I think that everyone endorsing AI in everything needs to spend some time dealing with how well "smart" appliances have worked. I will consider trusting super-clippy sometime after I can go a few months without needing to power cycle my oven.

Probably a good way to tell right now if the job you’re applying for is run by absolute dumbfucks is to ask if they’re using AI.

Ok, I am still scarred by past comics platforms, but by god, I want to believe.

Do you think capitalism sucks? 💸💩 I know I do. That's why I'm making a game where you can beat up billionaires using magic powers. If that sounds like a good time, my tactical deck-builder CROWNBREAKERS might be up your alley! Wishlist it on Steam: shorturl.at/x46J8 #PitchYaGame

Ssssssss -- The 2025 Golden Cobra Challenge winners announced at Metatopia: (Thread)

Fall is here and many of you may be shopping for an overcoat. Let me show what you can get as you move up the price ladder. 🧵

I’m in this picture and I don’t like it.

The Game Awards not paying for Future Class members' *coffee order* is fucking batshit, and it is far from the worst thing in this thread.

Now, this isn't meant to diminish their massive contributions to RPG design in any way, shape, or form. But the thing I recall most fondly about @megueyb.bsky.social and @lumpley.bsky.social is their kindness and generosity of spirit.

This zine is by our VR/AR/immersive specialist @arinbb.bsky.social, who collaborated w/an English prof this past year teaching students writing concepts by having them build a MUD (text-based game/interactive fiction where you describe spaces etc you see in writing). Link to download zine +

Abolish. Fire. Prosecute. This is the *moderate* position, by the way.

A new mass effect postcard for a new N7 day. Have a good one, friends ♥️ #n7day #n7day2025

Super excited to be bringing The Dumpster Heist RPG to Unpub at PAXU. Join us as raccoons in a trenchcoat to rob a casino…or raid the dumpster 😁 1/4

I am laid out in bed, because sick. My son comes to check on me and see's I'm working on a spreadsheet. Him: Still working? Me: No Him: :Gestures at the spreadsheet: Me: This is for fun. Him: :long, flat look: Me: It is! Him: I love you, dad.

And if you’re like “I’m a game dev & I don’t see how a narrative person who is also a historian is helpful for me and my non-historical game” Then you can read my design diary about some of the work I’ve done for Amberspire (which has a fantasy sci-fi setting) lunardivision.net/micro-and-ma...

The answer is that yes, it is unethical to use anything but actual relevant experience and training to screen employees. Screening out ugly people, people who don't make eye contact, people with facial deformities, etc is unethical. Screening facial features for anything but modeling is unethical

it is SO thin-skinned that they auto-hid "rude" posts then labeled almost every cheney post rude

The arc of history is a foot-long, but it bends towards justice.

Editorial cartoon: Don't bread on me. Enjoy :)

So the Epstein vote isn't the only reason Mike Johnson should fear Rep. Yassamin Ansari. More of this, please.

People thinking they’re inventing network television after 10 years of destroying network television, I am going to walk into the fucking ocean.

My test to see if I’m sick or just drained: ‘Maybe I’ll take a break and play some borderlands.’ Drained: yeah, that sounds good Sick: oh god, that sounds like work So, yeah, I seem to be sick.

I finally found the time to have a deep read through of Cold City 2e from @handiworkgames.bsky.social (after a skim on release). One thing I am particularly loving about the new edition is the footnotes added by the now professional historian @malcolmcraig.bsky.social. 1/?

My one embarrassing confession is that I have not yet actually submitted my AW3 pledge, because I’m still on my phone and oh lord do I hate navigating Kickstarter on my phone. (Which is one more reason I hate things like early bird tiers, which AW3 is BLESSEDLY FREE OF)

If you are financially able to do it and fit the definition, do it. We've benefitted so much. You know who you are! www.kickstarter.com/projects/lum...

In Icelandic we have 'Ókind' for monster. But the translation is un-sheep. So everything not a sheep is dangerous.

