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An orange rectangle with numbers 1-9 on it and a divot above each number for a dice to sit in

Pink rings with conditions written on them such as palaysed, poisoned, grappled

Some of our less exciting but very useful products! Spell templates, spell slot trackers, and condition markers. All things you didn't know you needed but are game changers once you have them!

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You cannot have a functioning economy when so few people at the top hold so much of the nation’s wealth. It’s not sustainable.

I understand why people believe Trump’s invasion of Washington DC is The Event but I think it’s more helpful to understand it as dialing up the heat on the boiling frog. Trump did this in LA. He’ll do it in D.C. with more boldness. And then he’ll do it again. Fascist takeover is never one event.

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I yell about it every year, but this season of The Great American Recipe on PBS is really wonderful. The finale is next week so now's a great time to get caught up. It's a cooking competition where diversity is celebrated and the vibes are positive. PBS Passport is only $5 a month and so worth it.

Just to put some things in perspective. The IOF has killed more Palestinian per month (more than 2,000 on average) since October 2023 than Hamas has killed in its entire existence (less than 2,000 total since 1987).

photo of text from ALGOSPEAK. text reads: or a "tradgoth" or whatever the latest trend is, each with its own unique set of constraints. Despite having more options than ever, we may see true individuality flattened in favor of what a select group of OTHERS like, because that's what algorithms do. They don't recommend content for YOU; they recommend content based on others SIMILAR to you. Nor do you make your own decisions. Your decisions are now curated for you under the guise of personalization, while in reality they're engineered to make platforms as much money as possible. Your aesthetic preferences, your language, your very

Another good (and sobering) bit from Adam Aleksic's ALGOSPEAK.

"Your decisions are now curated for you under the guise of personalization, while in reality they're engineered to make platforms as much money as possible."

Lots of talk in the book about companies manipulating tags to make money.

Promo for the casting call of Nightmares on the Frontier. It features a silhouette of a cowboy on horseback with a red dusty backdrop. The top text is flanked by cow skulls and there is the Sword & Key logo in the bottom right corner.

We also have an open casting call for a new game on Sword & Tea!

Nightmares on the Frontier is a fantasy/western/eldritch horror ttrpg using a modified Blades in the Dark ruleset.

Applications close on August 17th so don’t wait!

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Fantasy Sketch:

Swordspear Girl sketch:

Personally I'm here for the Jenna Ortega Spooky It Girl Supremacy.

The headline reads: Israel kills Al Jazeera journalist it says was Hamas leader

The silence of so many Western journalists to the slaughter of their colleagues in Gaza (whose reporting they’ve relied upon) is already shameful.

But, this headline from Reuters tonight is unforgivable.

Parroting Israel’s grotesque, discredited & transparent lies.

Fuck Reuters.

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We're in the home stretch & feelin the heat.

This week's mini goal is to make that progress bar say $55k. It's SO ambitious, but we're hoping to move the needle & clear more of our debt so we don't even have to consider going online-only again. We appreciate your love!

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Sex is getting scrubbed from the internet, but a billionaire can sell you AI nudes Grok’s nonconsensual deepfakes show how hollow the online safety push can be.

"In the new ... internet, girls can’t learn about periods on Reddit and artists can’t sell smutty games on Itch.io, but a military contractor will make you nonconsensual deepfakes of Taylor Swift taking her top off for $30 a month." — @thedextriarchy.bsky.social www.theverge.com/internet-cen...

As a system, a capitalist economy only functions if enough capital is being distributed broadly enough among people.

Unfortunately, as a system, capitalism always tries to accrue the maximum amount of capital into the fewest hands.

Kind of a central tension honestly.

Barely an hour ago, Palestinian journalist Anas Al-Sharif warned us all:

“If this madness doesn’t end, Gaza will be reduced to ruins, its people’s voices silenced, their faces erased — and history will remember you as silent witnesses to a genocide you chose not to stop.”

Israel just killed him.

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There is a link to the insta somewhere in there for the curious, but it goes without saying:

Fuck them pigs

Genuinely, Germany was *THE PLACE* science was done. If you wanted to study Physics, or Psychology, or Medicine, you learned German.

And then.

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Join us at 3pm PT / 6pm ET for our next Sword & Tea cozy ttrpg chat!
This time we are joined by @sebastianyue.bsky.social to discuss the Spire scenario Model Minister. So grab a cup of your favorite cozy beverage and join us!

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The goal is to make anything -- ANYTHING -- that P2025 views as problematic obscene. Lou Reed's "Take a Walk on the Wild Side"? Obscene. You can be arrested and charged for just listening to it.

This is foundational censorship, dressed in the same bullshit Christian Values/Protect the Children bs.

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these are hands down the most comfortable socks i’ve ever worn: fat calf friendly, super plush and supportive and just well-made. plus i think they’re super cute but i know im biased cuz my wife and i designed them together!

hey that’s racist

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Thing 1. Subscribe to my YouTube channel! Easy.

Thing 2. Watch my previous maker vids! Also easy, and helps me move towards partner status.

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I remember when the focus of machine learning and robotics was to reduce the computational load to a minimum.

It was more interesting than this LLM slop.

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Hi, it's my birthday today. Can you reshare my art?

I'm also open to do character design, cover illustration, interior illustration, or card/box art for games!
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Just finished boxing 2,114 organic menstrual products to take to the parish prison in BR this week to 173 incarcerated women! To learn about our efforts, visit thurmanperryfoundation.org To donate (we need it), visit tpfwoman2woman.funraise.org

Just finished boxing 2,114 organic menstrual products to take to the parish prison in BR this week to 173 incarcerated women!

To learn about our efforts, visit thurmanperryfoundation.org

To donate (we need it), visit tpfwoman2woman.funraise.org

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Years ago, during the Michael Brown uprising I started doing a dive into how our police forces are trained, how they're staffed and what the requirements were. I learned a number of things that shocked me pretty badly.

every once in a while for like 1-3 comments if only to see if someone deserves a full on ban for my continued mental health