@anntelnaes.bsky.social renders further commentary unnecessary:

Well, while looking for a decent VTT for my next #TTRPG campaign, it was very courteous for Quest Portal to take themselves off their list by promoting a new AI Game Master. #NoAI

"Autistic people are autistic all the way through. There is no normal person trapped inside an autistic person. Autism is just part of who we are. We are autistic, & that’s good." By @autisticadvocacy.org, posted by a parent of a 1:1 support adult—so don't even. autismacceptance.com/book/3-there...

I am joining the War on Autism, on the side of Autism.

As a #ttrpg GM I'm torn because the meat grinder multi-stage boss fight tonight was not as meat grinder-y as hoped, but it was because the players were very, very smart about their prep and tactics. I never GM to win, but sometimes you do want to smell the blood a bit just to remind them of stakes.

Wounded Knee was a massacre of innocent people, including women and children. It was one of many atrocities committed by the United States against Native Americans. The heroes were those who fought against the US military. They deserve our honors. Not those who used Hotchkiss guns against children

Autism doesn't need to be cured, because neurodivergence is not a disease. New essay: open.substack.com/pub/lauriepe...

WOW. This entire story is HORRIFIC. This is FOIA of a body cam from the raid in upstate New York the same day as the Hyundai plant. It catches a Border Patrol agent on camera only bragging about denying medical care to migrants detained at the border under Biden — who he says are all "animals." 1/3

I am Antifa. Always have been, always will be. (Flag by @museum.of.emilyk.art )

Please, if you have the privilege of not being an obvious and immediate target for state violence... Call them fascists, loudly, ESPECIALLY right now. Call yourself an antifascist, loudly, ESPECIALLY right now. We all need to be Spartacus on this one.

Say it with me, kids: There's no scientific or public health body besides RFK Kr.'s HHS stating that using Tylenol while you're pregnant can give your children autism.

Autism is a disability not a disease. Autism is a disability not a disease. Autism is a DISABILITY not a disease. You can't cure a disability. We need SUPPORTS. Not to be treated like we have the plague. 🤦‍♀️

muted this guy but of course he immediately pops off with "well it's a good thing you didn't use the demon pill lest you be cursed with the autism sprog" like lol fuck you. autistic people gave the world smart phones and star wars, pokemon cards for days, why do you long for their extermination

I have looked at the research smartass, I had two back-to-back pregnancies. How many have you had? I didn’t use Tylenol because it’s just not a very effective, but regardless I find the correlational “evidence” extremely weak and not convincing.

Bad enough that the Washington Post canned Karen Attiah for saying that Charlie Kirk was a racist wanker (my words), but on top of that she has to take her cat to the kitty ER. As a lefty who loves cats, this is just too much. Good luck to Artemis.

This piece from @counterpunchmedia.bsky.social gives some great analysis of Johnstone's deceptions, and how she uses the language of radical resistance to whitewash dictators like Assad: www.counterpunch.org/2022/03/11/a...

I am honest-to-god fed up with progressives putting Caitlin Johnstone forward as a legitimate voice against the Gaza genocide. She is not. She's an apologist for Putin. And as the graphic below shows, she's pooh-poohed the idea that antisemitism even exists. Which is itself antisemitism.

Thanks for the space, Sol! I make solo RPGs, system neutral adventures, and 3rd party homebrew supplements for other TTRPGs! Most of my stuff is available for free downloads on itch(.)io, and I dive into some of my creative process on my second YouTube channel! greggomovierants.itch.io

Calling all rising stars in the #TTRPG community with under 1500 followers! It's your time to shine. Share a bit about yourself and your amazing content in the comments. Show some love by liking, sharing, and commenting on other folks' posts! #TTRPGRising #dnd

Because, of course, we all associate Ayn Rand fans with keen political insight and respect for civil rights. This is, of course, where we pull out that well-worn but quite accurate @johnrogers.bsky.social quote about Ayn Rand and Lord of the Rings.

This story is worth a read, but it's so frustrating to see, since I know virtually everyone quoted in it (and the author) and ... there were *lots* of people warning of these coming dangers. Andreessen became a baby about his feelings long before taking offense to the slight from the Biden admin.

