I had to go back to grab this screenshot, because we have now zoomed past 100% But, to be honest, we needed to. I believe this will end up being our best fundraising year ever, but it is also our most expensive year ever. Please help us finish strong!

Starting a new thing in 2026, a long running AMA! Ask me a business, tech, or random question and I'll answer them on my personal blog. Happy to give you my take on your work situation, career advice, etc. Bring it on! forms.frankwiles.com/ask-frank

New Ask Frank Question: Farhan wonders about running a Digital Agency vs a Product in an age of AI frankwiles.com/questions/d...

#TTRPG Year in Review Worked on: NDA, Return of the Runelords, SFS2E 1-12 Take the Bait, NDA Played: Starfinder 2E, Pathfinder 2E, Pathfinder Ran: D&D (2014), Pathfinder 2E, Starfinder, Starfinder 2E

Baby formula kills babies? Charge the CEOs Bridge collapses due to shoddy materials? Charge the CEOs Worker dies of heat exhaustion? Charge the CEOs Software encourages user to suicide? CHARGE THE CEOS

Godspeed to all the dudes being sent to the grocery store for two last specific things today. If it helps, cornstarch is in the baking aisle

My husband thinks he hates musicals but he knows every word to Muppet Christmas Carol and sings along happily and was excited to put it on tonight so I think the problem is that he saw the greatest musical of all time and now he thinks all of them should be this good

people are clowning on this, but the Canadian mind is cunning, pitiless, steeped in boreal perfidy

Me, a computer tech who sees people conflating 'hack' with 'basic formatting':

Got a friend asking for some accessibility focused reading, and it's been a minute since I started learning the topic. Do you have a go to text to introduce the topic in 2026? Please share!

We have 8 days to collectively decide as a species to end the Common Era and start counting down from 2025 to 1 without any explanation as to what we think will happen when we hit year "0".

The Justice Department released nearly 30,000 more pages of documents related to the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, including many that reference President Donald Trump. https://to.pbs.org/44CAg44

I’m old enough to remember when Mitt Romney said the problem was that 47% of America didn’t pay taxes and wanted to be freeloaders. But I welcome him to the resistance.

The moment I realized salary jobs almost never drug test while hourly jobs do, I saw the jig.

Re last reskeet: Shout out to my fellow Gen Con attendees in 2024 who gathered around me and protected me from an aggressive man who was trying to get in my face about my rollator when I was trying to fly back from Indy to Seattle. I love my ttrpg family 💖💖💖

TODAY IS THE LAST DAY! Fellow procrastinators, this is your time to shine! And if you needed a sign that PyCon US would be better with you and your ideas, this is it:)

Beat the holiday time crunch with digital Paizo Gift Certificates, available to use on all non-subscription purchases! From PDFs to plushies, once they get their emailed certificate, Golarion and the Pact Worlds are their oyster! buff.ly/AljTrV0

Don’t give these ai shill clowns any of your money or time. Support a real artist.

BMP was made without AI. All the writing, all the art, all done by people. So am I using the current discourse around GenAI to boost my book? Hell yes I am because this is how we fight back, we show them that what we make ourselves is better than any AI slop that gets spat out elsewhere.

Just released! 🚀 🐍 Python 3.15a3! discuss.python.org/t/python-3-1... 🔬 A new high-frequency statistical sampling profiler 💬 Python now uses UTF-8 as the default encoding ⚠️ Better error messages 🎨 Colour code snippets in argparse help: bsky.app/profile/sava... #Python #Python315 #CPython #release

This week, in our last blog of December, we explore the idea of a galactic racing syndicate in Starfinder! solorunstudio.com/2025/12/14/s... #Paizo #Starfinder2E #StarfinderSecondEdition #StarWars #StarWarsGalacticRacer #Redline #FZero #WipeOut #SpeedRacer #WackyRacers #FastAndFurious

In the comments under every video where I talk about the data and history of civil resistance, there’s inevitably one guy arguing for open warfare. I always call them a cop bc either 1) they are or 2) they will be so ashamed to be mistaken for the worst kind of person on earth that they’ll stfu

We are going live at the Obscura doing some Homebrew Havoc for #Pathfinder2e Specifically we're going to be turning some of the bosses from Lies of P into creature statblocks. #PNGTuber #VTuber #EldritchTuber Twitch: www.twitch.tv/tabletopobsc...

