I love the intensity of the red in this piece.

A flatscreen display on a "smart" water fountain, demanding to be reconnected to the internet.

In 1999, I was playing a decker in Shadowrun, and tried to distract a guard by hacking a water fountain to overflow, and my GM said "why would a water fountain be on the network? That's fucking stupid. No you can't try."

Well it's 2026 and I just want you to know, Phil, that I FUCKING CALLED IT!

An illustration featuring a pack of cats in an old Italian village

Cats in Vernazza.

I do love that art!

there is no politician so irreplaceable that we must overlook sexual misconduct because nobody else could possibly fill their shoes

Imagine if we had someone in our country who said this and meant it.

Magyar: “No mercy, they will need to take responsibility for all their actions.”

If you hear someone say, “this was an open secret for years,” and your response is to ask why they didn’t tell anyone, I think you misunderstand the term “open secret”.

What they’ve saying is that people without power couldn’t get the powerful to listen to them.

We want to know: Out of the hundreds of supplements for GURPS, which is your favorite?

bit.ly/gurpsw23

#gurps #ttrpg #playsjgames

I love all the Transhuman Space books. Every one! Such an interesting setting with so much possibility; easily the best near future hardish sci-fi settings out there.

Absolutely remarkable statement from Pope Leo today.
One for the history books
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

I strongly suspect Pope Leo was elected precisely to *cause* a break with parts of American society.

I guarantee you, Pope Francis saw a lot of this coming, and knew America - including a big chunk of its Catholic element - was going to present the world with a serious moral crisis before too long.

"What can Democrats do?"

When the South Korean president attempted to declare martial law, South Korean lawmakers literally fought through tanks and military forces and climbed fences to get into their Parliament building to stop him.

So, you know, that.

“a whole civilization will die tonight” should be reason enough for the 25th amendment

I just started also (now almost at the climax of the 2nd game) and I’m also hooked. The writing and the characters are both top notch!

Earth and Moon from DSCOVR NASA's Earth Polychromatic Imaging Camera (EPIC) aboard the Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR) satellite captured this unique view of the Moon as it moved in front of the sunlit side of Earth last month. This view shows the fully illuminated “dark side” of the moon that is never visible from Earth. Ian Regan processed this version of the image to account for the Moon's motion. NASA / NOAA / Ian Regan

I hadn't seen this before. This is pretty remarkable.

Earth and Moon in one NASA photo.

ht @astrokatie.com

Okay, again... this is how TF you write a GD'ed headline!!!

Rabea Rogge, die erste deutsche Frau im All, hat einfach einen W20 mit rauf genommen. #PNPDE #Spaaace

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Freudian slip?

I came here to say something about Caligula but I see the work is already don.

Yes please do this!

There are now 10 toilets in Space

International Space Station: 4
Crew Dragon Docked at ISS: 1
Soyuz Docked at ISS: 1
Tiangong Space Station: 2
Shenzhou Docked at TSS: 1
Artemis II on way around Moon: 1

This will be the first time a toilet has left low earth orbit!

I have it and have run it. It’s very good, maybe the best thing to have come out of SR in a long while. The risk dice mechanic is clever and adaptable to a lot of situations, and there’s a prep/flashback a little like Blades or Hard Wired Island.

Over eight million Americans took to the streets today, which makes No Kings 3 the biggest single day of protest in the history of our country. #NoKings

An image of a list of the 27 grievances against King George III in the Declaration of Independence. Donald Trump's regime has committed at least 20 of them in whole or in part, condensed into the list below: 1. He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good. 2. He has refused to pass other Laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of representation … 3. He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing … his invasions on the rights of the people. 4. He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; … obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners … 5. He has obstructed the Administration of Justice … 6. He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone, for the tenure of their offices … 7. He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our people, and eat out their substance. 8. He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures. 9. He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power. 10. He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution … giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation: 11. For Quartering large bodies of armed troops among us: 12. For protecting them … from punishment for any Murders which they should commit … 13. For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world: 14. For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent: 15. For depriving us … of the benefits of Trial by Jury: 16. For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences: 17. For … abolishing our most valuable Laws, and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments: 18. He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us. 19. He has … destroyed the lives of our people. 20. He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us …

The Declaration of Independence specifies 27 grievances with King George III and Britain.

Donald Trump and his regime have committed at least 20 of those same offenses highlighted in yellow.

#NoKings

Briefly: Everyone talking about how we should be thankful this is a clown show... no. Extreme authoritarianism is *always* a clown show. Have you met imperial Rome? Or actually read about the Nazis, Stalinism, any of them? It's *always* a clown show. That's *part of the horror* isn't it?

United Airlines and the flight attendant union have reached a tentative labor agreement that will take top pay to $100/hr by the end of the contract.

Flight attendants will also finally be paid during boarding if this agreement is ratified.

we’re not going to get anywhere until we stop letting companies pay millions in settlements instead of putting their leadership in fucking jail