For TTRPG & Humanities folks near Cincinnati on March 31 - April 1, we've got a lot of guests coming to an excellent academic workshop & play session event:

www.eventbrite.com/e/role-playi...

Aristotle was actually right, there is such a thing as "natural slaves".

Today we call them "conservatives", and they will do anything they can to turn themselves into docile servants to anyone with wealth and power.

a tiny squirrel in a park (if you need sth gentleman and sweet in your life)

russia needs war,
Ukraine needs peace (but not at any cost).

russia cannot wake up from the empire dream,
Ukraine wants to be a prosperous democracy,
free from any imperial chains and future threats.

However, I believe there is more at stake now than just Ukraine.
You may feel it, too.

I’m confused by all the headline references to a “shouting match.” I saw one side shouting and the other side getting shouted over when he tried to talk.

well said

snyder.substack.com/p/five-failu...

Poland's prime minister expressed support for Ukraine after Volodymyr Zelensky's confrontation with Donald Trump in the White House today

The Witcher 4 gets its a first trailer and, yes, Ciri is the star www.eurogamer.net/the-witcher-...

I am asked so often what #warcoffee is.

So, warcoffee is every coffee I have since February 24, 2022
when the full-scale invasion started.

I am in Kyiv. I have never left Ukraine since that awful February morning.

One week left to make those full paper and extended abstract submissions! We've got more keynote announcements and other news coming soon. Join us in Malta next summer! digraconference2025.org/calls-call-f...

A list of over 3,000 Jews issued with fake Latin American documents by Polish diplomats during WWII in an effort to help them survive under German-Nazi occupation has been added to the database of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.

It is the moment when the Christmas Tree lights are on.

I captured it earlier today on Sophia Square.

Unfortunately, BlueSky doesn’t allow the publishing of longer videos. Anyway, some magic for you from Kyiv 😘

Parents of babies born prematurely or who have to be hospitalised for other reasons after birth will be granted up to 15 extra weeks of parental leave under a bill unanimously approved by parliament.

Currently, they receive the same amount of leave as other parents.

We've listened - the DiGRA 2025 deadline has been extended! You now have an extra 17 days - until Monday 16th December - to work on your submissions. digraconference2025.org/calls-call-f...

Morning from Kyiv.
The night was calm here,
not everywhere in Ukraine, of course.
I had my morning #warcoffee
and am ready to live life.
Rainy,
grey,
but life.

Today's Ukrainian art: Eugene Ravsky (born in 1966).
This is one of his watercolour paintings depicting the war.
Eugene is a soldier.