Users can be famously resistant to new ideas. Sometimes change just takes time to catch on. Probably not this iOS update, though.

DAY 2, GAME 10: 2400 from @jst.bsky.social is my favorite streamlined system, packing a game into one page, and a world of SF adventure into two more--then gives you a couple dozen variants to show you options and possibilities building on that simplicity. I love it.

12 DAYS OF 12 GAMES, DAY 2: Another dozen-share of games (and game-adajcent things) that I like, and that you might too. And each comes with a link so you can support great designers, writers, and artists! #12days12games

I don’t usually think about it in terms this dire, but it lines up with my sense that video calls CAN be good, but it’s easy for them not to be. (Job interview issue is even more interesting, since there’s so much AI cat and mouse) gizmodo.com/even-minor-v...

One of my neighbors has been putting up these fish facts posters. All kinds of different fish, marine, freshwater, deep, shallow, all kinds. This is a good one. “Stg this real fish” took me out. Good work, neighbor.

That’s the look of somebody watching you from the pier as your car sinks, with you handcuffed to the steering wheel, beneath the surface. And all she’s wondering is if that Chinese joint will still be open on her way home.

Thanks to my checkered past I’ve been in a few bar fights and had a gun waved at me once or twice. And I tell you that if anyone, man or woman, looks at you with eyes like that, you scram to the parking lot and count yourself lucky to be alive.

The misleading framing in this article drives me nuts. Way to blithely dismiss disability accommodations as a necessary casualty of return-to-office culture! If you’ve ever been in a competently managed, remote-friendly workplace, you know working from home’s not the problem here—it’s leadership.

User researchers already document findings at a faster velocity than orgs can act on them. It strains credulity that tech leaders are clamoring for even more yet worse AI-generated findings. My new blog post, "The only winning move is not to play." gregg.io/the-only-win...

1. My wife @profbanks.bsky.social is doing Tarot readings for $30, she is great 2. You could switch a free Patreon membership to paid for a month Patreon.com/cambanks 3. I do design/dev consults, world building assistance, and mentorship for $50/hour, I’d love to help you out. Thanks. 💜💜

It was Downey who coined the phrase in the LEVERAGE writers room “future episodes do not win out over present episodes”. Trust me, you’ll have more ideas. You’ll die full of them.

🦃🎮 Creator Day returns this Friday with the start of our Black Friday 2025 Sitewide Sale. For 24 hours we'll waive our free on all transactions. Over 15,000 projects to be on sale from this Friday through December 3rd. More details here itch.io/blog/1124058/creator...

Lots of people sharing this clip because it's funny and cathartic but I also genuinely believe it's important. We have to win the narrative battle between "I live in a corrupt society and that's just how it is" and "I live in a corrupt society and we are going to defeat and humiliate these ghouls."

"After Harrison was fired, Asmongold.. discussed the developments on his stream... "He added, 'Eventually, you’ll get a new job, and when you do, I might just make another video and contact that employer, too. Now, why would I do that? For fun. I enjoy it. I like it. It’s a nice pastime.'”

I appreciated this piece on purposeful game design by @kierongillen.bsky.social. It’s framed personally—what works for “me”—but it digs into examples spanning different scenes/traditions for a nicely grounded perspective. oldmenrunningtheworld.com/what-makes-m...

🧵 Thread: The Economic Cost of Long Covid – new 2025 study in Nature 1/ A new paper has modelled the economic burden of Long Covid in the U.S. and globally. Spoiler: it’s massive. Here’s a breakdown. 👇

I wish autocorrect on my phone understood that I want to type “makes” much more often than the plural of a Dungeons & Dragons spellcasting class

Trilemma Adventures Compendium is the DTRPG deal of the day! This 2x ENnie award-winning book has 55 two-page adventure sites that you can immediately drop into your fantasy setting, or use as part of the embedded campaign setting. All for a measly nine bucks?! www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/2...

Nothing but bangers from The NY Times Pitchbot this morning.

BREAKING: Mark Wolf, appointed to the federal bench by Ronald Reagan, writes that he is resigning as a judge to have the freedom to speak out against the president's assault on the rule of law. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

If you aren't seeing skeets from some of your fave people, they might have been labeled "Rude" by bsky mods. Idk what they are thinking, I don't need a mommy to tell me who to be buddies with. Anyway, go into Settings > moderation > bluesky moderation (advanced) and turn Rude off.

