> The Administration has moved from identifying transgender people as a threat to the family and to the nation’s military prowess to claiming that transgender people constitute a cosmic threat to the spiritual health of the nation and the greatest direct threat to U.S. national security in the world. Given these ideological developments, especially coupled with the increasingly hostile and draconian legislation against trans identities, the Lemkin Institute believes that the United States is squarely within the early to middle stages of a genocidal process against trans people, the goal of which is to completely erase transgender people not only from public life but also from existence in the U.S. and globally.
Anonymous
The Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention releases its third red flag alert warning about genocide of trans people in the US https://www.lemkininstitute.com/red-flag-alerts/red-flag-alert---anti-trans-genocide-in-the-usa---%233
I think I need more coffee, I just wrote this code:
line=line.rstrip(line)
@foone Mich more efficient than an empty string literal
@[email protected] awoos in your dataset
@SiteRelEnby I've got meows in my dataset but no awoos.
#ROMANIA ALLOWS U.S. ACCESS TO ITS #AIRBASES: Romanian President Nicusor Dan convened the country’s defence council, which let the U.S. aircraft use its Mihail Kogalniceanu air base to carry out operations in Iran. https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/romanian-review-us-request-use-local-air-base-iran-operations-2026-03-11/
@timkmak
I hope Romania gets something in return.
"A Body Swayed By Music," from Challenge #37, is a kind of upper-medium trust adventure, unremarkable in those terms.
But it's worth noting because it's an uncommon example of a stop-the-ritual scenario that doesn't rely on magic or Cthulhu stuff, nor on the "ritual" being something like an execution or building demolition. It's a proper stop-the-ritual adventure for Traveller.
That's just kind of neat. 😊
Bigotry and xenophobia are pillars of fascism. Outrage should be a pillar of journalism, but reaction to Ogles and Fine has been muffled in media.
Mike Johnson refuses to condemn anti-Muslim comments by Republican lawmakers
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/mar/10/mike-johnson-anti-muslim-comments
radians per Scoville
last night i learned that a lot of clay figures (especially larger ones) start with a wire and/or foil armature for support, and some artists use it like a sketch, so i figure that's something that would be good to practice as well. turns out you can just doodle with wire and it's a lot of fun.
@aeva is this how you reinvent zbrush?
12 March 1939 | A French Jewish boy, Roger Portigheis, was born in Nice.
He arrived at #Auschwitz on 20 December 1943 in a transport of 850 Jews deported from Drancy. He was among 505 people murdered in a gas chamber after the selection.
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▶ A short video showing the ruins of gas chamber and crematorium III: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/ipQmBPAlJQ8
@auschwitzmuseum
Roger Portigheis 🕯️
Just made a new zotero collection called Actually Interesting AI Work 😂
@grimalkina "actually useful", "actually ethical", ...
It was such a joy and an honour to be featured in the first ever issue of Inherent Vice, a queer heritage zine aimed at conservators, archivists, and collections care folk.
I've read every morsel of this publication now and I highly recommend it to any GLAM professional out there. 🌈
Go get yours here: https://thecommonpress.shop/products/inherent-vice-queer-history-is-everyones-history-issue-1
#conservators #QueerHistory #conservation #QueerHeritage #CollectionsCare #preservation #archivists #lgbtq #heritage #history #InherentVice #zine
As part of my ongoing High-Trust Trad timeline project, I'm about to mine a vein I've been zeroing in on for a while: CHALLENGE, the once and future JTAS.
While Traveller itself has been slim pickings for HTT (which suprises me) the cultures of military sci-fi RPGs more generally has been fruitful (which, also, surprises me).
So I'm hopeful, but prepared to be surprised all over again. 😅 Time to study every single scenario in CHALLENGE issues #25 to #77.
Update on this leg of the #AdventureDesign studies:
Issue #37 was a random lazy pick for the cover graphic, above, just because it came up easily with an image search, but as it happens, it's been a heck of an issue.
"Tyger, Tyger, Burning Bright" is a crackerjack bit of 80s-style HTT.
"A Body Swayed By Music," same issue, is a pretty good MTT consolation.
There's also a Star Wars adventure, same issue, that's Low-Trust AF but still looks fun.
Meaty issue for roleplayers!
@PizzaDemon IT WAS ALL A DREAM
@codinghorror even worse
@fontes looks fantastic :O
Because I have poor self control, I made a thing to avoid looking at those increasingly terrible ACM Digital Library pages. Introducing Analog Library: https://al.radbox.org
@adrian wow, it didn't ask me to prove I was a human before being allowed to read an AI summary
Because I have poor self control, I made a thing to avoid looking at those increasingly terrible ACM Digital Library pages. Introducing Analog Library: https://al.radbox.org
Conversely, I look at a lot of OSR stuff and I a) don't think the worlds are more interesting than books, and b) I don't think they're as interesting as those old D&D modules were at the time.
A lot of OSR modules have settings that feel self-consciously derivative while also being so optimised for play that they don't feel real and so are not evocative for me, but then I know that I do tend to run worlds rather than games and OSR stuff is very gamey.
@Taskerland The stuff I love is very gamey but it's very in-character-diegetic-gamey, which is something the OSR never seems interested in (and in fact seems overtly suspicious of).
@sbszine I struggle with gonzo. If a world doesn't make sense then I don't get a feel for it and I don't feel able to improvise around the themes/underlying logic.
@Taskerland @sbszine I can't handle gonzo when it has nothing to say. Like, gonzo for gonzo's sake just feels like a muddle of dreamlike vibes, there's nowhere to plant my feet.
Gonzo with a point, I can sink my teeth into, because the point becomes the gravitational core.
@cobalt123 It's possible. I don't have any context - I assume she recently moved to the area and I haven't had a conversation with her