Turns out that litRPGCon was awesome this year and I'm so glad I went. What a feral goddamn fanbase we have, and what an awesome community of professionals and hobbyists making our stories and bringing them to life! Looks like I've managed to avoid catching anything or getting con crud, even. xD

Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame, With conquering limbs astride from land to land; Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name Mother of Exiles. From her beacon-hand

The treatment of Scott Weiner at Trans March SF should be treated as a simple pass/fail test, among the easiest a community or organizer/organization will ever face. Trans March has failed that test. So have many of the communities I was part of a week ago. I regret going. An error I won't repeat.

> And I too shall fulfill my three duties... blood, fire, and bread. Sweeter than honey are these three, so powerful, and one is not allowed to add to their number, or to inquire about them: “Whereby do women earn merit?” ~R. Kalonymus, 1322 Happy #Pride & #TransMarch, and Shabbat Shalom!

Listen, they don't want you to know this. I might not survive telling you, so *listen*. You will only know true praxis when you can do Lindy with a stranger to a remix of the Pokemon theme song and be free of cringe. I have to go. There's Hatsune Miku coming up. I'll see you on the other side.

Today, like every day, is a good day to remind you that Jeff LaRe cares so little about his job that he still has the wrong district on his official web site. Fairfield County deserves someone who actually takes the job seriously.

Someone described the mood on this site lately as "they just wanted a reversed-polarized Xitter" and it's uncomfortably true, it sucks and the people doing it suck, and I'm not releasing Frozen Dreams for a month and a half. Hm.

the weird psychosexual fetish this website's userbase has for toddler-level "dunking" on the devs is some of the weirdest shit about this website and always has been. the punchline is "I can be a dick to someone for made-up reasons!" and it gets three thousand reposts, idk, maybe I'm just old.

I see people are being Extremely Normal about the correct statement that the primary is for figuring out which Democrats are running in the general and the general is where we all set our disappointments aside to vote for the nominee. I don't like Porter! if she wins in June I'm 100% voting for her

I'm just saying Vote Blue No Matter Who means Third Way and Searchlight will have to get on board or get trampled by the glorious DSA-to-Bulwark Popular Juggernaut.

this is just to say I have had an issue fetching the posts that were on the timeline and which you were probably hoping to doomscroll forgive me the takes were so hot and so rate limited

People are gonna be real mad if we ever actually start tackling environmental issues with any degree of seriousness. I expect they will vote out anyone who does it. This includes agricultural runoff.

The Lord replied, "The times when the servers weren't working, my child, is when I tried to get you to log off."

Ahh it was a dos. Well, now I feel bad. Nobody do crime.

Ultimately leftists don't see Trump as the problem, they see the "system" or "establishment" as the problem, so for them the biggest trigger imaginable was Harris standing with Cheney as they both say "lets save the country we love and it democracy" MTG will help them fight elites (spelled J E W)

Wonderfully detailed thread on Draft2Digital's new fees: why they happened, what D2D could/should do differently, things indie authors should consider in making choices now, and how anthologies in particular are being affected.

i see it's time for everyone's favourite game, Viral Article That Says Exactly What People On Bsky Want To Hear! you can tell that it's true and trustworthy because everyone you follow is reposting it!

adding on to the point here, it's increasingly clear to me that the *point* of people like Piker et al. is, among other things, to make sure there's someone RNC Research can point to and say "this is what Democrats are like / want". that's what Piker gets paid to do

Spotify random'd me an AI-gen song that makes me really *really* want to know what the source corpus is. What do you have to train your stuff on to come out sounding like Lyra Vesperi? Because there must perforce *be* a source corpus, and I want to listen to it.

This is not something that'll be popular in left spaces, but the DOD should effectively become the world's best-funded anti-fascist organization. We need a realignment on the order of Containment, and designed to wage a cultural (& sometimes kinetic) war on the global fascist movement.

These are NOT made. These should NEVER be made.

It's a great day to read a Dragon- and Locus-Award nominated science fiction novel replete with fascinating aliens, interstellar pirates, Big Smart Objects, and STEM lesbians in spaaaaaceeeeee! <.< >.>

Spotify random'd me an AI-gen song that makes me really *really* want to know what the source corpus is. What do you have to train your stuff on to come out sounding like Lyra Vesperi? Because there must perforce *be* a source corpus, and I want to listen to it.

