Jim McGarva
@jimbozig.bsky.social
I teach math and stats and make tabletop RPGs and have a house full of kids and pets. He/him.
Find Tailfeathers, Strike!, and more http://jimbozig.itch.io and at http://strikerpg.com
Chat about my games at https://discord.gg/SmxeetS
Find Tailfeathers, Strike!, and more http://jimbozig.itch.io and at http://strikerpg.com
Chat about my games at https://discord.gg/SmxeetS
TTRPG discourse is always like
"I am not down with rules. Instead I think we should get together and agree on how we want to play and then keep our agreement."
"I am not down with rules. Instead I think we should get together and agree on how we want to play and then keep our agreement."
December 27, 2025 at 4:08 AM
TTRPG discourse is always like
"I am not down with rules. Instead I think we should get together and agree on how we want to play and then keep our agreement."
"I am not down with rules. Instead I think we should get together and agree on how we want to play and then keep our agreement."
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"For sir, the menu. And for madame, the womenu."
December 8, 2025 at 4:59 PM
"For sir, the menu. And for madame, the womenu."
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"please someone get AI to do this" is the most pathetic fuckin sentence i have ever read. take a good look at how far the AI revolution has taken us. from "could someone please record this ten second bit and lay it over existing moon landing footage" all the way to "please SOMEONE get AI to do this"
December 6, 2025 at 10:15 PM
"please someone get AI to do this" is the most pathetic fuckin sentence i have ever read. take a good look at how far the AI revolution has taken us. from "could someone please record this ten second bit and lay it over existing moon landing footage" all the way to "please SOMEONE get AI to do this"
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Which is it man because you can’t say ‘be more normal’ back-to-back with ‘be less judgmental’ without a hint of irony because that’s just positioning yourself as cultural authority & then demanding the type of grace that by virtue of your immediately preceding statement you refuse to extend to us
California Governor Gavin Newsom said on Thursday that the Democratic Party needed to be “more culturally normal” and “less judgmental.”
December 7, 2025 at 2:28 AM
Which is it man because you can’t say ‘be more normal’ back-to-back with ‘be less judgmental’ without a hint of irony because that’s just positioning yourself as cultural authority & then demanding the type of grace that by virtue of your immediately preceding statement you refuse to extend to us
He's the beneficiary of a system where we don't hang people for financial crimes and he doesn't even realize it.
A fish saying it's time to get rid of water.
A fish saying it's time to get rid of water.
A Palantir billionaire just called for public hangings.
“It's time to bring back masculine leadership to protect our most vulnerable,” writes Joe Lonsdale.
This is where Silicon Valley authoritarianism is heading:
www.thenerdreich.com/joe-lonsdale...
“It's time to bring back masculine leadership to protect our most vulnerable,” writes Joe Lonsdale.
This is where Silicon Valley authoritarianism is heading:
www.thenerdreich.com/joe-lonsdale...
Joe Lonsdale Calls For Public Hangings
Silicon Valley radicalization escalates
www.thenerdreich.com
December 7, 2025 at 5:09 PM
He's the beneficiary of a system where we don't hang people for financial crimes and he doesn't even realize it.
A fish saying it's time to get rid of water.
A fish saying it's time to get rid of water.
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"...mega-donors' influence doesn't primarily come from their ability to sway voters... Instead, their leverage comes from convincing politicians that they need mega-donor money to win."
Study after study shows campaign ads barely move the needle. So where does money’s real power come from? I ranked the five ways money corrupts politics—from least to most corrosive. What I’ve learned from 15 years of tracking political money:
Money Doesn't Buy Elections. It Does Something Worse.
Campaign ads barely move the needle. The real influence is hiding in plain sight.
open.substack.com
December 7, 2025 at 3:18 PM
"...mega-donors' influence doesn't primarily come from their ability to sway voters... Instead, their leverage comes from convincing politicians that they need mega-donor money to win."
Politicians should ask us what they need to do to win our votes.
When they start telling us what to do, they give away the game completely. If they don't need to ask for our votes, if they don't need to offer us anything, then it's not a democracy.
American democracy is dead. It's oligarchy now.
When they start telling us what to do, they give away the game completely. If they don't need to ask for our votes, if they don't need to offer us anything, then it's not a democracy.
