Whoa! Just glanced at my itch to see if there's a TY post to do. Not for today, but tomorrow's is shaping up to be a thread.

I'm going to do everything in my power to make this one of those weekly memes.

when you preorder Swords Without Master this is what your supporting (www.kickstarter.com/projects/unw...)

Exhibit N°128482016492 that UBI works and _makes money back_ For those in the back: UNIVERSAL BASIC INCOME HAS ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE BETTER RETURN ON INVESTMENT THAN ARTIFICIAL INTELIGENCE

IMPORTANT: Two websites for US food access. Please spread the word. This is a great, easy to use site to find free food near you:

I subscribe to eight podcasts that come out regularly, more or less. Sometimes none of them have a new episode available, and that is when I am happy I have this one to dip into any episode for a good tine. twohundredaday.fireside.fm

Destined to be a classic.

In the days before this kingdom, the first Raun came to myself and prostrated for power, destruction of enemies, thirsting for a line to last forevermore Without context, that is the first line or whatever from my current WIP.

It's usually a mug's game to link the answering machine gag at the beginning of The Rockford Files episodes to the story, but it's plausible in The Empty Frame (the one w/ the stolen art & Angel's pedals influence) the gag with directions to a party leads Jim to the party at the beginning of the ep.

A Monday reminder that I have World Wide Wrestling softcover and hardcover books ready to meet you in the arena! You can also pick up the Promotion supplements Warlock Pro and Five Rings Wrestling Alliance, the play aid Move Cards, and the standalone New Year's Fray. www.ndpdesign.com/wwwrpg

Corporations can vote in Delaware. But this spring, for the first time in the state's history, those rights were contested – in courtroom and legislative hall. Here I break down pro- and anti-corporate voting arguments – & their surprising agreement on property as the root of legitimate suffrage.

PASTOR LORAN LIVINGSTON (@CentralChurchNC): “There has never been a Christian nation, and never will be. You don’t live in one now. A Christian nation wouldn’t have killed and displaced 20 million Native Americans, or thought owning slaves was pleasing to God.”

I don’t miss “alarmingly shallow” colleagues who were raving about AI until the layoffs started.

Taking a lightning bolt to the bald spot to own the libs 🤷🏿‍♂️

I am an Emily Wilson FAN. Read her interview here ⬇️⬇️⬇️

My founding fathers.

Swords Without Master by Epidiah Ravachol This year I had the delight of helping Unwritten Earths Symposium bring this tabletop role-playing game to book format via contributing the cover and a set of glyphs/icons that illustrate game concepts and mechanics.

I don't care what the GOP thinks of masked protests. And I don't care if the Dems say masks are allowed because free speech, or not allowed because masked protests are scary. All I'm asking is that the answer not depend on the Blackness of the protesters. Next they'll ask for Black voter turnout🤷🏿‍♂️

Let's gooooooooooooooo! (you can go for a little while, but you'll come back)

"without distinction of any kind"

Just a reminder. I'm always surprised how many people aren't aware of this. #Libraries

On a day like this, allow me to introduce you to Ishabibble's Gremlin. carolynwyman.com/the-craftsma...

"I can remember a time when a whole ham was good for only one thing: big family gatherings like Easter and Memorial Day. Now they can take a ham and make race cars and crash helmets out of them! *sucks teeth* These are the days of miracles and wonders."

Hheeeeyyyyy... why does the Mandolorian's ship look like it came from the Star Trek Federation?

Here's some more of the Eidolons, illustrated by @gorangligovic.bsky.social, @portablecity.bsky.social, @goblinprincete.bsky.social and @queerwizard.co.uk. You can also see the double-sided Overtone card, to easily track the current Tone of your Sword and Sorcery Tale.

Today I learned something.

Free to download, and printable on standard Avery 5164 shipping label stickers. Enjoy!

It did arrive! I read the back of the box to the youngest, and kept showing off the front of the box. The next to last thing I read was the 18+ warning. Unrelatedly, I am a little bit afraid to take the plastic wrap off.

I’m just gonna note that the current head of public health policy in the US government has decided this technology should not be researched anymore.

Word around town is that it's arrived.

Jim Rockford: Sons often send flowers to their dead parents, especially Catholics, so you find the mother's grave, find where the flowers are being sent from. Then you go to the flower shop, look at the account, trace the man who sent the flowers and then bingo, up pops your missing heir.

Two days left for the ndpmas birthday month sale! I'm not planning on any more sales this year, so now is the time if you want to pick up a great game (or all the great games tbh). Bundle on itch: itch.io/s/187840/ndp... Bundle on @rpg-trader.bsky.social: rpg-trader.com/products/468...

Tell me you’re from a small town… ... without telling me you are from a small town.

I have been enjoying watching my tracking number move from an unexpected, but perfectly normal, origin point, day by day, until it was tantalizingly close to here & then having the anticipation ratchet up with UPS transferring the package to USPS!

Mail call! (Get your own, if you like: brightbardgames.com/products/axo...)

In case anyone in your life is struggling with this technology. www.loc.gov/resource/gdc...

T -1. It's tomorrow. Get ready.

It might be an old-timey movie, but it has haunted me since I was wee. grumbleflap.shannonmcmaster.com/2024/05/29/t...

Pssst. Like books? Like local bookstores? Bookshop.org is doing an anti-prime sale where it's free shipping. now through Friday. I'm not affiliated, but I do like local bookstores. So just FYI. bookshop.org

"Do you want to use religion to do some bigotry?" Nahmon. I just need my hair. "Are you black?" Yeahmon. "GET FUCKED LOSER" --today at the Supreme Court

... there's a plane at jfk... youtu.be/cUxipN886Ns

Apropos of *trying to make a living as an author*... can I interest any of you in a nice math-western alt history satire in these trying times? Renegade gunslinging mathematicians fighting against the vilification of expertise? payhip.com/StarkHolborn

Folks! Click through and marvel at this eidolon folio in all its glory!

Space, man. It's pretty big.

The Luddites are having a moment (again): they're being discussed and rehabbed everywhere from NPR to US Catholics Magazine to Psychology Today. So, adapted from my book on the subject, here's a short-ish rundown of what you need to know to understand the Luddites in the age of AI.

And that's my final eidolon that I painted for @epidiah.bsky.social's Swords Without Master! If you'd like to see the full folio, I've written a little on my blog about them, and included this sneak peek into the thumbnails that started them all! See them here: www.portablecity.net/trials-of-th...

If you see this, post a vampire that isn’t Dracula.

Heckata Beckata, 2020

It's Not Magic. It's a Promise. "So be a viper-killer."