This snow situation has really hammered home that part of what makes Philly remarkable is that it's a first-rate city while also being functionally a failed state.

perfect game

My good friend Audrey, known to many as LadyTabletop, is opening their layout commissions, and you would be wise to grab a slot! audreystolze.carrd.co

Designing a ccg-esque game and encountering a funny, interesting challenge: My base mechanics work, but they don’t provide enough levers to support as many unique little guys as I want. So either I make the guys more complex (yuck) or add a new mechanical widget. But what does a working game need?

Kiddo watched the first two Shrek movies this weekend and I’m convinced it’s a glaring omission from the 5e appendix N. It kinda explains everything?

5yo: Are you ready for… the F-word? *wife and I share a nervous look* Me: What’s the F-word? 5yo (bursting into song): Feliz Navidad!

Extremely minor gripe, but it’s wild that you can’t just pull up Binary Sunset/the Star Wars Force Theme except unofficially videos on YouTube

The premise of Over the Garden Wall is “What if Frog and Toad was Donnie Darko?”

Regular reminder that the majority of the people who dreamed up the stories you love are, like, BROKE broke, and that most of the money spent on their work was given to Some Guy™️ instead.

Starting a new bit this year where I insist on pronouncing “Grinch” with the Jewish “ch”

The thing about AI imagery/video is it's really great at getting 85-90% of the way there. Perfect for your boss to instantly generate something that'll convince them it can do the thing with a bit of actual effort/creativity. The punchline, of course, is AI is immune to effort/creativity.

I went to the premiere of the final Twilight movie. It was mostly execs, etc. but they filled the balcony with fans who'd camped out all night. When the (spoilers) not-in-the-book battle broke out and, one by one, every major character died horribly, they screamed for literally 20 minutes straight.

Just a black queer woman standing in the middle of New York singing a song about how it’s a new day, a new dawn and then cutting the ribbon to start the parade. Could mean anything!

Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade voted for Zohran

It's been 4 years since I moved out of NYC but today I beat the Google Maps walking ETA by 5 minutes so who's to say whether I'm still a New Yorker?

Chicago has had one 9/11 worth of people disappeared since the attacks began in September. Los Angeles has had two 9/11s since June.

Couldn't get this idea out of my head until I made it. I think it's kinda cursed but people on the discord liked it so here ya go

Happy There Is A Circulatory System Walking Through The Kitchen Day to all who celebrate.

Digital Art Before the AI Era Cubadust wallpapers in 2001

New: Conde Nast fired four employees who were among a group that confronted the company's head of human resources on Wednesday over the decision to fold Teen Vogue into Vogue/recent cuts. Employees who were fired included journalists from the New Yorker, Wired, and Bon Appétit.

This is very true, and there are a lot of really good reasons why. I think a huge part is that, due to age and not being born in the U.S., he doesn't have the Obama-as-template fixation that so many on the left think is the default for a "good" speech. bsky.app/profile/jame...

i know what her ratings are but i genuinely do think she'll be president someday

The rare onion L theonion.com/de-blasio-we...

Saw someone wearing a shirt that said: YOU ARE ENO UGH and, like, first of all I am not Brian Eno but also so what if were???

I’m here at the dive bar and someone just did the most unhinged thing I’ve ever seen

A kid in the pizza place with me was like, “Do you know why they’re showing Christmas ads? Because people are getting excited.” And his mom responded, “No, it’s because of late capitalism.”

Saw my first Christmas ad at 7:21pm. A direct violation of the treaty

I’m not a solo RPG person at all, but this review has me dying to play this game. Maybe Lady Tabletop will send it to me next???

Sexual dimorphism in squishmallows

Now we're going to argue for days about whether the Dems are talking about the right issues, when the biggest issue is they're all talk. It doesn't matter if you focus on the Trump economy or defending LGBTQIA+ people if nobody believes you intend to do anything about any of it.

Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.

"To be Muslim in New York is to expect indignity. But indignity does not make us distinct. There are many New Yorkers who face it. It is the *tolerance* of that indignity that does... I have carried these indignities with me each moment of this race." —Zohran Mamdani

A perfect workday playlist

Bene Gesserit Pro-tip: In a pinch, you can use your father-in-law’s solo stove pizza oven to administer a gom jabbar test

If you think “No Kings” is not anti-imperial enough, take note. I took a Palestine sign to the first one and while I saw others, I got a lot of engagement from folks. Even if they’re organized by lib normies, these events need NOT be a ceiling. They’re a floor. Go raise the roof at them.

Hot take: Unless it's Archduke Ferdinand or something, I truly never need a push notification about a famous person dying. Maybe the textbook definition of "it can wait!"

Making the global leader in language-learning apps as a backdoor pilot for your animated series

we’ll see how his mayoral tenure shakes out but i am convinced that Mamdani has the juice. not just the charisma to win an election but the temperament to govern and the measured pragmatism of someone who genuinely believes what they’re saying and wants to accomplish real things.

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If your D&D adventurers aren't playing hacky sack during rests, your setting is unrealistic. I don't make the rules

i don't mean to single out baseball fans here, because you see this in lots of fan communities, but in certain corners people talk as though baseball is real. they think all the players are real people and the stadiums are places you can actually visit. to each their own, but that cannot be healthy

“My name is Kid Koala and I’m here to play some records very incorrectly.”

The Japanese Mario 64 official strategy guide is an incredible thing. "Can we make little hand-made dioramas of all the levels?" "Sure, why the hell not."

My spooky almost-5yo loved the classic Skeleton Dance short. Recs on similar things to show her next?

jewish flaming lips fans, watching the sun set: The fast begins... nowowowowowowowow

Seeing them on Friday and could not be more hyped

my takeaway from climate week nyc is that "climate storytelling" is a little too much "we must reimagine our deepest souls in relationship to mother nature and the moral abyss of the polycrisis into which we must now stare" and not enough "ok but get a heat pump"

Oh hell yeah. Gonna buy myself an AriZona iced tea