Playing’ D&D today!!

A LOT of industry folks need to take "I think there's a very high possibility that this is all a bunch of horseshit" to HEART.

So like… starving your citizenry is certainly morally bad But it’s also insanely self destructive!! Like… it’s never a winning strategy for a country to say “we want our people sicker, weaker, and hungrier.” It’s straight up how you lose out against other countries in global standing & security.

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The republican party is starving americans until the democrats let them take away even more healthcare

This post was made for me!! It’s not form-purist, but I’m basically building my west marches hexcrawl as an open world mega dungeon… … and then there are mega dungeons in it, too >.>

i closed out my column this week with this preemptive jab at basically every commentator currently looking for ways to say that last night didn’t count

It’s Zohrappening

hell yeah

ok fine, just a little more libbing out, as a treat

Accidental good cappuccino pour today

The entire right-wing propaganda machine came after Zohran Mamdani. The president and his allies came after him. Democratic leaders, by and large, did not have his back until the last minute. He still won, turning out historic numbers and inspiring young voters. His politics can win anywhere.

It’s cool that Chuck Schumer, Kiersten Gillibrand, and Hakeem Jeffries just proved to every future dem that establishment approval is irrelevant tbh

There are more of us than there are of them.

[Exit Clown.]

great news for abortion rights in Pennsylvania

BREAKING: Pennsylvania voters approve to retain three state Supreme Court justices, NBC News projects, preserving Democrats’ 5-2 majority on the state’s high court.

BREAKING: Democrat Mikie Sherrill is elected Governor of New Jersey.

this is genuinely wild

Wow it turns out the entire country is not permanently reactionary because Trump won an election by 1.5%

Normal People Don’t Want This Shit is running away with the vote tonight

What is this strange emotion welling up within me?? Is it… hope??

Decision Desk has called the NYC mayors race for Zohran Mamdani.

Captain Torture

Washington residents who have not yet voted: Our Secretary of State and local election officials recommend returning your ballot to an official county drop box or in person at a voting center, rather than mailing in your ballot. Recent USPS changes could delay postmarking.

This. Your vote in today’s elections will carry 2x-10x more weight than in an “on” year containing a presidential election. Go vote!

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These players are so NICE man I talked it out with like six raiders tonight. My Tarkov-poisoned brain doesn’t know how to react.

It’s not ever about the numbers—you can bring insane audience engagement, views, eyeballs to your verticals, shape the conversation in wonderful ways, win awards and on and on And they still will nuke your job and your entire desk in the name of capital consolidation and kissing the fucking ring

Man. Elections tomorrow, huh? Good luck everyone.

It's almost as if letting the ultra-rich own the entire mainstream press and also all the big social platforms had a downside.

They gutted the Washington Post. CBS. NYT. Now Teen Vogue. The point isn't to bring in more conservatives. They've reached that saturation point. They are killing the fourth estate and buying up the social media to control the messages we see. These were all targeted to disarm the left of truth.

Arc Raiders is VERY good!!

Scripps Research has launched an at-home #LongCOVID clinical trial to test the drug tirzepatide. Co-lead @julialmv.bsky.social writes that these types of decentralized trials will accelerate research and make clinical trials more accessible. bit.ly/4nA02wc

A better world is possible!

their plainly stated goal is to starve forty million people until they get what they want, which is to rip health care away from millions more that this is too monstrous for most news organizations to tell the truth about does not change the facts

the miyazaki poison swamp of baseball

Good luck bluesky, my social media turns off at 9

WE ARE IN THE BASEBALL DIMENSION

this game is gonna make me a baseball fan

BOY

congratulations to the winner of Game 7: Emergent Narrative

Fight??

Sorry LA, Montreal captured my heart when I was young, so in solidarity with Toronto… Go Jays

Be careful trick or treating tonight, some cruel pranksters like to put downvotes in the posts

I swear to god there’s a siren klaxon getting louder and closer to me every minute and it is labeled “sign up for a gym and do barbell training again”

This whole thread is great, but also, to ME, the first couplet here is the perfect encapsulation of what DESIGN is, as a discipline. We’re creating meaningful and significant experiences first and foremost.