David N. Ross 🏳️‍🌈 is ZineQuesting!

Uploading Pirated Books via BitTorrent Qualifies as Fair Use, Meta Argues * TorrentFreak In an ongoing lawsuit, Meta now argues that uploading pirated books to strangers via BitTorrent qualifies as fair use.

In 2013 Aaron Swartz committed suicide for facing 35 years in prison for mass downloading scientific articles.

13 years later, Meta is almost getting away with an infraction orders of magnitude larger.

The law didn't change.

torrentfreak.com/uploading-pi...

KIDS Act Passes Energy and Commerce along Partisan Lines, COPPA 2.0 Postponed Additional bills on kids online safety and cybersecurity passed with bipartisan support

The package of censorship and surveillance bills brought up in todays markup has been advanced

Continue to contact your representatives and demand this legislation be opposed. Tell your family and friends, explain how these bills are not what they appear, and ask them to join us in opposition!

100,000 Homes: Housing the homeless saves money? Giving apartments to the chronically homeless can save taxpayer dollars, advocates say

Anderson Cooper: “So it's more expensive to have a chronically homeless person living on the streets than it is to actually subsidize an apartment for them?”

Answer: “Yes, we’re paying more as taxpayers to walk past that person on the street and do nothing.” #HousingFirst #UrbanTruth

My perhaps controversial assessment is that when you share the propaganda of your enemies to call it out or to mock it… you’re still spreading their propaganda and maybe doing exactly what they hope you’ll do.

Evil Hat Crowdfunding History

Behold, data nerds, I have tabulated Evil Hat's crowdfunding data (launch date, total funding, backer counts, some adjustment for inflation, etc) from 2012 through to a couple hours ago. Check the tabs along the bottom* to get at some graphs/pivot tables. docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

What your Meta smart glasses record doesn’t stay on your smart glasses, ‘data labeling’ contractors say Meta contractors say they’ve been tasked with reviewing highly sensitive videos captured by the company’s smart glasses.

NEW: Contractors for Meta say they've been tasked with reviewing smart glasses footage in order to train the company's AI.

The contractors say they've seen videos showing wearers having sex, undressing & using the bathroom.

san.com/cc/what-your...

If your vote didn't matter, they wouldn't try so hard to stop you from voting.....

#SaveActTaxesYourVote

Thanks much for the plug!

Coyote & Crow: Legends & Icons A Tome of Creatures, Spirits, and Characters for your Coyote & Crow Roleplaying Stories!

We're live folks!
#TTRPG #NativeSky #RPG #Gaming #tabletop #roleplaying #IndigenousFuturism
www.kickstarter.com/projects/coy...

Vegetarians have ‘substantially lower risk’ of five types of cancer Study shows lower risk for multiple myeloma as well as pancreatic, prostate, breast and kidney cancers

There are so many reasons not to eat animals. Here’s another, but it doesn’t even matter if it’s true.

This is amazing.

www.getyourfuckingmoneyback.com

In an Intense Election Year, New Post Office Rules Could Trip Up Voter Registration A change in how mail is postmarked could lead some voters to miss key deadlines, including voter registration. Advocates worry the people most affected will be those already facing voting barriers.

Wisconsin this year will hold a pivotal election for a supreme court seat. The deadline to mail voter registration forms is March 18—but new USPS rules have advocates warning people to send in their forms with days to spare.

I've written up a brief script for anyone who wants to call or write your representatives regarding this bill (yes, even the ones you think won't care). PLEASE DO THIS IF YOU ARE ABLE. This bill *cannot* pass.

You can find your representatives here: www.congress.gov/members/find...

CALL YOUR CONGRESS PERSON NOW!!!!!! Tell them:
— NO to KOSA
— NO to Section 230 reform
— NO to the SCREEN Act
— NO to the App Store Accountability Act
—NO age verification laws
—NO to digital ID systems

Solo RPG List - Find Solo and Duet TTRPGs Discover amazing solo and duet tabletop role-playing games that can be played with—or without—dice, tarot cards, playing cards, pen and paper, etc.

Discover great Solo and Duet TTRPGs on solorpglist.com
We have over 960 listed, with more titles added every day!

If you've played a solo or duet game that you enjoyed, or made one, feel free to submit it to our site so it can be shared with others.

