I think the appearance of free software really broke the oligarch's brains. People are just giving away stuff that should be Shareholder Value? And we *can't* buy it off them and own it? People are just running a compiler whenever they like to make whatever they want without paying anyone?

The […]

My second Yule gift to myself was delivered today! @JanetEdwardsSF is my favorite author for comfort reading and I really looking forward to meet my friends Amber and Lucas again!

#books #hivefuture

Wood engraving print, 75x75mm. The Ring of Brodgar, Orkney.

#standingstonesunday #printmaking #art #prehistory

After nearly 1000 days on Steam Workshop, my #victoria3 mod, 'New Dark Age', has finally reached enough votes to get a rating. It's managed to get 4 stars, so the handful of players playing must like it a bit.

I don't think we'd get much boost from the rating in […]

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Some really thought provoking points here:

"This widespread societal resignation of ‘guess our government communications now happens on a deepfake porn site’ is maddening, but also points to a deeper issue."

Hopefully this gains steam and is picked up elsewhere, such as here in the UK. Can't see that happening soon, unfortunately.

"Whistle, crackle, banned: Dutch set to outlaw fireworks after more new year chaos" […]

stolen from telegram, probably previously stolen from tiktok

#corvids

Something I think too much about is the foremost “error” a majority of (western) fantasy books and RPGs do. They have gods and magic and all sorts of stuff and when someone, for one reason or another, scratches on the surface the author tries to present an “scientific explanation” in parallel to […]

I realised just that when see a boardgames reviewer I loathe (Gamenight! etc) review a game on my to-buy list it drops to the bottom and I avoid it henceforward.
it is so stupid, but it is like the ick and stupid infects my vision and makes the game covered in slime and pus drips on the floor […]

So now Itch also censors stuff as some prude-billionaire-apocalypse-worshipping-evangelical-hypocrite owning to many things is squeezing them ...
And DrivethroughRPG censoring anti-Authoritarianism ...

Where can I now get my PDF fixes ...?

Ah, well, I have to write my own then, onwards into my […]

Was thumbing through my extensive library of ttrp PDFs in search of inspiration for the SF game I've started tinkering with.
And I noticed that I could looks at the tech tables and where the "Law level" was noted for weapons I could instantly identify if the writer was from US or not. Let me say […]

I hope every "Christian" that voted for this shit "because of the children" goes to hell.

#maga #trmp #usaid

Sedna refused all suitors her father chose for her, and frustrated her father so that he threw her from her kayak. She tried to climb back in but he cut off her fingers, which became the beasts of the sea. She rules the Underworld. #MythologyMonday

🖼: A. Galbraith

It is a bit cute* that US people still thinks walking around with signs on their free time will accomplish anything. I fear that it will be far to late when the realization hit them that the whole point with protests is to inconvenience the powers-that-be and everyone and everything.
Just the […]

The election has just been called for April 28.

If you are a Canadian living outside the country, get your mail-in ballot here ASAP:

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