Greg Gates Jr

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Educator on a family visa in Indonesia. That means I have waaaaay too much time for DnD silliness. A new DM, who’s excited to introduce people to TTRPGs & cultivate inclusive positive safe spaces for all people. Currently running 5 free sessions a week! DnD account over on @GMgreg 
Advocate and Ally around:
Social, Financial, & Environmental Justice & Equity
Antiracism
BIPOC rights
AAPI rights
Native rights 
LGBTQplus rights
Differently Abled rights
Most other online places@greggatesjr
Real life place right nowSurabaya, Indonesia
Place I’m often at in my headWildemount, Exandria

Update from the next #AfterSchool #DnD Club session:

Me: Again, you or your characters may NOT start a cult.

Student: sighs… ok…

Other student: whispers… I’d join your cult.

#DnD5e #ttrpg

Albertsons bought Safeway. Now Kroger is buying Albertons.

Combined they would control ~22% of the US grocery market, with revenue over $200B.

Add Walmart, these brands would control 70% of the grocery market in 167 cities across the country.

This is why antitrust matters.

If your activism doesn’t include disabled people, then it’s eugenics.

Let's stop treating vaguely medieval Europe as a neutral or default setting. Call your European fantasy European. If you want it to be generic examine that and step a little bit away from the assumptions layered in the paneuropean vaguely white base.

What does that mean for your world? I don't know! That's the exciting bit!

#DecolonizeFantasy

Asked the new #MachineLearning #ChatBot, ChatGPT to write a short witty post about the internet, and this is the best it did.

To be fair, while hitting refresh over and over, I didn’t come up with anything better, and now I also feel called out.
#chatGPT

Running a new after-school #DnD Club & making Level 1 characters with #students:
Me to Student making a Warlock: Choose 2 skills that you want to be proficient in. I’ll be back.
Also Me: Goes to check in on others & comes back 2 minutes later.
Student, looks up: So… In DnD… Can I start a cult?
Also Also Me: Technically yes, but also DEFINITELY NO. If you go home & tell parents that you started a cult in the #afterschool program, this will be the shortest DND club ever.
#DnD5e #ttrpg #dndclub

Please do not touch the art.

Boogie Down Bar, #Yogyakarta #Indonesia

#MusicScene #Yogya #Jogja #Jogjakarta #Java #LocalCulture
(picture repost from Tamtomo Hadikusumo)

Hi. It would help me a lot if I could get a HEAP of responses to this poll. The goal is to get a decent enough sample so results are predictive of the wider user-base right now. I dislike asking for boosts but this is SCIENCE... or something. (Thanks.)

How do you use Mastodon MOST of the time?

On a phone, or other touch screen device?

OR

On a device with a keyboard like a laptop or desktop computer?

(If it's half and half choose the middle option.)

I mostly use mobile/tablet
60.3%
It's within a margin of error of an even split
19.2%
I mostly use desktop/laptop
19.9%
don't want to vote, but want to see poll results
0.7%
Poll ended at .
Oof, this hit me in the chest when I saw it, so am passing it on.
adulthood means hurting your back when you relax incorrectly