This is a must read.

Well, FUCK. Here I was excited for my first grant as a faculty member… “White House Withholds Funding for NASA Science Missions Despite Recent Budget Bill” NASA has been forced to pause funds for Chandra X-Ray Observatory and other missions until further notice. 🔭🧪 gizmodo.com/white-house-...

It's only a Minotaur if it's from Crete, otherwise it's just a sparkling bullman.

🦁eBook Discount! THE PRIDE OF CHANUR by C.J. Cherryh is only $0.99 on Nook Books Under 2.99. The first in a series of “lively tales of swashbuckling capitalism in space” featuring a fascinating alien culture based on the social structure of lion prides buff.ly/LnF7Ban

Then who the fuck are all these people claiming to be ICE agents in Minneapolis?

I dunno. Hard for me to believe they'd put politics in a Gundam series. (/s)

If we had the same copyright laws as we did in 1900, we'd be getting as many Luke Skywalker adaptations as Sherlock Holmes adaptations.

King Macbeth, watching the halftime show: *panicked spit take*

“It’s cold here all the time and the food is poor. For 280 days we haven’t eaten a single piece of fruit, banana, apple, orange, or anything fresh. We are all in one big room with no doors or windows. We can’t see any grass or trees. We are all constantly sick.” lataco.com/captive-loti...

30% recommended gratuity on a DRIVE-THRU order? Payment processors have lost their minds. The real people getting screwed by this madness are the servers who should actually be getting tips. There's just no way that the growing pushback isn't going to turn into full scale backlash.

No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition. Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Me visiting Len Deighton's work for the first time.

Whenever a literary academic writes, "Undoubtedly the author...." what they mean is some combo of: - I have no source for this. - Wouldn't it be cool if this was true? - This is utterly implausible, but go with me. - I read somebody else who said this. (And they, too, meant one or all of these.)

Hideous licensing agreement from Red Ogre Review, but what really jumps out at me is the moral rights waiver

Give yourself some toys to play with by adding trinity toolboxes to your campaign status document. thealexandrian.net/wordpress/53...

40 Years of Gen Con, 50% Off Today Only! #GenCon #TabletopGaming

Horology is simultaneously much less interesting than you first think and much more interesting than you might assume. youtu.be/Nwp-C7DBcYg?...

Murder She Wrote + Lovecraft = Brindlewood Bay

I may have a stroke. Someone said protests don’t belong in church and it took every ounce of self-censure within me not to say “Deborah you are literally a Protestant.” A PROTESTant. I assume they think Luther was nailing Bed, Bath, & Beyond coupons to the door.

Eenie, meenie, miny, moe. The jack-o-lantern has me by the toe. Check out this unboxing video for THE CROOKED MOON, the gorgeous a folk horror campaign from Avantris. www.patreon.com/posts/unboxi...

Faux-troversy is a nouveau word we should get more comfortable invoking.

Campaign concept: PCs are an interdimensional strike team. When the local Weave goes awry and generates unspeakable horrors from beyond time & space, the PCs are inserted to fix the bug. But they have to be careful. Their own divergent nature can create cascading reality errors.

Had the chance to see John Woo's HARD BOILED, one of the best and most important action movies ever made, in theaters earlier this week. It inspired the latest scenario structure challenge: HOSTAGE RESCUES. thealexandrian.net/wordpress/53...

What Alexandrian posts from last year should be nominated for the Bloggies?

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Reminded today of Forgotten Waters, the app-required board game that claims on the box the app is downloadable for offline play... but this is actually a lie and you can't download the app. Still salty about that bit of fraud.

I personally know multiple families who won't let their children play outside because of the risk that ICE will kidnap or kill them. My kid's school today is offering remote learning because it's not safe for some kids to leave their homes. "Walz criticized for saying sky is blue."

After being held in two of them as a boy, I fought for decades urging America to never again build concentration camps and put human beings in them. It breaks my heart to watch this happen twice now in my own lifetime.

If I had a nickel...

These people supposedly go to church, but are completely baffled by community action and people caring about each other. What sad and empty lives MAGA must have.

Reviewing Brackish, one of the best RPG scenarios I've read in the last couple years, and two more really good Mothership scenarios. thealexandrian.net/wordpress/53...

Kare 11 local news just read, in full, this statement from Michael and Susan Pretti, the parents of Alex Pretti. "Please get the truth out about our son."

Me: I can't resubscribe using your website. AI Chatbot: I'm sorry, I can't connect you to an agent if you don't have an active subscription. I wonder how much money companies are actually losing because these AI chat "agents" are stopping people from giving it to them?

Mark Kelly says he's seriously thinking about running for president. Any Democrat With a Spine 2028 thehill.com/homenews/cam...

Minneapolis General Strike solidarity actions have spread to at least 43 cities according to our strike tracking Check our map here. paydayreport.com/minneap/

This is insane. INSANE. Without any legal basis at all, this memo says ICE doesn't need a warrant (or probable cause) to break into someone's home to arrest them. It's like a memo that says, "Actually, you DON'T have the right to remain silent."

Cat wandered in front of the camera during the #aurora long exposure

Just spoke with someone who's a huge fan of the Alexandrian, but was surprised when I mentioned I'd written a book. Good reminder that every day has a lucky 10,000. Maybe today's the day you learn about the USA Today Bestselling SO YOU WANT TO BE A GAME MASTER.

Narrative tabletop games (RPGs, storytelling games, etc.) are still often stunted by One True Wayism. Like running an art school where you describe a technique for oil painting and then someone angrily screams at you because you should never, ever, ever use a brush when doing a chalk drawing.

Siege of Bodenburg, the precursor to the precursor of D&D, is being run as a weekend long open table at the Philadelphia Area Gaming Expo. Includes the same Elastolin castle model used in the original scenario played by Gary Gyagx. (Who would later use an Elastolin model for Castle Greyhawk.)

Any freelance map makers out there know what rates to charge for an isometric map? Was thinking of opening up commissions for something like this.

I was curious so I googled the the make, model, and year of my car + tire size. Google's AI result confidently told me the tire size. Every single search result below that (and also my car's manual and also the tires currently on my car) told me that Google's AI was wrong.

I'm at the Philadelphia Area Gaming Expo this weekend! Check out my full event schedule, including Three Clue Rule, Campaign Characters, Shadowdark, and more! thealexandrian.net/wordpress/51...

not my house, but I know my way around

"Republicans announce that human life is worth literally nothing" is yet another headline that makes it feel like we're living in the alternate dimension where the Onion is a hard-hitting, Pulitzer Prize-winning news organization.

NEW: China is testing a megawatt-scale airborne wind system that captures stronger high-altitude winds, potentially producing up to 10× more energy with 40% less material and 30% lower costs. It could also be quickly deployed to supply emergency power after disasters.

This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥

Adobe: We've added a bunch of AI features you don't want to your Creative Pro Plan, so we're raising the price to 270% what you were previously paying. Me: Hahahaha. No. Cancel everything.

Forensic analysis of objective video evidence. This is how you serve readers searching for clarity.

Magical Kitties Save the Day, the game I co-designed at Atlas Games, is joining New Game Master Month this year! newgamemastermonth.com/2025/12/01/c...