Acquisitions Incorporated just switched to Critical Role's new game system in a huge move in the actual play space

Star Trek: The Motion Picture debuted on this day in 1979. I didn’t see it on opening day, but when I did, it was at the old Rialto theater in West Berkeley. They were doing it as a double feature with Alien. My crazy mother took me to this on a school night. I walked out of Alien, it was too much.

The Human Adventure is Just Beginning. Celebrating Star Trek: The Motion Picture, which premiered in theatres on Dec 7, 1979. The film had flaws, but was a major triumph, for Gene Roddenberry, for the production team, and most of all for the fans, whose determination & persistence made it possible.

Release the damned epstein files

Two weeks ago I said that there were likely millions of uninstalled Blackwell GPUs sitting in warehouses as there is neither the data center capacity nor the power to turn them on. Michael Burry is looking into it and it looks like he’s got evidence I’m right. www.wheresyoured.at/the-haters-g...

Not including Border Patrol, ICE has arrested nearly 75,000 people with no criminal records. This data is compiled by ICE internally and was obtained by UC Berkeley’s Deportation Data Project via a lawsuit. ICE is currently holding 65,000 migrants in detention centers around the country.

Does anywhere in California have this? Closest I can think of is the piano in the lobby at Los Angeles Union Station.

Not sure why but I've seen a surge in traffic for Grand Armor. If you like microlite TTRPGs and piloting giant Mecha, check it out! lonearchivist.itch.io/grand-armor

FDA Approves New Drug  That Reverses Effects Of Narcan

Fun that that this country is burning down because a handful of emotionally stunted dudes were furious they can’t get laid without living up to the low bar standard of “don’t be a fucking weirdo”

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Miles Morales co-creator Sara Pichelli says she does not get any royalties from the ‘Spider-Verse’ films, Insomniac games, or merch "I don’t get anything … that's the saddest part of my life" (via SiteJamesons | TW)

I wish I could have gotten the shot just a few second earlier, but they are still pretty cute. The floor is a mess, but ah well.

The LA Taco daily memo is legit the best approach to covering these widespread, disparate raids, bar none. A simple, three minute roundup that gives you the sense of the scale of the terror attacks every day. Why every news org in a town getting hit *still* hasn't copied this is beyond me.

Tis the season for Peach and Dennis fighting

Here’s what I think the modern Dem platform should be: -Prosecute this administration -Expand and pack SCOTUS -Outlaw private equity -Limit corporate consolidation -Ban fossil fuels -Ban AI -Heavily regulate gambling -Free healthcare/free pre-K thru college education -Permanent DST For starters.

My teen, who had dreamt of being an astrophysicist, just told me he wants to go to law school because, “Science isn’t going to be a priority in the US in the future…I don’t want a job where I’ll be constantly worried my funding will be taken away.” Gutting. How many future scientists have we lost?

These are survivors of the Japanese aircraft carrier Hiryū. This ship was key in both the Pearl Harbor attack and the Battle of Midway. Two weeks after Midway, a U.S. plane spotted survivors of the sinking carrier. The USS Ballard responded by … rescuing them.

Free advice: if you find Quentin Tarantino bashing you in the press… repeat after me. “I was unaware that Harvey Weinstein’s best friend was so critical of me and my work.”

I live in Wales and today received my Join Us letter from Reform UK, complete with SAE which I posted back to them, immediately, empty. If every other person in Wales did this, Reform would spend over £1.5 million on postage. Not sorry. Join me Cymru.

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frosty kidnapped that little girl

Here's the latest completed cartoon homage from 50 Years in the Dungeon—my creative hat tip to Den Beauvais's classic cover painting for Dragon Magazine 86.

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I'm not sure it's in the self interest of America's tech bro billionaires to suggest that we bring back public executions to punish the most destructive people in our society.

An incident as related by a student: I called Waymo support because the car was on the Muni tracks after getting clipped after trying to outrun a train and wouldn't move. I asked if there was anything I could do to move the car. They said no but would "push some code real quick".

I feel like both the Maryland peeps and @funranium.bsky.social need to see this.

One year down... youtu.be/hybL-GJov7M?...

Once the debate centers on whether the 2nd strike was legal, the first 21 strikes have been accepted as baseline. But the murder of the two survivors doesn’t make the other 21 any more legal. Selective outrage, not silence, is how authoritarianism becomes normalized @tadstoermer.bsky.social

More pictures of the Kilkenny Yuletide festival.

Santa arrived at The Kilkenny Yuletide festival in an American 18 Wheeler and I could only stand there and salute.

I freaking love this movie and have seen it countless times.

We got a lot of rain yesterday. Along with it these pretty red festive holiday themed berries popped up next to the river.

Went to an anti-ICE protest/press conference today in S. Minneapolis and ran into our lord and savior...

I have been given the shiny and very real War Stopper Award by USA Pickleball because I have stopped so many dozens of wars and whatnot. I am honored that my war stopping has been noticed by the foremost pickleball organization in the world.

Really love how this guy posted this on TikTok thinking the woman who broke his Meta glasses would come off as the villain, as opposed to him, the guy recording her without her consent for social media content via a surveillance device made by one of the worst companies on earth

"I used to be paid to lie, and I will be paid to lie in the future, but right now, I'm totally honest." www.mediaite.com/politics/bon...

The Nobel Prize committee should announce the World Cup winner tomorrow

Blades in the Dark to show how tight structure can spark imagination. Pathfinder 2e to help them realise if they actually want tactical combat to be a central focus. The Quiet Year as a really smooth on-ramp to GMless and/or less character focused games. Dread because Jenga Tower.

A little video about a weird Games Workshop game, perfect for a Saturday morning! #WarhammerCommunity

It would cost $30 billion to end homelessness in the USA.

NEW info on shipwreck attack. It gets worse. The 2 survivors climbed atop wreckage and waved to overhead. "Some of the people viewing the video thought ... could have been an attempt to surrender" Others "said the most logical explanation was ... signaling for a rescue." 1/

It's nice when I didn't dream something up, that it's real, just not something on the market. The roofie detecting color-changing nail polish to do a subtle pinky stir and see if you drink is safe would have been real nice. Also coasters that were subtle that you could slosh some drink on to.

Ridership on the Bay Area's Caltrain continues to rise in the wake of the route's electrification, hitting a new post-COVID high last month Ridership through the first 10 months of 2025 is 45% higher than last year!

These are just petty, cruel people.

If so, it is quite possible that the suspect reached this belief by consuming media produced by the current Director and Deputy Director of the FBI.

"A Chinese hospital ship quietly docked in hurricane-hit Jamaica this week, projecting soft power into the heart of the Caribbean where a US armada is conducting a controversial anti-narcotics mission targeted at Venezuela."

This is some bullshit. My bid for Warner Bros was completely ignored after some asshole leaked my plans to call it Whatnot Bros.

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Inversions are back in Northern California and will stick around next week, meaning the foothills and mountains will be warmer than the valleys. These patterns give meteorologists headaches. For example, it's 43ºF in Sacramento right now, 3ºF lower than what NWS predicted at this hour. #CAwx