A D&D portrait of a young tabaxi artificer and orc monk.

My talented friend is available for commissions. #TTRPG #DungeonsandDragons #DnD5e #Art www.fiverr.com/auzins/draw-...

It’s absolutely horrifying. It makes me sick to know there are people like this.

Exposing a global ‘online rape academy’ that is teaching men how to abuse women and evade detection CNN exposes an online network of men encouraging each other to drug and assault their partners, and swap tips on how to get away with it.

This is why women choose the Bear.

Massive Attack / Tom Waits - Boots on the Ground YouTube video by Massive Attack

Tom Waits just released his first original song in 15 years, in collaboration with Massive Attack.

The real space science behind 'Project Hail Mary' The science fiction blockbuster wowed audiences with its depiction of space travel and more. Here's what NASA staff and other scientists say about the basis for the amazing events of the film.

Super excited to share this fun story I pitched this story over 2 months ago to four other outlets before NPR accepted it.
Such fascinating interviews! I hope you enjoy reading it as much as I enjoyed reporting it!

www.npr.org/2026/04/12/n...

The NDP has a new leader. What does Avi Lewis's arrival mean for the party? | CBC News Newly named NDP leader Avi Lewis promised to bring back the party from the political wilderness after its dismal showing in last year's federal election.

The New Democratic Party has elected a new leader — activist and filmmaker Avi Lewis. With his wife, journalist Naomi Klein, Lewis directed the documentaries The Take and This Changes Everything. This was the third time he ran for office in the NDP. www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

New ‘Lord of the Rings’ Movie From Stephen Colbert and His Son in Development at Warner Bros. Stephen Colbert and his son are developing a brand new film in the "Lord of the Rings" universe.

You had me at "second breakfast."

Federal minimum wage increasing to $18.15 per hour | CBC News The federal minimum wage will rise by 40 cents next week, a scheduled increase that keeps the wage in line with inflation.

Meanwhile, the U.S. federal minimum wage remains at $7.25 (roughly $10 CDN). It hasn’t changed in 15 years.

In many countries, people see their fellow citizens as morally good % who rate the morality and ethics of people in their country as morally good or bad. US has the highest rate (53%) saying fellow citizens are morally bad.

This stat seems pretty bad and really stark compared to other places

www.pewresearch.org/religion/202...

That had to be intentional, right? White shirt and blue jeans?

Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die was excellent — a mad romp through the Matrix that weaves together the best elements of Black Mirror into a time-traveling gonzo escapade. I suspect it will become a cult favorite for years to come.

A D&D diorama showing a black tower surrounded by four glowing obelisks that have crushed surrounding structures. A central plaza with autumn-colored trees is being overrun with ghouls. An elvish wizard and huitjin devil look on. 1/4

A D&D diorama showing a black tower surrounded by four glowing obelisks that have crushed surrounding structures. A central plaza with autumn-colored trees is being overrun with ghouls. An elvish wizard and huitjin devil look on. 2/4

A D&D diorama showing a black tower surrounded by four glowing obelisks that have crushed surrounding structures. A central plaza with autumn-colored trees is being overrun with ghouls. An elvish wizard and huitjin devil look on. 3/4

A D&D diorama showing a black tower surrounded by four glowing obelisks that have crushed surrounding structures. A central plaza with autumn-colored trees is being overrun with ghouls. An elvish wizard and huitjin devil look on. 4/4

Ep. 117 - Harmful Exchange. My latest D&D terrain creation for @blackwaterdnd.bsky.social The party confronts the evil wizard Eliban, his arcane obelisks, and a legion of ghouls in the city of Yorin. Watch it in action here: youtu.be/pWV6P0TDGwM?... #BlackwaterDnD #DnD5e #DungeonsandDragons #TTRPG

Finally finished #StarfleetAcademy last night. Episode 10 was my favorite. I don’t think it’s a spoiler to say @tignotaro.bsky.social’s character takes a spin as captain. I would pay good money to see a spin-off series with Jett Reno leading her own starship. She’s my top captain now (sorry Picard).

A fake newspaper cover of Weekly World News. It shows a tentacled beast looming over oil tankers with the headline: CTHULHU AGREES TO HELP! USA Makes Pact With Beast To Protect Strait Of Hormuz

In his house at R’lyeh, dead Cthulhu waits dreaming — until oil prices spike.

Americans Are Now a Target in Trump’s Immigration Crackdown A WSJ investigation tracked the U.S. citizens caught in the crosshairs of an aggressive federal campaign to detain and demonize dissenters.

Important article. should be gift link. www.wsj.com/us-news/immi...

Hollywood Isn’t Directly Attacking Trump. It’s Doing Something More Interesting. Less “what we need right now” and more “what it feels like to be alive.”

Many Hollywood projects responding to Trump’s first term were “direct, if unsubtle, approaches” to the moment—but now, films and TV shows are exploring in different ways what being alive feels like during a tumultuous period, Jake Pitre argues:

Will you be staying up/waking early for the lunar eclipse?

