#TTRPG Designers, players, & related nerds: @ttrpgcataloging.bsky.social is a group of Library & Information Science MA students are working on a research project focused on improving cataloging for TTRPGs — unbelievably important work! They’re seeking participants for interviews.

So sad to hear this. An icon in gaming and a deeply caring man, who told me (paraphrasing) “fuck anyone who thinks the rules matter more than having fun”

“The absence of images isn’t some failure of technology. These mediums have grown from a deep love of sound and its imaginative possibilities. When I hear people say the future of audio is essentially television, it makes me feel they never knew what was exciting about sound in the first place…”

This is such a misunderstanding of why writers, artists, and designers do research to begin with, which is to find something unexpected, not capture the average or find reference for the default. And, as always, the biggest misapprehension: We don’t want to NOT do this part. It’s fun to learn shit

From The Onion, tough but fair

when someone tells me not to use em dashes because AI uses em dashes

When the ALA recognizes one's work, that's pretty dang cool. "The games recognized as 2026 Platinum Play Classics are Clue, Jenga, Pokémon, Magic: The Gathering, Apocalypse World, Call of Cthulhu, Mario Kart 8, and Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater." #ApocalypseWorld #AW3rd #PBTA www.ala.org/news/2025/11...

big bugs bunny getting elmer fudd to marry him vibes in the white house currently i see

WE WON! After 42 days of striking we have a tentative agreement in hand that protects our existing 4 day work week, establishes a minimum salary, and adds protections against AI replacing jobs at our workplace!

Yes. We need to end the mythology that having a job equals enough money to live. Affordability was already an emergency before Republicans voted to raise the cost of healthcare for millions, and eliminate it for millions more.

Yeah, I've got my own crowdfunding, but I can't not mention Apocalypse World 3e. Apocalypse World is one of the most influential games to arise out of the innovative indie side of gaming. It's literally created a whole subsector of the industry: Powered by the Apocalypse. A 3e is huge news.

Absolutely incredible testimony coming out of the sandwich trial Clown car country

I feel like I say this every year but I really need people to hear it. Halloween is the best American holiday. Just kids outside welcomed into their world, marching around together, showing off their costumes to the elderly, parents meeting parents, neighbors catching up with neighbors.

Today, on Halloween, The Chaosium officially turns 50 years old. 🧵 On October 31, 1975 our founder Greg Stafford went down to the Alameda County Clerk’s office and filed the paperwork to officially register the company...

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Day one of @kickstarterunited.org's ongoing strike saw elected officials and union leaders show up in the streets of NYC to support workers.

The first episode of Hidden Levels is now live on the @99pi.org feed! It's a series about video games we're doing with the @wbur.org show Endless Thread. Episode 1 - The story of NBA Jam, the most fun (and least accurate) depiction of basketball in gaming. This one's really fun, check it out.

Do you find yourself at the intersection of performance, games, and design? Do you want to work with world class artists in research, pedagogy, and games? Then maybe apply to work with me at UCSC! We're hiring a Assistant Professor of Interactive Art, Performance & Games recruit.ucsc.edu/JPF01998

Don’t get me wrong, shit’s fucking scary—but this last week’s worth of absurd headlines and wonky ass shit coming out of the WH really convinces me that they’re are flailing around and grasping at straws that are getting harder to pick up The window for resistance is still open, folks

Shannon has been such an amazing resource - I’ve been devouring his books for podcast research. Interview this man!

Excited to eventually listen to this documentary. As someone who was forced to return a D&D book as a kid especially interested in satanic panic.

@senfoonglim.bsky.social helped me distill the whole thesis of my documentary into a 35 second sound bite. So, thanks, Sen! And thank you, @ludologypod.bsky.social for this wonderful chat!

So excited to have been on the Ludology podcast to talk to Sen about the history of rpgs! Such a fun conversation - thanks for having me! If you're interested in hearing more about the documentary podcast, listen and tell me what you think! And subscribe to Ludology to support Sen & Erica's show :)

People want everything to be a binary between dooming and “we’re so back” but I’ll just say this is both a really troubling attack on press freedom and an open admission that your regime is fragile enough to feel threatened by Jimmy fucking Kimmel

It's not just fabric or yarn. It's a baby blanket. It's a wedding quilt. It's a misshapen hat from your lover who learned to crochet. It's the stitch and bitch circle that helps you leave an abusive partner. It's a stuffie for a sick nephew. It's your prom dress. It's a funeral shroud. It's life.

posters joking about charlie kirk were held to a higher standard than the wall street journal this week

My former fiction writing professor! Proud <3

No people on the planet will ever be AI. This is Orwellian bullshit. Zero people will ever be AI. This is no different from saying half the people in the country are television characters. Do not let anybody convince you that you don’t know the difference between a human being and a machine.

How’s Wondery doing right now? Oh, that’s right…

As a Pittsburgher, its very strange rooting for the Steelers while hoping their quarterback gets sacked on every play

Wanting to flag this part of the article for anyone who may be affected. Vasinda caused a lot of harm (regardless of intent) by using his reputation and relationships to bring indie ttrpg designers into the fold with a company/CEO that he knew had major issues. Some designers lost thousands.

I love librarians

Newsom has already sacrificed another group—it’s homeless people. But @chriswarcraft.bsky.social is right, there will be a third group, fourth, etc. If you’re not making decisions based on principles then lots of folks can be expendable.

Some of the world's smartest people are deeply invested in the idea that LLMs are actually creative forces. They are not. They are vacuum cleaners attached to a firehose.

Israel has killed 240+ journalists. People who'd cover a strike that killed their kids and go on to cover the next strike, in the pursuit of convincing the world to act, of the hope of tomorrow being different. How many more murders will it take for the mainstream media's cowardly fever to break?

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Hey! Public radio is defunded but not defeated. An NPR friend told me that since the defunding, the public has been stepping up in huge numbers. We can make public media even stronger and better. If you have ever benefitted from my work please give to a local station - we need them adoptastation.org

I just subscribed to Libro.fm - super happy so far! I'm able to support White Whale Bookstore here in PGH.

NPR Corporation for Public Broadcasting says it's shutting down www.npr.org/2025/08/01/n...

I've loved Nancy Drew since I started playing the PC games when I was 9 - I can't wait to see this get made thanks to the love of the public!

In the past when I sat down to write about Israel, I’ve had a moment where I take a deep breath and accept that, as a Jewish woman, it’s going to be difficult. This time, there was no such moment. I wrote about the intentional starvation of Gaza by Israel/US, and the moral imperative to say enough:

Canceling Colbert is just another egregious example of why we can't entrust our major media institutions in the hands of profit-driven oligarchs. Such concentrated power over media is especially dangerous under growing authoritarianism, muffling dissent precisely at the moment when we need it most.

It's so fun to play a party with internal conflict when you trust the players around you - and @jessfrom.online is the perfect GM to lead you through

Nobody can touch Jess's immersion skills

1. Trump's megabill will slash nutrition assistance for poor families, cause 17 million people to lose their health insurance, and add over $3 trillion to the deficit -- all to finance tax cuts for the rich. IN THIS THREAD, I WILL LIST THE COMPANIES THAT PUBLICLY SUPPORTED THIS BILL.

I am grieving the barbarism that is going to unfurl from all this. People are going to die. Livelihoods gone. All to feed a corrupt kleptocracy. I see every day up close how different it is from the first time around. There are no guardrails. A disaster. I’m sorry we have to live through this.

how many concentration camps will be built by then? how many people disappeared by ICE? how many dead from losing health insurance? we can't wait til 2026.