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Keith Ammann 🔜 Gamehole Con

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ENNIE-winning author of The Monsters Know What They're Doing and other stuff. Humanist, antifascist, curmudgeon. Teeth on the board. ✶✶✶✶ Home: spyandowl.com Blog: themonstersknow.com Newsletter: onefootinfairyland.com Mastodon: dice.camp/@KeithAmmann

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Keith Ammann 🔜 Gamehole Con @themonstersknow.com · 10d

IT'S ALMOST HERE! Making Enemies: Monster Design Inspiration for TTRPGs includes not only a treasury of ideas for creating your own homegrown abominations but also TWENTY original monsters, illustrated by @jencmars.bsky.social.

Preorder now at spyandowl.com/making... to get your copy on Oct. 7!

A hardbound copy of Making Enemies rests on a wooden dining table. On the cover, a huge, pearlescent arthropod bursts out of a subterranean crevice and drives one of its large barbed claws through a dwarf fighter's abdomen, while another dwarf cowers in fear. The book is surrounded by blue and red polyhedral dice.

A wickedly grinning jack-o-lantern, larger than a man, running around on spider legs. You can tell it's larger than a man, because it's grabbed one with a viny tendril and is stuffing him inside itself, having lifted its own lid with another tendril.

A carriage with darkened windows, speeding through a ghostly mist. Its headlamps are eyelike and glowering, and there's an incriminating bloodstain on the front of it, right where it might impact a person's head.

Some horrible, shapeless thing that looks sort of like a gargantuan nudibranch, plowing through everything in its path, including entire trees. It's such a juggernaut, it's even breaking the frame.

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Keith Ammann 🔜 Gamehole Con @themonstersknow.com · 9h

Yeah, but that just blocks ICE out of city-owned property. I'm talking about zoning ICE out of the city altogether.

Keith Ammann 🔜 Gamehole Con @themonstersknow.com · 10h

Political map of Latin America in which Argentina is labeled "Self-described left but actually a form of economic chaos theory."

Keith Ammann 🔜 Gamehole Con @themonstersknow.com · 10h

The TRiiBE @thetriibe.com · 2d

NEW — Some TRiiBE readers, among many others on the internet, have been suggesting that the Chicago police arrest ICE agents for their misconduct.

TRiiBE publisher @morganelisej.thetriibe.com put out this explainer video, breaking down the legality for y’all.

youtube.com/shorts/WDHFe...

Can local police arrest ICE?

YouTube video by The TRiiBE

youtube.com

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Keith Ammann 🔜 Gamehole Con @themonstersknow.com · 19h

"Making Enemies is a powerful resource that will kickstart the imagination of any game master. Even if you're not in the business of designing monsters for your game, the insight, knowledge, and examples provided here will help you become a better GM and improve basically any campaign."

Polygon @polygon.com · 20h

Keith Ammann returns with another invaluable resource for game masters and designers

You’ll never see D&D monsters the same way again after reading this essential TTRPG book

Keith Ammann returns with another invaluable resource for game masters and designers

www.polygon.com

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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 21h

I wrote about Chicago: "Is this city burning? There is a definite answer to the question. In all these cities, the answer is no. No American city is currently on fire, and if Chicago is a war zone, it’s because it’s being invaded by the president."

Trump Is Waging War on an American City

The real threat to people in Chicago (and Los Angeles and Portland) is our maniacal president.

newrepublic.com

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Keith Ammann 🔜 Gamehole Con @themonstersknow.com · 10h

@leniann.bsky.social, can we get an ordinance introduced to make ICE a prohibited use in all zones?

Keith Ammann 🔜 Gamehole Con @themonstersknow.com · 14h

Ken Liu! T. Kingfisher! R.F. Kuang!

Keith Ammann 🔜 Gamehole Con @themonstersknow.com · 16h

It's a small thing amid all the other things, but I can report that we've been listening to helicopters overhead ALL. MORNING.

Chicago does not normally get this amount of helicopter traffic. Like, usually when a helicopter flies overhead, kids point and yell, "Helicopter!"

It's been nonstop.

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Keith Ammann 🔜 Gamehole Con @themonstersknow.com · 17h

Nice. The judge gets it.