[Guy whose dick fell off because there's a girl in star wars] I would probably do well in a civil war

A great talk by @attacus.net from this year's #PyConAU All models are wrong, but some are useful.

Aiven just launched Free Tier Kafka and there is a $5000 CASH prize to someone that builds something amazing with it - https://aiven.io/blog/just-free-kafka-in-the-cloud - https://kjaymiller.com/microblog/aiven-free-tier-kafka.html

you'll never believe it

What coding with an LLM feels like sometimes.

Had lots of fun doing this vid! Please check @sethabramson.bsky.social and @juanitagomezr.bsky.social talking about the new security talk track at #PyConUS 2026! And don't forget to pitch a security talk! us.pycon.org/2026/speakin... www.youtube.com/watch?v=MDib...

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🎉 PyCascades is coming back to Vancouver! 🌲🐍 Join us on March 21–22, 2026 at SFU Harbour Centre for two days of Python, community, and Pacific Northwest energy. Get ready for an unforgettable conference! 👉 2026.pycascades.com #Python #PyCascades

DriveThruRPG's new Partner Shipping Program has drawn criticism from several corners of the tabletop industry, with professionals calling it "a half solution" and an “outright a bad deal”.

Paizo's new store is up and works on mobile! The prophecy has been fulfilled! store.paizo.com

I'm live now at twitch.tv/gnome_anne learning Starfinder so I can go to SPACE 🚀 (but you can also chat with me about #ttrpg in general, or ask about streaming, or whatever -- it's chill vibes)

People should be free to marry who they wish to marry. It's a personal contract between two people, not someone's politics or business.

Glasses people, what is the best type of glasses case?

don't know why YouTube decided I want to hear about the latest research on irrigating macademia nuts but absolutely I do

Alright! I've published github.com/savannahostr... and it might even support Windows*! 💫 *Could be edge cases, tell me if it breaks!

The Paizo website is currently down for maintenance, including all product pages and our forums. We’ll see you on the other side of The Gap 2.0!

Hey all you gamers claiming to "want shorter games made by fewer people who are paid more to work less" here's your chance to put your $15 where your mouth is: a spooky & elegiac exploration game made by ex-Bethesda & Ubi devs. It's excellent. Buy it & prove there's a market for games like this!

A bit of good cheer! Monster Core 2 for Pathfinder 2e just released, and I can talk about it; I'm happy to have worked on consulting and design for it! 1. Worked with @brianyaksha.bsky.social on Asuras; we had many convos trying to adapt Golarion metaphysics into Vedic and Dharmic cosmologies haha!

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TTRPG Question of the Day What do you think keeps more people from playing TTRPGs? It's be said that TTRPGs are in the spotlight more than ever before. They're referenced frequently in shows. There are movies & TV series based on them. Some have become video games. So why don't more people play?

Australia has so much electricity from solar power that it is going to start offering free electricity to everyone for at least three hours during the day as the wholesale price of power goes negative electrek.co/2025/11/04/a...

Ah. Who could have guessed this might become a problem? www.wired.com/story/fbi-wa...

This week Alien Core is out! In celebration, we take a deep dive into my personal fav, the Malevolent A.I. solorunstudio.com/2025/11/02/s... #Paizo #Starfinder2E #StarfinderSecondEdition #AlienCore #MalevolentAI #Braniac #Ultron #Hal3000 #GLADOS #SHODAN #Sovereign #Wintermute #GhostInTheShell

It's Alien Core day, for those who celebrate. (It's me, I celebrate.)