I spent an excessive number of years moderating a gaming forum and I learned a great deal about community spaces and cultivation, whether I wanted to or not. I have critical advice for anyone who runs a game store or gaming convention. Please share this thread with people who run those things.
This is a great little guide for thinking about your role in the larger movement against tyranny and many of those roles' relationships with each other in RPG style:
survivethetyrant.infy.uk
wayne state is having a black history month 20% OFF sale when using this code: RSAVER at checkout... so, you know, if you were in the mood for discounted speculative poetry collections, then, um/uh, i got you — The Second Stop Is Jupiter.
recommend it to your students!
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It's done. Facebook account deleted.
An astronaut standing on the moon watching the earth get destroyed by an asteroid, with a speech bubble over his head saying "oh God, the economy!"
1. The conventional explanation for food deserts—that these places are too poor or too rural to generate enough spending on groceries, or too Black to overcome racist corporate redlining — fail to grapple with a key fact: food deserts didn’t used to exist. My new piece in The Atlantic.
Screen shot of post by @ fortlucia.bsky.social laveled "Female fashion in the 1970s" A perfectly square sepia-toned image halfway between a photograph and a charcoal drawing of a line of women, five in front, an indeterminate number of body parts behind them. They all appear to be wearing some variation of long-sleeved turtleneck sweaters and high-waisted skirt that are so short their hands hang below them. They are wearing pointy-toed shoes with approximately three-inch heels that are narrow. There is a sort of a suggestion of a streetscape behind them but it is all overexposed and melty.
A detailed knowledge of fashion history has always been good for precisely dating artworks and identifying forgeries and misidentifications.
It is also good for spotting 100% AI-generated fakerino nonsense like this.
Let’s look at why this image is blatant AI nonsense.
#FashionHistory