Part 61 of 200 in historically interesting things to inspire your ttrpg The skull of a jaguar that, complete with a green jade bead in its mouth, was laid to rest in a ritual offering inside the Templo Mayor of the Aztec capital city of Tenochtitlan

taxing the rich WORKS

Open AI loses copyright case in Germany. Judge Elke Schwager summarized the case saying that if you want to build something and need components, "then you purchase them and do not use the property of others."

Incredible piece of data journalism here from @wsj.com. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

Everyone should explore their gender identity at some point in their life. Idc how much you think “oh I’m 100% cis” it’s still worth experimenting and trying out! Try out new pronouns! A different name! Different clothing types! Express yourself without caring about gender roles!

What shits me is: This is a committee loudly deciding that cis women who worked as hard as anyone else to be there and to be professional athletes are inherently and automatically inferior to everyone the committee deems even vaguely masculine, and then having the audacity to pretend it’s feminism.

My boycott of the Olympics continues unabated.

If Wall Street threatens Mamdani-style reforms with a capital strike, organized labor can fight back—history shows how banks killed NYC’s progressive plans in 1975, so unions must prepare to counter similar opposition now.

This is part of what Judge Ellis means when that Border Patrol's use of force "shocks the conscience" and shows no signs of stopping. Absolutely inhumane.

I'm 380 bucks behind on everything that's not rent and haven't gotten any calls back from job applications. I'm trying to finish art while figuring everything else out. Please check out my work and consider grabbing a print or throwing some cash at me if it moves you to. I'm sorry for begging.

"Under the guise of technological inevitability, companies are using the AI boom to rewrite the social contract — laying off employees, rehiring them at lower wages, intensifying workloads, and normalizing precarity. [...] AI is not the cause of the layoffs but their justification."

Reposting because, and I say this with love, some of you are going to see this and go “oh shit, I need to check my bottle” and then immediately forget about it so if this could affect you, go check right now before you even scroll to the next post, I mean it.

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heads up to anyone who holds trans kids near: amy harmon from the nyt is searching for and having a hard time finding people to interview to find out exactly what trans kids are doing when their care is limited or cut off, and for purposes of community safety, please shut the fuck up around her.

Why’d I pronounce that like “audacity”

Remember, artists: when people say, “I’d buy a print of this,” they don’t mean it. That sentence itself is just a weird compliment that rarely converts to an actual print sale. It’s like if someone ate a very good hot dog and then said, “I could eat 10,000 of these right now.”

I have some free time in my schedule between now and December. I'm renewing my invitation to anyone with a game design resume or portfolio to review: feel free to contact me. Of course, I'm doing this for free. And if you are not directly interested, feel free to spread the word. #indiegame #gamedev

Thank you, New York City. Together we made history. Now let’s get to work. transition2025.com

The lesson of history is that tyrants cannot be appeased. Appeasement only feeds their insatiable hunger for power. Tyrants prey on people who feel unsafe and vulnerable. But without mass submission, a tyrant is powerless. Remember this.

we need more mamdanis, everywhere. he won't fix this awful country alone. we need more people like him. you can be one of them.

This is incredibly important: we must frame tonight as a resounding victory — an electoral landslide, a mandate from the universe itself and as a repudiation of MAGA, of Trump, and of vichy democrats we must be relentless, we must not shut up

Trans rights is a winning platform. Pro immigration is a winning platform. Taxing the rich is a winning platform. Affordable housing is a winning platform. Free childcare is a winning platform. Hating Andrew Cuomo is a winning platform. SOCIALISM IS A WINNING PLATFORM

serious note: they're gonna try 5x harder to sabotage the midterms after tonight and we're gonna have to organize on a literally historic scale to stop them

HOPESCROLLING IS BACK ON THE MENU, BOIS

Read the last sentence as many times as you need to, gang.

HOLY FUCK!

And this is why the corporate class shut down Teen Vogue.

I hope Republicans are scared. I hope incumbent Democrats are more scared.

Republicans thought they had a permanent hold over young men. They didn't. Spanberger wins men 18-29 by 14%, Sherrill by 10%, and Mamdani by a stunning 40%.

New York assemblyman Zohran Mamdani confronts Border Czar Tom Homan today in Albany 👇🏻

BREAKING: Colorado voters approved a ballot measure that would raise state income taxes on higher-earning households to fund free meals for all public school students. Follow AP for live updates.

“He doesn’t have a mandate” are you fucking kidding? Dick Cheney died the day Zohran is elected he has the mandate of HEAVEN

“, according to Pollsters.” absolutely sends me. The turning point intern posting this trying so hard to make it sound like an old man isn’t screaming at clouds.

Just so y'all know... @katmabu.bsky.social is next.

Pennsylvania Reelects Supreme Court Justices, Extending a Democratic Majority on Its Highest Court | The state Supreme Court has been at the center of pivotal fights over voting rights, redistricting and elections.

Inbox— next cover of the New Yorker: “Mayor Mamdani,” by Edel Rodriguez

Soviet republic of New York takes first key step towards total communism by publicly owning Andrew Cuomo

CALIFORNIA FRIENDS: VOTE YES ON PROP 50 NOV 4TH (FUCKING TUESDAY) cadem.org/yes-on-propo...

This is brilliant

Adult game dev Shame Games just abruptly lost its Patreon. No clear explanation why, and its staff cannot be paid. SG’s Aika literally has children to feed and is reliant on Patreon’s income to pay the bills shame.games/blogs/trap-q...

Because the huge Anthropic class action settlement limits eligibility to works registered w/ US Copyright Office, non-US writers are mostly locked out. But there's a similar proposed class action covering Canadian authors (click Documents link, then Amended Notice) www.cfmlawyers.ca/class-action...

Guillermo del Toro on wealth: "a wealthy man is a man who has enough, not a man that needs more. If you have enough to invite someone for a beer? You're rich. If you have a yacht, planes, islands, and you still need more? You're not rich."

Shoutout to @dumbmike.bsky.social for peeping this out, here's the video in question, the neraiuchi performance starts at 1:15

If you're looking for gift ideas, how about a painting? 10% of the proceeds from all sales of my art for the next month (10/30 - 11/30) will be donated to Project Bread’s Resilience Fund. give.projectbread.org/campaign/731... Available art: tishamark.com/shop #art #painting #bsnm #TraditionalArt

Waltz called out at the UN. The rhetoric this administration uses in the US won’t fly anywhere else still and that’s of some comfort. The entire world is being tested right now.

I've reposted many posts made by folks who were recently laid off from Heart Machine, but here is a thread that highlights them all. I am also including folks who were previously laid off & are still looking for work. I will be linking their Bsky posts, as well as LinkedIn. Please, share this. 🖤

"A.i." is controlled by right wing billionaires who are channeling bullshit into your brains. Do not use it.

Imagine if that money for police salaries was put toward feeding people instead of starving them.

FUCK yeah