My mate wrote this song about grief & the pain of losing a loved one, when his mum died. When I experience that kind of loss, he always quotes it to me, & he is right: The love you give lasts forever, even when you're gone! Penny's love is still with me! #petloss #grieving youtu.be/iCArI2TtFxI?...

Having lost my sweet baby Penny yesterday, I decided to dedicate my latest adventure to her. I woke up and felt her loss so deeply today, I've decided to do a quick rewrite to include her in the main story, as a benevolent spirit of LOVE and LIGHT, which is what she was to us! #petloss #grieving

Scrolling through my devices, reliving moments with my beloved Penny, trying to make sense of the loss. She was so dear to me! As a disabled person, her constant loving companionship helped me get through life. Through the chronic pain and the isolation. She gave me so much! #petloss #grieving #love

I pride myself on producing 1+ books a month, every single month, since I began Starry Knight Press in Jan 2017. I'm 95% finished with this month's book, which I'm dedicating to my beloved, lost Penny. But losing her is hitting me hard! I need to grieve, so after this I'm taking time off. #PetLoss

We tried every single Kidney cat food & supplement & drug & worked as hard as we could around the clock to make our little girl as comfortable & happy as possible. It was very hard b/c the diagnosis came as a shock, prior blood tests having never shown any probs. Her kidneys work till they didn't. 😢

We lost our dear sweet Penny, the most beautiful and loving cat, today. 💔 She was suffering from kidney failure due to her congenitely small kidneys. We did everything we could for her & worked as hard as we could to keep her healthy & happy for as long as possible. Today we let her go.😭 #petloss

I have a very sick cat on my hands, and her mom and I are working thru the difficult decision, with her vet, to ease her suffering. It has been a tough 9 months with kidney failure. This is excruciating & soul ravaging for us. Please send Penny the Wonder Kitten your best loving vibes. #petloss

BIG thanks to another kind reader who just bought the first book in my "ENDLESS LAIR" #SoloAdventure series! Based on random-tables and set encounters, these scenarios are great for times when you can't get your crew together! #dnd #d&d #ttrpg #osr #osric #dungeonsanddragons LINK ⏬

Babs Pease, contemporary artist and printmaker living in rural Scotland #WomensArt

STATEMENT FROM SUZANNE STAFFORD AND CHAOSIUM REGARDING A RECENT AI-GENERATED ARTICLE ABOUT CHAOSIUM FOUNDER GREG STAFFORD 🧵 Chaosium and the Stafford Estate are disappointed in 4 Pillar Games’ recent decision to post an AI-generated “historical archive article”... 1/7

Many of you are asking how you can help me. My only ask is this: Spread the word about the threats to democracy and how we can fight back. Tell everyone to subscribe to Democracy Docket for free and share its content with everyone you know. Thanks. bit.ly/4a7l1TR

J. Jonah Jameson can't even enjoy a ball game without being troubled by that web slinging menace!

People don't long for "inconvenience." They long for permanence. And though streaming services may be convenient, people are waking up to the fact that we are paying rent-seeking middle men month after month for things we will never actually own.

Marvellous Minoan pottery created by artisans from Bronze Age Crete some 3,500 years ago! Heraklion Archaeological Museum 📷 by me #Archaeology

False equivalence. This is a convo about ownership. Spend $10.99/mo on CDs and in a year you've got 12 CDs. Yours forever even if you go broke and can't buy more. Spend $10.99/mo on streaming and then have to cancel? You've spent the same $ and you have...nothing. These are not equivalent systems.

Happy Trilobite Tuesday! This diminutive Eoharpes was uncovered from the Czech Republic’s Sarka Formation. Its bright colors are mostly due to the presence of specific minerals, which can replace the animal’s calcite shell over the course of millions of years.

“Parlor Ornament”. Postcard from my collection, 1906.

#MosaicMonday - Mosaic depicting fish and molluscs escaping from a basket, symbolising generous abundance. Dated to the mid-3rd century AD. Sousse Archaeological Museum, Tunisia.

