How many times can a workmate's alarm go off and they hit snooze before before you play full-volume klaxons?
Posts by Matt Jackson @ PAX East
Try not to think about how too damn early it actually is at home. #PAXEast
In Definitely-Not-A-Sign-of-Neurodivergence, I'm mad at the espresso machine in the hotel lobby because its screen says "Touch to Begin" and then it has you select your beverage.
But it doesn't tell you the actual first step is to put down a cup.
How it started, & how it’s going:
Almost a decade after I ran TTRPGs in my downtime during a week at @folger.edu I’m headed back to DC for the 26-27 school year as the Folger Public Humanities Fellow, creating ways for Playful Media of all kinds to flourish.
It is, literally, my dream come true.
(I know my name is a bad example, but still...)
To people who have been on the Internet for awhile -
Do you have this thing where you have known a person for years, you definitely know them and their name, but because you have only seen their online handles for the past several years you just blank on their actual name?
Let's bring back normalizing "That's cool, it's not for me, but glad you had a good time with it."
Screenshot of a twitter thread: "Semitism" is not a real thing, it comes from the word Semitic, referring to a group of languages originating from the Middle East. 4 104 3,438 山 L@challahbackjew Mar 15, 2021 In 1867 an antisemitic German journalist started using the term "Anti-Semitic" to refer to prejudice against Jewish people because he perceived us as an inferior race and not just a religious group, and then the term caught on. Q4 7114 2,879 L @challahbackjew Mar 15, 2021 But using it with the hyphen would imply that "anti-semitism" is hate against Semites which again is not a real group and it was just a way for antisemites to attempt to classify Jews into this pseudo-scientific racial group which they thought was inferior 1 152 3,183 山 L✡ @challahbackjew We use "antisemitism" without the hyphen to distinguish from the semitic language group (and these hateful origins) when discussing pre against Jewish people.
Lot of conversation about antisemitism this week so just a gentle reminder that we don’t hyphenate the word, because it implies there is such a thing as a “Semitic” race (there isn’t, there’s only Semitic language) - and implying there is a Jewish race is of course deadly for the Jews. More info:
Entertaining NPC Concept: Pirate magician with a magic wand as a peg leg. Nothing up his sleeve but a hook.
If you're observant at conventions, you can listen to the other neurodivergent friend groups cycle through all of their vocal stims to take back to your neurodivergent friend group to try out.
A banner for dice seller Norse Foundry, proclaiming they are at booth #11129
Spending the weekend slingin' dice at #ECCC. Come say hi
FYI for fellow narrative designers/game writers: the studio in question is Sentona Games and it’s my understanding they are currently interviewing to replace me. Be very careful with them. They were very nice to me and easy to work with right up until I needed the money I was promised.
...my desire to fill out that chart is high
Like they always say "Gift the swords you want to see in the world."
Holy shit how big are goose eggs??
The glow ups!
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A very serious tripoing hazard (a banana peel) on a sidewalk.
Showed my wife this picture of where I almost fell yesterday and she didn't care at all.
How I’m walking out of 2025
I tell yeah, 2016 sure has been the longest and worst year.
By episode 5 they're in 2016, so surely soon someone is going to tell Ilya he's just like Yuri Plisetsky
In D&D, would a post-ghosts Scrooge be a sorcerer or warlock due to being connected to the ghosts or a paladin who swore an oath to keep Christmas in his heart throughout the year?
Starting Heated Rivalry and I have questions:
1. How do drafts work?
2. How does Shane's sport dad not know what YouTube is?
3. Will Shane ever take off his socks?
4. Sometimes I think I miss flip phones.
5. I assume the book this is based on is based on the DropOut gameshow so
Hey, HR departments, if you could maybe hold off on those rejection emails for a few days that'd be great.
We applied weeks to months ago so we already had the notion, maybe we could do without the additional bummer this week.
Please and thank you.
The alt text is wonderful
scrooge boopin' a little muppet mouse on the nose while souls text reads "MEESES CHEESED"
i had to drop what i was doing to make this
@hollyconrad.bsky.social I hope I'm only in the first dozen to send you this