Smoke & Thunder D&D (Joshua Ohmer)

AI Slop Recipes Are Taking Over the Internet -- And Thanksgiving Dinner Food bloggers see traffic dip as home cooks turn to AI, inspired by impossible pictures

"An AI-assembled version of Gargano’s Christmas cake, for instance, would have people cooking a 6-inch cake for 3 to 4 hours at 320°F (160°C).

'You’d end up with charcoal!' she said. Meanwhile, traffic to her turkey recipe is already down 40% year over year."

really important advice for folks planning on ACA insurance

TIL, unsplash and istock images forbid any and all AI on their sites as well as letting AI train on them, ahhhh

sometimes it's nice to just scroll those sites and revel in not fucking worrying about getting duped

Comic Part 1/4 - a group of witches is huddled around a teacher showing them how to collect mandrake. The teacher pulls one out, explaining that mandrakes scream and cry when you pull them for their comfortable soil bed, causing a student called Annette to react by saying "it's just like me for real." The teacher then tells Annette to stop relating to potion ingredients.

Comic Part 2/4 - a group of witches is huddled around a teacher showing them how to collect mandrake. The teacher pulls one out, explaining that mandrakes scream and cry when you pull them for their comfortable soil bed, causing a student called Annette to react by saying "it's just like me for real." The teacher then tells Annette to stop relating to potion ingredients.

Comic Part 3/4 - a group of witches is huddled around a teacher showing them how to collect mandrake. The teacher pulls one out, explaining that mandrakes scream and cry when you pull them for their comfortable soil bed, causing a student called Annette to react by saying "it's just like me for real." The teacher then tells Annette to stop relating to potion ingredients.

Comic Part 4/4 - a group of witches is huddled around a teacher showing them how to collect mandrake. The teacher pulls one out, explaining that mandrakes scream and cry when you pull them for their comfortable soil bed, causing a student called Annette to react by saying "it's just like me for real." The teacher then tells Annette to stop relating to potion ingredients.

Annette is just like me fr.

X’s New Feature Reveals Why Trust & Safety Work Was Never About The ‘Censorship Industrial Complex’

For the last few years, Matt Taibbi, Michael Shellenberger, and their allies have spent considerable energy attacking both academic researchers studying disinformation and the trust & safety teams…

🚨 Rep. Don Bacon, NE (R) breaks from MAGA. Ukraine, threats to colleagues, the Epstein atrocities, ICE atrocities.... Whether individual or collective, there are lines people will not want their names historically associated with crossing.

the lesson from doge is not that we need to cut waste fraud and abuse better. the lesson is that GOVERNMENT FULFILLS MANY VERY IMPORTANT FUNCTIONS and that among those is SAVING THE LIVES OF MILLIONS OF CHILDREN.

If, as Donald claims, the Epstein Files are a hoax created by Joe Biden, why would there be any damaging information about Democrats for Pam Bondi to find?

one of the things that makes me most mad about genAI (and there are many) is we've been told there's not enough money for hiring. but there's billions poured into ai.

so not enough money to hire workers. but infinite money to pour into technology whose goal is never having to pay workers again.

It's the time of year again -- time to do your holiday shopping from independent artists. It's more important than ever to support people actually making stuff!

If you're an artist or craftsperson of any kind, please reply to this with what you make and a link to your store and I'll share it!

1) Start the worst European war since 1945 and commit every imaginable war crime
2) Decide how you want to be rewarded for your aggression
3) Leak the list of your desiderata to the US press
4) Wait for the US president to enforce your wish list on your victim.
Russian policy 2025

Yes, I think they are lovely. It's a fun image!

Unreal: "The EPA is moving forward with approvals for pesticides containing 'forever chemicals' as an active ingredient... The agency also announced plans to relax a rule requiring companies to report products containing PFAS and has proposed weakening drinking water standards for the chemicals."

The radicalizing dynamic that has shaped the Right still applies. We are now witnessing the next step on that trajectory.

Whatever form MAGA takes in the coming post-Trump era, the idea that American politics will soon experience a return to “normalcy” is dangerously fanciful.

Trump’s rise was not some accidental aberration. The forces that made it possible for him to take over on the Right won’t simply disappear as we are entering the Twilight of the Trump era. There are no “moderates” left in a position to recapture the Republican Party.

Sounds awesome. Good luck!

Well it looks great!

Looks really cool. Took me a moment to figure out what was painted in. I assume the figure?

1930s Antarctica Mythos, you say...

We're still around making our #pathfinder2e #actualplaypodcast.

Plenty of episodes recorded, just need life to calm down to get them ready for release!

Six misfits, weird dreams & a mad clockwork automaton.

Prepare for adventure, terror & the occasional use of bad language!

Fingers crossed that you can get some time prep them!

I'm thankful for that as well.

YouTube video by Lizards & Locations L&L: The Rise of Cid - Strixhaven #39

Happy Saturday!!!!! I'm thankful for friends ....including all the internet folks I've met on here!
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Can we get y'all to watch some L&L?
youtu.be/6a_jkY3brAM

I love the idea of more interesting curses!

20 Cruel Curses – For D&D and Pathfinder Twenty curses for people, places, and treasure, plus optional rules for breaking curses. Each curse is adventure hook.

Thanks for the space!

We're running a Kickstarter for 20 Cruel Curses.

Everything tastes like ash. You cough up spiders. Blighted land spawns undead.

More than just status effects, each curse comes with its own plot hooks.

Plus new optional rules for curses.

www.kickstarter.com/projects/mat...

Hear, hear!

HOWLING HALLS of WHISPERSTONE - System-agnostic Beastmen Dungeon by Dice Goblin Games An ancient prison where your own blade is the true enemy.

Wake up honey, new free dungeon just dropped!
"Twenty feet of ancient elven stonework jut from the frozen hillside, its carved faces clawed away by beast-men. Inside, something ancient is waking up, fed by every drop of blood spilled in its halls."
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Ultimate Dungeon Showdown Bundle - Available now in the Holiday Market for just $35!

Includes the Ultimate Dungeon Showdown card game, green dice set, five embroidered faction patches, and the UDS coloring book.

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Those are fantastic backgrounds!

Thanks for the space, Josh!

I've been working on a 5e replacement for about two years. One of the recent changes that I've made is to how backgrounds work. Most notably giving them a feature that changes how they play, instead of letting them couch surf.
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