This is ludicrous

I once asked a bookseller at a large indie store how many people would have to buy a book for it to get the attention of the store buyer and cause an additional order and they said: Three.

"My mentor always tells me, 'Kim, dogs don’t bark at parked cars." They’re coming after critical race theory, 1619, intersectionality because these ideas mobilized people. They gave them the language to actually articulate what they were seeing with their own eyes," says Kimberlé Crenshaw.

Children are not therapy Wives are not therapy Marriage is not therapy only therapy is therapy

BROTHER HE’S COPYING HIS LOOK NOW LMAO

In Monrovia, California, protesters are purchasing 17¢ ICE scrapers from Home Depot and immediately returning them to create long lines and slow down the entire store. Their aim is to disrupt sales and convey a message opposing ICE raids occurring in their neighborhood.

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Hey, immersive, larp, ARG, theater and game folks: I'm working on Immersipedia and I'm linking out to other design/knowledge wikis like the Puzzle Hunt wiki, Nordic Larp wiki and Game Detectives, plus the whole WikiBruce archive. Are there any others I should be including?

Did anyone really think that debanking would stop at erotic artists, or were they just kidding themselves?

NOW UPDATED: @meganpiont.bsky.social's "How to report ICE" zine includes the ✨new ICE hotline number for NYC✨ For those new to this type of guide: "SALUTE" is an acronym to help us remember what steps to take.

A place of honor and goodness. A bastion of hope. A lighthouse in the long dark. A pillar of the community. YOUR LOCAL LIBRARY, BABY!!!

SPREAD THIS FAR AND WIDE A group of New Yorkers has made an ICE hotline to protect their neighbors from being kidnapped by secret police.

Talking with @persephone.blue was an absolute delight - check out our conversation about leftist politics in TTRPGs below!

losing my mind over youtube's suggested reply for this comment

We could solve like half the problems in education with smaller class sizes (like 15 instead of 30 kids crushed in a room). Including that it would be easier to find teachers b/c they wouldn’t get so burnt out.

TL;DR: Friends don't let friends say "the first".

Big bundle of games for a good cause!

You are infinitely closer to struggling than you ever will be to billionaires

Pretty much all affordability discourse could benefit from just posting this chart. If you're in the better off America, all the luxury goods you want in excess are for the most part much cheaper. If you're in the poorer America, most of the shit you need to live/grow is more expensive.

As of this morning, Starbucks workers across the country are officially ON STRIKE. And we're prepared for this to become the biggest and longest ULP strike in Starbucks history. Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX

TYPEWRITTEN. TYPEWRITTEN PAINTING.

ANYWAY. You want a tip to make any game handle power imbalances better? Here’s the one weird trick. Take death off the table.

So much work to deflect the violence of genocidal white supremacy. The question I have is, what "condition" made millions of people follow his plans of genocidal white supremacy and antisemitism? 🙄 What part of his DNA reaches out through online forums making more people believe the same?

Virginia House seats won by Democrats this century, out of the chamber's 100 seats: in 2001: 32 in 2003: 34 in 2005: 40 in 2007: 44 in 2009: 39 in 2011: 32 in 2013: 33 in 2015: 34 in 2017: 49 in 2019: 55 (first Dem majority since 1999) in 2021: 48 in 2023: 51 2025, i.e. this week: 64

Higher ed debt means a reformulation of the educational project away from its liberatory, transformational potential. Higher ed debt means lashing all college grads to horrific working conditions that they'll need to "accept" in order to pay off their loans. Higher ed debt is subjugation.

Kinda giving away the game with this title TBH. Check out our game of @stillfleet.bsky.social's Stillfleet, run by resident sicko @benferber.com for an incredible and intrepid cast!

Nice one, Zadie Smith.

The Evansville Press, April 10,1916

they deported him

Apocalypse World has had a bigger impact on my life than any other roleplaying game. It's just a phenomenal game, designed by phenomenal people. You should pick up a copy of the new edition!

The problem is that the far right sees the same thing the far left does: dnd IS built on a bedrock of racist fantasy! It is NOT doing enough to address that, if it even can!

Talk of the Table -- Dramaturgy in Actual Play (w/ @byconniechang.bsky.social & @seaplaysrpg.bsky.social ) We dive deep on the use of dramaturgy in actual play: how it supports players, safe artistic storytelling, and long term actual play in @transplanarrpg.bsky.social pca.st/u2b4x321

I am a trans woman who is not getting any grocery money this month due to the government shut down. If you want to make sure I get to eat, any support would be appreciated. paypal.me/MAlesha223

A super typhoon is making landfall tonight. People are bracing for the worst, and a million people have already evacuated. Please keep the Philippines in your thoughts.

Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer. He is a computer safety researcher. And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine. In under 1600 words. aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...

Because many struggle with math…

In a normal democracy, a total collapse of party leadership would result in an no-confidence vote and immediate snap elections to find leaders who can lead

In a cafe in Denver overhearing what is clearly a first date and this woman is talking about how she loves history because she went to DC as a kid and it made her really patriotic and now she's saying that her favorite movie is GONE WITH THE WIND, my dude, RUN.

One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc

this is the crux of it. it was truest, perhaps, back in 2010, but it is as true now as it ever was that being fluent in Apocalypse World is like seeing the matrix of modern RPG design.

you cannot fucking fathom how tightly this game is designed, playing a pbta spin off will give you ZERO idea

it's fucking criminal to me how underappreciated apocalypse world is

See a game you love? Then BACK THE KICKSTARTER!

How influential is Apocalypse World? This influential. (And I wrote this chart four years ago.) www.designers-and-dragons.com/2021/11/02/t...

Apocalypse World is a genius game, which I keep going back to.

Apocalypse World is far and away my favorite game, period, and this new edition is *even better*.

@analoggamestudies.bsky.social & #GameinLab present Generation Analog 2026, July 16-17, GREEN will be this year’s conference theme... Abstracts due by March 1, 2026: analoggamestudies.org/generation-a... #analoggamestudies #generationanalog2026

Most of the games we've published in the last 10 years (ie Monster of the Week, Thirsty Sword Lesbians, Blades in the Dark) either use the Powered by the Apocalypse engine or are hugely influenced by it. Happy to back this latest incarnation from the Bakers. Strongly recommend you check it out:

Yes this exactly what we mean. If you want everyone in your group to have their own copy, we want to make that a little easier for you. This also makes it easier for people like @friede.bsky.social and @guyintheblackhat.bsky.social and @czamboni.bsky.social to pick up classroom copies.