It's New Years Day. https://tidal.com/track/121255057/u #newyearsday #taylorswift

If 2026 starts with a snowstorm, I start playing reggae music.

I don't do resolutions, but I do have an ambition for 2026. I will try to live in the now.

When the family gathers to play a game, Citadels is one of the classics. As you all know, It's Good To Be King. https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/478/citadels https://tidal.com/track/7496805/u #boardgames #tompetty

Jag inspireras av tidigare postade kreationer, och dagen till ära blandas en Champs-Élysées! Kanske inte den mest eleganta, men ändå! #drinkklubben

I see people post their yearly summaries and I really don't want to look back on this year. It has been a very taxing year for me, and than when I have actively stayed away from the news. I can't stand the person it makes me be, hateful and angry. I've decided for 2026 to instead try to use the […]

I seriously think we need a re-think about mental health. This is a European initiative I believe in, and suggest you sign, and boost for more people to see. https://www.psychedelicare.eu #mentalhealth #psychedelictherapy

Why oh why is audio for linux such a dumpster fire? ...and why do I fight with that on Christmas eve?

This is a model for what actual masculinity should be. Men don’t need to spend more time in caves beating their chests with other men; they need to take their daughters to a meaningful thing and talk to them about it. Relatedly I think the biggest cure for toxic masculinity is platonic women friends

You know what I'm tied of? Whatever "wrapped" is what. #shakingfistatclouds #grumpyoldman

Do you enjoy "classic rock" like that early heavy metal, Hammond organ kind of grooving? Worth a listen. https://tidal.com/album/136965802/u #goodrocking #soulsoftide #hejanorge

I have been listening on and off to https://thegamedesignroundtable.com as they discuss rpg design. The episode I listened to today talked about how most games don't actually teach you how to run the game. It's taught by word of mouth, and tradition. This reminded me of how we in the sphere of […]

If you dig some groovy drums, and why wouldn't you, this a very tasty album. The beats on this one is just something. My copy is the original pressing, with less tracks, though. https://tidal.com/album/19222320/u #ride #nowhere #drums

When I got the crowdfunding delivery of *Coriolis: The Great Dark*, I was kind of wondering what had made me enthusiastic about the game to begin with. Now the campaign box *Flowers of Algorab* dropped, and I'm actually feeling a slight twitch of enthusiasm again! #FreeLeague #Coriolis […]

A short while back I was made aware of a rpg I'd never heard of before, *Rêve: the Dream Ouroboros*. It was available via Lulu, and I got it and started reading. It's an intriuing game. Very odd rules, and quite crunchy in places you wouldn't expect. It feels like it's coming from another […]

I don't do Spotify, but here's my musical year. Frankly, I have no idea what some of these are about...

You wonder about who people in you masto stream is, and when I see all the posts about Advent of Code I know. I thought it was a more mixed crowd! :)

Jaha, ni med er Spotify wrapped. Nu har det kommit en summering från Tidal! Mycket spännande att få se vad folk kallar den musik jag lyssnar på. "Powerful female vocals" rimmar med att mitt mest lyssnade album var _Tell my therapist I'm fine_ med Bishop Briggs

The two relics of exploding stars are black holes and neutron stars. Both were discovered by women. Jocelyn Bell discovered neutron stars, in the guise of “pulsars”, in 1967. Since then, three Nobel prizes have gone to male scientists for their work on pulsars, but none to Bell. Louise Webster […]

I'm re-reading *Hawk* by Steven Brust. For some reason I picture Morrolan e'Drien looking like a mix of a young Glenn Danzig and Christopher Lee. I'm not sure why that is. #morrolan #vladtaltos #StevenBrust

I was just reminded of a small experience of joy last night. By chance I managed a perfectly cooked egg, where the yolk had *just* begun to get its act together. Marvellous. I could just feel the taste, by thinking back to it. Enjoy the small moments of bliss, friends. #aperfectegg #coking #joy

Sometimes life sucks, and sometimes you despair. Time to look inside, for the one. You need the psychedelic community. https://relisten.net/grateful-dead/1977/05/08 Close your eyes, breath and let the music play you. #themusicneverstopped #peace

I used to listen quite a lot to Faith No More. When "Angel Dust" dropped I got it, and it did get a few spins, but it never became as much of a favourite as "The Real Thing". Today I listened to "The Real Thing" again, for the first time in ages. I also read the texts all through the album […]

A tired morning, and something mellow in my ears. https://tidal.com/browse/album/165682541?u #nowplaying #feelslikemonday

Cyberpunk'd: The Strange Story of Steve Jackson Games Vs. the Secret Service https://www.sealightstudios.net/post/cyberpunk-d-the-strange-story-of-steve-jackson-games-vs-the-secret-service

Every time I listen to Robert Hunter's elegy for the Texan songbird in "Bird Song" I feel so sad. I guess it encapsulate that feeling so well. #birdsong #JanisJoplin #themusicneverstopped

Is it just my internet, or have Malcontent Games and any trace of "Rêve the Dream Ouroboros" disappeared off the net??

