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Short TTRPGs: https://professorcoldheart.itch.io/
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Fly From Montgomery: A LANCER Scenario by ProfessorColdheart
Mercenary scavengers undertaking a desperate heist in a world on the brink. For LL0 Lancer PCs.
professorcoldheart.itch.io
To introduce my #ttrpg work to new followers (hi!), to document my actual work, and to fend off impostor syndrome, here's a list of everything I've published or worked on this year:
First, FLY FROM MONTGOMERY, a 3rd-party scenario for LANCER. A desperate heist on a war-torn planet!
First, FLY FROM MONTGOMERY, a 3rd-party scenario for LANCER. A desperate heist on a war-torn planet!
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Boston DSA is proud to announce our endorsement of Evan MacKay's campaign for State Rep from the 25th Middlesex District. Evan is a labor leader and committed Boston DSA chapter member who is running to bring democratic socialist values to an unaccountable State House.
January 12, 2026 at 11:22 PM
Boston DSA is proud to announce our endorsement of Evan MacKay's campaign for State Rep from the 25th Middlesex District. Evan is a labor leader and committed Boston DSA chapter member who is running to bring democratic socialist values to an unaccountable State House.
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i think even with all the atrocities of the fascists, nothing is more demotivating and nothing makes me want to disengage from politics more than being inundated with replies from people who do not know how to think about politics beyond “dems good and wanting more from them is bad”
January 12, 2026 at 10:36 PM
i think even with all the atrocities of the fascists, nothing is more demotivating and nothing makes me want to disengage from politics more than being inundated with replies from people who do not know how to think about politics beyond “dems good and wanting more from them is bad”
A few bad apples protect the bunch, as the saying goes.
In suit, BPD deputy superintendent charges he was demoted after he uncovered fraud by officers on paid details
www.universalhub.com/2026/bpd-sup...
#Boston #lawsuits
www.universalhub.com/2026/bpd-sup...
#Boston #lawsuits
January 12, 2026 at 11:16 PM
A few bad apples protect the bunch, as the saying goes.
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Today, markets are up. It’s best not to make broad assumptions based on small movements in after-hours trading. Doesn’t change the fact that our economy, and confidence in it, is eroding. But goes to show that “markets” are dumb as shit and reflective of nothing.
January 12, 2026 at 2:25 PM
Today, markets are up. It’s best not to make broad assumptions based on small movements in after-hours trading. Doesn’t change the fact that our economy, and confidence in it, is eroding. But goes to show that “markets” are dumb as shit and reflective of nothing.
*going out on a cart* damn, if only there were a lower-impact way to touch men all the time ... if only ...
January 12, 2026 at 10:17 PM
*going out on a cart* damn, if only there were a lower-impact way to touch men all the time ... if only ...
this, but through a glass, darkly: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bank_of...
Bank of England - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
January 12, 2026 at 10:00 PM
this, but through a glass, darkly: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bank_of...
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semi-regular reminder that ICE was only created in 2003
when you are asked to imagine a world without ICE, you're basically being asked to remember where you were when Lilo & Stitch came out
when you are asked to imagine a world without ICE, you're basically being asked to remember where you were when Lilo & Stitch came out
January 12, 2026 at 8:04 PM
semi-regular reminder that ICE was only created in 2003
when you are asked to imagine a world without ICE, you're basically being asked to remember where you were when Lilo & Stitch came out
when you are asked to imagine a world without ICE, you're basically being asked to remember where you were when Lilo & Stitch came out
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Solidarity with NYSNA, fighting for what nurses need to continue saving lives on the front lines!
Nearly 15,000 NYSNA nurses from Mount Sinai Hospital, Mount Sinai Morningside and West, Montefiore, and NewYork-Presbyterian are on strike today because greedy hospital management have given frontline nurses no other choice.
January 12, 2026 at 8:15 PM
Solidarity with NYSNA, fighting for what nurses need to continue saving lives on the front lines!
Elmer T Lee for mine bsky.app/profile/john...
