I'm never going to financially recover from this.

Bleak House!!! Honestly this book—like so many other novels published in parts—makes so much more sense when you think of it as a long serialized soap opera that you wait and devour in sections. (I'm still annoyed by the orphans tho) 🔒

This guy had better be in Pentiment 2.

A wonderful little overview on bookbinding, I’m going to send this to everyone who asks me what I do.

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I don't give a shit if you think porn is yucky, or if transness confuses you, or if seeing/hearing a foreigner makes you uneasy, GET THE FUCK OVER IT. If you lst the government take rights from those people, ANY PEOPLE, then NOBODY has rights. They'll find a way to criminalize you too, promise.

If democrats are interested in losing in 2028, they need look no further for a candidate than Gavin Newsom. A familiar voice interested in pushing the party even further to the right, he will gain no votes from whatever ghoul to republicans manage to run and lose votes from every day americans.

Today was a tiring but fulfilling day of taking a class of teenagers to a private library and seeing some absolutely wonderful (and bizarre) books.

Over on our stream, they've They've put me on trial for "stealing the Big Egg," but I didn't do it! twitch.tv/friendsatthetable to watch! tiltify.com/@friendsatth... to donate!

Some extraordinary games here, I'm really looking forward to this!

Here's the schedule for our ICEBREAKER fundraiser on 2/15 and 2/16, a marathon to raise money for the Women's Foundation of Minnesota's Immigrant Rapid Response Fund. Join us then at twitch.tv/friendsatthetable!

hope this doesn't need to be said, but nationalpost.com/news/canada/...

it is apparently the 25th anniversary of the greatest piece of art Denton, Texas, has ever produced

Time to start canceling nitro and shouting from the rooftops how we won't stand for this. @discord.com is collecting our information and censoring our communications and claiming its for our safety. Don't let them get away with this.

This is such a cool idea!

“But we lost all those girls.” I think about this a lot—but unsurprisingly, Seanan puts the perfect words around it. ::cries in comics… and games… and movies… and books… and apparently everywhere else, also::

Whenever I need to format a text for printing I remember why I don’t normally format texts for printing.

Reminder for artists: don't get blinded by the "big number" for an art project. Remember to do the math. $3,000 for a tarot card desk *sounds* great. But in reality you're only being paid $38.46 per artwork. And if each artwork takes 20 hours to make, you're getting paid $1.92/hr

This is why I swapped away from Uline after 2016 when they made their views clear in one of their catalogs.

“art” is an anagram of “rat”. think about that before you look at a beautiful painting

Here's your daily dose of weirdness for today!

Look at the geometry on this sunflower!

I can’t wait to do more with these books (all the above images from Anton Seder on plants); this might be the best thing I’ve ever bought for work

Don’t talk to me or my son ever again

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Do me a favour and follow this project. Ella needs 400 followers to get this into ZineQuest, so you'll really help her out. (That means...follow it even if you don't think you'll back it, but also, back it.)

Just catching up on some @friends-table.bsky.social streams and I’m charmed by the red duke.

ttrpg design evolution has been weird, it's like 40 years of calculating armour values with logarithmic equations, and then in 2010 vincent baker gave everyone permission to fuck

I didn’t realize I had so many plaquettes.

I love going to museums because I get to see how long humanity has been interested in making l'il guys.

There is no greater feeling than perfectly aligning the freight elevator.

I did a couple bookmaking ones in this and it was nowhere near enough! (Btw, your printing work rocks)

Surprise, we're getting pretty close to the final version of REALIS! ICYMI: I've been making a TTRPG about mystical moons and living spaceships and sentences that can kill you. A preview is available now (see my pinned post), but the full version draws near! www.kickstarter.com/projects/cru...

As my college advisor once told me “sometimes a thing is worth doing poorly”

Today is a good day to remember, and to say, that the #MeToo movement was right, and was righteous, and has been vindicated over and over again. There was no overreach. There was no excess. There was no they-went-too-far. So much work remains to be done.

Made a tiny box to keep all the business card games I have together.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=FuzT... This is the only music you're allowed to listen to today.

We've never played Apocalypse World on @friends-table.bsky.social, and yet I think it's pretty fair to say that the show (and a big part of my career) relies on its existence. Couldn't be more excited for this new edition. And I already have multiple ideas around how we might play it...

I don’t know what it is with so many boomers treating their knowledge like a precious family recipe that you’re not related enough to learn. Literally pass on your wisdom you weirdos you’re gonna die

How influential is Apocalypse World? This influential. (And I wrote this chart four years ago.) www.designers-and-dragons.com/2021/11/02/t...

Apocalypse World and its descendants changed the way I thought about RPGS and has contributed to so much joy in my life. I accidentally started a collection of rpgs focused on the system. I counted them all up the other day and it's around 150. www.kickstarter.com/projects/lum...

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I hate gay Halloween what do you mean you’re an uncataloged book someone tried to rebind with duct tape

DnD 4e was the only edition that actually knew what it was and that’s why it’s the best one

A titan of the bookbinding community died this past week: Jim Croft. I went to learn from him at his homestead in Idaho way back in 2011. It was a two week course making all part of the book, from making the paper, tanning the leather, splitting the wooden boards, everything.

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

As a bookbinder of over a decade I can confirm most of this, including some inadvisable experiments I ran on the roof of my apartment when I was in bookbinding school.

y'all ever have a vacation so bad you are forced to immediately go to sleep?