For 16.7 million, you can give every single child aged under five in the state of Michigan a free book a month for a year under Dolly Parton's Imagination Library program. And Trump is using this money to purchase weapons that specifically don't leave visible torture marks on victims:

Ben Collins@bencollins.bsky.social · 4d ago

ICE approved the shock gloves for the shock troops.

Squadron Strike teaching game posted on our Discord server! Come learn to fly rocket ships in 3D as the Martian War transitions to the Galilean moons! Newton's Cradle is a low-complexity Squadron Strike setting with accurate fuel and vector mechanics! Read more here: Newbies explicitly welcome!

Squadron Strike: Newton’s Cradle preview — A fully 3D flight/combat sim for your tabletop

Physics? In my tabletop space fighter? It's more likely than you think.

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Oh shit.. via writer Larry Hama on Facebook.

Hi Internet! I'm Drew and THIS IS MY FACE. If this GIF has ever brought you joy in the past, I humbly ask you to consider making a donation to the National MS Society. It would mean a lot to me and to those I know affected by the disease! Donate at blinkingguy.com

OK, we've got the re-shuffled/reorganized web shop up and running! We think. We've got the Squadron Strike 3e PDF bundle and the 3e Upgrade kit up: PDF Bundle: www.adastragames.com/products/p/s... Upgrade Kit: www.adastragames.com/products/p/s...

Squadron Strike: 3e (PDF Bundle) — Ad Astra Games

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When we have fires in the US, Canada sent help. When Canada has fires, Trump threatens them with tariffs. What an asshole.

MeidasTouch@meidastouch.com · 2mo ago

Trump says he is going to increase tariffs on Canada due to the wildfires

Hey guys, i apologize to push but yesterday's ER trip ate about $30 of my transportation fund that I really need. I know things are tight for everyone so Im sorry for always asking for more. I have a diagnosis now so im hoping to see about reapplying for assistance but that's sadly gonna take time

c.e. chant/hades 💀🐊 💬 too many comics@portaltohades.bsky.social · last wk.

Apologies for a new qrp already but here's an update on the situation at hand, after seeing a few out of the handful of doctors I have to see in the next two weeks alone ive been prescribed necessary expensive medications that my insurance doesn't cover, 2 types of PT, & essentially it's all...a lot

US Navy admits it has abandoned Bahrain port base due to attacks by Iran…despite their military being obliterated by “Hooch” Hegseth! www.stripes.com/branches/nav...

Navy families evacuated from Bahrain face ‘uncharted territory’ amid bureaucratic confusion

The evacuation has left families in limbo and forced military officials to improvise solutions for support programs.

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As a test case for fixing the Weapon XML tab, Ken toodled around with making some Trek ships on the "SI 13 is a Huge Ship" scale. Can't show the SSDs just yet, but...

I was in the ER last night, so yeah Can I interest any of you in some fantasy and/or poetry books? I'm not averse to pity donations either

Orpheus "Teige" Wren 🏳️‍⚧️@probablyacryptid.bsky.social · 2w ago

Can I interest any of you in supporting a trans and disabled indie author and musician while he's recovering from a brain bleed that sprained his entire body and a broken wrist? 2/3 years into recovery respectively and uh I've made significant progress given I started halfway in the grave I guess 💀

Oh no. Rest in peace, Dave Lanphear, and deepest condolences to his loved ones.

Pat Brosseau@droog811.bsky.social · last wk.

R.I.P., fellow letterer Dave Lanphear. First noticed his work when he was the on staff letterer at Crossgen. He had an elegant look & style to his work which blended well with their books. Spoke with him a few times over the phone and via email and always enjoyed talking with him. Gone way too soon.

Hey @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social @mayor.nyc.gov this seems like it might be up your alley, what do you reckon

Shecky@shecky.bsky.social · 3w ago

FRIENDS IN THE NYC AREA: Okay, this is a tough one, but please bear with me. My wife's lifelong friend has stage 4 pancreatic cancer and is desperately seeking a home for his two cats when that time comes. The elder, Wally, is something like 13 years old and DELIGHTFULLY dim. The younger, Doris,

Warren Spector will finally have the time to work on GURPS: Toon! (Congrats to Warren for being able to leave on his own terms...)

Warren Spector Walks Away From Games After a Career of 44 Years, Closing the Book on the Immersive Sim Godfather

Deus Ex creator Warren Spector, the godfather of the immersive sim genre, has announced his retirement after 44 years in the games industry.

