FORGED Not Born

@forgednotborn.bsky.social

Indie game designer, platinum-selling TTRPG creator, & fascist-punching military veteran. SCIF-bound by day, I provide RPG stories & tips, sage advice on sages & geeky terrain projects the rest of my time. Political views are socialist & spicy. He/Him

This mountain is bigger than a cookie. This giraffe is taller than the world's tallest man. This car carries more than the strongest toddler. This piece of steel is stronger than skin. This phone is smaller than your house. This dildo is more useful than the writer of this article.

NBC News@nbcnews.com · last wk.

A Chinese humanoid robot outran Usain Bolt’s 100-meter sprint world record on the opening day of the World Humanoid Robot Games in Beijing, posting a time of 9.39 seconds — 0.19 faster than Bolt’s pace in 2009.

Optimist: The cup is half full Pessimist: The cup is half empty HUMINT Analyst: Our level of confidence in assessing the current contents of the cup is low. The source is a first-time reporter, whose reliability is unverified. Source is aware they may be influencing US Government decisions.

Matthew Kirschenbaum@mkirschenbaum.bsky.social · 2w ago

Optimist: The cup is half full Pessimist: The cup is half empty Critical AI guy in my mentions: The cup is just autocomplete on steroids and doesn’t really “know” or “understand” anything about the beverage it contains

Democrats in Congress should publicly post the cost of tearing down the ballroom and the arch. They need to bring up this price tag every time they speak, and treat it as fait accompli that they WILL HAVE TO BE TORN DOWN. No caveats, no middle-of-the-road pondering, but THIS WILL HAPPEN.

The candidate who vows to abolish ICE, break DHS into component parts, make prediction markets illegal, regulate/nationalize crypto & GenAI, tax oligarchs, end Citizens United, create single-payer healthcare, create tenable UBI, & break up monopolies is doing the bare minimum to earn our votes.

If Hasbro was serious about making REAL money they should put the use of dark vision, the ability to play Tieflings, and players being allowed to say "it's what my character would do" behind a subscription wall. Make it like using heated seats in a BMW!

ICE-satzgruppen agent training photo, 2026. As you can see, the agents pictured here are clearly fearing for their safety and definitely didn't have any domestic violence charges pop up during their background checks.

I think the backlash to casting choices in the new Odyssey movie are just hurtful, at this point. Honestly, who else could have epitomized the "ο πολύχρονος Οδυσσέας με κοντό στέλεχος, άνθρωπος με μεγάλη ταχύτητα" Odysseus as well as this guy?

Christopher Nolan petting Jimothy the Raccoon on the set of The Odyssey. 

Terrible photoshop by me because fuck AI, that's why.

Some looked up to the mountain in fear, others sheltered in their homes, holding their children. He had awoken, his fires once again lit. Smaug, the doom of Erebor was now risen, and soon fire and ash would come to the people of Dale... Shit... I mean Vulcan. And its Catania, not Dale.

An eruption of Mount Etna, where the flowing lava resembles a large red bird or dragon. The photo is taken at night.

I know I can get negative sometimes, & fixate on all the bad in the world. But then I take a pause & remember what extraordinary times we live in, & it always cheers me up. One day, future historians will write of the remarkable rise of the Islamic Republic of Japan during the summer of 2026.