Legal defense fund for the Minnesota 15. Please share and support them! We keep us safe 💙🤍🩵

Ran a Pathfinder one-shot about a fey court wedding to propose to my partner tonight! ❤️ (He said yes 😊)

Paizo’s the first place I’ve known where I can truthfully say that coworkers became friends. They’re great at what they do, and they’re great people. Ivis, Shay, and so many more talented, wonderful folks—a dozen of us!—are on the job market again. We’d love to make games magic happen with you.

Obviously this is a terrible idea but also I think we need an immediate moratorium on LLMs using bi flag colors as they are not worthy of the aesthetic

I'm still working on my portfolio and such - but, if you don't have work to offer and still want to support me and the fuzzy one, you can always buy me a coffee on my ko.fi (ko-fi.com/northerndrea...) and I promise Auryn pictures in exchange.

Time to kick the elephant out of the room: Yes, I'm one of the people Paizo's laying off, my last day being July 7th. My heart is broken to leave the best team I've ever worked with - a team I've learned so much from. If you know of any game designer or developer openings, I'd love to talk to you.

Unfortunately, I've been laid off as part of Paizo's recent restructuring (paizo.com/blog/paizo-r...). I'm reopening my public commissions while I look for what's next; if you've been looking for an excuse to get your TTRPG character illustrated, please reach out!

If you're looking for ways to support the Paizo employees affected by yesterday's layoffs, this is probably a good place to start. www.reddit.com/r/Pathfinder...

I'm absolutely devastated to be losing some of the finest colleagues I've had the pleasure of working with. Please support them and support us so we can hire them back. I genuinely can't fathom doing this work without them.

@paizo.com will be laying off 12 people. They appear to be properly working with @unitedpaizoworkers.bsky.social while doing so. This can be laid directly at the feet of the Diamond Comics fiasco. Layoffs suck for EVERYONE at the company. Please give them some grace. paizo.com/blog/paizo-r...

I was laid off as a part of this restructuring. I loved working on Starfinder during my time at Paizo, with all of my amazing colleagues, who then became cherished friends. I hope folks enjoy my work in Tech Core, especially the Tactical Starship Combat rules. paizo.com/blog/paizo-r...

We've heard for a while how much Diamond Comics' theft of consigned products, combined with exclusivity deals, was impacting @greenroninpub.bsky.social . This it the first report I'm aware of on @paizo.com impacts. TL;DR. Millions of dollars of loss & now layoffs.

This is just awful. I hope everyone affected can find a new place to land…Paizo’s losing some talented folks. paizo.com/blog/paizo-r...

HIRE LYNNE

I'll say more when I can focus a bit, but for now ... While I'd love to stay in games, I'm also open to editor positions elsewhere in the publishing world. Fiction would be lovely. Before joining the games industry, I spent a decade and a half in higher ed roles that inform my work today.

“The Al is not just telling you what you want to hear. It is training you, one conversation at a time, to need less friction, expect more agreement, and become slightly less capable of handling a situation where someone pushes back on you”

This benefits a neighborhood school where more than 70% of kids were in hiding at the height of the ICE occupation.

Help free people from ICE detention if you can!! ❤️

for what it's worth, The Spear Cuts Through Water is one of the most spectacular books I've read. I am such an admirer. I also think the reason it's a cult classic is because it's DEMANDING--you have to be quite a skilled reader to experience the book as the all-consuming dance imaginary that it is.

this is really interesting. I've yet to (and hope never to) see an AI slop m/s, so I hadn't given this much thought, but yeah, so much of my structural editing is just following the signposts thrown up by the writer's unconscious as to where the book's *trying* to go despite the author's missteps

Hasbro have apparently hired a notorious union-busting firm in response to the Magic the Gathering Arena teams attempt at unionisation - Reddit mods have deleted the post If you haven't please sign the unions petition actionnetwork.org/forms/uwotcl...

not to make everything about AI, but AI is fundamentally anti-worker. it's a tool built and bought on the promise of lowering our collective value and concentrating wealth at the top. pro-union every day, but especially today: hachetteworkers.com/open-letter/

hey you guys remember when you could just buy a game and then you owned that game and you could play it or loan it to a friend or whatever

GNU Terry Pratchett, whose words will echo long after we, and our children, and our children’s children have moved on thank you, as always, for making me a better person (quote from Reaper Man)

We, the United Paizo Workers, stand strong with our Wizard allies! We welcome the United Wizards of the Coast with open arms to the broader fold of the Communication Workers of America (CWA).

