I think we should try using reverse psychology re: the voter ID initiative. "This is great! The Americans most likely to have passports are liberals who have traveled internationally and naturalized immigrants! This will hurt poor people from red states!" See if that works

From the editor of the Cleveland Plain Dealer, Chris Quinn, who is apparently a cousin. This is a sharp piece of writing and a timely political statement I certainly endorse. Francis Lowder is my second great-grandfather, and the picture includes my grandfather and uncle. I have Francis's GAR medal.

She really just said why are you talking about the mass coverup of child rape when you should be talking about money

Likely-historic photo by NBC News of all the Epstein victims asked to raise their hands if they've not yet been asked to meet with the DOJ as Bondi testifies in foreground

Rep. Delia Ramirez to DHS officials: "I have as much respect for you as I do for the last white men who put on masks to terrorize communities of color. I have no respect for the inheritors of the Klanhood and the slave patrol. Those activities were criminal and so are yours."

It is not our moral responsibility to coddle the delusional fears and bigotries of white supremacists. It is not our moral responsibility to change reality for them so they can hold onto those fears and bigotries. It is our moral responsibility to make their fears and bigotries THEIR problem.

The reality is America is a huge multicultural multilingual country, not a white ethnostate, and venomous white supremacist MAGA crybabies lose it whenever that reality becomes unignorable. We should always seek to increase, not decrease, their discomfort. www.the-reframe.com/hating-the-g...

SAVE THESE DATES! These are the four Chaosium Cons (so far) for 2026: 🇺🇸 CHAOSIUM CON US — April 17-19, Ann Arbor MI 🇬🇧 CHAOSIUM CON UK — May 21-25, Cranfield UK 🇪🇺 CHAOSIUM CON EU — Oct 30-Nov 1, Gdansk, Poland 🇳🇿 CHAOSIUM CON NEW ZEALAND — Nov 22-23, Wellington, Aotearoa

The Japanese #callocthulhu scenario collection I translated last year, Japonism 2024, is now available for Print on Demand on @drivethrurpg.com 3 modern day scenarios mixing modern technology, the mythos, and Japanese culture. www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/4... #ttrpg

BREAKING: “in my 24th year of my quest to settle the planet Mars, I have just been informed of a basic fact of celestial mechanics.”

Every other Super Bowl ad is for AI because it's going really well and everyone wants to use AI. This is just like how two years ago all the ads were for NFTs and last year all the ads were for Crypto and you don't see as many ads for NFTs and Crypto anymore because everyone loves them now.

SpaceX shifts focus from something that it will never do on Mars to something it will never do on the Moon.

When I lived in France we had a sweet old neighbor lady who would spit every time she passed a certain house. Eventually, her daughter explained to me that the home belonged to a man who’d collaborated with the Nazis 60 YEARS AGO. May these ICE goons face a similarly lonely future.

🔴The End of Morgan McSweeney: Peter Oborne on Keir Starmer's Departing Chief of Staff As McSweeney resigns, we re-publish Peter Oborne’s Byline Times reporting on how Keir Starmer's chief strategist drove Labour towards defeat by the far-right www.bylinesupplement.com/p/the-end-of...

McSweeney going is excellent news. It doesn't fix any problems by itself, but it is the precondition for fixing those problems.

What's better than supporting @salvaterra.bsky.social on Patreon? Putting his art into your anti-AI art edition of Goblyn Market! #zinequest Goblyn Market Kickstarter www.kickstarter.com/projects/211...

Announcing for RuneQuest: an all-new stand alone adventure in Glorantha! Coming soon* *sooner than you think!

i don’t know if it’s the jaunty bow tie or what but i cannot stop laughing at this

Goblyn Market is launched on kickstarter! Half beast, half fiend. All chaos. A weird little rules light storytelling rpg with lots of dice rolling for maximum havoc. Great for one-shots and conventions. Now with blocks of text as I weed out all AI art assets! www.kickstarter.com/projects/211...

production of The Muppet Show should not be dependent on petty vulgarities like “ratings” or “revenue.” it should be preserved as a vital function of american culture. it should have a taxpayer-funded budget rivaling the CIA

I wrote about the Epstein files (gift link) www.theverge.com/tech/874721/...

