Also HAPPY FRIDAY I would really like for people to pre-order my magical spy weird city novel! It's not coming out in the UK because the one (1) offer we got for UK rights was like "Ugh ugh bleh THE BUTCHER OF THE FOREST barely sold, why would we WANT UK rights" But! If pre-orders?? Maybe LOVE???

Cite the deep magic to me, witch. I was there when it was written and I think it’s important to credit our sources.

Beholde thys unit moost absolute.

for the bantasy

I don't remember seeing an image of Earth before that captures the (thin, fragile, tiny layer of) atmosphere so clearly. I mean, look at that.

I know the world is on fire but please take a few minutes to look at the photos of the moon from yesterday. A gallery of some of the most astounding pictures ever taken. Here's one with Venus on the left www.nasa.gov/gallery/luna...

Mamdani is not just filling the potholes with the crew. He's creating a visual and personal reminder of the dignity inherent in all of these anonymous government jobs.

Anatopism. Like 'anachronism' but for place. (literally 'something out of its proper place') This is a real word already but definitely needs adopting by fantasy writers for the reasons skeeted!

A real code review comment I got to type with my own two hands.

The Artemis astronauts. Something that’s happening now that in no way whatever sucks. A blessing.

H681.4.2 How deep is the sea? At first, knee-deep; further on, waist-deep, neck-deep; and beyond that over the head.

Our friends at Firestorm are struggling in the face of disaster capitalism. A queer- and worker-owned bookstore that has, over and over, been there for the community. They let me set up a referral page with them. Books from my podcasts, my books, and books I love firestorm.coop/r/killjoy.html

nasa employee: oh hey u guys are back early astronaut: Office365 in spaceship nasa employee: what? astronaut: *loading a pistol and getting back on the rocket-ship* Office365 in spaceship

ah, to be in a beautiful crevice where everything is made of wicker

tfw time zones make you miss out on the work discussion of the etiquette of approaching the flesh 😞

1 year later, @anisota.net will be the first social media app with a fog of war

I do think it's funny that what rounds to "grew up pretending to be a horse on the internet" is 1) a thing I get to admit at work and 2) genuinely *directly* useful for my job There's also a million indirect ways it shaped my skills and self, but that it's a job qualification as-is delights me.

most of the time you don’t want true randomness and/or simulation in a game. you think you do but you’re wrong and will get mad at us if you get it.

Meanwhile - drawing charcoal cave horses for kicks

28/3/26 - nocturn

Good year for absurd horse games

The new Anisota brand mark is a hand-carved linocut stamp created by @dame.is. It’s grounded in the physical world & includes imagery inspired by Appalachia & the world of moths. If you’re at #atmosphereconf there are free stickers & potentially numbered, stamped prints of the brand mark for sale.

hell yeah

26/3/26 - nocturn

mood

realised i dont need to wait to publish to have a diagram of my own, don't ask what it's about i think it's pretty self explanatory

Got a powerful urge to thank Claude after it fixed a bug even though I had finished the session. ohno.jpg am I anthropomorphizing the thing? ...then I realized I do things like say "good job washing mashine!" when it finishes a cycle or pat my car on the dashboard and tell it not to worry.

11/3/26 - nocturn

i want someone to write a hot take essay about which animals technically count as equine so someone else can write a meta-take on the debate and we can have A Horse Is A Horse Discourse Discourse

I am in fact a certified horse evolution knower. They gave me a PhD about it and everything

between this and honse stickers and horse game it's a great day for horse on the internet gradient.horse

one week until the year of the horse (honse)! as a little honse treat, any orders for the next week that include my lascaux horse bumper stickers or sticker sheets will come with a free honse riso print - while supplies last acorviart.bigcartel.com

This brought a genuine laugh to my morning

Crab dumplings are the final form of all things

26/1/26 - nocturn

for Renee Nicole Good, a poet and a mother

Every person I have shown this game to (while flat-out denying them all context and setup) has ended up slack-jawed with sheer, absurd delight. It is worth your time to go play! It takes a few minutes!

GUESS WHAT TIME IT IS www.rockpapershotgun.com/xmas-is-almo... (if you haven't heard of it before, please look up nothing and read nothing further about it, just go have the Experience, the article gives you a link)

Chugging along trying to move fast to wrap some things up on Friday and realized my brain is playing the Zelda minigame music 🙃 www.youtube.com/watch?v=cLq1...

YOU TOO CAN SHARE YOUR MAGICAL THROUPLE STORIES (and the other ones too)

I made this last year and it was DELICIOUS and beautiful. Gonna make it again sometime soon and you should too

A beautiful day!

Extremely William Gibson subplot. Down and out since AI started making all the art, a desperate beat poet falls in with a dangerous corporate espionage gang. Hacking OpenAI will require the perfect stanza. There’s just one problem: poetry is ILLEGAL.

Ah, the "ticket -> 2 sub-tickets -> 10 sub-tickets -> dammit this should've just been a Project" pipeline, we meet again

just wrote the phrase "sloppy fluff" (re: LLM outputs) and immediately had regrets. I'm never going to say it again but you all have to suffer with me

I am unironically here for the Edmund Fitzgerald zeitgeist. Half my IG timeline is Fitz memes and tributes. People are learning about Gordon Lightfoot and how Lake Superior hates you, personally, and wants to do you a violence.

H1149.8 Girl to bring cloth as long as river and raise pig as big as mountain.

permadeath is good for you, actually! join us @ roguelike.club

EMILY DICKINSON, JEDI KNIGHT Not so clumsy, nor so random - As a blaster - in its rage More elegant - the weapon More civilized - the age