I had a long-distance relationship where we regularly hopped freight trains to visit each other.

For the tabletop folks, designers and publishers, especially if you're not based in the US - do you have thoughts about attending Gen Con later in July/Aug, given the state of geopolitical affairs? Would you be attending, or would you be giving it a miss? Let me know! [email protected]

Part of security culture involves dodging data miners. Dodging data miners involves taking the long way around on things. "Convenience kills" isn't just our environment: it's also killing our privacy. A better world is possible. Here are some ideas. 🧵

Dearest people who don’t read or remember history: The reason Iran is ruled by Ayatollahs now is because the U.S. overthrew the democratically-elected Iranian President in 1953 to help American oil interests.

If you want to remove your personal information online manually from each site, @yaelwrites.com's "Big Ass Data Broker Opt Out List" is the best place to start. If you want to do it automatically, we recommend EasyOptOuts.com on our doxxing guide: activistchecklist.org/doxxing

just fyi “soldiers are too poor and they have to kill brown people for the state. that are uwu smol beans.” is the same shit as “i was just following orders.” it’s fucking nazi shit and people need to get that through their thick fucking skulls with a quickness

Forms of Hands 25 - jubilee edition - 24-25 April 🔈😎👏🏻 Förderturm Bönen, Germany

I’m so tired of every hack liberal commentator just saying that every new horrible thing Trump does is just a distraction from the Epstein files, as if this bloodthirsty Christian nationalist imperialist project hasn’t been going on looooong before Epstein was a known issue.

Governments, notably the USA but most others as well, operate very much like gangs and cartels, threatening to go murder their opposition, threatening retaliation if they are murdered etc. And yet people act like it's completely unreasonable to question the global system of patron psychopaths.

I am posting this here now to remind myself to post it again during a more traffic heavy posting time. Chicago is getting a quarterly zine to celebrate our robust RPG scene! You can support it now on Kickstarter: www.kickstarter.com/projects/chi...

I fucking hate this country. So sick of rich, bigoted sociopaths fucking everyone over.

hands off Iran, and death to US & Israeli empire & colonialism.

The Israeli and US attack on Iran is morally repugnant. It is calculated only to benefit an elite of racist, Islamophobic warmongers. It will not benefit Iranians or ordinary people anywhere on earth. We must build the grassroots capacity to interrupt the war machine or things will only get darker.

Given the attack on human rights happening in Kansas, it’s a good time to remind people that “just move” is not an option for most people. You need money, resources and health to be able to move. The most oppressed & most marginalized rarely have those things. We must resist.

transgenderism *is* transhumanism eyeglasses *are* a perversion of the natural order appeal to nature fallacies are dumb, stop letting "tech bros" negatively polarize you against genuinely good and cool things

Unlike other fantasy settings, the Snarl -- our upcoming weird fantasy RPG -- is not awash with murderous tomb robbers. 🧵↓

Last yr, a judge in IL ordered Nick Fuentes to apologize to Marla Rose in court as part of a deferred prosecution agreement, but Fuentes has been granted 13 continuations. On Fri, Fuentes is set to apologize to Rose again. Fuentes was charged for assaulting Rose in Nov 2024.

I think that: "And, for an instant, she stared directly into those soft blue eyes and knew, with an instinctive mammalian certainty, that the exceedingly rich were no longer even remotely human." (Count Zero) is the @greatdismal.bsky.social quote I keep coming back to the most... Almost daily TBH

NEW: A hobbyist has created Nearby Glasses, an app that warns you if someone close by is wearing smart glasses. 404 Media spoke to the creator who said he was inspired by our coverage that uncovers how men are wearing Meta's Ray-Bans to covertly film massage parlor workers.

The nomination period for the Diana Jones Award Emerging Designer Program is open! See our website for details. You can nominate yourself or any worthy tabletop game designers in their first three years of publishing. Nominations close March 16. Spread the word! Thanks! www.dianajonesaward.org

They might look like fairies, but the insectoid veetlings should not be underestimated! 🧵↓ Art by @crimreaper.bsky.social !

This is monstrous.

Let me explain what this genuinely EVIL memo does. The admin is doubling down on its plan to arrest, detain, and interrogate tens of thousands of legally present refugees; people already vetted who’ve lived here legally for 1+ year. Hundreds were arrested in Minnesota before a court blocked this.

Someone won't let me go to bed. (Her arch-nemesis is in there.)

I got so much shit for getting on stage at the ENies in 2006, at the height of the d20/ogl glut, and saying "d20 gives you cancer." Good times.

