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ursula k. le guin

Re: cyclospora, Taco Bell having ethics and going "you know what, it's always the fucking lettuce, why don't we just pull that until we know what's going on" resulting in all the outlets going "LETTUCE SOLD AT TACO BELL LINKED TO EXPLOSIVE DIARRHEA" is a fantastic way to discourage ethics in future.

my unholy creation. its actually working, it hasnt been an hour yet and the air quality in my place is noticeably better. i can breathe in comparable comfort, and my eyes dont hurt! link to build ur own here: engineering.ucdavis.edu/news/science... beware walmart, they overprice their filters

Casually threatening mass rapes

hey, remember: don't eat anything and don't breathe

this comic is from 2014 and is one of the most singularly vindicated comics. even if it was already correct then it is even more correct now

Le Guin and Butler and Hobb and Bear and Pierce did not die so we could pretend saccharine happily ever after baby food is what women need

:deep sigh: I see we are again doing "[romantasy] gives women an access point to fantasy, a traditionally male-heavy genre, both in authorship and fandom," as if there have not been women reading and writing fantasy for literal decades

Come on over to Day 2 of #GenerationAnalog 2026 In an hour, we will be discussing games from indigenous and Global South contexts! #StayAnalog analoggamestudies.org/generation-a...

28 years of cyclosporiasis testing Screwworms eradicated in the US in 1966. Measles eradicated in the US in 2000. All are back because of this science denying administration.

These photos of FNs community members fleeing their homes by boat are genuinely apocalyptic (Photo via Wayne Wastaken of Collins, Ontario, who says his “hometown is gone”) www.facebook.com/share/r/1ArN...

From the brilliant mind of Magnolia Keep comes a high-octane look at some kinda gross stuff! Deathbringer is ENWorld's most-anticipated RPG of 2026, it's currently raising hundreds of thousands of dollars, and also the marketing is kinda full of misogyny. magnoliakeep.blogspot.com/2026/07/the-...

EVERYTHING COMES BACK TO BODY AUTONOMY. guess what gender is? BODY AUTONOMY. it is about WHO is allowed to do WHAT with THEIR BODY. administration of exogenous sex hormones is value neutral; the core difference between this and a trans person is that one supports the fascist regime and one does not.

Hatred of AI now reaching the level of cultural consensus that becomes attractive to advertisers

deeply annoying that creative breakthroughs don’t come on schedule from direct work but from things like “open-ended conversations with interesting people” and “doing nothing”

Amnesty International put out a major report documenting the influence of UK based anti trans gender critical organizations and their funding. Within hours, GC groups threatened defamation lawsuits and Amnesty was forced to pull it down. Proving the point they're anti rights. Anyways, here it is.

Real actors - the ones I like to watch & work with anyway - are like this. They want a good part & to make some money, sure. But even if you get to hold up the scenery in something truly great once or twice in a lifetime, you rest easier.

Sam Neill on tackling depression and imposter syndrome when you’re between jobs.

This is a great passive aggressive statement that all opposing politicians should aspire to. bidenwhitehouse.archives.gov/briefing-roo...

The value system of the greater manosphere is not just anti-female, it's anti-human. Success is defined by physical perfection, wealth, and dominance--but it's not in pursuit of goals these straight guys actually want like love or sex with women, it's just to impress other vacuous men.

Yes. I reject any framing of the Platner story as "progressive vs establishment" or "left vs center." The opposition to him has always been "he's obviously an unrepentant liar and a bad human being." His claimed policy positions were irrelevant, and he had no track record of believing them anyway.

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🧵 worth reading

Last day for pitches lads (though submissions will still be open). I would love to see more of the following: Experimental pieces Lit-essays about RPG-related experiences Shorter reviews Submissions from POC and writers from the Global South 🖊🖊🖊

IMPORTANT: Two websites for US food access. Please spread the word. This is a great, easy to use site to find free food near you:

We can see this in the ICE flight data. Domestic “round-up” flights are spiking, and some activist flight watchers report the flights are getting fuller. But deportation and removal flights remain steady. This means the concentration camps are getting packed to the brim. It’s awful to comprehend.

