Lots of folks captioning aurora photos like "for a few minutes we didn't think about politics" guess I'm built different, every time I'm out trying to see night sky stuff I frequently think about how much light pollution is entirely preventable with just a tiny bit of regulation

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The commercial district concept I did for a boardgame by Scratchpad Publishing (scratchpadpublishing.com) More at www.artstation.com/artwork/JrKnmA #conceptart #gameart

Great piece by Zadie Smith. When the right talks about classics or "Western" culture, these works are only important to the extent that it demonstrates their superiority, they have no interest in art in and of itself beyond that www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

As much as I love seeing this shit show, and mocking it vocally, I would like to point out that SOME of what people are mocking, is, in fact, "the" AI work flow, not just idiots being idiots. Why make this distinction? Mostly so people can be aware of what AI can do and thus better respond to it. 🧵

Panera’s moderately caffeinated lemonade was loosely associated with 2 deaths before it was taken off market. This article alone has 4 examples of ChatGPT encouraging young people to commit suicide, and OpenAI’s own public stats estimate over a million users discuss suicide with ChatGPT each week.

If you backed that Avatar game a while back, you need to back this. Possibly at the pay-it-back level.

It's hard to overstate Meguey and Vincent's contribution to the Tabletop RPG hobby through Apocalypse World. So many TTRPG creators were inspired to make their own #PbtA game, often pushing game design even further. Here's a chance to thank them. www.kickstarter.com/projects/lum... #ttrpg

Wondering why no one likes your posts anymore, even among your friends? It's because @jay.bsky.team and team have decided to hide a huge amount of content from all of our feeds by default. Here's how to turn it off. First go to the hamburger menu in the upper left corner

Worth pointing out the biggest supporters of trans people (which is who bigots mean by “gender ideology”) are bisexual & lesbian women. All the public “concerns” about trans people (phase, indoctrination, regret, etc) are recycled forms of homophobia. This is why LGB solidarity with the T is strong.

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You should be kind

Wyrd Science is a very good read, highly recommend.

it hasn't helped sell any mags but it appears our nonsense on here has just pushed our account over 5K 'followers', so let's embrace that as some kind of achievement! Like & repost this to be in with a chance to win every in-print issue of Wyrd Science & a t-shirt of your choice*

Full Harryhausen Medusa! Goddamn!

"His barbs? Spent arrows and wrent spears. His mane? Blood-rust. His tail? Knots of tattered banners, coffin nails, and a crooked dagger. But his smile- a thousand iron teeth, that is real. Or so they say." - Yusuf Ayari to Salvatore L. Outhier, ("Suffered Visions", 1932)

Well this is very nice. Thank you @alexfalcone.bsky.social

anyway the kickstarter is at 167% with 136 backers and just over a day to go and I am just beyond chuffed & grateful www.kickstarter.com/projects/fra... #tarot #tarotsky if you felt like sharing that'd be amazing but I'm amazed by all the support so thank you all so much, diolch o galon x

Just realised we're too late for crème bûlette to appear in the Golarion cook book 😔 #pathfinder

Be reminded poverty is a policy failure by the government and a result of capitalism.

Hey Beautiful People Tonight, @forwardprizes.bsky.social takes place at the Queen Elizabeth Hall. Mum Does The Washing is up for Best Single Poem Performed. Whatever happens, I'm so proud of it, and so humbled and frankly gassed at how far it's flown. Have a great Sunday everyone.

My work have royally f*d me over and haven’t paid me for 7 months now and I’m struggling to get the extra work in need to pay all me bills, please share and check out the deals bellow to give us a hand! Much appreciated!

Social approbation MATTERS to people. That means that if you publicly deride people, they will HATE it. Look at how elites have lost their shit because regular people on social media clowned them and did not bow down to their 'supreme amazingness'.

I think about this a lot.

Women started fandom. Women started fanfic. Women started star Trek cons. Women invented beer, and the novel, while we're at it. Stop trying to erase women from spaces, you stupid, lazy, misogynistic fucks.

Next QL! There will be TEN ACTS each doing TEN MINUTES. No headliner, no opener, no fives, I'll be doing a bit of MCing, and that's it, that's the plan. If it works, I'll do it again next year. If it doesn't work I will never do it again. Seem fair? www.ticketsource.co.uk/quantum-leop...

Worth noting: After the end of the three-year pilot program this year, the Irish government found that for every pound invested, they got 43% profit. Keeping artists alive and financially safe is not just for moral good, it's also beneficial in terms of economics. Just let artists keep making art.

SURPRISE! I had an idea on Tuesday for how to do the Perfect Space Marine RPG, so I wrote the Perfect Space Marine RPG. It's both a shitpost and a dead serious game. And it's, uh... 34,000 words long? Anyway enjoy!!! docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Hasbro wotc has very intentionally built a brand identity around the game that is a complete misrepresentation of what the game actually is: a game about being violent and inflicting violence. And it's MASSIVELY successful

Yes, "If your favorite way to play D&D is to do something else instead, then maybe you don't actually like D&D" is true. Significantly, the broader "If your favorite way to play RPGs is to do something else instead, then maybe you don't actually like RPGs" is also true.

I really want to have an opinion on that D&D thing but I just don't have the energy. Play Fellowship. Play Beacon. Play Fabula Ultima. Play Dragonbane, or Draw Steel, or Daggerheart. Play literally anything else.

Amazon's big server might be down but that doesn't mean I can't post my charts showing how fundamentally bonkers their energy consumption and associated emissions are :) Fun fact: 2 years ago they stopped sharing their total electrical energy consumption, cool!!! ketanjoshi.co/data-sharing/

Arguably, one company should not be responsible for 33% of online services

(Since people are reposting their popular tweets here…) From my experience of drawing sound effects by hand, I realised that you can easily make font-based sound effects more exciting as well—by exercising intentionality and control. Here's some examples.

South Korea pushed AI hard in schools. The national program was aborted within months, following massive pushback from students, parents and teachers, after a fortune had already been spent by both the government and education publishers restofworld.org/2025/south-k...

the endpoint of chatgpt and other llm chatbot interfaces is a cohort of people who don't really live so much as they are on a sort of guided tour of their own lives, who have more or less totally abdicated agency and responsibility in favor of a step by step template of how to pretend to be a person

Author and filmmaker Justine Bateman on generative AI

Cool. Can we all have 15 years leniency from water bills?

Trans pupils in Scotland are limiting food and drink intake to avoid using school toilets, fearing they might be ‘outed’ www.scenemag.co.uk/trans-pupils...

beasts | 2022

Art by • Mark Zug

Birthday sale ends at midnight tonight!

OH YEAH did I mention that pre-orders have a 20% discount until the 5th of November?? Probably the best price you could grab this actually physically massive tome for. This book is 300mmx260mm. It's bigger than the D&D PHB. It's encyclopaedia sized!!

Commissions are open! Here are my standard rates and some examples! DM or email [email protected] #commissionsopen #characterdesign #dnd

Some amazing gay history. Listen up kids.

Okatsuka posted the censorship rules for the controversial comedy festival, noting how many "You can’t say anything anymore!" comedians have signed on. www.avclub.com/riyadh-comed...

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Heeey! Yes, this is out. I made the cover! Finally some new art to share.