Today’s Patreon exclusive; a sneak peek of the wave crawl adventure for Pirate Borg that we’re working on. www.patreon.com/posts/140456...

Identifying public officials isn't "doxing." People have the right to know who is working for their government. Nor, for that matter, is it "radical left-wing terrorism." So it's frustrating to see platforms caving to these bad faith characterizations. www.technologyreview.com/2025/10/06/1...

Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy: www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...

What a mild way to say "this is against the law and has been anathema since the founding of this country."

Being targeted for police violence constructs people as criminals. Cops beat someone and the news refers to the victim as a suspect.

Wayne on why we include horrible things in our fantasies. www.patreon.com/posts/140465...

I love that there is an Ojibwe Word of the Day TikTok and today it’s “I have a cat” www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8A2hQtC/

So is Donald Trump a fascist? Is MAGA fascist? If we peel past the simple pejorative use of the term and try to find something real that it could mean, then yes, they’re as fascist as fascists can be. If they’re not fascists, then no one has ever been fascist and the word truly has no meaning.

Nobody has Long COVID, but everybody has brain fog, cognitive decline and memory loss. I talk about the overwhelming scientific evidence that COVID damages the brain, and the overwhelming social unwillingness to acknowledge it in my latest: www.thegauntlet.news/p/when-will-...

Seven Lands. Seven Tribes. Seven Thousand Years of Borrowed Time. #KOKOTÖNA, my #MÖRKBORG based #TTRPG inspired by precolonial mesoamerica now has a coming soon page over #Kickstarter! Sign up to get notified on our impending launch and share! #SelfPromoSaturday #RPGLatAm #LodelRol #Rolentuidioma

so the US government just forced a tech company to delete an app it doesn’t like, which is totally normal stuff www.404media.co/iceblock-own...

Trump has sought emergency intervention by the Supreme Court 28 times in the first eight months of his new term, more than Bush, Obama and Biden did combined over 20 years. www.wsj.com/us-news/law/...

Say what you might about Obama, but part of his popularity was that he gave people the promise that there was something to fight for, not just an evil to fight against. The Democratic Party has been utterly unable to internalize this idea. No one wants to just fight for the status quo.

Outrage in politics is carefully managed. The death of a pundit fills headlines while daily deaths from prisons, poverty, or police barely register. When some lives are treated as crises and others as background noise, it's power that's deciding who matters.

Atlantis solves like three conceptual problems I was having with my Pirate Borg game at once. Also looking forward to merfolk with a Mesoamerican aesthetic a la Wakanda Forever contending with our skeletons and grog-swilling pirates.

COVID Isn’t a Cold. It’s Cigarettes All Over Again, by @david.notesforfriends.com www.dilatemag.com/post/covid-i...

It will always baffle me how easily people will believe that the poor, the sick, the marginalized, and the immigrant are the cause for all their problems, rather than the people in the most powerful positions in their country who refuse to fix problems and exploit them instead.

Shelters that house unaccompanied minors are bracing for "Freaky Friday," the start of an ICE operation that will first issue letters to children, seeking to pressure them to return to the countries they've fled in exchange for a cash payment. If they decline, their parents will be targeted by ICE.

overt nazi language in this DHS job listing (which i’m told is for a low-level but important job in adjudicating immigration applications and requires knowledge of the law)

Transformers is my go to example that gender and sex are different. Everyone uses he/him pronouns for Optimus Prime, and then they always say "well that's different" when I say hes a robot that doesnt reproduce sexually. And it's like, yeah, that's the point!

A Charlie Kirk fan stalked these teenage girls for months, did livestreams where he harassed them, and murdered them after one of them said something critical of Charlie Kirk. This should be headline news. It’s a horrific tragedy.

And this is what makes it hard to mouth bromides about Charlie Kirk, or take seriously the mewlings of Ezra Klein. These people aren't evil, because people aren't good or evil, but they are doing evil. Respect for their humanity *requires* denouncing the evil they do and demanding that they atone.

We’ve never had a shutdown under a competitive authoritarian regime before. This matters because the rules of the game have changed. If congressional leaders act as if the old rules apply, they will lose. The executive seeks to consolidate power and does not negotiate in good faith.

