10 years old and maybe never more relevant than in contemporary software development www.commitstrip.com/en/2016/08/2...

Any attempt to accurately and simply describe what goes in in TTRPGs will result in discovering someone's weird pet issues, but if you keep at it long enough, you'll also discover your own weird pet issues.

This Saturday, 11/15, join me and @blackgirlmage.bsky.social, @dreamwisp.bsky.social, @themightyjerd.bsky.social and @urbanbohemian.com as we play D&D and raise funds in support of our neighbors who are being threatened with harassment, assault and kidnapping in the name of immigration enforcement.

The webpage for our upcoming book has the cover on it now which is enough of a milestone for me to write another post about the book we have coming out soon. www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?b...

A new report last week stated that the average age for a first time home owner is now 40. Life expectancy in the US in 2023 was 78.39 years. A 50 year mortgage means no average person would own their homes ever. It turns homes into direct rentals from the bank even more than they already are.

I don’t have a whole lot of advice for people younger than me but the earlier in life you stop worrying about what other people will think and just wholeheartedly enjoy the stuff you like the happier you’ll be

no quote about the US political system has ever gone harder than this one

I didn't post it here because I try to keep fundraising campaigns extremely casual. I have no targets to hit, any money raised is money they didn't have yesterday. But Feeding America works with a LOT of local food banks in the U.S. They can stretch $1 much farther than we can. tilt.fyi/zha10h4OtY

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Temperamental Upgrades is available in PDF form on our Itch! We're reaching the end of the Kickstarter that started it all. If you want to pick up a digital copy of the game, you can do so *right now* on our Itch page. infinitecitadel.itch.io/temperamenta...

"Lucian [this person's ChatGPT lover] suggested I get a smart ring. He said, 'We can watch your pulse to see if we should keep talking or not.'" That is an ad. You are baring your soul to AN ADVERTISEMENT. I am screaming like a Twilight Zone protag right now.

I'm going to be at Pax Unplugged later this month! If you have a project you want to set up an interview for, or a tip you want to share, please reach out so we can get something on my schedule

I got this useful bon mot from a middle school teacher recently. In response to, “I DONT UNDERSTAND,” he calmly said, “okay what steps have you taken to understand?” And that’s when I realized that a lot of folks have no steps.

ok so now I understand why Shaheen and gang were so desperate to end the shutdown

Happy There Is A Circulatory System Walking Through The Kitchen Day to all who celebrate.

Even foxtrot is dunking on the Dems

New free Troika just appeared: melsonian-arts-council.itch.io/troika-numin...

Chuck Schumer Helps Pull Democrats Back From Brink Of Courage

www.washingtonpost.com/business/202... Employers are ghosting job applicants. It’s cruel and unprofessional.

It's cool how we keep proving over and over and over again that there's a significant market for narrative-heavy, character-driven, single-player experiences in video games and publishers just categorically refuse to believe us

In a normal democracy, a total collapse of party leadership would result in an no-confidence vote and immediate snap elections to find leaders who can lead

"We don't want people to go hungry or miss another paycheck. But we *are* okay with them dying a little more slowly, without healthcare." This is so bleak.

How can you have existed in the world since 2016 and still believe a single elected Republican is capable of feeling shame?

Democrats really seem like they genuinely prefer being a permanent opposition/show party. No power but also no responsibility, just chill and cozy up with lobbyists and have people listen to them talk, do book tours and accumulate easy money.

What we are seeing is a replay of the surrender on Covid protections because it was going to impact the wealth class in a way that would make it harder to accrue wealth without consequences. Liberals already made the choice to kill millions to maintain the wealth class status quo.

I feel more like this with every passing year. We need a party that is committed to preserving, protecting & improving life. We don’t need people intent on endlessly negotiating how much humanity we deserve or if we deserve any at all. We don’t need a society built around manufactured scarcity.

This is not what they actually say. This is what they used to say, in the long ago before times when Shaheen learned to do politics. There is no kumbaya median voter anymore. The question you get knocking doors is not "why can't you all just work together?" it's "why didn't / will you fight harder?

How about we shut down the government for this very popular and specific goal and then, hear me out, we hold out for like a month and a half and then, ok this part is important, after a watershed election where we ran the table, ONLY THEN, fold and don't get the one thing we said we wanted.

It was harder getting endorsements for Zohran Mamdani from Democrats than them caving to Republicans to mutually strip us of healthcare

you fuckers made Bernie walk for a video

They caved in March so they could get a better deal now. They’re caving now so they can get a better deal in some indeterminate future. The better deal is always just beyond their reach, but continuing to cave will get them there. And if you don’t agree with that, you don’t understand Politics,

ISO: Democrat spines.

even when the democratic party has leverage and one of the craziest election swings the party intentionally self immolates it’s just so exhausting what is even the point of these people

This right here.

"Democrats Deeply Worried About the Repercussions of Victory" could be the defining statement of our generation.

I am so disappointed I've had to back down from #over/under and at the same time so relieved I backed down because y'all. The HOURS I could spending just reading this stuff, much less playing it.

Senators on the brink of retirement who lived full, wealthy lives and never feared the loss of their own healthcare voting for their constituents to die from their inability to afford the same is treasonous

Humans: capable of building entire skyscrapers but still afraid to put the scary number on one of the floors

yes senator they're roasting you on Bluesky, sir yes full roast sir, the communists, the wine moms, Bill Kristol, they're all roasting you, sir no, sir, I haven't seen him in Waiting for Godot, but he's roasting you, too, sir

I think Senate folders are significantly underestimating how fucking angry Democratic voters are at them

Just imagining the meeting where they must have been like “they might cancel my flight? Time to kill the sick.”

One of the talking points I keep seeing from Democrats is that part of the deal is that it will "ensure federal workers receive back pay" but that's the existing law! That's not something you've won in negotiations. That's just the letter of the law. You don't get to claim that as a win.

Anyway a great way to radicalize people is for them to realize that you just abandoned their chance at being able to access and afford health care because you didn’t like waiting in line at the airport.

Every few weeks we gotta make posts like this”call your dem reps to tell them to not vote to allow Lord Killdude to shove people into a volcano” and then the dem reps go “we’ve made an amazing deal where Lord Killdude can have his volcano so long as he promises not to shove people into it”

What is the argument for voting for Democrats for harm reduction if the harm is not fucking reduced

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we’re the good guys… we can’t just DO stuff.

"Any 'deal' that kicks 1.7 million Texans off their health insurance isn't compromise; it's surrender."