Please read the article -- the headline here is so overtly goddamn misleading it has to be intentional. "Umanned submarine probe discovers unexpected sea-floor morphology from ice-melt dynamics but is lost during routine out-of-contact period" is what it's actually about. Jesus fucking christ.

Hang in there, Maryland.

Weird query, but are there Actual Play folks who: - record remotely - would be willing to send a high-res photo of their recording setup - would be willing to have that photo used in an academic book? (Happy to cite)

Historian of abolition here, history tells us how we got here, to put it succinctly “John Brown was hanged for treason and Robert E. Lee was not.”

Now I'm imagining attending PAX West wearing a T-shirt that says "I'd help @friede.bsky.social beat you up in a Denny's parking lot."

This is the funniest fucking thing I've read all year

Film you've watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Star Trek, Star Wars, LOTR, Marvel, Disney, or Ghibli.

Game studio and incubator program for everyone left behind by the industry.

i think if you hear somebody say "trump derangement syndrome" you should be allowed to beat the fuck out of them

One of the things I unironically love about the gaming roleplay community is that guilds often contain a range of ages between 21-60 and everyone just...learns to be friends and get along and respect each other's creativity. I'm 50 and have friends my age AND in their 20s. Broadens my perspective.

Weird question. Does anyone know someone who would be up to collab/let me commission them for Arabic calligraphy? maybe even teach a bit about it? I've been trying to fumble my way through some designs for magic in #Ha-Nahn but I'm reaching the point where I want some expert help.

While we are transfixed by the antics of our supposed "leaders", a catastrophe of astonishing proportions has been creeping up on us. Climate scientists now believe it is more likely than not to happen, and soon. This week's column. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

HAPPY 20TH BIRTHDAY TO NEIL BANGING OUT THE TUNES

"Humans won't work unless they're forced to" is a myth for stupid people. If you're paying attention, humanity loves to do the job... they just don't like to be exploited and abused just to survive, the 2 tools people THINK you need to inflict upon humans to make them work.

I don’t know how people keep forgetting that workers rights were entirely written in blood and the capital class had to be threatened with violence before they agreed to things like 8 hour working days and 2 day weekends.

RT if $3000 would literally change your life

She is risen. #HappyXster

No one plays an RPG purely because its dice mechanic is interesting.

I love Bill Sienkiewicz art so much. Growing up reading The New Mutants his stuff was so incredibly impactful for me. I had never seen an art style so out there when I was younger.

There's a lot of things that make Star Wars fantastic, but for my money, nothing beats a story that has a few grubby little guys just trying to get shit done in space.

I might not be able to make #PAXEast this year, but if anyone needs a professional GM to run games for them at #PAXWest later on, definitely hit me up!

Today's hot take for TTRPGs: No-selling is bad storytelling.

Every picture of ICE agents in airports is just this again

A reminder that I’m STILL available for work.

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Anytime someone else comes out with fond memories of C:tL, I feel like Aragorn here.

Few (if any) D&D stories get broken by someone accessing a few more cantrips than their class is allotted. Players seem to always turn these sorts of things into unhinged entertainment opportunities. 👍🏻

This is the best product review I’ve read: samhenri.gold/blog/2026031... It doesn’t matter if you’re interested in the MacBook Neo or not; this is the kind of essay that makes you think about the potential of technology and the joys of exploration.

Today is the day for the Make Things Better virtual meeting, and today we have a personal safety tip to practice in These Times. Link will go up a half hour in advance of the meeting, at the bottom of my pinned thread, which also contains full details about the meetings in general. Repost at will!

QTP with a gif that pops up when you type your name

Gonna be yelling about this until the call closes

That also happens to me every time I go to sleep after having an edible, so.

Un-nuanced RPG take: Eberron is the shit. I'm a happy DnD player, but I'm STOKED every time I see someone adapting it for other systems. The more, the merrier 😍

“Dr Friedman, when did GamerGate end?”

I am CONSTANTLY thinking about Casablanca.

If anyone needs a professional to run games for them at #PAXWest this year, hit me up!

If you need art for your TTRPG project, we have made this small list of affordable places to look (we even update it from time to time)!

Today my students asked about AI advertising to student populations/campuses and I recommended that they read tech bro rhetoric about AI while swapping out "AI" for the terms "slavery," "pollution," "billionaire profits," or "deep state surveillance," and we had a great time. Highly recommend.

It's enraging to understand the amount of thought, time, craft, and care that every writer and artist I know puts into their work only to see these GenAI proselytizers have the gall to take that work, shove it into a blender, and then demand we enthusiastically support them and the resulting slop.

These are also the same basic rules taught in any entry level hunter safety course, ffs. It's not unique, or advanced, or complex. I've taught these rules to seven year olds. Every competent gun owner knows them.

For any of my gamer pals who think that all this Epstein nonsense has nothing to do with your life...

A large nature reserve/arboretum including at least one mountain bearing various forest ecosystems with altitude stratification called Maslow's Hierarchy of Trees.

A store specializing in books for every mood and every stage of life called Maslow's Hierarchy of Reads

I've told this story on ContrabandCamp but it's worth sharing for BHM because it's one of the greatest stories ever. A thread.

Commenting “ewwwww” on everyone’s ai generated posts because fucking gross

Mine too!

If anyone knows an expert who could advise me on the proper use of intermittent fasting for the purpose of improving the experience of cancer chemotherapy, please hook me up! Thank you!