From the judge's order: Agents "must have visible identification (for which a unique recognizable alphanumeric identifier sequence will suffice) affixed to their uniforms or helmets and prominently displayed, including when wearing riot gear."

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Nilah "Nine Jobs" Magruder @nilahmagruder.com · 17h

I hired a coupla handymen to install new mailboxes at my place cuz our old ones got damaged and as they were working they totally unprompted started telling me how they think genAI is sleazy and corrupt and we gotta keep fighting the good fight and all we have is each other

it was nice

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Keith Ammann 🔜 Gamehole Con @themonstersknow.com · 19h

Yeah, that's the problem.

Those who'd give up the power wouldn't use it that way.

Those who'd use it that way wouldn't give it up.

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Keith Ammann 🔜 Gamehole Con @themonstersknow.com · 19h

The trouble is, you need to have an executive who's willing to carry out such a purge for the sake of American institutions, governmental reform and civil liberties, then promptly GIVE UP all that power and return it to Congress.

That's a rare bird. I'm not sure it exists in nature.

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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 19h

Yeah everything SUCKS but humans are still silly wonderful beautiful creatures who collaborate with slugs to make videos like this. So. All is not lost.

Amy @lolennui.bsky.social · 1d

oh hell yeah youtu.be/nGZOFyLrCwk?...

Slug Eating Spaghetti Time Lapse (With Stopwatch Timer)

YouTube video by Nature's Fantastic

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Keith Ammann 🔜 Gamehole Con @themonstersknow.com · 19h

Polygon @polygon.com · 20h

Keith Ammann returns with another invaluable resource for game masters and designers

You’ll never see D&D monsters the same way again after reading this essential TTRPG book

Keith Ammann returns with another invaluable resource for game masters and designers

www.polygon.com

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Keith Ammann 🔜 Gamehole Con @themonstersknow.com · 20h

This is inside baseball, but it's a big deal in the bookselling industry; it basically leaves the No. 1 book distributor, Ingram, without a significant competitor.

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Keith Ammann 🔜 Gamehole Con @themonstersknow.com · 20h

Well, 🤬.

Baker & Taylor Prepares Plan to Shut Down

At a town hall yesterday, B&T owner and CEO Aman Kochar announced that following the termination of the ReaderLink acquisition deal, he does not see a path to keep the library wholesaler in business.

www.publishersweekly.com

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Keith Ammann 🔜 Gamehole Con @themonstersknow.com · 1d

OK but I would totally wear antifascist flair

Keith Ammann 🔜 Gamehole Con @themonstersknow.com · 1d

It warms my heart to see protesters coming up with new chants. 🥲

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Keith Ammann 🔜 Gamehole Con @themonstersknow.com · 1d

J. informs me that the correct answer is Paulina, and yeah, she's right.

Keith Ammann 🔜 Gamehole Con @themonstersknow.com · 1d

Devon.

Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 1d

What’s the word where you’re from that, when pronounced exactly as it looks, identifies a tourist immediately?

Keith Ammann 🔜 Gamehole Con @themonstersknow.com · 1d

Devon.

Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 1d

What’s the word where you’re from that, when pronounced exactly as it looks, identifies a tourist immediately?

Keith Ammann 🔜 Gamehole Con @themonstersknow.com · 1d

I hope the plaintiffs are insisting on UNIQUE and LEGIBLE ID numbers. Otherwise they're all gonna be LOL1488, stitched in olive on an olive background.

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Keith Ammann 🔜 Gamehole Con @themonstersknow.com · 1d

Darkly funny that "large language model" and "less lethal munitions" have the same acronym.

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Keith Ammann 🔜 Gamehole Con @themonstersknow.com · 1d

My total is in three digits, and the first digit is not a 1.

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Keith Ammann 🔜 Gamehole Con @themonstersknow.com · 1d

WTF

When did this person learn to use e-mail?

Because when I learned, back in the Urkel Age, there was no expectation of using salutations or complimentary closings at all. And AFAIC, there still isn't. Just say what you need to say. Save yourself some keystrokes.

Keith Ammann 🔜 Gamehole Con @themonstersknow.com · 1d

I forgot to count the tabs in the SECOND BROWSER WINDOW 😳

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