We finally have the time to get back into actual plays, content creation, interviews & marketing work. Reach out if you are a: 1. Designer looking to promote a game 2. AP player or streamer looking to play 3. PA looking to help run streams 4. Another type of content creator Who is a good fit? 1/5

Some public school teachers are courageously protecting kids rights to access all material, despite threats and retaliation. Thank you to @palan57.bsky.social at @forbes.com for shining a light on their remarkable stories. More than ever, we need heroes to be visible.

This entire article was a really good read for this Monday morning www.thenation.com/article/acti...

I wrote the introduction for the Horror Writers Association's Latinx Heritage in Horror Month series. Please read it and the work of the authors we are celebrating all month. Thank you HWA for this opportunity. horror.org/an-introduct...

there’s a lot of talk about big tech and corporations but so many international academic colleagues are also on H1Bs. no university is going to pay 100k extra a year to keep them. if this holds, it would essentially mean the end of foreigners on tenure track jobs at US universities.

this moment is so deeply fucking infuriating to live through

Do you have a ttrpg that in your opinion is so under celebrated that you have appointed yourself head of the PR committee for that game? Where on at least one occasion someone mistakenly assumed you must have worked on it but really you're just unwell about it? What's that game to you?

Do not assume that everything they set out to do is inevitable. They have been successfully fought on multiple fronts, from courtroom wins that have actually stuck to city and state governments that haven't backed down, to activists in the streets organizing against their violence.

If you don’t have anything good to say, then say it in the group chat.

It's my birthday!! I'm 49 - how did that happen? I would LOVE it if you could share or follow my art for my birthday, that would be a brilliant gift! Thank you everyone who follows and comments, it is such a great place here! 49 feels ace btw. #artshare #birthday #watercolour www.emilyhare.co.uk

Butlerian Jihad when?

I think that any big tech company that walks away from AI will have celebrations like the end of Return of the Jedi. Is anyone having fun? Does anyone *really* like this? It all feels so strained, so distant. Even the people who love AI talk about it like someone has their family captive. It’s sad!

A Rascal sister site has launched: @roguesite.bsky.social Former-Polygon writers have gotten together to launch a worker-owned video game journalism outlet (with a little rascally help). If you mourned the loss of one site, celebrate the birth of another, and support the people making it happen.

Congratulations to the winners of the Raz-Shumaker @prairie-schooner.bsky.social‬ Book Prizes: Adam O. Davis (@cubistoctopus.bsky.social‬) and @micahdeanhicks.com‬

Okay folks, important question: Which great Christian theologian of history would've been the most annoying Poster?

beautiful

Avid readers have probably already seen their favorite authors--many of whom rely on these grants to buy time to finish their books--posting in shock about the form rejections they've received from the NEA. Well, here is the obituary. www.npr.org/2025/08/26/n...

The presidential candidate who runs on the slogan "THERE WILL BE TRIALS!" has my vote.

The University’s Best Weapon Against A.I.: The 14th Century www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/o...

"dark academia" do you mean middle school

Also related (or maybe the same): Suspense is not generated by the reader not knowing what happens next. It's generated by the reader CARING what happens next.

I'm so starved for justice. like, it seems all I ever read or see is regression and total miscarriage of justice or fairness or it all being thrown out of the window I just need wins... I feel like I've seen so few substantial wins, it's just disappointment all day every day

There are still good, kind, decent people in the world You just need to know where to look www.newsweek.com/florida-loca...

BREAKING: Silksong will be out on September 4. Two weeks from today. Really. Often, games that take 7+ years to make are plagued by mismanagement and painful burnout. But for Silksong? Team Cherry was having a blast. They still are. This is their story: www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...

This story is such a gift. They were sour cream and onion flavored chips. It seems like it was less than $200? The reporter refused even when she thought they were only chips. Every detail is beautiful.

