Mastodawn

Sno Jun 25, 2023

Qasim Rashid, Esq.Jun 24, 2023

GOP: We are pro-life!

So—free pre-natal care?

GOP: No

Extend child tax credit?

GOP: No

Paid family leave?

GOP: No

Universal pre-K?

GOP: No
Universal healthcare?

GOP: No

Gun reform?

GOP: No

How exactly are you pro-life?🤔

GOP: Ban reproductive health access & increase women’s death.

Sno Feb 18, 2023

Jeff Jarvis Feb 18, 2023

In a rare moment of media covering itself, here's the lead story on The Guardian right now (while everybody is *at last* covering the venality of Fox News, too)...
Nearly 1,000 contributors protest New York Times’ coverage of trans people
[I signed the letter, too]
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/feb/17/new-york-times-contributors-open-letter-protest-anti-trans-coverage?CMP=share_btn_tw

Nearly 1,000 contributors protest New York Times’ coverage of trans people

The letter – also signed by thousands of subscribers – says the paper’s reporting has been used in support of anti-trans legislation

The Guardian

Sno Feb 18, 2023

Taylor Lorenz Feb 18, 2023

He’s treating user security like a marketing tactic https://www.wired.com/story/twitter-sms-2fa-twitter-blue/

Twitter’s Two-Factor Authentication Change ‘Doesn't Make Sense’

The company will soon require users to pay for a Twitter Blue subscription to get sign-in codes via SMS. Security experts are baffled.

WIRED

Sno Jan 23, 2023

Aaron Ross Powell ☸️Jan 23, 2023

I’m very much looking forward to @Unicorn_Opti’s Subversion #ttrpg. I’m a huge fan of the early #Shadowrun setting, and so it’s cool to see a game that runs with a similar fantasy + cyberpunk, but with a better system (basically any system is better than Shadowrun’s), and a greater focus on characters as members of revolutionary communities and themes of #anarchist solidarity, and less mercs buying guns to do missions for the man. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/fraggingunicorns/subversion

Coming soon: Subversion

A cyberfantasy RPG set in Neo Babylon

Kickstarter

Sno Jan 19, 2023

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Mayor Pants Jan 19, 2023

@rbreich It's that Lee Atwater outed them in the 80s and folks seem to have forgotten. I can't hear the word "cuts" without hearing the n-word.

For anyone uninitiated: https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/exclusive-lee-atwaters-infamous-1981-interview-southern-strategy/

Exclusive: Lee Atwater’s Infamous 1981 Interview on the Southern Strategy

The forty-two-minute recording, acquired by James Carter IV, confirms Atwater’s incendiary remarks and places them in context.

The Nation

Sno Jan 15, 2023

Sue Stone Jan 15, 2023

How to Destroy a Dungeons and Dragons Community - Thomas Ott dot IO
https://thomasott.io/dungeons-dragons-community/ #Gaming #WOTC #DnD #OpenDnD #TTRPG

How to Implode a Dungeons and Dragons Community - Thomas Ott dot IO

I played Dungeons and Dragons when I was a teenager and loved every minute of it. Playing these games is a low-cost and fun way to spend an evening with friends.

Thomas Ott dot IO - Babies and dogs love me

Sno Jan 13, 2023

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Trojan Duck Jan 13, 2023

@cnnbrk Wow, that'll take at least a week to fundraise. I'm sure they will learn their lesson from this.

Sno Jan 10, 2023

Derek Pennycuff Jan 10, 2023

It'd be a great time to take a closer look at non #WotC non #ogl #ttrpg settings and systems.

My preferred system is Savage Worlds, from @peginc

https://peginc.com/savage-settings/savage-worlds/

It's got plenty of great first party and third party settings. And home brews & conversions are a breeze.

Sno Dec 28, 2022

Ken Armstrong Dec 28, 2022

Incredible. On Facebook, a former cop espouses “misogynistic, transphobic, Islamophobic and anti-immigrant” views. He’s had posts flagged as false; at least twice he’s been banned from posting. But police agencies across the country can’t get enough of him and his absurd training, building criminal cases on the junk science he relentlessly touts.
by Brett Murphy for @ProPublica
https://www.propublica.org/article/911-call-analysis-fbi-police-courts

They Called 911 for Help. Police and Prosecutors Used a New Junk Science to Decide They Were Liars.

Tracing the fallacy of 911 call analysis through the justice system, from Quantico to the courtroom.

ProPublica

Sno Dec 5, 2022

Shawn Smith Peirce Dec 5, 2022

Top Republicans stay silent on Trump’s call to terminate the Constitution
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/top-republicans-stay-silent-trumps-call-terminate-constitution-rcna60019

Top Republicans stay silent on Trump’s call to terminate the Constitution

Top Republicans have stayed silent as the White House strongly criticized former President Donald Trump for suggesting that the Constitution be terminated in

NBC News