Here’s the TTRPG character that I would like to commission: Style: 70s/80s fantasy pulp fiction OR 80s movie poster. Char details: Solo, Gnome, standing, short, spunky, many pockets around his cloak. Leave your portfolio links below and I’ll DM you additional details if I’m interested to proceed!

This is big! It should allow for much more efficient systems that save energy and costs.

Anyone have artist recommendations ? I would like to commission art of my TTRPG character @popular-demand.bsky.social @dinopupper.bsky.social

It's remarkable how low COVID deaths have fallen in the last year. The 2024 summer wave peaked at 1,358 deaths per week; the 2025 summer wave peaked at 466 deaths per week. www.cdc.gov/covid/php/su...

Fuck you people. Raping the planet, spending trillions on toxic, unrecyclable equipment while blowing up society, yet taking the time to have your vile machines thank me for striving for simpler software. Just fuck you. Fuck you all. I can't remember the last time I was this angry.

Important for any artists putting their work online to glaze their work! (what a name) glaze.cs.uchicago.edu/what-is-glaz...

One of the most inspirational videos I’ve seen all year.

We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.

Excel is the Minecraft of enterprise software. You get good enough at excel you get good at programming. Also excel competes with several derivative products that take a tiny piece of excel’s capabilities and polish it into a complete product.

Appliances that replace their controls with touch screens are rendering their appliances inaccessible for very little gain youtube.com/shorts/b8uyx...

Starsector 0.98a is out! Fight new enemies, acquire new ships and weapons, and much more, featuring new story missions, autosave, a revamped combat simulator and Codex, and other UI improvements! fractalsoftworks.com/2025/03/27/s... Please repost!

www.reuters.com/technology/w... Sigh… this is going to weaken the financial sector. Most crypto is still being using not as an asset or a currency, but a highly volatile security that people hold hoping it will rise in value.

Coming this GenCon! The Beverly Killbillies: Menagerie on the Bounty After being read in to perhaps the most profound secret in the history of the world, the Beverly Killbillies Extermination Service is now tasked with escorting the world’s most cryptic cargo to its final destination.

I just finished reading all of Brandon Sanderson’s Cosmere books punished to date after I started reading them in the first week of Jan last year. What a ride!

Earth Explodes theonion.com/earth-e...

Can we just admit that we NEED immigrants for our economy to run, from agriculture to high tech? We’re a goddamn nation of immigrants, aren’t we? Let’s be proud of our immigrant heritage!

Hey guess who was on @scifri.bsky.social *and* got named dropped on Jeopardy! today.

Over there you have to bow to the biggest influencer to get influence. That’s how it’s designed. Here, everyone controls their own experience. There is no one influencer defining how to algorithmically amplify trolls and mis-information This place is not Twitter. You control your experience

You may not understand why, but the healthcare insurance and PBM contracts YOU have signed for Tesla, SpaceX , @X, along with CEOs of other big companies , have more impact on healthcare costs and quality of care in this country, than anything you can do with DOGE

5. Bluesky's team consists of about 20 full-time employees. That's a million users here per employee now 🤯 Also, we're hiring! bsky.social/about/join

Perhaps a little redundant to post here, but we've made a statement on our subreddit about why we're shifting our focus here to Bluesky for social media outreach. www.reddit.com/r/AskHistori...

One of the few sub-reddits I take seriously is moving to BlueSky for off-reddit communications: www.reddit.com/r/AskHistori...

Solid recommendation and actually one that provided some useful meat on the bones of an argument I had been considering for a while about how the Romans managed to get better performance out of auxiliary forces than most (esp. the Hellenistic kingdoms).

This is what it looks like when you all watch the boxing match together and take a little break from posting and liking things until the time between rounds where everyone checks in with their friends. Then after the match y'all go back to posting and liking things as usual. Pretty damn neat.

This feels, to me, likely.

For the new people wondering who this old guy is, here’s a few of the TTRPG products I’ve written (all or portions of) back in the 90s.

I hope this never changes!

A thread of useful mods, moderated lists etc. that you can use across Bluesky to protect your space here from 🅰️ℹ️ stuff. I'll be updating this as I find more, so if you know of any that I haven't included, please let me know! Reposts are very welcome so more people know! [ #helpfulbskypost ]

The ironic thing about post election chatter is that a lot of the time it’s candidates who lost, underperformed, or underworked who have endless time to go on TV and share their blame story. And for their part, journalists rarely EVER ask if that person actually ran a functionally solid campaign

The macro conditions matter. Sometimes you run the best possible campaign and still come up short. But in a sea of hot takes, we should be prioritizing listening to leaders who had a solid ship. We still may have disagreements, but at least we know their operation was solid & come from that place

I know lots of you have pre-ordered When the Earth Was Green already, but, if you can, please ask for it from your school or public library, too! Sales to libraries help a great deal, and also boost word of mouth. 🌱

New: Major newspapers are giving Trump’s federal criminal indictment a fraction of the coverage they gave former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server in 2016 www.mediamatters.org/new-york-tim...

We’re going to need a bigger Tums

Amazing how long it took to hunt down an invite!

New Starsector blog post: Planet Search Overhaul fractalsoftworks.com/2024/07/13/p... Talking about revamping the planet screen and making it helpful for finding good colony sites, while not talking about what I'm currently working on, because: spoilers!

I made this Pride flag using only NASA images and our team thought it would be cool to share on social (I work on the NASA heliophysics communications team), but it's getting all sorts of hate on the bird app and Fbook. Thought y'all might be more appreciative of it here. ☺️🏳️‍🌈💖

udm14.com has had 50,000 visits in 24 hours.

Thomas is just waving his fascist flag from the bench. www.axios.com/2024/05/23/c...

"I'm just doing the needful" said Dictator-GPT

If I may for a moment - I've had Hobbes for over 10 years. I got him from a neglectful household & he escaped with me from a terribly abusive relationship/home. Despite all that, he (& his sibling who passed away at 21 years old) is a success story, learning to love later in life. I really am proud.

A few samples of my work:

Chandrayaan 3 successfully landed on the moon! 🥳🥳🥳

I was today years old when I found out that this wasn’t actually a parody https://apnews.com/article/elon-musk-mark-zuckerberg-cage-fight-28598abc5be6959f01c1b0079211a360

I present to you… The War of Five Twitters: The battling social media apps and their Westerosi counterparts.

#iTeachBio 🧬🧪🫛🍎

This week on the blog! We continue our look at the political structures of the Roman Republic, looking at Rome's most democratic institutions, the popular assemblies. Because why have one assembly, when you could have three? Or four!