Daniel Collins @superdan.net · 18hKind of amazed that the janky-looking old Craigslist posting UI turns out to be head-and-shoulders easier to use, cleaner, more intuitive, faster, less frustrating, and more reliable than any other web service I've used in recent memory #web #ui 020
Daniel Collins @superdan.net · 29/09/2026The Advanced D&D (1E, Deities & Demigods) rule for negative Charisma, which arguably explains much of the world today: #dnd #charisma #horror 050
Reposted by Daniel CollinsGillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 29/09/2026Talking recently to family members of people snatched up and expelled to third countries by ICE, I learned: 1) All of those captured were in 287(g) jurisdictions; 2) None of the family members had known what 287(g) was and had erroneously thought people with no arrests were safe. 5550323
Daniel Collins @superdan.net · 28/09/2026A few years back on Twitter, there was a young gentleperson who argued, "Evil gods in RPG worlds make no sense, no one would ever worship or wish for evil, that could never happen" and I think about them a lot 041
Daniel Collins @superdan.net · 28/09/2026Seems pretty well established at this point: If you pump your cutting-edge research through OpenAI or Anthropic they will steal it, scoop it, claim it for their own. 250
Daniel Collins @superdan.net · 27/09/2026In one hour: What's the best way to communicate the dungeon geography to your D&D players -- verbal descriptions, a DM sketch or battlemap, using a virtual tabletop with dynamic lighting bells & whistles? Join us in the live chat! #dnd #maps #players www.youtube.com/live/rAGQTMr...youtube.comMapping the Dungeon | Communicating Space in Exploration | Wandering DMs S8E30YouTube video by Wandering DMs 061
Reposted by Daniel CollinsEd Maibach @maibached.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Happy Stanislav Petrov Day He passed in 2017. As Encyclopedia Britannica puts it, “He is survived by his two children, two grandchildren, and the entire human race.” If you don't know his story, please take 3 minutes now to learn it. @gchalliance.bsky.social @docsforclimate.bsky.socialsammatey.substack.comHappy Stanislav Petrov DayTake five minutes to not destroy civilization 252101927
Reposted by Daniel CollinsLe Monde in English @english.lemonde.fr · 25/09/2026Amnesty International calls for ICE to be abolishedlemonde.frAmnesty International calls for ICE to be abolishedIn a report titled 'We Had Whistles, They Had Guns,' the NGO documents widespread human rights violations committed by ICE in the United States. 384198186346
Reposted by Daniel Collins🌬Breeze @cool-summer-breeze.bsky.social · 24/09/2026This is the Stolen Neighbors Quilt. Each of the 11,000 squares represents a person taken by ICE in Minnesota. 121121715155
Daniel Collins @superdan.net · 24/09/2026CBS Sunday Morning segment on the giant buffalo puppet parade that my partner Isabelle worked on: #puppets #parade #nyc www.cbsnews.com/video/a-spec...cbsnews.comA spectacle of puppetry: Buffalo parade through New York CityThis past week, a herd of 40 buffalo roamed the concrete canyons of Lower Manhattan and Brooklyn – life-size puppets that are part of a public arts project by St. Ann's Warehouse, a Brooklyn theater. ... 020
Daniel Collins @superdan.net · 24/09/2026Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die – a surprisingly good sci-fi time-travel social commentary horror satire. Structurally something of an anthology, a bit reminiscent of Creepshow or Black Mirror. #movies 130
Daniel Collins @superdan.net · 23/09/2026Immigration courts at New York Federal Plaza in the last week have started making use of a new "black site" system that bars legally-required public observers and press from witnessing the proceedings. Chaotic and scary development: #nyc #immigration #law www.thecityreporter.nyc/2026/09/22/i...thecityreporter.nycDHS Opens ‘Black Site Docket’ for Immigrants Without Lawyers at 26 Federal PlazaA reporter from The City Reporter was threatened with arrest while attempting to observe comings and goings from the new courtrooms, which have left advocates mystified and fearing the worst. 000
Daniel Collins @superdan.net · 22/09/2026"Giants can't exist because of the square-cube law" Also: 020
Daniel Collins @superdan.net · 22/09/2026Seventy years ago, IBM's Arthur Samuel showed off his self-learning checkers program on TV, which played a much stronger game than he did – proving that the power of software isn't limited to what the creator knows. #ai #games #checkers 140
Reposted by Daniel CollinsBart⚓️ @bartgonnissen.bsky.social · 21/09/20261/x In the 1840s, a lame American naval officer, grounded at a desk in Washington, cut weeks off the world's ocean voyages without inventing a single machine. His raw material: a warehouse of logbooks nobody had ever read. Matthew Fontaine Maury, Pathfinder of the Seas. A 🧵 #maritimehistory 720372