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Just put together the SqSt 3e bundle. It should be up for sales on Wargame Vault and the Ad Astra Games website on Friday evening! Possibly tomorrow if the Ad Astra Games webshop re-org gets done in time. We're about two product categories to go!

Protect your children's future. Teach them to fly spaceships using their own brains with Attach Vector: Tactical!

Henry Mance@henrymance.ft.com · 2w ago

Woah.

Remembered I drew a realistic warrior woman at one point

𝔾𝕆ℝ𝔸ℕ@gorangligovic.bsky.social · last mo.

bloody cheesecake

Spent the weekend cleaning out INDIRECT functions from the Spreadsheet of Doom. Four (internal) versions ago, before the new export tab, we had 148,800 INDIRECT functions and ~3,000 OFFSETS. We're down to 41,148 INDIRECTS and about 40 OFFSETS. Responsiveness is noticeably improved.

One of the rules that we get asked "Why the heck is this here?" in Squadron Strike are the Endurance depletion and Material Condition rules. This is why. The Ford had 8 months. The Lincoln is at 9. The Washington is at 3. Normal deployments are 6 months with underway replenishments.

MeidasTouch@meidastouch.com · 2w ago

🚨EXCLUSIVE: Military families and service members are now describing horrific conditions across MULTIPLE ships: human waste flooding bathrooms, virtually no food, water or soap, months without port calls, exhausted crews, and no end in sight. This crisis is far bigger than just the Lincoln.

Now through August 21, it's our ten year anniversary sale!

there was a typo in the earlier poster so I'm just sharing again lmao

dee 方传嫣@hellenus.bsky.social · 3w ago

very excited to be hosting a panel with Malaysian TTRPG, video game, and board game creatives on the 22nd August at Tsutaya Bukit Jalil! also I guess now is the time to say I went back to school to do a PhD in video games 🫠

Flock is rolling out updates to address reports of cops across the country abusing its tools to stalk ex-romantic partners. The ACLU released an analysis of the changes, which it says appear “more focused on addressing a perceived PR problem than the significant harms its products create.”

Flock CEO: ‘We got this one wrong’

Garrett Langley has changed his mind on the company’s policy approach.

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Trying to kill the part of myself that feels embarrassed for asking, but I'm between freelance payments right now and really hurting for money if anyone has interest in buying some sweet threads www.fibonaccideathspiral.com or prints www.inprnt.com/gallery/velv...

Had occasion to remember this: SFB speed 1 is c. One hex is 10,000 km. Ergo, one SFB turn is 1/30th of a second as viewed from the Einsteinian universe. Which means that one impulse is 1/30 * 1/32 = 1/960th of a second. It's close enough to a millisecond that we can call them equal.

Huh. Wonder how many copies of Attack Vector: Tactical and follow ons they'll need for that wargaming requirement.

Wargaming Weekly@wargamingweekly.bsky.social · 3w ago

"A bipartisan group of lawmakers wants to bolster the Space Force’s ability to achieve space superiority by expanding its training, wargaming and simulation efforts."

Hey comics people, The Dark Horse union needs your support right now. Senior editors do more work than most of you can possibly imagine and they deserve to be apart of the union. Some of them have been waiting a long time for this. Stand with them! Please sign and share this petition!

Jimmy Presler 🐴@jimmypresler.bsky.social · 4w ago

Sign this petition to show your support for keeping Senior Editors in the Dark Horse Workers Union. actionnetwork.org/petitions/dh...

Nothing quite like having a page layout logjam break apart and cause a dozen pages to fall into place exactly right.

GenCon exhibit hall before the doors open

Design once, six exports! When @witty-user.bsky.social gets around to making a pretty output for Fleet Ops, and makes an HTML export for it, we'll add it to the output tab... Other than a quadratic equation throwing a Starmada Hull Size of 0 for a DN needing an error-bound...this might be done!

also i write articles on docseuss.medium.com like this story about how execs fuck things up because they can't read data, much like will docseuss.medium.com/the-biggest-...

the biggest threat facing your team, whether you’re a game developer or a tech founder or a CEO, is…

If you are running a business, your goal, generally, is to make money. A lot of people go to business school to learn how to do it, and…

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A really rather unsettling cover - featuring the Blue Knight -by Alex Ross for 2005’s Astro City: The Dark Age #2.