I was ashamed of the National Council when I was a scout, I was ashamed of National when I was an assistant scoutmaster, and I'm still ashamed of National.

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Fascinated that there’s seemingly no one in this person’s life to advise them against showing their entire ass in a public way like this. What kind of mistakes do you have to make to conclude that learning is an obligation and not the reward?

My illustrations celebrating Nancy Drew entering the public domain

Walking past all the $15/lb beef to grab a tofu brick for $2

Sci-fi that deals with questions of artificial consciousness is interesting because it's pushing us to think about what it means to be human. It functions as a metaphorical mirror. Being shocked by a computer programmed to play pretend reflects on us too, but not in a particularly flattering way

Some days make me wish I still believed in hell.

I can’t imagine presenting anything Elon Musk says as realistic or factual. The man is the world’s most famous liar.

Really don’t like the roaring, raging return of acceptable-for-progressives homophobia

GLORY TO THE TZEENTCHIAN WAR TWINK!

Gonna live post the preview show cuz im bored in my lunch break. So far just 40k. New Eldar stuff looks neat, I continue to bounce off marine aesthetics. Space Seraphon is cool.

Saw a lot of headlines saying "wikipedia is embracing ai" being tossed around tabloids, and I'm pretty sure they were maliciously written to make you feel a certain way about Wikipedia. What's actually happening is that wikipedia is demanding payment for data scraping and the corpos don't like that.

𝒫𝒾𝑔 #warhammerageofsigmar #ironjawz

The eroding of art as a consequence of wholly mundane incentives and carelessness, not some grand conspiracy or even passionate rebuttal, feels like a very *of the moment* thing to understand. A masterclass from Olson (per usual).

Slow pig progress. (Ardboy for reference haha) My goal in the next couple months is to have all my regiment of renowns painted so I feel less bad slamming them into otherwise fully painted lists lol.

Listen, I know the cards are probably stacked towards Total War: 40K, but god I’d kill for TW: AoS instead.

Three characters with narratives about doing the right thing even when it’s complicated, and Chronos purely on style points 😅

I know we’re all nostalgic for vine, but it feels like everyone is ignoring all the crypto language/architecture built into Dorsey’s new gambit. Like it runs in Nostr. Feels more like they’re just using the vine backlog to push a crypto scheme imo.

Pratchett, his whole bibliography, is most of the reason I am the person I am. Specifically the first book of his I read was The Fifth Elephant, a weird place to start but still one of my favorites. Still haven’t read The Shepherd’s Crown, don’t know if I’ll ever be ready.

Discworld QOTD, from Feet of Clay

Extremely low stakes debate topic: What do you figure is the English word with the worst “what it means” to “how it sounds” ratio? Like, I borderline refuse to say “demonstrably” right because “demonstrate-ably” is what it means while “de-MONSTER-bly” sounds like a children’s monster movie title.

I have… way more thoughts about the Wednesday show than is probably healthy. Like it was fun, but idk if I’ve ever seen a piece of media jumble its ideas so powerfully before.

The inevitable has happened, I booted up Silksong and I’ve finally hit a point where the time investment to get good enough to play it just doesn’t really grab me anymore I lived off Soulslikes through my 20s. But I’ve got other stuff going on now I want to do more. End of an era. Skong on for me 🫡

Hello I’m back. (Did a bit of a social media hiatus, cuz you know, everything.)

Just my boys and our devastating ice weakness haha.

Exasperatingly frequently necessary reminder that the weaponization of ableism and fatphobia and homophobia and transphobia against your political enemies still works to NORMALIZE those things, thus SYSTEMICALLY HARMING your supposed allies.

I try to maintain empathy and connection for humans as a whole, but the illusion that the world "just works"--that the assumptions of past generations are true, that the rules of your teachers are sacred, that change is a risk rather than a necessity--is poisonous, and creates poisonous people.

File this under “evidence that democrats can’t get attention for doing wild shit because everyone expects that they will make sense and follow rules but every dumbass thing Donald Trump says is the whole news for 2 weeks.”

Listen, it is obviously *someone’s* aesthetic or it wouldn’t be the no. 1 source of plastic miniatures in the world… but I have literally never seen a space marine that looked cool. The EC reveal felt like a fever dream (bad). This? This is your long awaited Slaanesh range???

What does your true self look like? How does it feel to transcend? How does it feel when the power is spent, and you change back? Girl By Moonlight. evilhat.com/product/girl...

Stop being a sinophobic dipshit and come up with a comprehensive plan to legislate *all* social media for privacy and user data, bud

If you see this, post a ghost!

Weirdly prolific in DnD/Tabletop RPG spaces I’ve found. “Oh I’d never use it for a published work but I like generating monsters for my home table.” Don’t. I promise your players will enjoy your crudely drawn stick beastie more than AI slop anyways, plus it doesn’t kill the planet.

My friend and cohost expressed an interest in my Yndrasta so I painted her one as a Christmas present! (In a color scheme more in line with her vibes 🔥)

Hey fun fact, Triangle Agency kicks ass. Finally pulled the trigger on picking up a copy yesterday and not only am I extremely excited to run it with my table I’m also having a blast just reading the rules. Huge props to everyone on the team, haven’t laughed this hard in a while.

At risk of repeating myself: The Luddites weren’t against technology. They were against getting put out of work by a technology that did a version of their job faster but worse, in the service of increasing profits for their bosses.

I suspect, as Hank did, that this’ll be an unpopular position; but greed did not build most of the systems behind climate change, care for eachother did. But that doesn’t mean the solution is less caring. And depopulation rhetoric is always a tool for immense harm directed at the most vulnerable.

5e was the second, but the first was honest-to-god Burning Wheel (which probably explains a lot about me as a player and GM). 5e is my beer and pretzels *throw something together* game still since most of my group is most familiar with it and while it’s hard to find a BW group I still love it.

Do yourself a favor and play “We Know The Devil.” It’s on sale on Steam and Itch right now and it’s phenomenal. It captures something, idk, powerful about the queer experience (especially the queer youth experience.) Plus I’m a sucker for a near-real horror fantasy setting.

'tis the season!

I have opinions on the new AoS update but they need to percolate. Right now overwhelmingly good but details are going to need table time before I can articulate them haha.

I’m going to play to type and shoutout Oryctodromeus the state dinosaur of Idaho! It’s a chicken-lizard with friends who lives underground. Mood.

If I had to guess, I’d say my most controversial pop culture opinion is that Ryan Reynold’s Deadpool is a bad adaptation. The first movie was closest and by &Wolverine Deadpool was just Ryan Reynolds. DP is more than just Spider-man + sex jokes.

Doing a bit of amateur character sheet design for the AoS hack I’m making (nothing fancy, just some excel shapes) and it’s very calming. Lining up boxes of info in neat little rows, putting all the skills together, etc.

Went in for a (presumed) normal dental procedure and walked out with *one of my existing crowns pulled off by impression putty.* Literally never had anything but negative experiences at the dentist, would trade all my teeth for synthetics in a heartbeat if that was viable. UGH

all my #ttrpg characters follow one theme: good is something you do, not something you are (quote this with yours!)

All the new AoS regiments of renown are pure peak. I want to kiss whoever designed them on the mouth. Stuff like the lone drunk gargant wandering into combat or the ghouls who think they’re chaos warriors is incredible.

“We remember. We remember da promises Gorkamorka made, even if he’s forgot.” “If dem spikey gits wanna kill da world, theys gonna have to get through us first.” (After literally a year of on and off, happy to finally have these Ardboys done.)