Paul M
@fnscienceman.bsky.social
Science Educator | He/him | 39+ | Opinions posted are my own | bIm
Lmk if you wanna play D&D
Lmk if you wanna play D&D
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Y'all go track down the Poorcraft books. They're great if you're watching your budget. They make great graduation gifts. And they're fun comics, too!
You have just under 🕙12 HOURS LEFT🕐to grab ANY and ALL Iron Circus books for 50% OFF!
It's our BIGGEST sale of the YEAR, and even BRAND NEW titles are up for grabs!
Don't delay! These prices end at 11:59 pm EASTERN TIME!
store.ironcircus.com
It's our BIGGEST sale of the YEAR, and even BRAND NEW titles are up for grabs!
Don't delay! These prices end at 11:59 pm EASTERN TIME!
store.ironcircus.com
November 28, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Y'all go track down the Poorcraft books. They're great if you're watching your budget. They make great graduation gifts. And they're fun comics, too!
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It's my birthday. Please help me celebrate by taking a moment to quietly reflect on creatures that make the world a more interesting place.
November 28, 2025 at 2:18 PM
It's my birthday. Please help me celebrate by taking a moment to quietly reflect on creatures that make the world a more interesting place.
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The United States government is enacting an intentional program of ethnic cleansing
Our government is disappearing people and subjecting their families to unimaginable terror.
November 28, 2025 at 7:25 PM
The United States government is enacting an intentional program of ethnic cleansing
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Games to get right now on creator day (links below):
Rom Com Drama Bomb + the Xmas Bomb supplement for the weird(horny)est holiday session of your life
When the Sun Dies for injecting some cathartic hope in to SAD season
Hanukkah Goblins for the GIGGLIEST game about community, love, and survival
Rom Com Drama Bomb + the Xmas Bomb supplement for the weird(horny)est holiday session of your life
When the Sun Dies for injecting some cathartic hope in to SAD season
Hanukkah Goblins for the GIGGLIEST game about community, love, and survival
November 28, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Games to get right now on creator day (links below):
Rom Com Drama Bomb + the Xmas Bomb supplement for the weird(horny)est holiday session of your life
When the Sun Dies for injecting some cathartic hope in to SAD season
Hanukkah Goblins for the GIGGLIEST game about community, love, and survival
Rom Com Drama Bomb + the Xmas Bomb supplement for the weird(horny)est holiday session of your life
When the Sun Dies for injecting some cathartic hope in to SAD season
Hanukkah Goblins for the GIGGLIEST game about community, love, and survival
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I will never stop shouting about how great Rom Com Drama Bomb is
Games to get right now on creator day (links below):
Rom Com Drama Bomb + the Xmas Bomb supplement for the weird(horny)est holiday session of your life
When the Sun Dies for injecting some cathartic hope in to SAD season
Hanukkah Goblins for the GIGGLIEST game about community, love, and survival
Rom Com Drama Bomb + the Xmas Bomb supplement for the weird(horny)est holiday session of your life
When the Sun Dies for injecting some cathartic hope in to SAD season
Hanukkah Goblins for the GIGGLIEST game about community, love, and survival
November 28, 2025 at 4:44 PM
I will never stop shouting about how great Rom Com Drama Bomb is
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it's @itch.io Creator Day, which means 100% of proceeds go to creators!
in celebration, i'm having a 20% off sale, plus even cheaper if you buy the bundle of all 4 TTRPGs! 🎲 if you've been considering picking up my games, now is a great time!
🔗: itch.io/s/170188/jum...
in celebration, i'm having a 20% off sale, plus even cheaper if you buy the bundle of all 4 TTRPGs! 🎲 if you've been considering picking up my games, now is a great time!
🔗: itch.io/s/170188/jum...
you can find all my games on my @itch.io page: jumpgategames.itch.io
this includes the CRIT Awards Best GMless Game of the Year going rogue 2e, and the @ipr.bsky.social bestselling game I Have the High Ground!
hear about my work by signing up for my email newsletter: jessfrom.online/newsletter
this includes the CRIT Awards Best GMless Game of the Year going rogue 2e, and the @ipr.bsky.social bestselling game I Have the High Ground!
hear about my work by signing up for my email newsletter: jessfrom.online/newsletter
November 28, 2025 at 6:00 PM
it's @itch.io Creator Day, which means 100% of proceeds go to creators!
in celebration, i'm having a 20% off sale, plus even cheaper if you buy the bundle of all 4 TTRPGs! 🎲 if you've been considering picking up my games, now is a great time!
