Paul Duggan
@pduggancreative.bsky.social
Writer/Coder. Christian. Parasocial IRL. Gene Wolfe fan #dnd old school blogger. #ttrpg:
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http://pduggan.itch.io
http://pduggancreative.wordpress.com
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DISPATCH DEBATE - The Steep Cost of ‘Free’ Child Care:
Young children need deep human connection, not paid providers | Katharine B. Stevens & Jenet Erickson
Read here: https://thedispatch.com/debates/child-care-family-development/
Young children need deep human connection, not paid providers | Katharine B. Stevens & Jenet Erickson
Read here: https://thedispatch.com/debates/child-care-family-development/
January 15, 2026 at 8:00 PM
DISPATCH DEBATE - The Steep Cost of ‘Free’ Child Care:
Young children need deep human connection, not paid providers | Katharine B. Stevens & Jenet Erickson
Read here: https://thedispatch.com/debates/child-care-family-development/
Young children need deep human connection, not paid providers | Katharine B. Stevens & Jenet Erickson
Read here: https://thedispatch.com/debates/child-care-family-development/
They do not cry out to me from their hearts
but wail on their beds
Hosea 7:14
but wail on their beds
Hosea 7:14
January 13, 2026 at 3:34 PM
They do not cry out to me from their hearts
but wail on their beds
Hosea 7:14
but wail on their beds
Hosea 7:14
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Fucking American grifters, exploiting everyone else's tragedy for pleasure and profit.
While I love my niche stupid hobby of historical board gaming, sometimes it does just make me want to scream. Take the latest example, a board game about the Irish Potato Famine where you get to compete with friends to see who survives best (?)
www.kickstarter.com/projects/com...
www.kickstarter.com/projects/com...
The Great Hunger
Easy-to-learn, card-driven game, rich with historical detail; explores 19th-century Irish expansion, blight, famine, & emigration. 2-5P
www.kickstarter.com
January 13, 2026 at 11:52 AM
Fucking American grifters, exploiting everyone else's tragedy for pleasure and profit.
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The "traditional" structure of TTRPGs puts an enormous amount of pressure on the GM to learn/refine & very little on the players.
Which is somehow seen as more reasonable than spreading the load of learning/contribution across the whole table.
Broader implications about community in there, y'all.
Which is somehow seen as more reasonable than spreading the load of learning/contribution across the whole table.
Broader implications about community in there, y'all.
January 11, 2026 at 5:05 PM
The "traditional" structure of TTRPGs puts an enormous amount of pressure on the GM to learn/refine & very little on the players.
Which is somehow seen as more reasonable than spreading the load of learning/contribution across the whole table.
Broader implications about community in there, y'all.
Which is somehow seen as more reasonable than spreading the load of learning/contribution across the whole table.
Broader implications about community in there, y'all.
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It would take a two-word amendment to 42 U.S.C. § 1983 to subject ICE agents and other federal law enforcement officers to the same liability for constitutional violations that local and state officers currently face.
If Congress actually cared about what it's seeing, it could pass that overnight.
If Congress actually cared about what it's seeing, it could pass that overnight.
January 12, 2026 at 10:56 PM
It would take a two-word amendment to 42 U.S.C. § 1983 to subject ICE agents and other federal law enforcement officers to the same liability for constitutional violations that local and state officers currently face.
If Congress actually cared about what it's seeing, it could pass that overnight.
If Congress actually cared about what it's seeing, it could pass that overnight.
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So NBC News has now changed how this post, without any mention of the edits. I had left the webpage open, and on the left is the original (also posted above), and on the right is newer, tamer take.
Same basic point, sure, but downplays the "not as trained" part. Makes it more implied than express.
Same basic point, sure, but downplays the "not as trained" part. Makes it more implied than express.
January 8, 2026 at 3:30 AM
So NBC News has now changed how this post, without any mention of the edits. I had left the webpage open, and on the left is the original (also posted above), and on the right is newer, tamer take.
Same basic point, sure, but downplays the "not as trained" part. Makes it more implied than express.
