Funds are getting tight and margins are thinner for keeping our community space alive, we're putting out a call for donations! We were hit by an unexpected 80,000 NT bill recently which cleared out a lot of what we had in the bank

We (Pugstorm) are looking to hire a Senior Pixel Artist! 🎨 - Highly skilled pixelartist, strong communication skills - Ability to work closely with our Art Directors - Experience in animation & Unity is a MAJOR plus! - Time zone near Sweden, fully remote 👉 [email protected]

The doors of Story Oracle, Clarion West’s first ever choose your own adventure narrative game, are officially open. Awaiting you inside the labyrinth are adventure, romance, and as many as 10 book recommendations curated by some of your favorite CW authors. Start your journey here: bit.ly/44kuAuI

the best chance the Prairieland anti-ICE protesters have is that we keep their names and their case on our lips as we eventually move to a post-Trump era, that we fight for their pardon as an essential part of departing from fascism.

Clarion West is fundraising through a pick-your-path game that also recommends books and short stories based on your choices. So go donate a little bit of cash, play the game, and walk away with some ideas of your next read!

FREE SPEECH UNDER ATTACK: Marco Rubio just had a man arrested and jailed, and is seeking to deport him, because he publicly supported Petro and opposed a presidential candidate in Colombia that Donald Trump would prefer to be elected. He committed no crimes and had an asylum application pending.

McSweeney’s on the economics of the AI bubble. This description of AI driven layoffs is excellent satire.

true but I think it is even closer to the individual: it was pioneered by those who grew up seeing the erosion of the cozy 'third space' where you're welcome and people hang out. liminal horror is the exact opposite of these feelings, a reflection of what most of our lived reality is nowadays

So glad to see these Spotlights see the light of day. I remember playtesting this with friends and their scheme to change the world was… credit cards. And one character I think failing to hide his addiction to eating aluminum, lol

First up is @montelin.bsky.social with Alien, Us: 1950's small town America where intergalactic immigrants are hiding in plain sight... and they're you. It's the Twilight Zone meets the Munsters. www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/5...

One thing I learned when I was just out of college and watching 6-8 hours of Fox News a day for my research job at Media Matters: Ingesting hours of propaganda on a daily basis changes you, no matter how smart you think you are. If you don't notice the changes, that just makes you an easier mark.

the secret about adventure writing is that it is, imo, maybe even more technical than writing rules or classes. a ttrpg adventure product is not a narrative, it's an instruction manual walking the reader through GMing a session the way the author might, in accordance with the author's sensibilities

Meet serial macer Melissa Janell Berntsen, aka NicoOregon, who went to Hillsboro Pride w/ Tommy Allen on 6/6 and assaulted many attendees with bear spray, including children. Her stream was wildly incriminating & we encourage the victims to sue her. Highlight clips below ⬇︎

I think one of the upsetting things about the AI art discourse is that it has revealed (all over again) how many people in the world are genuinely angry and resentful that some artists get paid for a living.

Unfortunately, I've been laid off as part of Paizo's recent restructuring (paizo.com/blog/paizo-r...). I'm reopening my public commissions while I look for what's next; if you've been looking for an excuse to get your TTRPG character illustrated, please reach out!

crazy that if you harbor self-hate you will think that everyone hates you, but there's only one man in the US who can visit new york city and get boo'd from every corner of madison square garden and general city

I know democracy is slow work, but surely we can do better than let MAGA freaks run rampant with their abuses for days, weeks, and months on end before some judge finally finds it illegal. So much damage is done while we wait for justice to take her time, I hate it.

CRYING AND THROWING UP I'm not even going to PRETEND to be cool about this, I'm an IGNYTE nominee???????

You guys, the White House accidentally ordered 10x the amount of Porta-Potties that they needed. The lawn is just acres of Porta-Potties. It’s all fenced off and you can’t see, but I took this photo through a hole in the fence netting.

We'll never know what wonders would have resulted. We lost heroes and healers and teachers. Entire universes. My generation was robbed of so many of our elders, and all they had to pass onto us. Art, film, music, and culture wouldn't be the same today if things had gone differently.

heartbreaking loss, grew up with buffy, loved him in ted lasso, but especially loved him as anthony stewart head, who did this

June is gearing up to be one of the worst months for freelancing (and I had a particularly dry May as well). If you need words anywhere, I'm ready to write them. For my fellow freelancers and mutuals, please feel free to hit me up for brainstorming pitches, or a sounding board for your ideas!

I would think about ending my boycott of the “lock everything behind plexiglass” pharmacy for this cat 😻

Nine of the many victims of ICE. Rest in Peace.

