Look, I'm a simple man and I don't want much. I just want everything to be better, and I don't want to have to do any work for that to happen.

SHUT UP THIS IS A THING www.youtube.com/watch?v=CthY...

I call 'em "links" when I'm writing technoir murder mysteries that you should probably publish.

Shout out to agents who send a rejection in five days instead of five nevers.

This is the most incredible footage of blue whales I’ve ever seen

I'm in a workshop about immigration at the Los Angeles Religious Education Congress in Anaheim, CA. Slide:

Five authors I've read at least five books by: N.K. Jemisin Naomi Novik Donna Andrews Marie Brennan Patricia C. Wrede

at this pace we'll have to rename the next game to cyberpunk 2027

That whole Lincoln Lawyer stinger I kept hoping Cobie Smulders was going to be reprising her Stumptown role because I am a trash goblin I guess.

Writing tip: Before you sit down to write, make sure that your space is conducive to the craft. You need to be comfortable, free of distractions. So, Step one: Look around to see if there are any fascists. Step two: If there are, punch them.

Huh. Wonder Man ... good? I think Wonder Man good.

Once again on my bullshit about the Lincoln Lawyer (on Netflix). It scratches the Procedural itch but, since the main character is a defense attorney, it isn't copaganda. Indeed, for the most part the cops are the villains.

Listened to an NPR thing about agentic AI coding and it's clear that the tech sector wants to replicate the whole "Computer, make me a Robin Hood simulation!" of the holodeck. But are ignoring that to get there you need a moneyless society, where work is a choice, and where art is still done by hand

I also love every step of the process though I’ll go one further. Skipping any step of the process is fatal atrophy in our craft and a total surrender to mediocrity and luck ChatGPT will never make anyone a better designer. I stake my career on it.

I can’t believe you lefty Luddites hate tech so much that you embrace mRNA vaccines, heat pumps, electric bikes, hybrid work, renewable power (and awesome advancements in storage), space telescopes, and hot/cold running water but reject the planet destroying plagiarism enrich the worst people bots!

I mean, yeah. I did. That's a thing that happened. I love Star Trek. I grew up with Star Trek. I was deep into my "watch everything in order" mission. I'd loved Lower Decks and Strange New Worlds. I unsubbed Paramount and haven't even watched a trailer for the new thing.

We were cooking with this one. Sorry about the flavor text being a little ... on the nose 10 years later.

I don't know anything about the complexities of British politics, but I do know that third spaces are amazing and any party that's calling for more hobby and game hubs has my attention.

Editing is fun because sometimes you make a note, and observe that the writer will have to resolve the tension between two or more competing priorities that you've identified, and your note just ends with "How will you solve this? I don't know! Writing is hard!"

the Black Panthers were right

This week on the blog: Against the State! Another military theory primer, this time focused on groups that take on the state itself, both with violent and non-violent means. Given the enormous disparity in force, how can they win? How have they won? acoup.blog/2026/02/13/c...

Cartoon: If anyone in Chicago knows this school or an anti ICE organization affiliated with them I would be happy to donate this art. I only wish I could have fully Sal Buscema-ed that punch :)

21 years of the same Valentine's Day tradition.

i often think about this review

"Nobody wants to work anymore" Of course not. Do you hear yourself? Work at a *job*? Who wants that?

Worth watching this in full. The statement is more powerful than this quote alone. Here is is from USA Today, with alt text. Also! Rich Ruohonen is a personal injury lawyer and the oldest athlete to ever represent the United States in a Winter Games at 54 years old.

So, say a federal judge holds an ICE official in contempt for failing to comply with one of the many, many court orders they're failing to comply with. What does that look like in practice? Do US Marshals knock on his door and take him into custody? Do they go armed? Does it turn into Ft Sumter?

Wait, curling is awesome actually?

QTP with a gif of an under-appreciated video game. 🧙‍♂️🔫🧙‍♀️🪟 (Tactical Breach Wizards)

There will, in fact, be violence and danger. Sorry, Charlie.

small crab eating a grape (important)

Trying to sort through my feelings on all the official Super Bowl entertainment being resolutely pro-social and anti-fascist and generally on Team Good Guy, while the firm majority of the ads were for corrosive, toxic corps and products like AI, gambling, surveillance systems, "Trump Accounts."

Hey, look, past me was cooking.

I'm 60,000+ words into this stupid idea now. I'm not sure where I'm going with it, but I feel like it probably has an audience out there.

Dear Amazon or whoever: please pay Rosamund Pike her going rate to record the rest of the Wheel of Time books, thank you. While you're at it, we could use about 5 more seasons of the show.

I unironically feel like the Muppets, Sesame Street, SNL, and probably a few others, should be protected and preserved by the government, both as heritage institutions and also as incubators for new talent. They do more for the USA than many other government programs.

I'm sorry the guy changing the rules on the fly is named what

Okay I'm just a big ol' softie and whatever but the Olympic Games still gets me. Every* nation coming together not as enemies but in fellowship and the spirit of competition to celebrate sport and the incredible capabilities of our best athletes is good, actually.

A clear sign that I'm writing without a plan is when I just drop a line like this into my draft because I feel like it's time for someone to come through the door with a gun, metaphorically: She put one claw on the latch and pushed, and then all hell broke loose.

I need to bestow upon the Muppet Show revival the highest praise I can possibly bestow: It is the Muppet Show.

Game Designers! I will be in San Francisco soon for GDC March 10th and 11th. I will be taking pitches for original board games and card games designed with the hobby game market in mind for some of the tabletop studios at Asmodee. Please send me an e-mail ([email protected])

Me: I have a family entertainment that will delight us all. 12-year-old: I am concerned. Me: But it's time to play the music. My lovely wife: It's time to light the lights. 12-year-old: I am still concerned. (The Muppets splash page comes up) 12-year-old: Oh, okay, I'm less concerned.

That's a Foglio piece, so, yeah, those are boobs, friend.

Holy shit, the CIA world factbook is gone? That's ... so baffling. I've found it so useful as a writer in the past.

the villains in neuromancer being a family of gross inbred rich weirdos who want to live forever in space feels a little too on the nose

Trying not to read anything into Spy x Family's military-industrial-complex Blackbell family using "8814" as their secret SOS code.

Never mind the jobs you had, tell me five classes you took in college: 1) Honors seminar "the Human Event," covering global religion and philosophy. 2) Voting Rights Law 3) Japanese Religion 4) Spielberg & Lucas 5) The Bible as Literature

Please read this extremely thoughtful & careful post on Tim Walz, Anne Frank, & the US Holocaust Memorial Museum from Martin Shuster, philosopher, Isaac Swift Distinguished Professor of Jewish Studies, former Holocaust Memorial Museum Fellow, & scholar of genocide, the Holocaust, & authoritarianism:

In our Stars Without Number game, the local beast of burden is the horse-ostrich, or hostrich. Which led to... "The corporation treats us all like livestock! Like animals!" "You mean they're holding the whole planet hostrich?"

Review from Korea! A very exciting one for a Devil’s Plan fan. youtu.be/2hmbRSdpfQ8?...