Per Craig Ferguson: When you're about to say something, ask yourself 1. Does this need to be said 2. Does this need to be said by me 3. Does this need to be said by me right now It's amazing how asking these will get keep you out of trouble (that is, if you actually have sense to begin with)

In a when there was lots of negativity and bad news for health, there were some nuggets of positivity. As we head into 2026, I wanted to share this article with 7 positive science and health stories from this year. Happy New Year and lets hope 2026 is better than 2025. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Tell the story of a community that overcomes its government's failures by putting together its own mechs to help defend itself from a variety of threats in Neighborhood Robots by Navaar Seik-Jackson, one of the amazing TTRPGs included in the Griot Anthology! #ttrpg thoughtcrimegames.it...

Merry Christmas to these lesbians #deathbecomesher

I really missed a beat releasing this just after Thanksgiving when it's actually the perfect thing for y'all to watch on boxing day youtu.be/dgfVE_qbWC8

Central Eastside, Buckman, Portland, OR #pdx #graffiti #murals #streetart #tags

it's me. the surprise character in Avengers Doomsday is John Darnielle from the Mountain Goats. I murder half the Avengers with my sick rhymes but you have to see the movie to find out which ones

Welcome to v4 of the Blue Sky Game Dev orientation 🧵! Let's get you started with the basics of Bluesky, finding other devs, and posting about your games! Btw, this is based on the artist orientation thread from @purlane.ink; make sure to check it out if you’re also on the art side of game dev!

Hey gang, I put up 50 community copies each for solo games VOID 1680 AM, No-Tell Motel, and Lighthouse at the End of the World, AND for my two-player game Wayfarer 1. Grab, play, share, enjoy. bannerless.games/voidam bannerless.games/ntm bannerless.games/lighthouse bannerless.games/wayfarer1

Discworld QOTD, from Hogfather

So about this new episode, please be sure to read the content warnings (which you should always do btw). This one's just particularly rough.

I like looking things up on Reddit like “affordable writing retreat advice,” because inevitably someone will say something extremely Reddit.

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I RELEASED A NEW TTRPG!! it's very silly & full of jewish shitposting!! your attributes are "GREAT", "MIRACLE", "HAPPENED", and "THERE!", your progress clock is candles on a menorah, and these are the kind of tables i put in there. if we do $613 in sales before Jan 1 i'll do a trifold print run!

anti-Blackness is a global scourge

Please help a trans girl NOT be evicted on January 1st!!!! Please help me pay my electric bill and other monthly bills !!!! Please send tips !!!! I am so stressed

12:32 am on Christmas… trans rights

Happy Hogswatch to all who celebrate. Ho! Ho! Ho!

Love has no gender🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 Love is love❤️ love you all🤍 Merry Merry⭐️✨

19 states sued the US HHS over their policies that deny gender affirming care to young people. They say that these policies are inaccurate and unlawful and should be blocked. I wish them luck. Safe gender affirming care is important to many people and should not stopped. apnews.com/article/laws...

'a place as beautiful as ours' is a micro fiction audio drama brought to you by The Heart is a Dungeon with @ohheyitsgina.bsky.social & @rahrah.bsky.social. All four episodes are available today. Thank you so much for listening this last year & happy holidays from all of us in the THIAD treehouse.

God jul, nästa år vänder vi kampen mot fascismen till seger!

Me: whats up man ever since you succumbed to the forest youve had this undeescribable vibe My boy Trevor: *the sound of 1000 enraptured wasps vibrating a hive* Me: yeah i guess

#Devmas with #Adaptory - Day 12 That’s all 12 Days of Devmas, explorers! Huge thank you from our team for all the support and excitement you’ve shared with us this year. And don’t worry, there’s plenty more content to come! Keep an eye on our socials, and we’ll see you soon! #indiegame #teamphoto

“They only use genAI for internal use” “It’s just for generating some ideas, it’s not even really more efficient”

I am working on a video about the breadth of public health beyond epidemiologists etc. So many professions work to prevent disease, promote health, and prolong life including trash collectors, water treatment, civil engineers, etc. Any other ideas of professions you may have would be appreciated.

