News: [MP] has had their party membership suspended and has had the whip removed. Me, a silly person: "Damn, not only did they lose their job, but their car got towed. That's harsh."

🚨By-elections to be called automatically when MPs defect to another party - lets get this to the 100,000 signatures needed petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...

This is Dumpling. She got her very first sweater and promptly deactivated. 12/10 (TT: jmw495)

I've been writing for over 20 years and have never even considered using the Predictive Text That Makes People Kill Themselves. When I need to do "quick research" I get lost on wikipedia for 4 hours like a normal person. Genslop users are the weakest people alive.

RT if you've never had a tab of ChatGPT open 'just to do quick research'

Presumably this is why the development cycle for AAA games is now 7-10 years.

This is Indy. He just made history as the first dog to win a major acting award. He won the Astra for Best Performance in a Horror or Thriller after starring in the supernatural horror Good Boy. 14/10 congrats Indy

Got to play a bit of #pathfinder2e yesterday (a rare treat for this forever GM) and it turns out a water/wood kineticist is a highly specialised machine for disposing of skeletons. Running around popping skulls off while the rest of the party flails with slashing and piercing weapons. Feels great.

“bsky is boring!” 1) good 2) social media should not be a cornerstone of your everyday entertainment 3) I find new artists to follow every day and look at pretty art endlessly on here when I feel like it 4) get a tactile hobby where you create something with your hands 5) read book 6) walk outside

Fuck AI. All my homies hate AI. But Discord doesn't know that yet. Tell them.

Last night in the #pathfinder2e Abomination Vaults, the party spent half an hour discussing how to solve a puzzle involving a small body of water without crossing or entering said water, decided they'd have to swim, and the cleric *immediately* got eaten by a giant fish. Typical.

So excited Pathfinder Impossible Magic got announced! I am happy to say I'm one of the project leads on this book. Josh and the team cooked up some really exciting new ways to use magic in your game, along with some much-requested remasters. Also, so many spells. Holy crap so many.

Better have an intermission with that runtime.

This is why The Wind of Winter is taking so long. GRRM keeps getting competing bids from Pizza Hut and Olive Garden and having to rewrite half the dialogue.

Yes

UK Governmeny says mass production and distribution of CSAM is legal now. What a time to be alive.

I slipped on a cat and fractured a vertebrae.

Not-so-friendly reminder that YOUR religion can only tell YOU what to do, it cannot dictate terms for anyone who does not choose to follow it. Laws should not be made on the basis of faith.

In my experience, death is a poor motivator for PCs because players are always ready to try out a new character concept. Derailing their plans or threatening something they can't just replace with half an hour of bookwork is much more effective at maintaining narrative tension.

starfinder has a ruleset where if your character is a union member their union can pay for a resurrection from their pension fund, and i am absolutely delighted by this

A few months ago I got the story of a duck who aspires to curling greatness stuck in my brain and simply couldn't get it out until I did this

In 2026, let’s commit to supporting and celebrating human artists! 🎨 Character by @luseals.bsky.social and logo by @hinokodo.com

a stoat!

My (not fully serious) New Year's Resolution is to pretend I have never heard of D&D. Any "generic fantasy adventure" media is inspired by either Pathfinder or MÖRK BORG, depending on level of grimness. The abbreviation "5e" now refers exclusively to Shadowrun.

Started replaying Borderlands 2 recently and I can't stop laughing at how every NPC treats "Vault Hunter" like it's synonymous with "superhero". It's not an earned title or anything, it's just something anybody with a gun and a dream can call themselves.

Just tucked my daughter in and said "see you next year" and I have never felt dadlier.

We're in this together, not alone💙

Approaching magic item design from the assumption that +1s are boring, I thought about how to make something like the periapt of wisdom interesting: riseupcomus.blogspot.com/2025/12/peri...

“I am an AI hater” amazingly written anthonymoser.github.io/writing/ai/h...

"Don't speak ill of the dead" means "don't show up at the funeral and roast them in front of their grieving family". It DOES NOT mean, and HAS NEVER meant, "don't say anything negative about any dead person under any circumstances". Discuss the whole person. Death does not absolve anyone.

Sometimes self care means adding trains to your fantasy setting.

UBI funded by 100% taxation on inheritance.

Politicians should live in dormitories, with no access to personal wealth or resources for the duration of their time in office, barred from holding "second jobs" (inc. newspaper columns, podcasts etc), and any misconduct permanently disqualifies them from ever holding office again.

The Legend of Zelda: The Midnaish Cat

I am in no way trying to be a buzzkill, but one thing I would love to see more of in 2026 are conversations about time, labor, & the fact that artists in many mediums are held to truly unsustainable expectations of pace and output. I'm thinking specifically about ttrpgs, but it applies broadly.

Watching THE GREEN KNIGHT again

What if the years greatest called shot was also an incredible shitpost

please be as aggressively "back in my day" annoying as you possibly can about not using genAI for things. Back in MY day, critically acclaimed JRPG Kingdom Hearts' completely incomprehensible yet beloved story was made WITHOUT the use of genAI.

There is no AI used in Blue Prince. The game was built and crafted with full human instinct by Tonda Ros and his team at @dogubomb.bsky.social. It is the result of eight years of development, fuelled by imagination and creativity, and we are extremely proud of what Tonda has achieved.

I mean, the fucking state of it, that the leader of the governing party would have to make assurances that he would still be in power two and a half years into his first term after winning around two thirds of the seats in Commons.

I literally can't think of anything less Ghibli-coded than indiscriminately killing living beings because of how they look. Ghibli is not just soft clouds and hills. Ghibli is resisting fascism, living in harmony with nature, weird flying machines, and showing compassion for other living things!

we can kill them all if we just work together and ✨believe💫

The Last Jedi: "Let the past die. Kill it if you have to." Rise of Skywalker: *shoehorns every living OT actor into pointless cameos, unconvincingly pretends to kill off OT characters for cheap drama, a literal montage of OT and Prequel characters saves the day in the end*

The ENTIRE POINT of The Last Jedi was to say that Star Wars cannot survive forever as a series by endlessly recycling nostalgia. If it is to continue into the future, it has to look forward to the future, not remain trapped in the past.

If you don't have a budget to hire an artist, you don't need bespoke art. Simple as that. If you want it, you pay for it. If you can't pay for it, use royalty-free stock art or public domain art. If you won't do that, then go without.