stupid little walk (mushroom)

went out for Christmas dinner, bought a stack of books from the charity shop and then spent two hours carefully organising and labelling tarot card samples with their materials, manufacturing details and print finishes

breaking out the T-shirt again

Very sad that I felt I had no choice but to resign from The Infinite Monkey Cage - a victory for the transphobes and other bigots - I did it because so much of the media has chosen to believe the kind and empathetic people are a fiction - they are real and so often unrepresented.

@decassette.bsky.social hi I just wanted to say I read A Frog In The Fall yesterday and it was an absolute delight; thanks for making something excellent and beautiful

This is a thread worth reading in general, but I wanted to explicitly pull out this idea. A lot of indie TTRPG enjoyers care about, and really want, beautiful, well-made, delightful books, in the same way art history nerds do. Sure, the book is not the game, but also the game is not the book.

to be fair, most of us spend a perfectly normal amount of time talking about paper, I fear I’m very much papers georg in this situation

This is going to make Gen Con a real challenge, huh

Getting up early during the Darkest Month to have a long technical conversation about paper opacity. This too is a TTRPG

Two ways to read this. One is “she lost on every substantive claim, completely failed in her attempts to ban trans staff from the workplace, and won mild procedural victories against her employers handling of her case”. The other way is, I guess, “point one is longer so it must be more important”

probably my hottest take for the last year or so has been that print media is, in fact, going to come back in some really interesting ways, and the more AI gets splatted at the top of Google the more true I think that becomes

once again dragging myself up the hill to observe daylight turns out to be annoyingly effective as a mental health support

Absolutely no honest self-analysis whatsoever of what will happen when you spend a year solid telling social liberals to fuck off. Surprise surprise! They fuck off! It's nothing to do with them being 'unserious' - this government just spends quite a lot of its time telling them it hates them!

I have now watched Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein and I have OPINIONS

genuinely cannot express how delighted I am with the hat

folks with many books, especially with a chunk either published pre-ISBN or by teeny tiny presses who haven’t done the bar code thing yet - how do you keep track of em? I have hit the stage of needing to know what I’ve got in the library, for both insurance and duplicate avoidance purposes

stupid little walk (sky)

a lot of good things happened today but perhaps most importantly I now own a lilac corduroy baseball cap that says “PDFs”

tapping out of post Dragonmeet drinks due to the devastating frailty of the physical form. what a lovely day, tho

I think it’s possible one of the smartest things I ever did was to find out what shoes nurses recommend for shift wear and then buy two pairs of them for conventions.

This afternoon I will be actually on a booth selling actual games like a real TTRPG person. Come say hello and get me to show you the glow lamination on Eat The Reich

We are lurking at Excel, please visit our trap/booth tomorrow

At Dragonmeet, after an orrible drive, very much looking forward to the event. Come say hi if you’re about.

Reading Color Problems, a 1901 treatise on colour theory by Emily Noyes Vanderpool, in which the author organises her pottery collection (among other things) into 10x10 squares of colours. Extremely neurotypical behaviour

stupid little walks will resume until the health and wellbeing improve

Brilliant thecritic.co.uk/auntie-in-th...

Spent the weekend at the Green Party’s Path to Parliament event, meeting a lovely bunch of smart, passionate, excited people and getting hopeful (with a brief cameo from @zackpolanski.bsky.social). There’s likely to be more politics on here from me, for a while. It’s time to try and change stuff.

The full essay, by me and @acjsissons.bsky.social, tries to set out a workable and coherent long-term economic strategy getting-out-of-the-hole.uk

I spoke with people role-playing ICE raids in video games to help educate people on their rights and what to do in real-life situations. Tonight, they're holding an event in Fortnite www.wired.com/story/activi...

Tip for Heart GMs: put a horse in there. Not as the first thing they meet. Throw some gristly things with too many legs at them first. Then hit them with a normal horse. The Heart couldn't find a way to make it more fucked up.

it is just possible I might have finished editing Hollows for the final time

Am at Thought Bubble for the weekend, which is in Harrogate. Due to a series of events, am now in Ripon at what I can only describe as a deafeningly loud school disco

Real suggestions from Real RRD employees

clothes 2kg chargers and laptop 2kg toiletries 0.5kg print and paper samples 50kg books 0.2kg someone who is good at packing please help me budget this

finished up at Frankfurt book fair today; there’s something quite lovely about getting production nerds to talk at length about their special interest. The last meeting I had featured ombré neon page edging which apparently can only be done by one woman in the factory wielding two paint guns at once

I saw a tragically AI-generated version of this poster, so I have recreated a 100% human-made version for all your protest sign needs.

MSNBC Grandmas in Skechers seamlessly reclaiming the frog from 4chan Nazis in about six weeks has gotta be the political upset of the century.

I find myself at the Frankfurt Book Fair, where I have acquired two sample kits so enormous that I suspect I might not be allowed to take them on the train home. But one of them includes gold-flecked cork as a book cover material so if I have to choose between that and clothes, well…

One hundred games is a heck of a lot of games to play, or even to own, but it's a staggering number to write, even if they're only a single page long. Chase chats to Grant Howitt, designer of Honey Heist and many other one page games, about the game jam he's running to celebrate the milestone.

today I collated 391 Hollows objects, checked them all against the revised full rules, resolved internal consistency, fixed all the places where the letter D was incorrectly capitalised, did a full proofing check, and honestly I don’t understand how no one noticed the autism till well into my 30s

ME: Now Mom, just remember, there's a lot of disinformation and AI in your social feed and your friends' Facebook. MOM: I know! My friend sent me this crazy post where someone used AI to make an image of a giant frog fighting Army troops! ME: ... okay, no, that one's ... goddamit, Portland.

Surprise! I have joined the fearsome and terrible hive at RRD, and will be the new Soc Media wretch! Lots of love and mouth full of dice, Naomi xoxo

The Greens currently have the same number of MPs as Reform, but less than 1/3 the number of members. Just in case you’re looking for a small but significant action you could take in this moment.

"You don’t fight the politics of violence by quibbling with the details. You stamp it into a million pieces! You draw a f*cking line!" If Keir Starmer won’t even make a moral case against deporting our friends and neighbours, then what is the point of him?

Vanity Fair and Newsweek of all places have some explainers— tho the latter's article is characteristically far more willing to imply the alleged shooter held leftist ideologies than far-right ones, & of the two only VF's digs into the gaming culture aspect, so I'd say it's definitely the better one

And this has happened *without* a massive sea change of actual popular opinion in favour of these thugs; the elite flip has not been responding to the public, but to social media

Shot, chaser Young men more likely to vote Green than Reform. Young men second most progressive group of any demographic. Combined right-wing vote barely bigger than Green vote alone for young men

No seriously media outlets: Get gaming desks, your internet culture desks, & your extremism desks linked up YESTERDAY or you're going to find yourselves missing so much context it'll be fundamentally embarrassing. Already seen things from NYT, BBC, & AP all failing to elucidate CRUCIAL information.

Protesters Urged Not To Give Trump Administration Pretext For What It Already Doing theonion.com/protest...

meanwhile on yesterday’s stupid little walk (salt flats) I met this flamingo