Marieke | Crossover

Writer and editor | RPGs | Cynic, Former Optimist | Will Bore You With Pictures of Pets | Creator of Worlds | Writes Words Well Good |

Crosswords | Crossover

[Marieke | Crossover @MariekeCross]

Huge thanks to the @TheKindGM for the lovely review! It is wonderful to see that so many people enjoy a good scary story. Michal and I are hard at work developing a new horror-themed campaign setting for our next release. More to come...
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[Ben Cohen @YoBenCohen]

Unilever / Magnum stopped Ben & Jerry’s from creating a flavor for Palestine — so I’m doing it
myself.
I’ve got a watermelon, an empty pint, and I need your help:
Name the flavor or suggest ingredients
Or design the pint packaging
Tag @yobencohen, @MagnumGlobal use #JusticeforPalestine to submit
Use your voice when Ben & Jerry’s can’t — to secure peace, justice, and dignity in Palestine
#FreeBenandJerrys

[Marieke | Crossover @MariekeCross]

@RENEGAD11720844 @jenna_ethereal Sjeesh, people don't have to smile for anyone if they don't want to.

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[Marieke | Crossover @MariekeCross]

It is that time of year again...

[Bill Madden @maddenifico]

This analogy. 🎯🎯🎯👇

[Nitin Singh 🍃 @Kohlliers]

@chancetherapper Ben Cohen, co-founder of Ben & Jerry's Ice Cream, launches a campaign to "Free Ben & Jerry's" from Unilever because of silencing Ben & Jerry from speaking out on the genocide in Gaza and other social justice issues

[Marieke | Crossover @MariekeCross]

In the scorching desert heat your investigation into two brutal murders lead you to uncover a deadly secret.
Mystery of the Soulless Dead — your next short adventure for D&D 2024 edition, only $4.99 for launch week!
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[Marieke | Crossover @MariekeCross]

Step into Teriq: a desert city where an ancient evil has awoken. Mystery of the Soulless Dead — maps, puzzles, mystery, and intrigue — for D&D 2024 edition.
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[Marieke | Crossover @MariekeCross]

Two deaths in the city of Teriq. Nothing about them adds up. Can your party uncover the truth? Your next adventure awaits — Mystery of the Soulless Dead, now for D&D 2024 edition.
🎉 Launch promo: only $4.99!
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[Marieke | Crossover @MariekeCross]

Need an investigation for your party to sink their teeth into? Mystery of the Soulless Dead drops you into Teriq: a desert city that bites back. It is filled with danger, secrets, and intrigue.
✅ Ready to run for D&D 2024 edition.
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[Marieke | Crossover @MariekeCross]

Desert heat, dark secrets, and a city that hides more than sand… Mystery of the Soulless Dead is live for D&D 2024 edition! Solve the mystery. Survive.
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#DnD2024 #TTRPG #mystery @dms_guild

[Marieke | Crossover @MariekeCross]

Two deaths. One desert city. Infinite questions.
Mystery of the Soulless Dead — for D&D 2024 edition.
Can your party uncover the secrets that await in Teriq?
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#DnD2024 #TTRPG #adventure #mystery

[Dungeon Masters Guild @dms_guild]

Mystery of the Soulless Dead is available now.

Get it here: https://t.co/qaeyu5lLJn

When two victims are found their souls snuffed out of existence, further misfortune surely is to follow.
#dnd5e #dungeonsanddragons

[Marieke | Crossover @MariekeCross]

Explore the city of Teriq and delve into a hidden temple in the desert. Solve brutal murders and uncover an infernal conspiracy. Mystery of the Soulless Dead — a level 1 D&D adventure comes with 2 maps, 30+ NPCs, new magic items, and creatures! Out now!
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[Marieke | Crossover @MariekeCross]

What starts as a murder mystery ends in an infernal conspiracy. Our new trailer is now live: https://t.co/nbVEvHVKPo

[Occupy Democrats @OccupyDemocrats]

BREAKING: The White House melts down and attacks music legend Jack White after he insults Donald Trump's "disgusting" and "vulgar" redecoration of the White House — prompting White to unleash a scathing takedown for the ages.

