- why is everyone talking about the rapture today - that's an american heresy so quit it - also it would've had to have happened before 1980 anyway

Technologically advance a band: Starfortress Raccoon

Boosting this again because clinically vulnerable people do not stop being vulnerable when the Government wants to save money. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...

Canada still allows military goods to be sold to Israel, has yet to even recognize the genocide in Gaza, though it “strongly condemns” what is going on over there (wow, chilling). But it’s definite hardline action barring an Irish musical group from the country because we don’t tolerate terrorists.

Sometimes, when something really really needs to be said, @lindamcquaig.bsky.social just says it so well. archive.today/q35Kr

i just want more time

i contracted computer madness in 1995 while poking around shareware game with ResEdit and have never recovered

I believe this will be the first actual play of our scenario “The Queen of Night” (from Arkham Gazette 3, by @umlauthuth.bsky.social and myself) I am VERY excited.

The official Canadian Petition to reign in payment processor censorship has stalled out just under 10k signatures. This is a reminder for Canadians, this is an OFFICIAL petition that will be responded to. Show your support in protecting our free speech! www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...

We speak with five tech workers who have all been fired by Microsoft for protesting Big Tech’s complicity in Israel’s genocide of Palestinians. “The only way to stop our movement… is to end their complicity in the genocide.”

Also I'm trying to replace youtube with audiobooks when my brain needs a chew toy (which is about half the time i'm awake)

Dusting off old projects and wondering "how do I implement stalker mechanics in RPGs?"

A lot of being a graphic designer for tabletop games is being a go-between for multiple belligerent, feuding parents. (Microsoft, Adobe, Apple, Google, Dropbox, etc.)

Nearly every artist you know/follow is struggling right now. Opportunities are retracting and most of us are barely making rent and/or are one unexpected emergency away from being royally screwed. We're lowering rates, hustling harder than ever, and just trying to do what we love.

How to make your RPG tables better: get rid of *all* the row and column strokes, fills, etc. on the *most complex table* in the game. Then slowly, carefully build them back up to the bare minimum needed.

i left a nanaimo bar i had purchased at the coffee shop and it'll be closed by the time i walk back to get it. if i get another treat somewhere else i think the net dopamine will still be 0

in some hell where no mark on a page i mage looks right

honestly, this is what i immediately suspect with most of these art share prompts

Theres.... a new artist meme going around where you describe your style in detail with 3 samples and babes if that doesn't sound like training data i dont know what is

Panos Cosmatos' forklift safety training film

probably says something about where i'm at in general that the southern reach series is a comfort listen

missing a deftones/SOAD show rn but i wasn't going to pay $200 for tickets anyways so

Canadians! There is a petition to sign to protest Mastercard and Visa's control over the purchase of legal adult content. This is specifically about the Steam & itchio situation, but language protects adult creators. www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en... #nsfw #censorship #canpoli @acvalens.net

I have a patreon where I've been detailing a megadungeon for Old School D&D games. It's very spooky! OooOOOoooOOoo

what do i need to do to move to a cottage in scotland

I'm wondering what _would_ be a good place for a personal blog?

probably have to consider the real possibility that many of my mental health crises in the past few months were triggered largely by being too hot for too long

I would really like it if I could finish *something* today

tell miranda she should do this

I will say the worldbuilding in Alien Earth seems kinda flat, but I guess I can console myself that this is coming through the mouths of corporate stooges

Up your rates and the same goes for publishers.

i've been struggling with this piece for who knows how long and it feels fucking *cursed.* i keep trying to cut away each part of the process that failed in a hard-to-correct way in the hope that doing the next version will just move *forward* without looking like ass and needing to be redone

sick of myself

It's been almost two months since we had to say goodbye to our beloved pup Romka, who we rescued through a local group but turned out to have spent the first half of his life in a shelter in Moscow. I painted this portrait of our russian muppet as a thank you to his groomer.

And on the subject of #realartatters: AI poisoning tool NIGHTSHADE is now free for artists to use: venturebeat.com/ai/nightshad...

i want to take a vaccuum to my sinuses so I can finish this illustration.

The latest update about our bestiary of New England’s creatures from legend and folklore. Illustrations by @umlauthuth.bsky.social and @nightjargames.bsky.social sentinelhillpress.com/2025/08/11/n...

Getting a second cold(?) in the middle of finishing a thing I want off my drawing table ASAP — maybe I can work at home, and send it off tonight, but the way I feel right now it seems more likely I will just turn into mucus.

Recently reminded that when I first played #SOMA I thought @frictionalgames.bsky.social were using a thing to track my IP address for details Simon's --- since I was playing *at Spadina and Bathurst* --- so when all the station names and 3d models of Toronto buildings showed up it got creepier

tomorrow is my #birthday. I need to refill my expensive prescription that insurance doesn't cover to the tune of $650 within a week. Everything helps. #MutualAid #ShowUpForWishes paypal.me/popelizbet or $popelizbet on cashapp

Friends (esp if you live in CA) we REALLY need signatures on this petition supporting Bill AB412 - the AI Copyright Transparency Act. TLDR = this will require AI corps to be transparent about what is in their datasets! Signing takes 1 min. Once you sign, PLEASE SHARE!! tinyurl.com/4uxbp963

Another early Nightwick critter: dregs! They're like dust bunnies only wet #dnd #ose #monster #illustration www.patreon.com/posts/nightw...

I'm in a terrible place emotionally, my life feels meaningless and hopeless, and feel the need to shout that out to the world, but anywhere i can just renders it into cOnTeNt

Hey, as a librarian I need to tell you: Our funding depends on usage. So go ahead and check out that book even if you don't think you'll finish it. No one will know. Check out that DVD even though you might not like it. Get ambitious in your quest for knowledge.

MAUS. Age 8.

ICYMI: This piece by @lukewsavage.bsky.social names the political moment in Canada with power and precision. Mark Carney's lurch to the right is endangering us all. Instead of investing in Canadian self-sufficiency, he's deepening integration with the US financial and military model.