My coworkers at Hachette and I are unionizing!! I am so proud of all of the work we've put into this campaign. We are the largest union in trade publishing. Please sign our open letter to show your support and urge management to voluntarily recognize our union! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Happy lesbian visibility week!! 🗣️💖 This lesbian artist hopes you all have a very yuriful year!!

Families here REALLY need the kindness of those in other communities to come through as much as we can in order to weather some of what we've been through here.

Independent Bookstore Day haul from @brooklinebooksmith.bsky.social!

Support your public library. Defend your public library. Slay the enemies of your public library.

I recently realized I’ve never posted this here. So here’s a thread of the Kenyan AU inner soldiers. 🩷🌙✨

AI chuds will lie that actually cars or the internet also had to be pushed this hard and: No they didn't. That isn't true.

Hey seriously, literally in the bills it says they'll also use identifying information, such as your age data for "other purposes". That means your data goes into a government surveillance database. This would be for ANY *OS*, which is the thing your fucking PC runs off of. Call your reps NOW.

Because people are realizing that "convenience" means paying a shitload of money to basically rent a movie or song you never own and everyone is tired of it. I'm not even a physical media stan and I think it's pretty obvious and makes all the sense in the world

Draconic Codex: A Pathfinder Review! Okay, it’s been a minute since there’s been a Pathfinder review here, and it’s time to change that! Let’s dive into some DRAGONS! NOTICE: Paizo provided me with a review copy of their new book, the Draconic Codex.

We head into the weirder, wilder side of Golarion with "Pathfinder Impossible Magic," a new arcane-themed sourcebook coming this summer from @paizo.com. ttrpgfans.com/pathfinder-i... #pathfinderrpg #paizo #ttrpg #tabletoprpg #rpg #impossiblemagic

I don't know how to explain to the people who pop up when creatives complain about "AI" to say there are legit uses for it just how much they sound like someone saying "Well actually fire is used to make bread" when people are talking about an organized arson ring burning down their fucking houses

The insight coffee was born because coffee is basically my lifeblood. 😄 Definitely made use of that Recall Knowledge bonus in college.

Touchdown! The #Artemis II astronauts have safely returned to Earth, marking the end of their historic voyage around the Moon. 🚀🪂

THREAD: The Massachusetts House just advanced a draconian and unconstitutional social media ban bill. "This legislation would have kicked Greta Thuneberg off social media before she organized her first climate protest. How does that make kids safer?" www.fightforthefuture.org/news/2026-04...

New: 150 unionized ProPublica workers are on strike TODAY over AI, layoff protections, wages, and more. They're asking readers to not visit ProPublica or engage with content on other platforms. It's the first work stoppage of its kind at the newsroom. www.theverge.com/news/908401/...

she's beautiful. we will make it.

Thrilled for this book to be in the wild! I had the honor of working on halflings, gnomes, osharu, and the, um... Shoot, which one was it. It's right on the tip of my tongue. Oh well, I'm sure it will come to me. Starfinder: Galactic Ancestries comes out today! store.paizo.com/starfinder-g...

The Yeongno, is a Korean mythical creature known as a "celestial eater of the rich," this dragon-like monster seeks to consume 100 corrupt politicians, the wealthy, the powerful, etc in order to return to heaven. A cathartic symbol of social justice.

"absolutely no votes to confirm judges, cabinet members, or to advance or fund any policies for presidents that openly say they will end entire civilizations" is actually an extremely fucking moderate position

Awesome image from Artemis. Big!

Oh, wow. So many other worlds visible in the background of the Artemis II view from eclipse, peeking out of the haze of the solar corona. Thanks @tunctezel.bsky.social for labeling!

When Earth burned, black people and anyone desiring freedom left for the stars. Pilot soulships to find new homes and travel the universe in Black Future: Emancipation of Stars by Quinn Murphy, one of the amazing TTRPGs included in the Griot Anthology! #ttrpg thoughtcrimegames.it...

The Artemis II crew is closing in on the Moon, getting an unearthly view: south at the top, lunar farside on the right. This is the first time humans have had a complete view of the huge Orientale impact basin, visible at far right. 🧪🔭 www.flickr.com/photos/nasa2...

The Artemis II crew will spend about six hours on Monday observing the moon. Here’s what they’ll be looking for