If you’d like to hire me, reach out! My full resume is also on LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/ktwelves/ P.S. I am also on the hunt for part-time or full-time editing positions (remote or hybrid in the Bay Area), if you have any leads!

It doesn't matter if a project is two pages or *checks notes* 1400, Karen has handled it all. She does terrific work for us. She will do the same great job for you.

A big one for me will be examining the various real world estimates for sea rise in 2,100 NYC which are real by the way, www.nyc.gov/content/plan...

I'm doing some deep diving on resources for my NYC year 2,100 Dystopian Atlas project. I need to build up from where we are at, while I'm mostly mining out key GIS resources and downloading data from Open resources some of it is more accessible such as, streets.planning.nyc.gov/about

I commend Pelosi on her courageous commitment to using her position to profit through investments in the stock market based on privileged information and her tireless efforts to defend our government from shifts to the left that would have benefited ordinary people.

And I’m also keen to alert you to this new edition of Anthony Bourdain’s Les Halles Cookbook

There’s not a day goes past that I don’t miss Tony Bourdain, great man, great friend, great writer. Nothing can make up for the loss of him, of course, but it’s wonderful to hear his voice live from the page in the compellingly brilliant Anthony Bourdain Reader edited by Kim Witherspoon.

AI summaries has got to be one of the biggest concerns about professional AI use: 1) people love summaries and will assume accuracy; 2) AI summaries often look authoritative (even citing sources); 3) if you take time to check the sources, they often don’t say what AI says in the summary

A fine example of "AI doesn't know anything, it just picks a statistically good fit for the next word/sentence, with no memory of the previous one." So this one forgets it's supposed to be shilling for pay-us-for-reviews and pivots HARD in another direction.

Word. Aldi's has a deal to feed 10 for $40. The Target deal is 4 for $20. Not only is Aldi's better financially, it's not run by simpering ring-kissers. corporate.aldi.us/newsroom/new...

In good hands. If you're in to Daggerheart you already know, you'll get something good if Michael is leading the charge.

Most of the games we've published in the last 10 years (ie Monster of the Week, Thirsty Sword Lesbians, Blades in the Dark) either use the Powered by the Apocalypse engine or are hugely influenced by it. Happy to back this latest incarnation from the Bakers. Strongly recommend you check it out:

Wow! 😮🤩 There's a new interactive map of Every Known Road in the Roman Empire!! 🤓 itiner-e.org We might have to have a lie-down.

In other news, Vincent and I will be at #Metatopia2025 in about...8 hours? We'll be doing Breakfast With the Bakers, and some panels, and showing up in games as @avonelle.bsky.social sees fit to put us to work. If you're there, come say hi!

The Venn diagram of men who think women destroyed the workplace and want women to go 50/50 on bills and 98/2 on home chores in their relationships is a circle

I was thinking about Zohran’s transition team and today’s anti-feminist piece in the New York Times, and my mother’s book on the first generation of women to work in the city government in New York City. global.oup.com/academic/pro...

At a museum conference and it’s amazing how much this piece is unheeded/still needed in a lot of museum work.

If you haven't, do watch the KS video. The animation segment is by Annika Sturmer and we're absolutely thrilled: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wvno...

www.kickstarter.com/projects/lum... THANK YOU for already putting us past a stretch goal that will mean we give the animator for our KS video more money for her art! Annika Sturmer is a graduate of MassArt and a dear friend. You can check out her work here: www.youtube.com/@annie_thepi...

I feel silly boosting this because encouraging people to back this kickstarter is roughly akin to encouraging people to continue breathing. This is not just an unabashedly good thing, it is a whole stack of huge, unabashedly good things. It is so evident that I just assume everyone *knows* this.

Funded in 18 min. 28K stretch goal met (bonus for video animator recurring at each $10K over goal) Expect the 50K goal met today, & more goals unlocked. This is all huge given the modest, no-frills tiers.

Here We GO! Come along, my dearies! www.kickstarter.com/projects/lum...

Based on past patterns, (that is, how tech layoffs cascade once the trigger is pulled), I presume November will be worse.