I know stuff is scary right now but remember that Your mind is your most flexible and adaptive organ. With proper training you can divert, disperse, or shrug off even extremely powerful efforts to overpower it.

Weirdest Internet phenomenon is people treating blocking someone who’s being obnoxious or cruel as a sort of moral failure or act of cowardice. Buddy I will block someone for being even mildly annoying if they do it often enough. People are weird.

Obligatory gym selfie because my numbers haven’t dropped since having to fake a few weeks off for my shoulder to recover.

A good metric for how chronically online a lot of the people running the country are is the fact that when Charlie Kirk was shot, they acted like a major figure on par with Trump had been assassinated, and a MASSIVE chunk of people in the country said “who?”

It’s so funny how people on the internet always assume “everyone” on a platform is melting down because I’m pretty political and this is the first I’ve heard of it because my feed had been pretty mum on the topic beyond like… two people complaining about Ezra.

Halloween is just over a month away. This is my yearly reminder to any worried parents amongst my followers that drugs are too expensive to waste on strange children and nobody wants to get your kids high. And if someone's really into the good stuff they'll probably be too blazed to open the door.

If I’m the smartest person in the room I’m probably making some pretty arrogant assumptions about the intelligence of everyone around me.

One of the reasons I dislike AI art and writing so much that I DONT see mentioned enough is that it lacks the little imperfections that make human art unique, and that makes it boring.

Autumn is here.

“Father I have become one with the dust atop the cabinets.”

Today I learned that there’s an entire museum dedicated to my maternal great (a lotta greats) grandparents family in eastern Washington. They were immigrants of German descent who came to the US from the Russian empire in the 1800’s. We’re all descended from immigrants.

God, when people dog bigger accounts for turning off replies on a sensitive post it’s so freaking weird. Somewhere along the line we got the idea in our heads that “being a name means people get to scream at you in your direct field of vision as much as they like” and it’s insane.

An alt model for the Nemesis Dreadknight that I think is gonna be my next painting project. #warhammer40k

When I say “you have to be a bit of a horny freak about your hyperfocus in order to write it well,” that doesn’t necessarily mean sexually. It’s a euphemism for being so into what you’re talking about that you get weird about it. “Horny” here is just using charged language to get the point across.

Promote. Your. Art.

If they had the capacity to do this, it would be really bad. And they probably will try to do a couple of high profile examples to make you think they *do* have the capacity. But like a lot of stuff, this is a memo designed to get you to voluntarily stop doing stuff they don’t like.

Most cats don’t even like going near open water but a cat named Unsinkable Sam survived three warships sinking in WWII, one on the German side and two on the English side.

Okay I had to do a proper reveal. #hema

My current favorite genre of music is romantic ballads that sound ominous.

My favorite notification: “your package from Slovakia is out for delivery.” My swords are finally here.

One of the funniest things is how these right wing chuds front with a “mere words cannot hurt me” meme version of bargain basement mock stoicism then spend all their time obsessively trying to force people to not call them names. My dude if you had half an ounce of toughness you wouldn’t care.

People who hurry up to pass you when they’re just going to have to slow back down the second they get in front of you.

It’s kinda amazing how bereft of charisma Vance is. There’s nothing inspiring about his speech, compelling about his posture or face or demeanor. He’s a whiny little crapsmudge with the social appeal of a dead earthworm.

Nepo-babies don’t bother me. They’re always going to exist and if people have pre-existing familial or friendship industry connections they’re able to leverage, good for them. That said, Meghan freaking McCain complaining about them is hi-larious.

In hobby news, I have a new container for my supplies that looks really neat. #warhammer40k

The Egyptian boogeyman story is one of the scariest. Abu Rigl Maslukha (the man with the burned leg) is a man who was burned as a child because he didn't listen to his parents. Now he kidnaps disobedient children and burns them alive. Other cultures have their own, but Jesus this one is... damn.

Only a few months ago: “I have these grey knights I’ll paint them I guess.” Today: “I have purchased a pile of tools, an automatic hobby drill. An unholy amount of paint, multiple combat patrols, and am looking at installing a permanent paint station in my office. Oh god.” #warhammer40k

Blessed be oatmeal.

My beloved Elder army grows slowly but surely. It's time to paint the coolest Aspect Warriors; THE WARP SPIDERS. youtu.be/_Yj8zUnsxrU Watch me paint these amazing minis with NO HIGHLIGHTS! #warhammercommunity

this is how warhammer artists depict drukhari

I've never played any of the Civ games but man Baba Yetu makes me cry every time.

Hey all, a reminder that my next newsletter drops in a few days and it will have more awesome character art by @data2048.bsky.social for Glassblade as well as behind the scenes stuff and some other things! Also serialized chapters start in January! Come check it out. #booksky #writesky

Fantasy is when you fist fight the ghost of Tolkien. Science Fiction is where you body slam incorporeal Heinlein. Even if you love both these authors, you can't proceed in your genre without dueling them to at least first blood. You must face them as Jacob faced the angel.

Part of the reason we’re in this is that spreading disinformation is not something most people care to regulate. You can have free speech and still have legal guardrails on intentionally misrepresenting information.

Just for the record nothing is “just a distraction” except in that everything is designed to be one because they’re flooding the zone with shit so no one thing can be easily responded to as a group.

We have the strongest evidence yet that life once existed on Mars. NASA’s Perseverance Rover drilled into Mars’s Jezero crater and pulled up a piece of mudstone covered in markings that resemble those left behind by metabolizing microbes on Earth. buff.ly/BdWp207 #ShareGoodNewsToo

And this is before I go do a two hour HEMA class on footwork.

He’s obviously a dangerous ideologue but I’ve also noticed that Stephen Miller’s loudness is directly proportionate to his impotence on whatever he’s talking about. So if he’s publicly screaming his lungs hoarse about something, it’s probably something he can’t do anything about.

Apparently RFK jr et all kept using the word “Tylenol” in today’s announcement because dear leader can’t pronounce “acetaminophen” and now because they’ve used the brand name they’ve opened themselves to a massive lawsuit. Who knows what’ll happen but that small fact is very funny.

My shitty superpower is the demon voice in my head that thinks it can accurately predict the future by telling me what the worst possible bad faith interpretation of everything I do is.

My wife when people give bad financial advice in her earshot.

this fwiw is an astoundingly poor understanding of how the new deal coalition took shape and reveals a real inability to grapple with its contradictions

L O L ✨This is why I don’t fuck with doomers ✨ I don’t even like this guy but lfg

Having even a small public platform makes people suddenly say absolutely insane shit to you online that they’d never say in person without any regard for your humanity. This isn’t “poor me.” I have watched multiple friends with platforms go through the same, and much worse, than me.

Today is Arthur’s Day, or the anniversary of the day Arthur Guinness poured the first Guinness. So, yknow.

i see elon took care of that nasty bot problem on the hellsite

Brothers.

This comment that I made in a private conversation with a friend is my new default reaction to a lot of things.

What movie do you consider “perfect”?

My kids keep asking me to acquire skeletons so I keep acquiring skeletons. They want another one now.