I counted at least 70 standing ovations and 5 chants of “USA” during last night’s State of the Union. It sucked to watch, it was infuriating, but I think everyone should hear it. It was frightening and we need to know what their priorities are.

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Feels like every new movie I watched in 2025 is about men. boxd.it/R8ZrG

Played Daggerheart again last night this time @dngnclub.itch.io running his homebrew setting on a time-traveling train. Highlights: - Jack’s Owen Wilson impression - Wes Anderson train car with an angry badger - NYC subway car full of off-brand mascots in anti gravity…

TTRPG killjoys: “you can’t play a version of an established character from TV” Me: “fuck you I’m playing Guinan as an orchid cactus and there’s nothing you can do about it”

Starbucks workers are STILL striking. Here's some easy ways you can support us, with links in the replies:

#dispatch I can’t stand him

Shit me too, I’m bereft.

resharing this little award I made for everyone who is "ruining" the #TTRPG space 🤭

Spent some time browsing YouTube to discover new music and discovered these trends: Jazz is back? Almost pop punk Dance moves inspired by David Byrne

"One, two, three, four Tonight I'm gonna be a massive whore" youtu.be/20TDd19oA1Q?...

Saw Wake Up Dead Man yesterday, so good. I just want to highlight the scene with Bridget Everett playing Louise over the phone. Phenomenal acting that made me cry but also the scene is a touching and pivotal character moment.

Just finished playing Citizen Sleeper. That last choice I had to make had me sitting and thinking for 10 minutes, no joke. Love it when a game does this. Also this game is basically a solo Blades in the Dark set on a space station.

Just to be crystal clear because the socials are constantly lying: I have not followed you on or joined Lemon8 and I have not joined MetaAI, and I won’t do either of those things in the future.

“There is a risk that the focus on the second strike and specifically the talk of ‘war crimes’ feeds into the administration’s false wartime framing and veils the fact that the entire boat-strikes campaign is murder, full stop.”

Ok hear me out: Moana but when they find the coconuts that are black inside it becomes cosmic horror.

Did anyone else play Dredge and think “I need to do a Call of Cthulhu game set on a fishing boat?

Just saw Twinless. Fucking amazing. Dylan O’Brien and James Sweeney do incredible work. Especially after seeing Friendship, this film is so much sharper, deeper, and funnier.

If you liked the movie FRIENDSHIP we need to have words.

My new obsession: soapbox races. The creative racers, the color commentary, the nail biting drama. It’s amazing youtu.be/ZS0nP2IAs44?...

I love the genre mashup. Give me all the Golden Girls/Cthulhus and WWII/Draculas you've got. But I'm also looking for non-mashups. Sometimes it feels like the industry has an allergy. Westerns without magic. Drama without aliens. Detectives without Cthulhu. www.explorersdesign.com/one-genre-ga...

I’ve been starting to come back to TTRPGs, been hiding in a hole for months 😂 Playing a Daggerheart short campaign with @thisisvictor.bsky.social and @dngnclub.itch.io that has been a total blast, love playing with these two! Also ran No Thank You Evil for my daughter and husband, such a fun game!

Playing I Was a Teenage Exocolonist, which I thought was a cute little game about being a kid and making friends in space but actually it’s one of the most profound experiences I’ve had gaming. 1/3

I'm not sure you can get more marie antoinette than taking away food stamps before thanksgiving while you build a gold and marble dance hall so the other crooks can bring bribe you over a badly-cooked (argentinian) steak

I was back at 26 Federal Plaza today, where an ICE agent violently threw this bereft woman to the ground in front of her kids. She had not touched him. She did not pose any threat. She had to be taken to the hospital. (🎥: Elias Eliahu)

Volition #discoelysium

There’s a melancholy that comes from finishing a book for the first time. I just finished a 9 book series, over 5000 pages. It’s overwhelming. I wonder why that is.

Congress eliminated public media funding, and the president signed it into law. At a time of deep division, public media brings us together. Help keep it strong. Join our monthly donors today: n.pr/458sOhq

Listen to me make a character that I would definitely interview myself about if that was possible.

I’m a former Angeleno - my parents were both raised in Westchester, I grew up in the Inland Empire, went to UCLA, and spent most of my early adulthood living in Westchester and West Hollywood. I still root for the Dodgers. I refer to all freeways as “the…” I’ve never been prouder of LA.

TikTok needs to have a report option for sugar baby messages because apparently they aren’t a scam.

Gonna toot my own here: I did 99 points of damage in 2 rounds of combat in my D&D game as a 4th level wizard.

Who names their kid Pizza? It takes moxie to earn a PhD and become a scientist without using another name. I applaud you, Pizza!

So this is how work has been

This episode of MBMBAM is the Platonic ideal of McElroy content: ✅ a TMI moment ✅ a highly specific catch phrase is created ✅ how to navigate a public social situation with increasingly ridiculous solutions ✅ Munch Squad devolves into a tangent about snack history youtu.be/uGO2MZR80OM?...

The way Amy Goodman welcomes Juan Gonzales with such evident warmth on Democracy Now every morning gives me the warm fuzzies. Which is good coming after the rest of the broadcast, which routinely makes me cry.

Just watched this for the first time in years. This style of design is my jam youtu.be/sy1dYFGkPUE?...

Picked up Leviathan Wakes and couldn’t put it down until I finished all 561 pages in 3 days. Corey writes a cliffhanger at the end of every chapter, it’s no wonder it worked so well for TV

Explaining to my 7 year old that there used to be a ton of shows about groups of friends or families that were basically “here’s their life.” Here to ruin your day if you grew up in the 90s with “Innnnn West Philadelphia, born and raised…” Good luck getting that out of your head

Dear Discord, When I mute a category, that means I don’t want to see when a new channel has been made in that category.

Anyone excited Hilary Clinton is on Bluesky is delusional. Looking at history through rose colored glasses. She’s just like Biden and Schumer

We hate fat. We will do anything to get rid of it. And our hatred not only makes people in larger bodies miserable. It makes us incurious. What do we lose when we don’t ask questions about fat? www.scientificamerican.com/article/fat-...

used to not have toilets, shade or drinking water cause bosses said it was too expensive. With pesticides we would work too close to the spray. Thanks to Cesar Chavez they changed those things. Join us in marching for Cesar Chávez - Francisco, CA farmworker, 28 yrs #WeFeedYou

I would have loved to have made my Adventures in the Unknown game a "plain old regular game" and not delved into politics, but then the world happened and to me regular old escapism seemed weird. Does playing games change the world? No, but they do change people, and that's much more important.

Once again today I was daydreaming of my cross country train TTRPG convention, an entirely improbable but enticing idea

Huge warm fuzzy feelings right now after a fabulous group of women helped make what was a very silly idea a very silly reality in my first ever actual play production. 🥰 @itslyssabish.bsky.social @slovenlytrulls.com @hoosiercaro.bsky.social @jienbirb.bsky.social @vixiebelle.bsky.social and Tadhana

Streaming in ONE HOUR!

TOMORROW! Celebrate Women’s History Month with some good old feminine rage. Featuring Tadhana Joy as DM and @jienbirb.bsky.social @vixiebelle.bsky.social @itslyssabish.bsky.social and @caro_the_rpg_mom

Can someone please explain Hatsune Miku to me? I am old.