Currently reading @seananmcguire 's The Innocent Sleep. Non-spoilery thoughts follow. 1. If I had to fall 3 books behind, these last three (of which this one's the third) are the right ones to read back to back to back. 1/?
2. For The Untamed/Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation fans, at the beginning of Be the Serpent, @seananmcguire has reached peak Jin Ling's Uncle. I find this glorious (says the gm whose thing is tangling PCs and NPCs in one family tree). 2/?
3. Have started @seananmcguire 's The Innocent Sleep, and realized 28 pages in -- and this is NOT a spoiler, just a realization -- yes, Dianda is dangerous, obviously, but... Patrick? Patrick is effin' dangerous. 3/3
This is why good physical bookstores rock. I went to Kinokuniya to pick up Don't Call It Mystery 7-8 and naturally browsed the books. And I learned that @tjbentonwalker wrote a book I didn't know about (Alex Wise vs The End of the World).
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Here's the table of contents again so you can see who wrote what.
Follow all these great creators!
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And extra thanks to:
Bridgett Jeffries @SymphonyEntert3 for proofreading
Eileen Tjan @eileentjan for our great logo
and behind the scenes help:
Paco Jaen @gmsmagazine
Tristan Oberon @tristanoberon
Rachel Ivey
Thank you all!
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The amazing art was by:
Holly Humphries @HolBolDoTweet
Evan Johnston @evn_johnston
Greg Steele
Matthew Hoddy @mkhoddy
Paula “Orca” González Delgado @Orcadice
Petri Hiltunen
Thorsten Kettermann
and Toren Atkinson @thickets
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Hi everyone! Thank you for the great response to the new issue coming out yesterday!
If you missed any of the previous issues, all 5 are still available! drivethrurpg.com/browse/pub/…
We just wanted to thank all of our amazing contributors for their amazing work in Bayt al Azif 5!
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Our great writers (part 1) this issue:
Dean Engelhardt @cthulhu_reborn
Jo Kreil @KreilJo
John Scott Tynes
Justin Alexander @hexcrawl
Lisa Padol @drcpunk
Oscar Rios @GoldenGoblinP
Paul Fricker @PaulFricker
Ricard Ibáñez @ibanez_ricard
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Jonas Salk, inventor of polio vaccine: "There is no patent. Could you patent the sun?"
Frederick Banting, inventor of insulin: "Insulin does not belong to me. It belongs to the world."
Moderna CEO Stéphane Bancel: 400% price hike on COVID vaccine is "consistent with the value."
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However, Covid STILL killed 238k (preliminary) U.S. lives in 2022, still by far the deadliest contagion year-wide, and the 3rd leading cause of death again, for the 3rd year running.
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The key point in the Biden classified documents story is that after Biden's lawyers discovered the classified documents Biden followed the law, while Trump broke it.
politicususa.com/2023/01/09/… via @politicususa
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Narrator Call! Voice needed for 500w story ft. young Hawai'ian female protagonist
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Reminder as we wait for the 118th Congress to officially begin: clawing back funding for the IRS is high priority for House Republicans—because a defunded IRS means its easier for the ultra-rich and special interests to cheat taxes.
washingtonpost.com/opinions/…
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Yet another Pokémon NFT scam is out in the wild, but this one is dangerous
stealthoptional.com/news/pok…
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I don't like to use this account to talk outrage, so I've been mostly quiet about the #dnd5e situation the past few days; I've been way too pissed to say anything productive.
I've finally settled enough, so, here's my🧵: why this is a disaster for everyone, WotC included.
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“Everyone is getting sick a lot and increasingly many people are really sick all the time” is a bad way to live. We can’t just keep pretending this is normal.
What concerns me more than the height of peaks at this new point in SARS-CoV-2 variant evolution is the non-low of the troughs. In fact, every Omicron *low* has been higher than the Delta *peak*. This means a sustained pressure on an already exhausted healthcare system.
ALT Hospitalizations in Canada, showing that the low points have gotten higher and higher since Omicron -- all of the *lows* for Omicron are higher than the *peak* for Delta.