#MosaicMonday Oceanus on the #Roman #mosaic depicted under the form of a crab. The mosaic dates to the 2nd -3rd century AD; and was discovered in the remains of Utica. Bardo Museum in Tunis (#Tunisia). #Archaeology #History #art

Detail of the face of Theseus from the circular centre panel at House of Theseus at Paphos, Cyprus. 3rd-4th century CE #MosaicMonday

The remarkably well preserved medieval bakery on the roof of the 12th century keep of Orford Castle, Suffolk Having a bakery on the roof of the castle kept the open flames away from all the wooden floors below! #MedievalMonday 📸 Mine #history #archaeology #photooftheday 🏺

Jeff Dee was on fire in the 80’s. Four pieces from Assault on the Aerie of the Slave Lords #TTRPG #AD&D1e

Reupping this post as a simple reminder I SELL BOOKS! The economy has folx really pulling back on discretionary spending; I get it. #Books & #TTRPG ganes are not necessities. BUT if you are fortunate enough to have a little extra dosh in these hard times, I'd appreciate your custom, chummer! 🙏

BIG thanks to the kind reader who just bought the first book in my "ENDLESS LAIR" #SoloAdventure series! Based on random-tables and set encounters, these scenarios are great for times when you can't get your crew together! #dnd #d&d #ttrpg #osr #osric #dungeonsanddragons LINK ⏬

#StevenColbert returns to TV! Great, lets get shows on Public Access and PBS, and ditch the main stream media and legacy, network TV. It can go bye-bye, IDGAF! #BotcottCBS #BoyCottNetworkTV #LongLivePublicTelevision

how many more can fit on that rocket, we could stack them

I already had a Headstart on this the minute Barry Wise took over. I only watched Colbert on YouTube.

Same! I'm #AOC2028, she's my ride or die!

You're not excited about technology anymore because what we're calling "technology" these days isn't even considering your desires when it's being developed. What's not disinterested in you is outright exploitative and hostile, even fundamentally anti-human.

MiniTruth has spoken! Anyone against them is a Follower of Goldstein! In other news tonight, America ends, just short of 250 years. Stay tuned for the Five Minute Hate, after sports.

The Gasoline (along with The Rent) is too damn high!

English Heritage unveils recreation of 4,500-year-old Neolithic hall near Stonehenge

The stairwell of Mousa Broch on the western shore of the Island of Mousa in the Shetland Isles. The broch was constructed in the Iron Age in around 100 BC. 📸 My own. #StairwellSaturday #Mousa #Shetland #Archaeology

#Caturday, but make it #Archaeology! (don't grief me, I love cats AND my Bachelor's is in anthropology).

Happy #WorldTurtleDay! 🐢❤️ To celebrate here’s an ancient turtle-shaped clay container, handmade around 2,000 years ago! From Colima, West Mexico 📷 The Met #Archaeology

For #WorldTurtleDay here is some #RockArt of turtles from the Flinders Islands, Australia 🐢 Different motifs dominate the rock art of each island, indicating different islands were utilised by different subgroups of people for varied purposes. 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy... 🏺 #Archaeology

As a science fiction writer I really fucking resent tech bros for ruining the phrase "artificial intelligence." 80 years of it being all about cool androids and interesting computers destroyed by five years of "Spicy autocorrect making everything shittier for money." NEVER FORGIVE.

Every time I sat across the desk from Stephen Colbert, I knew we'd have a conversation that was about more than just getting laughs. Alongside his great wit, Stephen brought deep thoughtfulness, empathy, and humility to the late-night stage. Here's to a next chapter as brilliant as the last.

Say goodbye to Stephen Colbert and then say goodbye to CBS. A network that loses Colbert loses its cultural relevance. Period. Please repost if you agree! #StephenColbert #Colbert #CBS

OK, so the only other shows (besides #Colbert) I watched on CBS were #Ghosts and #Elsbeth. Dropping both and NEVER, EVER watching CBS again, period, over this fascist appeasement 🐂💩! #BoycottCBS 🖕 #CBS #CensorshipBS, more like it! #ISTANDWITHCOLBERT

It’s such a different feeling watching this last episode of Stephen Colbert than if he were just choosing to retire. Seriously f this regime. Colbert forever. Donald Trump has no one who truly loves him, and Colbert is surrounded by truly kind people. You say goodbye, but we say hello.

AOC: This is what drinking water in Georgia looks like after Meta began data center construction in the community.

An ancient Greek silver coin depicting a bee! 🐝 😍 Minted in Ephesus, 390-380 BC. Photo Getty Museum #Archaeology

#ForTheDwarves! ⚒️

CBS thinks they canceled Stephen Colbert. CBS actually canceled themselves.

Maybe he's a "class traitor"? This is the question the #Steyer stans are willing to bet governance of the largest, most powerful state in the Union over. WTF are they thinking? Trump has made people throw logic & reason out the window, & has the left scrambling for their own jingoistic populists.