Everyone go home. The internet has a winner.

My profile pic is of Major General Smedley Butler, the man who probably saved us from the last attempted fascist takeover by the Epstein class, and who, in a just world, would have a statue on every army base. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smedley...

A sketch for a small sample of the player species from The Scattered Realms, a work-in-progress modular #ttrpg campaign world about first contact, exploration and upheaval scatteredrealms.miraheze.org/wiki/Main_Page

Using a Star Trek gif, post where you are tight now 🖖

My boss said that since he’s not in tomorrow I’ll get to fuck around all day, which I think really diminishes the excellent fucking around I do while he’s there.

Have to call out Bill Clinton’s absolutely sinister stunt dropping J.B. Pritzker’s name in his Epstein testimony. Despite Pritzker not appearing anywhere in the documents or flight manifests, and the timeline being off by years. Sure looked like a deliberate dick move.

So apparently my super power is to have “Pictures of Matchstick Men” start playing in my head a few seconds before it pops up on my random playlist. Impressive, and also useless.

Hello afternoon cup of coffee. Let us see if you can succeed, where those before you have fa…

Illinois is helping create a generation of democratic leaders that, you know, will actually lead. Thanks for showing that fighting against fascism is where the fun’s at!

Pub trivia tonight, my wife and the ladies in deep discussion of celebrity news, husbands debating sports ephemera, me waiting for a Star Wars trivia question that would never come…

Every time I say “Vote Blue No Matter Who” someone says John Fetterman and I have to sit down meekly.

A sketch for my #ttrpg project, a couple of thieves trying to get an eye off a statue, like you do...

Building a WIKI for a ttrpg world I've been designing for years, and I want to invite participants to join in! Come visit, and if you get inspired, add your own bits to the lore. scatteredrealms.miraheze.org/wiki/Main_Page

So I don't like Gavin Newsom as a candidate. I'll work hard to make sure he doesn't get win the primaries, and someone much more progressive is our nominee instead. But understand, dear reader- if he's the nominee against anyone even vaguely Trump-adjacent, I'm gonna vote for him SO HARD, Y'ALL

Fuckers even decorate the same.

I promise you at dinner parties in 1930’s Germany, when conversation turned to the mass arrests of Jewish citizens, someone would roll their eyes and say “can we PLEASE not bring up politics?”

A quick reminder as I trundle off to bed- one day soon, if we somehow get back to normal, a progressive politician will wear a linen shirt after Labor Day, and the media will lose their entire fucking minds.

My anxiety has lead to drastically increased Whiskey consumption- I've gone from finishing a bottle or two a year to i lOve You Guysh mAn Reel bIg fIsh wAs aWesOme wHy dIdn'T sKa ever Take oFf?

Just a quick reminder that Benjamin Netanyahu, Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, Vladamir Putin and Jeff Bezos spent billions, burned public goodwill and quite possibly committed crimes to make sure Donald Trump beat Kamala Harris. The literal worst people on the planet don't think both sides are equally bad.

Sometimes I draw odd things

Just so we’re all clear, anyone with brown skin and an accent is probably a dangerous criminal. Anyone who corresponded with a known child rapist after their conviction is probably innocent. We now return you to your regularly scheduled Republican reality.

Curious- as the midterms approach and Trump’s popularity craters, the “both sides are bad” voices are suddenly everywhere. If the fascists can’t persuade you to vote MAGA, they’ll persuade you to sit this election out. If MAGA survives the midterms, there won’t be another election.

As much as I despise Republicans, and don’t get me wrong it’s a deep loathing from the marrow of my soul, I cant summon a fraction of the contempt and hatred for them that Pam Bondi holds for victims of child rape.

For those of you of a biblical mindset, Ring’s Superbowl ad is a helpful reminder that, if your beast gets loose, they’ve helpfully marked it with a number.

As the weather gets warmer and unexpected plumbing repairs pop up, it seems timely to remind you all that I've designed a couple of nerdy button-down shirts that you or someone you're fond of may enjoy. #ttrpg #nerdcouture #promosky www.etsy.com/shop/vorpalt...

