Thursday Garreau

This is Monte Cook Games posting a press release to a community board on the Rascal website that anyone can post to, and then quoting their own press release while pretending that Rascal said this about their game.

Absolutely misleading and despicable, this is heading into unethical practices.

Tweet on X by Amir Kiyae reads: Strikes on Iran appear to have hit the home where opposition leaders Mir-Hossein Mousavi and Zahra Rahnavard have been held under house arrest - both are reported safe, but their residence was damaged. Former President Ahmadineiad's home was also targeted. Israel has stated it is targeting Iranian leaders "past, present, and future." This follows previous Israeli strikes on Evin Prison. Draw your own conclusions,

Home of reformist opposition leaders from 2009 Green Movement, Mir-Hossein Mousavi and Zahra Rahnavard was also hit by Israeli/US strikes. They have been under house arrest by the regime for over a decade.

gonna have macho man randy savage's delivery here in my head for a while

Deep Lake Online: A Digital-themed Supplement for Public Access by drlemons Explore more of the World Wide Web in Public Access TTRPG.

Included in this supplement is just about everything from a Mystery minus the clues and the questions 😅. 7 sites to scroll, 7 online users to troll, 10 moments to add a little spice, and a special move to round things out nice.

Take a look, it's a dollar!

drlemons.itch.io/deep-lake-on...

ooooOOOOOOO

A children's hospital is renamed for Dolly Parton and hopes to transform pediatric care in Tennessee Dolly Parton’s name might inspire full-throated sing-a-longs to her working woman’s anthem “9 to 5,” or evoke memories of thrilling days spent at her Dollywood theme park.

“Dolly Parton Children’s Hospital did not share how much Parton donated as part of the naming announcement. But Matt Schaefer, its president and CEO, said her support would ensure ‘every child who walks through our doors receives the treatment they deserve.’”

GOD BLESS DOLLY PARTON

a picture of a spider with a marble butt and text that says did you know? all the marbles are hatching this week

psa

To Slay the Great Regurgitator

today's finale: the secret police have been reassigned, the gene-caste reforms have been allowed to go ahead, and we're now using the sacred kaiju to wage all-out war in Space America's orbital backyard

Industrial, caged walls, grey flat walls, all become more red towards the bottom

Tiled wall, octahedron light source, several pillars

Mechanical parts hanging from the roof, the floor has many holes

Water draining into a hallway

Environments in Baroque (saturn)....

A map of a fantasy kingdom, with regions north-east to south-west including the Bound Forest, the Riverlands, the Reach, Spiral, the Vale, the Banner, the Coast, and the Hinterlands. It has a hex grid, factional borders, and regional boundaries naming different forests, mountain ranges, famrlands and strongholds.

So it turns out there's an upper bound to how many times I can say "if *I* ran a cataphract game, here's how I'd do it" before someone pays me to just fucking do it already. Here's a bit about how that happened, and my thoughts that led into the design.

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I downloaded Bryce 4 the other day and have had a blast tinkering with it. It's rly easy to get into and itches this specific part of my brain only this type of 90s CGI can reach. I wish I had known about it back in like highschool because I would've made a million renders with it for diff projects.

turquoise green mech with attached boosters, high above a bluish planet

Lancer robit
(i love you komatsu excavator turquoise)

Reasons for the ejection of New York Public Library patrons, Dec 1914: sleeping, drunkenness, smoking, spitting, disorderly conduct, malicious mischief, boxing, war discussion

Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. The cost of one modern heavy bomber is this: a modern brick school in more than 30 cities. It is two electric power plants, each serving a town of 60,000 population. It is two fine, fully equipped hospitals. It is some 50 miles of concrete highway. We pay for a single fighter plane with a half million bushels of wheat. We pay for a single destroyer with new homes that could have housed more than 8,000 people. This, I repeat, is the best way of life to be found on the road. the world has been taking. This is not a way of life at all, in any true sense. Under the cloud of threatening war, it is humanity hanging from a cross of iron.

from Eisenhower's April 1953 "Chance For Peace" speech

It's been more than a decade since the last time i did a study so here is a piece of a bronze tripod stand from 6th century bce in watercolor and gouache!

The machine is doing what it has done for the last 125 years in Mexico,China, the Philippines, Haiti, Cuba, Vietnam, Iraq and Nicaragua. The lofty justifications change as a matter of convenience, but the objectives are the same. Securing earthly territory and extracting earthly wealth.

photo of a lot of mini stickers on a desk. The characters are from Neopets and are as followed: Isca, Nabile, Jazan, Lisha, Lisha again, Hannah, Altador, The Darkest Faerie, Sophie the Swamp Witch, Roberta, Lord Kass, Jeran, Darigan, Kanrik, King Skarl, Tormund, Xandra, Jerdana, & Jhudora

I drew & printed some mini stickers to hand out at the #Vancoufur #Neopets meetup ^^

If youre unable to attend the meetup and would like one, I also have the digital file on Kofi for free (link in comments)

the sophie!!!

Cremello nspired pegasus for grabs over on my ko-fi//
---> ko-fi.com/s/fe53a5a380

Picture of Marjane Satrapi alongside a quote from her. The quote reads: The world is not divided into countries. The world is not divided between East and West. You are American, I am Iranian, we don't know each other, but we talk together and we understand each other perfectly. The difference between you and your government is much bigger than the difference between you and me. And the difference between me and my government is much bigger than the difference between me and you. And our governments are very much the same... - Marjane Satrapi, Iranian-French graphic novelist

Thinking about this quote from Persepolis creator Marjane Satrapi again.

Pigeon The most commonly used instant messaging service, named in honor of the recently de-extincted carrier pigeon. Capable of transmitting text, images, sound, and video in real time. Can also send other file types, but not open or display them. Ahoy The other commonly used instant messaging service. A few years older, with a slightly clunkier design than Pigeon, but a significant contingent of people (especially those from the first wave of noosphere usage) still refuse to switch to Pigeon, so many inheritors just end up running both and sighing about it. Colloquy The other other instant messaging service. The newest of the three, with a few zealous adherents. An ambitious project possessing a number of innovative features not found in Pigeon or Ahoy, but less polished than the former, lacking a handful of capabilities that some considered deal breakers.

The recent fragmentary exodus away from Discord to a dozen different Poob-adjacent platforms has me thinking of this set of services I wrote for a science fiction setting back in 2017.

this long ass montreal winter got me thinking about my last portland summer

what a crazy night for sam altman to be like "yeah we got that dept of war deal, and there's no moral concerns here"

holden bloodfeast...

Dozens of U.S. strikes on Iran. Dunno what to say now other than my thoughts are with the Iranian civilians under fire. What a nightmare.

Israel’s endless war continues with more bombing of Iran and the Iranian people. Whether Iran, Iraq, Palestine, Yemen or Lebanon the region has experienced repeated Israeli and western killings and invasions and it always pushes peace away. The world must act to end the killing, stop the bombing.

Illustration of a doe character in a completely empty pink background space leaning back in a pose as if she was in a diner booth with her right leg on the table, but there's no furniture present. She's holding a lit and smoking cigarette in her right hand and looking off to the left side of the canvas

Someplace Familiar