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Numinous Productions is excited to offer a new $500 microgrant to SWANA artists working in ttrpg-related mediums. Application and more information at the link below. Please share widely! If you would like to sponsor further grants, reach out to us at [email protected].

“captain confirms he has visuals of his destination” is a very funny way to say “guy in rocket sees moon”

T-5 minutes now! #Artemis

i’m very glad we started naming the moon missions after artemis instead of apollo. will be good for the kids learning about their greek god domains

Illiberal democracies often rely on formally democratic institutions like courts to maintain a false image of the state as protective of democratic freedoms.

In honor of (hopefully) today's launch of NASA's Artemis II mission, the first crewed mission to orbit the Moon in more than 50 years, here is a to-scale graphic of exactly how far away the Moon actually is. (Click image to expand.) You could fit about 30 Earths between the Earth and the Moon!

this is how you do april fools i’ve never ordered something so fast

WRITE IT IN THE FUCKING STARS. THIS LIFE WAS NOT MEANT FOR YOU. DO LITERALLY ANYTHING ELSE.

Ya'll mind if I try something new? Yes? Cool. I'm officially a GM for StartPlaying! If you ever wanted to sit at a table run by me, now you can. Genuinely very excited to get to play more games and meet more people. I've already got some games available 👀 🧵1/4 startplaying.games/gm/kendomake...

Ketanji Brown Jackson was the only dissenter in the conversion therapy case 😞 It's so upsetting, and I just want to remind folks that Trans Lifeline is a resource you should take advantage of right now if you need it. Your life is precious. +1-877-565-8860 translifeline.org

It's Trans Day of Visibility today. If you're trans and are raising money for something (I don't care what it is), reply to this thread and I will boost you. If you are a cis person, take a look and find someone to support if you can. Everyone give this a share after.

what is domain expansion. also why do ppl keep commenting “with the exception of satoru gojo of course” pls do not tell me to watch a tv show to find out

BREAKING: Israel's Knesset has passed a law to execute Palestinian detainees. Death by hanging. Mandatory sentencing. No pardon. 90 days to carry out. It applies through military courts with a 96% conviction rate. It does not apply to Israelis.

i think this is exactly right and it is part of what i was trying to get at last week when i wrote about the narcissism of the president and his allies. they fundamentally do not believe other people are real, and do not understand the decisions they make.

It's kinda interesting/bonkers how the No Kings protests, which brought out 8 million people across the country, has already been pushed out of the 'news cycle', just a day or so later. If 8 million people came out for the third time in a year to protest Obama or Biden, it'd still be the top story

having seen the whole thing i can confirm that the entire ballet fucks severely. just so sexy all around

at intermission for casanova and my favorite plot point is that everyone who sees casanova is like “we GOTTA get that guys shirt of STAT”

obsessed w my pug like it’s very serious to me

lesbian dial m for murder play i saw in bentonville arkansas i think of you often and fondly

ppl probably thought the crusades were dumb and a waste of lives and money they just didn’t have microblogging platforms, they had to write a treatise

Seeking TRANS WOC AND TRANSFEMME WOC!!! Please sign up and join us - we need you to make this game happen!!!

🗡️ Wouldst thou like to kill a god? 🗡️ I’m running playtests of GODKILLER at the Red Bull Tavern today from 12-4pm ET and Sunday from 1-4pm ET! Try out multiplayer rules and brand-new Origins such as the hapless Mistake, the bloodsoaked Lamb, or the glimmering Trophy. Let’s get heretical!

I know there's a lot going on But what the US is doing to Cuba is unconscionable

not at pax east but this tavern was the highlight of my pax unplugged experience. if you’re at the con you should check it out!!!

I have no interest in this man’s problems

talking about the sustainability of ai is one part the environmental toll and another part the sheer operating cost of parsing tokens and generating content on the spot. this has been true the entire time, it has been a known expense, and when the bubble pops bc of it they will pretend to be shocked

When it comes to AI, people seem to routinely, and serially mistake novelty for meaning. Sora is an amazing novelty. It doesn't appear to be particularly useful relative to its costs. This was apparent at its introduction and yet we were told it was the future of video.

it's incredible that as long as you do the right amount of bigotry you can just rob the country blind and enough people will not care, even though those same people will be filled with incandescent rage if someone uses food stamps to buy a 12 pack of diet coke

Reminder: "separate the art from the artist" is about literary analysis. It means your interpretation of a work is not invalidated by the author saying "nuh-uh". It does not mean "you can consume any media without guilt". You are responsible for your choices. A misused phrase doesn't change that.

🟢 Durant, OK warehouse has sold… to the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma! ICE previously sought to buy the space to create a mega detention center capable of holding 8,500 people. This is the 13th warehouse they have been denied.

seizing the means of production (buying a bottle of aperol to make a spritz whenever i want)

so.... this is a shipping tax.

Re: my last reposts “Do not put money in the pocket of a woman who has sworn publicly to use it to disenfranchise vulnerable populations” is the smallest ask imaginable. It’s not oxygen, it’s not food. It’s television. You can do without. There are thousands of other shows for you to watch.

when you get out of the muscle memory of buying from amazon you learn their prices aren’t really that competitive and advances in shipping logistics means ordering from nearly any company gets you stuff in just a few days

Oh no not Sora! Whatever shall we do?! Here I thought this technology was ‘inevitable’ and we are ‘simply going to have to adapt’ if we ‘don’t want to get left behind.’

It's a Dance Dance Execution at the door of Khazan's Tower. Chapter 11 of Curse of Strahd also features a wagon as volatile as a meth lab. 100 you say? Try 101! Plus, we take a harder look at Strahd's potential enemies list from Chapter 1's Fortunes of Ravenloft. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/c...

Hey @shardtabletop.bsky.social is 5 years old. And to celebrate they’re having a site-wide sale, including deep discounts on all Thrones & Bones setting guides, the player’s guides, and all adventures. marketplace.shardtabletop.com/m?pub=lazy%2...

"A good GM can make any game work" - trite, thought terminating cliche, simplistic "A well designed game is fun even when you aren't very good at it" - actually useful design advice.

The insistence on “my friends across the aisle” rhetoric doesn’t make sense to me when democrats are also like, “we’re fighting fascists.” Like, which is it??? Who are the good fascists on the other side of the aisle??

as always, am tapping the xkcd average familiarity sign the actual average person is likely just calling it d&d anyway ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Hey everyone! @superdillin.bsky.social and I could use your help. We're trying to get 25 reviews. This is important for the Amazon algorithm and our publisher when evaluating our success. It takes a few minutes and you don't need to have purchased on Amazon to review there. a.co/d/05f7o2W7

And of course @themonstersknow.com! a.co/d/0b10xf0u

My Adams Media publishing cousins @systemmastery.bsky.social a.co/d/0a6cKGl3

Also Defiy, a solo RPG by Allyson D'Antonio. I can't say how much of a big deal it is to see a bigger publisher doing stuff like this. a.co/d/0bJ2uMzL

And @jeffstormer.gobirds.online a.co/d/01aRyWce

While you are at it, I also recommend reviewing other books by people in the rpg space coming from big publishers. Before the Tavern from the team at @unpreparedcasters.bsky.social could use some love a.co/d/0f08a4Za

“I am political,” Ms. Rachel told me of her new effort to free kids from ICE detention. “It’s political to believe that children are worthy of love … and that our care shouldn’t stop at what we look like, our family, at our religion, at a border. Mr. Rogers was very political.”