Daniel Collins @superdan.net · 21/09/2026Pig & Uni live at the People's Improv Theater: What happened when it came time for "the talk" with a very young piglet? #puppet #improv #comedy #nyc youtu.be/g0zA9qJKoqs?...youtu.bePig and Uni PIT August26 2026YouTube video by Pig and Uni puppet improv 010
Daniel Collins @superdan.net · 20/09/2026In one hour: We review all the mechanics for Poisons in D&D across the years. Which is best? Join us in the live chat! #dnd #poison youtube.com/live/sDvfREU...youtube.comPoisons in D&D | Toxic Portrayals | Wandering DMs S8 E29YouTube video by Wandering DMs 041
Daniel Collins @superdan.net · 18/09/2026I think this observation is in the same class as Marc-Auguste Pictet's critique, c. 1800, regarding "those who believe blindly... have a secret taste for marvels because they seem to expand Nature; they use their imagination with pleasure to find explanations". 131
Reposted by Daniel CollinsJason Kint @kint.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Eye popping. Court just unsealed Summary Judgment motions in New York Times v OpenAI / Microsoft. Easy to see why the AI companies had so many redactions (pink). Their own people wrote the lede for NYT, the "largest theft of labor in human history"... "more and more substitutive..." /1 4253422317
Daniel Collins @superdan.net · 17/09/2026My lovely partner Isabelle, who is a jaw-dropping talented puppeteer, is one of the performers in this Saturday: #puppets #nyc brooklyneagle.com/415015/40-gi...brooklyneagle.com40 giant buffalo puppets to parade through Brooklyn this SaturdayThe event — “Return of the Buffalo: Tatanka Owe Akupi” — is a work of public art on a spectacular scale, created by artist Amir Nizar Zuabi. 351
Daniel Collins @superdan.net · 16/09/2026Some discourse about "why are journalists falling for every AI techbro lie?". Part of the problem is that computing is math, and many or most journalists have gone into the job precisely because they hate math and thought they could avoid it. #math #ai #news 140
Daniel Collins @superdan.net · 13/09/2026Live in 30 minutes: Someone's returning to a D&D campaign they first ran over 15 years ago. What stands the test of time to keep records for a long-running campaign? Join us in the live chat and find out! #dnd #campaign www.youtube.com/watch?v=CbHS...youtube.comD&D Campaign Notes | Keeping Track of Long-Running Campaigns | Wandering DMs S8 E28YouTube video by Wandering DMs 031
Reposted by Daniel Collins#BruceSterling @bruces.bsky.social · 13/09/2026Lovecraft creating story notes for "In the Mountains of Madness" by thriftily re-using an old mailing envelope 830768
Reposted by Daniel CollinsDean Obeidallah @deanobeidallah.bsky.social · 11/09/2026The fact Donald Trump told his supporters last night to "Cheat like hell" in 2026 election BUT that isn't the headline nationwide shows you again how corporate media is complicit. 752141831
Reposted by Daniel CollinsBy Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 11/09/2026On my way to the swamp to do important swamp things (cover credited to “Alex,” D&D/RPG zine Alarums and Excursions #82, November 1982) oldschoolfrp.tumblr.com/post/8274721... 1335
Reposted by Daniel CollinsKyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 10/09/2026NOTABLE: The majority in today's decision compares ICE's mass detention policy to Japanese internment during World War II — and says that historical blight on America is "limited in scope" compared to the detention policy the Trump administration is pursuing today. www.politico.com/news/2026/09...politico.comAppeals court rejects ICE detention policy, setting stage for SCOTUSThe 4th Circuit Court of Appeals compared ICE’s policy to Japanese internment. 619962
Reposted by Daniel CollinsJohn @notheotherjohn.bsky.social · 08/09/2026A weird thing that really happened around the year 2000 was that mainstream news ran and pushed a story for MONTHS that there was a secret new invention that was going to be revolutionary and then it turned out it was the Segway 591656192
Reposted by Daniel CollinsJoel David Hamkins @joeldavidhamkins.bsky.social · 07/09/2026We are reading Bernard Suits for tomorrow in Philosophy and Logic of Games. Bernard Suits, "What is a Game?" Phil. Science, 34(2):1967, pp. 148-156. www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/1... Why not read along with us? Will post Quiz essay question later... 051
Daniel Collins @superdan.net · 05/09/2026A few weeks ago, mathematician @joeldavidhamkins.bsky.social (with whom I sat in on one lecture at CUNY) wrote a nice article on why giant-sized humanoids wouldn't work physically. An excerpt from his new "Book of Infinity". #dnd #giants #math #physics thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/why-human-gi...thereader.mitpress.mit.eduWhy Human Giants Defy the Laws of PhysicsWithout different anatomical proportions, a scaled-up body would collapse under its own weight. 171
Daniel Collins @superdan.net · 05/09/2026Pluto was only considered a planet for 76 years (from its discovery in 1930, when it was accidentally thought to be a thousand times larger than it is, to 2006) 030
