As of this morning, Starbucks workers across the country are officially ON STRIKE. And we're prepared for this to become the biggest and longest ULP strike in Starbucks history. Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX

Come see us fumble through Infamous Traffic 2e!

Picked up @ckunzelman.bsky.social ‘s new book on my kobo today. Cannot wait to dig in to this

the promo for @ckunzelman.bsky.social’s assassins creed book is getting out of hand

SportClips waiting room is really a place for the fellas — I’m the youngest person in here by 20 years — and it’s also a place for outbursts. “He caint do that!” a man yells, pointing at the screen showing a football game highlight from two days ago. “He’s gonna get hurt! He caint be doin that!”

going to the SportClips midday is just an experience in listening to men attempt small talk with women who do small talk professionally and I think you can index a lot of modern culture in this zone. anyone done an anthropology book on this yet?

Behold: you can now see all 23 years of BYTE magazine in all its glory, all at once. Every issue on a single zoomable interface www.404media.co/byte-magazin...

It’s officially out!

Excellent new titles releasing today: -Mysterious Tales of Old Minneapolis, fiction by Larry Millett -Everything Is Permitted: On Assassin's Creed by @ckunzelman.bsky.social -By Their Work: Indigenous Women's Digital Media in North America, edited by Joanna Hearne and @karrmencrey.bsky.social

I’m been failing to write the new James Bond for years. The producers keep getting mad at me for doing my job. I’ve written dozens of pages about the exact way he blew up in that last one— gore trajectories, flesh burn rate, etc. They’re never happy, so I just start over with different math.

It's rumored that the next James Bond will be an enchanted pumpkin that can speak, sing, and even dance

annihilated from orbit, the only way to be sure

If you’ve got a weird TTRPG or board game or miniature game then I want to see it.

ive just discovered that you can do manual injection molding by blasting resin through a mold using a pipette

And if you’re like “I’m a game dev & I don’t see how a narrative person who is also a historian is helpful for me and my non-historical game” Then you can read my design diary about some of the work I’ve done for Amberspire (which has a fantasy sci-fi setting) lunardivision.net/micro-and-ma...

We've added 100 new CDs to our collection of press CDs from GamePro magazine, with thousands of pieces of game art, screenshots, and more So, what's the GamePro press CD collection? We put together an explainer

it was an absolute pleasure to interview the brilliant and thoughtful @vajra.me, whose writing frequently leaves me floored. the le guin prize is so well deserved

We return to the question of BASEBALL this month for a rather light lift on JUST KING THINGS, as a fairly solid co-authored short story is, for some reason, touted as a standalone novella with A FACE IN THE CROWD, giving us opportunity to discuss King's "cash-in" era: rangedtouch.com/2025/11/10/a...

If you still hunger for more JUST KING THINGS, our Patreon-exclusive BONUS EPISODE this month is a wide-ranging edition of the yearly Q&A special where Michael talks a great deal about Dean Koontz and CMRN shares a story about coyotes and brave wives: www.patreon.com/posts/just-k...

Sitting in a waiting room listening to two people in their 70s talking about how they used to have to buy chickens and kill them at home if they wanted meat. Just going forever on this. And then one of them said “life was simpler then.” It sounds like it wasn’t!

I will be at PAX Unplugged, but Danni will not be. I'll be doing mobile podcasting and checking out people's cool projects. If you have a cool project to show me (or just want to hang out), please let me know!

new horror story about men, women, animals and appetites please read and repost medium.com/@leighalexan...

I think a really bad byproduct of social media is that it allows you to know who is a mark at an obliterating rate. Just a cavalcade of learning who can be sold to and how.

I don’t want to become the sort of person who reads all of Tolkien in 2026, but I will do it for Shelved by Genre

Let's make it official: SHELVED BY GENRE's next unit, spanning ALL of 2026, will be a delve into the depths of modern genre with J.R.R. Tolkien's THE HOBBIT, THE LORD OF THE RINGS, and THE SILMARILLION. If you don't have those, you can grab them through our Bookshop: bookshop.org/lists/shelve...

and in case anyone thinks i'm just teeing up to be the ultimate hater with this, i'll have you know i've got my copy of the monsters and the critics at hand. i have a lot to say about what i think tolkien wanted his works to be versus what other people want them to be! 𝙄 𝙇𝙄𝙆𝙀 𝙏𝙃𝙀 𝙎𝙄𝙇𝙈𝘼𝙍𝙄𝙇𝙇𝙄𝙊𝙉

Little preview of the world you can explore in 'AUTOMATON HEART'

Are you a TTRPG self-publisher going to Pax Unplugged? Meet other creators and have a common spot/time to say hi to friends at the Self Pub Meet Up hosted by TTRPGkids! Let me know if you'll be there, and I'm looking forward to seeing folks at the con! #PaxU #PaxUnplugged #selfpub #TTRPG

Our Moore unit continues with another huge episode on From Hell, which I think really deserves the deep and complex discussion we gave it. Also, we announce what we'll be covering ALL of next year!

Listen to this episode to learn what reading Charles Fort books at age 11 does to a child (makes them grow up to host podcasts)

One of the most political and contested works going right now. A year of us engaging with this complex, weird series of books and figuring out what it’s all about. Subscribe now to Shelved By Genre to come along!

Super excited that we're hiring a senior writer to join @wired.com's culture team! If you're obsessed with internet culture and like our vibe, apply! condenast.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/CondeC...

this mf mad we’re talking about the wrong type of weird old englishman

Year of the Ring, babyyyyy time to talk about these books that have deeply shaped all of fantasy fiction, and which a bunch of reactionary techboys actively and eagerly misunderstand

One of the most political and contested works going right now. A year of us engaging with this complex, weird series of books and figuring out what it’s all about. Subscribe now to Shelved By Genre to come along!

FROM HELL rules and we get into THICK conversation here.

Future? No Thanks! Is officially releasing on the same day as GTA VI (whatever that is) so this gives 6 more months to finish it!

trash-tier organization. the craven way they attempted to use the future class as a "30 under 30"-esque fig leaf to make it seem like they were socially engaged, while actively treating that class as if they were trophies rather than humans, is disgusting.

One of my favourites from the IGF this year. I was so gutted when the preview ended, immediately wishlisted it and bought the first game in the series. This game is so clever and witty.

hell yeah brother

Is there a good grants database or blog post for games-friendly grants?

brother are you a fendor or a choppits? I’m more of a broc

really happy to be here at KCAH today

why is it so fucking dark

I’m at Dreamhack Atlanta for the next few hours.

going pretty good so far

I teach a field natural history course that’s very analog—a hand-written field journal, hands-on skill sessions, hours in nature each week. This very much tracks. My evals for that class emphasize the class’s impacts on how they think, and their mental health.

A sneaky weekend drop of the new GAME STUDIES STUDY BUDDIES, in which we spend 3 hours talking about a book that is 80 pages long! It's worth it, though, as few texts have been as impactful on how we talk about our present moment as Mark Fisher's CAPITALIST REALISM: rangedtouch.com/2025/10/31/8...