AI advocates have warned that if every author in the class action filed a claim, it would "financially ruin" the entire industry.

1. In an alarming move, the Trump administration has banned trans coverage for federal employees and their families, including youth and adults. It mandates faith-based conversion therapy coverage. It is one of the largest removals of coverage in the US. Subscribe to support our journalism.

Can you believe Hollandspiele has been around for nine years? We're having a flash sale now through Sunday, offering a $9 discount on five of my games.

Dolly Parton has sent my daughter a new book every month for years as she does for thousands of children. She help fund the development of the Covid vaccine. She’s not a billionaire. I think as non wealthy people it’s hard to even imagine how much billionaires *could* be doing with their money.

Dragon Reactor is officially FUNDED! Thank you all so, so much for helping us make this project real. Quinn and I are so excited to finish this game, wmand we know you're gonna love it. We still have 2 weeks left in the campaign, and more pledges means more pay for our team!

THIS IS ALL I HAVE TO SAY ABOUT FUNDING PBS!!! BE THE PERSON MISTER ROGERS BELIEVED YOU COULD BE.

Big month with Origins. Not a LOT of games played but a fun variety. Highlights: Re;MATCH - 2-player game inspired by puzzle fighter video games, uses a marble grid. Panda Royale - dice drafting roll and write Quiet House - partial information, no communication, cooperative puzzle. #bgstats

If you’re zip-tying grandmas protesting losing health care maybe you’re not the good guys in the story?

Starting in on my Origins wrap up. Here's the rundown. Wednesday I got my badge, made my meetups for a couple virtual flea market sales and then on to my first played game of the con: Kutna Hora. #Origins2025 #Origins50th #Boardgames

It’s a good thing Congress isn’t alive to see this

Origins peeps, check this one out if you like 2 player dueling games.

Barret Hansen — better known as Dr. Demento — is retiring after 55 years in radio. The 84-year-old broadcaster has introduced audiences to "comedy songs, parodies, and musical oddities" since 1970. And episodes from his entire run are archived on his website. sopghreporter.com/2025/06/01/d...

What would the poor #Cleveland #Browns do without Ohio's help? 😢 bit.ly/OhioBudget2025

2 people are dead and our former House Speaker is in prison for the rest of his natural life over #Ohio Republican corruption The lesson Ohio Republicans learned? Make the corruption legal. www.cleveland.com/news/2025/06...

People like Mike Johnson, Linda McMahon, and Donald Trump want to pick and choose who gets to reach their full potential and who deserves support. And they don't want to pick your kids or choose families like yours.

The comment period for this ends in 3 DAYS. Please leave a comment telling them EVERYONE should be able to get covid boosters. www.regulations.gov/commenton/FD...

The thing about fascists is they're the mouse you should never give a cookie to

In response to Trump's executive orders, RAINN, the nation's largest anti-sexual-violence organization, has barred its crisis hotline staff from sharing resources specific to LGBTQ people, immigrants and other marginalized groups.

"Direct democracy is fundamental to Ohio. We have had that right here in Ohio for constitutional amendments that are citizen-led since 1912. What we see over and over again, unfortunately, is that the lawmakers want to take that power away.” -Jen Miller, @lwvohio.bsky.social woub.org/2025/05/13/g...

US CONSTITUTION: no Person holding any Office of Profit or Trust under them, shall, without the Consent of the Congress, accept of any present, Emolument, Office, or Title, of any kind whatever, from any King, Prince, or foreign State. SEEMS CLEAR TO ME.

Crazy how long this conversation has been going on

"We'll just terraform Mars," they insist, unable to terraform Earth, a planet that is already perfect except it's like 2° too warm.

This is why you don't comply in advance with blatantly unconstitutional bullshit. Maine won. Perkins Cole won. More to come.

hey, so, I made a video and I think after I post it everything will be fine youtu.be/9l6u07zYUho

You know you're the bad guys when Music Performance, Philosophy, Data Analytics, and Geology are all threats to what you stand for.

PhD Timeline xkcd.com/3081

Oh hey, just decided to do a surprise 10% off sale on all orders at newmillindustries.com with the code ENDOFAPRIL at checkout. This will last exactly one week, so don't sleep on it. Thought folks could use some good vibes amidst all the tariff bullshit.

Gotta be bittersweet for foreign spies knowing that things will never be easier than it is right now.

I am BEGGING people to stop using ChatGPT

This is so heartbreaking and makes nothing better and no one safer. It is the punitive act of an administration that values fealty over human health.

Salvadoran President Claims He Lacks Humanity To Return Wrongly Deported Man

The SAVE Act, the extreme bill that would make voting harder for millions of Americans, passed today in the US House. Next stop in our fight to protect voter rights– the US Senate. See the League of Women Voters of the US statement here: bit.ly/LWVstatementSAVEact

I understand messages like this but they're playing defense consider: anti vaxxers are a psychotic death cult who want to murder your children as sacrifices on the altar of their idiotic humanity destroying beliefs

This morning, the little one insisted that we watch Up and then peaced out after the first 11 minutes. IYKYK

This program was helping to keep people living with HIV healthier, out of the emergency rooms & off the streets," she told Eyewitness News On March 20, her birthday, Gorbach got a notice canceling her funding and ordering her to cease her work with her community partner, the Los Angeles LGBT Center

If you think this can’t happen, remember that of the 125,000 Japanese Americans who were interned during WWII for years without charge or trial, two-thirds were U.S. citizens. Including me.

my boss wrote an article about tariffs that's really worth reading — every board game is going to get drastically more expensive www.sjgames.com/ill/archive/...

A paywalled article from @nature.com bemoaning the exploitation of scientists' unpaid labour. Chef's kiss. Perfection. No notes.

Democratic Leaders Stand Real Still In Hopes No One Notices Them

#Ohio Republicans are trying to spend $600 million on a new stadium for the #PiDay Browns instead of funding schools 🫠🫠 www.news5cleveland.com/news/politic...

Trans people aren't canceling cancer research. Trans people aren't about to cause missed Social Security payments. Trans people aren't betraying Ukraine as it fights for its life. Trans people aren't causing your employer to cut staffing in response to tariffs. They just want to live to get old.

The signs may be silly but the situation is not @standupforscience.bsky.social

If you are an international student living in the USA or you know someone who is, please read this and share it broadly: www.axios.com/2025/03/06/s... tl;dr The US government is using AI to scrape social media accounts for anything they can find on mentions of protest or anti-Zionist rhetoric.

I continue to speak out against every bill that attempts to remove trans people from public life. And I will continue to do so for as long as I draw breath. I hope one day the government will leave my people alone.

URGENT: The SAVE Act is a bill in the US Congress that would taking voting rights away from millions of Americans. Tell your Ohio congressional rep and our senators to vote NO. And do it now– Congress may be voting as early as this week. Take action here: lwvohio.salsalabs.org/opposesaveact

Remember that this guy joked about the bombing at an Ariana Grande, he doxxed a Target employee for not giving him a mislabeled electric toothbrush for a penny. He’s generally a shithead. I have some mutuals following him and I’d personally recommend correcting that.

It's not complicated. They're just trying to stop women from being able to vote.