This map shows widely dispersed dots representing the guesses of US survey respondents about the location of Iran on a world map. 23% placed a dot in the correct area.

Where is Iran?
Each dot represents an American's guess.
pro.morningconsult.com/articles/can... 🌐

At a light jog you can cover four miles an hour. So after a leisurely three-hour run, you tuck into a Lord of the Rings Extended Edition marathon with beer and tacos. If you need to stretch things out, start on The Hobbit trilogy. After 15-20 beers, it will be a lot better than you remember.

Netflix Backs Out of Warner Bros. Bidding, Paramount Set to Win It's a stunning twist.

Looks like the Ellisons will pick up another news agency.

Why Does Diversity Matter in Science? Greater diversity and feminist critique has helped uncover overlooked biology and shift evolutionary theory in important ways.

For decades, biology treated males as the default — shaping what scientists studied and what they overlooked. Evolutionary biologist Malin Ah-King asks: if who does science affects what we see, what blind spots remain?

🔗www.prosocial.world/posts/why-does-diversity-matter-in-science

Dangerously Underreported - Nieman Reports Sudan’s journalists risk their lives to tell the story of their homeland as the world turns away, writes Isma'il Kushkush.

“I don’t think I’ve ever seen as big of a disconnect between the scale of a crisis and the scale of media coverage in my life. ... The scale of the suffering in Sudan is so high and because the [media] coverage is abominably low.”

niemanreports.org/sudan-civil-...

“How were we supposed to know that this clown car in Washington was going to basically use the same book that we used? So I don’t think it’s prescience so much as the sad familiarity of fascism.”

Looksmaxxing.com confidently rates Elordi a Chad, so you’re probably onto something

Emerald Fennell’s 'Wuthering Heights' sacrifices story for spectacle | CBC News Emerald Fennell liberally reinterprets Emily Brontë's 1847 novel in her new film but seems uninterested — to the point of negligence — in what the beloved British author was trying to say.

@jacksonweaver.bsky.social was less than enthused. As much as I enjoyed Saltburn, I’m inclined to agree with his take www.cbc.ca/news/enterta...

Thanks! It took about 15-20 hours total. The bone-lined fortress and corpse piles were 3D printed and painted by me. I buried some LED lights under green resin for the floor effects. The bottomless pit is from the WizKids Yawning Portal set and the minis are from the D&D and Pathfinder lines.

A D&D terrain diorama depicting a dark fortress with gold ornaments and bone-lined stairs. Tentacles emerge from the roof and a bottomless pit sits beneath a lich hovering above wrapped in chains. Piles of corpses surround the pit and green smoke emanates from them. A huge creature made from corpses, a bone snake, two flying wraiths bearing scythes, and a ghoul wielding a bloody cleaver are scattered across the scene. 1/4

A D&D terrain diorama depicting a dark fortress with gold ornaments and bone-lined stairs. Tentacles emerge from the roof and a bottomless pit sits beneath a lich hovering above wrapped in chains. Piles of corpses surround the pit and green smoke emanates from them. A huge creature made from corpses, a bone snake, two flying wraiths bearing scythes, and a ghoul wielding a bloody cleaver are scattered across the scene. 2/4

A D&D terrain diorama depicting a dark fortress with gold ornaments and bone-lined stairs. Tentacles emerge from the roof and a bottomless pit sits beneath a lich hovering above wrapped in chains. Piles of corpses surround the pit and green smoke emanates from them. A huge creature made from corpses, a bone snake, two flying wraiths bearing scythes, and a ghoul wielding a bloody cleaver are scattered across the scene. 3/4

A D&D terrain diorama depicting a dark fortress with gold ornaments and bone-lined stairs. Tentacles emerge from the roof and a bottomless pit sits beneath a lich hovering above wrapped in chains. Piles of corpses surround the pit and green smoke emanates from them. A huge creature made from corpses, a bone snake, two flying wraiths bearing scythes, and a ghoul wielding a bloody cleaver are scattered across the scene. 4/4

My latest miniature terrain creation for @blackwaterdnd.bsky.social Our heroes travelled into the sinister Castle Voraz to rescue a lich and escape the Famished Lands. Watch it in action here: youtu.be/xXSmILAyyhc?... #BlackwaterDnD #miniatures #terrain #dungeonsanddragons #wargaming #DnD5e #TTRPG

Happy Darwin Day!

Apocalypse no: how almost everything we thought we knew about the Maya is wrong For many years the prevailing debate about the Maya centred upon why their civilisation collapsed. Now, many scholars are asking: how did the Maya survive?

Archaeologist Francisco Estrada-Belli estimates the population of the classic-era Maya lowlands to have been 16 million people — higher than on the Italian peninsula during the peak of the Roman Empire.

It's the Black #TTRPG Talent starter pack by @ssambrose.bsky.social! Check it out!