J Krausz
@jkrausz.bsky.social
Editor, writer. General journalism. TTRPGs.
I was on the editing team of Cairn 2e, Beyond on the Pale, and several other games. You can blame many commas on me.
I was on the editing team of Cairn 2e, Beyond on the Pale, and several other games. You can blame many commas on me.
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Amazing what happens when you vote to outsource the foreign policy of the United States to Putin because you wanted a Kompromat-hobbled wannabe tinpot-dictator to make you feel better about being a white supremacist.
on.wsj.com/4hFW4Ab
on.wsj.com/4hFW4Ab
Trump Calls Zelensky a Dictator, Accuses Him of Misusing U.S. Aid
The U.S. president’s comment comes in an escalating war of words amid U.S.-Russia talks on Ukraine.
on.wsj.com
February 19, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Amazing what happens when you vote to outsource the foreign policy of the United States to Putin because you wanted a Kompromat-hobbled wannabe tinpot-dictator to make you feel better about being a white supremacist.
on.wsj.com/4hFW4Ab
on.wsj.com/4hFW4Ab
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Reminder: Israel is so dysfunctional that it has had five elections in the last six years. It recently failed to stop the biggest massacre of Jews since the Holocaust. The idea that these people control your own country is a cope by folks who are bad at politics and don't get how it works.
February 6, 2025 at 12:06 AM
Reminder: Israel is so dysfunctional that it has had five elections in the last six years. It recently failed to stop the biggest massacre of Jews since the Holocaust. The idea that these people control your own country is a cope by folks who are bad at politics and don't get how it works.
Just a warning: this is about the sick behavior of the current American White House.
These people want to murder trans folks. There's no doubt about it to me.
travel.state.gov/content/trav...
These people want to murder trans folks. There's no doubt about it to me.
travel.state.gov/content/trav...
LGB Travel Information
Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and intersex travelers can face unique challenges when traveling abroad.
travel.state.gov
February 2, 2025 at 1:50 AM
Just a warning: this is about the sick behavior of the current American White House.
These people want to murder trans folks. There's no doubt about it to me.
travel.state.gov/content/trav...
These people want to murder trans folks. There's no doubt about it to me.
travel.state.gov/content/trav...
Here's a great video on reasons that the book Wicked is not a good one. In general, Dominic Noble's videos are great, in my opinion.
youtu.be/nwcANKtZkTs?...
youtu.be/nwcANKtZkTs?...
I Did Not Enjoy Reading Wicked
YouTube video by Dominic Noble
youtu.be
January 31, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Here's a great video on reasons that the book Wicked is not a good one. In general, Dominic Noble's videos are great, in my opinion.
youtu.be/nwcANKtZkTs?...
youtu.be/nwcANKtZkTs?...
I've been yelling since 2015 about how bad it could be, and I'm still surprised every few minutes now anyway. Alternating between vile and destructive is the current administration's mode.
www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_ent...
www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_ent...
Doubling down, Trump suggests Gazans better off somewhere not ‘associated with violence’
* * *
www.timesofisrael.com
January 28, 2025 at 5:17 AM
I've been yelling since 2015 about how bad it could be, and I'm still surprised every few minutes now anyway. Alternating between vile and destructive is the current administration's mode.
www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_ent...
www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_ent...
This is truly sick stuff. Sick, sick, sick.
Major news:
Donald Trump has just issued a trans military ban, with much of the details left to Hegseth.
It states that being trans is incompatible with "an honorable, truthful, and disciplined lifestyle"
I know many military trans people who have served admirably for decades.
Shameful.
Donald Trump has just issued a trans military ban, with much of the details left to Hegseth.
It states that being trans is incompatible with "an honorable, truthful, and disciplined lifestyle"
I know many military trans people who have served admirably for decades.
Shameful.
January 28, 2025 at 4:17 AM
This is truly sick stuff. Sick, sick, sick.
This is sad and infuriating. I pass this almost every weekday, and it's nice that it serves as a home for people.
gothamist.com/news/a-new-y...
gothamist.com/news/a-new-y...
