I got to speak with @truthout.org today about the FTC Comments! “The FTC is clearly on a fishing expedition, looking for responses that will justify its predetermined position.” But that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t comment! Read more: truthout.org/articles/adv...

we're playing reverse pictionary taboo with a crowd sourced list of artworks and banned terms come hang twitch.tv/katbmakapow

Cover illustration for COSMIC CENTURY KNIGHTS, a ttrpg by James D’Amato and Drew Mierzejewski! Shout out to Tyler from @possibleworlds.bsky.social for being so great to work with on this!

5 Act Play is a solo roleplaying game where the player creates a 5 Act Shakespearean play based around drawing cards and using prompts to create drama! #SoloTTRPG Find it here: https://k-ramstack.itch.io/5-act-play

psst actual post sometime this week, but itch.io/s/155473/the...

Just gave to the @trevorproject.bsky.social again. A note on their site: "Until 11:59 PM PT, Sunday, June 22, 2025, The Trevor Project’s Board of Directors will match all online gifts up to $100,000, 3:1."

so many cool games in here, including Serious Reading, supporting good orgs!

Welp it’s gotten real real if you can please help. If you can’t it’s really hard out here so share gofund.me/a5ee0064

hi again, cis folks! the comment period for the proposed rule to remove trans care from the ACA as an essential health benefit is open til april 11. context & guidance in the thread below. it doesn’t have to be hard; you can do it waiting for coffee. 13 days left, as of this post. please comment.

I just released the Museum of All Things version 1.0!!! You can find it at mayeclair.itch.io/museum-of-al...

Very excited about the very kind review/recommendation in this piece! Thanks so much! Want to check out the rest of these too :)

Also, money received through the app is witheld from the creator for 75 DAYS. So not only are you as a member being charged extra, the creator has to wait 2.5 months to get it. It's bad for everyone. Sub through the mobile site or desktop!

These authors have done the Lord's work in synthesising multidisciplinary meta-analyses of individual & structural determinants of behaviour. What a fantastic overview. Hats off! Focus on removing social & structural barriers rather than targeting knowledge & beliefs! www.nature.com/articles/s44...

1. Major news: Remember those "Biological men"/"Biological Women" signs at University of Cincinnati? They have come down thanks to MASSIVE student protests at the college, which have continued. The latest from S. Baum. Subscribe to support our journalism. www.erininthemorning.com/p/university...

truly incredible

Folks, I am thrilled to announce that @worldstoforge.bsky.social and I are teaming up with @possibleworlds.bsky.social to bring Cosmic Century Knights to life! We're joining an incredible roster of talent that represents some amazing growth for a wonderful publisher.

The very talented Sydney Padua made pictures based on the jobs Victorian woman had according to the 1881 census, reminding us they didn't all just stayed at home cooking and looking after the kids. This should be a book. sydneypadua.com

Quick intro to Sydette's amazing "Baby has hat" from a talk she did in 2018!

At the stonewall monument rn

And if you would like to let the National Park Service know what you think of the erasure of transgender from the Stonewall Monument you can contact them by phone, email, X, Instagram, and Facebook. www.nps.gov/ston/contact...

This should be exceedingly obvious, but when Stonewall stays up while references to trans people come down, they will measure the silence of cisgender people as concurrence for whatever they plan next, and it still won't protect you in the end. So please get loud. Our mutual survival depends on it.

1/8. This week I had a few different conversations with scholars who, in the face of the attacks on science and institutions of learning in the U.S., are wondering what to do. One suggestion I have is: keep doing your work. It matters in and of itself. Why do I say that? A few reasons.

it cant be overstated how impactful Avery's design work has been on indie TTRPGs. if you havent picked up The Quiet Year (blew open my understanding of what games can be) or Dream Askew/Dream Apart: HIGHLY recommend it. if you *have* played them: its a huge help to take 30 seconds and give both 5 ⭐

For those making a historical, natural, or scientific #ttrpg, I've come across this amazing CC0 resource and just had to share. But you know... amazing to look at regardless! Check it out! Perfect for placeholder art in my Oppian Wives playtest documents (coming soon). c82.net/iconography/

This is great news! I love bookshop dot org and order all my books there.

okay i did it gregpak.link/webrings/ywb/

GenAI has polluted image search results, especially for animal pics. It’s now basically impossible to find accurate art references. Enter this: a repository of open-access, AI-free images of wild & exotic taxa. Artists creating *without AI* have blanket permission for derivative/transformative use.

An Ashcan release of Realis, the TTRPG that I've been working on (and off and on) for the last four years is now available for preorder! thecalcutec.itch.io/realis

Hey All: Google is pulling the "automatically on for anyone over 18" bullshit with Gemini that the Dropbox did for its AI, but I can't afford to ditch Google Drive/Docs/Workspace. If you have a personal Google Account, first go to gemini.google.com/extensions and turn everything off...

