreal #macabre #PenAndPaper #TraditionalArt #DarkSurrealism #DarkArt #Art #InkSky #GrimDark

Perhaps, in all this darkness/oppression, the world could somehow find itself experiencing not an autocratic ascent but "a new birth of freedom;" and "that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth" but rise while autocrats stumble and fall. Imagine.

Presently, I'm eating the Gods of the Forbidden North megamodule -- three books, but they're all the same massive setting, from the starting city through to the fearsome castle at the end, with multiple smaller dungeons along the way. There's flavors I don't like in it, but I'll season it to taste.

This is a really interesting piece about how to interact with premade TTRPG adventures. As a GM, I greatly prefer to "eat a book" as described here. Once I've eaten it I may ultimately serve it to my players with a different preparation -- but first I have to eat the book whole.

They won't have the numbers to occupy the nation and force everyone to comply, and that's why they're engaged in such an aggressive show of force. They're hoping we all get cowed into submission and do their work of suppression ourselves. Once again, no. The mantra remains "fuck you, make me."

Only having reply posts, and never a post of your own, is a pretty quick road to blocking for me.

we’re never returning to “normal “ that world is dead and gone we create a new one, or we live in hell

We all need a a timeline cleanse! A small Corinthian aryballos in the shape of an owl (circa 630 BC). It served as a perfume container. On display at Antikensammlung München A lovely weekend to all of you ☃️😀 📷 me

Discord wants to know how you feel about AI. Go tell them: discord.sjc1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

After federal troops forced a fugitive slave named Anthony Burns back into slavery in the 1850s, one Bostonian wrote, “we went to bed one night old-fashioned, conservative, Compromise Union Whigs and waked up stark mad Abolitionists.” The abuse of power radicalizes people. We are seeing that now.

Discworld QOTD, from Snuff

Time for some must needed whimsy! Flip dat table on the king's guard!

Another image that sums up the protest.

"if your girl group can't fit in a bradley..."

This is your regularly-scheduled reminder, for no particular reason, that law enforcement is absolutely not the most dangerous profession in the United States. Fishing and logging are.

Editorial in the National Catholic Reporter: "The vice president's comments justifying the death of Renee Good are a moral stain on the collective witness of our Catholic faith. His repeated attempts to blame Good for her own death are fundamentally incompatible with the Gospel."

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now we’re talking. it’s time to take down X — and elon musk’s influence along with it

No one who treated "wear a mask when you enter this store" as horrific tyranny actually believe in deference to state authority. It's Schmittian friend-enemy politics all the way down. "We" should be able to do whatever we feel like without consequence. "They" should be harassed, repressed, killed.

We've removed the paywall from this guide so everyone can access it. 👇 Stay safe.

If someone asks you "why the long face?" you can blame it on the Year of the Horse.

Again: Alt [whatever govt agency] accounts aren't legitimate, they have a history of spreading fake info, and those photos of the unmasked agent are AI. Please do no share that stuff.

Hello new friends (courtesy of the ever magnanimous @themerl.bsky.social) We are the Merchant Adventurers' Hall - a medieval guild hall in York. What we lack in serious museum content we make up for in big roof energy. 👇

It was too much to hope for that the nonstop Medicare scam calls would end with the Medicare enrollment period. Then again, the target marks they're hoping to hook probably don't know when that enrollment period is.

Did you know it is ok to be wrong about things and change your opinion on them accordingly upon hearing new information

Shout-out to everyone who's tired as fuck of only seeing the first four lines of this poem shared around.

Hi everyone I'm so so sorry to do this, but I've been unable to find any work and my finances have become a very heavy burden that I am struggling greatly with and it's having knock on effects with my physical health. Anything helps, even if it's just a repost: ko-fi.com/mustangsart

I don’t know how “important” it is to watch a real person die. I would never say someone must see one.

The newspaper of record of my entire childhood would literally rather die than pay its unionized workers the wages and benefits that the actual Supreme Court of the United States of America decided were owed to them.

As you evaluate this from Kristi Noem, remember that when a federal agent shot a woman in Chicago last year, DHS's initial version of events was full of lies that fell apart under subsequent scrutiny: newrepublic.com/article/2019...

"You can't do horror RPGs set in the modern day due to technology and modern weapons," tells me two things. 1: You haven't seen a horror movie in the last 25 years. 2: You have a debilitating lack of imagination.

With news of yet another DHS shooting breaking, a reminder that DHS’s initial statements should not be trusted without further verification, given previous post-shooting statements which crumbled under further investigation. In addition, be wary of short context-free video clips shared virally.

Government of, by, and for the Online Right. And points to @donmoyn.bsky.social for the terms clicktatorship, LOLviathan, and algothracy.

I will reiterate this, from about 15 blocks away

Just use invoices. You should be doing that anyways. I assure you it is not the word “commission” getting people into trouble.

Can someone explain to me how this isn't an act of war, and under what circumstances this could even remotely be considered a legal action?

It's obscene and grotesque that one of the world's richest men operates a nonconsensual porn and child porn generator and plugged it into what was Twitter, and it's hard to imagine him facing consequences for the act.

Daily bunny no.3192 is tampering with the past

Happy anniversary to the last time a Republican actually took a stand

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this is where i am at: THERE IS NO ONE ELSE. do you want to outsource your military policy to steven miller? no? how about the dc blob? also no? THEN LEARN WHAT THE FUCK HOW TO MILITARY www.breakingbeijing.com/p/there-is-n...

Yeah, makes sense to me. I remember feeling in 2003 that it FELT irrational at the time, but I was younger and less experienced then. Now? Yeah, I can't blame anyone. I'd prefer if they weren't insulting about it, but I've got broad enough shoulders to take the hit.

one problem with learning is it will make you so angry at how stupid everything is

I'll take "Mental Images of Shipping I Never Wanted" for $1000, Alex.

When Musk said X would be “the everything app,” I don’t think most of us assumed that “everything” included CSAM, but, well, here we are.