Michael Raichelson @mraichelson@tabletop.social

This is a helpful guide someone linked me to in a non-boostable reply https://www.autistichoya.com/p/ableist-words-and-terms-to-avoid.html

It's funny how only the people that don't care about reducing harm in online spaces are always frothing about ECHO CHAMBERS.

If keeping abusers, racists, sexists, etc in the conversation counts as *diversity* to you, then you're probably one of them, champ.

It is a very low bar to ask common respect and decency in our exchanges.

If you feel CENSORED by that, you're just an asshole.

It's okay to go to bed early.

@Canageek As a "gifted and talented" child who was taught to expect to be "naturally" good at things, learning that everything is a skill was actually kind of liberating

now I can say I'm not good at a thing because I don't want to work on it

In Blade Runner we were promised giant unethical tech companies ruining everything, instead we got giant unethical tech companies ruining everything.

The Renaissance Troll: Deliberate Purchasing of #Miniatures
https://therenaissancetroll.blogspot.com/2019/10/deliberate-purchasing.html

Hey tabletop! I'm messing with an idea. It's a service called "Multi User Story Engine", or MUSE!

It's meant to help people make stories together!

You can see my notes on the idea here
https://gist.github.com/kinostl/67b2fda079c373b3fe569632aea0bb11

I'm starting it off purely as telnet, but looking into ways to make it work with a web interface and possibly federalized programs.

You can see my progress and source code here. It's MIT license so feel free to fork it for your own purposes.
https://github.com/kinostl/muse/

Gnomes: Little men born of earth. They can only see clearly in darkness. Ride moles and love arts and crafts.
Goblins: Despicable little things with features of all kinds. They are obviously trying to curse you. Yes, they are selling something. No, they won't go away.
Elves: Beautiful, courtly, otherworldly. There is something up with elves, something strange, everyone can tell.
Birds: Diverse and flighty, thin boned. They've been convinced they should try to be real people, whatever that means

It would seem that Ravelry is getting into the trenches with us and fighting white supremacists on their site.

I think we should all go and cheer them on over on Twitter \o/

https://twitter.com/ravelry/status/1142766608680660992

They are having to deal with the same Free Speech advocates as we at #Tusky did. But they are taking it in stride 🎉

The Crossroads of RPG Design.