I once asked a bookseller at a large indie store how many people would have to buy a book for it to get the attention of the store buyer and cause an additional order and they said: Three.

Making a new post. The short version is that, after having a laptop and tablet stolen, I need to quickly replace them, since I use them for my job. My financial situation was precarious before; it's going to be much worse if I miss work. Trying to raise $1,100; I'm at $500. paypal.me/coxendine

Drintera Magazine's last issue is free! It features fantasy TTRPG articles for any game. Mine are a group of rival adventurers who are mostly intelligent animals (Shadow-Thief Pack) and adventurers guild quest postings (a couple based on favorite Ojibwe stories): www.patreon.com/posts/free-s...

The nominee for the Army’s top lawyer thinks the government can punish reporters who solicit or publish unauthorized information. Urge your senators to reject this anti-press nomination using our easy action center tool:

Please continue making calls to Visa and Mastercard, because they are working alongside conservative legislators to crack down on free speech and expression! A dual pronged offense requires a dual pronged defense!

I just called both my Senators and my Congressman to tell them to fight to strip this lunacy from the defense authorization act. Then I wrote them each letters. You can, too! Call the Capitol switchboard at (202) 224-3121.

Over 200 people speak out in defiance of union busting - that's amazing support!

Tabletop roleplaying games are so special and unique because they ask you to consider The Body. They live internally, somewhere inside your brain. And in that space of your brain, all things weight the same: fiction and reality, diegetic and non-diegetic, how you feel and how you want to feel.

50 years ago today, Nov. 10, 1975, the Edmund Fitzgerald sank beneath the waves of Lake Superior during a massive storm. The sinking took the lives of all 29 men on the ship, and became immortalized in Gordon Lightfoot's song. This is the story of this terrible tragedy. 🧵1/20

“I hope the Supreme Court halts further attempts by public officials to use their personal faith to deny others their civil and human rights,” the civil rights icon told The Advocate.

Hey, a lot of people are talking about changing affiliation from Democratic to Independent. Let me tell you why you shouldn’t do that in Colorado. One of the main ways to get a primary challenge candidate on a ballot is to caucus for your party. You need to be registered as a Dem to caucus.

Some of the best advice I ever heard was from @silviamg.bsky.social who said that you shouldn't set goals that require other people to do what you want. You can write a book. That's a goal. You can't control whether anyone buys it. Other people have free will.

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!

Readers in Arizona, Michigan, & Georgia! Your senators have been getting a LOT of dedicated pressure to end the shutdown, without fixing healthcare. If you have a minute, go ahead & give them a call! Their job is to respond to constituents & they're mostly hearing from GOP voters rn.

How Scientists Can Stand Up for Democracy

If you aren't seeing skeets from some of your fave people, they might have been labeled "Rude" by bsky mods. Idk what they are thinking, I don't need a mommy to tell me who to be buddies with. Anyway, go into Settings > moderation > bluesky moderation (advanced) and turn Rude off.

Australia has so much electricity from solar power that it is going to start offering free electricity to everyone for at least three hours during the day as the wholesale price of power goes negative electrek.co/2025/11/04/a...

Uninstall Grammarly NOW. They've partnered with an AI company and actively scrape your writing to train its models.

Rockstar union workers have set up a solidarity fund to help our fight after 30 of them were fired in an attempt to destroy the union. Help us fight back! Anything you can donate will massively help our efforts to hold Rockstar to account. actionnetwork.org/fundraising/...

I strongly recommend everyone do research sometimes 𝘫𝘶𝘴𝘵 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘧𝘶𝘯. Look something up on Wikipedia. Go to the little citation. Follow it. Read the article it's referencing. Follow links to the original interview. Read the paper written by the interviewee It genuinely makes you appreciate journalism

Australia's humpback whales are doing so well that their population is expected to reach carrying capacity and plateau in the near future--they have not just reached but exceeded pre-whaling numbers. For this to happen with such a long-lived, slow-reproducing species is near miraculous. #goodnews

#NoKings is today! Absolutely not too late to find your local rally and show up! Have fun and stay safe! gregpak.net/2025/10/17/g...

TOMORROW is #NO_KINGS_DAY!!! Give me your Tired, your Poor, your Huddled Masses of Frogs, Unicorns, Pandas, T-Rexes, Mushrooms, Sharks, SpongeBobs & everyday Folks yearning to peacefully protest a clownishly incompetent buffoon of a Prez who, if there were any justice, would be in jail. 🤡 #BeThere

Happy to be the 52nd backer 👻 on @BackerKit Crowdfunding for stand\DELIVER: Adventure and Toolkit for Mothership #RPG from @suffety.com www.backerkit.com/c/projects/s...

