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YOUR RING CAMERA IS AN ICE AGENT [a drawing of a ring camera with an ice agent dragging a person away in its field of vision] "In October of 2025, Amazon's Ring announced its partnership with FLOCK, an A.I. surveillance group that freely shares its footage with ICE, the secret service, and the navy. Flock customers can use A.I. tools to sift through footage to assist in all manner of operations (like raids and deportations) without a warrant. Unplug Ring! Melt ICE! Protect your neighbors! See: https://blog.ring.com/about-ring/ring-expands-community-requests-to-additional-community-safety-partners/ https://www.404media.co/ice-secret-service-navy-all-had-access-to-flocks-nationwide-network-of-cameras/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pp9MwZkHiMQ https://www.aclum.org/campaigns-initiatives/get-the-flock-out-resource-guide/

jack asked if i would sketch up a poster to tell people in nearby neighborhoods about the partnership between flock and ring, and this is what i came up with. it can be printed on an 8.5x11 sheet of paper.

Folkstone's Luna. Some dialect of the valleys north of Bergamo. I'm Italian and I need subs, but it's beautiful.

Their exploration of the first dungeon (the Barrow Mound) was fun. They were extra careful and scared of their own shadows. They missed quite a bit of treasure, but having both a Rogue and an Elf helped them to find enough secret passages.

They took so much pleasure in exploring NPCs' lives and motivations they managed to hire two adventurers (Hilda and Squints) basically out of curiosity, so now they form a well stocked party of 5. They didn't consider haggling on the fare, though, so every NPC got a full share of the treasure.

Spending GPs to buy watered down beer in fiction took some attrition, but then they got the hang of it. They got a sidequest (the beer thief) which my wife helped solve with some bluntness. They still haven't released the fairy, who's been living in a sack for one day by now.

We were playing Black Wyrm of Brandonsford. The only hook they had was the pirate's treasure. My wife, who has played quite a lot by this time, guided them to the nearest tavern. From there, they started interacting with NPCs "just to see what happens".

Yesterday night I introduced my wife's cousin and his GF to #D&D via #BECMI because that's what I had at hand. He asked me to play D&D and realized it was an RPG about halfway into the introduction. A thread on paying with the purest newbies I've ever met.

Prince (Cloudflare): «Questa legge può farci lasciare l’Italia. Bloccare Internet non è giustizia» Il ceo di Cloudflare contro la multa Agcom per le norme antipirateria: «È una ritorsione, valutiamo il da farsi su Milano Cortina»

Torniamo su quella 💩 di #PiracyShield? Sì, torniamo su quella 💩 di Piracy Shield con la perfetta intervista rilasciata al Sole24Ore dal CEO di #Cloudfare.
www.ilsole24ore.com/art/prince-c...

A gaming table, with a huge point-crawl-like map prominently at the center. Scattered around are character sheets, tangerines, water canteens, pens, dice, a deck of playing cards and two copies of a book titled FanX. One of them has the cover printed the wrong way.

Yesterday was the first day of Total Party Kon, the Italian OSR convention I organize. I have a lot of stories, but this picture marks the first appearance of FanX as a physical object and I want to share it.

A blue rectangle with the TPK! and flaming dice logo, which reports the same information as the post (date, place and website for Total Party Kon!)

LE PORTE SONO APERTE

Non c'è molto altro da dire, quindi non lo diremo, vi ricordiamo solo cosa, come quando e dove.

COSA: Due giorni di gioco, panel, cose OSRose.
QUANDO: Sabato 22 e domenica 23 novembre 2025
DOVE: Alla Pieve di Cologno Monzese
COME: vi iscrivete su prenotazioni.totalpartykon.it

"La mappa del Complesso tecnologico autoritario": così la Silicon Valley trumpiana allarga il suo potere e prepara la post-democrazia Dalla California a Berlino, aumenta il controllo di Big Tech in settori come sanità, difesa, energia. La studiosa Francesca Bria: “Un sistema autoritario più v…

"La mappa del Complesso tecnologico autoritario": così la Silicon Valley trumpiana allarga il suo potere - anche all'Europa.

