Best alternate pastas, ranked:

  • spaghetti squash
  • hearts of palm
  • zucchini

(Except that the palm pasta from Aldi is super convenient)

šŸ”— via Alexander Clapp in the Guardian, excerpted from Waste Wars.

But a lot of the plastic that headed to south-eastern Turkey was too dirty to convert into a bathmat or incinerate as fuel. Its fate would be that of the garbage izzettin Akman observed getting set alight on the edge of his farm: to get covertly dumped somewhere in the countryside and spend the next tens of thousands of years breaking down into billions of minuscule plastic pieces that would enter the sea and devastate croplands.

Urgent request from the White River Alliance. (Bill Watch)

šŸŽ² Since Iā€™m hosting a micro-con this weekend I had to get out the shirts. #ttrpg

Left: The Real Thing Right: Monster Burner Not pictured: Eclipse Phase faction shirt

Two black t-shirts are laid out on a wooden surface, one with a hand design and the other with a detailed illustration.

šŸ“‘ via @ayjay

"Try, in every way we can think of, to increase the number of situations in our lives in which we are neither dehumanized by an omnipotent state nor engaged in ceaseless competition with one another in an omnipotent marketplace." (ayjay, Anarchism as a Spiritual Discipline)

What! Lucas Stabilizer gets first stadium racing win at Lucas Oil Stadium.

Who could have predicted that! šŸ˜…

(I never thought I would go to Monster Jam but when your nibbling wants to go, you go!)

ā˜€ļø It’s supposed to reach 81F today!

šŸŽ¶ I know I’ve mentioned this before, but you can see exactly where they kill the sun.

Spiritbox - Sun Killer. Arrow points to a spot in the track where music goes from quiet to loud.
  1. First #ttrpg you ever played? AD&D
  2. First you ever ran? WEG Star Wars
  3. Played the most? Burning Wheel
  4. Run the most? Burning Wheel
  5. Favorite? whatever is in front of us
  6. Most recently played? Legend of the Five Rings 5th ed.
  7. Most recently run? Whitehack 4th ed.

šŸŽ² via @juddthelibrarian.bsky.social

šŸ“š after months of renovation, my neighborhood library is back open. Celebrating by working there today.