You're doing great work! I was just thinking last week how disappointed I am that I haven't gotten to one of the symposia yet! 😁

As theater and performance folks start interacting more and more with games studies you'd think there would be an interest in analog and roleplaying games and LARP, but a strong digital fascination circulates there too (frequently conflating "game" and "digital game")

i think folks might be unfamiliar with "the pharisees", so let's make it clear: he's saying the jews run the press, and that they are conspiring to undermine the military. it's not just antisemitism, it's indistinguishable from nazism.

Query:

If you (or someone you watch/listen to) had a NON-TTRPG/Actual Play podcast, YouTube channel, etc.

AND

Played a tabletop roleplaying game on that feed/channel/etc

BEFORE 12/31/2018

could you let me know?

(I have some examples but trying to see if I missed anything)

The fact that "being taxed on a wealth that would take most people dozens of generations to gather" is "the scariest thing she's ever seen" means the world isn't scaring millionaires and billionaires nearly enough yet.

Possibly the coldest take in the entire world, but GOD Judith Butler is such a good writer. Exquisite ability to deliver dense academic prose that remains shockingly readable; the struggle is always the density of the IDEAS rather than any obfuscations of language.

God DAMMIT no, I just realized, my favorite art is anything by momatoes, especially THE MAGUS

What Dust Remains has a free excerpt so you can check out why it's beloved.

It is one of my favorite games to have designed—and one of the gut-wretchingly punchiest ones.

momatoes.itch.io/what-dust-re...

From EARTHSEED: THE BOOKS OF THE LIVING Choose your leaders with wisdom and forethought. To be led by a coward is to be controlled by all that the coward fears. To be led by a fool is to be led by the opportunists who control the fool. To be led by a thief is to offer up your most precious treasures to be stolen. To be led by a liar is to ask to be told lies. To be led by a tyrant is to sell yourself and those you love into slavery.

Octavia E. Butler, 1998:

TTRPG about me

First game: D&D 4th Ed
Latest game: Pathfinder 2nd Ed
Longest game: Pathfinder 1st Ed
Favorite game: impossible (maybe...Wanderhome?)
Favorite mechanics: Blades in the Dark
Favorite setting: Nahual
Favorite art: Thirsty Sword Lesbians? (I am Bad at Art 😅)

This sounds amazing! Very excited to peek at it

Once again, the national average pay for adjunct professors with PhDs is a flat fee of $3900 per course.

Lots of older games lack fiction, or have it only in the barest, most nominal sense: chess, go, pacheesi, Tetris.

(Unless you mean they're "fiction" in the sense of being "unreal" but I think that's different!)

Stack of prominent SF novels including Frankenstein and a Wrinkle in Time. Some spines spell out 'This Genre Kills Fascists'. Promo for tge Wiscon Members Assistance Fund.

Mood.

Rules and norms about war crimes are a global public good. If you or anyone in your family is between 16 & 60, male, & walks, you have a direct personal interest in it not being legitimate for them to be assinated for walking within any undeclared 3km radius around any combatant.

To my friends from LiveJournal I still think about you Wonder if you finally quit, Do you still speak to your mom? I remember when you went to Japan How you swore you'd never forgive him. I can't remember to take my meds but I remember you wanted to live on a houseboat. It's a strange intimacy, all of us unspooling across decades of internet space Like balls of yarn leaving a trail behind us of everywhere and everyone we've ever been I hope you got your houseboat. I hope you got everything. -Hayley DeRoche

♥️

A Pound of Ground Beef Now Costs More Than the Federal Minimum Wage The typical American consumes nearly 60 pounds of beef each year. Widely available and easy to prepare, ground beef serves as a grocery mainstay for many families — which means skyrocketing prices mat...

At the time the $7.25 national minimum wage was set, a pound of ground beef cost about $2.20 per pound, meaning one hour of work could purchase more than three pounds of beef — enough to make a dinner or two for a family of four.

Now, it can barely cover one.

tweet from Imagine A Guy guy who only knew jesus professionally: Honey, did you hear they CRUCIFIED our CARPENTER???

I'm never gonna tell someone not to make being a stay at home wife and mother their goal but having talked to my mom and my aunt about their struggles to leave abusive marriages I will say: make sure you have a way to have your own money. You know, just in case.

It's important not to lose sight of Blackness in birthright citizenship discourse. The 14th Amendment is the foundation on which all Black US citizenship rests. Without it we're back to Dred Scott and a Congress with little power to enforce citizenship and civil rights law.

I'm not trying to be pedantic here; the language matters. Children of immigrants are not some special, weird category of citizens; they owe their citizenship to the same thing that the vast majority of the rest of us do. That's the point!

Adam means that she is the daughter of immigrants, but it is worth emphasizing that *every* U.S. citizen who has not been naturalized is a birthright citizen, either by the 14th Amendment or by statute.

Why would I use "AI," I actually know how to fucking write

hi, cis folks in NY state!

was today a protest day for you? feel recharged? want to take 5-10 minutes & do another achievable thing?

the 2 biggest private hospitals in NYC ended trans youth care in violation of state & city law as an act of overcompliance to trump.

tap into the thread to help. ⬇️

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This whole concept in LOTR is one of my favourite parts of the whole book. “Evil fucks up because evil people fundamentally cannot imagine that others are not motivated by the same things as them” is another theme that feels relevant right now

Um, yeah. Thanks to our friends at the @lwvsf.bsky.social for this post!!

#SaveAct #StandUpFightBack #NeverGiveUp

This goes so hard, esp. for a US politician.

We can all aspire to use our knowledge of the humanities & social sciences this way!!

The professor-student relationship is one of the only non-extractive relationships we get as adults. Students dont need to charm me to get me on their team; it's my job. Im not their friend bc I am something else worth preserving in their life: here solely to help them think smart shit

Things are not okay.