Remember when grocery stores weren't evil? Like, you could just go buy food and not have to worry about being surveilled, interrogated, or whether the price you saw on the app in the parking lot will be the same by the time you get to the shelves inside the store? Simpler times, I tell you.

So, any countries out there accepting defectors yet? Asking for a disabled software developer friend who can only work a limited number of hours per week (and even that is AMA at this point) but is really, really funny sometimes in minecraft ...hahaha unless 🥺👉👈

Of all the countries my family could have emigrated to in the 1960s, they picked this fucking one 🤦🏼

this but it's all the ai datacenters

For the record, if you use the "silent treatment" to punish your partner, you are inflicting something incredibly emotionally devastating on them that is making them feel unsafe in their own home, and you should feel ashamed of yourself. It's not going nonverbal or cooling off. It's dehumanizing.

⏳ Last week of the Queen of Spies campaign! 🕵️‍♀️ More than 1,400 backers are already on board. If you haven’t joined yet, now’s the moment—let’s make it even bigger. 👉 Support before it ends! gamefound.com/en/projects/...

Hey folks! Myself and @georgiacooked.bsky.social are creating a TTRPG zine for Zine month this year! The game is a GM-less, tragic horror about explorers trapped by a cave in. It's set in the real world and uses a d6 communal dice pool mechanic. Please give us a follow and spread the word!

Late October the category 5 storm Hurricane Melissa has devastated an enormous portion of the island, destroying communities, homes and lives in the process. This bundle contains over 100 games and TTRPG to raise funds to Support Jamaica's Disaster Relief. itch.io/b/3458/jamai... #ttrpg #bundle

Sharing this again for the new year. I would really appreciate it if you share this around. I'm going to put a poll up on the first "exclusive" project I'm going to build on Wednesday the 21st. If you want to know what's up, give it some backing and a follow! :)

New year, new bills. The life of a freelancer. If you need a writer, editor, project manager, social media content maker & scheduler, or other administrative assistance, my schedule is open & my rates are flexible. Pay in USD or EUR, net 30, hourly OR pay by the wordcount. DMs open. #Freelance

Eliminating two full hours of doomscrolling has me tearing through my reading backlog, and I love it 🥰 I'm starting a new book every other freaking night at this rate

Fun fact, Metropolis is set in 2026

Today is the first day Californians can use a legislatively mandated platform to request that online platforms delete their data. privacy.ca.gov/drop/about-d...

These "Julie" anime avatar porn bots spam-liking everything have gotta GO 😭 Anyone got a blocklist going yet? I'm trying to smash them all as they pop up but one gets blocked and five more show up.

New year, and the first order of business is welcoming the Tales of Initiative Patrons into the citadel. We're excited about what 2026 holds for us: not just new games, but new Tales! Join the Patreon and never miss out: www.patreon.com/cw/InfiniteC...

Jesus, can you hear me? Good, the comms are working. Now, you're gonna need to run if you want to evade those Roman soldiers. Hold down A to sprint. Go ahead and try it. ... Good work! You just might be the savior yet. Now pick up that AR-15 and let's do some target practice.

There is no "right" way to use technology that lays waste to the environment, produces unreliable results, sits atop a mountain of stolen information, and also has led to NUMEROUS suicides and murders. Jesus Christ on a bike, people...

Happy 2026 everyone! 🍾 48-word RPG Jam has started on itchio! Make a RPG in 48 words in this new year! itch.io/jam/48wordrp...

I'm running a "high level" (late campaign) streamed one shot of Cyberrats in Space with @rpgsuncovered.bsky.social next month! No experience necessary, express interest below! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Only managed to get one thing uploaded today before a power outage in SF apparently took down IA for a while 😬 hugops to the engineers and social media folks dealing with the aftermath Emilie Autumn - Your Sugar Sits Untouched (the companion audio CD to her poetry book of the same title)

If you start watching “Blade” at exactly 10:07:51 you can start 2026 with Blade saying “Some motherfuckers are always trying to ice skate uphill”

People are out here posting great goals and retrospectives of 2025, and I'm happy for them, but when I look back on mine, it's like

Did you know that I released a new game this year? Going For Broke is a fast-paced, party roleplaying game that tells sitcom stories about a collective house that's scrambling to pay rent. It's cheap, easy to teach, and takes less than an hour to play. Check it out! buriedwithoutceremony.com/gfb

The EFF also helps support reproductive justice - they're not quite planned parenthood, but they're an amazing ally you didn't realize you had. www.eff.org/issues/repro...