Years ago, I got the last 3 bottles of Elmer T. Lee off the shelf of a Cambridge liquor store. (It auctions for ~$200 today)
I drank the first bottle that week. I opened the second bottle when my daughter was born.
The third bottle is for the day It Happens.
I drank the first bottle that week. I opened the second bottle when my daughter was born.
The third bottle is for the day It Happens.
January 12, 2026 at 8:26 PM
Elmer T Lee for mine bsky.app/profile/john...
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what do you mean the stranger things documentary shows them writing the script on a computer with 3 chat gpt tabs open
January 12, 2026 at 3:34 PM
what do you mean the stranger things documentary shows them writing the script on a computer with 3 chat gpt tabs open
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Moralists don't really *have* beliefs. Sometimes they stumble on one, like on a child's toy left on the carpet. The toy must be put away immediately. And the child reprimanded.
January 12, 2026 at 7:46 PM
Moralists don't really *have* beliefs. Sometimes they stumble on one, like on a child's toy left on the carpet. The toy must be put away immediately. And the child reprimanded.
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For the record, I do believe there is a stalking horse approach to taking on the police: it's not training or reform, it's taking a page out of the charter school playbook and creating police alternatives, and gradually offloading various functions of the police onto them.
January 12, 2026 at 7:38 PM
For the record, I do believe there is a stalking horse approach to taking on the police: it's not training or reform, it's taking a page out of the charter school playbook and creating police alternatives, and gradually offloading various functions of the police onto them.
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It is a very blessed season to work in an office at a large company: the season of ordering Girl Scout cookies from your coworkers’ daughters
January 12, 2026 at 7:49 PM
It is a very blessed season to work in an office at a large company: the season of ordering Girl Scout cookies from your coworkers’ daughters
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Your dreams died twenty years before you were born and have been operating on the fumes of illusion, which is why the pointless gatekeeping exists to a network of connected, rich, white children of old money. Any new money coming was the blood money laundered through your dreams!
January 12, 2026 at 3:58 PM
Your dreams died twenty years before you were born and have been operating on the fumes of illusion, which is why the pointless gatekeeping exists to a network of connected, rich, white children of old money. Any new money coming was the blood money laundered through your dreams!
I wish CEO Maria Palasis and CFO Jason Cavalier a long and humiliating year of pitch decks, sales meetings, and document review before quietly declaring bankruptcy. I wish them nights spent away from family. I wish them misery and struggle for naught.
A Massachusetts biotech firm is suspending drug development and laying off essentially all of its workers in a bid to save cash and secure a deal for shareholders. on.nbcboston.com/Ni9kB6x
Mass. biotech company lays off entire workforce as cash dwindles
Watertown biotech lays off entire workforce as cash dwindles
on.nbcboston.com
January 12, 2026 at 7:36 PM
I wish CEO Maria Palasis and CFO Jason Cavalier a long and humiliating year of pitch decks, sales meetings, and document review before quietly declaring bankruptcy. I wish them nights spent away from family. I wish them misery and struggle for naught.
We joke about "pick-me" girls and "crybully" boys, but there's no more feeble display of entitlement than suing a company you tried to buy to force them to sell to you. Capitalism enshrines every pathology as virtue.
Paramount Launches Warner Bros. Proxy Fight; Files Suit
Paramount Skydance Corp. ratcheted up the stakes in the monthslong battle for Warner Bros. Discovery Inc., saying it plans to nominate directors to the board to thwart a merger with Netflix Inc.
www.bloomberg.com
January 12, 2026 at 7:35 PM
We joke about "pick-me" girls and "crybully" boys, but there's no more feeble display of entitlement than suing a company you tried to buy to force them to sell to you. Capitalism enshrines every pathology as virtue.
Modern media is a prison because it spends billions of dollars telling you impossible things will happen or that cruel things are inevitable. You know that's not the case. But you are never allowed a moment with your thoughts or a glimpse of someone who believes otherwise.
January 12, 2026 at 7:29 PM
Modern media is a prison because it spends billions of dollars telling you impossible things will happen or that cruel things are inevitable. You know that's not the case. But you are never allowed a moment with your thoughts or a glimpse of someone who believes otherwise.
