honestly getting blazed as fuck and then going in to do a shift as a bookseller is my ideal Pride.

it is kinda weird that like the 3 x 3 alignment system is both like terrible in terms of like describing the world it exists in (bruh i don't know how to conceptualize good and evil in a world where like elves exist but i have taught college level ethics) and is intuitive in a weird way in use

[Leaning into the mic] Senator... [shuffling papers, glasses fall to the tip of my nose] Senator, when did you stop fucking your wife?

"this godlike child of a diseased brain – what did it do?"

debut EP from New Haven sapphic ethereal heavy trad folk duo Windfucker windfucker.bandcamp.com/album/cathe-...

"TTRPGs are a primarily literary and social hobby whose main audience is antisocial nerds suffering from functional illiteracy."

i am, as miserable as it is constantly hearing about both USAian parties which i have ever had a positive opinion of nor registered for, glad i at least know neither exists to enact my interests and hope someday to explain that people believed in the Democrats like how pogs were a fad

Honestly the concession that we “need” happy stories pits tragedy against comedy, and that’s even before considerations of selling books to American readers comes into the picture. There are comparably few things we can say human beings need without exaggerating. Exaggerated need is called marketing

Adventures are the core artistic core of play and TTRPGs and the total absence of discussion of them is a reflection of the poor support for play in a culture mostly based around consumption

Tentacle (Rita Indiana) The Devourers (Indrapramit Das) Philosophy of the Bedroom (Marquis de Sade)

beating someone with an Andrew Tate pfp in 7 moves by resignation feels good

THE GUESTS OF HONOUR FOR THIS YEAR'S NECRONOMICON PROVIDENCE IS LIVE, FOLKS: necronomicon-providence.com/guests-of-ho...

bought what feels like a MKULTRA activation tape that fell into public domain and got remastered and sold at wal marts and it does have a decent Hawkwind track i'll give it that

inseparable, for me, from being queer is the belief that all forms of incarceration should be destroyed and a society built on fetters has no values worth recognizing

the privatized security state is just a means of welding oligarchy to the military industrial complex y'know, thoughts i have sometimes

I realize not everyone has it in them to do the whole indie firebrand thing & they just wanna make a living doing creative work; I support that! but I also can't imagine anything sadder as an adult as your great ambition to want to be exploited by the company that chewed up & exploited your heroes

Inventing time travel to show HPL Urotsukidōji: Legend of the Overfiend

The Forge has been and remains a solved problem www.podbean.com/ew/pb-kfghe-...

Games i cannot say i have developed the capacity to play with facility (and wish to): Bridge, Mahjong, Canasta, Buraco, Biriba, Dou dizhu, Durak Games where i wish there were more players: piquet, kreigspiel (war game and chess variant), fairy chess in general

Gundam Wing is better than Wicked.

The way Rhode Island measures homelessness results in undercounts; and criminalization makes things worse The true extent of homelessness is much larger than the PIT Count indicates. steveahlquist.substack.com/p/the-way-rh...

If you're in RI, keep June 10 open! My partner and I are co-moderating a panel at RI Historical Society about specific people, places, and things in local LGBTQ+ history, from an Elmwood Ave beauty salon opened by a trans woman in 1968 to the last of (surprisingly) many queer bars in Woonsocket.

Rules are a fiction, first is the argument right?

a diagram to demonstrate the rightward shift of the "internet": the move of Cultural Marxism from an "overtly extremely online Nazi talking point" to "thing a few fringe conservatives wink at in select audiences" to like "mainstream media acceptable opinion" (represented by image search/time)

we lost something when philosophers gave up on apprehending "the horizon of all possibility to come and of all possibility of a future" or even doing mid tier art criticism for like "sophist for the most banaly evil position available for immediate funding"

We lost Douglas Adams 25 years ago today. This has made a lot of people very sad and has been widely regarded as a bad move.

Maybe with the KS ban on explicit materials people will demand internet reform viz obscenity laws

Depressed Egg/Alcoholic in a Flannel Shirt Kit insisting listening to multiple discographies is the same as listening to a single song: Songs Ohia / Wilco / Sunvolt / Uncle Tupelo

They don't tell you about the special day where you have an LLM summarize yr career under an AI upscaled photo of you from nearly a decade ago

as i belong to neither nationalist party in my country and think both should probably be dismantled for their 40+ year collaborative war against all life, it really sucks anyone would waste political energy salvaging a virulently anti-democratic party run by oligarchs

KEN RUSSELL’S THE DEVILS. Director’s Cut. Restored and Remastered. In Theaters October 16.

i kinda miss the era where i mostly did a bit of describing TTRPGs as vaudeville and dismissively referring to AP as "the talkies" but finding people who played games and playing games in the era didn't require a lantern by daylight

One of the greatest SF films of all time

ttrpg raspberries: - most racist osr author award - meanest tweet award - creepiest ap streamer award - "....for 5e" award - non-specific ghibliesque award - most dice & t-shirts in KS award - longest failure to deliver KS hall of fame induction

Star Wars doesn't hold up, isn't as good as the source material (Flash Gordon) and isn't worth caring about other than as a kinda embarrassing cultural phenomena, the first two movies are alright and everything past that is a parade of garbage and nostalgia bait

never ask a man his salary, a woman her age, or a hugo award-winning sff author what they were posting about isabel fall in 2020

Incredible how when all we have to lose is our chains how many will opt to glorify those who forge fetters

hemp farming into textile/paper output as a localized production emphasizing soil restoration, create a seed library and greenhouse, survey the plants known as american tobacco (presently not a cultivar), create a wealth destruction machine

Rhode Island Day/Indie Bookstore Day is kinda a nice combo

It's today, today!

The logical conclusion and counter-reformation of the commercialisation of TTRPG crowdfunding is for (actual) small creators to start adding stretch goals like "£1,000,000: Don't stop making news things, renounce the world, and meditate in an undisclosed stupa for the rest of my days."

Glad to see people taking games theory seriously tasker.land/2026/04/21/w...

"Swann’s fantasies spoke to the feminist, gay-rights, and environmental movements. His intense focus on 'civilization' processed the growing sense of cultural malaise." Sean Guynes on Thomas Burnett Swann: https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/thomas-burnett-swann-fantasy-sf-queer-romance-wolfwinter/

so i have a personal hobby in infohazards but i have a thread from every president of my lifetime and the infamous college dropout who got a job teaching at a private school before his handler picked him up and honed his predatory instincts like a skinner box & think he's the tip of a network

i would hone my occult skills to a degree that this world is not ready for

The most bad-ass rebuttal from Tite Kubo, the author of Bleach.

In fact, we are convinced, for most of us, the mythic beast 'audience' is simply an assortment of 'creators' one tier lower than oneself on the 'attention' pyramid.