American democracy is dead. It's oligarchy now.
California Governor Gavin Newsom said on Thursday that the Democratic Party needed to be “more culturally normal” and “less judgmental.”
December 7, 2025 at 6:39 AM
Politicians should ask us what they need to do to win our votes.
When they start telling us what to do, they give away the game completely. If they don't need to ask for our votes, if they don't need to offer us anything, then it's not a democracy.
American democracy is dead. It's oligarchy now.
When they start telling us what to do, they give away the game completely. If they don't need to ask for our votes, if they don't need to offer us anything, then it's not a democracy.
American democracy is dead. It's oligarchy now.
Having spent my whole career in academia, it is inconceivable to me that they would take a white cis dude off a course because he gave a student a bad grade and very polite feedback.
You would have to do something real bad like make threats, or else piss off the entire class, not just one student.
You would have to do something real bad like make threats, or else piss off the entire class, not just one student.
Either you understand that there is an organized campaign to push trans people out of public life with the explicit end goal of "morally mandating us out of existence" that is backed by some of the wealthiest individuals to have ever lived, or you're simply not equipped to grasp what's happening.
December 2, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Having spent my whole career in academia, it is inconceivable to me that they would take a white cis dude off a course because he gave a student a bad grade and very polite feedback.
You would have to do something real bad like make threats, or else piss off the entire class, not just one student.
You would have to do something real bad like make threats, or else piss off the entire class, not just one student.
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The real question is not "Why is Bluesky so left-coded," the real question is "Why can't the right exist in a social media environment without algorithmic assistance, where people can ignore them"
December 2, 2025 at 3:08 PM
The real question is not "Why is Bluesky so left-coded," the real question is "Why can't the right exist in a social media environment without algorithmic assistance, where people can ignore them"
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EREBUS is on sale for Creator's Day! Get 120 pages of time-travelling, alien-melting, XCOM-inspired tactical action for only $5!
EREBUS RPG by Menoetian Press
a sci-fi RPG of tactical combat and dramatic action
menoetian.itch.io
November 28, 2025 at 9:08 AM
EREBUS is on sale for Creator's Day! Get 120 pages of time-travelling, alien-melting, XCOM-inspired tactical action for only $5!
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This is what is actually meant by the term "fruitful void" as opposed to the thing that certain corners of the hobby are trying to redefine it to, "the game is better if you don't have rules for stealth"
can't believe i have to point to the sign in CAIN all the time lol
November 22, 2025 at 10:06 PM
This is what is actually meant by the term "fruitful void" as opposed to the thing that certain corners of the hobby are trying to redefine it to, "the game is better if you don't have rules for stealth"
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i've written essay-sized threads on this but tl;dr intellectual property is just the enclosure of the cultural commons. people should have stories in common. they shouldn't belong to someone who wants to figure out how to turn them into a casino.
I still remember how angry it made me the first time I heard someone say "I love this IP"
It's just noise now. Everything is just noise now.
It's just noise now. Everything is just noise now.
November 20, 2025 at 1:50 PM
i've written essay-sized threads on this but tl;dr intellectual property is just the enclosure of the cultural commons. people should have stories in common. they shouldn't belong to someone who wants to figure out how to turn them into a casino.
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I wrote a whole-ass 400-page book because I was so mad at Sapiens!
November 20, 2025 at 3:21 PM
I wrote a whole-ass 400-page book because I was so mad at Sapiens!
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yes! that IS the fucking lesson of the Holocaust! goddamn!
I'm struck by this clip of former Obama speechwriter Sarah Hurwitz saying Holocaust education has backfired in part because people Palestinians as victims: "They think the lesson of the Holocaust is…you fight the big powerful people hurting the weak people."
www.reddit.com/r/JewsOfCons...
www.reddit.com/r/JewsOfCons...
From the JewsOfConscience community on Reddit: Former Obama speechwriter Sarah Hurwitz speaking to the Jewish Federation and lamenting that young people are learning the wrong lessons from Holocaust e...
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November 19, 2025 at 12:48 AM
yes! that IS the fucking lesson of the Holocaust! goddamn!
Some foods are so perfect that you can make a million variations on them and they're guaranteed to be excellent.