🔗: itch.io/s/170188/jum...
in celebration, i'm having a 20% off sale, plus even cheaper if you buy the bundle of all 4 TTRPGs! 🎲 if you've been considering picking up my games, now is a great time!
🔗: itch.io/s/170188/jum...
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I think about the challenge of an art form that needs to onboard total newbies because it’s a niche.
At the same time, there’s this desire for (different kinds of) complexity & sophistication, but we don’t have a sense of beginner/intermediate/expert even within one style/culture of play.
At the same time, there’s this desire for (different kinds of) complexity & sophistication, but we don’t have a sense of beginner/intermediate/expert even within one style/culture of play.
Are any modern-day RPG books written with the assumption that players and GMs are absolutely already familiar with what RPGs are and generally how to run them?
Just curious. Because much of the text of a well-written RPG rulebook is that kind of new-player introduction — and yet it’s… NOT the game.
Just curious. Because much of the text of a well-written RPG rulebook is that kind of new-player introduction — and yet it’s… NOT the game.
November 28, 2025 at 7:29 PM
I think about the challenge of an art form that needs to onboard total newbies because it’s a niche.
At the same time, there’s this desire for (different kinds of) complexity & sophistication, but we don’t have a sense of beginner/intermediate/expert even within one style/culture of play.
At the same time, there’s this desire for (different kinds of) complexity & sophistication, but we don’t have a sense of beginner/intermediate/expert even within one style/culture of play.
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The Abomination should always be drawn with a (comparatively) tiny sewer gator companion perched on his shoulder.
November 28, 2025 at 7:29 PM
The Abomination should always be drawn with a (comparatively) tiny sewer gator companion perched on his shoulder.
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Free digital version of The Art of KPop Demon Hunters!! theartofkpopdemonhunters.com
November 28, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Free digital version of The Art of KPop Demon Hunters!! theartofkpopdemonhunters.com
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I know why they didn't do it, but that headline would absolutely CRUSH if they'd deployed an adverbial f-bomb immediately prior to the word "obvious."
November 28, 2025 at 6:31 PM
I know why they didn't do it, but that headline would absolutely CRUSH if they'd deployed an adverbial f-bomb immediately prior to the word "obvious."
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I feel you, ancient Mongolian ceramic hedgehog. I feel you.
November 26, 2025 at 10:17 AM
I feel you, ancient Mongolian ceramic hedgehog. I feel you.
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I stopped buying boar's head after that horrific shit dropped about how no one knew who actually ran the company bc it was just like a constant listeria factory
November 27, 2025 at 3:29 AM
I stopped buying boar's head after that horrific shit dropped about how no one knew who actually ran the company bc it was just like a constant listeria factory
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Australia recorded ZERO cases of cervical cancer in women under 25 for the first time since they started tracking the cancer in the 80s.
This is the power of vaccines.
The HPV vaccine is extremely effective at preventing cancer.
Viruses can be oncogenic. Get your vaccines and protect yourself!
This is the power of vaccines.
The HPV vaccine is extremely effective at preventing cancer.
Viruses can be oncogenic. Get your vaccines and protect yourself!
newsGP - Australia set for world-first cervical cancer elimination
Vaccination programs have played a key role, and GPs remain ‘instrumental’ in boosting screening rates to reach the 2035 target.
www1.racgp.org.au
November 27, 2025 at 3:45 AM
Australia recorded ZERO cases of cervical cancer in women under 25 for the first time since they started tracking the cancer in the 80s.
This is the power of vaccines.
The HPV vaccine is extremely effective at preventing cancer.
Viruses can be oncogenic. Get your vaccines and protect yourself!
This is the power of vaccines.
The HPV vaccine is extremely effective at preventing cancer.
Viruses can be oncogenic. Get your vaccines and protect yourself!
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I’m trying to think of a situation where I had less sympathy for someone’s complaints and I’m having a hard time coming up with one
Speaker 'barely holding it together' and 'crushed by his workload': NYT
Speaker 'barely holding it together' and 'crushed by his workload': NYT
House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) made several revealing admissions about the stressful and chaotic nature of his job, according to a recent New York Times report.The Times' Annie Karni wrote in a Wednesday article that Johnson turned what was meant to be an easy interview with a friendly podcast h...
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November 27, 2025 at 4:56 AM
I’m trying to think of a situation where I had less sympathy for someone’s complaints and I’m having a hard time coming up with one
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"a single person of this demographic may have committed a crime, therefore we must punish the entire demographic" is a policy response you may recognize from fascist governments dedicated to ethnic cleansing elsewhere.
