Amazing what happens when you vote to outsource the foreign policy of the United States to Putin because you wanted a Kompromat-hobbled wannabe tinpot-dictator to make you feel better about being a white supremacist. on.wsj.com/4hFW4Ab

Reminder: Israel is so dysfunctional that it has had five elections in the last six years. It recently failed to stop the biggest massacre of Jews since the Holocaust. The idea that these people control your own country is a cope by folks who are bad at politics and don't get how it works.

Just a warning: this is about the sick behavior of the current American White House. These people want to murder trans folks. There's no doubt about it to me. travel.state.gov/content/trav...

Here's a great video on reasons that the book Wicked is not a good one. In general, Dominic Noble's videos are great, in my opinion. youtu.be/nwcANKtZkTs?...

I've been yelling since 2015 about how bad it could be, and I'm still surprised every few minutes now anyway. Alternating between vile and destructive is the current administration's mode. www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_ent...

This is truly sick stuff. Sick, sick, sick.

This is alarming, among many alarming things: www.washingtonpost.com/education/20...

This is sad and infuriating. I pass this almost every weekday, and it's nice that it serves as a home for people. gothamist.com/news/a-new-y...

I recommend reading through the executive orders. It's a horrifying bunch of things. They are still being added right now: www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

Oh good Yochai Gal has quit Bluesky because of the Surely Well-Meaning folks on here who felt the need to Express Their Concern. This is a good place and nothing like Twitter.

Someone mentioned that they were fighting about politics on LinkedIn, and now I want to know where OSR LinkedIn is. (I do not. Please do not inform me about that.)

Is the OSR feed working?

The person who did this was given $7500 bail and released. Notice any difference between how the killers of CEOs and the killers of cab drivers are treated? (And yes, charges will be added, etc., but still.) gothamist.com/news/police-...

It would almost have been more surprising if the city hadn't billed the family for killing him. We would have wondered if the city was feeling ill and not able to get up to its usual behavior. www.thecity.nyc/2024/12/19/c...

This post should be bronzed and put in the National Archives as an example of the great accomplishments of our legislators.

The US has proven that basically any number of school kids can be shot dead and nothing will happen in regard to gun control—but we haven't yet figured out how many CEOs being shot might trigger gun control. Just a thought. The less dark version of that thought is that *if* CEOs were being shot...

Let me tell you a story – one of the more haunting I’ve seen in 20 years of journalism. It’s about greed, death and denial. It took two years to unravel one doctor’s myth, a hospital’s complicity in creating it, and a documented trail of suspicious deaths…🧵

This year alone there were 55 deaths associated with school shootings. But the CEO.

me: *screaming into the abyss* the abyss: this could have been an email

The FL Department of Corrections is attempting to "reverse" the gender identity of transgender people in its custody, referring to trans identities as "short-term delusions" and withholding hormone therapy. Reviving psychiatric theories of the 1950s, they blame trans identities on "childhood trauma"

SF Hillel was vandalized with "Death to western imperialism," a hammer and sickle, and the word "Khaybar," a reference to a historical battle between Mohammad's army and Arabian Jews.

It's a worthwhile read, folks: tasker.land/2024/12/05/w...

jessica.substack.com/p/idaho-will... An appeals court has ruled that Idaho can enforce most of its anti-abortion travel ban, making it the first state in the nation to do so.

Jack is a friend of mine and probably my favorite GM, and this video auditing his own work and his YouTube channel is really fascinating. If you haven't checked out his channel, you really should: youtu.be/j_YqyFMiNQE?...

Since the holiday season is upon us, I'd like to remind people about Riders of Justice, a truly great action/comedy/philosophical movie that is also a Christmas movie. /1

I wrote a retrospective on D&D 5E after spending ten years playing it. It's split into two parts: the good and the bad. I know you all already have opinions about this game, but maybe my decade spent with it has given me some insights. Here's part 1: knightattheopera.blogspot.com/2024/11/ten-...

Gaming Tip: Whenever possible play with friends you like and respect and who feel the same about you. More than rules or whatever, that one thing in my experience is the most reliable way to have a good time. I've enjoyed trainwreck mechanics or potentially cringy concepts with the right folks.

In case you folks haven't seen Kobayashi's latest Kickstarter, which seems like a wild game: ASSASSINS, DEMONS & DYING GODS, via @Kickstarter www.kickstarter.com/projects/ale...

Kobayashi's work is always great, but you have to read the description of this game to understand why I backed it as soon as I saw it.

Even "friendly" Republican governors are happy to target trans folks in this way: apnews.com/article/tran...

I wrote a post about running Caverns of Thracia in Old School Essentials over about 10 months of play. It’s mostly about my expectations and goals, whether they worked out, and why I think that was. xeroxlord.blogspot.com/2024/11/cave...

Oh, thank goodness that Matt Gaetz has withdrawn himself from the attorney general nomination. I'm sure the next pick that Trump will make will be much better and appropriate. Need a sarcasm tag?

The Cairn Player's Guide (Second Edition) is now available for sale at cost on Amazon. Hopefully this makes it even easier for folks to get their hands on it! www.amazon.com/dp/B0DN6MVWT...