Ecco la prima mappatura del sistema della Big Tech trumpiana che punta alla "post-democrazia"

www.repubblica.it/esteri/2025/...

Home again, it was a great day but my throat and ears are tired. You know what old castles aren't built for? The acoustics of 100+ people playing together. Still, playing with frescoes all around is something.

A wooden table, set with a huge strip of paper, dice, pencils and a home-printed manual titled "FanX"

Ready to play FanX a Casteldadia, a FREE gaming event inside an Italian Renaissance castle.
If I'm lucky, it's also going to be the last time I have to print the damned manual at home.

Basic requirement of their ideology

2/ Agenda setting follows emotional and sensationalist patterns, but it is certainly under pressure from far right parties that have chosen to brand Kirk’s “martyrdom” as a watershed moment in their relationship with the left. To go along with this instrumentalization is madness.

1/ European media are devoting a disproportionate amount of attention to the assassination of a politician nobody in Europe had ever heard of, except for a few nerds, while giving almost none to the guilty verdict for a coup attempt in Brazil.

Grazie al lavoro dell'infaticabile Federico, #Cairn 2e è disponibile anche in italiano!

Per ora solo formato web, il resto arriverà.

it.cairnrpg.com/second-editi...

Una scritta cartonesca "TPK!" con un dado fiammeggiante, su fondo azzurro con cornice nera. Il testo superiore recita: Il 22-23 Novembre alla Pieve di Cologno Monzese (MI). Quello inferiore recita: Torniamo Per la Kuarta volta!

Vi avevamo avvisato, il TPK! sta tornando! La prima convention OSR italiana in presenza si è allargata di cintura e occupa la bellezza di 2 (DUE) giorni. CINQUE fasce di gioco, panel, workshop, quel che vi pare più il gioco libero.

🔗 www.totalpartykon.it

Stay TPK!

I might be getting a tad old for 7+ hours protest marches, but it was worth it and I still managed to drag my ass across most of it.

And now I need a lot of water (and maybe a beer or two).

It's beautiful! I love that it takes the elements which are in my pfp but go into a completely different direction with them than the full picture it comes from. How many things we can do with the same elements.

(not much sketchable in my pfp, but I'm still biting)

If you want to get at least decent at writing, grab a copy of Queneau's Exercices de style (not necessarily in French), read it and copy it. Write a lot of small things playing with different styles and see how much it changes the text. It's also a lot of fun.

This is not how corporations respond to an ineffective protest. This is how they respond to a protest that they would like to have go away.

So don't let it go away. Keep it going.

In fact, Streissand Effect this shit. Call attention to how much they want this to go away.

Yep. Tolkien knew what he was doing. I don't agree with him about a lot of stuff, but the Shire is pretty clearly intended to be a reflection of both the positive and negative aspects of small town/rural life

my timeline is FULL of people using chatgpt to show how chatgpt is rubbish and seemingly not aware that by using it, even to dunk, is still boiling the frigging oceans. we get it, it's useless. you can stop now. you're not convincing anyone of anything we don't already know.

Yeah, this looks a lot like something which should be investigated in the framework of organized crime. And punished in the same framework.

August is usually a hiatus month, but I'm planning to smuggle something light for a one shot on whatever we're doing for Ferragosto.

Blocking Access to Harmful Content Will Not Protect Children Online, No Matter How Many Times UK Politicians Say So The UK is having a moment. In late July, new rules took effect that require all online services available in the UK to assess whether they host content considered harmful to children, and if so, these services must introduce age checks to prevent children from accessing such content. Online...

When politicians pass laws restricting "pornography," this is what they actually restrict:

video games
romantasy
drag
sex education
healthcare
LGBTQ+ sites
young adult novels
sexual assault resources
dating apps
contraception
social media
Wikipedia
wifi access

This is an excellent read, and I really appreciate the new brain wrinkles.