Flying squirrel at the suet feeder! I’m a foot away. Surprised’em bringing in the oriole feeder.

WOTC and Hasbro can still voluntarily recognize our union at any point up to the NLRB election. We encourage you to sign our letter of support, and make your voice heard. cwa.org/uwotcletter

Instead of voluntarily recognizing our union, they've forced us into a redundant and drawn-out election process, rather than listening to the overwhelming majority of employees who signed our initial letter to management.

Since the announcement of our union, Wizards of the Coast and Hasbro have hired Fisher Phillips (a union avoidance firm), and chosen to engage in a daily union-avoidance campaign by sending emails to the Arena team that is spreading misinformation and sowing fear among our colleagues. #uwotc-cwa

More good stuff from @spookysyntax.bsky.social who is out there doing the work. A thoroughly sourced piece.

I had a great time chatting with Mollie, and the her article is fantastic! Definitely worth a read & some soul searching.

🚨 The NYT appears to have taken a great feature story written by my colleague at Bolts about a west Tennessee county & the VRA, & essentially rewritten it. (Same frame, similar hed, overlapping sources.) Without a single mention, credit, let alone the a hyperlink buried somewhere.

i've now read this comic three times. one of my favorite things @mothership.blog has commissioned so far. (also the final panel would be a perfect tattoo 🤔)

… and Gordon Shumway as Star Fox!

Paste Magazine was a tour de force in games criticism, and @garrettmartin.bsky.social is a legend. In the replies, share your favorite works from the Paste Magazine/AV Club/Endless Mode archives.

Polygon died a year ago today.

hey. thanks! thanks to everybody who wrote for us, thanks to Eli, Moises, Holly, Jenn, Gita, and Maddy for helping edit it, thanks to Kirk for passing the baton, thanks to Chris for starting it up, and thanks to everybody who ever read it. see ya around.

Paste was among my first bylines back, what… 15 years ago? It was an early home to so many people I respected in this space. This sucks. Garrett doesn’t deserve this shit.

"Why are all the journalists laid off now" this is why. Pretty simple.

Been saving these for a special occasion. First one went well.

the story made the front page of today’s newspaper! its always very excited to see your work in print. i walked two miles to try to find a paper this morning and failed, so settling for digital for now

Hello World, we’d like to introduce ourselves. We the workers of the Magic: The Gathering Arena team have come together to unionize as United Wizards of the Coast - CWA! 🧵 unitedwizardsofthecoast.com/news/announcing-united-wizards-coast-cwa

it felt trivial at times to be writing about video games at rikers, which is so notoriously dangerous for incarcerated people. still, play and, specifically, video games are a meaningful piece of the lives of the ~12 young men i met and played with at rikers. read: www.nytimes.com/2026/04/27/a...

Finally, some good news: workers at Hachette are unionizing, and you can sign an open letter of support. This is the way! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Below is a statement from the unionized workers of the Southern Poverty Law Center.

That’s roughly a half million a head. Give or take.

Huh. Well, I got COBRA at least. For a little while.

Mitsuwa trip.

Mitsuwa trip.

nonzero chance the FBI is plugging LLMs into wiretap data under the legal theory AI alone can’t implicate 4th amendment concerns (semi-known 702 issue). or the NSA has now hard coded wiretaps across all newly built US data centers due to expanded ECSP scope. or probably both.

whenever people assume I am excited about a movie or show based on something I loved when I was 8 I just think about how weird it would’ve been if my dad got all pumped up about a Howdy Doody movie in 1986

Was painting… got sidetracked… have new spaceship… 3D printing rules…

Imagine being so unpopular and evil that you have to drop this amount of money and invent new forms of ratfucking so you can beat a 27-year-old who regularly wears a Snorlax onesie to bed.

Maybe this makes me a communist, but I think they should have to file these reports before the election, not after.

Yes.

Nope Full Offense. An all white gaming newsroom in this economy isn't a fluke it's an ACTIVE CHOICE

Burgle Bros. deluxe edition is hot.

Our star base is well provisioned.

Air BnB where we’re staying has a vintage bar area. Cold running mana and healing potions are Liquid IV.

Deception. These Hong Kong badge tokens are amazing.

Tomb of Horrors going well. Spoilers after the jump.

Tomb of Horrors going well. Spoilers after the jump.

The Shire’s Ship Second Breakfast landed a direct hit with a mine in E4. First timeout of dry dock went well and I’m really fast tracking my career.

Captain on the bridge. All hands, report.

It’s happening.

Next up: I’m running Tomb of Horrors. Muhahahahaha.

Some intense Scythe play.

878 Vikings from Academy Games. This looks rad.

Being reunited with some of the first minis I ever painted. 1996 maybe?

2020 Bourbon County and a Hamm’s. From the land of sky blue waters. And Mafia.

Mafia de Cuba. Good inastructiones.

Okay… time to love tabletop games again…

As an Illinois resident, I say hell no. "OpenAI is throwing its support behind an Illinois state bill that would shield AI labs from liability in cases where AI models are used to cause serious societal harms."