AND supporting your local library is super important! If you actually DO want books to be available to everyone, the library *already exists* and is staffed by the people who are deep in the trenches of fighting censorship! Supporting the library is doing actual good for your community!

Re: previous post - People who steal art of any kind are assholes, full stop. If *you* deserve to be paid for your labor, so do I - and so does everybody else; this means writers, visual artists, musicians, and every other category of People Who Make Things.

Thousands of Starbucks workers are on strike for a living wage and better working conditions. Stand with them by boycotting Starbucks until it can strike a fair contract. sbworkersunited.org @sbworkersunited.org

Please help my friend if you can!!

As you think about holiday gatherings this year, I want to remind you all about Critical Hit Cookies @criticalhitcookies.bsky.social (criticalhitcookies.com). They are DELICIOUS, with lots of options for treats (including gluten free chocolate chip!) AND you can use my code LUNA10 to save 10%!

We need to build some real social stigma around being afraid of cities. You don't have to like them or live there, but a politics built this strongly around watching TV and going "ewww" is embarrassing, and people should be embarrassed by it. It's like "fear of werewolves" being your top issue.

Just constantly being Fully Activated by @belltether.bsky.social ‘s Curtain Call table. Thank GOD someone else is also driven to madness :D (also gorgeous work)

Next week LinkedIn will use your personal data for AI training by automatically enabling permissions. To manually turn off go to: Settings ➡️ Data Privacy ➡️ under “How LinkedIn uses your data” click “Data for Generative AI improvement” ➡️ toggle off

Today I'm 55 years old. My father died when he was 54, killed by his addiction, and I thought I'd die before my 55th year as well. Cancer tried, but I'm still here. For my birthday, I'd appreciate you sharing this GoFundMe with friends or on social media. www.gofundme.com/f/help-owen-...

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You know who the real freeloaders in this country are? Not people who rely on SNAP, but corporations whose business model depends on wages so low that taxpayers have to feed their workers.

SNAP isn't about "people who don't work." It's about people who don't get paid enough to live. Of the 40 or so million people who rely on food stamps: * Two-thirds are children, seniors, or disabled * Most working-age adults who receive SNAP are employed—but in jobs that pay poverty wages

“Walmart was the top employer of SNAP recipients in five states and one of the top four employers in the remaining four states. McDonald’s was among the top five employers of Medicaid enrollees in five of six states and SNAP recipients in eight of nine states.” www.cnbc.com/2020/11/19/w...

Hey all - a friend of a friend's husband got grabbed by ICE. If you've got anything to spare, consider tossing some money their way to fund their legal costs? www.gofundme.com/f/th5wx4-hel...

listen if you put on a hard hat and an high-vis vest people will just let you do anything

Any social media site that operates only or primarily via algorithm is trying to tell me what my opinions should be and what information I should have, and I won’t use it.

the Muppets have been real quiet since the Louvre heist

DAMN. (I wish I could have been there, but I broke my leg in August and still can’t be on my feet for that long. 😭)

folks can complain about the effectiveness of scheduled orderly mass protest but to think about it another way its the closest thing we have to the opening scene of A Muppet Christmas Carol where all the muppets sing "there goes Mr. Dipshit, there goes Mr. Ass" to Scrooge and it clearly bothered him

"To be a Republican in 2025 represents a clear public confession that you either don't know the difference between good and evil and you're so morally empty that you can't be bothered to begin to try, or that you do know the difference, and you prefer evil." Great essay from @juliusgoat.bsky.social

Today in: things I had no idea you even had to watch out for, holy shit

Since we're talking about contractors on video games, I thought I'd point out the importance of contractors/freelancers in TTRPGs as well. I'm using the award-winning Tian Xia World Guide as an example. The entire paragraph of authors are freelancers. Without them, the book wouldn't exist. 🧵

To everyone who's already donated money and/or time to this, you have my utmost appreciation and gratitude. If anybody out there has a moment to help me further signal boost, I'd appreciate it immensely if you could help me out with a repost or a share on your platform of choice. gofund.me/61871bbec

I'm trying to do cancer recovery updates more often, as a lot of people have asked me to, but it's clearly not going to be regular and weekly. For one thing, my memory just isn't good enough for that. For another, my memory just isn't good enough for that. www.gofundme.com/manage/help-...

