The ACLU petition still hasn't reached it's signature goal? WHAT? That needs to change now. 200k signatures is nothing, let's GET IT. AT LEAST! action.aclu.org/petition/mas...

PROJECT TRANSCEND NEEDS YOUR HELP In addition to covering additional materials costs and artist and staff payments, we're stretching our budget to help support artists who have lost access to SNAP. If you're in a position to throw a few bucks our way, please, please do.

Every once in a while I have to remind myself this is entirely normal.

A family friend was telling us about what her husband shared about his experience in Broadview before he was deported back to Mexico. She's been sharing to friends and family because she's just in disbelief & horror what her husband told her. She wasn't able to talk to him until he was in Mexico.

Spotify is crashing HARD because of the boycott. Their stock dropped 11% in value over the last month. Let’s keep this going! Tell everyone you know to boycott Spotify. There are plenty of alternatives that don’t run ICE advertisements and screw over artists. We made it easy at boycottspotify.com.

I teach this article EVERY time I teach philosophy of tech.

I know this is pedantic, but Kim Davis was not "jailed for refusing to issue same-sex marriage licenses." She was jailed for contempt of court because she refused to follow a court order (she had stopped issuing all marriage licenses). NYT makes it sound like the Woke Police broke down her door.

Anyway I hadn't heard anyone talking about this, so I guess I'm gonna talk about it. Spread the word if you're thinking about doing an nsfw KS project, Stripe apparently might pull your funding at literally any step of the process, with zero warning!

Dark ageplay

In what is now the LONGEST shutdown in history, myself, along with controllers across the US, have been volunteering to make the public more aware of ATC'ers and our struggles If you see folks with yellow shirts at the airport, come talk to us, ask us questions, take a pamphlet, spread the word ♥️

Youtube essays I'd make in that horrible AU where I became a youtuber -Sephiroth is a Pretendian: FF7 through an indigenous lens -Pokemon and the art of Abstraction -Summer vacation is over: The reoccurring themes and ideas of Kingdom Hearts -Light Your Fucking Horror Game

PERIODIC REMINDER THAT IN THE UNITED STATES YOUR *RIGHT* TO DISCUSS YOUR SALARY WITH YOUR COWORKERS IS PROTECTED BY FEDERAL LAW AND YOU SHOULD ALWAYS DO THAT

My big hot game design take is there is truth to "players are great at spotting where there is a problem, but terrible at diagnosis and solving it". More time than not when you hear the big gamer lingo in discourse (filtering out of the bigotry) there is a real grievance underneath.

Filmmakers and writers are on it as well

shoutouts to toby fox for just doing this when a platform tells him he HAS to add achievements to his games

Yeah I looked upon Cthulhu's dread visage and I was fine. Big octopus on a man's body. Not exactly "difficult to comprehend." Maybe you guys should go outside more idk

Aquarius II – A Home-Computer Astrology Kit (1973) fontsinuse.com/uses/18852/a...

Another balalaika drawing

Earnestly one of my favorite solo rpgs

So many artists, writers, and designers I know have learned this lesson the tedious way, so let me co-sign this and say not only is it a huge waste of time and labor to listen to the "I'd buy that" crowd online, you will also lose money. Make what *you* want to make, everything else is noise

What new TTRPGs are y'all excited about? Tell me about cool shit people are doing.

I just counted and my whistle count is up to 1700. I think I'm sending 3k up this time! ❤️💕❤️

welcome

I have absolutely no interest in middle ground or compromise on any human rights, for roughly the same reasons that I have absolutely no interest in allowing a leopard to eat only *part* of my face.

Getting drinks with a friend Commission for @gommystars.bsky.social #furryart

JUST IN: Judge orders Trump administration to deliver full SNAP benefits to states by Friday www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

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The Future Class was created in 2020 when a lot of companies responded to online critiques and broader social justice movements with DEI initiatives. Hard not to read part of the subtext here as the TGAs, like many other brands, trying to distance itself from "woke."

I thought people were overreacting to the rude label but mine was set to hide and not warn and I didn't even know it. Go check your moderation settings and make sure that they're what you want.

I know what I'm about. (Taking a 3:48 Slut break)

Stop saying the cop was assaulted by a sandwich You have to use the passive voice. The officer was impacted by a sweet onion chicken teriyaki of unclear origin

If you're wondering how this will go Square Enix handed off their mobile Octopath game to NetEase who immediately started using ChatGPT to translate everything resulting in text like this. When players complained they started asking fans to fix their translations in exchange for in-game currency

This is while Square Enix is part of that group of Japanese companies demanding that OpenAI stop using their stuff. Not a single thing SE is doing makes any sense, and I don't see what the functional outcome of this could possibly be.

A 34-year-old as a politician: My god he's like a baby. It's like they just elected an infant to be their mayor. A 34-year-old as an athlete: You have to admire the bravery of him attempting that dunk, knowing full well the grim reaper is right behind him.

They’re literally trying to push phrenology.

TIX FOR SATURDAY 22nd ALMOST GONE! ADDED SCREENING ON SUNDAY THE 23rd AT AN EARLIER TIME IF YOU WANNA COZY CLOWN COMEDOWN!

My brain keeps saying "smilodon spaghetti" as a stim like it's a super sentai specialty dish.

This was a paragraph at the bottom of an article stating that SqEniz is down sizing their US and EU offices, about 100 in Europe, more in the US due to be laid off, but this also fucking sucks.

I came up with such a wild and fun mechanic for The SSLARP the other day? I can't tell you the full context of it, but you know how a few games make you make secrets for a character before playing? You're rewarded a better version of a resource the more impactful the reveal of that secret is

I wonder what's causing all the horrific industrial accidents. Anyway, here's a picture from 2016 of Trump complaining about regulations before cutting as many as possible

the children year for the mines. let them do what they already know will make them happy, and save the town from financial ruin

Tags are such a fun way to build games because you can be like "Yeah, my character is followed by a one legged man who loves booze and causes elephantiasis" and everyone else at the table goes "Yeah, sounds about right. I have a tanuki."

Hey illustrators/agents! I’m a #kidlit art director starting work on a new picture book—we’re looking for: expressive, commercial, human characters; texture (printmakingish); AND BATS! Lively, active, swarming BATS! Please respond w/ samples + folio link. Please no emails/DMs. 💙❤️ #artcommissions

Union statement and Conde statement

Baskin-Robbins Beatle Nut Ice Cream (1964-1964): Pistachio ice cream with walnuts and a fudge ripple, released to commemorate the Beatles first American tour.

Hey @magic.wizards.com 👋 you got another apology or clarification for those hundreds of artists who've publicly said they won't fuck with you anymore if you use gen "AI" in your games?

In response, Conde has filed a charge with the NLRB against the NewsGuild of New York over the union's "repeated and egregious disregard of our collective bargaining agreement."