Same basic point, sure, but downplays the "not as trained" part. Makes it more implied than express.
where is this screencap coming from? i can't find the original
January 8, 2026 at 5:10 PM
where is this screencap coming from? i can't find the original
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I mean, right there in Minneapolis, the MPD initially asserted that George Floyd's death was a "medical incident."
Even tho they knew their bodycams were recording the murder, and even tho they knew ppl were filming the stop and assault, the MPD opened with a lie.
Even tho they knew their bodycams were recording the murder, and even tho they knew ppl were filming the stop and assault, the MPD opened with a lie.
January 8, 2026 at 2:49 PM
I mean, right there in Minneapolis, the MPD initially asserted that George Floyd's death was a "medical incident."
Even tho they knew their bodycams were recording the murder, and even tho they knew ppl were filming the stop and assault, the MPD opened with a lie.
Even tho they knew their bodycams were recording the murder, and even tho they knew ppl were filming the stop and assault, the MPD opened with a lie.
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This seems significant: not a FORMER DHS official, but a SENIOR (current) one saying the officer who fired acted counter to training.
This is not an admin that admits mistakes. And they are hanging this guy out to dry on Day One.
I think they know this is bad. Really bad.
This is not an admin that admits mistakes. And they are hanging this guy out to dry on Day One.
I think they know this is bad. Really bad.
January 7, 2026 at 9:33 PM
This seems significant: not a FORMER DHS official, but a SENIOR (current) one saying the officer who fired acted counter to training.
This is not an admin that admits mistakes. And they are hanging this guy out to dry on Day One.
I think they know this is bad. Really bad.
This is not an admin that admits mistakes. And they are hanging this guy out to dry on Day One.
I think they know this is bad. Really bad.
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The book Cop Cop, by two former investigators for NYC's civilian oversight board, backs up this skepticism.
Police are trained to immediately invoke "fear for life" as a magic mantra that thwart efforts to impose accountability.
Police statements like these are more political than anything else.
Police are trained to immediately invoke "fear for life" as a magic mantra that thwart efforts to impose accountability.
Police statements like these are more political than anything else.
January 7, 2026 at 5:58 PM
The book Cop Cop, by two former investigators for NYC's civilian oversight board, backs up this skepticism.
Police are trained to immediately invoke "fear for life" as a magic mantra that thwart efforts to impose accountability.
Police statements like these are more political than anything else.
Police are trained to immediately invoke "fear for life" as a magic mantra that thwart efforts to impose accountability.
Police statements like these are more political than anything else.
That last one is the Chair Jefferson wrote he declaration in next to the Bench MLK wrote letter from a Birmingham Jail on
Visited the Museum of the American Revolution today getting ready for 2026!
December 29, 2025 at 10:52 PM
That last one is the Chair Jefferson wrote he declaration in next to the Bench MLK wrote letter from a Birmingham Jail on
Visited the Museum of the American Revolution today getting ready for 2026!
December 29, 2025 at 10:49 PM
Visited the Museum of the American Revolution today getting ready for 2026!
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Tolkien is cooked. All new startups are Discworld, now.
Sauron is appearing on the scene as concerns rise about crime among the most wealthy.
Sauron, the high-end home security startup for "super premium" customers, plucks a new CEO out of Sonos | TechCrunch
Sauron is appearing on the scene as concerns rise about crime among the most wealthy.
techcrunch.com
December 29, 2025 at 2:42 AM
Tolkien is cooked. All new startups are Discworld, now.
I find it hard to believe that Lobo has never taken God’s name in vain before
December 28, 2025 at 9:14 PM
I find it hard to believe that Lobo has never taken God’s name in vain before
Why aren’t shampoo bars more available?
TJs discontinued theirs and Whole Foods stopped carrying them too
TJs discontinued theirs and Whole Foods stopped carrying them too
December 28, 2025 at 11:51 AM
Why aren’t shampoo bars more available?
TJs discontinued theirs and Whole Foods stopped carrying them too
TJs discontinued theirs and Whole Foods stopped carrying them too
i wonder what @alsoacarpenter.bsky.social would think about this www.compactmag.com/article/the-...