I find the idea that there is a preexisting Homer "fandom" that is outraged about this preposterous. These are just free-floating racists

THE US HAVING A WHITES-ONLY REFUGEE POLICY SHOULD BE A MUCH BIGGER STORY

It's been a point that's been argued to a brick-wall my entire professional life but if you take a cold hard look at the relative successes, compounding economic benefits, and global standing of British industries the treatment of the performing arts is a completely mad kind of self harm

Behind every "solo dev success story" is usually a partner working 9-5 for years to pay the bills.

it immediately made me think about Cesar Chavez's long history of sexual abuse, & Dolores Huerta's statement that she kept her experience secret for 60 years bc she believed the truth would hurt the movement she spent her life fighting for www.nytimes.com/2026/03/18/u... medium.com/@dolores_hue...

BREAKING: in June 2026, *every single one* of the 1,062 refugees admitted in the U.S. were white South Africans. In FY 2026, the U.S. has admitted a total of 7,727 white South Africans, three Afghans (back in November), and nobody else. For reference, the U.S. admitted 100,060 refugees in 2024.

no abuser sustains a career of abuse alone. At every stage, they have people willing to give them second, third, 30th chance while the survivors keep being unable to pay their bills. those are also choices, and you don't get to be automatically loved for them. Who gets all the chances speaks volumes

I don’t want this point to be lost in the discourse. Going digital-only means inequity for people who cannot afford internet or constantly purchasing new games. Libraries provide opportunities for people to experience games they otherwise wouldn’t be able to afford, and that will be lost.

I think this might be one of the most incredible, unsettling and symbolic photos of today’s America I’ve ever seen. I can’t stop looking at it. From Reuters, published on the Guardian website.

I have such an expertly curated algorithm that I'm seeing posts from Mexican street food restaurants in the US and this is how they're advertising the game tomorrow night. "Good vibes"

Rae Nedjadi is one of those "he worked on THIS game too?" designers. I wouldn't be who I am without Rae's games! Rae's in need of some financial support as he is healing. The @drivethrurpg.com bundle includes Our Haunt and Brindlewood Bay! 22 Titles for $25 www.drivethrurpg.com//product/572...

Everybody in the "climate space" (which means everyone on earth...) needs to understand these mind-blowing figures. Google's "total electricity consumption jumped from 31 terawatt hours (TWh) in 2024 to 43 TWh in 2025." In ONE year. The AI corporate arms race is eating the world.

"Every serious legal mind must inevitably face a fundamental choice: Read the Constitution and apply its words as the bedrock laws of the land, or transcend its tired text and interpret the super-secret invisible version that tells you exactly what you want to hear."

fuck the Supreme Court

Sotomayor: "The Court gives the President a power unknown even to the English Crown against which the Founders revolted, elevating him above his once-coequal branches by transforming a duty to take care that the laws be faithfully executed into a license to act in defiance of those very laws."

Justice Sotomayor read her dissent from the bench. It reads in part: "Today, this Court undoes centuries of political practice and concludes that all three branches of Government have been acting in open defiance of the Constitution all this time. Its conclusion is wrong."

I especially love this diagram.

Some Sunday Black Boy Joy

I want you to think about the vocal response from the democrats over a portion of their party winning and succeeding and compare it to how they reacted to people getting thirty year jail sentences for handing out zines at a concentration camp

I can't stress enough how congressional dems need to have Rashida Tlaib's back right fucking now, before this gets out of hand. They are testing the "there's a terrorist inside our government!" card.

The ideology in question is opposing fascism. This horrific action is a shot across the bow at all of us—everyone who cares about their neighbors, who dares to dream of a better world, who opposes ICE terror and authoritarian repression. We cannot allow the state to disappear them.

The process of moving into a new place this month and rebuilding my life as a person living solo for the first time in over a decade has been expensive and hard. If you've been thinking about picking up any of my games, this would be a great time to go for it. store.buriedwithoutceremony.com

"We'll edit it in post" NO, ACTUALLY. We, as a video-based TTRPG performance space, cannot afford that, outside of like *maybe* a dozen studios. As someone who advocated hard for the concept of pre-recording shows before CR or D20 popularized it, that wasn't to encourage *more* labor to the show.