He will forever be known now as Hillbilly Vanilli

I can see why Republicans hate the Bad Bunny halftime show- all these female dancers are clearly adults

I’m looking forward to the opening act of tonight’s Bad Bunny concert, which I’m told is a sporting contest of some kind.

Trump explains that he didn’t post a racist video, instead an employee of the Executive Branch of the United States Government is tasked with staying up all night posting racist videos in the President’s name, at taxpayer expense. That is, of course, so much worse.

Apparently there’s a controversy about a Neopets ttrpg. I’d get involved, but I’m still too upset about the character advancement rules from the Lizzy McGuire RPG

I’ll simplify the Epstein math for anyone who’s having trouble getting their heads around this: Epstein was indicted in 2006. For anyone who corresponded with him after that date, regardless of their political affiliations, the burden of proof is now on them.

Progress on my #ttrpg campaign world wiki this week: Added a cross-section illustrating a crater and how the atmosphere works Added some realms that aren’t ready to be acquainted with the world at large yet Added insinuant teams, parties that use magic to blend in with newly discovered cultures…

The answer to the question “what would a gangrenous big toe look like if it also had an asshole?”

holy crap

Perfection

European nations are sending troops to Greenland to help defend it from a potential invader, almost like there was some sort of mutual-defense treaty that would kick in should someone attack. But that would render Trump and Miller’s argument completely ludicrous, so that can’t be it…

In their defense, the Bears only recently learned they were allowed to score in the first half.

As a Chicagoan I'm naturally rooting for the Bears, but whether they prevail as God intends or the Rams win this one in defiance of all that is holy and pure, the really important thing is fuck ICE.

Some of the preliminary sketches for my #ttrpg #worldbuilding exercise, creating a wiki for "The Scattered Realms", a fantasy world discovering itself in real-time around the players. scatteredrealms.miraheze.org/wiki/Main_Page

Been hearing some very disturbing reports from friends and family in Minnesota (some of whom are, or were, republicans) about ICE's abuses in the twin cities. Also, hearing a lot about the courage of ordinary Minnesotans standing up, defying and documenting ICE's lawlessness.

Overheard at work yesterday, in support of a claim that electric cars cause cancer : “it’s true, I saw an instagram post about it!” I laughed out loud, because crying at my desk would have been unseemly

I got a scam text today from an unrecognized number saying “let’s go golfing again tomorrow “. I knew it was a scam because no one has ever invited me to golf with them twice.

Stop and ponder how embarrassing it is for someone to admit they follow an “influencer “. They’re basically admitting that their own critical thinking skills have atrophied to the point that they’re dependent on someone else for ideas and opinions, someone who’s only talent is drawing attention.

Accomplishments 2025: Attended my first protest #nokings Quit smoking (but for real this time) #nosmokes Played Blades in the Dark (so good!) #noD20s Got an upper & lower GI #noCancer #thereAnyway Quit most social media #noNaziElonMuskCrap Almost finished writing my TTRPg epic #maybeNextYear

So I loved Stranger Things, fell off the wagon around season 3- no gripes about it, just slowly lost interest. Now I see the trailer for the finale, and this wonderfully imaginative kids-on-bikes lovecraftian love letter ends in a massive gun battle? Feeling good about leaving when I did.

Not saying goodbye to 2025- stuffing it in a sack, kicking it until it stops twitching and sinking it in the lake, weighed down with gravel-filled Labubu dolls.

I’m now refining this idea for the #ttrpg campaign world Wiki I’m creating at scatteredrealms.miraheze.org/wiki/Main_Page

Punchability can be measured in units knows as Musks. Jake Paul is around 2 Musks, while J.D. Vance comes in at around 6 Musks. Once you get to 10 Musks, that’s a Miller. Weirdly, Elon Musk is approximately 15 Musks.

Attending Christmas service in my daughter’s Mega Church and seeing an AI generated video of the nativity where a bunch of sheep’s heads fused into a Lovecraftian horror and being the only one to notice was a fitting end to 2025