The Plan to Turn the Caribbean’s Glut of Sargassum Into Biofuel - www.wired.com/story/there-... "With record-breaking quantities of the seaweed set to hit Mexico’s beaches, experts propose converting it into biogas and construction materials, as well as using it to underwrite carbon credits." clever

The Grand Ballroom Theory of Literature open.substack.com/pub/counterc...

Guest judges, Eric Wat and DeMisty Bellinger, praises @micahdeanhicks.com's Vulture Gold, winner of the 2025 Raz/Shumaker Book Prize in fiction, which @univnebpress.bsky.social will publish. Visit the Schooner Blog to read more on the winning manuscript: prairieschooner.unl.edu/digital-scho...

Loved this piece from Cal Newport in the New Yorker about what if AI doesn't get much better than it is today, and not just because he quotes me www.newyorker.com/culture/open...

I have a book of short stories coming out with the University of Nebraska Press, and I am unbelievably excited!

We're excited to announce the winners of the 2025 Raz/Shumaker Book Prize! In poetry, Adam O. Davis (@cubistoctopus.bsky.social) is the winner for Pyrrhic Symphony. In fiction, Micah Dean Hicks (@micahdeanhicks.com) is the winner for Vulture Gold. Read more: prairieschooner.unl.edu/digital-scho...

Keep writing that stupid book

instituting a statute of limitations on rules queries in the Discord

Every day brings a new horror that makes the Butlerian Jihad seem like a reasonable solution to AI.

Hello again, tabletop RPG designers! The second Bannerless Games Tabletop RPG Grant is now taking applications! I'm looking to award up to 10 grants at $200 apiece. Applications open until the end of the month. Apply here: bannerless.games/grants

PLEASE REPOST! WRITERS! Uncanny Magazine will be open to Short Story Submissions from August 25 to September 8! Uncanny Magazine will be open to Poetry Submissions from August 9 to August 26. WE WANT TO SEE YOUR SHINY WORDS! buff.ly/9AyStcb

This is a remarkable document for a mainstream media outlet to publish. (gift link) wapo.st/3IRLZn6

I don't want to sugarcoat anything but it bears acknowledging loudly that day in & day out, despite literally everything, scholars keep researching, writing, & publishing work that, in ways big & small, implicit & explicit, via its sheer existence, is a defiant F U to the current administration.

The FTC is seeking public comment about gender affirming care in order to go after providers and restrict access. Share your stories instead of how this care has helped you and how it is life saving. We need to counteract their false narratives. Please share! www.regulations.gov/docket/FTC-2...

The hot new vacation trend is called Swamping, it's camping in a sewer or other underground location. People all over are experiencing the exciting thrills of the subterranean world. Toss out that sunscreen, grab a cooler full of fish, and head into the underground to see what the hype is all about

Oh, wow. Man. One of those ones that change you.

the bad news: things are the worst they've ever been in our lifetime the good news: *gets decapitated by a hawk*

The Pacific island nation of Tuvalu could be submerged in 25 years due to rising sea levels, so a plan is being implemented to relocate its population to Australia. www.wired.com/story/the-fi...

I saw a group of six girls in a car last night, windows down, shouting along to Taylor Swift’s “All Too Well” and I smiled because GIRLHOOD but then 20 seconds later, I heard them hit a parked car because the girlhood was too distracting.

I know it feels useless to throw money at a problem but, it's a stopgap in the interrim for people who just have no other option right now. it DOES keep them going, it does work. This war has to end, scream at your reps but in the meantime, send a venti coffee's worth their way?

Wired rules. Just an incredible group of journalists who are completely meeting the moment. And you can subscribe for $2 a month, which is insane www.wired.com/story/a-new-...

So...I wrote a release day blog post (finally) and uh, it might not be what you were expecting but I'm kind of Going Through It over here right now, so here goes nothing. www.cheriepriest.com/blog/getting...

I ate a teaspoon of sugar from the coffee sugar bowl, and my grandma told me that I was going to get belly worms.