#soloTTRPG solo RPG, journaling game TTRPG

Drintera Worldbuilding 2026: Native American Fantasy Help our Indigenous-led team build a fantasy version of North America in zine form!

My other #ZineQuest #TTRPG Kickstarter contribution is finally live, and already funded! I'm stoked to the whole team's work come to life, and I'm especially hoping we hit enough stretch goals for me to chip in a monster based a legend passed down by my grandma.
www.kickstarter.com/projects/she...

Aaand funded! Thanks everyone—let's smash through some stretch goals!

Monster Camper - A solo journaling game - seroRPG | DriveThruRPG.com You step back and survey the campsite you've set up in the middle of nowhere. It's perfect! Just you, nature and your mo

I published my first Solo TTRPG! 🥳

Monster Camper is a solo journaling game.
You used to be human but now you're a little bit monstrous. It's becoming a bit of a problem. So, to tame it or become one with it you're going solo camping!

legacy.drivethrurpg.com/product/5560... (affiliate link)

Mini-Dungeon Magazine #1 — Art-Forward Tabletop RPG Magazine Mini-Dungeon Magazine is a tabletop RPG magazine of one-shot adventures, creative tools, and experimental content.

I'm excited to be editing the newly launched Mini-Dungeon Magazine now live on @kickstarter.com #RPG #TTRPG #ZineQuest Back to get retro-art-inspired little modules, tools, and experimental articles for PF2, PF1, Mork Borg, Shadowdark, Drow Borg, and 5e games www.kickstarter.com/projects/adv...

Please watch and support! If only by reposting.
#ttrpg #worldbuilding

STOP THE SAVE ACT (Updated) All Eyes on the Senate

STOP THE SAVE ACT (Updated)
My new piece is up with lots of info about the SAVE America Act - the version of the SAVE Act that passed the House and is before the Senate this week. This is a MUST READ and then ACT.
open.substack.com/pub/sherrily...

spongebob and patrick are standing in front of a chalkboard with good noodles written on it ALT: spongebob and patrick are standing in front of a chalkboard with good noodles written on it

Whatever game you played this weekend, go leave it a review

One year on from dismantling of USAID, study projects that global aid cuts could lead to 9.4 million deaths by 2030 | CNN It’s been one year since the Trump administration dismantled the US Agency for International Development (USAID), with aid cuts leading to the closure of HIV clinics in South Africa, the termination o...

As a direct result of the obscene actions of Russell Vought and Elon Musk in destroying USAID, we can expect “at least 9.4 million additional deaths by 2030, if the current funding trend continues.

About 2.5 million of those deaths are projected to be children under the age of 5.”

Discord has disabled Direct Support.

Their Submit a Request however still has to work.

Below I am providing EXACTLY how to do that.
So I had to go through this process in order to file the complaint:

Go to this Website: discord.com This is Discords Actual Website. Go there.

Step 2 Below.

1. They know they stepped in it.

2. They already "determine" our age with the data they already have on us (uh...).

3. This doesn't stop them from being hacked, risking those they do get IDs of.

Keep canceling your Nitros and keep complaining to them. We don't trust them with our IDs or faces.

Call your representatives. Stop this bill. ☎️: 833-933-0108

Prasad overruled FDA staff to reject Moderna's flu vaccine application The rejection is the latest instance of Vinay Prasad overruling career FDA scientists to place vaccines under harsher scrutiny.

The flu and pneumonia kill over 45,000 people a year. Moderna developed a new mRNA flu vaccine for people 50 and older--who are most at risk. Prasad, unilaterally, against the recommendation of experts within the agency, denied Moderna's appplication. www.statnews.com/2026/02/11/m...

Also, if you are appalled by the potential of HP Magic or D&D, your best bet isn't to demand answers from random designers on social media—who can be fired for commenting—it's to send PHYSICAL LETTERS and make actual PHONE CALLS to Hasbro's corporate headquarters, denouncing the entire partnership.

Give folks their flowers

No, I mean right now. Go tell someone you loved their work right now. They're on social media just say it, it has never been easier

"They know how much people love--" no they don't go say it right now to a composer or artist or game dev or writer or anyone AAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH

Ubisoft workers are on strike: 'We are treated like children' The strike comes after the publisher revealed plans to cut up to 200 jobs and ordered remote workers back into the office

The strike comes after the publisher revealed plans to cut up to 200 jobs and ordered remote workers back into the office