Rowan Mysel Zeoli

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The note is handwritten and reads, "They investigated me for month - Found NOTHING!!!" The writing is difficult to read but appears to say, "So 16 year old charges resubmitted." Then it reads, "It is a treat to be able to choose one's time to say goodbye. Watcha want me to do - Bust out cryin!! NO FUN, NOT WORTH IT!"
NYPD guarding ICE agents who are standing over a incapacitated man on the ground in an ER bay
A poster for an EMERGENCY MOBILIZATION NO BOMBS • NO TRUMP END THE WAR ON IRAN 7:30 PM APRIL7 FOLEY SQUARE
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Fuck AI, Fuck Plagiarism Rascals, by their very nature, will never plagiarize another's work and will never utilize generative artificial intelligence in any capacity in our reporting. Any journalist who commits plagiarism will be held to account for their actions - up to and including proper attribution, removal of their work from our site, and a termination of their work with Rascal. If you, dear reader, suspect any plagiarism or AI-generated content on Rascal: tell us immediately.
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SILENCE Which Serves As The Foundation Of All Creativity
Rowan in a red and black rose patterned dress in a pink bathroom
A steert in Bushwick New York flooded up to the middle of tires on a white van driving through the water.
A woman in a skirt and bells standing in front of an armored military vehicle.
A Wikipedia screenshot: His 1978 book Which Way Western Man? was republished by National Vanguard Books in 2003. Some quotes from this book include: I am not naturally a man of violence, but there is one thing from the thought of which I shrink more than from violence or its consequences, and that is the thought that our people may not rise to throw off the death that is being clamped upon them. The point is to reveal organized Jewry as a world power entrenched in every country of the White man's world, operating freely across every nation's frontiers, and engaged in a ruthless war for the destruction of them all. Let me preface what I am about to say by declaring frankly that I am prepared to accept violence on the part of our people. The Jews' hold on our throat is not going to be relaxed until we break their grip. Hitler felt that he had to take to the streets. All normal approach to his people was... en.m.wikipedia.org
Aug 07 protest til tok video, with a river of protesters in downtown LA
A very positive Covid test
A thermometer that says 100.6 degrees Fahrenheit
A woman in the fruit aisle of a grocery store a grocery store: is this hell? A man across from her: fuit aisle Her: the one resent moment is both eternal and painful Him: they got orange Her: truly it's worse
I was curious about Daggerheart from the beginning. Spenser Starke, the lead designer on the project, had described this as his own "fantasy heartbreaker" - a term coined in 2002 by Ron Edwards to describe the swaths of D&D retroclones that attempted to supplant the venerable product. (The term has historically been used pejoratively, but it has come back into vogue as a game descriptor within the past few years.)
A sticker of a pixelated water droplet on a floppy disk on a green bathroom wall
21% of the way through joyful militancy, building thriving resistance in toxic times by Nick Montgomery and carla bergman
A packed audience of queer and trans folks
A picture of me at the bell house during the annual T4T comedy show, in a blue dress
A panel for a talk at games for change that cited Adrian Ruiz from ButWhyTho?
Headline saying Andrew Cuomo concedes the race for democratic primary on NY1
Three cute people canvassing for zohran with the working families party
A tired girl holding Working Families Party Literature for canvassing
A citizen screenshot showing a number of fire trucks with updates showing firefighters at the scene working to extinguish four vehicles o fire, with police searching for a suspect who is believed to have started the fires before fleeing on foot.
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Pixel heart tattoo on an arm
If you are hot, regardless of gender, you have some version of an advantage in comedy. It's not as much of an advantage as, say, well- connected rich family members, but it's not nothing. If you're pursuing acting on top of comedy, it's even more of a leg up. At its most simplified, people want to look at you, so they listen to what you're saying. They think you look good, so they're more open to your jokes being good. You get a thousand thirst comments, and now you're being boosted in the algorithm we all hate to feed but must. At hotness's best, the halo effect is absolutely real. At its worst, hotness is a double-edged sword that comes with disadvantages ranging from people taking you less seriously to dehumanization to violent harassment, especially for women. It can make your career, but it can also make you wish you'd never been in front of an audience in the first place. Even with the occasional advantage hotness brings, I can't say anyone wins here.