I was laid off from Teen Vogue this week, alongside multiple other phenomenal team members. At our Summit, I was asked how it felt to be 1 of 2 Black women left and what that meant for representation. Now, there are no Black women at Teen Vogue and that is incredibly painful to think about.

I was laid off from Teen Vogue today along with multiple other staffers, and today is my last day. certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.

ladies and gentlemen...we got him

People who aren’t writers think writer’s block is at least as big and real a problem as I thought quicksand would be, as a child.

Aw, nuts. 😞

Helpful thread for people interested in the business of publishing tabletop RPGs.

Hey folks, my laptop needs fan replacements, but I am currently having financial struggles. Need my device for some freelance work, so any help to get them repaired is appreciated. itch.io/s/162117/hel...

Watching The Herculoids with my wife and child, listening for words like scholars deciphering an ancient text. "Ah—'rock ape'—that's what he says. Of course."

Thought I was looking at an RPG adventure for a second there. (Guess I could be, someday, given that the art is the public domain. 🤔)

New chthonic god of death and harvest dropped, courtesy my 8 year old

Come watch me play D&D for a good cause!

Podcasts and "deep dive" media will try to convince you that you *now* know things, thanks to them. A PhD, especially one with archival, observational, or observational components, will definitely convince you that you know next to nothing, thanks to the available resources & one's predecessors.

Grab the resource document here ttrpgkids.itch.io/more-than-al...

It's podcast day! Join me in talking accessibility and broader player support with @thelibgamer.bsky.social, @ttrpgkids.com, Katie Lear of Young Dragonslayers, and more on Indiana State Library's What's Up Wednesday 10AM Central / 11 Eastern www.youtube.com/@INstatelibr...

“The ocean’s like a big fish tank. Except with litter.” - the 8 year old’s logic on why Atlantis is probably real, albeit only inhabited by fish, not, like, mermaids, don’t be ridiculous

Do you have a LinkedIn account? Prefer to opt OUT of your content being used to train their AI? You can do that here: www.linkedin.com/safety/go?ur...

“Silence will certainly save us. Authoritarianism is like measles: Ignore it and it will go away. I have this guidance straight from Secretary Kennedy.”

W/alt part 1

A rather telling sign of the times. Matt from Mongoose explains a tweak to the "rescue a billionaire" sample adventure in their upcoming near-future RPG. #games #rpg #gooddog

Pulled my shots of espresso. Went to dump it into my milk … before steaming it. The problem with making coffee is you have to do it before you've had coffee.

This paragraph is brutal.

Landlord is selling our house with no warning and we have to be out by the end of the month. Making the best of a stressful situation - Shares and reposts appreciated!

Took the kiddo on her first ever roller coaster this weekend. Immediately after: “I did NOT like that.” 10 minutes later: “I’d do that again.” 5 minutes later, seeing a coaster that goes upside down: “I wanna do THAT.” But the park was closing. Hopefully she’s tall enough for it next year. ❤️

Friends, if anyone on here sneers at em dashes being used in professional writing as a sign of AI, I'm just going to beg you to read anything from the BEFORE days. The reason AI overuses em dashes is that the people it stole from overuse em dashes. It was trained on 15 of my solely-em-dash books.

The way some robots talk about themselves in the third person in old sci-fi might sound silly, but I honestly wonder if it’d be helpful to minimize the chances of forming problematic parasocial relationships when using otherwise quite convenient conversational UI

makes me feel slightly less insane to read this by @ahjohnson.bsky.social in @inthesetimes.com inthesetimes.com/article/new-...

Well shit

The doctor seemed confused my 7 year old cheerfully rated her pain 7 out of 10, but on a hunch, I confirmed she expects her rating to increase to 8 after her upcoming birthday

Reblusking this one because, well, here's the deal. Swords Without Master has been in issue 3 of Worlds Without Master for ~10,000 years. And it's time. It's just time for it to leave the nest. Time for it to find its own way in the world. So we're gearing up for a new, stand-alone edition.