Any other time, any other President, and "the dude was in a global conspiracy to fuck them kids" would have been 24/7 coverage. Even Dubya. I remember the fucking Lewinsky coverage. Our media have become craven hacks carrying water for rich pedophiles and I feel insane typing that but there it is.

Dean made one exuberant yelling noise and the entire political media declared him a dead man walking. NPR's Talk of the Nation had a weekly political segment and the introduction included the Dean Scream until the show ended in 2013. But our Fourth Estate decided fucking kids is no big deal.

While I hope he gets better, I'm praying this fall causes Fetterman to step down. He's an absolute disgrace of a senator.

Hey hey! It's Friday afternoon, and I'm not suspended anymore (Trust and Safety my ass 🙄) so come hang out with Jeremy and I as we talk #TTRPG, #tabletop, and #boardgame stuff for half an hour on Upturned Table. Stream starts in about 45 minutes.

Oh, wait. When I initially scrolled past, I thought that was Lucy Lawless as Xena on the left. Never mind. RT undone.

Hate to be that bitch but you know what? I don't expect anything to come out of the Epstein files. Nothing. I hope to God I'm wrong, but if all the shit Trump, his cronies, and the GOP at large have done hasn't toppled him yet, I don't think anything will.

Me, browsing the plamodel section of any/every hobby shop here in Osaka:

Notice how no one ever says "Fuck the fire department."

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I'm seeing some middle aged men whose hearts I really do think are in the right place NONETHELESS making dumb "sexy time" jokes about the Epstein stuff. Just a default setting of heh heh, whoa sex heh heh. I feel like a real drag for scolding about this, but c'mon man. Discernment, Even in jokes.

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Parenting thought: If you punish a kid for something they did, but don't tell them what the problem was, you're not helping them. You're just setting up a situation where they constantly second guess themselves. Anyway. This has nothing to do with @bsky.app moderation. Nope. Nothing at all.

Let's hope this hospitalization forces this disgrace of a senator to step down.

Estrogen, yellow, black. That a fucking no brainier.

A three-day suspension for violating @bsky.app's Community Guidelines about "Respectful Discourse" and you won't even tell me which post was the problem. Fantastic system you've got here, @safety.bsky.app. Really bang up job.

“Why are you only telling at democrats” First of all: I yell at republicans all the time!!! Second of all: this is my party who asks me to vote for them, who asks me for money, and if they want those things they need to meet my v low expectations

DONALD TRUMP: [asleep, drooling on long red tie] SENATE DEMOCRATS: fine, we give in

A week later, and I'm back to attempting to design games. I've blown the pixelated dust off of my dice- and token-based version of ASTROLITH. It's a solo game, meant to evoke old top-scrolling arcade games like Space Invaders.

Republicans were overwhelmingly getting blamed for the shutdown. There was no reason for the Democrats to cave to Trump on healthcare, except for the fact that they are wholly owned and operated by the health insurance lobby.

With all due respect Chuck, fuck you and the entire Democratic Party. The GOP was starting to fight amongst itself. The public was starting to rightly blame Trump. How in God's name did you assholes fumble this?

if you ever randomly get the urge to donate to the democratic party, feel free to venmo that money to me or another trans person instead - we'll make sure it doesn't get used to take away people's healthcare

I could not agree with this more. Game design MEANS something. Why are you using [mechanic X] instead of [mechanic Y]?

taking a big sip from my “stay strong democrats” mug and checking up on congressional news

I've been busy at work and haven't checked my phone in a bit. But the Dems caved, didn't they?

“The number of people publicly identifying as Jewish experienced a steep year-over-year decline in a University of Berlin telephone poll conducted in 1934.”

I'm redrawing NES Metroid once again...

Mister Donuts is advertising three new クリーミーパイ and buddy. You are one syllable away from a porn term.

Reading the "Outgunned: Adventure" rulebook again. It's a minor thing, but it's bothering me that the Stats and Skills are a mix of nouns and verbs. I generally prefer them to be all one or the other.

Come on, people. There is so much, SO MUCH, to go after Trump and his cronies for. I mean, they are purposefully withholding SNAP benefits from people, for fuck's sake. Don't stoop to mocking his appearance or perceived cognitive state.

Nah I don’t fuck with this. This is still mocking disability. We must be better than that.

If you backed that Avatar game a while back, you need to back this. Possibly at the pay-it-back level.

the president is demanding the nation’s highest court let him starve american citizens, in case you’re wondering where we are right now www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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Jesus fucking Christ.

I honestly wonder what the overlap between "people who watch Critical Role" and "people who play D&D" is. That's not meant to be a subtle dig, either. I honestly want to know.

"without subjecting anyone to differential treatment." This is flatly false! Trans people with a passport that does not match with their plain appearance when presented to a border agent is subject to additional hassle compared to a cis person presenting a passport.

I hate to ask this but: Or what? What if they just don't do it? Then what?

How influential is Apocalypse World? This influential. (And I wrote this chart four years ago.) www.designers-and-dragons.com/2021/11/02/t...

Supreme Court OKs for now Trump passport policy that targets trans people. @statesnewsroom.com story by Shauneen Miranda:

Please remember when you discuss trans issues that like Brown people exist

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this is the heart of it. "you don't need dysphoria to be trans" is both axiomatic and a truism by virtue of the fact that framing transition around negativity is unhelpful when the joy of euphoria is far more notable. when every day is full of grey clouds, you're going to be shocked by a sunny day.

Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.

If you aren't seeing skeets from some of your fave people, they might have been labeled "Rude" by bsky mods. Idk what they are thinking, I don't need a mommy to tell me who to be buddies with. Anyway, go into Settings > moderation > bluesky moderation (advanced) and turn Rude off.

Stop sharing AI slop. It's one thing if you don't know or just made a mistake. No need to breathe down someones neck b/c its harder to tell nowadays. But if you do know (ESPECIALLY IF YOU DO KNOW) even if you're posting it to make fun of it or sharing it unironically... consider not doing that.