The Kickstarter is live! Steve's 5e subclasses are always great fun and this one looks ESPECIALLY so. I backed it, and I hope you'll join me!

Exactly this. Continuity matters to this extent: That a) narrative immersion isn't broken by a setting breaking its own rules without repercussions and b) reader/viewer investment isn't broken by the events/consequences of a story being undone in subsequent stories. Anything else is a thief of joy.

That neither opposition party can get *any* traction against Doug Ford is a disaster and a shame - to be fair, the shame is on the voters and the media as well as the parties. Doug should have been terrified of calling an early election, not eagerly romping to an undeserved third majority.

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Every time the Belgariad comes up - and it's a series that for all its flaws was loved by a LOT of people in its day, including me - SOMEONE ends up being one of the Unlucky 10,000 learning for the first time how horrible the Eddings' were. I don't enjoy that, but I do think it's important to know.

Yessss

Better a pig than a gen A.I. user!

John Waters would be glad in an abstract intellectual sense to know that my politics don't suck. I don't think he'd *dislike* me in a meaningful way. But he'd (rightfully!) consider me *profoundly* normie and have nothing to say to me beyond pleasantries.

A fair start and a fair shot for all our kids! 1. Universal free public daycare. 2. Restore and expand public school funding. 3. Fund colleges, universities, and apprenticeships so that everyone can get the education they need, for the future they want, at a price they can afford.

I wrote a thing!

I like Olivia Chow. I voted for her and I will again. I don't expect her to be Zohran - she's a quieter person, more wonkish, more driven to seek consensus. But I hope she takes one lesson from Zohran, which is to set a clear, bold, easily-communicated progressive agenda and really fight for it.

This is the most perfect thing I've seen all day.

I look at campaigns and candidates like (mayor-elect!) Zohran Mamdani in NYC, and leader of the UK Green Party Zack Polanski, and I begin to feel some hope and see a path forward for me and for other frustrated, disappointed, hope-starved Canadian progressives.

Reminder.

Fencing and HEMA Bluesky! In the new year I'm finally fulfilling a decades-long dream and starting fencing lessons. What exercises do you recommend for a 54-year-old, decidedly chunky doofus to be better prepared for fencing? Cardio and resistance suggestions both welcome, if they're appropriate.

Oh my god. This is why I love baseball. He has summed it up.

I come from several generations of journalists, who meets all kinds of newsworthy individuals. And my family tree includes German branches recently enough for me to be two or three hops from some staggeringly bad people.

And yet, every time I mention online that Carney's approach to Trump has been noticeably different from his elbows up tone during the election - and how that's maybe worth discussing - Liberal partisans come out of the woodwork to tell me how WRONG and STUPID I am.

This werewolf is howling for the Jays tonight! #WantItAll #HappyHalloween

Asher Elbein has been doing a ton of great science reporting lately, but this one is especially exciting to me. NANOTYRANNUS CONFIRMED AS A DISTINCT SPECIES, NOT JUST A JUVENILE T-REX!

Actually, seeing a man of color, getting scared, and calling The Police, is pretty typical racist behavior

The Jays are coming home for Game 6 LEADING THE SERIES 3-2! #WantItAll #LetsGoBlueJays

If the Pope is rooting for the Dodgers I will face God and walk backwards into Hell. #WantItAll #LetsGoBlueJays

When the series comes back to Toronto, all the Jays need to do is open the dome for Game 6. The Dodgers, as a baseball team adapted to a warmer climate, will fall into torpor and retreat to their dugouts to sleep through the long winter months. That's just science! #IWantItAll #LetsGoBlueJays

Wait, did Dave Stieb get a shade of blue named after him?!

I can't speak to its place in the queer SF canon but it's a great book that merits being rediscovered.

Boycott anything Harry Potter. It's incredibly easy to do

remembering more and more that when Reagan was elected, the first time, my grade whatever teacher told us that we would be in a nuclear war by the end of the year. which wasn't true, obviously, but the actual fallout just seems to have taken longer. yes, I am that old. gives me context.

Baseball is pain.

Ok. Ok. The Jays just gotta get five or more runs in one inning off a pitcher they've barely been able to touch all night. #LetsGoBlueJays

I’m in standing room at @torontobluejays.bsky.social , behind accessible seating, where a kid/teen in a wheelchair is distraught because he can’t see anything with everyone standing up. If anyone happens to be in a box or something with extra seats, this is your chance to do a good deed.

LIGHTS UP LET'S GOOOOO! #LetsGoBlueJays

We’re up against fearful odds. Others have been, before us. Happy St, Crispin’s Day, to those who celebrate. youtu.be/A-yZNMWFqvM?...

The Dodgers are a great team and they're going to adjust and come back tough. But for now I'm just going to bask in the warm glow of an 11-4 win tonight. #LetsGoBlueJays

JAYS WIN GAME 1! #LetsGoBlueJays

THE FIRST PINCH-HIT GRAND SLAM IN WORLD SERIES HISTORY!

Sorry, Italian cousins. I don't make the rules.

Just heard that was the first pinch-hit Grand Slam in World Series history!

That inning must have set some kind of World Series record! 11-2 Jays! #LetsGoBlueJays

And here’s a few tips of my own for non-artists who are new to writing comics. It’s a post on my *website.* Remember those? Kind of like a social media thread but not broken up into arbitrary little bits. Wild! www.stevelieber.com/tips-for-non...

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Now imagining Al and Tipper 'PMRC' Gore watching an edited-for-TV version of Pulp Fiction, which must have been about 12 minutes long.

This is true, important, and has been one of the hardest things for me to learn.

This is a little more true to life than I'd care to admit... ;) #GoJaysGo #WorldSeries #Game1

From a standpoint of the size and economic power of Ontario within Canada, it's more like something California did, but the point stands. It isn't the first time Ontario Premier Doug Ford has gone a touch rogue in the whole trade war thing, but this was innocuous. Clearly Trump wants a pretext.

check out this absolutely terrifying ancient babylonian lullaby

AGREED. REBOOT CONDORMAN, DISNEY! "He is not an agent of the CIA! He is a writer of comic books!"

LOL, young Trey Yesavage must be LOSING HIS STUFF. #LetsGoBlueJays