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Hey ttrpg folks: I am looking for a character artist for an upcoming project! Ideally want to work w/ someone comfortable drawing high fantasy inspired characters. Open to a variety of styles, and if you have an easily attached image or link with your rates that would be greatly appreciated!

What's needed is for the rest of the world to boycott the Olympics. Will they? No, because the leaders are corrupt almost everywhere.

Fluid dynamical pathways of airborne transmission while waiting in a line Waiting and walking in lines (queues) can create unexpected air currents that can either heighten or suppress infection risks.

Nice work led by two UMass physics undergrads who are apparently the first to ask whether viral-type particles actually are stopped by social distancing. The short answer: it depends a LOT on the room temperature.

One takeaway: more physicists need to get involved in public health work.

JD Vance’s team had water level of Ohio river raised for family’s boating trip Exclusive: Incident raises questions of exploitation of public services, but Secret Service says it was requested for ‘safe navigation’

I agree with this person, quoted in the article:

“Whether they are doing it for the Secret Service or for him I think is splitting hairs. What he ought to be doing is choosing another place.”

I finally just emailed one of my college friends that I had been putting off for months because of that. I still feel bad because I may have messed up our friendship, but it was good to finally get the message to her.

Uh, all that to say I totally relate & also you totally got this.

every day I'm like, "I need to answer that email" and every day my anxiety is like, "but they'll be mad at you because you're already so late" and I'm like, "you're right, I should wait until i think of the *perfect* email so they won't be mad at me" and the loop continues ever on so it goes

Yes! That's why I was responding to this commenter, not you directly. Thank you for correcting. <3

The lady being interviewed said she was fired. The company/management didn't speak to NBC about this. It is important to be accurate with this stuff.

'“I was fired. And yeah, I’m pissed off. But more so than ever, like they’re doing wrong,” she said.'

Hooray!

You don't have to hate them, but you absolutely need to never give JKR any additional money, because she's using it to buy legislation that harms people. Don't buy those audiobooks, please.

This thread has some great options your kids might enjoy: bsky.app/profile/runw...

Perspective | Allied leaders were anti-Nazi, but not anti-racist. We’re now paying the price for their failure. The high cost of failing to fight white supremacy during World War II.

Yup:
www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2019...

Former 'Alligator Alcatraz' worker describes 'inhumane' conditions inside In an exclusive report, NBC6 spoke with a former corrections officer who says she saw hundreds held in cages with no sunlight, backed up toilets and little access to showers.

A former “Alligator Alcatraz” worker says detainees are subject to “inhumane” conditions — packed by the hundreds into cages without sunlight, with overflowing toilets and limited access to showers.

Eighty years ago today, the U.S. dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima. Three days later, the U.S. destroyed Nagasaki with a second bomb. It was the first & only time a nuclear weapon was used in warfare, vaporizing the cities and instantaneously killing tens of thousands, mostly civilians, in each.

Yep, agreed. This is really tough stuff. I don't know enough about it to comment in any confident fashion, but it seems like how air quality alerts have been issued in the past (whoever determines it, how it's determined, few sensors) isn't going to work when we have this constant level of bad air.

‘A million calls an hour’: Israel relying on Microsoft cloud for expansive surveillance of Palestinians

Revealed: The Israeli military undertook an ambitious project to store a giant trove of Palestinians’ phone calls on Microsoft’s servers in Europe.

60 years ago today, LBJ signed the Voting Rights Act of 1965 into law in the presence of Dr. King, John Lewis, and Rosa Parks, among others. #VRAat60

I was shocked to hear someone talk about shooting other human beings as if they were pheasants, with laughter in his voice. But it also reminded me, incontrovertibly, that there are people who value things over people, & fears can be stoked so very easily. We will have to grapple with those issues.

Watched the Hurricane Katrina documentary on Disney+.

It was really tough but also very important. I didn't know about most of the things that happened there, and the nature of people was revealed in a way that I think is important for how this country will handle the trials we're already starting.

it has been said over and over but it’s worth reiterating in the face of this horrifying decision: RFK is quite literally joining the war on cancer on the side of cancer

Solar is EU’s biggest power source for the first time ever in June 2025 | Ember

In June, for the first time ever, solar was the largest source of power in the EU.

To those of you who accomplished things today, I salute you.

It can be hard to be productive in….such times.

When you are, give yourself credit.

It’s a form of resistance against the seeming hopelessness of the present. It means you haven’t given up.

And we can’t.

In addition to being an important book, it's so well-written. I highly recommend it.

So you’re telling me the Wizard of Oz presented itself as a towering force of overwhelming technology, only to be unmasked as just some guy, off-screen?

Ban congressional stock trading.
Ban congressional stock trading.
Ban congressional stock trading.

oh nooooo. That would be so irritating to me, too. I'm sorry.

This is what fascism looks like.

A comic with several panels about ADHD and shame. First panel, Kiki struggles holding a ton of items, while her peers only hold single sheets of papers. “I Spend so much time trying to fit in, hiding how forgetful and chaotic I am, but also pretending my struggles are like everyone else's." Second panel, Kiki’s mother is pointing at her. “I’ve faced so much rejection and trouble for thing I didn’t even know were wrong, just for being myself, that it feels like I have to hide who I am.” Third panel, Kiki is taking off a wig, revealing she is an alien “but what I’m hiding isn’t that I’m an alien, what I’m hiding is all the shame I carry.” Kiki is holding her stomach in pain.

A series of Kikis with text. “Shame that I couldn’t fit a shower into my daily tasks. Shame when I can’t let people inside because it’s never clean. Shame when I cry being overwhelmed by paperwork again. Shame when I’m the only one late again. Shame for every white lie I tell because I can’t take one more rejection despite being so burnt out.” Kiki’s face is hidden in shadow as she says “of course I change my bedsheets once a week.”

“I’ve used shame as a weapon against myself as a punishment to force myself to learn.” Kiki scolds herself in the mirror. “How well has that been working for you? Are you on time now? More organized?” The Kiki in the mirror is revealed to be a child version of herself. “Why am I never good enough? If I just stopped being like this, people would like me.” Kiki hugs the child version of herself. “You have been brave long enough. You’ve been scolded enough, what you - I would have needed was to be seen. You’re not alone anymore, we will find a way. Together.”

Small kiki is pulling the adult Kiki by the hand through their apartment. “Don’t punish emotions,pay attention to them. Missing a shower isn’t failure, it’s a sign, a clue. Ask what’s missing, not what’s wrong with you.” Kiki is standing behind her child self, holding her shoulders in support. “It’s not fair that I never got to feel like I am okay the way I am, that no one say how much I struggled and took all the pain away. Look at everything you’ve been through. It makes sense that you’re the way you are. Let’s try our best. Not to get it right for others, but to finally get to know how WE do things.” “At the very least, I can have my own back.”

Shame is one of the hardest things about ADHD for me. I'm back and the book is finished but instead of feeling proud, I feel ashamed for not having managed to stay active, manage my household better or even shower regularly.

it's so obvious at this point that the american right wing, despite all their posturing about how they're pro-business, has absolutely not a single clue how actually producing items - be it ag, manufactured goods, etc - at scale is accomplished

First-of-a-kind US class action lawsuit would force EPA to reinstate $3bn climate program

Coalition of non-profits, tribes and local governments is suing the EPA and the agency's administrator for terminating the program despite a legally binding mandate from Congress to fund the Biden-era initiative.

Just saw something referring to (early) August as "autumn," and nope nope nope nope. Not autumn.