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: Playtest Material Issue One: "An RPG Is Like..." SUBMISSION WINDOW: June 1-Aug 1

IMPORTANT: For any artists/writers/etc etc, using Linktree to point people to their work, from 5 July, they'll be feeding all imagery you use on your landing page into DALL-E by OpenAI. I deleted my account this morning.

So, I don't know how hard I have to stress how potentially damaging the live service/subscription model that Wizards is considering is to the hobby at large. We're at a point right now where people are realizing the peril of not actually owning anything as streaming services and operations...1/5

It's possible it's a fluke of timing with these YouTube-trained directors, but it's also possible we're in the early stages of a generational turnover of directors similar to what happened in the 70s with Roger Corman-trained directors or the 90s with the MTV directors. variety.com/2026/film/bo...

Democratic politicians talk a big game about civil rights, yet their police departments are still busy cracking heads at protests. Blue cities look exactly like red ones when the protest lines form.

One of the reasons nonblack people are highly invested in the mythology of Black self destruction is that it allows them to rationalize & divert from their own role in harm to Black people. "They don't want to live anyway" is a one of the sickest projections to rationalize genocidal thinking.

we are beyond delighted to see @emelkrishnan.bsky.social "Ichthyosis" in this incredible list. it is SUCH a fantastic story and if you haven't already, we can't wait for you to read it 💖

Playtest materials for STRIKE/POSE, the model kit skirmish game I'm designing with @gamewithbeef.bsky.social, are now available for free on Itch! We're looking for feedback! danielhkwan.itch.io/strikepose

Barbara Lee got OPD to finally clean up enough they might no longer be under federal oversight. On one hand, I'm glad she pushed them, on the other hand, when she's not there, it's so easy for them to slide back bc everyone hates Oakland. sfist.com/2026/05/27/o...

I have immense pride in the quality of my work and the difference it makes. I don't need to make a lot of money to be happy. But as a worker, a renter, and a consumer everything is a constant scam, there's no security, and my work ethic and high standards are worthless to everyone but myself.

a lot of people are talking about HR but operations includes admin and can also include accounting. The day-to-day boring stuff that keeps the company running. So tell me how a company or corporation will function when no one knows what is happening internally, since AI is such a black box?

Please read past the AI, down to the art-history part. You'll look at paintings differently.

Starbucks done EFFED up in Korea. Bad. May 18th just passed, Democratic Movement Day, when rose up after the military dictatorship sent tanks to mass-murder citizens. Some inappropriately call it "Tank Day." Starbucks commemorated Tank Day with a sale on tank tumblers. It gets much worse...

Someone at a convention once said to a friend who was working the booth with me that he liked my work but he wasn't going to buy anything because "Chris is successful enough and doesn't need my money". Anyway I'm no longer a full time game designer because I didn't make enough money to live.

Snark aside, real talk? There's a beautiful thing that's been quietly happening all along, and I've been seeing more and more of it lately. More bigger examples. I always say that you learn more about your game in the weeks after you publish it than in the months or years leading up to it.

BoardGameGeek fired their advertising manager because he banned ads for a board game because it wasn’t Christian enough, which is the first time I’ve heard of a company firing a Christian employee for being unwilling to operate in a multicultural society. techraptor.net/tabletop/new...

Difficult post, but past time to rip the band aid off. FIYAH is going on hiatus indefinitely, with issue #40 currently set to be our last for the time being. The mag cannot continue running at a loss, and needs time to reassess operations from top to bottom if a viable path forward is to be created.

Got a weird idea for the 2027 Baby Bestiary calendar, (retro dnd bw style) link your/any artist portfolios you thnk would be a fit (it will still be for cute monsters) #dnd #dndart

Kickstarter has reverted their policy changes on Adult Content! They issued an apology, siting Stripe as the reason. The pressure we put on them worked. This is a step in the right direction. But the threat of Stripe remains. It’d be great to see KS end ties with them & process payments elsewhere.

When I talk about #wuxia I’m often told people have a hard time understanding it, yet my geeky friends go on a lot about old Republics, the Jedi, shadow organisations of #StarWars. Western nerds, you've been enjoying Wuxia stories, for nearly 50 years. #fantasy snowpavilion.co.uk/the-legend-o...

in a way, isn’t causing men to crash out before she’s even done anything just proof that Lupita is perfect for Helen of Troy

Four Pillars Gaming published hundred of AI-generated profiles over the past four months and when people asked to be taken down, they doubled down, defended their process, and refused. The ramifications of hallucinatory LLM "histories" threaten to erode truth and destroy the historical record.

it just grinds my gears sometimes because the answer often is just, stop looking at the art object that bores you and start looking at the art objects that excite you

it does get under my skin a little bit when people lament a kind of story for being so white and then don't engage with works outside of the mainstream that come from creators of color or engage with non-white narratives