A New York City housing crisis, both on land and at sea
A houseboat community nestled beside a Brooklyn mall faces eviction, part of a dwindling number of New Yorkers who live on the water.
gothamist.com
January 21, 2025 at 2:26 PM
This is sad and infuriating. I pass this almost every weekday, and it's nice that it serves as a home for people.
gothamist.com/news/a-new-y...
gothamist.com/news/a-new-y...
I recommend reading through the executive orders. It's a horrifying bunch of things. They are still being added right now:
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
Presidential Actions – The White House
www.whitehouse.gov
January 21, 2025 at 2:32 AM
I recommend reading through the executive orders. It's a horrifying bunch of things. They are still being added right now:
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
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Oh good Yochai Gal has quit Bluesky because of the Surely Well-Meaning folks on here who felt the need to Express Their Concern.
This is a good place and nothing like Twitter.
This is a good place and nothing like Twitter.
January 1, 2025 at 11:01 PM
Oh good Yochai Gal has quit Bluesky because of the Surely Well-Meaning folks on here who felt the need to Express Their Concern.
This is a good place and nothing like Twitter.
This is a good place and nothing like Twitter.
Someone mentioned that they were fighting about politics on LinkedIn, and now I want to know where OSR LinkedIn is.
(I do not. Please do not inform me about that.)
(I do not. Please do not inform me about that.)
December 26, 2024 at 12:49 PM
Someone mentioned that they were fighting about politics on LinkedIn, and now I want to know where OSR LinkedIn is.
(I do not. Please do not inform me about that.)
(I do not. Please do not inform me about that.)
Is the OSR feed working?
December 26, 2024 at 12:34 AM
Is the OSR feed working?
The person who did this was given $7500 bail and released.
Notice any difference between how the killers of CEOs and the killers of cab drivers are treated?
(And yes, charges will be added, etc., but still.)
gothamist.com/news/police-...
Notice any difference between how the killers of CEOs and the killers of cab drivers are treated?
(And yes, charges will be added, etc., but still.)
gothamist.com/news/police-...
Police say NYC cabbie was attacked for turning down a fare. He died 3 days later.
Amadu Rahaman loved being a taxi driver for more than 40 years, his daughters said.
gothamist.com
December 22, 2024 at 1:44 AM
The person who did this was given $7500 bail and released.
Notice any difference between how the killers of CEOs and the killers of cab drivers are treated?
(And yes, charges will be added, etc., but still.)
gothamist.com/news/police-...
Notice any difference between how the killers of CEOs and the killers of cab drivers are treated?
(And yes, charges will be added, etc., but still.)
gothamist.com/news/police-...
It would almost have been more surprising if the city hadn't billed the family for killing him. We would have wondered if the city was feeling ill and not able to get up to its usual behavior.
www.thecity.nyc/2024/12/19/c...
www.thecity.nyc/2024/12/19/c...
City Billed Family of Man Killed During Police Pursuit for Damage to Cop’s Car
Samuel Williams died a day after he collided with an unmarked police vehicle that swerved in front of him from the opposite direction.
www.thecity.nyc
December 20, 2024 at 4:49 PM
It would almost have been more surprising if the city hadn't billed the family for killing him. We would have wondered if the city was feeling ill and not able to get up to its usual behavior.
www.thecity.nyc/2024/12/19/c...
www.thecity.nyc/2024/12/19/c...
This post should be bronzed and put in the National Archives as an example of the great accomplishments of our legislators.
My bipartisan legislation to recognize the Bald Eagle as our national bird just passed Congress and is now headed to the President’s desk to be signed into law! 🦅
December 18, 2024 at 7:05 PM
This post should be bronzed and put in the National Archives as an example of the great accomplishments of our legislators.
The US has proven that basically any number of school kids can be shot dead and nothing will happen in regard to gun control—but we haven't yet figured out how many CEOs being shot might trigger gun control. Just a thought.
The less dark version of that thought is that *if* CEOs were being shot...
The less dark version of that thought is that *if* CEOs were being shot...