November 27, 2025 at 5:52 AM
"a single person of this demographic may have committed a crime, therefore we must punish the entire demographic" is a policy response you may recognize from fascist governments dedicated to ethnic cleansing elsewhere.
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The Brooklyn Citizen
November 19,1918
November 19,1918
November 27, 2025 at 9:03 AM
The Brooklyn Citizen
November 19,1918
November 19,1918
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Happy Thanksgiving, Cincinnati! Fly safely!
November 27, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Happy Thanksgiving, Cincinnati! Fly safely!
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This is truly terrifying. These processes are nerve wracking and have always felt like they could go wrong even if they often went fine (like my husband’s). Now for this to be an actual thing that’s happening is absolutely fucked.
I need everybody to read this and understand what’s going on. These are spouses of US citizens in the country legally. They have entry clearance and green cards, they’ve passed background checks and have no criminal records. ICE is taking them anyway.
Gift link:
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
Gift link:
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
Green Card Interviews End in Handcuffs for Spouses of U.S. Citizens
www.nytimes.com
November 27, 2025 at 12:08 AM
This is truly terrifying. These processes are nerve wracking and have always felt like they could go wrong even if they often went fine (like my husband’s). Now for this to be an actual thing that’s happening is absolutely fucked.
If you see this, post an anime you love
November 27, 2025 at 5:56 AM
If you see this, post an anime you love
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It's been a few days since I've checked in, but I am still #LearningGodot.
I regret to inform all present that I have learned how to code dialog choices.
I regret to inform all present that I have learned how to code dialog choices.
November 26, 2025 at 5:13 AM
It's been a few days since I've checked in, but I am still #LearningGodot.
I regret to inform all present that I have learned how to code dialog choices.
I regret to inform all present that I have learned how to code dialog choices.
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Whenever people claim archaeology isn't inherently political, some questions to ask them:
Who "owns" heritage?
What gets protected and why?
What stories are being told/preserved?
Whom do those stories serve?
Who gets to tell those stories?
Who controls access to the belongings and stories and why?
Who "owns" heritage?
What gets protected and why?
What stories are being told/preserved?
Whom do those stories serve?
Who gets to tell those stories?
Who controls access to the belongings and stories and why?
🏺 Again and again - our discipline has been crucial to genocide. Pretending otherwise is complicity.
Israel, which has obliterated most of Palestine’s archeological and heritage sites, including ancient churches, mosques, and temples, has suddenly discovered an urge to protect one from Palestinian ‘neglect’. It just so happens to be in the West Bank.
www.timesofisrael.com/israel-begin...
www.timesofisrael.com/israel-begin...
November 25, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Whenever people claim archaeology isn't inherently political, some questions to ask them:
Who "owns" heritage?
What gets protected and why?
What stories are being told/preserved?
Whom do those stories serve?
Who gets to tell those stories?
Who controls access to the belongings and stories and why?
Who "owns" heritage?
What gets protected and why?
What stories are being told/preserved?
Whom do those stories serve?
Who gets to tell those stories?
Who controls access to the belongings and stories and why?
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hell yeah I'm double-dipping
also I will never *not* find it funny that Yusuke Oda actually gets cover space for a whole-series collection
also I will never *not* find it funny that Yusuke Oda actually gets cover space for a whole-series collection
Hajime no Ippo: The Fighting is a series beloved for its action, drama, & characters as they make their way through the boxing ring & life with fighting spirit!
store.crunchyroll.com/products/haj...
store.crunchyroll.com/products/haj...
November 25, 2025 at 8:37 PM
hell yeah I'm double-dipping
also I will never *not* find it funny that Yusuke Oda actually gets cover space for a whole-series collection
also I will never *not* find it funny that Yusuke Oda actually gets cover space for a whole-series collection
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I reject the AI booster insistence that you must understand any and everything about the tech to make even the tiniest critique, if they can be vibe coders I can be a vibe hater
November 26, 2025 at 12:33 PM
I reject the AI booster insistence that you must understand any and everything about the tech to make even the tiniest critique, if they can be vibe coders I can be a vibe hater
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Once in a while my brain reminds me that a Star Trek movie was based on the premise of "alien probe rolls up to Earth like, 'I swear to God, if you dumbasses have managed to kill all the whales since I was here last, I'm gonna ruin your whole gottdang day.'" And we were like, yup, that's good stuff.
November 25, 2025 at 5:45 AM
Once in a while my brain reminds me that a Star Trek movie was based on the premise of "alien probe rolls up to Earth like, 'I swear to God, if you dumbasses have managed to kill all the whales since I was here last, I'm gonna ruin your whole gottdang day.'" And we were like, yup, that's good stuff.