oh no Lego, don't do this to me. I do not have $489CAD to throw around right now. www.lego.com/en-ca/produc...

heads up to anyone who holds trans kids near: amy harmon from the nyt is searching for and having a hard time finding people to interview to find out exactly what trans kids are doing when their care is limited or cut off, and for purposes of community safety, please shut the fuck up around her.

If you call upon the best people in romancelandia, no weapon formed against you shall prosper. @mostlybree.kitrocha.com made these whistles & is sending TONS mo’ to Chicago. I just made these whistle packets to hand out at Broadview ICE & elsewhere. Teamwork really makes the Fuck ICE dream work!! 💚👊🏻

Everyone please buy a copy of CHEETAH & CHESHIRE ROB THE JUSTICE LEAGUE. You'll enjoy it, and, if enough of you do, Greg & Nic might get to do another offbeat miniseries somewhere down the line. Support the weird, fun little projects that the Big Two try so we get more of them.

@aoc.bsky.social says of Mamdani victory: "A lot of people...are willing to talk about party unity when it serves them, but not party unity when it serves everybody." "We have a future to fight for, and we're either going to do that together or you're going to be left behind."

The transphobic messaging completely failed to help Republicans tonight. The anti-trans propaganda was a losing strategy which the GOP pushed all their chips in on, and it failed miserably. They lost every major race tonight.

I am no longer employed so I'm not blogging Zohran tonight but I can just repeat exactly what I said in June :-) he won on the back of a pro-migrant, pro-trans, pro-working class campaign. and also: Dem pundits are full of shit

I think a thing we'll learn tonight is that people fucking hate what is going on and they will straight ticket vote against anyone involved in starving people while pillaging the country and kidnapping their neighbors. I don't think it matters at all who that person is.

Finally, someone looking out for me, the aspirational yacht owner

The first book in the duology is The Witch Roads (starred review from Library Journal! a Library Reads pick for the month of June!) Both covers by Raja Nandepu. us.macmillan.com/books/978125...

Here’s the reason I spoke to so many video game actors. I attended the launch of TIVA, an independently run audiobook series with all of your favourite voice actors, aiming to fight back against AI and corporations, featuring an all female/non-binary cast. www.thegamer.com/tiva-intervi...

Death in the Spires ebook is on cheap at Amazon UK in November! Get your Edwardian academia murder mystery with extra pining right here! (I do not control sales for this book, I don't know if it will price drop anywhere else, sorry.) www.amazon.co.uk/Death-Spires...

At 7 studios over the years, only one wasn't beset by dysfunctional leadership. Another was only functional for one of their several projects. It doesn't start making sense when you become a lead or director, you just get paid more to shout into the void trying to change it.

I posted this on my website long enough ago that it's under the old name. Makes dinner for a family of 4 with leftovers for the next day, for under $30 (I'd say under $20, but vegetables have been getting more expensive.) trickweekes.com/2020/10/01/p...

Mike Johnson: ‘My Christian Faith Is More About Not Jacking Off Than Feeding The Poor’

Albertans are you tired of your useless UPC MLA? Well, check the recall website, get involved, kick ass. Remember: some of them only won their seats by handfuls of votes. They wanted the recall ability so much (b/c of the evil socialists). Well, use it against them. 🤘 operationtotalrecall.ca

Teen Vogue has been doing incredible politics work for almost a decade. This is a terrible development.

If they keep making the calculus "I could be shot by the government in the street at random," historically, that tends to result in a populace deciding to proactively and kinetically protect their communities. Not a recommendation, just an observation 🤷‍♂️

I'm going to be honest it is unpleasant to work in the discipline within the games industry that people seem to have especially-reserved venom for. Nobody seems really intent on calling out, eg, video game sountracks they think are middling as if it's really important to yell about.

*Good* books. Courtney writes *good* books that you will probably enjoy reading on these distinctly ungood times. Books in which people are warm and gentle and kind with each other and the ending is happy!

This game is my favorite in the "puzzle game but masquerading as turn-based-tactics" genre (is that a genre? Who cares, it's great).

Just watched the Wednesday Season 2 finale, and my biggest takeaway is that I think they should've opened with big text reading "THE WOE SO FAR" and then a whimsically macabre cello cover of "Carry On Wayward Son" over a recap of major season events.

It’s basically Deep Space Nine.

