Absolutely incredible.

NASA Astronaut Reid Wiseman, who commanded Artemis II, took this footage from the far side of the Moon with his iPhone.

Watch with sound on.

ATTN: Ben Riggs RE: The "Gygax Talk" YouTube video by We Love TTRPGs!

If you are at all interested in the roots of Dungeons and Dragons, watch this short video. All the way through, to it's conclusion. Aten does fine work here. #DungeonsandDragons #Gygax #ttrpg
youtu.be/GUvR056ROLg?...

A Crossroads in the Deep A Settlement on the Underworld Frontier Far below the surface world, a vast Empire rules a web of tunnels and caverns. The Empire of the Spider Queen is a dark mirror of the Elven realms that bathes in the golden light of the Sun. The founders of the Empire of the Spider Queen were the losers of a war against their Elven cousins ages past, and driven from the sunlit world into the lightles underworld.

A Crossroads in the Deep

A Settlement on the Underworld Frontier Far below the surface world, a vast Empire rules a web of tunnels and caverns. The Empire of the Spider Queen is a dark mirror of the Elven realms that bathes in the golden light of the Sun. The founders of the Empire of the Spider…

Trump's Dictatorship is systematically harming. And the new "polite society" that is growing up is preventing that.
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and being labelled a "criminal". I don't want to tell my co-worker who proudly says "I'm a republican" that he's evil. I don't even want to call him a fascist stooge for voting for Trump 3 times. I just want him to see us. To take a long look at the people that republicans are abusing. That
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any LGBTQ+ people are in their lives, and they can believe the stereotypes about "ideology brainwashing the children" or "rainbow haired communists are coming for your investments, your bibles and your guns". They can worry about being jailed for misgendering their barrista, or their neighbor
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"Great Silent Majority" and when they cast their ballots for the Transphobic Oligarch because there's an (R) next to their name, they don't believe that there is harm associated with that. Because sexual and gender identity have been classified as "political", these voters have deniability that
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my politics and opinions on receptive ears (like here). But that means I am not reaching the ears that most need to hear the message. Prohibiting political speech among family, community, and work reinforces the social silos. It means that my MAGA peers can happily believe the lies of the
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In short, i could ruin their good times, but the cost is gonna be that I'm disinvited to attend the gatherings (and as far as work is concerned "disinvited" means "written up and eventually fired for 'disrupting productivity'). Now, the simple, and honestly, less stressful solution is to focus
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fellow Grognards. There is a hard barrier. "Don't ruin our family time with your politics (and to be fair, they abide by their own rule), Don't talk Politics at work, *ever* (Policy written for shall we say, 'appropriate' reasons.) Don't bring your politics to the game store or the game table.
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the "youth" in my community. About gaming, about politics, about life. I share as much as I can, and as much as my community will let me, both of my past and my present. But my reach is limited. That is, I can't speak to my conservative peers. Not my family, not my co-workers, not my
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I am acting as much as I can. I'm involved in my community, I'm encouraging direct action among our younger generations, I'm trying to be the change I want to see in the world. However, I have a frustration that I can't work past.
As an Elder GenX Queer Nerd, I feel welcomed in speaking to
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I'm thrilled about the Hungarian Election. It's not the end of the fight, but it is a definite Win for a future, equitable an inclusive world. Gods, I hope that the US Midterms push in that direction too. (Been listening to a couple of interviews with Senator Bernie Saners, so I have thoughts)
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#DnD #Underdark
Taking a break from Traveller content for a moment and delving into the DezzyDark.

Drow Hybrids in the Underdark Offspring of Dark Elves and their Thralls The 2024 revision of 5th ed D&D, retitled D&D 5.5, removed "half-" species from the game. While this choice was controversial (to say the least), there remains room for characters of mixed parentage. Especially in the Underdark, where the Drow rule over a vast Empire and Drow citizens have virtually unchecked privilege to indulge in their darkest impulses.