Unironically my ideology (apart from a very pedantic philosophy of science point).

I write litRPG and am thinking through what's effectively a VRMMO to write eventually but I've never touched SAO.

2 kinds; psychotic|normie this one or loss - psychotic stocks are fraud - normie quest64 or doom - psychotic bsky is tumblr - normie it would seem like the interesting ones are the psychotic ones but the only ones that perform are the normie ones

Me: Don't bring your radio in there. Them: Why not? Me: It will start squealing and you won't be able to receive incoming messages or send anything out. And it'll take hours to work right again. Them: Huh. Me: Also, if you key it in there you'll set off the oxygen monitors. Them: [takes off radio]

A lot of people would be very well served by reading the actual UNSCOP report on what should be done with the Palestinian Mandate, especially when a surprising number of them seem determined to lecture the ghosts of holocaust survivors on Yom HaShoah on where they should have gone instead.

Discworld QOTD, from Lords and Ladies

Tax anyone who upholds the most evil government in our nation's history into bankruptcy. Burn every confederate flag, wreck every monument, and uphold the glorious history of redemption during Reconstruction while cursing elites that stole that brighter future for the South from us.

I'm launching @allmydeadcats.com, my much-requested pet end-of-life advice newsletter, TOMORROW! Subscribe before the first issue hits inboxes and you could get an advance reader copy of my book...some lucky subscribers will ALSO get cute stickers!

white meat chicken. shit's fucking inedible unless it's in curry or hammered super-flat for schnitzel. nearly impossible to otherwise prepare it in a way that doesn't make me gag.

The current generation of good Dem centrists understand what the opposition is and that the opposition must be crushed. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/14/u...

And yes, not that I expect anyone who knows to actually make this objection, obviously the White Rose and the חֲסִידֵי אֻמּוֹת הָעוֹלָם existed, along with the Danish Resistance and etc etc. Heroes should never have been necessary, and they were never going to be sufficient. This, too, is a lesson.

@realfollowers.bsky.social huh I'm curious~

This is, yes, what Never Again means to me in the end. It's not some moral lesson about Jews having the obligation to oppose genocide. It's a vicious pragmatic statement that we should and *must* wield whatever power we have as early and as thoroughly as possible against those who would destroy us.

Improving CAR-T therapies very important work, but it can be pretty painful going:

Today I light a candle for cousins I'll never meet, a branch of my family whose memory of their names and the communities they lived in has been erased. I'll light a candle for my great-aunt, one knife among so many others in the Resistance. Funny how deep the generational scars go. Never again.

In hindsight this was a de facto pro Trump bumper sticker.

Anyway, in my mind part of being a leftist is being opposed to fascism, and being opposed to fascism requires hard power at times, and there are fascist powers seeking to enact their will on the world. A democratic Reconstruction of the United States inherently sets us against those powers.

I cannot recommend this entire exchange enough. I recommend reading Toby’s essay, then Silvaria’s essay in response, then grab a beverage and some popcorn and settle in to their discussion on Toby’s podcast (all linked in 🧵). /1

Yo, if someone runs across a transcript of Magyar's victory speech, hook a girl up please.

Your vocabulary acronym for the day is BLEVE: Boiling Liquid Expanding Vapor Explosion. Or, per Capt. Bubba Hagg of Santa Clara Co. Hazmat, Blast Leveling Everything Very Effectively. NOTE: fire is not a required thing for an explosion, just speed of expansion

Current mood: www.youtube.com/watch?v=pyMU... god it's glorious when my endocrine balance hits right, especially when the in-laws are in town to look after the kid.

ART’s freedom to weigh in on everything I did was punishment enough.

Me, seeing Hungarian election results, but Jewishly

I really need to sit down and do the reading on UNIFIL one of these days, though it's going to be incredibly depressing in the inevitable litany of ways it got screwed structurally, fucked up organically, or got co-opted. Regardless, it's difficult for me to understand why it still exists.

Magyar calls on the figurehead head of state Tamás Sulyok, as well as all high justice officials and other high officials appointed by Fidesz to resign immediately or they will be removed by the new government. He also announces a constitutional reform and that Hungary is joining EPPO.