Reminder to folks who have online stores to not use Uline for shipping supplies! Their money goes straight to bullshit campaigns like this one:

When all of this is over, when all the tell-all books have been printed, all the trials concluded, all the people with nothing left to fear by speaking up... we're going to find out it's all been so much worse than we ever thought it was. That the whole thing was absolutely and totally awful.

Kinda maddening listening to Griffin incorrectly summarize the plot of The Mandalorian and Grogu on @blankcheck.bsky.social and everyone's so eager to shit on the movie that NOBODY corrects or fact-checks him. I'm not claiming it's a great movie, but if you're gonna mock it, get it right, geez.

It really feels like everyone should be taught in school to ask: Convenient for whom? Efficient at what? Profitable to what end?

it is crazy that the president is essentially just the project manager for a medium-sized hotel ballroom who tweets things which would yet someone with that actual job fired instantaneously

[puts finger to ear] you're telling me nintendo makes games for children? wow

This is, of course, wildly antisemitic.

"this piece of media has gross stuff in it" man damn that sucks, did you talk to your mom about how the parental controls aren't working

Available now! The classic Blades in the Dark by @johnharper.bsky.social and @evilhat.bsky.social! We're really proud of this implementation - and it's fully playable outside of the VTT!

"He's a menace ... I WANT SPIDER-MAN!" J.K. Simmons is at the Mets game tonight and ran into a familiar face 😂

If you're a retailer who has NOT joined Bits & Mortar 1) It's FREE 2) When a customer buys a hardcopy of an RPG in your score, easily send them the PDF -- also FREE! 3) Over 270 different publishers (not just Evil Hat) list their games with Bits & Mortar. 4) It's FREE Learn how to sign up here:

Fox reporter to protester: You have a dirty mouth Protester: You are a Nazi bitch

I assume this is on a Beef Diaper? It seems to be staying where they put it.

Hadden's building a backup of this thing in Hokkaido in case it gets taken out by a Busey.

In two weeks, Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine will have lasted as long as the entire World War I.

The subtext for a lot of the war on higher education is: “My relationship with my kids is terrible, and this cannot possibly be my fault.”

I remain convinced that our political dysfunction is in one sense fundamentally apolitical. Which is to say: A lot of people are basically unhappy or angry about their lives for reasons that do not have policy causes or remedies, and Trump et al have given those people places to channel their rage.

your regular reminder that the national shoplifting crisis was a manufactured moral panic largely engineered by corporations in order to cover up their own mismanagement — and that wage theft is the largest category of theft in the U.S.

You should take advantage of this absurd discount on digital copies of everything Atomic Robo bundleofholding.com/presents/202...

i love her make her president

Workers deserve the right to work on their own projects outside work without fear that the company may try and claim legal ownership of it due to overly-broad contract clauses. unitedwizardsofthecoast.com/news/2026-05...

The prevalence of AI art has already made it abundantly clear what we already knew: that many clients and employers have no taste and don't give a shit about quality. But I'm starting to think that the note-givers were only ever doing it to assert dominance.

Home Depot is understaffing their stores (the same as CVS) and that's why they do this. Starbucks closed unionized stores in Santa Monica and Brentwood and blamed crime. Big corps send pressers to newspapers who copy and paste them into the CMS and do zero original reporting. Ask me how I know

At @the-kraken.bsky.social, these were the alignments of five characters in one of my Fighter Wizard Elf sessions. I'm pretty happy with the treatment of alignment. For fifty years, reworking alignment rules has provided no end of grist for the #ttrpg mill.

Look out for more of this guy in the future, I guess.

I used to think you had to be special to write TTRPGs. I was right. I just misunderstood which aspect you had to have that was special. It’s not boundless creativity. I always struggled, feeling not creative enough. It’s the ability to sit down and commit words to paper. That’s the big hurdle.

For people who do care about theory stuff, I do have a few posts on my blog under the Forge Theory section that attempts to give plain-er language explanations of some things. Please understand much of the early convos were built in the face of (bad) social spaces of the time bankuei.wordpress.com

We built Atomic Robo to work around this habit. A series of mini-series that hop around the timeline so you can start anywhere and read the rest in any order. We don’t even number the hardcover collections. Currently printing the 16th volume, drawing the 17th, and writing the 18th.

AND ONE MORE THING: "Satisfying in many of the ways stories are" is TEN BAZILLION times more important that "Do they actually count as stories" even if the latter is more fun to fight over. The "do they count as stories" argument walks you directly away from the actual value.

So, @edzitron.com ate his Wheatties this morning

Mister Six, Secretary of Flags & Fun.

Totally normal to have 15 physicals and 12 mental exams in a year

ST. PAUL / MINNEAPOLIS! It appears there are only about 100 tickets left for tonight’s Comedy Bang Bang show, and I reeeeeally think you’re going to want to be there. cbbworld.com/tour

H&R Block Location Mistaken For ‘Backrooms’ Fan Event

Gamers! The pledge manager for THE CATS OF NEW ORLEANS is now open! This is a new game in Raybox Games' CATS line that I designed with my sons Marty and Pat, and it's loads of wild, twisty fun. If you missed the Kickstarter, this is your chance, but don't dawdle! gamefound.com/en/projects/...

So, if you have the free hours and want a deep dive, my friend is now on day two of a line by line reading of the latest papal encyclical with added commentary. As I’ve joked before, his pastoral work is to the internet so he’s doing it on Twitch.

The paperback is out, and I am telling you my deepest secrets!

America's Generated Home Videos

Could there be a better example of "the trans debate" than 98% of women supporting trans people and then one single lone person voting against them and getting their way regardless. It's all such a fucking sham

"Sad Songs and Waltzes," Cake "Walk On By," Cake "I Will Survive," Cake

they’re shooting crowd control munitions at crowds that include multiple members of congress, the governor, and a sitting united states senator. they fired pepper balls at the senator. they cannot and will not be reigned in by democracy, whatever’s left of it.

These are the two optimal types of Baseball Name.

Boromir: and why do we not EMBRACE the ring's power?? Aragorn: and what would you have us do with it? Boromir: a lot of editing advice, and also a way to take care of busy work, you know, memos about orcs et cetera Aragorn: Boromir: and difficult break-ups, if you know what I mean

You don't need an autocorrect with delusions of grandeur to lie to you. Lie to yourself like a fucking grown-up.

Thanks, Vonnegut. 💜

to my mind, the core of pbta is not "2d6+stat with mixed successes", it's the system of "when x trigger happens in the fiction, apply y specific mechanic". Codified, genre specific moves are its main innovation. If you think pbta is just 2d6+stat with varied levels of success, you missed the point

“There's a new Grogu out that's supposed to be nuts! We should go see that”

This is the official Democrat Position btw

the pundit class convinced itself that everything they saw on twitter was important and real which is why there were so many articles about "trends" based on a few tweets. i think that also meant that for some people the prospect of not being on twitter feels like reality collapsing