My internet speed is incomprehensibly faster now than in the year 2000. my processing power too. yet somehow BASIC assed webpages take LONGER to load than before. On multiple devices. We've truly ruined the worldwide web.

“Why can’t we just put the oil onto trucks and ride it across the desert rather than through the strait of Hormuz?” My love, let me direct you to a little documentary called Mad Max: Fury Road

Ford government introduces Geared-to-Number-of-Cottages-Owned payment structure for Doug's friends pretending to run Ontario school boards.

factory packaging of the cat

Ontario government protects Ontario government by not saying what Ontario government is spending to tell taxpayers how the Ontario government is protecting them.

"You know what we need to do? We need to get the fuck out of here, that's what we need to do."

Jesus on America:

Iran Imposes New ‘Cash, Grass, Or Ass’ Fee For Strait Of Hormuz

Alberta removes education from curriculum

Ontario Premier Doug Ford announces new round of "vigorous funding" for public education, public healthcare and development of accessible green spaces for Ontarians. Ford saying, "There is no better way to build a powerful economy than to invest in the education and health of Ontario taxpayers."

*reads news* I'd just like to say that tabletop roleplaying games are a hobby that you can play by candlelight and it's good to walk to your friends' house.

was just reminded that tomorrow is april fool’s day and especially this year can we just… not, please

Hey, come on now, let's be fair, because who among us didn't get a 31% raise last year?

The next Royal Mail special issue stamps are themed on folklore. They are due out on March 27th. One of the stamps is the water spirit Grindylow, known at a tarn near Coniston, Cumbria (and other places) as Jenny or Jinny Greenteeth. bbc.com/news/articles/…

Have you seen this yet? This is wrong. Parliament is supposed to be a civic space — the one room in this country where every faith, and no faith, stands on equal ground.

Alice Augusta Ball found the cure for leprosy at 23. She died in a mysterious lab accident at 24. Arthur Dean stole her research, stole it and renamed it from "The Ball Method" to "The Dean Method." It took 90 years before her original research papers were found and she got the credit due to her.

Does anyone else remember the actual play podcast called The Delvers by BurnedFX? It is long gone, but luckily I downloaded the episodes and relisten on occasion. I hope Jay, Kay, Sue & Tess are all well.

Visibly-inebriated Mother Nature triple-dog dares Ontarians to swap their winter tires out for summers.

“I know you have a thing that does [X]…” is very helpful to players who don’t know the game (or the encounter) as well as you.

Huge sale on Return of the Lazy Dungeon Master! 50% off until 1 April! shop.slyflourish.com/collections/... #dnd #ttrpg

Remember: The richest 1% evade roughly $160 billion in taxes every year. That amount would fund SNAP for a year with money to spare. Ask yourself who the real freeloaders are.

Bonus Episode - Mega Dungeon Men - is live! We chat with Gareth Hanrahan - @mytholder.bsky.social - game designer, adventure writer and fiction author, who talks us through his new project for @rowanrookanddeckad.bsky.social - DIE: Metadungeon! Listen now! tr.ee/6d07lzqCa8

Today on Between Two Cairns, @bradkerr.net, @betterlegends.bsky.social and I review D3: Vault of the Drow by Gary Gygax in another Gamer Blast from the Past! Recorded live at Gary Con XVIII! www.patreon.com/posts/153767... This episode was released early for patrons - including a video version!

This 1990 speech by Carl Sagan is timely times two: #war #climate

What can I say, except you may end up making friends with a monster today. Or a sexy encounter if your are a bard. I did BX encounters percentily.

chaos on my mind #osr #earlaubec #moorcock #ttrpg

New games and magazines! - @newedgeswordmag.bsky.social # 5-7 - Mano Sinistra (Necrobriscola) - @scryptidgames.bsky.social Psychic Trash Detectives @mallenhall.com In Ruins New stickers and patches + tons of restocks, including Mausritter, OSE, Mothership modules, Anamnesis, and Cloud Empress!

This net zero brigade - are there arm patches or uniforms or something?

Just a reminder that there are plug-ins and extensions that, over the next few days (or years), you can use with your browser to replace certain words with words that you prefer. I use Word Replacer Max. Here is an example of it at work. #Orangefacedshitgibbon

My Printer: I do what I want, I work when I want! Me: You know I'm old? My Printer: So? Me: You know that means I know I can use your IP address, dig into your set up, and make you work, right? My Printer: Whoa, hey... No need for that level of hostility! We can work this out! Me: Too late.

new ai response just dropped

"10 metres... 9.... 8." "Remember, short controlled bursts."

Attention, shoppers. Coming soon.

Doug Ford announces plan to stop plan that he says will interfere with his concept of a future plan.

This is the book I habitually recommend to everyone who expresses even the slightest interest in running a game of D&D.

I'm at Breakout Con!

Thinking that public services should turn a profit is how the Detroit Police Department ended up being run by OCP.

Sort of changed Randall's original cartoon there, lost the punch line. :) xkcd.com/2476/

Jeff Bezos, one of the richest men on earth, is raising $100 billion to replace workers with robots around the world. The oligarchs want it all. Not going to happen. Stand up and FIGHT BACK.

Jeff Bezos is worth $220 billion. After building that fortune from overworking and exploiting his own workers, Bezos is now developing a fund to acquire manufacturing companies and automate them. Why do we always hear about immigrants taking jobs when the oligarchs are actually to blame?

And now some actual good news

Doug Ford laments that this kind of crime wasn't happening ten years ago when he wasn't Premier.

I think about this tweet a lot

Deer My Friends Everybuddy in the meedia is trying to make a big deel about my plan to pertect Ontario by makeen government things secret but what they should fokuss on is me giveen people peppur spray and how I want people bringing alcohol to street festavulls and also all the communists. Premair