a famous image of neil the hairless rat banging out the tunes on a tiny xylophone

HAPPY 20TH BIRTHDAY TO NEIL BANGING OUT THE TUNES

"Humans won't work unless they're forced to" is a myth for stupid people. If you're paying attention, humanity loves to do the job... they just don't like to be exploited and abused just to survive, the 2 tools people THINK you need to inflict upon humans to make them work.

zackeryatlas 12h The degradation of society: 1. Celebrating the k!lling of a CEO 2. Cheering on warehouse arsons 3. Making heroes out of people who attempt political violence You can be outraged at the system and still not glorify violence. These aren't wins. This is a society losing its moral compass. [Coming from a liberal btw]

I don’t know how people keep forgetting that workers rights were entirely written in blood and the capital class had to be threatened with violence before they agreed to things like 8 hour working days and 2 day weekends.

RT if $3000 would literally change your life

Jean Grey walking through a Krakoan portal.

She is risen. #HappyXster

No one plays an RPG purely because its dice mechanic is interesting.

I can ABSOLUTELY cover that if you need another contributor!

I love Bill Sienkiewicz art so much. Growing up reading The New Mutants his stuff was so incredibly impactful for me.

I had never seen an art style so out there when I was younger.

R2-D2

Jawas

Ewok

There's a lot of things that make Star Wars fantastic, but for my money, nothing beats a story that has a few grubby little guys just trying to get shit done in space.

An ewok in someone's yard forlornly places a paw on the glass door. The text caption reads, "Ewoks aren't meant to be left outside, they're Endor pets."

I might not be able to make #PAXEast this year, but if anyone needs a professional GM to run games for them at #PAXWest later on, definitely hit me up!

Today's hot take for TTRPGs:

No-selling is bad storytelling.

Two ceramic pigs labeled "pigs with no specific duties"

Every picture of ICE agents in airports is just this again

What are YOU doing about it, Senator?

A reminder that I’m STILL available for work.

💯

Anytime someone else comes out with fond memories of C:tL, I feel like Aragorn here.

Few (if any) D&D stories get broken by someone accessing a few more cantrips than their class is allotted. Players seem to always turn these sorts of things into unhinged entertainment opportunities. 👍🏻

“This Is Not The Computer For You” · Sam Henri Gold Sam Henri Gold is a product design engineer building playful, useful software.

This is the best product review I’ve read: samhenri.gold/blog/2026031...

It doesn’t matter if you’re interested in the MacBook Neo or not; this is the kind of essay that makes you think about the potential of technology and the joys of exploration.

Today is the day for the Make Things Better virtual meeting, and today we have a personal safety tip to practice in These Times. Link will go up a half hour in advance of the meeting, at the bottom of my pinned thread, which also contains full details about the meetings in general. Repost at will!

QTP with a gif that pops up when you type your name

Gonna be yelling about this until the call closes

That also happens to me every time I go to sleep after having an edible, so.

Un-nuanced RPG take: Eberron is the shit. I'm a happy DnD player, but I'm STOKED every time I see someone adapting it for other systems. The more, the merrier 😍

I run seven games a week and over half of them are Eberron.

It's the F*CKING BEST 😁

“Dr Friedman, when did GamerGate end?”

I am CONSTANTLY thinking about Casablanca.

If anyone needs a professional to run games for them at #PAXWest this year, hit me up!

Art Resources for Broke TTRPG Creators! by WendigoWorkshop A small document with a bunch of resources for TTRPG creators on a budget

If you need art for your TTRPG project, we have made this small list of affordable places to look (we even update it from time to time)!