DNGN CLUB 25: A YEAR IN REVIEW Continuing with another free 1 page game, Safe Cracker is a system neutral mini game to enhance the tension of breaking into a vault. It's short, sweet, and inspired by Mosaic Strict rules building — it can be played by itself or as subsystem of another game.

Some of you have forgotten that only three years ago you were perfectly capable of writing a text, writing an email, telling a bedtime story to a child, and it should worry you that powerful companies have convinced us we can’t do things we’ve been doing since the dawn of time.

This piece was in our main library in 2015 for a couple of months & a woman told me she would stop by on her lunch break & just sit & look at it almost daily because it gave her some peace. Few better compliments. Shore 55×40 140×101cm Oil on Canvas 2015 #ArtAdventCalendar

these rule and are gorgeous. who wants a caves of qud game in this system hmu

Vastlands Guidebook spot art I did earlier this year. Slightly inspired by the gyrocopter from mad max.

Friends, this Christmas Eve, remember: if someone at a family event this holiday season is being loudly racist or misogynist or homophobic and you tell them that's not acceptable behavior? You did not "start the fight" and you did not "spoil the mood". They did. Be good to yourselves.

The lovely people at Escapegoats Anonymous have kindly offered to donate any funds they raise tomorrow to NION women and @goodlawproject.bsky.social, to help further our message next year. If this looks like the kind of thing that might help you or others you know over the holidays, sign up here 👇🏻

And Tiny Tim, who did NOT die, was present at the end of the universe, having witnessed every black hole evaporate and every proton decay. Even so, Death would not come.

おばけと人の絵

I like being an uncle for the holidays because: Mom and dad are responsible, and will discipline you. Grandpa and Grandma are indulgent, and will coddle you. But the uncle... the uncle is unpredictable. The niece and nephew cannot know what the uncle will do, because the soul of the uncle is CHAOS

Let's go on a road trip for the holidays🚗 Going to stream some Keep Driving at 2pm ET on Twitch! www.twitch.tv/kendomakesfi...

If you begin Star Trek: Voyager episode Spirit Folk at exactly 11:49:35 on New Year's Eve, Ensign Harry Kim will kiss a cow as the clock strikes midnight. Join in a very dumb annual tradition and start 2026 off on the right hoof.

via The New Yorker, Ellis Rosen cartoon

"the thing about mechanics is that they are not just rules. they are a philosophy with numbers attached." oooohohoho yesss. yes. yesss!! what a great read!

I liked this post from Habeeb and the follow up from @isaacisafraid.bsky.social, and it made me reflect on a framing tool that I've been using in my games for a long time rooted in a 20-year old design note in the back of an out-of-print RPG. Here you go :) blog.jacoblefton.com/an-emotional...

now that i’ve started medically transitioning, would you show your support by making a pledge on patreon? it’s expensive 😅 you can play the first “i’m not supposed to be here” game at Tier 2+!!

Predictably, most of the comments blame conservatives for these types of policies. But I’m here to remind everyone that both Ds and Rs pass and praise policies that make child removals and adoptions easier, and haven’t done anything to support the material needs of at-risk families

(also an important note, because not everyone knows this inherently: a "positive" feedback loop doesn't mean a GOOD feedback loop. it just means that the thing that is the subject/purpose of the loop keeps increasing 🙃)

Lmfao bsky.app/profile/lizr...

If you pay attention to any large industry long enough and follow it to its logical conclusion you eventually end up sounding like a communist even if you started off testing CPU case fans. youtu.be/cUrJVdF2me0?...

The cast is genuinely a knockout group, we've made something pretty special and I really want to show you. 100 more Kickstarter followers and it'll be released!