Double Proficiency 🐦‍⬛

We've reached 2,500 backers on our bird book! Thank you all for your trust! Please help us spread the word and put this shiny ✨ book of #bird lore in front of birders, birdwatchers, #folklore enthusiasts, witches, and #TTRPG players! It's very cool, I swear 💖 www.kickstarter.com/projects/hun...

As much as I'm enjoying The Blood of Dawnwalker (awesome, love it), I feel an intense pressure to finish the game ASAP and let Dressmaker to become my whole new personality.

I have some downtime, so I figured I'll finally finish Kingdom Come: Deliverance. But, I thought, since my Czech is very basic, might as well play the whole game in it, and learned as I go. I learned English that way, after all!

Woo, I expanded my Czech vocabulary tenfold in one day :). I initially went with Czech audio and English subs, but that sucked cause VA's speak fast, so went with both audio and text. I am having a blast, it's been ages since I learned a new language.

Our language has been completely warped by Big Tech's algorithms, from a generation that's grown up saying "unalive", to the way everyone's censored themselves talking about the Cornell rapists. It's time to fight back against billionaire control of free speech. www.anildash.com/2026/10/06/k...

What is NEAL & FanGeo? So happy you asked! NEAL is a fantasy, interplanar library I created for one of my players that took on a life of it's own. Over the yrs we added magical classes, lectures, and events for the "university". We have ghosts, professors, staff, and other small - tmsone.org

In case you need it today, here's a video of wild turkeys playing catch with deer and squirrels. It's been on the internet for over 8 years, so you know it's not AI :) www.youtube.com/watch?v=EPZW...

The song of the Rusałka is ready to echo around the world. The Italian edition paved the way, and the international edition launches on BackerKit starting October 5! Nick Wedig's tragic fairytale RPG about wishes gone wrong will enthrall you with dark, dramatic, card-based play, with no prep or GM.

happy golden larch season to all those who celebrate ft Em of @blackwaterdnd.bsky.social and @scarydogfriend.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xsm6...

The Skeleton Panda Sea Squirt (Clavelina Ossipandae) is a translucent reef-dwelling creature whose rib-like structures and panda-like markings give it a spooky, animated look. Found in Southeast Asia, it harmlessly filters seawater and helps keep coral ecosystems healthy. Original post

Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #Borbs: birds looking plump. The alt theme is #Brown. Enter sparrow, or as Ancient Egyptians would call them: 𓅫

💚 native plant posting 💚 I’ve been learning a lot about ecosystems and native plants lately and I wanted to share about POLLINATORS 🐝🦋 Some pollinators are generalists: they’re not choosy. And most invasive pollinators are generalists (they’d have to be to survive outside their natural habitat)

The #BirdOfTheDay theme today is #TheDivers. I can't say we have a favorite, because they're all so awesome, but... I 💖my grebe weirdos.

Today's work challenge: distill everything I know and love about ravens into one (1) page.

Also, puffins are so darn pretty. #birds #sciart

A reminder that Lynne is an awesome editor, recently impacted by the Paizo layoffs, and could use some help in these trying times!

Would you like our ace realm reporter @lauren-urban.com to write about your party's adventures in a future issue? Have a particularly fun story to share with our readers? Pop over to our portal and tell us all about it: fantasticalgeographic.com/reports-from...

New on our Patreon: even more birds 🐦‍⬛💖 Although we don't talk about it much, we're making good progress on the book. Half of it is already out of science editing! Much more to come. www.patreon.com/doubleprofic...

How to recharge after a week of writing about birds: organize them neatly.

Oh no, I've updated InDesign to the newest version and got immediately reminded why I haven't been doing it for the last year and a half. It freezes and crashes at the mere mention of exporting to PDF. ... Rollback, here we go!

In case you're wondering, we're alive! And, incidentally, also recovered from crowdfunding-marketing social burnout. So, here's an update on Zoologist's Primer: Birds! www.doubleproficiency.com/post/zoologi...

I'm participating the summer sale on Everyday Original from June 29th to July 5th! I'm moving soon so I'm looking to rehome as many originals as I can which is why I made the exception to put my originals on a sale.

Woo! We're back from our annual vacation! Highlights: 🏰 visited the largest castle in the world, 🥚 made friends with an ostrich (fine, "acquaintance"), 🦆 bought seeds to feed ducks, got robbed by pigeons, 🫠 melted in a heatwave. Ready to get back to writing and game design!

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I expected to be a bit burned out by the time the Kickstarter ends, but I'm again reading bird books for fun, so I think we're good.

The Kickstarter campaign is over but fun never stops. What we've been up to? The bird book, Mycologist's Primer fulfillment, and a whole bunch of new projects. No Patronage needed to read it, but consider joining if you want to unlock access to the WIP bird book! 💖 www.patreon.com/posts/mayday...

Female birds with confusing names.

Every month for our issue of @fantasticalgeographic.com, we come up with "book recs" and I love coming up with titles & authors for them, then setting @chaospixiemagic.com loose on filling in the details and having fun making covers! And then posting them on our NEAL website for everyone to enjoy.😁

We've been asked recently, so I want to be sure we're honest about our AI policy.

Oh no, this is going to seriously impact my current AI budget of (Checks notes) Absolutely fucking zero www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...

20 hours left to back Zoologist's Primer: Birds! 🪶 We have unlocked all physical item add-ons, which means you can now get them in one Bundle, at a discount price unlocked through the magic of higher-volume printing! Grab yours: www.kickstarter.com/projects/hun...

20 hours left to back Zoologist's Primer: Birds! 🪶 We have unlocked all physical item add-ons, which means you can now get them in one Bundle, at a discount price unlocked through the magic of higher-volume printing! Grab yours: www.kickstarter.com/projects/hun...

Looking for a logo for your game/publishing imprint or layout for your next book/zine/board game? Reach out! I want to hear about what you're working on. Contact and Portfolio at: lonearchivist.com

Burnout Recovery by Alicia K. Anderson is the most witchcraft-coded book of modern psychology, and I really appreciate that the PhD author isn't undercutting herself with "it's a bit woo-woo" when talking about the power of myth and ritual in recovery. Highly recommended.

Our bird book campaign is almost over! If you'd like to back it, you still have some time. All physical stretch goals are unlocked (poster, notebook, adventure, flash cards, and a coloring book!) and we are SO CLOSE to having them in one, discounted bundle! www.doubleproficiency.com/so/dfPvFrCR1...

Hey. If you can't support an artist or their crowdfunding campaign, here's two free things that really do help: 1. Just say you like their work. Seriously. Let them know. 2. Share their stuff. It helps, and lets them know that they aren't creating in a vacuum. That does so much good right now. 🤘

Who would have guessed?! The corvids unapologetically won as the second Champion in our charity donation poll, and with that, we'll be donating money to @abcbirds.bsky.social! And there's still 6 days to go! Next stretch goal up: a coloring book to take for your birding trips 🪶

#BirdOfTheDay #Birds #SciArt alt theme #unloved Gulls deserve better 🤷‍♀️

Y'all, we did it! The bird flash cards will be a thing! If you backed the campaign before, you can now add them to your order! 💖