Chocolate chip cookies.
You tell me you made them with lavender? I bet they rocked. With Ube? Yum. With bacon? Weird, but I bet they were delicious.
But I probably prefer the original.
Chocolate chip cookies.
You tell me you made them with lavender? I bet they rocked. With Ube? Yum. With bacon? Weird, but I bet they were delicious.
But I probably prefer the original.
November 18, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Some foods are so perfect that you can make a million variations on them and they're guaranteed to be excellent.
Chocolate chip cookies.
You tell me you made them with lavender? I bet they rocked. With Ube? Yum. With bacon? Weird, but I bet they were delicious.
But I probably prefer the original.
Chocolate chip cookies.
You tell me you made them with lavender? I bet they rocked. With Ube? Yum. With bacon? Weird, but I bet they were delicious.
But I probably prefer the original.
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"Within this amorphous framework, men’s biggest problem is, likewise, a feeling—an unreachable itch, or a marrow-deep belief—that men should still rank above women in the social hierarchy, just not as much as before." 💯
November 10, 2025 at 3:08 PM
"Within this amorphous framework, men’s biggest problem is, likewise, a feeling—an unreachable itch, or a marrow-deep belief—that men should still rank above women in the social hierarchy, just not as much as before." 💯
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It's a great cosmic joke that neurodivergence both runs in families and gets diagnosed based on parent reports. I was diagnosed at 30 because a man who has eaten potatoes every day for 57 years and a woman who collects loose buttons decided I was a perfectly normal child.
November 15, 2025 at 5:10 AM
It's a great cosmic joke that neurodivergence both runs in families and gets diagnosed based on parent reports. I was diagnosed at 30 because a man who has eaten potatoes every day for 57 years and a woman who collects loose buttons decided I was a perfectly normal child.
There are 300 million Americans.
Just throw the 3 dozen or so Epstein guys into the sea and go it without them.
I promise you guys can do it without them.
Just throw the 3 dozen or so Epstein guys into the sea and go it without them.
I promise you guys can do it without them.
November 14, 2025 at 11:40 PM
There are 300 million Americans.
Just throw the 3 dozen or so Epstein guys into the sea and go it without them.
I promise you guys can do it without them.
Just throw the 3 dozen or so Epstein guys into the sea and go it without them.
I promise you guys can do it without them.
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okay so not this, but sort of this--my skills are rusty and the thought was intrusive
November 13, 2025 at 11:50 PM
okay so not this, but sort of this--my skills are rusty and the thought was intrusive
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The unspoken assumption behind “raping 15 year olds is different than raping 8 year olds” is that teenage girls are legitimate targets of desire on account of (sometimes) being adult shaped. But if the adult shape was the source of attraction, and not the vulnerability, these men would date women.
November 13, 2025 at 8:09 PM
The unspoken assumption behind “raping 15 year olds is different than raping 8 year olds” is that teenage girls are legitimate targets of desire on account of (sometimes) being adult shaped. But if the adult shape was the source of attraction, and not the vulnerability, these men would date women.
THIS is why elite men don't want women in power. Not just prejudice: they have no problem promoting intellectually and morally inferior men. Women in power pose a threat to them because women can't easily be brought into their conspiracy of abuse. Women will spoil their (child trafficking) party.
November 13, 2025 at 3:42 PM
THIS is why elite men don't want women in power. Not just prejudice: they have no problem promoting intellectually and morally inferior men. Women in power pose a threat to them because women can't easily be brought into their conspiracy of abuse. Women will spoil their (child trafficking) party.
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Some new (?) tech to track persistent states via random tables with memory. Like Ladder Tables, but simpler in execution.
Behold, the Stepladder Table!
Behold, the Stepladder Table!
Stepladder Tables
I am not certain that I am the first to have this idea. In fact, I most certainly am not; there's nothing new under the sun (especially in R...
riseupcomus.blogspot.com
November 9, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Some new (?) tech to track persistent states via random tables with memory. Like Ladder Tables, but simpler in execution.
Behold, the Stepladder Table!
Behold, the Stepladder Table!
A "tactics" spinoff.
November 11, 2025 at 5:55 PM
A "tactics" spinoff.