Aaron Helton

At the beginning of the year I made myself a goal of publishing a TTRPG adventure, which I've never done before. After making a last push on writing, then learning layout and making my own art, here's the result! Dead I Am the Rat: Play as rat zombies to defeat the cat lord! #mausritter #osr

Wow, this is beautifully done. Encourage library & archive folks to take 20 minutes to explore this story and learn more about Indigenous cultural heritage—there's a lot here that's new to me! 📚

You can unravel my L.L. Bean Fair Isle Cardigan from my globally warmed dead body.

Queer histories are often preserved in places built by and for communities themselves. Writer and artist Brooke Palmieri reflects on the people who save these traces and why preserving what might disappear matters. 📚 Read the essay in Vanishing Culture: archive.org/details/vani... 🧵

A thread-of-threads on my research into the ruined places of the world, the abandoned ruins of modernity, interesting historical knowledge I've come across, and strange parts of history I find fascinating.

Any company or organization with any commitment to climate goals should reckon with this, but instead they're all marching to the AI drumbeat.

Waxcaps aplenty in today's @theguardian.com country diary by Tim Earl. #countrydiary #naturewriting

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Me estoy aventando 20 paginas al dia para el primer boceto de traducción para #KOKOTÖNA en español, y creo que (despues de la introducción del libro) este es el texto mas importante para reforzar el tema de no encasillarse ni usar estereotipos al jugar #MÖRKBORG #lodelrol #RPGLatAm #rolentuidioma

Why no, Frau Mayr, I have no idea why Herr Mayr would want to help me plow my fields. Yes, I understand he has his own fields to plow. (Detail from a piece of public art on the side of a building, spotted in Vienna, Austria, on 25 October 2026)

"I understand that there have been some experiments showing that LLM review may have similar outcomes to human peer review, but who cares? Either scholarship, research and publishing are human enterprises or they aren’t." www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu... >>

I started wearing a smart watch around 2018, and wore and upgraded that for a while before deciding to buy something that wouldn't die because the battery couldn't be recharged anymore. Went for the Baltic HMS 002 Blue Gilt with the stitched lion band, which looks fantastic. I'm never going back.

Freedom of movement is the most fundamental human right; everything else is built on top of it. The 20th century was a campaign to smother that freedom and we should not let it win

Not the top Steam review of Dressmaker making me cry this morning!

try this handy mnemonic, it’s so simple

🎃Thei did the Mash; thei did the Monstere Mash. The Monstere Mash! Beholde: sepulchral smash! Thei did the Mash, and it kaughte on moost fast - Hark, heare the Mash! Forsooth, the Monstere Mash!🎃

Three years ago, my dad said that all fish are the same shape. Out of spite, I decided to draw all 478 families of bony fish listed in Nelson 2016. There's still some stuff I need to edit and some fish I want to redraw but, after 985 days, I finished my big dumb fish project last night.

Would you like to win 15 free adventure zines for #Shadowdark, #Cairn, and Old School Essentials? #osr #dnd #ttrpg Then check this out: youtu.be/_6yOdMEesNo?...

"The problems arising from AI development are widespread and multiplying—and they often come from people overrating the technology's capabilities, not underrating them." www.liberalcurrents.com/the-plausibl...

Man, fuck these dark enlightenment neo-reactionaries and their bionic horizon. Today it's war dogs, tomorrow some chud will go all in on face tentacles.

A prime example of why AI 'leaders' are not who anyone should be listening to about AI, right and consciousness. It's not all wrong! In fact, it starts off very sensibly: "AIs do not have rights, feelings, or consciousness. And we must not train them to act as though they do". But then...hoo boy 1/n

This seems like a great way to encourage your employees to spend hours on IT security forums looking for the most insidious malware available so they can intentionally load it onto your corporate network as a matter of moral justice.

this is fucking appalling. i already knew james dolan (who owns the knicks and madison square garden) was a douche but this is next-level. www.nytimes.com/athletic/771...

This is *exactly* why I started Stillfleet Studio: TTRPGs are not just games. They're storytelling experiences that invite us to challenge our views—in a friendly but deep way—about society, what is "good" (or "lawful," etc.), how and when to fight, etc.

Update on the use of AI text in Chaosium Community Content programs @drivethrurpg.com. TL/DR: Don't use it in our programs. AI is not art. It is theft from you and every writer who has gone before you, repackaged dishonestly and shamelessly as original. www.chaosium.com/blogupdate-o...