Jag har ju försummat att puffa för den bästa novemberlåten. Brukar annars göra detta varje år. Detta är ett perfekt soundtrack för det estetiska november. Stadens ljus reflekterat i regnvåta gator. Omfamna mörkret!

For the first time in maybe 25 years I've attended a gaming con! Games were played, fun was had. First I played Brindlewood Bay. I have some issues with the game engine, but the game was well run. Old ladies rule. The next one was Urban Jungle, and it was quite neat. The GM was less agile, but […]

Another thing that resonated with me, related to the Bob Weir documentary, is why do we create? I listened to a podcast where one of the hosts described how he used to just sit in his home studio, running some loops on his analog synths, trying some beats and making pleasant sounds. Then he […]

I just watched "The Other One - The Long Strange Trip of Bob Weir", and found it fascinating. True, a dead head would find it interesting, but I think there where lot of things in that documentary that is worth pondering. What are you about? In the end of your life, what are you proud of? Bob […]

Space your face https://tidal.com/track/225087297/u #nowplaying

This really brings back memories. I remember when I walked around the Sun office and put in my card at a Sun Ray station I wasn't using regularly. Some people looked at me strangely. It was fun with a movable desktop. Some of that tech was really neat […]

What's the most striking difference when you finally upgrade from an old LTS release to a new one? Yeah, the desktop environment is actually snappier, but the amount of program updates! Gee, I have not been running updated software in a while, have I?

I did an upgrade of my laptop yesterday, and after putting back all my files from the $HOME backup it looked nice. Today I tried to open Libreoffice, and the honeymoon was over. $ libreoffice qt.core.logging: Ignoring malformed logging rule: '’*=false’' terminate called after throwing an […]

Min jakt på bättre digital hygien fortsätter. I den här artikeln (väldigt listartad i sin form, det medges) har jag tagit upp alternativ till de största, till synes monopolmässiga, tjänsterna på nätet. Hoppas någon får nytta av det! https://ackerfors.se/digital-hygien-2-borja-byt/

I'm reading the combat rules for Chill 3rd ed. and I'm not totally clear on how the Resistance Check relates to Defending actions. Are they mutually exclusive? Anyone with a suggestion, feel free to chime in. #chill #chill3rded

The cult of veterans is part of how the military reproduces itself. If veterans were universally shunned, there would be no armies one generation later. Veterans should be pitied, not venerated. Because most wars are not just, and most war casualties are pointless.

So I had gotten enthustiastic about *Rêve: The Dragon Uroburos* and was reading it, trying to make sense of it. Suddenly the opportunity presents itself to GM a game, and I jump at the opportunity to submit a game of *Chill* 3rd ed. Maybe I need to re-read those rules to be able to run that […]

"I asked chatgpt and..." without wishing to be rude, I cannot now take anything else you say remotely seriously

So, what's up with ko-fi and dice.camp? I got this message: "Your subscription has been canceled Several attempts to charge your payment method have been unsuccesfully for your subscription to dice.camp. As a result, your subscription was automatically canceled." When I log in to ko-fi my […]

Personally I think it's a really odd UX decision to combine the boost and quote function. #mastodon #uxdesign

Donna Jean Thatcher Godchaux-MacKay, thank you for the music! #rip #themusicneverstopped

Reading Chill 3rd ed rules reminded me of how 1st ed with its three tiered skill system felt much like a class based system. This newer edition is a bit more nuanced. There are some interesting options as well with multiple success levels and dark/light tokens to show who's got the upper hand […]

So I've just signed up to run a game of Chill 3rd ed. for a convention in three weeks. If my submission is accepted, maybe I should refresh my understanding of the rules a bit? I remember I liked what I read, when they were new. #chill #horror #conventions

Who control the world? Boardgaming weekend. #sjgames #illuminati #Boardgame

I don't understand a word of it, since it's all in French. It's just music, pure sound and emotion. https://tidal.com/album/162398388/u #nowplaying #mylenefarmer

Why are the conspiracy theory mind rot affecting F1 fans as well? Are you stupid or something! Piastry just isn't as on his game as his team mate, live with it! Ferchristsakes... Australia really isn't putting forward their best at this time.

We just watched "In the mood for love" by Kar-Wai Wong. This movie is exquisite. Tony Leung and Maggie Cheung are great, as is the photography and the music. What I most strongly remembered from last time I saw it, is the long corridor in the apartment house. People pass really closely in that […]

Scarlet>Touch>Fire 84/07/13 Just mesmerizing. #themusicneverstopped #nowplaying