I work for a large biotech manufacturer doing field work. I -- and thousands of other field engineers -- are assigned company cars, which are all ICEs.

I have pointed out in the past that this is a mistake: we should at the very least, allow the engineers the choice to select an electric car from the options provided.

The fleet management team tested this out, but ultimately passed up on the option, because they wanted to shift towards reimbursing drivers instead of managing the fleet. They argued that this met everyone's needs, including allowing employees to drive electric if they want to buy one.

I think this is a big mistake: most people still find the transition complicated when shopping personally, but fleet program can manage a large number of vehicles purchasing, insurance, and maintenance much better, and is better equipped to help people get home chargers if they want. They literally piloted this exact program, and then chose not to expand it.

I want to contact relevant parties and try to assertively communicate that in this moment, we should all be in a war footing. This is an absolute crisis, and the company is clearly looking at simple options to do its part and leaving them unused because it's not aligned with their preferred proposal.

Can anyone help me collect up the shortest, most direct sources to share a five minute slide deck that says, "WAKE THE F*** UP! ROLL OUT THE PLAN YOU ALREADY SET UP AND TESTED, THIS IS AN EMERGENCY, PEOPLE!"

Files are here: https://thangs.com/designer/3DPrinty/3d-model/Braille%20Training%20Cell%20-%206MM-1037863

If anyone has seen the character Voidstar in the premades and wasn't aware, this YouTuber/Streamer is the real-life guy Voidstar is based on.

Antagonist "Gehirnwäsche" (Brainwash)

Cinnamon Telosa, attorney

The Trypnotist

Blind concert promoter Kellsey Vanezulla

In one encounter, the players are attacked by a squad of mysterious masked shock troops of some kind. Here is the cyberpunky look I gave them, along with distinct face plates meant to give the characters a way to easily distinguish and describe them.

Here are the other three:

Big thanks to @poVoq@slrpnk.net for setting us up with a wiki!

Right now, this is just a repository for game assets. Maps needed to run the first campaign can be easily found on this wiki, along with some other useful files.

If the game happens to be successful enough to inspire people to share their own stories, maps, and other content, this wiki could provide an invaluable central repository of any independently generated content. We'll see.

For now though, I'm really grateful to have such a resource. Again, @poVoq, thanks!

This is Deiter Gerhardt, aka "Mentok the Mindtaker!"

Mentok is a primary antagonist in our first collection of adventures. He picked his nom de hack by looking through a list of mind-controlling supervillains from classical literature and chose Mentok because he didn't really understand the contemporary context of who Mentok the Mindtaker is.

I give great thanks to @jackgross@slrpnk.net for this fantastic portrait.

This article describes the little-reported on success that Brown University had in disbanding student protest... by conceding to let activists present a case for divestment at an upcoming hearing before the university's investment board.

There's a lot of interesting considerations. The university did not agree to drop charges against forty students for rule violations, but the charged students themselves voted to accept the agreement under the belief that the overall offer was worth their own sacrifices.

Overall, I personally think this shows the irresponsibly unreported fact that negotiation with a protest IS an option that can serve the interests of both sides far better than state violence.

I commented on a post about the book "The Lost Cause", then followed up to mention that our game's setting is built on a similar vision to author Cory Doctorow's in that book. I communicated that we hope our game appeals to a similar audience. And Cory Doctorow saw this, and shared it with his followers!

Cory Doctorow has now officially heard of us, and apparently vibes with our general concept!

I packaged up six combat maps, a couple of maps for navigating regions, and some backgrounds to like dollhouses during play.

It was a lot of work. For each map, there's a PNG file with the hex grid, a PNG without the hex grid, the original SVG for editing, and a PDF containing the map broken into pages that can be printed and then lined up and taped to make the full map with a 0.75" hex grid.

Would anyone check these out and tell me if they look good?

Also: is there a better way to share these? I feel like people might be wary of downloading a 37 MB zip file from a stranger on Lemmy. Would people prefer that the files be stored on a cloud site like Dropbox instead of in a Zip file?

I'm back to drawing: I need to replace placeholder art with the final art. This is Duncan Harris, head of the data group at the Aquarius H2 Hydrogen plant.

Summer Lee cruised to a convincing victory on Tuesday night against a well-financed opponent who had hoped Lee’s outspoken opposition to Israel’s ongoing attack on Gaza would bring the freshman congresswoman down. With most of the vote counted, Lee leads Bhavini Patel with a blowout margin. The race was a test of the politics of Israel–Palestine, as Lee is among the Squad members who called for an early ceasefire and whom AIPAC had been hoping to take out.