This kind of thing at Substack (including their Nazi problem and trans hate problem) are why my newsletter is at Ghost.org and always has been. Andrew Tate is a spectacularly vile human being accused of numerous violent crimes against women and hugely corrosive for young male minds.

The 13th annual international Gender Census 2026 is now open until at least 13th August 2026! survey.gendercensus.com It's for anyone whose gender (or lack thereof) isn't described by the M/F binary. It's short and easy, and results are useful in academia, business and self-advocacy. #LGBTQ

I did a tonne of research so you don't have to. I talk about masking, air filtration, and air quality rating systems, & I give concrete suggestions to help you keep yourself and your loved ones safe. If you don't have this information yet, it's time to get educated. Wildfires don't respect borders.

Oh my god, this is so 🎯. When you create something using AI, you're not creating it; the software is. And the software is only able to do that because massive amounts of human-created content was stolen and fed into it. So you are stealing from strangers. It's embarrassing. Stop.

My boy has a story!

ICE has fatally shot 11 people since Donald Trump's second term began. These are not isolated incidents. They are the predictable result of a cruel, violent system. Abolish ICE.

The ICE murder of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo deserves the same fury as Renee Good and Alex Pretti

Anyway, Jane Austen is a fuckin’ sage.

Elizabeth says no, and Collins is like, “Aha! I have heard it is customary for ladies to play hard to get at first when they actually mean to accept a proposal. Very good, very good! How customary! For lady! A lady-custom! A custom of lady that actually ultimately means a yes for me!”

I’m so MAD. I have to collect myself!!! Out of nowhere, the cranky asshole does a drive-by pluck on my heart strings, and I just have to sit here with a melody in my heart??? Fuck you, Jane Austen, you talented demon.

gosh what a harrowing experience -- all the kudos to Bona Books for detailing this story. everything about this is such a bummer.

It was inevitable, wasn't it🙄 Of course the Telegraph would run with something like this👇 So let's remove some of the rose-tinted spectacles and also look at some of that data comparing 1976 with modern heat waves Because the 1976 nostalgia porn is wearing a bit thin at this stage 🧵1/23

“How much is a magical world worth?” A beautiful thread about Cabo Verde, the Peace Corps, and the World Cup:

it's truly craven for establishment Dems to spend the weeks after the election wishing they had populist machinery like a Joe Rogan Of The Left or whatever, and then to turn around and get mad the second the populist machinery they've been ignorning starts delivering wins.

The Monterey Bay Aquarium PROUDly presents “Otter This World,” written and performed by Monét X Change with special guest Trinity the Tuck.

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!

An error on behalf of my electric company has put me at risk of disconnection due to late fees and due offsets I didn't expect to pay. Disconnection would mean eviction per my lease and threaten my job. ko-fi.com/chezdispense... I need to raise this by Monday to avoid the payment bouncing.

FUCK YOU 'FIREWORKS AT 11PM' NEIGHBORS!!!

“Words are inaccessible if I don’t know what they mean” in an age where more information is at our fingertips than we could ever need or want is so funny.

Here's the Timberland Library board page, with meeting times and agendas. trl.org/board/ If you don't like this shit, show up at a meeting (virtual or otherwise) and tell them so. If you really don't like this shit there are vacant board positions for Thurston and Mason counties.

Watch me run some of my @paizo chums through just some of the new Beginner Box! I promise at least a few silly voices! youtu.be/4I6g6bK_-tE

I love the local auto body shop that has CHATGPT CAN'T WRENCH up on its big sign.

I see this possibly starting to break containment, so I also want to add one point - if you can't include or grapple with the experiences of people in a (semi-)historical setting, please consider that it might not be your story to tell. And that's fine!

Celebrate your love of gaming and freedom of expression with our Play with Pride Sale! Get select games and books UP TO 50% OFF through June 25th, and remember, at Paizo, we celebrate our LGBTQIA+ community in all of our stories and at our tables 365 days of the year! Shop the sale: buff.ly/BrJ8N18

This is my boy! Very excited to share Pallemi with the world!

reddit.com/r/Pathfinder... I’m collating links on the above post to encourage mutual aid, networking, and support to help those affected by the @paizo.com layoffs. If you provide me any links I have missed, I will update the post!

The best time to hire a SC is at the beginning, or even the planning stage. We can also help in the middle of things, but def don't bring us in at the end if you're not committed to making massive changes if needed 3/

I am so delighted and entranced and moved by Jerry's work. Part? all? of the map is on display until October in Grand Rapids and I really want to go see it (and start my own??)

I'm editing the upcoming Pathfinder Feybound book and the First World gazetteer is some of the most fun I've had reading a TTRPG setting in a long time. Huge shout-out to authors K. Tessa Newton and Mikhail Rekun, developer Eleanor Ferron, and lead designer Logan Bonner! tinyurl.com/2j4ckhvp

Elon Musk’s DOGE cut the federal government’s screwworm monitoring program, which cost $15 million. Now, the Trump administration is preparing to spend $1 billion to combat the screwworm outbreak. Never forget how destructive and downright stupid DOGE was.

this may well be the defining joke of our era theonion.com/guy-who-suck...

Clematis "Henryi." Huge, 7-8" blooms holding up well through recent storms.🌱

Toxicity and harassment at studios is structural and enabled by management and works even if individuals are singled out and reprimanded but also WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK IS WRONG WITH THESE PEOPLE (via the always incredible truthteller @duckvalentine.bsky.social) www.ign.com/articles/how...

Finch, your "questions with friends" are killing me. BE CONSISTENT IN YOUR ANSWER LABELING.

The insistence on using caps lock even in this situation should be entered into evidence at The Hague

*chanting* HAGUE! HAGUE! HAGUE! HAGUE!

I didn't realize people could still add you to lists after you blocked them. This guy will not give it a fucking rest

In the shadow of a yew tree

We checked out “I Really Like Slop” by Mo Willems, and I’m pretty sure half these pages could be memes.

WELCOME TO WASHINGTON, SOCCER FANS. Get acquainted with our state via this highly accurate and mostly-to-scale map.

you know what would be so good for my mental health. is having. The Medicine

Having one of those "so I'm just...expected to keep doing my little tasks, huh" days.

An editor's best work is invisible. For every error you see in a printed book, editors worked with devs, designers, and artists to fix a thousand. We fought so hard to build this team and I'm absolutely gutted over this.

I'm absolutely devastated to be losing some of the finest colleagues I've had the pleasure of working with. Please support them and support us so we can hire them back. I genuinely can't fathom doing this work without them.

100%. When ppl treat Paizo like "WotC pt 2", it gets me worked up, because in scale and intent they couldn't be more different. The same hit from the Diamond debacle is a rounding error to WotC. Anyway, now is a cool time to check up on Paizo products!

Hey folks. As some of you might have seen on the blog, Paizo was hit by layoffs today. I am safe but I don't feel particularly good about it due to many of my dearest friends finding out they are losing their livelihoods. As these fine folks are looking for jobs and mutual aid, please boost them.

If you are a Portland-based game designer or other kind of game nerd with interests in the 18th century, please let me know?

I don't say this enough, but fuck capitalism.

Graham Platner is an abusive weirdo who knowingly kept a Nazi tattoo for years and has never succeeded at anything in his life. What if that's what voters want right now?

@TanyaGold.bsky.social has spots for #editor business coaching from July through the end of the year. Tanya is brilliant; I highly recommend working with them if you need some insight into running your #freelanceeditor business! tanyagold.com/editors/coac... #amediting #edibuddies #freelancing