based on how often the naughty teens of major cities throw the rentable scooters directly into the river i've formed a theory that the many iron age swords and cauldrons found in lakes around europe that we've previously assumed were ceremonial and sacrificial in nature were in fact thrown by teens

Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House. Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity. They are not the same.

I found a flowchart which helps you navigate the IT landscape

Reminder: you don't have to engage with AI as an instructor. You can talk about AI--even build AI literacy, if you want to call it that--and still not engage directly with a brutal, unethical, ecologically disastrous bundle of technologies. Regardless of institutional pressure, you can refuse.

Gmail ruining its mail sorting with AI right before Black Friday is a real PITA.

narrator: 50 years ago... me: [nods] in 1945 narrator: in 1975... me: what

Wore this shirt at PaxU today and it was a big hit.

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Hey, all. I woke up this morning to discover that a lot of my things were stolen during a break-in. Several things were crucial to my day job, and renter insurance will take time to pay out, if at all. I need to quickly replace a laptop and tablet. Please share if you can. paypal.me/coxendine

Nearly killed in a crosswalk by Lowly Worm doing 490 km/h in a Bugatti apple

saturation with Tolkien spinoffs has somehow not prepared our culture for the arrival of dark lords bearing a gift that everyone becomes convinced they can wield to accomplish great things but just makes them dependent and start whispering about preciouses if you suggest just throwing it away

The new Paizo store is live!!! And with it comes a lil sneak peak at the Draconic Codex's table of contents! I so can't wait to get a closer look at all these new dragons, and especially the Drake Rider archetype!!!

I REALLY LIKE WRITING IT IS COOL AND FUN

PaxU tip: if you plan on taking SEPTA around, download the Transit app. You can use your phone to pay on busses.

Part 116 of 200 in historically interesting things to inspire your ttrpg 8800-year old ceramic horse. Han Dynasty

Long ago on the hell site I made long list of historically interesting things to use in dnd ttrpgs and I'll start dragging them over here starting with 2000 years-old sapphire ring presumably belonged to Roman emperor Caligula, depicting his fourth wife Caesonia.

I think five different times since daylight savings I’ve looked up from my work to see that it’s dark out and said “oh damn it’s getting late, must be like 8 o’clock” and it was like 4:30 💀 I’M NOT HANDLING IT WELL

Just scared the crap out of my kid by bursting into her room in full Norma Desmond-style makeup and a silk turban with the tackiest costume jewelry brooch I could find pinned to the front of it. God, I love Halloween

The Melinoë earrings look like this when you wear them! 🥰

Quick sketch commissions are open again! 🪻$20 single character 🌷$35 two characters Venmo: @ vicklemcpickle Paypal: [email protected] Email your reference images to [email protected] (please include your username in the email!)

A balanced DnD party usually something like: fighter, cleric, wizard, and rogue. A balanced Pathfinder party could mean anything, like: A skeleton that gets drunk. Two Raccoons, but one is wearing a witch's hat. An actual table, that becomes a person and knows Kung-Fu. And a pumpkin...with a gun!

Too many people view reading as “something you do” rather than “a skill that can be developed.” If you want to get better at kicking a football, you have to kick a lot of footballs. If you want to get better at reading, you have to read a lot of books. Also, it’s fun to be good at things!

There are so many people whose mental health would be helped immensely by living in Philadelphia

Top 5 Vampires: -Dracula (Bram Stoker original novel) -Alucard (Hellsing, who is also Dracula) -Alucard (Castlevania, who is not Dracula) -Dracula (Castlevania) -The Count (Sesame Street, who they claim is not actually a vampire)

A while back I played around with color 3D printing and had fun making my fav Sierra characters.

The real generational divide is people who refuse to watch a video if it could be an article versus people who refuse to read an article if it could be a video

happy birthday Gritty

Creepy Redneck Dinosaur Mansion 1: Re-Raptored is OUT NOW! 🦖 store.steampowered.com/app/3830150/...

dudes rock

Welp here we are again, fresh out of Archaeologists for Skype a Scientist matches. This fall, we have matched 248 groups with Archaeologists for online Q&As. I have 38 more groups who need a match, but I'm out of Archaeologists! Archaeologists! Please volunteer www.skypeascientist.com/sign-up.html

Luckily the rapture is unlikely to interfere with my Thursday-night Pathfinder game.

developing self-confidence later in life is such a trip because now I'm like, "I know who I am, I know what I can do, and if anyone has negative or contrary ideas about either, I have enough of a mental foundation to care so much less than when I was younger"

Critical Role is partnered to release a new video game? It's a new episodic Superhero IP?? AND IT COMES OUT NEXT MONTH??? I interviewed @adhocstudio.com about upcoming RPG Dispatch and their creative influences - exclusively available at Bearly Factual Productions! www.patreon.com/posts/139069...

happy fat bear season

Absalom is rumbling and Castrovel is grumbling in the new Pathfinder and Starfinder Society Scenarios in today's blog! buff.ly/CGzm6pb

Pathfinder Quest is live on BackerKit! Check out today's blog to learn about the game, campaign exclusives, and see how you can shape the destiny of Darkmoon Vale! buff.ly/GJ5VHDD

this is, hands down, the best video I've seen on men's influencer content and it's not close either

i like that literally every story is like "what if normal day BUT THEN SOMETHING HAPPENS" and writers have been coming up with different combinations of normal days and SOMETHING HAPPENS since the dawn of time

i think the new stephen starr restaurant that opened in the old rittenhouse barnes & noble building should let people use the restroom there

Theseus the Tank Engine

I think we all need to constantly split hairs as much as possible to deflate the magical thinking our decision-maker class has adopted around AI. I basically have to do this all day at work. If you’re using “AI” as a shorthand for “a magic wizard” around me I will quibble until you understand that

Concerned that we are losing the necessary ratio. 15% of teachers/faculty should be irretrievably strange eccentrics. Every learning experience should have some element where in later life you can reflect with former classmates about how bizarre at least one (1) class per year was.

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

What people think they 80s were like versus what the 80s was actually like.

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