1. Led by Elon Musk, the far-right has exploded in a campaign to get Netflix to remove shows with queer and trans characters. If Netflix capitulates to their demands, an already strained market for LGBTQ+ animators might become even more dire. Subscribe to support our journalism.

Unionized workers with @kickstarterunited.org are poised to strike if the crowdfunding platform's management doesn't approve their new contract. The union has demanded a four-day workweek, minimum living wage salaries, and protections against generative AI encroachment.

I just got a VERY interesting email that allies in congress were upset that so many of my readers were calling about the anti-trans provisions. I'm here to say: good. I won't let them throw our rights under the bus by cover of night. All's that to say, keep up the calls. They're hearing you.

If you ever played or even read through something I wrote, a comment would be great even if it sucked. “I posted nothing“ is indistinguishable from “this wasn’t worth my time“ to me, and the latter is the worst possible outcome for me

My dungeon design philosophy is “build a facility that would serve some practical purpose” and I think this is where I lose most people

I want to see Michael Holt and Hobie Brown hang out and talk hero shit and be recognized for carrying their respective goddamn films

Microsoft will no longer allow Israel to use its cloud services to enable its mass surveillance of occupied Palestinians – "the first known case of a US technology company withdrawing services provided to the Israeli military since the beginning of its war on Gaza"

The superhero setting I’m writing for describes prophecy and omens as the equivalent of memory of some suitably weighty event - ripples of knowledge extending into the past. Prophecy isn’t something you do, but something you perceive. You can’t just prophecy next Tuesday’s lunch menu.

1/ A longtime Wired editor just wrote a mush-brained essay about how he totally missed the political rot of Silicon Valley (& still doesn't get it). But in the late 1990s, a Wired journalist warned of a toxic ideology bubbling up from tech. Paulina Borsook has largely been erased. Let's change that

Talked to some folks who reminded me of a Forged in the Dark game I'd done about cute witches doing cute stuff. I'd struggled to write playbook moves, but while talking I got a thought about how I could do it. A random thread about PBTA/FITD/etc. moves in general and my idea in particular. 🧵

The obstacle to UBI isn't sincere desire for efficiency, it's wanting to use poverty as punishment

quote this with your reaction to getting left behind during the rapture

Disney reverses course on Kimmel. Lessons: -Trump's anti-Constitutional stances, anti-1A in this case, are unpopular -Popular resistance via expression and spending choices can have an impact -Many corporate leaders are weak, amoral people who'll bow to threats unless they face countervailing ones

Due to the size of our planned work this sprint, my employer is worried about employees being Raptured and wants us to commit to an emergency sin quota to keep us here

I tried this new AI powered medicine thing. I put a blood sample into my phone and it says my midichlorian count is high, at least on par with Master Yoda

technologically advance a band. Bronze Machine

Do NOT believe the misinfo going around There absolutely have been MASSIVE TOS updates Most notably: 1) Specifying no FICTIONAL noncon 2) No "dangerous" kink 3) No DISCUSSING self harm, suicide, or substance abuse unless its "educational" So what can we DO about it? #SaveSpeech 1/🧵

Some people have a health care co-op. My health care is all PvP

Ok my cis friends, we are going to need a lot of you to step the fuck up and fight hard for us www.them.us/story/trump-...

From the "in-character" edition of the superhero game I'm writing, the conclusion: "Folks, Breathtaking Comics isn't about poring over lists of specific super-powers, or debating who would win - the guy with the gadgets or the physical god." 🧵

"The Strange Case of the Cosmic Rays" (1957) is a two-part educational program, where an earnest actor tells a puppet version of Fyodor Dostoevsky that cosmic rays affecting evolution may be responsible for his writing talent. This is spectacular.

I'm a version of this. My version is "you don't tell me how my character feels or reacts unless I buy in as a player". And why not? In a GMed trad game, I can't add narration, fudge dice, change details, do anything a GM can do to the world. The one tiny domain where I rule is my PC. But...

I’m writing ”The Complete Guide to Humans” for D&D. Will include stats and racials for High Humans, Twilight Humans, Hipster Humans, Red-necked Humans, and other beloved subtypes from fantasy literature

No new pictures, where are you at mentally?

This essay is so fucking good. It's not about games but games people should read it. vajra.me/2022/03/17/t...

Michigan's porn ban specifically bans being openly transgender as being pornographic. Don't let this one slide. It is a ban on being publicly transgender on the Internet.