This is so indefensibly insane: Speaker Johnson is refusing to seat Congresswoman-elect Adelita Grijalva because she'll be the 218th vote to release the Epstein files. Johnson swore in Rep Walkinshaw (VA) w/in 24 hours. Johnson is abandoning his job to instead protect a convicted child sex predator

This shutdown needs to continue until Trump breaks. All the bad shit he’s promising to do if it continues he’s already doing

your daily reminder that hope is a floatation device- grab it with both hands 🖤

"The mask is a challenge: the problem isn’t fixed. The pandemic isn’t over. There is work to do." "It’s also a reminder: the virus is circulating whether you acknowledge it or not, and it’s here, in this very room." "And a rebuke: some are doing something; you are doing nothing."

A massive U.S. study of >460k kids found a 2nd Covid infection doubled the risk of long Covid despite vaxx status. Leaders must act now to reduce reinfections in schools & communities

So, I've been meaning to make a thread about my current obsession: Narrative deduction games! ✨🔎📖 That's the term I'm using for games like Obra Dinn, Golden Idol, and Roottrees, where using story information is how you progress. Aka the best genre!

Please - stop doing the screenshot no link thing on Bluesky. This platform does not punish you for posting a URL. You picked up the habit from Meta apps? Stop doing Mark Z's bidding. Link ESPECIALLY to authors, reporters, bloggers, etc. where you quote the work.

Empowered by a group that explicitly defined itself by the oaths they swore to disobey any order given by the president to kill American citizens.

Today’s Patreon exclusive: a piece of flash fiction by @giuli.revolutionarygames.co on the birth of the first elf in the Scarlet Banner. www.patreon.com/posts/139937...

There was only one promise that Trump has ever made that I wanted him to keep, and of course he didn’t. www.businessinsider.com/trump-says-y...

And we’d be in a much better position to start working on the 5% that remains.

When we said, "No one is free until we are all free," we weren't kidding around. There are no exceptions.

A lot of people think that every international student admitted means one fewer spot for domestic students, when the opposite is more likely true - the tuition revenue international students bring allows public universities to provide substantial discounts to domestic students, improving access.

Vibe coding is alluring because so few people understand what the real challenge of software development is. They think getting something to 90% working is 90% of the work. They don’t understand that’s the easy part — maybe 1%, if we’re being generous. 🧵 [1/7]

Always loved that Arby's/coal fact, and the coal industry has shrunk a lot since then. The piece also noted more people work in museums than in coal..... (and Mr. Weinstein is responding to yet more coal-industry welfare in the name of jobs.)

Me calling my Congressional representatives.

@magodesky.bsky.social on “Until Then” and why the Fifth World may have some similarities to some classic cozy games, but we’re not really comfortable calling it “cozy.”

“As I think about what to call this kind of game that I enjoy, the word I keep coming back to is not cozy, but earnest.” www.patreon.com/posts/139505...

If you're cis, trans people are your coalmine canary for a collection of civil liberties. BODILY AUTONOMY: does your body belong to you, or to your parents/husband/state? PRIVACY: do you owe everyone you meet a full medical history? EXPRESSION: to what extent is your clothing a legal matter?

MAGA is an almost perfect distillation of what "palingenetic ultranationalism" means. The only way to not count MAGA as fascist is to misunderstand what fascism is or if you're just lying in service of fascism. Every shred of decency or morality demands resistance to fascism. Anti-fascism. Antifa.

"We've let some of the worst game designers to ever live design the most important game that any of us will ever play."

We are fighting for the freedom to have time to build, to create, to love, and to live lives not of just survival, but of fulfillment and joy.

Liberals dismiss antifa as just an idea — instead of acting to defend the activists, researchers, and organizers facing persecution.

Happy Stanislav Yevgrafovich Petrov Saves the World Day, everybody. 42 years ago today, Lt. Col. Petrov prevented an accidental nuclear war. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanisl...

the political policy cure for “male loneliness” is - more time to hang with the fellas (4 day work week) - more money to spend with the fellas (higher wages) - more things to do with the fellas (taxing the rich and building 3rd spaces)