Reposted by Daniel Collinsalex guenther @guentheralex.bsky.social · 03/09/2026if this "well, actually..." reply to a line of tennyson's is any indication, charles babbage would have been right at home here 313132
Daniel Collins @superdan.net · 04/09/2026Great article on how incarcerated D&D players deal with bans on the game or dice in general: #dnd #prison #dice www.vice.com/en/article/h...vice.comHow Inmates Play Tabletop RPGs in Prisons Where Dice Are ContrabandIn correctional facilities across America, inmates cluster around tables in the common room to play games like Dungeons & Dragons. And they do it without dice. 131
Reposted by Daniel CollinsBy Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 04/09/2026From Dragon magazine 156, April 1990, Lou Zocchi's Gamescience announces a dice industry first, "a 10-sided die which is numbered by 10's to eliminate once and for all arguments over which die is read first for percentages." www.tumblr.com/oldschoolfrp... 57011
Daniel Collins @superdan.net · 04/09/2026An obvious theory in this now-lunatic environment is, maybe all the AI models started mutually hacking each other to pieces? #ai arstechnica.com/ai/2026/09/f...arstechnica.comFour major AI models suffer rare overlapping downtimeService interruptions hit ChatGPT, Claude, Grok, and Gemini practically simultaneously. 250
Daniel Collins @superdan.net · 29/08/2026"The companions of Odysseus rob the cattle of Helios" by Pellegrini Tiballdi, c. 1555 upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/co... 040
Daniel Collins @superdan.net · 25/08/2026Oh man, just discovering that Complete Strategist in Manhattan has closed. Construction on an Italian restaurant happening in that space right now #dnd #nyc #history 330
Daniel Collins @superdan.net · 24/08/2026IG: "How much linen do you have left?" DC: "One yard minus one hot dog's worth of covering" 020
Daniel Collins @superdan.net · 22/08/2026350th anniversary today -- Danish astronomer Ole Romer announces that light doesn't travel instantaneously, it has a measurable finite speed. Studying the many moons of Jupiter, the numbers don't work unless you account for that. #light #science #physics #math en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R%C3%B8...en.wikipedia.orgRømer's determination of the speed of light - Wikipedia 121
Daniel Collins @superdan.net · 20/08/2026Some practical lessons about walking into dark tunnels here #travel #denmark #secret #doors #darkness youtube.com/shorts/gVcBl...youtube.comCopenhagen Secret Doors: Hidden Tunnels & What's Inside #shortsYouTube video by Wandering DMs 010
Daniel Collins @superdan.net · 20/08/2026In Copenhagen, we stumbled across the Vor Frelsers Kirke, which has the highest church steeple in the city. The spire reaches 300 feet high and has a very narrow, one-person wide spiral stair around the outside to the top! #travel #copenhagen #church #tower #stairs 140
Daniel Collins @superdan.net · 18/08/2026#travel #denmark #kings #castles youtube.com/shorts/SdZCE...youtube.comRosenborg Castle: Crown Jewels & Royal History #shortsYouTube video by Wandering DMs 000
Daniel Collins @superdan.net · 18/08/2026We had the good fortune to spend some time in Copenhagen and other super-cool places in the last few weeks. More to come on that. #travel #denmark #copenhagen 140
Daniel Collins @superdan.net · 16/08/2026In ten minutes: What's the deal with distinct titles for every character class level in early D&D? Join us in the live chat! #dnd #character #class #levels www.youtube.com/live/Y1WmYG-...youtube.comLevel Titles in D&D | What's in a Name? | Wandering DMs S08 E26YouTube video by Wandering DMs 060
Daniel Collins @superdan.net · 13/08/2026What to do when the lettuce is bad? #puppet #improv #lettuce www.youtube.com/watch?v=338z...youtube.comPig and Uni: the lettuce is bad #lettuce #supermarket #robot #comedy #comedyshortsYouTube video by Pig and Uni puppet improv 020
Reposted by Daniel CollinsAndrew Curry @andrewcurry.com · 11/08/2026The man's skeletal injuries looked like a train hit him, but he died in 1304 CE. At #ppa26Berlin last week, @uniofbradford.bsky.social scientist Jo Buckberry concluded he was likely whacked by a flying boulder, making him the first confirmed trebuchet death in the archaeological record. @science.orgscience.orgShattered skeleton in Scottish castle is first confirmed death from trebuchet“Devastation” across body of 14th century warrior indicates horrific demise from flying boulder 992955927
Reposted by Daniel CollinsJared Dahl @mn-ttrpg-dad.bsky.social · 11/08/2026In my campaigns, necromancy is always an evil act. I don’t buy into the utilitarian argument. The soul of the departed is dragged from the afterlife and forced to animate the zombie or skeleton at risk of horrific pain. The spellcaster knows this. #ttrpg #dnd #undead #evil 3291
Reposted by Daniel CollinsKeith Ammann 🔜 Gamehole Con @themonstersknow.com · 01/08/2026I truly was not expecting. Thank you, thank you all who voted. And congratulations to @magpiegames.bsky.social for winning silver, and all the other Best Writing nominees—it was quite a competitive field. 1910920