very interested to know why it thinks this might be Estonian as well

i checked this today and its still true

I am proud to announce that starting today we are going to be dumping toxic waste into The Holy Pond That Literally Cures Cancer

MEDIEVALISM & TTRPGs! Panel with 3 Medievalists! - Round the Table YouTube video by Skies of Fortune

If you have an interest in Medievalism, and its impact/presence in TTRPG's this video is a GREAT deep dive with a bunch of experts that I was lucky enough to be invited too.

#History #TTRPG #Nerdling

youtu.be/-Yeb9jQZPzQ?...

or, on spotify, if thats your jam open.spotify.com/episode/0bxu...

MEDIEVALISM & TTRPGs! Panel with 3 Medievalists! - Round the Table YouTube video by Skies of Fortune

i was on a podcast about medieval history, medievalism, and tabletop roleplaying games with @thebeardedhalfling.bsky.social @orolando.bsky.social and @skiesoffortune.bsky.social ! check it out at www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Yeb..., hope you enjoy!

if the world wasn't on fire we would be studying this guy on a petri dish to understand how it is even possible to generate an anti charisma field of this magnitude, he might be the first mutant

God I hate this genre. These kids who protested Gaza got arrested, expelled, beaten up, doxxed, lives ruined by outside agitators and were utterly betrayed by the administrations that should have protected them at any cost. Shut the fuck up.

There's something a bit poignant about a Bluetooth device failing to connect to another device right next to it when they're the only Bluetooth devices for hundreds of thousands of kilometres around.

Its a joke for like 3 people max, the word is super rare and late antique rather than classical Latin, but given Tolkien's interest in the migration period I bet he'd have come across it

Since I learned about the term, I feel like Tolkien was specifically thinking of the late antique word "bucellarius" (lit. "biscuit-eater) which referred to the personal guards and retinues of powerful late roman generals - campaigning soldiers literally defined by their food! A joke within the joke

This also goes for TTRPG supplements and works.

We're all creatives here. I don't care how "woe is artless me" you think you think you are.

We're all fighting the same battles here.

Its not even that hard to find public domain art for ttrpgs! Basically every 5 dollar budget osr game has done this! You only "need" fancy art in a modern style if you're trying to emulate the WotC-D&D high fantasy style, which is less interesting than using wacky fencing manual art from 1600 anyway

OGRE CAMPAIGNING ON PLATFORM OF INCLUSION, INCREASED SOCIAL SPENDING, AND CRUNCHING BONES OF BILLIONAIRES

LETS GO! been waiting for a campaign to buy Nebulous, glad to hear it's coming along

the overwhelming and unfortunate truth is that high level uni admins are run by business school dropouts and people who couldn't hack it in "real" business. Its no wonder that when they try to run the university "like a business" they're no good at that either!

what if i said that the "matriarchy" myth is a colonial construction used to justify eurocolonial patriarchy ("agrarian matriarchies evolve into industrial patriarchies") and the egalitarian indigenous political formations that existed simply had a weak-to-irrelevant gendered division of labour

this is so comically hamhanded it has a real chance of boosting Kat over the finish line in what is an incredibly close primary

there’s a lot of bad money floating around elections but some of it is very stupid

Lgbtq+ rights are a winning issue. The queer community are a major pillar of the democratic base. The democrats Abandoning them would do nothing but ensure a republican victory.

The wizard eats some pretzels.

Quick question does anyone know how to restore virtue to a decaying society

The little cat steps on the wizard's head, waking him up. He goes to make waffles with passionfruit jam and put some fish out for the little cat. As he makes tea, the air fills with the smell of parchment. The wizard reads the new issue of Magic-Users Weekly as he eats his breakfast.

"Mustum playa videogameus" translated as "Must play videogames" by Google Translate.

The funniest thing about modern AI-powered Google Translate is that it will interpret any fake-sounding Latin

When you stare into a manuscript and the manuscript stares into you

If 4,000 coal miners had to move we literally would never hear the end of it

was epstein uniquely responsible for evil or is he just the one obscenely wealthy person whose emails we're getting to read

Don’t look to Germany for an analogy. The Minneapolis nightmare is uniquely American. - The Boston Globe In order to defeat the white nationalism that is at the core of ICE’s assault on American democracy, we have to see it and treat it as what it is.

I find takes like this unsatisfying because they ignore the point of the Nazi analogy. It's not about denying America's history of racist terror. "Nazi" is not just code for "bad but in a way that specifically doesn't implicate US antecedents." www.bostonglobe.com/2026/01/26/o...

This was just me making this comparison yesterday, but today the Korean news is calling Minnesota "America's Gwangju" and have human rights lawyers explaining how America is now living through the dictatorship Korea once had.