saw a reddit comment on the lenghth of modern dev cycles earlier that stuck with me: "The PS2 had three Grand Theft Autos, GTA5 had three Playstations"

The OGL was a rough contract to begin with (not in the way Siembieda claimed, as an IP theft backdoor) but was easily subverted (Munchkin d20 is an example) and only remained unchanged at WotC's sufferance, as recently demonstrated. It was a step beyond a handshake agreement but not much farther.

yes. Covid doomerism must cash out as antivax insanity because the vaccines do, in fact, work. we've had them for many years at this point bsky.app/profile/bird...

I guess people have forgotten that Trump started the pandemic by refusing to test and bringing in tens of thousands of people in crowded airports. and then stole PPE from blue states. and then suggested bleach or UV light might cure it. and then tried to kill Biden with it. and then

Biden was far from perfect but he implemented a highly effective free vaccine rollout. he was going to do even better with the vaccine work requirement until the Supreme Court stopped him, literally massacring loyal Republican voters by the tens of thousands as a result

I have seen this claim several times on here and it is abject fucking madness. bordering on antivax sentiment

Librarian here. We grant library cards to ALL residents, no matter their age or legal status. Our ID requirements pertain to establishing residency only. Do not invoke libraries, which embrace *everyone* in its civic fold, as a precedent for measures designed to *suppress* civic participation.

So Bree hinted at this story a few days ago, but I want to circle back now that I have permission to share it. WHISTLES OUT: A WHISTLE CREW MYSTERY

you can't work with Republicans. you can't compromise with them either. you either win or they do.

NEWS: The FBI interviewed an Epstein victim who accused Trump of sexually assaulting her when she was underage not once — but at least FOUR times. But the document that shows those additional interviews appears to have been deleted from the DOJ website. substack.com/home/post/p-...

They saw France bust down the doors of X for being pedophiles and immediately started developing the national sex crime VPN.

A reminder that when I worked on the Hill, I heard, unprompted, from three different, unrelated people, including reporters and other staff, that Mike Tracey smelled fucking terrible. Like notably bad. It was so notable, multiple people said this to me without being asked.

Two female ICE agents popped the hood of their car and knocked on the door of a mechanic born in Mexico. He went out to help. “A bunch of agents jump out and tackle him, essentially restraining him, and take him away...His six kids are now without their father." www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

The judge threatened to hold them in contempt if the spy glasses were not removed but if it was any of us we would have already been charged. But oligarchs just get warnings when they ignore the law for more control through surveillance. bsky.app/profile/hype...

Reminder: under no circumstance should you give discord your ID. It is gonna -suck- trying to set up alternatives, and this whole fiasco is going to damage communities, but you CANNOT give them your info

This is made more complicated by the fact that this is a JAG lawyer standing in for the DOJ (because most of the AUSAs quit). He was ordered to be a SAUSA, which means saying "I won't do this anymore" is a direct refusal to obey an order, which can trigger a court-martial or other discipline.

Medicare for All - "That's socialism!" Social Security - "That's socialism!" Debt free education - "That's socialism!" Universal childcare - "That's socialism!" Billions for ICE, refurbishing Trump's Qatar jet, and tax cuts for the rich... "That's just how it is."

Oh man, is it time for some motherfuckin Ryan "The Steve Jobs of MMO Marketing" Dancey? Anyway, check this shit out medium.com/@kaitave/wha...

Chimera girl🐅🦎#Skeb

and now another retraction/reversal in Chester, New York: midhudsonnews.com/2026/02/18/c...

New York Health and Hospitals has a 3-year contract with Palantir. For almost $4 million, Palantir works to “increase charges captured from missed opportunities,” from Medicaid and other public benefit patients. It also uses AI to review and deny insurance claims. theintercept.com/2026/02/15/p...

Much more here on ICE reversing course (and retracting their initial statements) on two proposed Trump prison camps, from the indispensible team at Project Salt Box: projectsaltbox.substack.com/p/ice-issued...

Amazon just saved nearly $8B on its 2025 tax bill — despite profits hitting $90B — thanks to Trump's Big Ugly Bill. Remember: Amazon spent $75M producing and marketing the Melania movie, while Jeff Bezos gave $1M to Trump's inaugural fund. Quite a return on investment, huh?