MAGA should have just left well enough alone...

“Jack White is a washed-up, has-been loser posting drivel on social media because he clearly has ample time on his hands due to his stalled career,” claimed White House spokesman Steven Cheung.

In truth, White is still enormously popular and successful, far more so than any of the actually washed up musicians and "celebrities" that
MAGA likes to trot out as Trump supporters.

“It’s apparent [White]’s been masquerading as a real artist, because he fails to appreciate, and quite frankly disrespects, the splendor and significance of the Oval Office inside of ‘The People’s House,'” Cheung added.

The idea that agreeing with Trump's infamously tacky interior design sensibilities is a prerequisite for being a "real artist" is laughable. Donald Trump has always had awful taste in aesthetics.

Cheung's remarks led to White posting a lengthy screed on Instagram, in which he listed off Trump's staggering number of failures and scandals—

"Listen, I’m an artist and not a politician so I’m in no need to give my answer or opinion on anything if I’m not inspired or compelled, but how funny that it wasn’t me calling out trump’s blatant fascist manipulation of government, his gestapo ICE tactics, his racist remarks about Latinos, Native Americans, etc. his ridiculous 'wall' construction, his attacks on the disabled, his attempted coup and mob insurrection and destruction of the sacred halls of congress, his disparaging sexist and pedophilic remarks about women, his obvious attempts at distraction about being a close personal friend of Jeffrey Epstein and his inclusion in the Epstein files, his ignorance of the dying children in Sudan, Gaza, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo, his lack of empathy for military veterans and those struggling with poverty, his attempts to dismantle healthcare, his obvious wimpy and pathetic kowtowing to the dictators Putin and Kim Jong Un, his nazi like rallies, his attempts to sell merchandise and products like Goya beans through the office of the President, his fake 'gunshot to the ear' that he showed no medical records or photographs of, his constant, constant, constant lying to the American people, etc. etc. etc." White wrote.

"No, it wasn’t me calling out any of that, it was the f*cking DECOR OF THE OVAL OFFICE remarks I made that got them to respond with insults," he continued. "How petty and pathetic and thin skinned could this administration get? 'Masquerading as a real artist'? Thank you for giving me my tombstone engraving! Well here’s my opinion, trump is masquerading as a human being."

"He’s masquerading as a christian, as a leader, as a person with actual empathy," he wrote. "He’s been masquerading as a businessman for decades as nothing he’s involved in has prospered except by using other people’s money to find loophole
after loophole and grift after grift."

"His staff of professional liar toadies like Steven Cheung and Karoline Leavitt have been covering up and masking his fascism as patriotism and fomenting hatred and division in this country on a daily basis," White went on. "And I have 'ample time on (my) hands'? That orange grifter has spent more tax payer money cheating at golf than helping ANYONE in the country. Improve. Anything. There is no progress with him, only smoke and mirrors and tax breaks for the ultra wealthy."

"So maga folk, enjoy your concrete paving over of the rose garden, your 200 million dollar ballroom in the White House, and your gaudy ass gold spray painted trinkets from Home Depot, cause he ain’t spending any money on helping YOU unless you fit into his white supremacist country club rich idiot agenda," he continued."

"Wow, he hates who you hate....good for you, be proud of yourselves, how christian of you all," White went on.

"The only way you can support this conman is because you are a victim of the 2 party system and you 'defend your guy no matter what he does.'" he wrote. "No intelligent person can defend this low life fascist. This bankruptor of casinos. This failed seller of trump steaks, trump vodka, trump water, etc."

"This man and his goon squad have failed upwards for decades and have fleeced the American people over and over," wrote White. "This professional golf cheat, this grifter who has hundreds of thousands of deaths from his inaction of the pandemic on his hands, this man that the majority of the country somehow were fooled into supporting and voting into office (through the flawed electoral college) and their love of reality
television stars."

