If you’re feeling anxious about an upcoming event just keep in mind that every decade there is a 1% chance a cosmic gamma ray burst will completely destroy our technological civilization

Building waterfalls in Pokopia is my current happy place. My cat likes to help sometimes. Also, yes, insomnia. But I think ye olde brain is finally spinning down.

The Dungeons & Dragons and Magic: The Gathering teams are unionizing! You can sign here to show your support: actionnetwork.org/forms/uwotcp...

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The Dungeons & Dragons team and Studio X (Magic: The Gathering; Duel Masters) are forming a union! We are joining the ranks of United Wizards of the Coast - CWA (UWOTC-CWA) and following in the fo...

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I pretty much ended my workday and fell into bed to sleep right after. Woke up, will hydrate, then go right back to sleep. The meatsuit, she was vastly unhappy yesterday and this morning.

And it was already a rough week. Sir Patrick Stewart, you will be missed. You brought so much light to this world.

This is me, with migraine-induced insomnia, waiting for my med to put me to sleep. It seems to have abated the pain already. Thank goodness. And my vision is back to normal. This was the worst migraine I’ve had in years now.

Sometimes I wonder if older meds like Benadryl were ever tested on people who experience hormonal cycles. Because that stuff is like taking Nodoze for me. Plus it makes my skin feel like I have a million bees buzzing under it. (That experience was so bad I never took it again.)

Another tip: Starting the day with protein and waiting an hour or so before carb intake can help you avoid the 2-4pm nap slump. I recommend a full glass of water to go with that before you imbibe caffeine. This has worked wonders for me on normal workload days and weekend days.

That tip thing. Here’s one of mine: Try not to cry if you have a migraine. The pain goes up about 3 points on a 10-point scale.

When your date doesn’t match his picture from the app

Skionar@skionar.bsky.social · 5d ago

Goodnight

Here’s my favorite breathing exercise, and it requires a willing cat. Breathe in while slowly stroking a cat from head to tail base. Breathe out while slowly stroking a cat from head to tail base. Adjust stroke length for max cat happiness. I don’t include the tail. Most cats aren’t fans of that.

Cats are still awesome.

I’m mostly loving doing the standing desk thing all day. I have a comfy standing spot, too. Made it extra cushiony. I do need to work on stretching more frequently.

I’m half tempted to re-sub to Ancestry again over winter break. I seem to have updated results that make me nearly 1/3 Finn, plus I can add Poland, Hungary, and Carpathian Basin to my tiny percentages. (I continue to have a huge chunk of Western Europe and a LOT of the UK mixed in.)

Writing tie-ins is *a real fucking skill* and anyone who sneers at the people who do it can go piss up a rope. You think it's easy to write an entire novel to very specific order on an almost impossibly tight deadline? And have it be satisfying to read? Motherfucker, *you* try it. See how you do.

Kate Tell-Tale Heartfield@kateheartfield.com · 2w ago

There is a doofus currently arguing here that no "creative talent" would choose to write tie-ins, and since I just did a panel this weekend on why creative talents choose to write IP, here are a few reasons. Non-financial reasons, for fun and because frankly it usually doesn't pay that well.

When you're working to get chapters to your editor but someone decides that you're done typing for the day (I did some more typing anyway, because clearly I am a monster)

This week is proving to be a hard week for good sleep hygiene. Maybe tomorrow night.

#ColorADay #PinkMon #Inverts 🐝

Dark-veined longhorn bee (Melissodes trinodis) on wild goldenrod (Solidago) Mathews County, Virginia 10-15-26 Buried in autumnal pollen. #ColorADay #yellowThu #InsectThursday #eck #macro #nature #yellow #threeWordGenre #art #macroPhotography #native #bees #pollinators #bugsky

Goddamn. It's real bleak when you see all the games industry layoffs listed out layoffs.asgc.gg

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Live tracker of layoffs across the games industry, with 2022–2026 historical data, the latest 2026 forecast, regional breakdowns, and concentration analysis.

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I feel like I went to sleep last night with green trees outside, and now they're orange.

I'm kind of sad. I'm seeing more and more images here with no alt tags in some of my critter feeds. I like to share birbs and whatnot, but with no alt tag, I don't.

@atlanticbirding.bsky.social set today’s alt #BirdOfTheDay theme to #Colourful; any bird with 3 or more colours. So how about this Gray-Headed Swamphen, which I think covers the full color spectrum. 🪶🌈

Thanks to @ryanfm.bsky.social for finding this Rufous Hummingbird at Wave Hill in the Bronx. The first documented sighting of this species in the county since 1993! 🪶

The perfect Borb doesn't exis-- *ded* 🏈 Pacific Wren - the tail tho...!! #birds #becurious

can i issue a challenge to all my game dev followers. when you feel despair (feel your grief first, don't swallow it), can you close your eyes and ask yourself: 1) what is one actionable, achievable step i can take towards a better industry? 2) how do i achieve this?

I'm not gonna be on LinkedIn again for awhile. No matter where you are in the industry at the moment, it's just painful. To varying degrees based on where you are, yes, but the baseline is just pain and sorrow. Painful for players, too, because beloved franchises are being negatively impacted.

Noooooo! www.ign.com/articles/bio...

BioWare Shutting Down, Next Mass Effect Canceled

BioWare is shutting down and the next Mass Effect game is canceled, according to a new report.

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Definitely need to work on loosening up my quads. It will be a process.

Been awhile since I did standing desk work, so I'm going back to it more consistently. As in, I spent today standing at my standing desk, then stretching as needed. I think my hydration frequency went up as a result, which is good.