Still holding off on reversing the Disney+ cancelation. I'm waiting to see if Kimmel has to grovel to the administration as part of this. I think its still telling that he got reinstated, but it doesn't do anyone any good to turn it into an Administrative victory via revision.

Autistic work issues: "Why did you give me six versions of the table?" "I explained what each table is. I asked about including X and if I needed to disaggregate Y, so I made one for each answer." "I said I just wanted the list with totals." "You also said match this table from two years ago."

I mean, I'd really like it if we didn't say anything other than genetics "causes" autism. I mean, I'm glad we're not outlawing vaccines, but just, fuck, when are we going to get to the bottom of what causes blue eyes, huh?

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Declaring war on autism is like declaring war on cilantro tasting like soap.

If I ever die horrifically, I hope nobody eulogizes me by excoriating a group of people, calling for revenge, or talking about how much you hate someone else. I don't care if it's the person that brought about said horrific demise. Especially if you're just teeing off on your political enemies.

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There are a lot of neurodivergent people who, I believe rightly, are concerned about the rhetoric surrounding "increased autism rates" and how to "fix the problem." In many cases, the big problem is treating it as an affliction that must be fixed, as well as something that can be cured. But . . .

Before I die, I just want to see someone get in his face and say "You're a pathetic clown. The only reason people listen to you is that you're a facilitator for the terrible stuff they couldn't get done, and they only need you because you're weak enough to do what they say if they stroke your ego."

I just put a reminder on my calendar for the Flu and COVID vaccines at work, and it feels like a political statement. It's pathetic that it does.

The Unions aren't perfect, they never have been, particularly so in Hollywood, but they are very much also on the list of groups that the people who are causing all of this want destroyed. Disinformation is never good. Always check your sources.

ICYMI SAG-AFTRA, the WGA and IATSE have all issued statements about Jimmy Kimmel. As has the American Federation of Musicians. I'm not sure where "the unions aren't talking about him" is coming from, but I suspect it to be disinformation.

LOST writer-producer Damon Lindelof says he won’t work with Disney unless Kimmel js reinstated. I’m hearing other talent weighing similar pledges.

Its ironic that one of the things they showed me in the banner of "but you'll be missing out on watching these things" was Andor.

Where is Disney willing to draw the line? What happens when the that ghoul Miller realizes that Andor exists and wants them to delete it? What happens if they decide they want Captain America to start promoting the administration. What happens when someone decides the X-Men are too woke?

If you're a liberal think tank, and you think you should downplay LGBTQIA+ rights and climate change, what exactly are you for? Are you for taxing billionaires more, because that upsets your donors. Are you for universal health care, because that upsets the insurance companies.

I've been playing Tales from the Shire in an attempt to live in a less stressful world for an hour at a time. I do fine unless I stop and think that in a decade or so, they'll be a powerful dark force looming over the world and the Scouring of the Shire is in the future. This is my brain in 2025.

I am just going to keep posting that the TX governor recently pardoned a political murderer. The dude texted "I'm going to shoot protestors", then went and shot a Black Lives Matter protester. He was convicted in a jury trial. Hard to find a more blatant example of celebrating political violence.

It's funny to see people reach all the way back to the Satanic Panic of the 80s for a reference about how a shooter's motivations get oversimplified, when there was a First-Person Shooter Panic after Columbine. The real through line is that Americans want something weird and other to be the cause.

Without intentionally planning it, @orikes.bsky.social and I recorded our next episode of @thac0withadvantage.bsky.social about solving mysteries in D&D and adjacent games, and this weekend, I started running Troll of the Town from @louanders.bsky.social's Lazy Wolf Studios.

It should be the textbook case for teaching what FAFO means for someone to be shot dead after saying that gun rights are so important that we have to accept deaths from guns, and yet that's the least common hot take to find about the situation anywhere, mainly out of rhetoric or fear.

Every time I start thinking about posting to social media again on a regular basis, I kind of feel like Punxsutawney Phil. "If Jared sees the shadow of an impending fascist hellscape, its six more weeks of avoiding social media for his mental health."

The Harlem Hellfighters, who became legends for their service during World War I, were honored this week with a Congressional Gold Medal.

The right is willing to used "woke" defined entirely by vibes, even in official government documents, but pronouns have a sacred definition based on how they were used from the 1970s to the 2000s, and nothing outside of that range.