For Labor Day, I wanted to talk about the success of Paizo's unionization. We formed United Paizo Workers in October 2021, won voluntary recognition, and ratified our first contract in 2023. This happened because of solidarity, good union training from CWA, and empowerment of the workers.

the horrors persist and so do my deadlines

Onigiri Mothra

My friend Andrew (@plaguecontrol.bsky.social‬) is having a rough go and could use some help. (TL;DR is he had a house fire and his insurance company is jerking him around.) Toss a few bucks his way. This could be any of us. gofund.me/e711cce7

Tracy Chapman’s self-titled, debut album hits #1 today in 1988. “It was a song about my parents,” she said about “Fast Car”. “My mother didn’t have a high school diploma. .. I think they came together thinking that, together, they’d have a better chance of making it.” @briankoppelman.bsky.social

New "How to Report ICE" zines up today for free printable download! California (by county/area) Chicago Colorado DC Metro Area (DMV) Massachusetts North Carolina Triangle Area NYC Philly Pittsburgh Portland, OR St. Louis Metro Area Washington State Please share! drive.google.com/drive/folder...

Dan got a chance to catch up with Starfinder Creative Manager Jenny Jarzabski to get the inside scoop on @paizo.com 's brand new edition of Starfinder! www.thefandomentals.com/jenny-jarzab...

"Age verification" laws are actually "upload your ID or get your face scanned to access every website, ending anonymity and associating your identity with everything you do online" laws and if more people understood that they would not be down for this authoritarian nonsense

Listen, I am completely down with trolling, I so here for snark and lobbing insults, Walz’s “these people are weird creeps” line of attack gave me LIFE But Walz also made it clear that his disgust and contempt came from a place of deeply offended decency and that mattered

And all of those people are also taking on Trump with a real sense of moral clarity, a notion that decency both matters and does not preclude hitting back hard Have heard @timmiller.bsky.social express worries that the Newsom approach appeals to a much more venal side of people and honestly yeah

hello BlueSky I have broken my leg 😭 This is your PSA to be careful on stairs!

Now with a corrected link. www.gofundme.com/f/help-owen-...

key art I worked on for Starfinder: Afterlight ✨ I've been working at @epictellers.bsky.social for a few months now, and there'll be more exciting things to come soon! 👀 #starfinder #epictellersent #paizo

Long, wonderful story--with a few bonus tales in the comments towards the end.

me as a kid: wow I can't wait until we have robots and computers for everything me now: if this toaster makes me download an app I am slipping out into the night to start a new life as a mysterious figure occasionally glimpsed in the fog

Walter Richter, German Professor of Engineering, Short King, Chainsmoking Man of Stoicism, and now: Fairy God Mother (with Black Jack the Cat) Now in colour! #coc #callofcthulhu #ttrpg #ttrpgart

Walter Richter, German Professor of Engineering, Short King, Chainsmoking Man of Stoicism, and now: Fairy God Mother (with Black Jack the Cat) #coc #callofcthulhu #ttrpg #ttrpgart

Fritz biffed their downtime activity, so I said they were preoccupied with their 3 tamagotchi "children". #art #starfinder2e #starfinder #ttrpg #ttrpgart

Game journalists talking about new TTRPGs this year, don't forget about Starfinder 2e please!! It's a truly stunning science fantasy game built on the award-winning Pathfinder 2e engine. It was created by a super queer team. It deserves your attention!

Want to read for Uncanny? Small stipend, and as a writer you see what’s out there. Slushing can be intense but it teaches a lot ( for me in the past, both poetry & fiction benefited).

Hey ttrpg folks: I am looking for a character artist for an upcoming project! Ideally want to work w/ someone comfortable drawing high fantasy inspired characters. Open to a variety of styles, and if you have an easily attached image or link with your rates that would be greatly appreciated!

“Make them place more importance on personality” buddy they are, that’s why you’re not getting dates.

Too much "we're cooked" & not enough "we're not gonna take this shit"

If I was a man whose entire image was wrapped up in being a tough macho masculine guy and I was scared of the subway, you could not waterboard that shit out of me. How are they not crushingly embarrassed to admit this.