Just picked up three games from Bull Press, a publisher who supplies “conversational games” to prisoners that are prison rule compliant. The games are cool as hell. And their ethos is punk af. Go support them if you can. #TTRPG bullpress.org

Sev is resplendent in his full adult colors now! It takes years for yellow-headed vultures to grow into their technicolor glory, turning from a simple grey to vibrant yellows, pinks, and blues.

Years ago, I curated a small project called Meditations. It has a different game or toy, made by a different developer or creative, for every day. If you want to play a tiny playful thing every day of the year - now could be a great day to start. meditations.games

Here's my 2024 Year in Review for my art, a piece for each month! #artOnBluesky #artYearInReview

Squire is a solo ttrpg game for telling stories from the perspective of a squire apprenticed to a knight, who has little control and gets little credit in their adventures. It's exciting/scary to launch it. Free to download and playtest: reads, shares, comments, game reports all very appreciated!

Squire is a solo ttrpg game for telling stories from the perspective of a squire apprenticed to a knight, who has little control and gets little credit in their adventures. It's exciting/scary to launch it. Free to download and playtest: reads, shares, comments, game reports all very appreciated!

The first offering is a small Campaign of my in-development shonen-fantasy RPG Cosmic Century Knights. Right now I have a Monday night slot for 3-4 players. startplaying.games/adventure/cm...

For those who might not have seen it already: video of this morning’s #Solstice appearance of thr Sun at Newgrange. The light starts coming in the door around 1h30 of the livestream. https://heritageireland.ie/winter-solstice/

just blurted out in class "yes, you have to cite where you got your info. in a world in which lying loudly is the only thing that seems to get rewarded, citing your sources is an act of resistance" and folks, I really believe that.

Hey y'all, our journalism co-op is all working class trans and nb people. We're based in the literal Helene disaster zone. We're reporting on labor struggles, evictions and other realities. We're facing a difficult time, to put it mildly, and could use some help: www.gofundme.com/f/help-the-a...

A while ago I made a post over on Tumblr of #TTRPGresources. Some I found on my own, but many were introduced to me by others. Unfortunately I can't recall which is which. I thought it might be time to bring that list of links here. When relevant, I'll tag the creator of a resource. Onto the links!

It's the last day of Heart's run on Bundle of Holding, where you can get loads of PDFs for less than the cost of the corebook alone. (Plus! A portion of the profits support emerging RPG designers, which is nice, isn't it.) Here's a thread of our favourite bits from Heart:

Sharing the science of art with the #SciArt Feed

My current favourite thing I've ever done for #ArtAdventCalendar day 13 20×30″ 51×76 cm Oil on Canvas 2024 Based on the JWST image of the Pillars of Creation, part of the Eagle Nebula

A revelation that hit me during my conversation w/ @pernille.bsky.social is the tension & pressure of training American teachers to be superheroes needed to rescue kids from failing economic systems while ignoring those systemic failures. The demand to be superhuman is ultimately dehumanizing.

"Butterfly Effect" is by far my favorite piece I've ever drawn. I know I keep sharing it, but I just hope it brings joy when people see it. (Plus I don't have a whole lot of new art to share.) #paleoart #sciart

An additional data point: -Two. The number of trans journos who left the nyt on the same day, June 1, after top execs made clear that our internal expressions of dissent about the coverage would lead to our dismissal. I was one. Neither of us were involved in the coverage or held senior jobs

Day 11 #ArtAdventCalendar: Happy birthday to trailblazing US #astronomer Annie Jump Cannon (1863 – 1941), here with her stellar classification system which sorted stars based on spectral types, revealing their temperature from hot blue to cool red stars: O,B,A, F, G, K & M. 🧪🐡👩🏼‍🔬🔭 #histsci 🧵

Feint is a 2-player game using a deck of cards and loosely based on Cheat/BS rules. Duelists must sell their moves and decide if their opponent is lying, and gain the upper hand when they guess correctly. I’m excited about this one: it’s free for playtesting, and I’d love to hear how your game goes!

Ghost Train is a game designed for a group of friends who want a one-shot for a party. Players play ghosts scaring off mortals who are trying to profit off the afterlife, while trying to finish their last bit of unfinished business. It’s rules-light and built for friendly goofing.

Should post some of my stuff if I’m going to be on here! Washed Out Trails is a one page, solo or small role playing game I wrote for the One Page TTRPG Jam, where you create the backstory and future of a failed adventurer as they guide travelers in the wilderness for coin.