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I was SO happy to hear it was free, immediately followed by SO ticked off by the “but we’re going to collect your work for our AI” crap!!

Caption: Border Patrol agents detain painter Krzysztof Klim while verifying his identification on Oct. 31, 2025, next to Halloween decorations outside a house in Chicago’s Edison Park neighborhood. Klim, originally from Poland and now a U.S. citizen, was briefly detained and then released. (Brian Cassella/Chicago Tribune)

U.S. Border Patrol agents watch the street while others question and detain a man they found painting a house in Chicago’s Edison Park neighborhood on Oct. 31, 2025, during immigration enforcement operations. (Brian Cassella/Chicago Tribune)

The photos in this Chicago Tribune piece… It's a quiet middle-class inner suburb, but these guys look like they're in Fallujah circa 2006.

The uniforms indicate Border Patrol and its BORTAC "special operations" unit.

www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/31/c...

A reminder for you to check your medical supplies and first aid kit. Especially in these troubling times.

I recommend owning at least one prepacked "grab and go" first aid kit, plus an additional tub containing supplies for most common problems.

And CHECK THE EXPIRY DATES ON EVERYTHING.

Screenshot of my Hunter the Reckoning VTT, with the Hunter the Reckoning logo above the phrase 'The Hunt is On' with a muted look at the Chicago Streets below the El Train.

Also while I'm still going through all the Hunter the Reckoning (1999) books, here is a sneak peek at the VTT with the new pulsating Pause logo. (The Macro's on the hotbar will be invisible to my players) Very excited to see it coming together!

Screenshot of Foundry VTT's Fanmade Daggerheart Module, showing off a lvl 2 Character & some 3-D Dice mid-roll.

Ok, while originally I was CRUSHED by the Tabletop Simulator version of Daggerheart being wrecked due to the International firewall BS ruining all the various back-end systems, I can honestly say the Foundry VTT version has seriously stepped up!

Blank Bodies We are a Vampire: the Masquerade, horror, and gaming podcast. Our hosts delve into the lore of the World of Darkness ttrpg setting, along with real world inspiration for storytelling, consent-in-gamin...

Finally started listening to @blankbodies.bsky.social on Spotify & honestly I'm kinda annoyed at myself for sleeping on this show for so long, Very entertaining crew going on some deep dives on the various lines & splats of the World of Darkness. Well worth a listen! www.youtube.com/@blankbodies

Call of Cthulhu: Paper Chase [BEGINNER FRIENDLY] The search for a missing professor leads to a grizzly discovery. A great classic little scenario set in 1920s to get yourself familiar with Call of Cthulhu! No previous experience with the game is re...

I ran my first game on #startplaying yesterday! #callofcthulhu - Paper chase. Went really well with two players investigating missing books of Douglas Kimball. If you want to see it for yourself I have still slots open.
#ttrpg #lfg #coc #horror #rpg #roleplaying
startplaying.games/adventure/cm...

Gonna take 3 slots for portraits ( need some money asap + I love these little portraits)
Payment via Easystart (uses paypal) or Hipolink ( uses cards)
45 usd per char ( no wips)

It's not in this article but the government asserts that the sandwich was thrown at "point blank range", which implies subway sandwiches have defined effective weapon ranges of varying lethality, and I would like to see the government's chart of these ranges.

Studio Ghibli, Bandai Namco, Square Enix demand OpenAI stop using their content to train AI No more Spirited Away and Demon Slayer in Sora 2.

Studio Ghibli, Bandai Namco, Square Enix demand OpenAI stop using their content to train AI

Discworld QOTD, from Moving Pictures

"‘You’re my own flesh and blood,’ said Dibbler, shaking his head. ‘How can you do this to me?’

‘Because I’m your own flesh and blood,’ said Soll.

Dibbler brightened. Of course, when you looked at it like that, it didn’t seem so bad."

The state declined the money "to remain compliant with current Idaho laws concerning parental rights and counseling on pregnancy options.” The law in question is SB 1329, which requires parental consent for healthcare and is also limiting young people's access to suicide hotlines, as Kelcie notes

The email we got back from them was wild. So much damning stuff (some of which is directly quoted in the article) stated with full conviction like it's no big deal.

If you see a lot of political memes that have an out-of-place sepia filter, it's because the Studio Ghibli filter OpenAI added to ChatGPT was too popular and polluted their database, and will force a "nostalgic Ghibli sepia filter" onto images without asking. The recent White House Halo pic is one.

Democrats can't pass legislation on their own. Republicans can.

Republicans paint Democrats as unreasonable. If that's the case, then it falls to Republicans to reopen the government, stop starving SNAP recipients, pay air traffic controllers, etc.

They choose not to. The public needs to see that.

Republicans could override the filibuster and reopen the government with only 51 votes.

Any other solution requires the House, and Johnson is refusing to bring it back into session.

Republicans completely control the shutdown. They don't want to reopen the government.

Regardless of whether or not Republicans want to, they could. They can make that choice.

The fact they can choose and Democrats can't means the shutdown is entirely their responsibility, and that's what the public needs beaten into their skulls right now.

I say this because I'd *really* like folks to appreciate the very real cost that comes when indie authors give their audience any other ways to buy their work besides Amazon. It's a near guaranteed loss vs. what they could be making, and if they did this it was either on principle or for your sake.

Something I hope more readers understand:
If an independent author has made their work available anywhere besides Amazon, they're likely losing money to do that.
You get a bigger cut if you go Amazon Exclusive, and the sales you can make elsewhere don't make up the difference for most of us.

One day until voters head in person to the polls for Election Day. I’m watching races in four places with keen interest, and I have the latest on where things stand. My write-up in the replies.

...and less than 24 hours later Condé Nast has fired Lex and the rest of the Teen Vogue political desk, even as stories like this were bringing huge numbers of readers to the site

Exclusive: Watch The Mighty Nein Title Sequence Check out an exclusive look at the opening title sequence of the new fantasy series from the makers of 'The Legend of Vox Machina.'

We got titles! #themightynein editorial.rottentomatoes.com/article/snea...

It wasn't deep. It didn't have much to say. But Xiao Xiao inspired millions to try Flash animation for themselves.

A Beijing artist made this series -- and turned stick fights into a phenomenon. We're exploring why and how he did it:
animationobsessive.substack.com/p/when-stick...

I heard that the password to deactivate Candlekeep's mythal is just "Candlekeep"

weed, sluts, bitches, jesus. long ago, the four nations lived together in harmony. then, everything changed when the jesus nation attacked

Commissioned artwork I made of a table with various items from Final Fantasy XIV.

A different kind of FFXIV commission~
#FFXIV #art

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For everyone struggling, I can't recommend this resource highly enough. Everything is given freely, there is no selling/trading allowed. I've gotten everything from food, pet supplies, furniture (and given a lot of similar) I see a lot of folks sharing clothing + baby supplies

buynothingproject.org

Share your resources and alt text them. Especially now with everyone going through it. You never know who will need it.

This is just reporting. This is what headlines in the New York Times and your local paper should look like every day. The New Yorker should be publishing stuff like this, only with an umlaut thrown in occasionally for some fucken reason.