brother that’s attachment noooooo you’re going to be trapped in samsara

We need to rename Education and Healthcare and Social Services to be Ukraine.

We should give all the billionaires a one-way trip to Mars. No radio. Just see ya never bye.

I hear Billy Stencil is being a little bitch again.

The Gaza ceasefire, much like lifting the COVID lockdown, seems to be less of an attempt to solve the problem and more of a signal to the media that this is going to keep happening but it's time to stop talking about it.

Found a bookstore that stocks your novels

Not gonna build the vanguard exclusively off people who can’t understand jokes

Listen: there's no need for moral prevarication. It's good when Nazis get killed. This is not morally complex.

People in the comments and QPs are confused so let me straighten yas out... The Nazis are the bad guys and dirt naps is what they deserve.

Dead Nazi you say? RIP Bozo. Get wrecked.

I do not wish more podcasts were videos. I wish more videos were podcasts.

so who told you communism was bad? the representatives of the system that ended the world?

This almost redeems 2025 in its entirety 😂

Gen AI gives us way too close a look into these people’s minds than is healthy. They should be forced to try to pay someone to draw this or stage it for real so there are more points where they might be stopped

is it the Red Scare to call me a pedophile just because i put my shriveled dingus inside children? yes.

I could point out that autism has been known about since the 40s and transitioning longer than that but we both know better than to argue with these dopes

5 perfect movies (in no particular order): Ashes of Time Hellraiser Kung Fu Hustle Mad God The Matrix

Started using "I age greatly every time you speak" thanks to @maladroithe.bsky.social

No.

The Americans don't see Canada as an independent country with a distinct culture. They see us as a state with a weird level of autonomy that the want brought to heel. Death to America.

"since they are Canadian I would not rule out treachery" I'm quite content to have authoritarian regimes and their media lackies switch the Canadian stereotype from gormless apologizers to untrustworthy rogues. Fuck it, white supremacists neo-Nazi regimes should see us as not someone to trust.

There seems to be this idea that "conflict" is like fighting a giant dragon or some shit and like. No. That's really dumb lol "I hope my partner has a nice night" IS conflict! It's low stakes conflict but it's what the reader engages with to keep their interest

Mass Effect: Andromeda vaults lose some of their terror when you realize the cloud effect isn't ever gonna catch you.

so now the larger association-of-trade-associations sfwa is part of has a relationship with a concierge-y service that works with a variety of underwriters which I guess is okay, although adding another middleman is just adding another rent-seeker

Don't do this. Like, folks, I'm pretty thoroughly anti-Zionist and what I'll say is this: No non-bigoted anti-Zionist would ever think it was an appropriate action to attack random Jewish people. This is an antisemitic action on its face regardless of the rhetoric used to defend it.

It's antisemitic to shoot at random Jewish people in the name of Zionism-are we still pushing this bullshit?

Like conflating Zionism with Judaism is antisemitic when Israel does it and when random fuckers who shoot up synagogues do it come on what are we doing here?

I can get behind this. LOL Also I spent yesterday baking and will be baking more today after we have a rich meal of Sichuan Hot Pot. Then tomorrow I'll be cooking another rich meal (roasted chicken and various sides).

I recently was part of a wide-spread Microsoft Teams outage where a new install package became incapable of finding the SSO information which stuck Teams in a loop of the screen requesting an update download pointing back to the login screen. It took three days to fix.

*excellent* point this is, not to put too fine a point on it, central to the remit of any professional organization, of freelancers or not

This is especially funny to me coming from 'Roman Helmet Guy' because you can't explain the fall of Rome in military terms.

Niigata is somewhere with a lot of ski resorts. Very mountainous area.

In fact, I'm not sure we should give the award to corporations AT ALL. They're intended to promote human creativity[see footnote] and corporations are just very slow, buggy AIs that go back to the 17th century.

I see no reason not to! I mean, if the Nebulas want to ban prose works that were cobbled together using LLMs, then they should apply this consistently to other media—film, TV, and music as well as games.

I hope he sues Google for this.

SFWA needs a firm rule blanket-banning from studios who refuse to answer whether or not LLMs/generative AI were used in the production of any Nebula-nominated games. If they're not prepared to play by the rules, they lose by default. Reason: only cheats do that.

I come from the field of evolutionary biology, and every colleague I know supports trans rights. There are many who are trans as well. My knowledge of evolution is what taught me sex isn't a binary designed by some creator Richard Dawkins is just a loud asshole with a minority opinion

i've loved fail-forward dice mechanics since ffg star wars tbh. it's still honestly the best mechanic for trying to replicate the kind of frantic fight/chase scenes you see in movies, which i think a lottttttttttt more people want out of their fantasy rpgs than grid-based combat

This is one thing I like about Daggerheart. There is an expectation that failures do always move the story along.

First of all: Out of combat failure should always move the story along, and rolls should never be required for everything. I think a lot of games are going on the 'if you take extra steps/use resources to help, it shouldn't even need a roll at some point'. Like if you're an experienced climber...

Honestly, at this point, it almost seems like the DA wants him to get off scott free. Because this is... like... keystone cops shit.

I’m pretty sure megachurch culture has utterly destroyed the American right’s ability to contribute anything decent to any art or media. They got nothing, man. 0% juice. They couldn’t even keep all the dumbest popular comedians on board longer than a couple years

Indigo books customer service: Just because we don't even know what country your package is in doesn't mean the package is lost. Our script standards do not allow us to show any empathy with someone frustrated that their FUCKING GIFTS FOR FAMILY are not going to be there in time.

The OU thing is a perfect indicator of the sorry state of American post-secondary schools. Ideological adherence to fascism and their perverse misinterpretation of Christianity takes priority over research, ethics and basic human decency.

look at how little effort it takes for someone on the conservative grievance circuit to destroy a life millions of college kids have half assed an assignment at the last minute, you eat the F and move on but the effort to push trans people out of public life will use whatever it can get

They’re gonna have, like, an elderly Tom Holland retconned into playing Uncle Ben eventually. Wretched

A notorious far-right Twitter Aesthetics guy makes ONE FUCKING VIDEO and Youtube immediately promotes it. It's almost like the company intentionally wants to serve up far-right content.

I need to share this with someone

Here are the names of the people presently selling out science fiction and fantasy authors to the climate change plagiarism bot: President: Kate Ristau Vice President: Anthony W. Eichenlaub CFO: Jonathan Brazee Secretary: Steven D. Brewer

We all had issues with Justin Trudeau but it was irritating to watch him being flayed over raising immigration when he quite rightly knew it was the only immediate way to maintain the growth our demented financial system insists upon. Now they’re screaming about a lack of growth! 🙄