Casmarius

Seeing some new friends migrating over to this platform. So I think it's time to post this again. Being useful helps keep the ennui at bay. Use this tool to import follows from the Twit site. It prepopulates a list and you can click through and choose whom you keep. skeet.labnotes.org

And as an aside - you should not doubt how fucking uncool D&D was in 1998 as a game, and how poisoned that particular well had been for a while. Baldur's Gate turned that around, and if you do want a road from D&D then to D&D now, it does strike me that Bioware's needs more credit than they get.

What could be more Halloween than a BAT? How about a bat colored like a JACK-O-LANTERN? Let's meet the Painted Bat (Kerivoula picta), also called the butterfly bat, native to SE Asia. 🦇🎃 (📷: MerlinTuttle.org)

Alex Ward pulled off a great Ichi the Killer cosplay for this year's Crit Role Halloween episode. The latex scars are great!

Curious how you can help? We ask that you sign our petition for Wizards to voluntarily recognize our union, share it with your communities, and keep an eye on this account for future updates! actionnetwork.org/forms/uwotcp...

JRR Tolkien: You paint that picture of the key scene from the Two Towers where Frodo and Sam fight Gollum? Donato Giancola: Sure did, Ron, real fuckin' sexy just like you asked. JRRT: What.

I am already frothing at the mouth for the set design!

the thing about the slimeball dems who sell out the trans community is that no matter what anyone tells you, the selling out doesn’t stop with *just* the trans community

Seeing lots of 25th memorials, but nobody seems to reiterate that when the towers fell, Dick Cheney was functionally the president, and that's a large reason things turned out the way they did, and why it is so bad today.

It is possible to Win Crafting, and we can know this because Carol Johnson has Won Crafting.

As a new Harry Potter trailer makes the rounds, it bears repeating that there’s no way to watch this show without supporting J.K. Rowling’s bigotry and the structural violence she’s inflicting on the trans community.

If you have a Gmail account, you need to read this. Google's AI now scans your emails and attachments, bank statements, tax files, medical letters, all of it. It turned on by default, and there's a class-action lawsuit over how. Here are 5 moves to shut it off, the switch is hidden in two places:

All hail the King, today, on his birthday.

I'm convinced that Andy Warhol would have loved genAi. He would have slopped so hard.

"LibreOffice 26.8 contains no generative AI features. Documents are not transmitted to remote services for processing, and no component of the suite requires network access to function. This is a deliberate position."

We have a spherical prism hanging in the living room window that catches light just before sunset and sprays little rainbows across the room. Today it caught me in the eye and I managed to line up the band of green wavelengths with my green iris.

Sometimes I wish we were still treating internet connectivity bandwidth like it was a limited resource.

I've received radiation twice so far, and still can't transform, or even get a neck vein to turn green when I clench my jaw. Tomorrow I'm sneaking a spider into the clinic so it can bite me when I'm on the slab. If that fails, I have some serious questions about Stan Lee's science credentials.

Tom Savini is a fucking legend. And he lost everything. His home. His beloved pets. His life's work - work that served as the foundation of the horror we hold most dear. There isn't the character count to list his legacy here. If you can, please consider donating. www.gofundme.com/f/support-to...

The CDC has changed the color coding on its COVID-19 wastewater maps to conceal the virus's prevalence (which is increasing again). Pay attention to the numbers, not the colors.

“A single-payer universal health care system could cover every American, save more than 100,000 lives a year, and still cost $1 trillion less than the system it would replace, according to a new preprint study led by researchers at the Yale School of Public Health.” ysph.yale.edu/news-article...

Well, I signed the severance agreement papers for our layoff last night. Today was my first full day as an officially unemployed person. Nine years and seven months in the video game industry.

Workers at Rowan, Rook and Decard have secured the first union recognition agreement in the UK table top games industry! 🙌 iwgb.org.uk/en/post/tabl... Work in the UK games industry? Join our union today!

Mimolette, sliced thin and paired with a dram of single malt, or a jigger of cream sherry.

An argument for human connection masquerading as a book review. valerialoves.com/why-didnt-si...

i just realized i never posted this here Cover art for 'Scholar's Codex' @tuneandfairweather.bsky.social 30x40cm ink on claybord

It Only Tuesday https://theonion.com/it-only-tuesday-1819569397/

I've been asked why there are so many Canadians in comics and other creative pursuits (art, music, acting, games, etc.) and the simple truth is that with Canadian healthcare (as imperfect as it can be) you can build a freelance career without medical debt unexpectedly destroying your dreams.

FIFA clearly using the VAR official to put their thumb on the scale. That at least the third instance this cup of an underdog having a legit goal called back.

I have such an expertly curated algorithm that I'm seeing posts from Mexican street food restaurants in the US and this is how they're advertising the game tomorrow night. "Good vibes"

Putting the Galarza flop together with the save on Mbappé's nutmeg shot is funny

One of the many ... many reasons I loathe Ai written responses, is the similarity in tone, cadence, and artificially elevated vocabulary that makes pretentious artist statements insufferable. Same grey soup. Not palatable.

Reposting because of the sony news

Nintendo has given all employees in Japan a 10% base salary raise President Shuntaro Furukawa said the pay increase is aimed at helping the company retain talent

Wacom recently asked me to talk about why I make queer comics, and given there are multiple bills right now floating around in congress that are effectively "we will kill your livelihood if we get a sniff of queer" I had some pretty strong, simply feelings to relay.

Mamdani announces $15M for trans healthcare, includes launching a call/text resource support line. Notes city Law Dept filed an amicus brief against subpoenas for medical records. Hospitals suspended care to trans youth following a Trump EO. This seems to try working around that, doesn’t mention it

"The last two weeks have gone into freeing myself from my Adobe subscription. And it felt less like canceling software and more like a prison break."

Well, shit. Valve just announced that Steam OS is going to become open to folks. Ignore everything I just said. 😂

Today is a momentous day for the workers of Arena! After months of planning, waiting and organizing, our dream is finally a reality; the votes have been counted, and our union of UWOTC-CWA has been officially elected. From this day forward, we have a union!

That win by Paraguay over Turkyie was the most I have laughed at a game this entire cup.