December 17, 2024 at 12:19 AM
The US has proven that basically any number of school kids can be shot dead and nothing will happen in regard to gun control—but we haven't yet figured out how many CEOs being shot might trigger gun control. Just a thought.
The less dark version of that thought is that *if* CEOs were being shot...
The less dark version of that thought is that *if* CEOs were being shot...
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Let me tell you a story – one of the more haunting I’ve seen in 20 years of journalism. It’s about greed, death and denial. It took two years to unravel one doctor’s myth, a hospital’s complicity in creating it, and a documented trail of suspicious deaths…🧵
December 7, 2024 at 3:52 PM
Let me tell you a story – one of the more haunting I’ve seen in 20 years of journalism. It’s about greed, death and denial. It took two years to unravel one doctor’s myth, a hospital’s complicity in creating it, and a documented trail of suspicious deaths…🧵
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This year alone there were 55 deaths associated with school shootings.
But the CEO.
But the CEO.
The brazen murder of a CEO in Midtown Manhattan—and the cheering reaction to his execution—amounts to a blinking-and-blaring warning signal for a society that has become already too inured to bloodshed, @adriennelaf.bsky.social writes. theatln.tc/ZRcsrreK
December 12, 2024 at 1:42 AM
This year alone there were 55 deaths associated with school shootings.
But the CEO.
But the CEO.
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me: *screaming into the abyss*
the abyss: this could have been an email
the abyss: this could have been an email
December 11, 2024 at 6:05 PM
me: *screaming into the abyss*
the abyss: this could have been an email
the abyss: this could have been an email
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The FL Department of Corrections is attempting to "reverse" the gender identity of transgender people in its custody, referring to trans identities as "short-term delusions" and withholding hormone therapy. Reviving psychiatric theories of the 1950s, they blame trans identities on "childhood trauma"
December 10, 2024 at 3:48 PM
The FL Department of Corrections is attempting to "reverse" the gender identity of transgender people in its custody, referring to trans identities as "short-term delusions" and withholding hormone therapy. Reviving psychiatric theories of the 1950s, they blame trans identities on "childhood trauma"
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SF Hillel was vandalized with "Death to western imperialism," a hammer and sickle, and the word "Khaybar," a reference to a historical battle between Mohammad's army and Arabian Jews.
San Francisco Hillel vandalized with violent, far-left graffiti
Someone spray-painted “Death to Western imperialism,” a hammer and sickle and other symbols on the San Francisco Hillel building.
jweekly.com
December 10, 2024 at 1:00 AM
SF Hillel was vandalized with "Death to western imperialism," a hammer and sickle, and the word "Khaybar," a reference to a historical battle between Mohammad's army and Arabian Jews.
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An appeals court has ruled that Idaho can enforce most of its anti-abortion travel ban, making it the first state in the nation to do so.
An appeals court has ruled that Idaho can enforce most of its anti-abortion travel ban, making it the first state in the nation to do so.
Idaho Will Enforce Abortion Travel Ban
12.2.24
jessica.substack.com
December 5, 2024 at 12:01 AM
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An appeals court has ruled that Idaho can enforce most of its anti-abortion travel ban, making it the first state in the nation to do so.
An appeals court has ruled that Idaho can enforce most of its anti-abortion travel ban, making it the first state in the nation to do so.
Jack is a friend of mine and probably my favorite GM, and this video auditing his own work and his YouTube channel is really fascinating. If you haven't checked out his channel, you really should: youtu.be/j_YqyFMiNQE?...
Why... is there no TTRPG talk show?
YouTube video by Jack
youtu.be
December 3, 2024 at 3:40 AM
Jack is a friend of mine and probably my favorite GM, and this video auditing his own work and his YouTube channel is really fascinating. If you haven't checked out his channel, you really should: youtu.be/j_YqyFMiNQE?...
Since the holiday season is upon us, I'd like to remind people about Riders of Justice, a truly great action/comedy/philosophical movie that is also a Christmas movie. /1
December 2, 2024 at 11:52 AM
Since the holiday season is upon us, I'd like to remind people about Riders of Justice, a truly great action/comedy/philosophical movie that is also a Christmas movie. /1