today my therapist was talking about how adhd and ptsd can set each other off because it’s harder to regulate trauma responses when you’re already disregulated because you’ve forgotten to eat or drink all day so like idk who else needs to hear this but go drink a glass of water

"Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them." ― Frank Herbert, Dune cassidoo.co/post/good-br...

Your regular reminder that you can in fact tackle sensitive and thorny political and societal issues with board games and they can even be fun to play, only thing is you need to actually give it some thought, care and attention

hi folks! do any of you have experience with the Crucible system or Ember setting on FoundryVTT? if so, could you send me a DM that i can follow up on about it?

Remember folks! Don’t sign up for stuff, show up for stuff! Take only videos & a safety whistle, leave only footsteps!

This isn't just a casual observation. Fascism scholars have long made this point. It's why calling them "weird" was a more effective strategy than talking about the prices of eggs. Fascism is an aesthetic political movement - you need to make people feel embarassed and horrified by it.

depressing but this increasingly just the lesson for every single servant and every aspect of american life

It's time to board the Mothership. www.youtube.com/shorts/iEw90...

Yuuup. Also, one of Matt Colville's longest videos is on this precise topic: www.youtube.com/watch?v=emdk...

I've been hesitant to predict the end of the "AI" financial bubble because I'm not convinced that a bubble pop will even slow down the push for "AI" The US government's "AI" efforts provide cover for dismantling education and science and funnel all that money to cronies and oligarchs

In the void between Christmas and New Year's I played a game of "i'm sorry did you say street magic?" with a friend. It was the first time I had the opportunity to play a worldbuilding game like that. Both of us being Forever GMs meant the city bent an inevitable arc towards "adventure locale".

During his first term, Trump discovered that all of the checks and balances are enforced by the honor system. So in his second term, he got rid of all of the honorable people.

you need a minimum of one fantasy and one sci-fi weirdo in your product team so you don’t do shit like name your unreliable trickster product after the goddamn fae

Hey, fellow California residents, our state just Sherlocked third-party "pay us to opt you out of data brokers" services privacy.ca.gov/drop/

"But in the end, it’s only a passing thing, this shadow. Even darkness must pass. A new day will come. And when the sun shines it will shine out the clearer. [...]" "...There’s some good in this world, Mr. Frodo. And it’s worth fighting for."

Millennials don't want gray houses, we want to be surrounded by moss, and art, and plants, eclectic coziness, dark academia, we had nothing to do with those sterile renovations because we can't afford it but IF WE COULD? Victorian maximalism. Thank you for coming to my Meg Talk.

Family Dinner Hours For small groups. Take your role - Skeevy Uncle, Judgy Aunt, Wine Mom, and so forth. Find the most offensive things to ask each other in the sweetest or most innocuous ways as you pass the salt, or fetch the plates. You win if someone actually wants to actually punch you.

Jess' work is stellar. If you haven't picked any of it up, now's a good time.

I have never had a Spotify account and always just played music on Winamp. A loved one's moving away from Spotify to also just owning mp3s and showed me this website. I can't get over how it's exactly the kind of internet I miss and what I wouldn't do to bring it back. skins.webamp.org

Thinking about the different contexts of "prompt writing" today. When I try to write good prompts for RPGs (for random cards, for PBTA moves), I'm trying to create interesting structures where I myself cannot know what the emergent outcomes will be -- they are context- & player-dependent.

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The two hardest problems in Computer Science are 1. Human communication 2. Getting people in tech to believe that human communication is important

Since we're doing one final post run tomorrow, here's some things you can order now with expected delivery Monday - Tuesday (UK).... To kick it off, some gifts for your DM: - The Deck of Many Things - Battle-Towel, Battle map Tea Towel - Dice Scroll - Dice Guardian Ghosties

Welp...

"This promise of an AI future, is really just a collective anxiety that wealthy people have about how well they're gonna be able to control us in the future." - @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit. Incredible words. Listen to all of it!

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Seymour Guado Awarded Blitzball Peace Prize hard-drive.net/seymour-guad...

he was good at his job, his job was explicitly to destroy things so they'd be acquired and shareholders would make a bunch of money this isn't an incompetent getting a payday, it's the guy who planned the heist getting the biggest cut

I do not want your AI slop I do not want it in my mop I do not want it in my house I do not want it in my mouse I do not like brain-rotting AI spam I do not want it, Sam Alt-man

I've seen lots of acceleration due to the use of AI: acceleration of inequality, acceleration of climate catastrophe, acceleration of slop, acceleration of trust collapse, acceleration of scams, acceleration of model collapsed acceleration of misinformation, acceleration of drought

THE DEATH OF TRUTH IS THE ULTIMATE VICTORY OF EVIL

I enjoyed this formulation: "The cutesy language flows in one direction only. Your compliance is demanded in the language of contracts; their failures are communicated in the language of the nursery." www.joanwestenberg.com/uh-oh-the-in...

They see our words and art online and they think it’s gold because they recognize it’s free data. AI is the dirt they’re trying to sell you by pretending it’s food, or shelter, or air, or art. It’s none of those things, but billionaires will expect you to eat dirt after we accept the adoption of AI.

If there's anything AI has done for me this year, it's awakened a hunger for person-to-person connection. Hanging out with a baby, going to see live theatre, eating food someone made, appreciating art from 200 years ago, from 800 years ago, from 10,000 years ago... Human creation is so wonderful.

It's so fucked up to have been a kid during the D&D is the devil freakout and the Tipper Gore dirty lyrics freakout and live to see the teen suicide machine get such a pass.

We forget this at the peril of our work, our connections, our relationships, and our health. Producing non-stop is a long-term disaster.

@evilanemone.bsky.social 👋!

The internet is fast becoming so choked with this, it'll be unusable. We'll all be boats chugging blindly through the gloom and the muck, finding nothing, barely each other, uncertain what's true or even real anymore.

iHunt is a brilliant FATE hack and I'm really excited to see it explored in a different medium.

Ice skating is the perfect example of slow is smooth, smooth is fast

This is why hating and mocking AI relentlessly and publicly is vital work.

Find a cohort to play tabletop roleplaying games with and you can turn listening exercises into fun, cooperative hangouts with your pals.

"recap your 2025 media consumption" brand-engagement moments feel wholesome to me in the same way a veggie-flavored chip tastes more wholesome than bbq chips which is to say, not at all. we talk about ultra-processed foods, but can we talk about ultra-processed memories? ultra-processed identity?

Worth remembering that Trump is not just an authoritarian, but a fascist authoritarian. Fascism boils down to the belief that there's a "natural" order where the physically strong violently dominate the weak. If a fascist strongman's base perceives him as enfeebled, he is politically fucked

hi i'm a billionaire my company, which will definitely not murder everyone, is named SauronMurdersEveryone Inc after the beloved jrr tolkien character sauron whom i have always admired for his disruptive use of world changing technology and for murdering everyone

This looks *very* interesting. Arcade/combo-style physics-based combat, swappable class-based character progression, a bit of building/crafting, and multiple movement abilities (grapple, triple jump, dash, et al), online co-op multiplayer. And a distinctive (and pleasant) art style.

h/t @robertfreundlaw.bsky.social holy shit, an accurate legal critique of LLMs. LLMs don't reason because they're just stitching together plausible-looking sentences indifferent to the content

Level design and information architecture are two big topics of interest for me and I've never seen anyone discuss the intersection of the two.

Gianmarco Soresi and Anthony Misiano are apparently two different people. This is not the first time I've confused one person for another similar-looking person who exists in the same contexts. (In this case, NY actor / entertainer with an Italian name, angular facial features, and lanky build)