I know a fair number of people who have worked for or with AEG in the past and have literally never heard anything positive about Ryan Dancey, who got fired today after making a pro-AI post about how AI should take over boardgame design, so... [Nelson laugh]

i'm crying lol

people on reddit keep posting them getting into arguments with chatgpt 5.2 about chatgpt 4o and it just keeps telling them they're unstable and to get a therapist

notorious radical left communist rag says tax the rich

The Heritage Foundation is now calling for the overturn of Plyler vs. Doe, the Supreme Court ruling that banned states from denying an education to the children of undocumented immigrants.

Your vote REALLY matters in primary elections. This is our moment to build a better Democratic Party. See our March voter guide here: leaderswedeserve.substack.com/p/leaders-we...

This local Wolfdog joined an Olympic ski event and triggered the finish-line camera. This is Nazgul. He snuck into a cross-country skiing sprint this morning and raced the homestretch with some competitors before being escorted home. 14/10 someone get him a medal

Ted Lieu: “Donald Trump is in the Epstein files thousands and thousands of times. In those files, there are highly disturbing allegations of Donald Trump raping children … of Donald Trump threatening to kill children. So I encourage the press to go look at these allegations.”

I imagine it was extremely disturbing

I designed a shirt that calls out the two things that are getting a lot of us through everything. Get your friends together. Roll some dice. Oh and hey, buy this merch. I'm broke. #ttrpg #dnd #daggerheart d20monkey.dashery.com/products/843...

COLBERT on Thin-Skinned Trump’s fascist @jamestalarico.bsky.social ban: “Because my network clearly doesn't want us to talk about this, let's talk about this… They're trying to control what we watch, say, read — The most dangerous kind of cancel culture is the kind that comes from the top."

brings us back to the ole "get off twitter vs. stay on to counter-message" argument... twitter is actively turning people to the right, like FOX News, so that argument becomes a throwback to the old "should liberals go on fox news?" dispute from 10 years ago.

Trump’s regulators have announced they will fight states’ attempts to regulate prediction markets. It just so happens that Donald Trump, Jr. is involved with both Polymarket & Kalshi, and the Trumps’ social media company is launching its own prediction market. Always follow the money.

Countries that do not use Fritos as currency could be "left behind," says Frito-Lay CEO Ken Biddleman

Hey, as a librarian I need to tell you: Our funding depends on usage. So go ahead and check out that book even if you don't think you'll finish it. No one will know. Check out that DVD even though you might not like it. Get ambitious in your quest for knowledge.

The constant condescension about ai is another aspect of it that makes me hate it more. The assumption is you can only be against it because you don't understand it like I do. No man. I don't like voluntarily making every human enterprise dependent on a tech run by a tiny group of financial maniacs

AI is the “asbestos of the internet”

I don’t know who needs to hear Jesse Jackson leading the kids on Sesame Street in this beautiful call-and-response reminding them that every child is somebody, but here it is

Fulton Co elections expert: “In all 5 areas identified by ... the [search warrant] affidavit, there are a multitude of false or misleading statements or omissions. ... Once ... corrected, the affidavit loses any basis in reality.” storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

👇👇👇

The horror stories rolling in from Minnesota are just the tip of the iceberg. This 20-year-old, who's lawfully present in the country, was arrested for being Latino, then jailed in a filthy cell where he couldn't even sit down. 18 days of illegal detention. democracyforward.org/wp-content/u...

James Talarico: Jesus gave us two commandments: love God and love neighbor. There was no exception to that second commandment regardless of race, gender, sexual orientation, immigration status, or religious affiliation.

The Constitution is currently being interpreted by the Epstein Class at SCOTUS.

Millions of files related to Jeffrey Epstein suggest the existence of a 'global criminal enterprise' that carried out acts meeting the legal threshold of crimes against humanity, a panel of independent experts appointed by the UN Human Rights Council says reut.rs/4rpxDfl

Having followed his spurious and completely unfounded claims during the Pathfinder Online fiasco, Dancey's always been a merchant of false hope. He always wants to promise the moon with a bottle rocket. A proverbial bad penny of the industry.

Melinda Gates remains the only one of these people with anything close to a moral bone in her body.