We are all up Dawson's Creek without a Paddle.

"Common decency stigmatizes people that do not participate in it—removes them from voluntary association. We indeed have to live with one another, but terms and conditions apply." me on why Ezra Klein should be ashamed / why shame is Good Actually www.bostonreview.net/articles/how...

She didn’t even say a disparaging word. Why are Black women the casualties of white men’s wars?

Autism IS a disability. Having a disability is also not bad.

Hey a thing I really don’t want to get lost here is that while Tylenol doesn’t cause autism, IT’S FINE TO BE AUTISTIC. Let’s not grant them the premise that autism should be eradicated in our way to correct the science, okay? Okay.

For once, there's a group that I'd just like to STAY in the "closet." I've got so much to say about this that it's all stuck in a tangle. But really, centrists are NOT the ones having a hard time of it right now.

Me: "Are you here to take over the world? And if not, would you PLEASE consider it?"

If you're not sure whether MAGA simply took the outrage over Charlie Kirk's murder as a pretense to execute its pre-existing plan to keep finding reasons to extort corporations into silencing critics, then ask: What vile thing did Jimmy Kimmel say about Charlie Kirk? It doesn't exist.

Loud music can actually help because it’s steady and predictable, the brain prefers a simple pattern to chaotic noise. So it’s not “I like quiet,” it’s “I need less chaos.” 4/4

Noise cancelling headphones remove the unpredictable parts of sound, leaving a calmer environment. That makes thinking, talking, and being present possible. 3/4

Our brains process sensory input differently. Random background sounds and overlapping voices create a chaotic signal that’s hard to filter. 2/4

Most people think headphones are about volume. For many autistic people they’re about predictability. 1/4

Trump's invasion of DC, and all the cities that followed is, as @juliaioffe.bsky.social says, just another manifestation of "Culture War as policy." If it weren't Big Balls being beat up, or Kirk getting shot, it would have been something else. www.tiktok.com/@julia.ioffe...

Dam been writing a book about this and she just TikToked it in 90 seconds.

What’s at stake here is free speech. Across the board, we’ve seen the Trump administration use the power of government to go after anybody who’s criticized them — and in this case, Jimmy Kimmel. We need to all stand up and speak out.

This is the playbook, folks. If you're not paying attention now and doing something about it, then you're going to have to sit down the rest of your life because democracy is being taken away. Do not be quiet in this moment.

The Onion strikes disturbingly close to the bone.

This makes my day after a shitty start.

You also don't have to go on hormones to transition. Jey's choice to go on T is theirs. They would be no less value if they had never made the choice.

"The video is about Nebraska state Senator John Fredrickson breaking down in tears as he apologizes to transgender people for Republican state senators' vicious attack and disgusting comments about trans people."

this is, hands down, the best video I've seen on men's influencer content and it's not close either

What are we supposed to do when "The libs are mad at him so he must be saying something right" and "He got a lot of engagement, the currency of our land, so he must have been doing something right" are the guiding principles of pundit commentary?

Cool. So now how do I tame the #ADHD that keeps me from getting the damn thing written in the first place.

While people are getting dropped from their dream jobs and losing their livelihoods, JKR continues to spew violent hate, while her publisher (and mine) Scholastic continues to not say a word about it.

All I can think when reading these pieces is what the response would be like if someone shot down Farrakhan, or someone sympathetic to him. I guarantee you there would be a lot more discussion about his ideas and philosophies, and how they contributed to the shooting.

Y'know that Guardian article which cited an anonymous friend of Tyler Robinson claiming he was the only "leftist" in his family? It just got updated after the "verified source" decided he couldn't remember his "relationship" with the accused shooter well enough to be quoted

The EU knows bullshit when they see it.

My GF has been going through The Good Wife as her comfort watch lately, and while SO much of it is just standard legal drama stuff, I'm in love with the character of Kalinda Sharma, played by Archie Punjabi. She's the hyper-competent PI for the law firm, and also the perfect disaster bisexual.

Malcolm X: “If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.”