Steve Pugh

Steve Pugh

@stephenwpugh.bsky.social

VFX Supervisor, husband, dad. Dungeonmaster, lapsed pilot, admirer of older motorcycles, and occasional woodworker. Please, no DMs - not why I’m here.

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Steve Pugh reposted

Why is today crucial for Delaney Hall awareness? Because today is day one of First Amendment Zoning A question of rights. And tomorrow is the day that Immigration states they’ll go forward with force feeding the hunger strikers. A pending doom.

Steve Pugh reposted

Dr. King did not ask us to wait for a better future. He demanded we build it. In moments of fear, intimidation, & discrimination, his lesson still stands: justice is not self-executing. We honor his life not with comfort or nostalgia, but with courage, action, & resolve. The work continues. Always

Because this administration is literally all about the grift.

Scott Horton@robertscotthorton.bsky.social

We now learn that Fifa had a very specific "ask" in exchange for its "Peace Award" to Trump, with loads of gold trinkets, and that was dismissal of a criminal corruption case against senior Fifa officials. And Trump granted it. Another corrupt bargain, barely noticed (and ignored by US media).

These clunky, boxy eyesores are showing up in more driveways around town, I guess people have to store their crap somewhere but I wish they’d put these out of sight. Perhaps they could put it inside of that portable storage unit.

Steve Pugh reposted

For those of you submitting in advance, it never matters. Thought you should know.

Taniel@taniel.bsky.social

So, a university president fired a professor because they taught a course that discussed there being more than two genders, and now the university president is being fired for not having fired the professor quickly enough, is where we're at. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/18/u...

Steve Pugh reposted

Everything terrible right now and that's a good reason to read stories about better worlds. The Redstone Rescue is available now on Audible and it lets you escape to adventure, mystery and romance, as our heroine fights to survive, defend her utopia, and find someone who appreciates her puns.

So has anyone spun up a generator that will email Pam Bondi from Hillary Clinton’s account with the subject “Release All Of The Epstein Files”, since that’s what the AG is focusing on?

Actual Play is like porn: Whatever you're doing at home is fantastic if everyone is having a good time and gives enthusiastic consent. What you see on screen may not be realistic, or even what most people find enjoyable.

Kodi Gonzaga@jaztice.bsky.social

Actual Play is like porn: it’s a genuinely amazing and interesting art form that deserves less scrutiny and disapproval from the general public

And people wonder why a common opinion is, “Maybe the United Healthcare CEO was the more evil of the two”

Mar Hicks@histoftech.bsky.social

A U.S. surgeon trying to have a “peer to peer” consultation with a doctor at a health insurance company who is hiding his identity as her patient gets denied coverage. And it gets worse from there. You have to see it to believe it. (1/2)

Excited about this one!!!

Asa Donald | Backwards Tabletop@backwardsttrpg.bsky.social

Announcing... My first ever Mid-Month Feature for the Mecha TTRPG Newsletter! Check out my interview with @200proofgames.bsky.social & @diceynova.bsky.social about their new mecha ttrpg: Dragon Reactor! Plus, an EXCLUSIVE sneak peak of art & layout. Help spread the word before they launch on 8/01!

GOLD

Rodger Sherman@rodger.bsky.social

trapped inside my burning CyberTruck, I frantically slam the Grok button. “WHERE IS THE EMERGENCY DOOR RELEASE, GROK?” “I hear ya, friendo,” says a robot voice. “We could all use an “emergency release”—especially white farmers in South Africa and the nation formerly known as Rhodesia.”

Steve Pugh reposted

Trump's Big Fugly Bill is back in the House. These #CA Republicans are vulnerable in '26: David Valadao #CA22 Young Kim #CA40 Ken Calvert #CA41 If you live in those districts, call the rep (202) 224-312 and tell them to #VoteNo -- like they promised -- to save Medicaid #CApol

Steve Pugh reposted

my dudes there's no such thing as "too late" to regulate AI, that's a fake idea. AI models aren't untouchable data gods, they're algorithms hosted in cloud storage. Saying we can't regulate AI is like saying we can't deplatform Child P*rn bc "it's already out there". Like, 1s and 0s can be deleted

Steve Pugh reposted

We’ve bombed Iran. And dismantled our joint terrorism task force. And sent a third of the FBI to help ICE. And gutted the National Security Council. And a drunk guy is in charge at the pentagon. And our intelligence allies probably won’t share intel with us. Because people couldn’t vote for a woman.

Do ya like TTRPGs? Check out Bump in the Dark!! Voting in the 2025 CRIT Awards? Vote for Bump in the Dark!! There’s a theme here, and the theme is ‘BitD is awesome’.

jex thomas@lastpinepress.com

My game about community and beating up monsters, Bump in the Dark, is a finalist for Best Indie TTRPG in the 2025 CRIT Awards! Please consider voting now: www.critawards.org

Steve Pugh reposted

I am ashamed of you, Christians whom I worshipped alongside, ministered with, and cared for, who are willfully and unapologetically partnering with this wasteful violence against the Transgender community.

A *huge* shout-out to the crew over at @3blackhalflings.bsky.social for their successful launch of the City of Black Rose campaign setting!! Sure, it's a success *BUT* that doesn't mean that it can't be even MORE successful, so if you're into #dnd or #daggerheart or any other #ttrpg, GO BACK IT!

3 Black Halflings@3blackhalflings.bsky.social

Over 200% funded in 3 hours????? OVER 200% FUNDED IN 3 HOURS???? Are you trying to make us all cry? Because you’re succeeding!!!!! rollandplaypress.com/cotbr

Steve Pugh reposted

We make jokes about this sometimes because it’s laughable. But when journalists try to make sense of the nonsensical, rational out of the irrational, and coherence out of the incoherence, they affirmatively do the public interest great harm.

Kevin M. Kruse@kevinmkruse.bsky.social

Which news outlet is actually informing its readers about what happened?

I often passively hope that an asteroid doesn’t wipe out the planet, but that hope is redoubled when I imagine the petulant, narcissistic windbag currently in the Oval Office giving a live address about it. Not sure why that thought popped into my head…

And we need our Democratic leadership to tie them all to him with a f**king Gordian knot. The GOP are in lockstep (goosestep?) behind Trump when he is trampling the Constitution, they can't expect a graceful return if they're still pushing their chips in on oppression and hate.

Mark Jacob@markjacob.bsky.social

No, Trump isn't cratering our economy. The entire Republican Party is cratering our economy. The enablers deserve just as much blame as Trump.