If you are in the US and can become pregnant, I would strongly encourage you to seek out long-term contraceptive options if you can. Implants and IUDs, for example.

Access to reproductive healthcare will likely continue to get worse.

We are now here

It has been said before. I will say it again.

The way this TTRPG “community” treats Black women, femmes & NBs is a fucking disgrace.

What do we have to do to prove our pain is real? How much blood to we have to publicly spill?

It’s a miracle some of us are still standing.

I just saw something on my tiktok feed about a newly discovered stop on the underground rail road so to speak. Y'all... might not want to announce where those are and might instead try to preserve places where people can hide and escape and move....

That's not a roast of my peeps in the US, it's a roast of her. Shit's *rough* and we are all doing what we can. Gods I wish I could help every single one of my American friends and acquaintances in what they're facing.

Had an old friend from high school that just moved back to Oz from the US claim that Australians lack ambition and there are no success stories outside of sports in this country. Fuck, most Americans I know are struggling to survive and have no thoughts of wanting to be the next muskrat

Happy holidays folks. Christmas et al.

Hope you're doing well, mate

mood

I hope the fucking AI bubble bursts very soon.

I'm at the point where I'm considering completely changing my hobbies and how I engage with content to avoid AI.

Look, as stupid as it is that it's taking them this long, eventually these tech weirdos will realize that throwing money on the big pile of burning money... won't make them more money

I don't know why the idea of developing concept art with AI is somehow meant to convince us that AI isn't replacing creative professions, when concept art is one of the single most creative and imaginative parts of the entire development process.

I've been asked for information about UK-based researchers with interest in TTRPGs and Actual Play.

I have a half-dozen names off the top of the dome, but would be happy to hear of more to pass along for Schemes.

Unbelievably disappointed by @larianstudios.com . How could you? All you had to do was to keep being decent and instead you decided to use shitty AI instead of paying actual concept artists.

Oh hey, I did a ttrpg thing.

Y'all this game is SO much fun. The perfect mix of Sega Dreamcast magic and card slinging.

you should go check it out and get stuck in! I know so many people who's jam this would be.

Neon is a fantastic creator, and the performers in the AP are killer, it's a win/win!

"Viking braids" "Viking chin lines/war makeup" "Scandinavian Scarf"

(Insert random monster/cryptid/legend) and suddenly it's clearly 'Nordic folklore'.

Wtf is going on

Can y'all just stop using the terms Nordic or Scandinavian to try to get away with cultural appropriation?

"I want to claim it's 'exotic' and ancient but it has to still be white" seems to be the logic behind it and for some weird reason.

A 77 year old man sent a postcard to Florida Chief Financial Officer Blaise Ingoglia that simply read: “You lack values.”

Police showed up at his door.

This is not only a first amendment violation but a clear sign of how fast the fascists are moving to censorship and constant monitoring.

every single tech idea is like “soon our robots will be capable of playing catch with your kid, freeing you up to spend more time working on your employers’ spreadsheets”

It is nice to feel that what I do day-to-day still has meaning in a world that seems hellbent on ending itself

I've spent nearly an entire year trying to find the absolute basic level of security needed to just freaking exist.

They did this with crypto (black people) and NFTs (women)--and it was very funny. I still have immense levels of side-eye for Reese Witherspoon and Brie Larson for that NFT nonsense. Hov and Dorsey aren't slick either.

I've been really stressed lately. On one hand, it's cute that Gerald's reaction is to hold my hand. On the other hand, it's kinda hard to type at work when a cat is trying to hold your hand.

I really do miss playing ttrpgs

Digital graphic with the text "anti-censorship campaign" and screenshots of headlines about how multiple storefronts have removed NSFW content due to pressure from payment processors and Collective Shout.

I know we're upset about itch, but they're not the only ones

Payment processors harassed companies bc of a 1,000 email hate campaign

But we can EASILY top 1,000!

I prewrote an email + got the contact info - you just have to send!

↻💬♡ to boost

We CAN make a difference 💕

#itch #censorship

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Burnout is clinically understood as a combo of 6 factors—work overload, lack of control, insufficient rewards, breakdown in community, absence of fairness, & value conflicts—and only a fraction of it is under your control. Burnout is a systemic problem, so be kind to yourself and hard on the system.

When food is for 'poor' people, they say it has a best before date. When food is for very pretentious rich folks, they just say the food has aged and sell it for more.

One of mine had arm-guard style jewellery, and another uses a pair of stylised glasses that are also kinda a mask