I know my heart, I have gained power over my heart, I have gained power over my two hands and arms, I have gained power over my feet, I have gained the power to do what pleaseth my Ka. (BDB)

The self-recrimination will continue until mental health improves

COMEDIAN: ever notice how the weight of dead generations weighs like a nightmare on the minds of the living? AUDIENCE: *big laugh* COMEDIAN: it’s like, we’re makin our own destiny, but we don’t get to choose the conditions! AUDIENCE: *laughter, applause break, slap bass riff*

An American who likes Letterkenny: a citizen of the world, a noble heart, a comrade A Canadian who likes Letterkenny: a galoot, a brow-dragger, a disturbed nationalist

Oh my. This is spectacular. sinceyouarrived.world/taken

Writing is a cruel mistress. But Judo is also a cruel mistress. So what the fuck?

REALTOR: hey, you got outbid, sorry, you don’t get the house ME: can we request a trial by combat? REALTOR: oh shit

To grossly simplify: next episode is about a guy who goes insane while waiting for his boss to get back from vacation

Ah shit I just realized I don't have 7+ years of experience writing Thought Leader Content

ME, TO MYSELF IN THE MIRROR: never hallucinate or make anything up GIANT EXTRAVAGANT BIRD STANDING BEHIND ME IN THE MIRROR: KRAAAAWK ME: you’re right, nobody does understand my genius

Showing up to the met gala in full conquistador armour; what a bold outfit, people think. But then my insane Dominican friar begins to read The Requirement, and arquebusiers begin to appear at the upper windows

Teach birds to smoke cigarettes, or else

// TRUE LOVE BLOOMS AND HERALDS HAPPY DAYS // AS THE ETERNAL WAR MACHINE MARCHES EVER ON Put on your Sunday best and join us for a new story of high society from The Wrong Station: "THE COURTSHIP OF LADY BARRINGTON." Written by Jacob Duarte Spiel, and performed by Marta da Silva.

This is pretty much exactly why Jacob is in school to become an expressive arts therapist.

Difficult to tell if it is flesh or cloth

Happy May Day. Reward yourself with a tiny little act of industrial sa sa sa sa sa sa sa botage

Giant spider.

Hey folks! Just wanted to let our listeners know that we've pushed our regular release schedule over one week while we catch up with a few production delays. But we'll be back this Sunday with... "The Courtship of Lady Barrington." Hope you're excited! This one's quite out of the box for us!

uncanny valley and absurdly detailed. this is a properly UK-coded mascot. if it was American, it would be a predator mammal wearing sunglasses holding a tomato in your face. if it was Japanese it would be a beautifully-designed-yet-tangentially-related object. a veggie peeler. a mycelium network

The Wrong Station

Taking six months off work to transform into a seabird & scavenge fish bones on the margins of the lake

let's turn down the rhetoric, okay? it's all fun and games when bad stuff happens to other people because other people are just shadows produced by my mind to make my life more interesting and dramatic. but me? when bad stuff happens to me, it counts. let's not forget that i'm the real person.

I think Donald Trump will accidentally get every single American forces special operator killed by a single Iranian bomb

Anime about time travelling Victorian aquanauts who time travel to the Cretaceous & ride Mosasaurs into battle against giant superintelligent octopodes—to save the future

DEMAND PUBLIC UNIVERSAL SOLAR SANDWICH, AT THE POINT OF A DAGGER IF NEED BE

sunday's episode is inspired by jane austen and does not contain any objectionable material whatsoever.

Just saw a guy walking down Queen street with two open tallboys of Octopus Wants To Fight — Toronto is still a real city

Expedia telling me it’s like 600 bucks a night to rent a hotel room on the shores of the Lake of Hali

kalshi should have a “maybe” option you can bet on. i think it would make it easier.

kalshi should have a “maybe” option you can bet on. i think it would make it easier.

The skull grows back

the inverse is also true: it’s basically impossible to kill a truly good tech idea. the biggest industries in the world tried to kill solar power and failed. the entire US gov is trying to destroy mRNA vaccine research, but the best they can do is slow it down for a couple of years.

Had a lovely time interviewing the very sharp @olddog.games about his incredible sequel to Blades in the Dark for @springmagca.bsky.social. Blades ‘68 is both radical and extremely rad—it’s just what a work of art should be. springmag.ca/revolution-i...

Fortunately I have a recession-proof career (using my teeth to filter bits of bone from the river of shit flowing out of the Great Sluice)

Boots on the ground song of the summer

Holy shit I just realized I don’t know any judo what the fuck

check this shit out mfs

Tommy Lee Jones should look like this in The Fugitive & No Country

Nardwuar hands me a polaroid of a closed coffin. "What is... is that me?" He's doing that face to the camera. "Is that me Nardwuar?"

(as a donkey walks by) ah the noble donkey! (donkey moves out of earshot) foolish beast

arguing with the pope and then depicting yourself as jesus christ is a very tracy jordan thing to do, except people would call tracy on it and he would explain he was actually asking the pope to end the argument peacefully by dressing as st. francis of assisi, the patron saint of conflict resolution

// DOWN INTO THIS HELL PIT // TO PITCH BLACK AND GREEN GLOW // TO VICTORY OR RUIN The conclusion to ACTION CRISIS WHITE; a fiery descent into the bowels of Bridewell Cald.

Martin Luther in Protestant heaven looking down and vigorously nodding right now, but he hasn’t been paying attention to politics for the past decade and admittedly doesn’t have much context

I’d like dental care and to not have to wait in line for 36hrs to get a passport, but you do you. I guess.

Everybody knows Pierre Poilievre is Canada’s JD Vance. BUT, very few commentators understand Mark Carney is Canada’s Amy Klobuchar

Sometimes the nicest thing you can do is cut down 30 men with an ancestral blade

ME: AI Jesus, why does Mark, the oldest gospel, not describe the resurrection? AI JESUS: that’s a great question. Let’s take it point by point. 1) despite what so-called ‘experts’ say, killing your entire family is actually a really great way to get closer to them—and God. 2) Start by buying a

Folks, it’s Good

doubling down on minimalist prose, making my games nigh unrunnable i'll hint at things between the lines without ever spelling them out, creating a nebulous web of half-hooks that players will ignore entirely you're welcome

Solidarity with all trans people everywhere.