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An excel spreadsheet that says the library of alexandria
Two big fuck off bookshelves of tabletop games
Surveillance footage of the woods, with a giant red button on a podium in the center
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They had not considered that pardoned insurrectionists, family members, or their supporters might attend these games; or that the inherently political nature of this game would evoke anything more than conversation in a country where guns can be carried with near-impunity, which is true even for liberal Brooklyn. Their answers regarding everyone involved in that day, referring to both insurrectionists and police as little more than pawns to larger powers, also overlook the very long history of right-wing paramilitary organization that has occurred over the last few decades in preparation for this moment — preparation which enabled this attempted coup in the first place. Art does not exist outside of the context of its subject, especially when confronting such a volatile political event that has not yet become history. To view themselves as outside the influence and impact of these violent implications is an act of ignorance and privilege that I hope the team behind Fight for America! takes into serious consideration before staging this performance again. If they do not, they run the risk of endangering their players and themselves.
In the center of a repurposed Brooklyn warehouse loomed a scale model of the U.S. Capitol, as imposing a symbol of empire as the real building a couple hundred miles to the south. Surrounding it stood a line of blue-uniformed miniatures — police, meant to protect the election certification going on inside. Just beyond them, an ocean of red and white, miniatures of men and women holding flags that proclaimed that the time for revolution had come; the time to make America great again was here at last. 
Trans and gender-diverse people have always existed. In every culture, people defy the rigidity of binary sex. Looking through the history of how people view and express gender identity, the following cycle tends to repeat itself: 1 Powerful people view individual autonomy and expression as a challenge to their authority. 2 They incite moral panic to marginalize and eradicate trans people. 3 This ultimately fails. 4 They assimilate gender diversity into the larger culture. 5 A new group attempts to gain power. 6 Begin again at step one.
Believe Nothing Until It Is Officially Denied CLAUD COCKBURN AND THE INVENTION OF GUERRILLA JOURNALISM By Patrick Cockburn
A tweet from 2023 that says: Somehow, even with all the chaos that's happened in my life, I published 23 articles this year. Next year, I'm gonna publish 10x that many. Y'all aren't ready for what's about to happen
How do you keep a separation between journalism and marketing when writing about a niche? Rowan can help you with that, like she did at Rascal for tabletop roleplaying games. "I graduated high school into Donald Trump's election and then I graduated college into the pandemic. Every major life milestone that I've had has been disrupted by some big unprecedented event. And I'm like, all right, well, I guess everything's gonna burn. So I might as well build something up from the ashes while it's burning. So that way when everything else is gone, I have something."
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Even in an open-world video game, players have shared experiences interacting with characters and locations provided by a development team, regardless of when or how the game is played. Meanwhile, in tabletop role-playing, every single table has a different interpretation even when playing in official D&D settings. The collaborative element of a TTRPG relies on the improvisation and adaptability of the story to the player's needs. Video games, by their very nature, do not do that. When a game is in your mind and not a developer's, it can be anything and everything. And so, to combat this lack of a unified play experience, the episode attempts to hit recognizable touchstones fans of D&D as a brand might recognize. In doing so, it misses the magic of what makes tabletop games special.
Even in an open-world video game, players have shared experiences interacting with characters and locations provided by a development team, regardless of when or how the game is played. Meanwhile, in tabletop role-playing, every single table has a different interpretation even when playing in official D&D settings. The collaborative element of a TTRPG relies on the improvisation and adaptability of the story to the player's needs. Video games, by their very nature, do not do that. When a game is in your mind and not a developer's, it can be anything and everything. And so, to combat this lack of a unified play experience, the episode attempts to hit recognizable touchstones fans of D&D as a brand might recognize. In doing so, it misses the magic of what makes tabletop games special.
A stack of so many books
Katherine cross's Log Off
My alt account
Cover of hellwhalers, an old wooden etching of a whale on a red background
Article about Subclasses Revivified on the front page of polygon
A VERY GOOD drawing of Rowan
Kickstarter's Al policy allows for projects to use generative Al tools as long as they are disclosed. While some projects have explicit "human-made" statements on their platform, and the rare few like Draconis 8 have detailed explanations of their Al use, other projects, such as the canceled Legends Odyssey TCG, which uses Al in a similar format to Draconis 8, relegate any mention of Al to the frequently asked questions section. Many projects on Kickstarter have no statement regarding the technology at all.
Sulu holding a dog in a costume with a horn, pure camp
The survivorship bias plane photo
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A former executive level employee claims to have held weekly meetings with Rozmiarek but was not allowed access to WoGD's full financials; those were Nielsen's exclusively. Multiple sources have alleged that Nielsen repeatedly said there is a lot of "Voodoo math that goes into making this all work" when referencing the company's financials. "He liked to make it known that the stuff that he does behind the scenes is above our heads," said one former employee. "I thought he was doing some kind of a 'hey, IRS, look over here at all the money that I'm losing. Don't pay attention to the money that I'm making over here. And, who's to say? If he is doing that, he's not doing it very well." When asked directly about the phrase "Voodoo math", Nielsen stated he "did not recall" using it.
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