"This Life" by Martin Hagglund changed me. It came to me via a friend right when I needed it and its excavation of finite life's value and the reasons why collective liberation is essential to make good on our humanity gave me a positive vision of life after I left religion and fundamentalism.

read thehaunt.blog plz

There are only a few hours left to back the Palestinian Children's Relief TTRPG Bundle on @itchio.bsky.social ! itch.io/b/3299/pales... It's an absolutely amazing bundle, and all proceeds go directly to PCRF

Thinking about William Blake's lovingly detailed illustrations of Satan's Ripped Bod And Ass

I'm tired. Life kept getting in the way today and I didn't wanna write. But I made myself sit down for 15 minutes before my bedtime routine and I wrote 340 words that are not great, I do not feel proud of them, but I did write them lol

Great game to back/buy! Get in while it's hot! Medieval horror setting where nobody can die anymore and when you DO die (which you will!) you come back to life with increasingly horrific mutant powers

Back this TODAY, like RIGHT NOW.

"AI" just bled. We can kill it. www.financialexpress.com/life/technol...

In my opinion you should read this.

Baby Steps has got me thinking about convenience and friction and play and political economy and the discomfort of getting and being free and I tried to write about all of it! illdefined.beehiiv.com/p/smooth-adj

Was up later than usual editing this essay with the windows open and heard someone nearby loudly achieve climax not once but twice. A good omen! If you read my piece, a small bit of that ecstasy can live in you. Pretty sure that's how that works.

Baby Steps has got me thinking about convenience and friction and play and political economy and the discomfort of getting and being free and I tried to write about all of it! illdefined.beehiiv.com/p/smooth-adj

gonna infect you with this

Are you tired of seeing AI slop everywhere? Do you enjoy little acts of resistance and slapping stickers on surfaces? Oooo you’re gonna like these! Updated design is available here: www.kellymckernan.com/shop/no-ai-s... Thanks for supporting human made art!

New Noah Day for all who celebrate

Or put slightly differently: grokipedia is an epistemic weapon.

Tiny pus clone! Barbecue accidents! Ferromagnetism! Boy, this AP has it all.

On this special AP episode of Why We Roll, we play a one-shot of Danse Macabre with Shubha, Teddy, and Zan from @kickstarterunited.org—the union that supports KS workers. Tune in for medieval hijinks, labor politics, and... you guessed it—mutant zombies! #actualplay #AP #Kickstarter #Union #podcast

Another reason to ditch MS and their insistence on shoving Co-pilot into everything.

ran late for work because I suddenly *had* to write down what I was thinking, and managed to bang out 519 words on the essay I've been drafting am I... healing?

friend shared this, immediately updated my settings

Started running an open-table-format Pathfinder campaign of Abomination Vaults each session a fresh expedition into the megadungeon, and realizing I've really missed a simple dungeon crawl.

Getting a guided tour of 4X games from @sbmakesstuff.bsky.social over the last 16 months has highlighted a lot of moral & modeling problems with how it treats its essential focus on empire, but the thing that's deeply weird is that the games are built to be won rather than lost. 🧵

I can't stop looking at this it's so cool

Did you know that Kickstarter's workers – @kickstarterunited.org – are currently on strike!? Learn more, show some solidarity, and have fun watching great spooky TTRPG actual play on Thu Oct 23 at 7!

I think it is time to start bullying people who post their Spotify Wrapped this year.

Emily Tucker argues that the AI regulation debate largely misses the point: the real threat to democracy is unchecked data extraction and accumulation that is fueling corporate power. “We can have mass surveillance, or we can have political self-determination. We can’t have both,” she writes.

Go back this juicy, fleshy, full-of-way-too-many-eyes medieval mutant TTRPG that I'm editing!

Go back this juicy, fleshy, full-of-way-too-many-eyes medieval mutant TTRPG that I'm editing!

““They dragged little Greta [Thunberg] by her hair before our eyes, beat her, and forced her to kiss the Israeli flag. They did everything imaginable to her, as a warning to others,” the Turkish activist ErsinÇelik, a participant in the Sumud flotilla, told Anadolu news agency.”+

on destroying the internet

It's October now, so everyone has to say happy birthday to the bisexual Wikipedia skeleton

Great news! JSTOR now have a free account with an Independent Researcher category. You can access 100 documents per month www.jstor.org/action/showL...

Guess I'm a vinyl girly now!

hey hey! i'm doing a sale of my packs of moody, atmospheric, amateur photos of Maine, "A Place Without Bodies", on sale for 2/3rds off! for just $20, you get over *600* photos, great for projects of all kinds, *with* license for commercial use! lasts till 9/30, midnight! ko-fi.com/s/bc50ecb11f

welcome autumn! 🍂 🎃

it's hard to be queer in appalachia, and someone I care a lot about was arrested seemingly for walking home on rural roads while queer after losing his keys. He's trying to raise funds for his court costs. www.gofundme.com/f/5d3hr-help...

My friends over at Stillfleet Studio are making dopeness again and you all should pay money for it. I'm also a contributing writer in one of the books, and BOY am I excited for you all to see what I cooked up. www.kickstarter.com/projects/wyt... #ttrpg #rpg #osr #medieval #zombieapocalypse

Corporate clients often deem AI-generated art "good enough"—especially when it won't be public-facing and thus subject to backlash. As such, artists describe dramatic reductions in work over the last two years, an influx of gigs fixing AI output for less money, and vanished jobs altogether.

Freelance illustration gigs drying up. Ad agencies using Midjourney instead of hiring human artists. Costume design turned over to AI wholesale. Good work vanishing. These are the stories of working visual artists, who describe losing jobs, wages, and hope as their clients and bosses embrace AI.

Hope you're taking good care of yourself today. Unfortunately if you're on here you've failed. Sorry!

I've struggled a fair bit with grief and fear about only beginning my transition last year at age 34, but this is absolutely right! Sometimes I just scroll through the /translater subreddit and it's always encouraging.

The word "Luddite" is not an insult in a world where refrigerators play ads

With students heading back to the classroom, a group of cognitive scientists and AI researchers has published one of the most forceful and evidence-backed calls yet to reject the "uncritical adoption of AI" in academia:

Cringing at myself for writing this, but I had to get it out of my head, and I haven't written an essay for a hot minute. A little essay on the surreality of watching You've Got Mail, a genuinely bat-shit movie. illdefined.beehiiv.com/p/fox

Cringing at myself for writing this, but I had to get it out of my head, and I haven't written an essay for a hot minute. A little essay on the surreality of watching You've Got Mail, a genuinely bat-shit movie. illdefined.beehiiv.com/p/fox