Democrats, coming off a historic national protest against fascism and a country-wide electoral sweep:

Watson was deeply influential to me as a genomicist, but not how you may assume From stealing Rosalind Franklin's lab notes to his frequent sexist & racist bioessentialist comments later in life, he showed how the scientific community would still worship a terrible person Don't idolize bad people

This was a great day, hanging with fellow nerds and playing some games to support Edmonton’s most vulnerable. If you missed out, keep your eyes open for our summer game day. And as always, much love to @iamatrex.com and @catlinggun.bsky.social for the work that went on behind the scenes.

Some pretty cool stuff in the silent auction! If you're stopping by, check it out.

We're all set up and games are running for Worldbuilders YEG down @pemetawe.bsky.social in support of Nekem! Come down and check out our silent auction of ttrpg goodies!

Tomorrow at @pemetawe.bsky.social World Builders YEG is having an indie TTRPG day! Join us for games and a silent auction in support of nekem! details and sign ups here: worldbuildersyeg.com

First official snow of the season. If you have somewhere warm and dry to go to escape, you are more fortunate than the estimated 5000 people in our city who are unhoused. Bissell does incredible work in making sure those who need help have access to it. You can help me help them

To be very clear, The Gauntlet is an unabashedly queer-centric publisher, our games put themes of queerness and gender front and center, and our founder and operator (me) is a gay POC. Our values are in every single page of our games.

“It’s an historic fuck-up” Pierre Poilievre’s week couldn’t get any worse, and yet it did. It will be a miracle if he even makes it to the leadership review. #cdnpoli

Oh. The. Irony.

Didn't say anything specific earlier as I was in a game, but as one of the editors for S&K, I'm gay and trans. There's multiple trans people involved with this zine. We would love it if there was more.

It hasn't been stated outright because I, maybe in ignorance, just assumed it would be obvious but Sprigs & Kindling is very supportive of LGBTQ2S+ rights, stories, and creators!

Flying Squirrel Loves It Every Time

A 98% strike mandate for the nurses is historic on its own. Now consider that they voted this way even after seeing the government clobber the teachers with Bill 2.

As a headsup for anyone on Vyvanse, you should go check your lot numbers. www.health.com/adhd-medicat...

Plus Hole EXP. TONIGHT! BRAVE ENOUGH? YOUR FRIENDS WON'T BELIEVE YOU. Hear about emergent narrative, deep theme, and whether this game of bar dice and disposable life journeys is an expressionist game or not! It's going to be interspectacular!

mamdani is human. he'll fuck up and fail, especially with a hostile press and the giant mess that is nyc's politics. but today is a great day for the brave women who told what cuomo did, and for those of us who care that it should matter. that power shouldn't go to those who hurt the poweless.

Canada, pay attention!

So refreshing to see a politician be an unapologetic champion for LGBTQ+ rights, stopping the genocide in Gaza, even kicking cars out the lanes that buses drive on, and winning! Maybe being cowardly and quiet is a losing strategy!

I hope Alberta leftists see this and take note <3

i hope this is how you find out about dick cheney

"[Chief electoral officer] McClure says the cost of verifying these petitions and other potential referendum initiatives is taxing his staff, and he needs another $13.5 million to do the jo[b]" hahahahahahahaha

Graboids versus the vampires of the Titty Twister

Last chance to turn it off. On Monday, November 3rd, Microsoft will start using your LinkedIn data for AI training. And remember, you're opted in by default. To toggle it off 👉 Account - Settings & Privacy > Data privacy > Data for Generative AI Improvement.

INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE SECOND INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE OVER ZOOM TO MEET MORE OF THE TEAM UNFORTUNATELY, YOU HAVE NOT BEEN SUCCESSFUL ON THIS OCCASION, BUT WE HOPE YOU'LL APPLY FOR FUTURE POSITIONS WITH THE VAMPIRE

Only day you can post this

If anyone lost something along the 102 ave bike lane send me a message #yegbike

A quick highlight of some of the awesome stuff in this issue in the thread below!

I was busy doing things on my very favourite day of the year and forgot to promo this but VOLUME 5 of Sprigs & Kindling is OUT! HUGE thanks to our team for working so hard to get this done for Halloween!!! Trick-or-Treat, it's TROPHY! sprigsandkindling.com

Happy Halloween! For today only (unless I forget to change it back), my Trophy Dark incursion A Warm and Pleasant Hum is FREE on itch! Now get off my porch, a'fore I set the bees on ya! signalstation.itch.io/a-warm-and-p...

It says a lot about how Jim and I really are bad at this in that we post this without saying realising we should have said "For Halloween, here's an astounding horror game" or "It's the game we've liked most since launching the site"

Just getting home from work, huh? Or waking up from that really great post-lunch nap? What a perfect time to make sure you or your favorite show have submitted for the actual play grants! The deadline is roughly seven hours away -- make some time after dinner to make sure you get it in!

On my favourite day of the year one of my favourite writers has written about my favourite game. This is a gift :D

Aaaah, so the game that UKGE was deleting comments about on instagram yesterday is a sponsor. Or at the very least has bought the top story on the UKGE website this morning. That's interesting.

Happy Halloween!!

Middle age is primarily about opening a new kitchen sponge and going "this is much better"

The #hauntalong winds down. The lights dim and the fundament cracks as I talk about Drag Me To Hell....

An update on this. It’s really important. Still no word from UKGE but more people are commenting and I’m seeing that comments are still being hidden. What’s more, the creator is firing back with a lot of nonsense. 🙃

Buckle up, folks. www.ctvnews.ca/edmonton/art...

This Saturday Nov 1st, join Pe Metawe for a Halloween party! Blood on the Clocktower hidden role game in the public area with Mysterium board game running in the back. Prize for best costume! Starting at 5pm, $5/person, 18+ please. #halloween #yeg #yegevents

Wow, here we are in the last days of this year's #Hauntalong. Time sure flies when you’re being spooky! Thanks all for reading along. I hope you found some groovy horror films to make your Spooky Season better! I’m closing up my contribution with Stuart Gordon’s 1985 classic Re-Animator! (1/9)

Boycott anything Harry Potter. It's incredibly easy to do

Alright, it's time... This is Voidlight: A rules-bright sci-fi horror dungeon crawl where your only safety is a beam of light that shrinks every ten minutes. Light on rules, bound to the dark. 100 playtesters battle tested this game and it's finally available! farirpgs.itch.io/voidlight

Alright #YEG where did you get your COVID vaccines? I can't ever manage to get a booking on the province online thing.

I've sung its praises before, but @munkao.bsky.social 's SE Asian fantasy setting is DRIPPING with flavor & irresistible character details, like: players are members of a Meddler's Guild ("nosy aunties" but for adventuring). It's early access, but worth it already! plusoneexp.com/products/kal...

"I DON'T NEED YOU TO FUCKING REWRITE WHAT I'VE JUST WRITTEN!"