Organizing an itch.io Bundle I've organized five itch.io bundles. Four of them have already happened, and one of them is still live for a few more hours. Here are links to all of them1:

Hey y'all, now is a great time to brag on some of those indie creators whose stuff you played this year 👀

Me, currently between roles so I don't have anything relevant to post about:

There are still 4 free copies. Go download it, learn it in 5m, grab some dice and then lets play sometime. infinitecitadel.itch.io/gentlemages

I didn't know what the British candy "shrimps and bananas" tasted like

Para Para MAX 4 is up, as promised, along with: - World Tribe - Arabian Nights (the Orientalism is literally painful) and a BUNCH of rare and/or pre-Asylum era Emilie Autumn! - Chambermaid EP - A Bit o' This & That (rarities!) - On a Day... - Enchant (WTF DO YOU MEAN THIS IS OOP NOW??? 😰)

With several year-end colds keeping the cast away from the dungeons of Tales Does Tales, @krasiph.bsky.social gave a quick rundown of what you can expect from Tales of Initiative in the year 2026! www.twitch.tv/videos/26570...

I know everyone's wiped from the holidays and I hate to ask #ma again so soon, but some crucial money has been held up since before xmas and bills and things are hitting the wall. if anyone can chip in or just reshare would appreciate it! 💸💕🙏 ca/vm: @hypercubexl pp: paypal.me/darylbartley

It isn't often that I have happy health updates, but I definitely got 'em now! I switched from THC edibles to CBD/CBG/CBN at bedtime and the difference has been nothing short of miraculous. I'm getting tired at appropriate times, waking up less during the night, and my overnight pain is reduced. 🧵

LIVE WITH OUR FINAL HOPEMAS STREAM! And final stream of 2025! Let's see if we can smash that goal!!!!! Games with friends to finish off the year including Super Animal Royale and Overwatch! twitch.tv/laurak483

Puzzle/escape room game publisher PostCurious Games (The Emerald Flame, Light in the Mist) is hiring! They seek an experienced Marketing Manager. Must be US-based, working fully-remote, for their company of (2) www.getpostcurious.com/careers

All I wanted for Christmas was not falling too far behind on my health. Can we maybe swing it for the New Year?

Dear new follows: If you're not deeply nerdy AND way politically left (like, comfitable with socialist/communist/anarchist posts), you're going to have A Bad Time following me.

Wrote about how disappointing it is that Jon Stewart punched down on people masking at @motherjones.com, when people should mind their own business and leave mask wearers be. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

We're live!!! Come watch episode 1 of The Liminal, a special mini-campaign of Tales of the Valiant brought to you by @koboldpress.com as part of their creators program! #ttrpg #actualplay twitch.tv/tales_of_ini...

I don't push this often, but I'm hoping for some backers to make me follow through on this in 2026. ko-fi.com/tonytroxell/... See, the Troxell's Trading Post money goes completely towards operating costs, and paying down credit card debt. All of my building comes out of my own money.

I fixed Macho Man Randy Savage's PC when I was working for Geek Squad

I promised you more Para Para, and the first three (count 'em!) volumes of the パラパラ (Para Para) MAX ~The Power of New Animation Songs~ series with Yoko Ishida are up now! I should be able to get the 4th one up tomorrow, and unfortunately that seems to be all I've got 🥲 they're so rare now

As of 12/24/25, USPS changed policy on when they postmark mail. Mail dropped off is no longer guaranteed a same-day postmark. Tax returns & other time-sensitive items are now stamped when they reach a regional processing center, which may be days later. Plan deadlines accordingly to avoid penalties.

If you like Interactive Fiction/Visual Novels, I collaborated with @teafortwostudios.bsky.social last month for a game jam to produce the sci-fi game STARS AND SILENCE. We made an update recently based on jammers' feedback. Link to play the game in comments!

Because I have had to explain it a lot already, but more so in the last month... If you have a #ZineMonth project set up. USPS mail is really resistant to sending zines as letter mail (especially in a rigid mailer). If your zine is more 2.6oz you should anticipate sending it media or parcel. 1/2

After bitching about it for entirely too long, I am pleased to announce that I have finally deleted my TikTok account. I'm gonna miss all the specially curated memes from y'all, but oh god, that app was tanking my mental health on so many levels. 🫠

bumping this again bc both of us need minutes for our phones (tracfone whee) and yknow.. groceries are expensive i hate doing this all the time, but any help in any way is really appreciated

SHOW US YER HAULS!!!

I’ve still got some community copies of StoryBake left! Start your year off sweet with your own copy of my baking-adventure TTRPG! tiny-ghost-chef-games.itch.io/storybake

We have a fun house rule with my standing ttrpg group where if you play a bard and actually sing, you automatically succeed on performance checks. This means that I am now turning every other session of our current campaign into a marginally worse version of George Lucas's Strange Magic.