I just backed Coyote & Crow: Digital on @kickstarter.com

I really enjoyed the @nineheavenspress.bsky.social Undying Corruption Player's Guide and the way it reintroduced a lot of D&D concepts via Korean folklore, so I'm excited to see what's going on in the Black Market Guide to Immortality. #TTRPGs

Proud to be the 15th backer 😎 on @BackerKit Crowdfunding for Black Market Guide to Immortality!

I don't know that anything is really happening, but it would be interesting to see how the White Supremacist, Sycophant, Grifter, and Tech Savior coalitions realign without their anchor.

Does Vance look like a man that woudn't immediately let the world know that the very special boy finally got his dream job?

There is so much other terrible shit going on, but if RFK Jr. turns into Musk 2.0, I'm going to at least momentarily enjoy the development and breathe a tiny sigh of relief on some fraction of the nightmare going on.

I swear if people without empathy ONLY failed to support things that don't benefit them directly, it would be one thing. But opposing things that don't harm them on the principle that any change has to be beneficial to them, is so fucking tiresome.

So many problems continue because of the relatively few people that get to perpetuate them because they say, "if we solve this, I won't be as special "

People should be enraged about the events surrounding RFK Jr. and the CDC, but why does it seem like THIS is the first thing motivating some people? Are people that afraid of autism that they gave RFK Jr. the benefit of the doubt for saber-rattling "benevolent eugenics?"

Guy who makes expensive 90% VFX "live action" white savior movies that people defend as moderately okay movies elevated by spectacle turns out to be bad because he wants cut rate spectacle. In 3D!

“It would probably be better” if the DNC “turned the lights off and padlocked the building for the next two years.” @lauren-egan.bsky.social for @thebulwark.com: www.thebulwark.com/p/rakes-dems...

Washington DC right now (more or less). Remember when people thought this would be too over the top to take seriously?

I won't stop my efforts until YouTube videos like this talk about TTRPGs doing good in language learning in Malaysia on an international level. youtu.be/r3MP2ETrt7U

I've been thinking about pulp fantasy that foundational to modern fantasy like D&D, and for DISTINCT pulp flavors, Conan, Elric, and Fafhrd & the Gray Mouser strike me as pillars, but I almost want "compass points." Would Poul Anderson be a distinct pillar from this era?

I just backed Skullduggery: The 5E Urban Fantasy Companion on @kickstarter.com www.kickstarter.com/projects/bea...

For a @gnomestew.bsky.social Gnomecast, I hopped on the mics with @orikes.bsky.social and @whatdoiknowjr.bsky.social to talk about niche protection in #ttrpgs. gnomestew.com/gnomecast-21...

I think every episode of @thac0withadvantage.bsky.social is entertaining and worth listening to, but I really liked how @orikes.bsky.social and I talked about the concept of the five room dungeon in this episode. This is the kind of episode I would love to point to as an example of what we do. #DnD

"Much like my boss lost his second election as was seen as a traitor to the country, then managed to win four years later, we're hoping the Confederacy can pull out a surprise win 160 years later."

The president claims an actress is Republican and publically lusts after her, and the response from a significant portion of the internet is to try to post women they assume are liberal that they think are better looking than the object of the President's lust. This is the response, huh?

Finally got to see Fantastic Four. Somebody at Fox has to feel REALLY bad for convincing everyone there that you can't make Galactus work in live action.

If the president issued an executive order instituting the Purge, I don't think there would be any outrage. Instead of outrage, we'd literally start talking about legality, hope that judges would block it, and move on with our day saying "oh well, guess we can't do anything until the next election."

I hate to burst anyone's bubble but an asshole in power that is closer to being on "your side" threatening to disenfranchise an entire voting base in the opposite direction isn't a win for democracy its a win for assholes in power being able to having pissing contests by taking away people's rights.

I'm pretty sure I could stop if I just put on that 10 hour loop of the Mortal Kombat theme. But then I would be listening to the 10 hour loop of the Mortal Kombat theme.

Day Two of having the K-Pop Demon Hunters sountrack on repeat. I'm pretty sure I can stop listening now. I've heard this enough times. After I listen to Golden one more time.

This would make Jack Kirby proud.

I fully expect most of the news media to let Trump claim "befuddlement, while still having 100% use of his faculties" as he walks back saying that Epstein stole a young girl from him.