The nomad who stepped up #art #sword&sorcery #bronzeage

Can you imagine how bad your reputation for tedium has to be that I, a trade and dungeons and dragons nerd, feel confident enough to public dunk on you for it?

BELOW: When you desperately want to talk to your best friend but you had him killed in his cell.

One good turn deserves another. I have never been disappointed by anything I’ve ordered from Cottage Delight - their sriracha chilli & garlic sauce is phenomenal, and goes well with steak, or fish, or just about anything, really. www.cottagedelight.co.uk

This is brilliant. I'm so grateful for this testimony. I've transcribed it to use in letters I'm writing. Sharing the full transcription here (see alt text to copy/paste it):

Losing everything they’ve ever put into ChatGPT? Permanently? With no warning? PERFECTION lmao

The Guardian has added this erratum to its review of Melania

A great series you should be reading about Alan Moore, Grant Morrison, and everything in-between.

Thinking about whoever said that by accepting a meal from people and then arresting them ICE agents broke a cultural taboo that was invented by, like, the first humans to set up a tent

It doesn't always cover itself in glory but one thing the American legal profession has going for it is most of them have seen Judgment at Nuremberg.

one thing that would be cool, when prominent creators turn out to be terrible people, would be if we didn't have to go through this performative dance of insisting that their work was never good in the first place.

Jeffrey Epstein operated within a world that he cannot be credited with creating and which endures after his death.

#GVerse Watch as an inflatable frog in downtown Portland literally gives Federal Officers the Slip! 🤣🤣🤣🤣

reposting with alt text for accessibility: Sight in San Francisco (from a friend)

Epstein 🤝 Rowling Constantly thinking of children’s genitals.

It really is a month for the classics - The Complete Earthsea by UKLG, with illustrations by the mighty Charles Vess. 99p for Six novels, 4 short stories & an essay. Why wouldn't you? www.amazon.co.uk/Books-Earths... (£21 on Kobo! Might come down in a couple of days though)

"Dad, open your Christmas presents!" "Not now, I'm emailing Jeffrey Epstein."

OK, so Musk was planning to go to Epstein's island, but it's not like he went there with the intent to go to a wild party or something, it was probably just some business. Excuse me, an email just came in. *Reads:* "What day/night will be the wildest party on your island?"

"The UK creative industries — which contributed £125 billion to the economy in 2024 and supported 2.4 million jobs — are being destroyed by an AI sector that, whatever its long-term potential, contributed just £11 billion in the same year and supported only 85,000 jobs." archive.is/hvRv2

"Our standing rule is: If one of us brings up using GenAI in any of our work, then it's safe to assume we've been assimilated by The Thing and should be burned alive by Kurt Russell," said a game design consultant in the US.

The High Court has blocked a legal challenge from transphobic group Sex Matters, siding with thousands of swimmers who fought to keep the ponds inclusive goodlawproject.org/hampstead-he...

The climatologist told me historians will wonder why we didn’t do more. The epidemiologist told me historians will wonder why we didn’t do more. The activist told me historians will wonder why we didn’t do more. The historian told me that nobody listens to historians.

our goatkin are ready to give your adventurers a broo-sing

As an ex e-learning developer, I can confidently say this will be a terrible learning experience. I cannot wait to rip it to shreds. Here's what the Free AI Training will look like 🧵 1/

Bovino is relieved of his duties? That man can’t relieve his duties without 8 other CBP agents protecting him in the bathroom.

To the extent you have any education, consult with any legitimate news sources, know anything about what's happening in the world, you vote Dem. To the extent you don't, you vote Republican. The fun thing is watching pundits strain mightily to cast this as something *negative about the Dem Party*.

this is completely insane and more people need to say that doing this is completely insane