Drow Hybrids in the Underdark

Offspring of Dark Elves and their Thralls The 2024 revision of 5th ed D&D, retitled D&D 5.5, removed "half-" species from the game. While this choice was controversial (to say the least), there remains room for characters of mixed parentage. Especially in the…

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#StarTrek #Traveller Lore and Legends of the Dezzyverse got pushed back a week due to demands from work and life. However I used the extra time to write up a double length post about starships!

To Boldly Go Building Chariots of the Gods The ships of Starfleet are heroes of the story almost as much as the people who crew them. With voice-interactive computers, holodecks, and by the 25th century, holographic crew, a Starfleet vessel (and presumedly, an Imperial Klingon Naval vessel, a Cardassian Union Vessel, an a Stellar Imperial Romulan Vessel) can have distinct personalities. In a Traveller game, most Starfleet vessels are firmly Capital Ship class, that is, over 10,000 dTons.

To Boldly Go

Building Chariots of the Gods The ships of Starfleet are heroes of the story almost as much as the people who crew them. With voice-interactive computers, holodecks, and by the 25th century, holographic crew, a Starfleet vessel (and presumedly, an Imperial Klingon Naval vessel, a…

any of you. For those who continue to bury your head in the sand and deny that a dictatorship is currently ruling the US Federal government, this sounds like easily dismissed over-reaction.

The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and the networks all work for the Dictatorship.
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Most, if not all, "traditional news sources" MSNow PBS NewsHour and NPR being conspicuous exceptions, have been co-opted by the dictatorship. They aren't *Pravda* style state media yet, but they are certainly sending out the Dictator's message to the country.

I'm sure I am not surprising
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Our imagination. I talked with my Girlfriend's sister today. She told me about the D&D program at the elementary school she works at. It made me so happy. Because the next generation is learning how to tell their own stories. They will be the what tears down the machines of fascism.
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Role-playing. The tools are already on our shelves. We don't *need* subscriptions to massive profit machines to play D&D. We don't need to buy a license to tell shared stories in the Star Wars, Star Trek, Dune, Middle Earth universes. We can even make up our own universes and give spark to
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very hand. Make videos from your phone. Share the reports from journalists who are independent of the corporate media. Tell and share stories and worlds that you dream up. We don't need IP or Franchises to tell stories in our familiar and beloved settings. That's part of the power of
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They can control your minds. This is the same tactic used for 100 years. But, what fascists never quite grasp is, we don't need them. We don't need Goebbles or Riefenstahl or State News to entertain and inform us. Now, more than ever, we have the power to massively communicate right in our
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Hey kids! It's way early in the morning and I have a thought I need to get out of my head. Ya see, this fascist US Government is strangling media through corporate greed. They're attempting to take control of what stories are told. They believe by controlling the companies and the Studios.
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for myself. Lola is a Transwoman.

Lola is one of the most important songs that has taken residence in my head rent-free.

I owe Ray Davies a debt of gratitude. Had he not written Lola, I don't know how I would have accepted myself and my sexual identity.

He goes home with Lola.
Lola makes another appearance in the song "Destroyer".
"I met a girl called Lola and I took her back to my place, feeling guilty, feeling scared, hidden cameras EVERYWHERE!"

Is Lola a crossdresser?
Is she a Drag Queen?
Is she a Sex-Worker?

For me, and I only speak
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But I don't think that terminology, Assigned Male at Birth, Assigned Female at Birth, was being used outside of the gender science community. But that's beside my point.

The subject proclaims "I'm a man, I'm a man and so is Lola" triumphantly. The subject doesn't care.
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I can't go so far as calling it Transphobic. In context the song is about the subject, who met her (Lola) in a club and thought she was a woman before putting together a lot of context before realizing Lola was "a man" just like the subject (I'd suggest that today Lola would be considered AMAB)
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would relate with my own queer identity until around 2009. But Lola never ever left me. Then I met Diana, and Lola became real.
The song Lola has been controversial for 56 years. Half-a-century and then some. It's language from a 2026 perspective is antiquated at best, cringe at worst, but
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