Before I head to work, a quick reminder that tomorrow is Shop Small/Small Business Saturday! Your local bookstore, record shop, art supplier, and toy shop would deeply love to see you. Plus “gotta go support my local small businesses” is a great excuse to take a break from your family.

I don’t know if anyone else notices or cares, but when I see a presentation in which the speaker uses obviously generated-AI images to illustrate their slides, it makes me immediately less confident in whatever other content they’re presenting.

Instead of doing a consumerism on "Black" Friday, consider supporting small businesses, dropping a few coins in someone's ko-fi or go fund me, sign up for their patreon instead. Life is expensive, things are hard. Drop coins to humans, not AI, or big corporations today. QRP with your links!

I forgot to make a fancy graphic but please come find me at #Dragonmeet tomorrow. I promise the art im selling is much better 😂

Today is Creator Day on @itch.io! For 24 hours, Itch doesn't take a cut from sales, meaning creators keep 100% of the money you spend. As is tradition, I want to spend the day boosting as many indie #ttrpg people as possible, so if you have games on Itch, drop them here!

i know WHY this is but that just makes it even more of a kick in the pants lmao

she Wants the Pie

lol it looks like i can’t be trusted with a fancy plate but it’s just that i like to microwave my food bc i can’t handle everything being lukewarm 😅

An action shot of grey fox in the garden, not sure if it saw something to pounce on but it's a cool shot. The gray fox (Urocyon cinereoargenteus) is thought to be the oldest surviving canid species, having originated at least 3.6 million years ago. #mammals

my uterus is rebelling

The House will have been in session for fewer than 30 days between July 1-December 31 and just had a 53-day recess. He makes $223K/year plus benefits including 75% of all health expenses for his entire family. Affordable Care Act subsidies expire Dec 31st for everyone else’s healthcare coverage.

Just a reminder that there are LOADS of small businesses, BIPOC-owned businesses, LGBTQ+-owned businesses, women owned businesses who would appreciate your holiday shopping dollars so much more than any big box retailer ever will.

This fight over “should authors get paid for their work” debate boils down to this: many, MANY people do not see art as labor. If art isn’t labor, then you don’t have to change your political views to justify piracy. Easy peasy!

IMO the weird exception some supposed leftists seem to make for condemning-the-theft-of-labor-except-art-lol-steal-that-shit is just a weird intersection with puritan "if you enjoy yourself, it's not a real job" brainworms. "fun" job = member of the leisure class (ROFL) = fair game. Somehow.

Turing failed to consider whether a human thinking a machine is sentient might actually be a sign that the human isn't intelligent rather than the machine being intelligent.

Cat goblin

we are going to make SO MANY chocolate meringue cookies today

We have a shipment drop planned for tomorrow, so now would be an excellent time to browse through our Holiday Sale and get something shiny for yourself or a friend 🎁 And yes, that is a complete Conjurer Circle triptych DM screen that we have on sale! ✨ #ttrpg #dnd #dmscreen

They're just silly little guys goofin around✨💀

Remember your favorite creator possibly might be struggling with imposter syndrome and doubt and this timeline sucks.. so if you find yourself thinking “wow I really relate to this persons work” or that persons work gives you joy, you should probably tell them. It’s a hard time to be a creative.

Many men feel the stripper really likes them. Scientists say it's time to consider whether they're onto something

Today's Bolted! livestream is the GOOD AS HELL BLOCK! Join us at 5:15 pm Pacific / 8:15 pm Eastern for a game with: SARA McHENRY! @saramchenry.bsky.social TOM McHENRY! @tommchenry.bsky.social JESS FINK! @jessfink.bsky.social ERIC COLOSSAL! @ericcolossal.bsky.social • Stream • Get the game!

If you're still trying to equate piracy and libraries in 2025 you're clearly a troll or an idiot-- possibly both--and I'm just blocking you.

Since this year of all years I think skipping the big stores and shopping small businesses is a great thing, I asked my discord community to give me links to their shops! view.flodesk.com/emails/69274... Please link to your own shops in the replies, and show us some pics of your favorite items!

Hey you

“Poor people have a right to art!” They sure do. So get to it.

Some gifts under $50 Squishy D20 fidgets, mimic chests, little books of holding, dice shape ornaments, and hand painted layered wood art pieces !

Some gifts under $20! Bookshelf windows, door frame art, hand painted ornaments, magnets, and mini displays!

Need help with holiday gifts? I make some unique nerdy things! At many price points! I celebrate and appreciate every order I get! Incoming gift ideas, with cats at the end if you keep reading! This is me, the actual person you are supporting when you order with me!!

I once asked a bookseller at a large indie store how many people would have to buy a book for it to get the attention of the store buyer and cause an additional order and they said: Three.

This is why we all freak out about theft btw, bc just a few copies can make an actual, real difference. you would be surprised at how few copies someone needs to make it onto a bestseller list

Since I've started here, I've come across many awesome creators and small business owners. With the holiday shopping season here, I figured it was about damn time to finally make a Starter Pack. Fuck Amazon. Fuck WalMart. Fuck Target. Shop small if you can. go.bsky.app/HLRLhda

idiot guy: i'm like the wolf i'm stalking my prey alone through the forest and being raw as fuck even if i'm in a group i'm the alpha actual wolf: i love my friends so much!!! i love to romp and kiss my bros and work together as a family <3 awooo etc etc have you seen the puppies oh my god come see

Got sketch requests on tumblr for #thaishalloy and for #caduceusclay drinking tea with someone from c4 :))) #criticalrole #criticalrolefanart

Morning thoughts about "AI". Where do we go from here?

anyways here's my spooky bookshelf print for sale on my etsy that was made without painting over another artist's hard work 😌 www.etsy.com/uk/listing/1...

"It is against the TOS to be talked into suicide by our LLM" is possibly the most evil tech bro thing I've ever read

one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.

"I made this stuffing with sage, cranberries, nuts, bolts, half a bottle of Children's Tylenol, and a slur for Turkish people that hasn't been heard since the 1930s."

IT'S ALIIIIIVVEEEEE www.kickstarter.com/projects/mal...

WE JUST PAID OFF OUR CAR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

finally got all my #PAXUnplugged trinkets laid out for a loot photoshoot!!

Google at its peak was basically the best information retrieval system in human history and they and every competitor decided going from there to “you didn’t want answers you wanted half-assed auto-complete 80%-wrong hallucinations” in a few years was the right idea

Canada is releasing a set of stamps celebrating the nation's graphic novelists. These stamps feature Kate Beaton, Jimmy Beaulieu, Guy Delisle, Julie Doucet, Bryan Lee O’Malley and Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas, alongside some of their famous works.

It's a good day to make spooky custom items 💀 #fakeblood #ttrpg #leathercraft

stack of postcards for my upcoming event were just delivered! yknow, the cards i was gonna hand out at pax 🤦🏼‍♀️

5+ years of this Patreon 67 original screen printed maps sent out every month and this just might be the one that gets me bounced off these here Internets 😜

Yes. Flaunt that shit! Sick of scrolling games just to see AI disclosures at the bottom. When I see one, it's an automatic NOPE from me. Celebrating that you are against AI is a great way to get me to look at, and cover your game!

We'll be bringing a very limited amount of these lovingly hand crocheted pride dice pouches to #Dragonmeet this weekend. Make your way to Tabletop Tinkering at booth J22 early in the day to snag one! #smallbusiness #ttrpg #dnd #handmade #crochet