Writing a script for a new police procedural, called “Smug White Man Is Right All The Time”. His personal life is in the trash and he‘s got a tragic backstory, but the sexual tension with his by-the-book and exasperated partner makes up for it. Hollywood won’t see this one coming

Trump admin deleted this study which finds the majority of domestic terrorists are right-wing. So, y'know, like and share. web.archive.org/web/20250911...

Today, the UN officially designated Israel’s assault on Gaza as a genocide. As a party to the Genocide Convention, the U.S. has a legal obligation to obey our own laws, stop weapons sales to Israel, and demand a permanent ceasefire. End the genocide. Ceasefire now.

“This isn’t a program that’s primarily concerned with changing policies or systems; it’s a fetish for domination.” I keep saying this, but @jvl.bsky.social is writing the best daily political newsletter there is. www.thebulwark.com/p/conservati...

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Excellent article by @eurogamer.bsky.social. Fantastic work & a model for how other games outlets & games journalists should be covering this issue. Please read it and share widely. It's giving a voice to many developers often left unheard on paypro censorship www.eurogamer.net/queer-develo...

The Groyper Wars

I found a link to a MOO in the back of a 1993 Wired magazine. By the end of that year, four people I introduced to it had met their future spouses online

I feel really unseen currently. I don't know if folks see my posts, but I'm disabled, I don't make enough with my current job to survive, and my situation is becoming more dangerous in the current climate. I'm doing everything I can, but I cannot survive without help. 💠 ko-fi.com/therosecleric

hi, cis folks! if you said you’d stand with trans people, we need you now. the FY26 budget bill gets a vote by 9/30. the GOP wants to jam a ban on federal funding for ALL health services that provide trans care for ANY AGE. we need you to call senators: reps.fyi more info & script downthread.🧵

To everyone who reacted to yesterday’s news with relief that a source of danger is gone, and with fear that you’ll be forced to take the blame for it: I’ll be looking around for ko-fi links and the like. If you need something or want to be heard, drop me a DM

#ERAOFSILENCE: Have you seen stories of the ashen wastes and glittering city-states of the Long Silence? Do you yearn for adventures in a world abandoned by its gods and saved by the science of alchemy? Follow the links in this thread for your in to the series 🧵 🧪 ⚔️ 🔫🧙‍♀️😇

I’ve realized I can measure my curiosity by the maximum duration of a YouTube video explaining the thing. Like I’m 5 minutes curious what’s going on with Blizzard these days but not one hour curious

shrikepublishing.itch.io/get-in-loser... The year is 2017. The model kilogram is a year away from retirement. Two Teams One Prize and a Junior Detective hot on the trail. Get In Loser, We're Stealing the Kilogram! A ttrpg for Just $7.50. Great for parties. Made with @rathayibacter.itch.io

An idea for handling cybernetics, biotech, etc. Write 10 things that define your PC as an entity - for humans, "breathes air", "metabolizes food for energy", and so on. The game will come with standard examples. As you augment or redefine yourself, you replace items one by one.

🚨 13 hours left to get Queer Games Bundle 2025. We've just passed $86,000 for queer artists. itch.io/b/3062/

More on these sci-fi vampire/zombie folks! Necroborgs started as an emergency lifesaving measure. Inject a fatally wounded person with nanomachines. They swarm and spread, consume hostile germs, and take over basic metabolic function. The goal is to keep the body alive at some minimal level. But. 🧵

For #MashupMonday it’s a combination of action and romantic comedy. I did a Gundam fanfic with romcom characters awhile back and it’s time for more of that. Starting off: Kill La Kill/My Dress-up Darling. A boy crafts cosplay outfits out of Life Fiber that give his love interest superpowers

How about these other two universes, themselves? What are they like? 🧵

I went on another worldbuilding binge and it's time to share some stuff from that. The general premise is "kitchen sink space opera". The specific version is: three wildly different galaxies, from three universes with very different physical laws, are overlapping. 🧵

Incels that have grown out of the negative mindset share how they feel about that period in their lives.

One more bit here, because I think it's something that doesn't come up in crafting systems much: what happens after you make the thing? So there's an additional quality which is Permutations. These are things the item picks up in the process of actually being used - novel applications, upgrades, etc

Noodling on an invention system for a space opera setting. You define the purpose of your new invention and then settle on three things: Motif (e.g. Nanobots, Hard Light, Sorcery, Crystech), Edge (Overwhelming, Tricky, Advanced, whatever makes it effective beyond typical gadgets), and...