Writers and game designers looking for an example of "Give the audience what they need, not what they're telling you they want," should feel free to use as example the amount of toasted bread crumbs that I, a person who loves toasted bread crumbs, put on the mac & cheese casserole tonight.

Sometimes i get sad at those “I wanted to look up what kind of horse pulled medieval wagons It’s three hours later and playtex bra sewers made spacesuits i have a problem” no. No, you don’t. Hydrate and get back in there

Alan Moore knows the score

If you hear "1 in 50 Americans received food stamps in 1970 and now 1 in 8 do" and your first instinct isn't "damn you Reagan" but "should more people starve?" then it may be too late for you to fix your heart.

See also my epic thread explaining some of the background of the American Heresy bsky.app/profile/raha...

“Since the billboards have gone up, DeBarros said she’s hearing from National Guardsmen who are preparing to deny mobilization orders, as troops did in California and are preparing to do so in Chicago.” Very encouraging! 2 vet-led groups sponsoring. taskandpurpose.com/news/vet-gro...

This whole thread. “Oh no, someone might eat food!” Good. That’s good. “They might buy something they like.” Cool. “They might get a treat!” Also cool.

A reminder that Slippery Creatures is on sale everywhere just for the weekend!

Focaccia full of freeze dried 3d printed whistles. I've been training for this all year

If you want to help: linktr.ee/apwhistles

DC Preview: Cheetah and Cheshire Rob the Justice League #4 - Cheshire and Cheetah have a secret plan to rob the Justice League! @gregrucka.com @nicolascottart.bsky.social #comicsky #JusticeLeague #DCComics Read the preview here:

Don’t unionize: fired Try to unionize: believe it or not also fired

🍂 Sharing eerie and autumnal pieces every Monday/Friday to Halloween 🎃 Happy Halloween! Since it's the 1-year anniversary of Dragon Age: The Veilguard, today's story is Hunger. A village, a curse, monsters in the woods. Evka & Antoine's first adventure. Find Hunger in Dragon Age: Tevinter Nights

“some people abuse SNAP” your soul is rotten

Oogie Boogie is the art director who is openly trying to take over the project despite not having played a video game since 1997

Kid is watching Nightmare before Christmas and I'm realizing that it works really well as an allegory for That Type of executive in games 😅 "Yeah I know we're doing fine with the original plan but I saw a new thing and now we're going to change everything and you have to crunch"

Seeing the size of this thread, with places all over the U.S., was a warm hug on a cold night.

Daggerheart success! The heroes stopped a ritual taking place in a military history museum, specifically the (this world equivalent of) Egyptian/Ancient World section.

I always get drawn back to Al Gore telling voters that he’d only raise taxes on the top 1% and then after the election a poll showed that something like 20% of voters thought they were in the top 1% and another 20% thought they would be in the next five years. Just a total tragic disconnect.

Preparing to make a hard left turn from today's work in learning a new scripting language to go have TTRPG Night with friends. Putting trigger-volume-logic back in the mental drawer and pulling out Daggerheart action roll mechanics!

Murder by Memory: for all your sapphic spaceship murder mystery needs, starring a gimlet-eyed aunt and her feckless nephew on a thousand-year journey and where minds are stored in book form for when you need to put them in a new body. Usually the right one, but not this time …

www.ctvnews.ca/edmonton/art... Smith’s trip to Middle East draws criticism amid back-to-school mandate #abpoli #ableg #alberta #MiddleEast #trip #lavish #NotWithstanding #clause #MIA #SaudiaArabia #FireTheUCP #FireSmith #UCPCorruption #teachers #StandWithABTeachers

Exxon says it can't reveal how much pollution it makes because doing so would force it to “serve as a mouthpiece for ideas with which it disagrees.” Which is just the "homework is against my religion" excuse, if the student saying it killed 8 million people a year.

Holy. Shit. The greatest living horror writer is doing a podcast.

Update on this: We're going to start Saturday (most likely) and the plan is to run out and pick up movie popcorn (like, from the theatre). And here's my listing of Tom Cruise movies, in order. Final Reckoning is not on the list b/c this was done before it came out.

I've been thinking about Veilguard's anniversary for months now. What could I say? What should I say? Should I say anything? I loved this game at launch, I love it today, I love everything it brought into my life. That's that (in 4000 words cuz I yap too much) gamerant.com/dragon-age-v...