The tables are looking pretty good this year too #MWGF #ttrpg #tabletop

Midwest Game Fest is bigger this year than the previous couple years. Its good to see it grow. Heres the wargame room: lots of Warmachine including a local tournament and folks doing demos for Halo, Fleet Command, Bolt Action and more. #ttrpg #wargame #tabletop

regrettably this is actually a functional madlib format

this account is run by a human at NASA JPL who only posts real images with their receipts. it only has 11k followers compared to the 200k the ai slop space account has

the chief consequence of the internet has been to make it almost impossible to disabuse people of any belief they find it enjoyable or validating or cathartic to hold, which makes ideologues and partisans much crazier, but also exposes a lot of subterranean tendencies of the public consciousness

Yes, I would say that people find believing in doomer ideas or conspiracies more cathartic or invigorating than enjoyable. It floods your brain with strong emotions and stress chemicals, which is a high of sorts. People get addicted to the strength of the rush not the pleasure of it

I think we should go back to the 2000s colloquial definitions: Nerd - enthusiastic knowledge of niche subjects but no social graces Geek - niche knowledge and social graces (ideal) Dork - neither knowledge nor social graces

seriously i'd do nothing but rock back and forth in a corner if i thought about it so most days i have to put it out of my mind. but the sin will stain us forever

This is a huge problem in tech journalism the assumption that all tech companies need to have the hottest sexiest artificial slop generators. It is my humble belief that Apple has simply been by time as they often to see where industry goes before making a move.

Audience capture

Polish PM Donald Tusk on the meeting of EU Heads of State or Government: “You could feel a huge relief among leaders because, for the first time in years, there were no Russians in the room, if you know what I'm talking about.” #Orban

This looks like those Old West photos of the Texas Rangers posing with the corpse of the outlaw they killed

⚠️ Addiction to short-form video consumption is associated with reduction of brain activity in the frontal lobe and may impair executive functioning. (www.frontiersin.org/journals/hum...)

This is amazing: A new rapid-response network just launched to alert people to ICE prison camps in their area. GTFOice.org Sign up. Tell ICE to "GTFO"! (and thanks to @milestaylor.bsky.social and @defiance.org for this initiative!)

I was thinking last week that AI psychosis likely develops in a similar way to being incredibly rich or famous.ChatGPT/everyone always agrees with you, tells you every idea and opinion is brilliant and you start to lose connection with reality. youtu.be/2ijm-HZrbwI?...

If you want to get a sense of how thin the GOP's national security bench is, the 29-year-old CT official at DHS who was suspended for seeking sugar daddies was their first pick.

50 Years of Text Games (2023) A massive appraisal of digital interactive fiction. Read more here: https://www.vintagerpg.com/2026/04/50-years-of-text-games-2023/ #TTRPG

it's always the person you most suspect www.latimes.com/entertainmen...

Guessing this confirms that, on the senate side at least, this reconciliation bill is just DHS funding. Senate Dems partial shutdown strategy sure is looking like a success rn.

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Did you know, when you have your own website, you can just write about anything you want and no one will stop you. For example, if there're a bunch of clothing items you like, you can make a whole blog post about it. www.alderdoodle.co.uk/blog/clothin...

Just found out that Kansas 4H is gonna sell off the summer camp facility they have boils down to they just don’t wanna run it anymore. This is what happens when you constantly put “business” people in charge of nonprofits they consistently run them into the ground. My kids will be devastated. #4H

I think the thing that really triggers me about the airport discourse is how many people are being such scolds about being punctual to the point of paranoia, as if obsessive time management is some kind of grand moral virtue. Kill the mid-level office manager in your head you dorks

GOP - *gerrymanders* DEMS - hey stop that no fair GOP - *gerrymanders even more* DEMS - we mean it we’re gonna sue SCOTUS - *legalizes gerrymandering completely* DEMS - *start gerrymandering* GOP - HEY STOP THAT NO FAIR!!!! 😭

Today marks NINE YEARS of Vintage RPG. www.vintagerpg.com/2017/04/firs...