A flyer spotted on Archer Ave in Chicago. (Left to Right: Proud Boys member Terry Newsome, U.S. Border Czar Tom Homan, 15th Ward Alder and Democrat Raymond Lopez)

The concentration camps will not only be for immigrants, documented or otherwise. They already aren't. They won't only be for brown and Black people. The targets will keep expanding. It will not end. The only way it will is if we stop it. Both in and out of the system. There is no other way.

Reminder that we're running an open playtest for our new weird fantasy RPG, The Snarl! www.rascal.news/posthuman-st...

USING WEATHER MINDFULLY IN RPGS Many RPGs have random weather tables, for when you're out exploring the wild, or if you're in downtown Seattle in a grungy karaoke joint waiting to hear back from your cyber-fixer (85% of the table is "rain"). But just like movies and books, you can... +

A healthy social movement is a messy ecosystem, not a party bureaucracy. I know that newbies want there to be a single monolithic The Organization that you can easily sign up to, that'll present some kind of inspiring sense of strength through numbers and unity, but that's actually *weakness.*

Much of my youth revolved around the website ZineLibrary. It went down around Occupy in a massive loss for a movement whose ideas and knowledge mostly doesn't circulate online but in person. Anyway I've put it back online with a *thousand* anarchist zines: zinelibrary.org

We made this "what to do if the police are at the door" poster for two reasons: 1. So you can remember what to say (don't talk to the cops!) 2. So people you live with know who to call (local legal support) Download (and tell your friends): activistchecklist.org/police

Suburban wine moms will really be like "you believe in voting? that pales in effectiveness to my strategy, firebombing a concentration camp" and then very effectively firebomb a concentration camp

Name and shame the architecture firms doing the permit drawings for these conversions. Someone is getting GSA fees to draw concentration camp fit outs and people should know who those firms are.

Oh you mean the company funded by PETER THIEL?

This thread recounting ICE and DHS's sheer lawlessness and mistreatment of immigrants is worth a few minutes of your time. Whatever your political position on immigration, the Trump regime is committing crimes and this cannot be tolerated.

This should infuriate everyone. Palantir must be destroyed. boingboing.net/2026/02/10/p...

Five Tiers of RPG Publishing Hasbro’s annual earnings came out this week, so I took a look. It is truly staggering how much Wizards of the Coast has changed the company since they were acquired; when looking at unadjusted earnings the Wizards of the Coast and Digital Games division was the only…

If someone would have burned down the buildings of Auschwitz and the other death camps in Nazi Germany before they could fill them with bodies, that would have been a morally good thing.

Nothing like a meeting with your accountant to make you feel like something stuck on the heel of the universe. My one paying gig right now isn’t enough, folks, so if you’ve got a need for a proven game developer and creative director in tabletop or adjacent fields please let me know. 🙏🏻

Y'all ever think about what society could be like if we were allowed to turn our substantial technological innovation to the good of humanity instead of the snowballing wealth of oligarchs?

Y’all, if you’re planning a trip to Dark Force Fest, there’s a group of guys from a well-known fascist poser group threatening to show up armed “just in case” Just a heads-up

The Situationists would like a word.

Ken “Whit” Whitman, notorious in tabletop gaming for various get rich schemes and scams, is back trying to promote a Best Tabletop Designers of All Time Facebook page where he ranks creators using generative AI slop entries and art. Please don’t feed the troll.

Chip Berlet (1949-2026) When neo-fascists began to be followed and recorded, it was Chip that was the one who made the first moves. He gave us the blueprint that antifascist researchers go by today. Thank you, Chip, we will take it from here.

Some of these questions were toss-ups given context/caveats/nuance. Honestly a little higher than I expected.

NEW: since last year, a pair of "highly trained" feds have been involved in an array of incidents attacking crowds with chemical weapons. We used public records and open source analysis to identify Edgar Vazquez and Michael Sveum, alongside some other members of their tactical team. Read more:

I made a filterlist for uBlock Origin to remove Generative AI features on websites. Includes blocks for * Google AI Summaries * YouTube Ask button & chat summaries * GitHub Copilot * Facebook AI chat * X's Grok buttons * Deviantart DreamUp * Booru AI images * And more github.com/Stevoisiak/S...

Hey, my comrades at @posthumanstudios.com (Eclipse Phase) are gearing up to launch our next RPG, The Snarl a 'weird sylvan' setting. It'd be great if you could give it a signal boost. www.kickstarter.com/projects/507..

Suspicious Files to Look For: update.exe in temp folders (SHA256: a511be5164dc1122fb5a7daa3eef9467e43d8458425b15a640235796006590c9) BluetoothService.exe (renamed Bitdefender binary used for DLL sideloading) log.dll (malicious DLL)