"Non-Binary Passport Designations: Passports issued with “X” or other non-binary markers will be rejected by CBP systems, requiring resubmission with valid documentation showing “M” or “F” designation." Nonbinary people will not be able to travel internationally 🙃

This pitiful monarchist loser knows Americans hate kings, and that is good. Find a #NoKings protest near you and GO on 10/18, friends. It'll be inspiring and fun and it will help. (And no, you don't have to RSVP if you don't want to - just show up!) www.nokings.org

4 days to go, 94% funded, only 18 backers needed, like 10 USD to back... we got the nice numbers

Do you teach boardgames? We have just launched a survey asking about your experience! It takes about ten minutes to complete - please share! Survey link: go.unimelb.edu.au/45qp

Worth pointing out that Kickstarter United is NOT currently calling for a public boycott of Kickstarter's platform. The work strike encompasses 59 "community support specialists, trust and safety analysts, marketing professionals, software engineers, and other tech workers" under the old contract.

Calls: Made. Messages: Left. Today's topic: Thanking my senators for holding the line on the CR and encouraging them to keep it up! Our reps need to hear when we approve of what they're doing, too, and right now the Dems really need to know that showing some spine is long-term good for them.

I repeat: ‼️Mass Deportation Do Not Make Us Safer‼️ Another excellent piece from @tusk81.bsky.social

This cartoon by artist Frank Ape grounded me today #artmatters

Can't overstate this! It feels wonderful to know that someone had a good time with your game. It's not just that they appreciate your work. Someone's day, maybe a day with their friends, got better because of something you put into the world. It's a special feeling.

The South Korean Ministry of Defense has awarded medals of merit to 11 officers for disobeying direct orders of superiors during the martial law fiasco, orders that they deemed to be contrary to the constitution and endangerment to democracy. www.chosun.com/english/nati...

I wrote a massive TTRPG setting guide encyclopaedia about the ancient Scotland and the Picts who lived in it. It covers everything scholars currently know about life in the 7th century, from landscapes to kingdoms to faith, magic, settlements, and so much more. Check it out! carvedinstone.scot

Routine vaccination for COVID-19 reduces hospitalization and deaths much more than vaccinating only high-risk groups. www.news-medical.net/news/2025092...

This is really bad. It won’t get the popular opposition the Kimmel incident did, but it’s way more sweeping and authoritarian. This is an effort to bring the full force of government down on any and all opposition to this administration. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1965: 20-1 CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1990: 75-1 CEO-to-worker pay ratio today: 280-to-1 Trickle-down economics was always a sham. Nothing has ever trickled down.

A 12-foot statue of Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein frolicking and holding hands appeared on the National Mall in Washington, DC on Tuesday, September 23. A plaque under the statue states that it has been erected “In Honor of Friendship Month."

Official data is in today, and America set a new record-high for solar power in July, with generation up 30% compared to last year!

As a fat content creator I’ve received hate for simply existing. So you can imagine how PROUD I am to share my perspective on representing fat bodies in fantasy #ttrpg settings! Article by @theverbalthing.com @rascalnews.bsky.social 
Read 💖🥹 www.rascal.news/fat-people-b...

Drop some snakes! 🐍

Hey y'all, if you use LinkedIn - as of Nov. 3, they'll have you opted in to train AI on your data (including DMs) unless you opt out. Opting out is not hard: click on settings and just turn it off.

EXCLUSIVE: Tom Homan was investigated for accepting $50,000 from undercover FBI agents. Trump's DOJ shut it down.

Well, there it is. Sinclair is digging in for a fight, so please help push back -- find stations in your area, watch their local news to see what ads they run, then write those advertisers to tell them you're boycotting as long as they're on a Sinclair station. List here: sbgi.net/tv-stations/

Bluesky and Dreamwidth blocked all Mississippi users from using their services because Mississippi’s oppressive age verification mandate makes it impossible for smaller platforms to comply. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

Disney now has a 5 step process to cancel their account. I walk you through it because it shouldn't be this annoying. Also, after you cancel, invest in people *actually* committed to free speech. Welcome your support to my daily human rights newsletter ❤️✊🏽 www.qasimrashid.com/subscribe

Discoverability is one of the most crucial challenges for any indie creator, whether they make games, books, music, comics, whatever. Sharing their work, talking about them, recommending them, is always hugely valuable and appreciated. It can grow their audience and find them opportunities.

Do this to voice your outrage at Disney's unjust cancellation of Kimmel and other people's shows for simply practicing their free speech, ASAP.