Would ya look at that. Voting matters.

Good morning, Asia. While you were sleeping, one of our most-read stories reported that dozens of ships have managed to circumvent the blockade since it began — despite Donald Trump declaring it a ‘tremendous success’. ft.trib.al/9C3Xw4h

Every clock in #Virginia tonight…

Trump starting a Gerrymandering war he couldn’t finish feels a whole lot Trump starting trade wars he couldn’t finish and this Iran war he can’t finish. He’s not playing chess people.

Feel like it should be a bigger story that Howard Lutnick's firm (run by his kids) created a financial product to buy up tariff refund claims at a major discount, and will now be cashing in on the higher costs passed onto consumers.

OK so one of the things I find so fascinating with being published in the US is getting a peak behind the curtain and seeing how publishing works there. Because I've been published in Iceland for 15 years, I've published over 20 books and I feel I know almost everything about the industry here 🧵

I maintain that the risk of Graham Platner is not that he's the nominee and loses, but that he's the nominee at a moment when ppl are a) super pissed at Trump/Rs and thus b) uniquely disinclined to care about personal bullshit rn bc of that and so he wins & is A Problem™️ for the next six years

Jesus fucking christ…

I am so tired of “journalists” who’s sole qualification is a journalism degree and an expensive apartment in NOVA spreading absolute bull shit on here and on their substack. The news is broken beyond repair and if the fix is “independent” journalism we are f*cked. A few are good but most are trash

We don't know which Cabinet secretary will be forced to resign next, but we know it'll be either Brooke Rollins or Linda McMahon because they're the last two women left.

Good example that Hasan Piker is both just genuinely ignorant and also a campist, which works to amplify and deepen the aforementioned ignorance

Literally one kid thought a "calculator" was "A.i."

Still trying to raise money ($500) for my next batch of diagnostic tests to try to figure out why I've been randomly convulsing, among other things. Any help would be huge, as it pretty much screws my ability to work, and really need to get this figured out. ko-fi.com/bishopsbeerf...

“The most common proposal is to tie the number of justices to the number of circuit courts, which was the norm until 1869, and would give the next Democratic trifecta a Supreme Court of thirteen justices to rebalance. This is a measured response. Judicious, even. But not sufficient.”

Our Haus rules for playing Mausritter with young kids: derived via negotiation with my elementary schoolers, at great cost. dreamshrike.blogspot.com/2026/04/maus...

In recent weeks, various alleged firefighters and home inspectors have been running fearmongering Facebook ads for carbon monoxide detectors sold by dubious websites. There are, however, multiple problems; for example, many of the pages running the ads are renamed accounts with AI-generated avatars.

Most of the accounts in the spam network use AI-generated profile images. While these images are more convincing than AI-generated images from a few years ago, some contain telltale glitches such as mangled text. Additionally, the images used by these accounts all contain Google’s SynthID watermark.

Bennett Tornado (2025) by alum Naufal Razin

I have always considered myself a libertine. I had no problem with gambling. But the expansion of gambling into EVERY CONCEIVABLE CORNER of society is horrific. This is why I don't read ads for sports betting anymore. people can't leave well enough alone. and this isn't just a gambling thing.

No, the answer is no.

Look, for my money the absolute game changer technologies right now are batteries and biosciences, not statistically modeling a mid conversation, but you do you.

The legendary game designer, distributor, and publisher Louis Zocchi has left us at the age of 91. He founded Zocchi Distribution (the first distributor dedicated exclusively to hobby games) and Gamescience (which made games and polyhedral dice).

Lot's of new stuff added to the Storefront. It's a great way to help a guy in desperate need of paying $1000s of dollars in medical bills.. and getting yourself some swag of my art, at the same time. And if I get back up to Gen or Adepticon, will be happy to sign. shop.pretzelwolf.com

A conversation with my oldest just reminded me of this gem that genuinely works for me; hahaha www.youtube.com/watch?v=e59g...