The Lost Generation
For fifteen years I’ve scalped tickets to pay the bills. But in January 2016 I almost managed a real career.
www.compactmag.com
December 16, 2025 at 6:46 PM
i wonder what @alsoacarpenter.bsky.social would think about this www.compactmag.com/article/the-...
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We shouldn't have to see someone dying of measles to know "stop spreading measles." Reading about it should be enough.
But it clearly isn't.
This is similar to the arg abt why S Koreans fought their recent would-be autocrat so much more aggressively than we have: still ppl w lived experience.
But it clearly isn't.
This is similar to the arg abt why S Koreans fought their recent would-be autocrat so much more aggressively than we have: still ppl w lived experience.
December 11, 2025 at 5:55 PM
We shouldn't have to see someone dying of measles to know "stop spreading measles." Reading about it should be enough.
But it clearly isn't.
This is similar to the arg abt why S Koreans fought their recent would-be autocrat so much more aggressively than we have: still ppl w lived experience.
But it clearly isn't.
This is similar to the arg abt why S Koreans fought their recent would-be autocrat so much more aggressively than we have: still ppl w lived experience.
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We're celebrating 12 Days of Medieval Illuminations. Today, 4 medieval horses.
Giddy up! 🐎🐎🐎🐎
Giddy up! 🐎🐎🐎🐎
December 9, 2025 at 7:22 PM
We're celebrating 12 Days of Medieval Illuminations. Today, 4 medieval horses.
Giddy up! 🐎🐎🐎🐎
Giddy up! 🐎🐎🐎🐎
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I wrote about B1's role as a teaching module & how that affects its room descriptions, which are filled with stuff to look at, poke, & question. As a result, almost every room is a playground for the DM's imagination when placing monsters & treasure. Write your rooms like this! #TTRPG #D&D #BX #OSR
B1 and Toyetic Dungeon Rooms
Over on Bluesky, I did a walkthrough of B1: In Search of the Unknown . I already wrote about how B1 tells the story of Rogahn and Zelligar ,...
forlornencystment.blogspot.com
December 3, 2025 at 4:22 PM
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Not joking: has one reporter responded to his preposterous Sgt Schultz “I know nothing” schtick by immediately asking:
* Doesn’t this level of ignorance disqualify you as speaker?
* Do you really think we are so dumb to believe you?
* Do you think it is appropriate to insult the voters like this?
* Doesn’t this level of ignorance disqualify you as speaker?
* Do you really think we are so dumb to believe you?
* Do you think it is appropriate to insult the voters like this?
RAJU: If defenseless survivors were killed, would that constitute a violation of the laws of war?
MIKE JOHNSON: I'm not going to prejudge any of that. I was pretty busy yesterday. I didn't follow a lot of the news.
MIKE JOHNSON: I'm not going to prejudge any of that. I was pretty busy yesterday. I didn't follow a lot of the news.
December 3, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Not joking: has one reporter responded to his preposterous Sgt Schultz “I know nothing” schtick by immediately asking:
* Doesn’t this level of ignorance disqualify you as speaker?
* Do you really think we are so dumb to believe you?
* Do you think it is appropriate to insult the voters like this?
* Doesn’t this level of ignorance disqualify you as speaker?
* Do you really think we are so dumb to believe you?
* Do you think it is appropriate to insult the voters like this?
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New Substack essay up today: The Strange Appeal of Peter Leithart. Because wisdom means learning from strong voices—without letting them do your thinking for you.
open.substack.com/pub/judsonta...
The Strange Appeal of Peter Leithart
Why Discernment Still Matters
open.substack.com
November 4, 2025 at 2:36 PM
New Substack essay up today: The Strange Appeal of Peter Leithart. Because wisdom means learning from strong voices—without letting them do your thinking for you.
open.substack.com/pub/judsonta...
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Anyone posted this one yet?
November 22, 2025 at 1:58 AM
Anyone posted this one yet?