The regulatory state is more important to the smooth operation of society to which we’ve become accustomed than anyone in this administration realizes, and in a lot of ways, we’ve already run off the cliff and are just starting to look down

Amazon Has Axed Its New Stargate Series www.gateworld.net/news/2026/06... Amazon MGM Studios is not moving forward with Martin Gero's Stargate revival, which was to begin filming this fall.

Hasbro is truly evil. solidarity to all the Wizards Of The Coast workers dealing with this transphobic nonsense.

and at the heralded month he shall return, new gay crimes in his wake

Did someone internally figure out this would look super bad to roll out as soon as pride month begins or

Duckworth to Rubio: "That's an astonishing figure. In just 14 weeks, President Trump will have blown through as much if not more money in Iran than he thinks Congress should spend on US diplomacy for the entirety of the next fiscal year."

An 18-year-old called out CBS to its face at the News Emmys last week. This week Scott Pelley stood up in a staff meeting and said the same thing, louder ("she's murdering 60 Minutes").

Who do we have to blame for Watsonian/Doylist becoming the buzzwords du jour and how to I fine them a million dollars for damages and reparations

A moment of silence for the rampant queerphobia and transphobia of me unable to see The Vampire Lestat tomorrow…

This and window screens. My friends my dears my siblings. I know you think we are "overcooled" in the US, and in some places we are. But in the southeast? There is a reason we're rocking on the porch with iced tea and a fan, being outside is like being slapped with a hot wet washcloth.

There's just under three weeks left in the #FakeTTRPGJam and there's already been so many amazing submissions! Do you have a favorite that stands out? Are you still preparing to submit something? Let me know! itch.io/jam/you-cann...

I’m never not thinking about this meme when I pass this exit

Some of you on here

Soon after pedophile-pardoning Ken Paxton attacked his opponent with a creepy line of gutter bigotry, NPR covered it in a way that took that grotesque sexist transphobic framing at face value, putting their total capitulation to fascism front and center in the media landscape.

I need to find a way to summarise the fact that I will never care about AI slop even if it’s “good” because the core thing I enjoy and the thing that most interests me about any piece of art is that it was made by a human being who put effort and intention into communicating something to me.

Vermeer’s Girl With The Pearl Earring will be shown in Osaka, later this year, and the press conference was as Japanese as you’d expect #Vermeer

List here: moxfield.com/decks/Juy1PL...

Gasping for air, drowning on dry land while I try not to overthink my new coworker saying “I don’t care what anyone says, I think you’re great”

The heartbreaking part about this is Jorge is on record in almost every interview he has ever done that his path was not easy and this industry is a tough one that burns out artists, to see him championing Amazon’s AI Creators’ Fund is such a betrayal of his peers, former coworkers, and fans

This “calorie standard” language is sinister as fuck. Basically we’re feeding them enough to stay alive but nothing more.

"you already use AI. You use meta and photo shop and whatever, so you really can't even talk against him okay" Shut the fuck up, none of us fucking asked for AI to be in any of these, nobody fucking wanted that. That's the difference. What a hypocritical horse shit argument that is, shut your face

[hitting the lectern with a louisville slugger as punctuation] you couldn’t pay me to use it i *like* the struggle of shaping a sentence that only i could write, you fucks

In college I was in a poetry workshop and it was honestly one of my favorite classes ever even if I didn’t agree with my professor’s tastes in poetry all the time (coincidence that he personally knew like 75% of the list I’m sure lol).

Even if we pretend for a moment that Generative AI isn’t destroying our environment, poisoning the water supply of rural Americans, or is built entirely off of stolen labor- Jorge HAS to understand, as an industry veteran, that AI is actively replacing working artists. Gen AI is shortening deadlines

This is 14% of Lebanon's territory. Functionally indistinguishable from what Russia has done in Donetsk, Luhansk and Crimea.

The first time I saw @gamefiend.bsky.social express how Pathfinder 2 combat is like 4e with jazz, I sat up. After that, I paid attention to how he builds his games (Five Fires is shaping up to look AWESOME!), and even got to interview him last year. blog.alexrinehart.net/posts/inspir...

Would anyone be interested in prints of Bad House RPG posters? or Merch?

Because “Reduce your Carbon Footprint”, while still a worthwhile effort, was essentially an astroturfed advertising campaign by BP to have individuals reduce their personal emissions through lifestyle choices while the oil industry continued to expand fossil fuel extraction infinitives.

Gotta get back to finishing How To Play Chess (With One Hand)

I hate everything thing about all of this, but most of all hate the fact that there’s a “GenAI Creators Fund,” when 75% of the US animation industry lives paycheck to paycheck and/or can’t find work, and dozens of my colleagues’ original pitched shows have been scrapped

You're driving on an empty road when you hit it. It doesn't move. Jesus Christ. Nobody saw. You compose yourself. It's just a Muppet. Nobody saw. You get home. Go to bed. Your sleep is restless. When you wake you're warm. Itchy. Your skin feels... dry? Like felt. It's time to play the music

“Why doesn’t Batman just fund Gotham welfare programs instead of beating up the poor” Because Gotham has • corpse of an elder god • living elder god • Is built onto a cursed Native burial ground • portal to hell that’s a little open • portal to the afterlife that’s a little open • over 100 gangs

Can’t get over the fact that people are really out there going “yeah I’m an artist but predictive text is better than me”

Yes, but also I think its important to note that this didn't happen by accident. Nicole and I have been able to develop these characters because people at DC believe that these stories are worth telling.

The Susan Boyle version of “Stateside” with PinkPantheress is gonna go so hard

The word “sellout” has kinda lost its meaning lately but I think we all need to bring it back full force to describe artists who sell their soul to corporate AI-slinging garbage machines for a fat stack of cash.

the far right is just doing the birthday boy defense at this point you just have to laugh

this fucking sucks ( from the creator of the cupcake character, lorynbrantz instagram - www.instagram.com/p/DY2v_qXIoQt )

Shockingly, this idea broke my writer's block on an EXISTING project! Check out the updates to the Pilgrim's Moon page, more coming soon: izzypeters.itch.io/pilgrimsmoon

Hey creatives: Folks will remember. If you were aggressively against AI, like Gutierrez was as recent as last year, and then suddenly turn around and go NO I GET IT NOW IT'S AMAZING as soon as you get a project with a big payday? Your peers will not forget that. You will never be trusted again.

Woman Worried She In Codependent Relationship With Rest Of Humanity https://theonion.com/woman-worried-she-in-codependent-relationship-with-rest-of-humanity/

oh wait could be major

Was chatting about this during an interview with an author, but it was interesting enough that I’d like to open up the question to all of you: what’s the first literary/fictional death that made an impression on you as a kid? Mine has to be poor old Mary Lennox’s family in The Secret Garden.

Just posted a playtest of an incursion I wrote for Trophy Dark. It's basically Folk Horror Tom Bombadil. 🤷‍♀️

to my mind, the core of pbta is not "2d6+stat with mixed successes", it's the system of "when x trigger happens in the fiction, apply y specific mechanic". Codified, genre specific moves are its main innovation. If you think pbta is just 2d6+stat with varied levels of success, you missed the point

Do me a favor and try being a little sicko in your next campaign

Happy Dark Universe Day! How are you celebrating?