Pretending that education is just job training and that it should be stripped of all non-utilitarian elements is one of the worst ideas in the history of ideas. Acting like it's some kind of axiom we should be using to orient ourselves at the moment is disastrously wrong-headed.

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I have spent far too much of the past year as a personal heating pad for a sick or dying cat.

"youre a writer, why is your posting style dogshit" bro i'm off the clock

Opening up a board game rulebook and skipping right to the credits page to look for friends of mine, as one does.

every single thing I learn about Thatcher reminds me of how her regime was so fucking horrible that a bunch of punks and nerds could only express it by writing this guy into existence

I was driving through town today and for about thirty seconds my NPR station fuzzed out and was replaced by...Brennan Lee Mulligan, GMing something for someone. (I presume it was from Dimension 20.) Why? How? What the fuck?

After about 70k words of "tone check" for my gamer isekai project, I've actually started writing down notes for what the plot is going on. 'cuz otherwise I'll write another 70k words and still not have gone anywhere.

Kids are on their phones too much. I don't know why they don't use the many youth clubs, public swimming pools, community clubs or sports facilities successive governments and skint local authorities have underfunded, closed or sold to property developers.

Friends who live near Concord, MA--wanna come do a workshop/salon with us? We're hosting an INFERNAL SALON at the Concord Free Public Library in July! concordlibrary.assabetinteractive.com/calendar/wor...

Okay but What would YOUR totally gratuitous White House lawn event be, if YOU were the mad king of a dying superpower

Thanos: Fear it. Run from it. Destiny arrives all the same. I am inevitable. Me: Hi, Inevitable. I'm Dad.

I was in the shower today and I accidentally designed a Poker-based task resolution system for use with RPGs/similar.

Dive deeper into The Thompson Files from Edge Studio with an interview with the writers as they discuss bringing the book to life in the new bestiary. www.arkhamhorror.com/news/many-in...

In a just world, Stana Katic would have had Nathan Fillion's career.

It's an orgy of male-on-male cruelty. Like the schoolyard bullying that men think we can't escape. But the thing is - men can. Despite the algorithms and the cost of living, men have much more agency that we admit or accept. Feeding that sense of a total lack of agency feels irresponsible.

For a period of a couple of years during the 2010s I was employed regularly by cattle to shoot the covers for the albums they had recorded. It was always wonderfully inspiring to witness the love, hard work and passion they had put into their music and I think that comes through in the photos.

Goal ideas for writers:

I’m sure some people use “Epstein Class” in good faith, to describe unaccountable elites who abuse their position and are protected illegitimately by a corrupt system, but, I gotta say, some people clearly mean “Jews,” and other people are at least reckless about whether it sounds like “Jews.”

I feel like people have not learned the wisdom of the hacker koans of past masters. Tom Knight and the LISP machine www.catb.org/jargon/html/...

Another Arkham Horror RPG book I worked on has been unveiled! I did the Minions of Flame chapter. There‘s tons of good creatures and lore in this book if you need more foes for your Arkham adventures! www.arkhamhorror.com/news/study-y...

I will be at Gen Con this August looking at prototypes. I will be taking pitches for original board games and card games designed with the hobby game market in mind for some of the tabletop studios at Asmodee. Check below if you want more details on what I’m looking for.

It was her. The woman who’d saved his life the very first day. Frosty-blue scales, short, elegant horns, expression like she smelled something vaguely off and wanted to get out of the room quickly—that was definitely her.

On the one hand, I'm glad I don't live in Maine because having to choose between Platner and Collins would be sickening. On the other hand, I'm sad I don't live in Maine because if I did, I'd have a chance to vote against Platner and then vote against Collins.

I love the idea of freely-available art, poetry, music. That's why I support programs like the NEA and my public libraries. Because it can be free to the public, but artists, poets, authors, musicians, they all need to eat, too.

guess who else's writing is in this book (it's me I'm in this book)

Hey, a thing I worked on is coming! This was fun, actually. They let me play around with one of the more interesting corners of the setting. (No Hounds of Tindalos in my chapter though.) www.arkhamhorror.com/news/study-y...

New parents. Doing their best.

When I was starting out, Game Dev was heavily male-dominated. We were hiring more women, but any gamer will tell you that when you're behind, just scoring points isn't enough. No, what you have to do is to run up your score *and* take points away from the other team.

Me, an American: What does *any* of this have to do with mice?

I genuinely feel that my best trait as a creative and a team member is my willingness to throw everything out and start over. Some days I feel like it's my ONLY asset.

How would you have done an "Honor Among Thieves" sequel? Me, I'd have followed a different party on a different adventure, with another guest appearance by Xenk the Paladin and the party ruining another thread of Szass Tam's evil plot.

Writing is hard.

Dev Ayesa is not Terrific.

Reminder that Klingons say TRANS RIGHTS BRING HONOR TO YOUR HOUSE

If you’re trans, there’s still time to share your thoughts and feelings on all things cyberpunk:

As we say in my household: happy gay rabbits.

We are like five minutes away from a headline along the lines of "Trump's sons make $500M on Polymarket betting 'DHS will tweet the 14 words'."

I'm reading the Magpie Murders by Anthony Horowitz and it is extremely my jam. For extra sizzle, the book I read just prior to this one was Murder at the Vicarage, by Christie, and of course this book has many loving nods to that one.

I have, just now, encountered Shovel. Shovel *lies* to me!? What kind of familiar is this!?

I sat Newt down and went through this thread and all the replies and quotes and they got super excited and drew a shrew. So I had to join in, too. Can you tell which is which?

We should be two “D&D Honor Among Thieves” sequels deep.

What animal (mythical or otherwise) makes no god-dang sense as a mount or beast of burden, but you'd want to have one/your favorite character to have one anyway?

it's pretty funny that tolkien *is* a conservative artist and the modern right *is* obsessed with him but they still absolutely do not understand lord of the rings

Josie and the Pussycats have withdrawn from the Freedom 250 celebration, following row with manager Alexander Cabot.

I explained the Speed Racer movie thus: it is like having candy injected directly into your eyeballs. For some reason, some people thought I meant this as a bad thing!?

Folks, you're not going to believe this: the shy awkward teen girl who's been playing a boy in D&D for the past year and being real particular about the character's pronouns just came out as a shy awkward teen boy.

Or is For All Mankind a Warhammer 40k prequel?

The other day I took some of my severance money and put it into a Certified Deposit account. The return on that account will be more than some gigs have paid me in the two years I've been freelance. A real "takes money to make money" moment and a window into another world of investment income.