That comic tho 😭😭

Love that @ichotiner.bsky.social has taken aim at Semafor. Worth looking at the fact they launched a vitriolic and highly damaging smear campaign against progressive Iran experts of Iranian-American descent, in and out of government.

Wait so all the excitement and hashtags and innovation was for a big play by chat? Lol

icymi in 1937 Leadbelly wrote the couplet "Home of the brave, land of the free / don't wanna be mistreated by no bourgeoisie"

The Dunning Kruger agents: The only people who will install them are the ones who THINK they understand the security implications, but don't.

#DieLoaded #1 is my favorite issue in the whole of DIE yet. Also I read it with 6 days to term of my first child, and I just KNOW this series is going to punch me in the face (and guts, and balls) repeatedly.

A SALE! A SALE!

@decassette.bsky.social 's Garden of Spheres is here and it's incredible Naturalistic, monumental, gently chaotic, surreal, human.

Confiscating jewellery from survivors of a war zone makes you look like a fucking Nazi. And the obscene thing is, that is the intention. It's there to look appropriately harsh. Indecent. Filthy. A moral stain. And no-one of good character would have ever proposed such a thing in the first place.

Good to see some Labour MPs speaking out about today's announcement. I've already written to my own MP @matthewpennycookmp.bsky.social and hope he will join the ranks of those doing the right thing.

What perfect album came out the year you turned 16? Monumental, awe-inducing. There's a few real great ones in 04, some that I listened to at the time (I'd get to this a bit later) - but this is the one that makes me go "as an artist, how do you live your life after doing this? Where do you go?"

Come for the sheep, stay for the alt text

A friend made this and Tbh he deserves to become rich off it www.redbubble.com/i/t-shirt/Ra...

lol

I GOT A CRAB I GOT A CRAB I GOT A CRAB I GOT A CRAB I GOT A CRAB I GOT A CRAB

Hadn't realised Rob Wieland was the author of Camelot Trigger - in addition to his journalism, I have to thank him for one of the most satisfying long games I've had.

I find the UK Debate on ID cards somewhat weird. As an Italian, I've had an ID card all my life. It's normal. And somehow, the UK has been implementing much more pervasive surveillance and control without an ID card system in place.

CHOTINER: So your son is 14, is that right? IKARI: It's complex, Isaac. If— CHOTINER: And the “robot” he pilots, that’s actually the child of an alien you keep crucified in the basement, which is possessed by the spirit of his dead mother? IKARI: Look, let me answer the question. CHOTINER: Sure.

My earbuds: COME ON FEEL THE NOISE GIRLS ROCK YOUR BOYS WE GET WILD WILD WILD WILD WILD WILD Me: purposefully strides towards the IKEA to buy new boxes for our storage cabinet

Important also because Cher attained the Most Incredible Hairdo a human being has ever achieved. Truly dazzling heights of architecture.

ok everybody get ready 30tgrs.ffm.to/armiesofthel...

Goodnight to all the beautiful trans people in my life, I love you a lot and my life is richer bc youre in it!

I hope George Martin and Patrick Rothfuss have enough money that they don't have to write ONE more word in their lives. Not even a fucking shopping list.

When they told me knowing would be half the battle, I thought: "well that's a lot, I'm sure it will be enough!" Now it turns out that the other half is having to DO stuff. Honestly I didn't even want to commit to a whole battle in the first place.

Literally tell no one about this, but... ... @ndpdesign.com and I have officially put a stand-alone, print edition of Swords Without Master on the @unwrittenearths.bsky.social production schedule. Gird your loins, for the season of the Swords is almost upon us.

You thought it ended.⁠ ⁠ Stories like this don’t end.

Strong Etienne Lux energy for those following @kierongillen.bsky.social's latest

As I'm doomed to spend all of my money in fast casual restaurants, feeding a perpetually hungry tween, I note that "hot honey" is the new salted caramel. There is absolutely no food stuff it can't be added to for a small premium.

I moved to Britain in 2005 when people were up in arms about ID cards like ones that exist in most European countries being an intolerable affront to liberty and now apparently they want a world where you have to scan your face to use the internet and your genitals to use the loo

@sistersinead.bsky.social once answered this with "a microscope", on the understanding that it could open up to modern germ theory, and it's still the best answer I've heard for this.

1. First played: D&D 3.5 2. First run: D&D 3.5 (LOL that was a disaster) 3. Played most: prob The One Ring (mammoth campaign) 4. Run most: monsterhearts or Psi*Run 5. Favorite: right now, Die 6. Most recently played: Die 7. Most recently run: Jiangshi: blood in the banquet hall

Rhetorical annoyance: "Associated/disassociated mechanics" is just a cute trick to say that the "disassociated ones" are bad, in the exact tone that folks got mad at "incoherent" and "brain damage" for. Some mechanics are representative. Some are more or less abstracted. Some folks care.

Expedition 33 genuinely had me go "was this moment in the plot gay or are they just European?" I... I thought that was a joke.

Finally playing @kierongillen.bsky.social's Die, and boy, am I turning this into A Project. Former metalhead, understimulated teen into uncertain man. Godbinder. Of course I need a playlist of ONLY the tracks me and my peers loved as teens. Of course all gods must be found in those tracks.

Char Aznable magical girl CONFIRMED

Another nice thing about getting older is learning the people who are interesting and worth engaging with are people who cultivate an active sense of curiosity about the world, their communities, their own lives and interests. Curiosity opens you up to the world, and what else is there, honestly?

Every time I walk into my study, I pass this scrap of paper that @megueyb.bsky.social offered to me (& anyone) the night we met, certifying that I (like everyone) am a game designer, with all rights & responsibilities. And that is why she is a delta, a weaver of people, & someone I hope to emulate.

Music theory* is arbitrary and invented. Musicians use it, but only because it helps to have a shared structure to creatively work together. But like, nobody forces them to. Evidently, Music Theory Doesn't Matter. *Whether western or from other cultures

2018: Number of times Kathleen Stock, Maya Forstater, Helen Joyce, Fiona McAnena or Sex Matters were mentioned in the papers? Once, and it was Forstater taking about a non-trans subject. 2019: 143 2020: 228 2021: 324 2022: 557 2023: 631 2024: 796

I just wish there were another six hours every day. Just imagine how much extra procrastination I'd get done.

Wow! This year's Glasto has a full immersive experience... It's Fyre Festival themed.

"AI" - dashare.zone ADMIN

One more thought on Empire Strikes Back-- I do kinda feel for later people working in this universe, because the Jedi philosophy is just utterly non-cohesive. Not just the confusion over what you can do with it, but the overall philosophy, and the practical actions of its followers.

the two types of mecha fans are "perhaps mecha are a body; an ideal flesh, for the weak to ensconse themselves within. a mask to protect the soul" or "okay so actually on Ganymede the weak gravity makes giant combat robots viable". the beautiful thing is that they're both right

We're running out of time. This is our moment. We can finally 'let people hate things'.

"TRPGs aren't board games or video games" correct, because board games and video games frequently possess a level of design rigor that would annihilate the average "I hacked D&D to run Cyberpunk 2077, just as god intended" person

And people thought the Dune popcorn bucket was something.