Seeing so many supposedly literate journalists hype the AI tech cycle when the metaverse, NFTs, blockchain, and cryptocurrency have all failed *within recent memory* - not 20 or 10 years, but car-payment memory - has brought me to despair. Ongweso, along with a few others, gives me hope.
I wrote about why we should understand the metaverse hype cycle as a dress rehearsal for the generative AI hype cycle www.fastcompany.com/91467599/met...
What was the metaverse?
Mark Zuckerberg effectively declared its death last December. But the delusional fervor it inspired lives on.
www.fastcompany.com
January 12, 2026 at 7:27 PM
Seeing so many supposedly literate journalists hype the AI tech cycle when the metaverse, NFTs, blockchain, and cryptocurrency have all failed *within recent memory* - not 20 or 10 years, but car-payment memory - has brought me to despair. Ongweso, along with a few others, gives me hope.
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Every Harbaugh Era eventually reaches the point where it needs to fire Greg Roman, and we might be there.
November 30, 2025 at 10:44 PM
Every Harbaugh Era eventually reaches the point where it needs to fire Greg Roman, and we might be there.
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I wrote about why we should understand the metaverse hype cycle as a dress rehearsal for the generative AI hype cycle www.fastcompany.com/91467599/met...
What was the metaverse?
Mark Zuckerberg effectively declared its death last December. But the delusional fervor it inspired lives on.
www.fastcompany.com
January 12, 2026 at 6:35 PM
I wrote about why we should understand the metaverse hype cycle as a dress rehearsal for the generative AI hype cycle www.fastcompany.com/91467599/met...
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it is 2016. the cops have murdered someone in minneapolis. the dem faithfuls say they just need more training.
it is 2020. the cops have murdered someone in minneapolis. the dem faithfuls say they just need more training.
it is 2026. the cops have murdered someone in minneapolis. the dem faithf
it is 2020. the cops have murdered someone in minneapolis. the dem faithfuls say they just need more training.
it is 2026. the cops have murdered someone in minneapolis. the dem faithf
January 12, 2026 at 6:10 PM
it is 2016. the cops have murdered someone in minneapolis. the dem faithfuls say they just need more training.
it is 2020. the cops have murdered someone in minneapolis. the dem faithfuls say they just need more training.
it is 2026. the cops have murdered someone in minneapolis. the dem faithf
it is 2020. the cops have murdered someone in minneapolis. the dem faithfuls say they just need more training.
it is 2026. the cops have murdered someone in minneapolis. the dem faithf
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Slightly diminish a game
WWF? No! Mercy
WWF? No! Mercy
Slightly diminish a game
Spec Ops: The Segment
Spec Ops: The Segment
Slightly diminish a game.
Dance Dance Protest
Dance Dance Protest
January 12, 2026 at 5:16 PM
Slightly diminish a game
WWF? No! Mercy
WWF? No! Mercy
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okay. okay. okay i’ll- okay. Ok
January 12, 2026 at 4:30 PM
okay. okay. okay i’ll- okay. Ok
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Okay, but they're actually not taking trips. This is called "make believe" and it's something people learn to distinguish from reality when they are children.
Jacob Smith has been in prison for two decades but he and other inmates are still taking regular trips to far-flung, exotic locales. No passport required, just a virtual reality headset. on.nbcboston.com/hJGJm0L
VR headsets are 'hope machines' inside some prisons, offering escape and practical experience
Prisoners are now taking regular trips to far-flung, exotic locales such as Thailand. No passport required, just a virtual reality headset.
on.nbcboston.com
January 12, 2026 at 4:31 PM
Okay, but they're actually not taking trips. This is called "make believe" and it's something people learn to distinguish from reality when they are children.
You were waaaay more immersive than our Cub Scouts, but our troop (pack?) was headquartered in the local Catholic school and I can imagine the parish would've frowned on idolatry.
January 12, 2026 at 4:27 PM
You were waaaay more immersive than our Cub Scouts, but our troop (pack?) was headquartered in the local Catholic school and I can imagine the parish would've frowned on idolatry.