"Being insulted by the actual White House that this particular conman leads is a badge of honor to me, because anyone who trump supports and likes is a villain who gives nothing to their fellow man, only takes what can benefit themselves," he continued.

"And no I’m not a Democrat either, I’m a human being raised in Detroit, I’m an artist who’s owned his own businesses like his own upholstery shop and recording label since he was 21 years old who has enough street sense to know when a 3 card monte dealer is a cheap grifter and a thief," he concluded before signing his name.

In his Instagram post, White also shared a photo of Trump hawking his ugly golden sneakers, one of Trump selling MAGA merchandise at the White House, and memes about Trump scandals. He also wrote a caption—

"I was raised to believe that we defeated fascism in World War II and that we would never allow it again in the world. I don't always state publicly my political opinions, and like anyone I don't always know all of the facts, but when it comes to this man and this administration I'm not going to be like one of the silent minority of 1930's Germany. This man is a danger to not just America but the entire world and that's not an exaggeration, he's dismantling democracy and endangering the planet on a daily basis, and we. all. know. it. -JW III... 'To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.' - Theodore Roosevelt"

By just about any metric, this is one of most brutal, comprehensive takedowns of Donald Trump to date. Let's hope that the White House hits back again, so that Jack White has an excuse to tear into him even more.

Please retweet and ❤️ to thank Jack White for speaking the truth!

[Brandon Stanton @humansofny]

“When I entered Gaza the Israeli military had a rule: I was only allowed to bring in three kilos of food. As I was weighing out protein bars, trying to get under the limit, I said to my husband: ‘How sinister is this?’ I’m a humanitarian aid worker. Why would there even be a limit on food? I’ve worked in many places with extreme hunger, but what’s so jarring in this context is how cruel it is, how deliberate. I was in Gaza for two months; there’s no way to describe the horror of what’s happening. And I say this as a pediatric ICU doctor who sees children die as part of my work. Among our own staff we have doctors and nurses who are trying to treat patients while hungry, exhausted. They’re living in tents. Some of them have lost fifteen, twenty members of their families. In the hospital there are kids maimed by airstrikes: missing arms, missing legs, third degree burns. Often there’s not enough pain medication. But the children are not screaming about the pain, they’re screaming: ‘I’m hungry! I’m hungry!” I hate to only focus on the kids, because nobody should be starving. But the kids, it just haunts you in a different way. When my two months were finished, I didn’t want to leave. It’s a feeling I haven’t experienced in nearly twenty years of humanitarian assignments. But I felt ashamed. Ashamed to leave my Palestinian colleagues, who were some of the most beautiful and compassionate people that I’ve ever met. I was ashamed as an American, as a human being, that we’ve been unable to stop something that is so clearly a genocide. I remember when our bus pulled out of the buffer zone. Out the window on one side I could see Rafah, which was nothing but rubble. On the other side was lush, green Israel. When we exited the gate, the first thing I saw was a group of Israeli soldiers, sitting at a table, eating lunch. I’ve never felt so nauseous seeing a table full of food.”

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Aqsa Durrani is a pediatric doctor and board member of Doctors Without Borders USA, with nearly twenty years of experience in humanitarian projects. During our interview Aqsa repeatedly expressed a desire to center the voices of her Palestinian colleagues. To this end I’ve spent the past week collecting stories from the Palestinian staff of Doctors Without Borders in Gaza. I will be sharing these stories over the next several days. I’m so grateful for the time that these people gave me; they were sleepless, hungry, traumatized, and often working 24-hour shifts. Because of the unreliable internet connection their images are sometimes grainy. Their words, however, will be crystal clear.

[Howard Beckett @BeckettUnite]

The Freedom Flotilla announces its intention to set sail again:

This time dozens of boats;
Coordinated from 44 countries;
Carrying aid, food, medicine & doctors;

The 18 year siege of Gaza 🇵🇸 to be broken:

Opposing Israel 🇮🇱
Freeing Palestine 🇵🇸
Supporting humanity.