Nintendo has given all employees in Japan a 10% base salary raise President Shuntaro Furukawa said the pay increase is aimed at helping the company retain talent

How my day is going.

Wacom recently asked me to talk about why I make queer comics, and given there are multiple bills right now floating around in congress that are effectively "we will kill your livelihood if we get a sniff of queer" I had some pretty strong, simply feelings to relay.

Mamdani announces $15M for trans healthcare, includes launching a call/text resource support line. Notes city Law Dept filed an amicus brief against subpoenas for medical records. Hospitals suspended care to trans youth following a Trump EO. This seems to try working around that, doesn’t mention it

"The last two weeks have gone into freeing myself from my Adobe subscription. And it felt less like canceling software and more like a prison break."

Well, shit. Valve just announced that Steam OS is going to become open to folks. Ignore everything I just said. 😂

Today is a momentous day for the workers of Arena! After months of planning, waiting and organizing, our dream is finally a reality; the votes have been counted, and our union of UWOTC-CWA has been officially elected. From this day forward, we have a union!

That win by Paraguay over Turkyie was the most I have laughed at a game this entire cup.

We truly live in the golden age of tabletop rpgs.

Learn how to push back on censorship and targeted surveillance facing LGBTQ+ communities. Join our livestream on June 17th at 9:00 am Pacific. www.eff.org/event/effec...

Can't sleep. Mind won't quiet down, neck is tense, and it's 4:30 AM. Maybe some chamomile tea and a hot bath with some lavender salt will help.

Ubisoft EMBARGOED news to outlets about the layoffs and studio closures, FYI. Employees were told this morning. And then many reached out to us. Companies trying to embargo layoffs and closures might be the most embarrassing thing I've ever seen in my 16 years.

If you are sick of enshittified DRM printers making life miserable, then you might want to follow this project. These guys are building an open source self servicable printer. Should be kickstarting soon. www.crowdsupply.com/open-tools/o...

We have had a long dry spell and finally got some rain, so all the late spring blooms popped.

If you are going to take a penalty kick, and decide to make the strike with laces down, you had better get your center mass over the middle of the ball. Lean back and it soars over the bar, every time. 😓

I'm seeing lots of ponderous think pieces elevating the prestige of Barney Frank, now that the old crook is dead. I feel the need to post this excellent Chotiner interview with him, just after Signature Bank's collapsed from Crypto. He was on their board. www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...

Just referred to feeling cautiously optimistic as "microdosing hope," in case you're wondering how it's going.

The heart of Star Wars was never the big films or linear main narratives. It's heartbeat is the utter strangeness of its marginalia. Every time a Willrow Hood, or Glup Shitto, or Jizz Noodler gets a backstory or an action figure, that beat grows a little stronger.

"For this focus group, conducted shortly before a sustained green glow began emanating from the station’s superlaser array, we spoke with residents who said they had backed Emperor Palpatine but now felt conflicted."

Juvenile and parent eagles hanging out at their nest over Shelley Lake Park.

This weekend, I played in a MÖRK BORG tournament with ~50 players trying to reach the heart of Hell in 2,5 hours with as few deaths as possible. The grim reaper patrolled the tables, flail in hand, feeding slain PCs’ sheets to a shredder. All GMs had corpse paint. We didn’t win, but it felt like it.

Nonprofit public archive of Tabletop RPG books and video games, in a bespoke multi-level wizard tower. Reading rooms, free tea and coffee, & relaxing penthouse views.

Social media is no longer social. Most of it is passive viewing of videos and pictures from people we've never met. But we're still studying social media like it's 2010. We've entered the post-social media era — and research needs to catch up. osf.io/preprints/so... preprint w/ Richard Rogers

The executive branch is now rotten through. We need to to prune the limb and trim up a healthier replacement. One original founding idea was a Triumvirate at the top of the executive branch. We should replace the two elected offices with co-equal three: Domestic, Foreign, & Commander in Chief.

Exactly one (1) pledge out of 1,510 (and counting) on Iron Circus' current crowdfund is traceable to Twitter. Nothing we haven't come to expect, though. Honestly: if you think you HAVE to be over there, for business/attention reasons? Nah, you're wrong. It's literally not worth your time.

after a quick review of my timeline i feel the need to point to the sign

Oh shit are we doing swords this year, fuck yeah Trans day of check this out

Warm weather is returning.

A few photographs I was fairly happy with from March. Taken while I was jogging the trails at Durant Nature Preserve.

Are you attending a protest sometime soon? Here are EFF’s tips for how best to prepare one’s digital devices and oneself while exercising your First Amendment rights. ssd.eff.org/module/atte...

Look, I moderated a Harry Potter Livejournal community. I wrote a lot of Harry Potter fanfic (including a story about a major character being trans). I met a lot of my best friends because of Harry Potter. If I can give that shit up because the author is ACTIVELY WORKING TO KILL PEOPLE, so can you.

Holy shit we might have a cure for sickle cell anemia

new Dead Can Dance???? NEW DEAD CAN DANCE!!!! deadcandance.bandcamp.com/album/our-da...

Some movie recommendations if you liked The Bride! talesofthegrotesqueanddungeonesque.blogspot.com/2026/03/so-y...

And all of this because Larian '''accidentally''' released the full mod tools that they supposedly weren't allowed to under their WOTC contract.

Found a couple of interesting trees this week.

Oh no, the Gojira egg is hatching.

Between the Ropes, Beyond the Tropes Charlotte’s ASÉ Wrestling aims to break stereotypes and create a home for Black professional wrestlers.

Reposting this for folks who might need it. This is the Friends org based in Fayetteville, who can help with moral injury, conscientious objector rights, and navigating a discharge if you want out. quakerhouse.org

Yesterday evening, for the second time in a year, the Met Police raided Westminster Quaker Meeting House and arrested a number of young nonviolent activists. STATEMENT: www.quaker.org.uk/news-and-eve...

Oh boy. www.reuters.com/world/china/...

Absolutely insane band. youtu.be/0Ssi-9wS1so?...

Seeing the data centers in space bugbear popping up again. The first time it came around I did a deep dive to sate my own curiosity and ended up landing on some resources talking about how NASA configured the cooling systems for the computers on the ISS. 1/3

Today's lunchtime sustenance! Good meal. Warms the heart on a cold winter's day. Should get quite spicy by the bottom of the bowl.

Snow day rations.

*sniffs*

I am calling for a complete and total boycott of the Mercator projection in all news stories about Greenland until every member of the American public has seen this

New: we've obtained material explaining how an ICE surveillance system, called Webloc, works. Draw shape on a map, see all phones available there, follow them home. All without warrant “This is a very dangerous tool in the hands of an out-of-control agency.” www.404media.co/inside-ices-...

web.law.duke.edu/cspd/publicd... This year's crop of public domain entrants has some real classics. The Maltese Falcon(book), All Quiet on the Western Front (film), Betty Boop, Marx Brothers' Animal Crackers, Silly Symphony cartoons, and the first four Nancy Drew books.