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We keep pushing, we don't let them off the hook. With midterm elections coming, there's going to be a lot of this kinda win. Yes, celebrate the win AND hold your reps accountable for the other policies that need to change We're not done, but this is a good sign that it's working

BREAKING: The Department of Education has ended its directive that attempted to restrict diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts in schools nationwide. This is a victory for academic freedom and education equity.

Crossing streams for any classical music fans out there. An orchestral arrangement I made from Mel Bonis' piano work, Marionettes. youtu.be/A2qEkkHu4x4

Well, here's your problem: It's supposed to be, 'Anything is possible with Zombocom.'

A false herring is like imitation crab, except it's fish made out of crab.

Finished Murakami's The City and Its Uncertain Walls. A very odd book. Many thing occur, but not much happens, if that makes sense. Very moving ending, nevertheless.

Mishima describing a person picking up his underwear off the floor with his toes is, I think, the hardest I've ever related to a fictional character. "Yes," I thought, reading the passage. "This is the way."

Writer's block isn't quite the right formulation. "Writer's blocks" is more apt. Maybe you need rest. Maybe you need to refill the creative reservoir. Maybe, as is the case with one story floating in my brain, the scenario gives you the absolute hibbety-jibbeties.

Other countries can do it, why can’t we? www.france24.com/en/live-news...

Favorite found footage YouTube horror series, in no particular order: Ted's Caving Journal Hollow Bones Fake Documentary Q VCR Willie Briscoe Park Marble Hornets: Rosswood

The collective wisdom of human history: "... and that's why you don't kill the goose that lays the golden eggs." Some CEO, looking positively flummoxed: "But... But we don't sell geese."

Dramatic irony is a severely underused technique in found footage horror. The fact that there are essentially two observers makes it ripe for its usage. youtu.be/f-hYPXMTmbw?...

"Montag ... imagined he saw or felt the walls go dark in Millie's face, heard her screaming, because in the millionth part of time left, she saw her own face reflected there, in a mirror instead of a crystal ball, and it was such a wildly empty face, all by itself in the room..."

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 :)

Gotta love ttrpg panic cycles. Saw a video titled, like, "CaN mAtT mErCeR sUrViVe?!?!" and it was posted a year ago and I look around there's Critical Roll over there just gleefully cranking away at a money printing machine.

Trying to remember a quote. Was something like "Artists and prostitutes are always made suspect because they intermingle with all levels of society."

Reading some Reddit reactions to people learning their AI body pillows will be irrevocably altered when the LLM updates is eerily similar to the scene in Fahrenheit 451, when Mildred goes more or less catatonic at the loss of her parlor wall family.

Dude regularly works for Disney, DreamWorks, Netflix and CN so speculate away. But this sucks no matter which studio is doing it, and gross to think some major movie this year is running with a plagiarized image from ChatGPT.

The great irony of Princess Mononoke's "seeing with eyes unclouded" is, you never see the source of all the problems: a distant, aloof emperor hardly anyone ever mentions.

Couple of guys from the writing group host a writer's open mic. Good number of people there, maybe 20? Mostly older, but a few younger folk. Had readings from an essayist detailing new gen fentanyl's effects on the body, a woman with a strong lisp, and a recovering cocaine addict. Good people.

*clicks powerpoint slide clicker* And here, in this detail from Bosch's "Christ in Limbo," we see the earliest depiction of goatse...

Joined a local writing group. It's small, but supportive and the writers are really different in style. They also seem decently connected to other writerly things going on in the area. A lucky find!

Told the chiropractor I had neck pain. Chiropractor said, "Ah, it's because your hips are misaligned." "You're pulling my leg," I said.

Beavis AND Butthead? In this economy?

Flawed Peacock dropped an analysis of No, I'm Not Human. Strapping in and preparing for 15 hours of "Keep this in mind."

Gen Z'er, looking like an extra from Le Mis: "I am never off the clock." The Guardian: "Haha! These Gen Z's are so quirky and passionate!" Cue Millennial Abe Simpson's "It'll happen to you!"

People on Reddit are getting Amazon to refund their Ring products because of their partnership with Flock and that creepy Super Bowl ad www.reddit.com/r/FlockSurve...

It has taken me far too long to realize that online presence is merely the fruiting body of what should be a mostly in-person mycelial network.

The only Ring ICE should be getting is the ring of the banana phone. That or a haunted video tape, that works, too.

This week, in "Sentences I never thought I'd ever read:" This sentence, which I thought I'd never read.

"We left with all of my children" seems like an oddly specific answer to a question that wasn't asked.

Curling is for sure a sport that could only ever be invented by people who have to endure winter for 8 months of the year.

Heard a hypothesis that the reason Marika's jarring worked is because she was fused with fire giants and now all I can think is, Radagon is the result of her attempting to unfuse herself.

Afrofuturist heist game Relooted is now available! It is a South African game where you reclaim real African artifacts from Western museums, as the end of the 21st century approaches. It's a subject that has fascinated me for a long time, so it's nice to cover it in a video game.👌

Age verification? I have files saved on what the save button symbol refers to.

[Update] This piece has been amended to add new details from Jay Dragon, along with other corrections and clarifications, including the removal of all pull quotes.

While I'm on #writing hiatus, I guess I should make sure to post my Ko-Fi shop. Got several novellas based on solo #ttrpg playthroughs, as well as some stuff from back when I wrote D&D5e stuff. Check it out! ko-fi.com/tdungeonator...

Me, upon receiving yet more forms to fill out after a rep assured me they had all they needed.

Hey all, am looking for a latinx voice actor to do voiceover for a masc NPC on the Cybertopia podcast for an episode going out in 4 weeks - around 20 lines maybe (still need to transcribe them), DM me for more info if interested

Experiencing my now daily reminder that moving to a different state is both a titanic pain in the ass and incredibly expensive. The "if you don't like it, you can just leave crowd" is absolutely insufferable.

Pharmacy line rant: prior authorization is bullshit. It was authorized. By the doctor. When they prescribed it.

In today's episode of "the artist's poorly disguised fetish," we have Alfred Kubin's work, 'Oppression.' (Ascribed to, rather. I've not found an official listing from a cursory Googling and Tineye.)

Saw a post about "people don't think this Gundam clip is political" floating around and I'm feeling a strong urge to tap the "politics and partisanship are not the same thing" sign again.

Goin' to the elemental plane of earth to pick me some pomegranites.

Probably going to take a short break from #writing, as a bunch of stuff for my move needs to be wrapped up. In the mean time, if you've enjoyed the blog, consider a follow. If you REALLY liked it, you can drop some cash in the Ko-Fi pot! ko-fi.com/tdungeonator

Brain: Boy, there sure seems to a lot could be said about Nietzschean ressentiment in Elden Ring. Me: ... ... ... Brain: I mean, really, just hours and hours of content waiting to be - Me: I'm not making any damn video essays. Brain:

Thanks for the space. I'm Aboleth Eye and I'm super excited to be making ttrpg content this year. Still making homebrew 3.5e monsters, classes and races. Still planning to recap the story of my ravenloft campaign Freaks & Facades. And more! I also just randomly post on here 😆 linktr.ee/aboletheye

Former Washington Post journalists have launched a GoFundMe to help repatriate fired staff members who are effectively stranded in foreign countries. One of the richest men in the world fired them from the paper and didn’t even pay to ensure they got home. Abolish the billionaire class:

Dokapon Kingdom: The game so infuriating it made me consider applying for grad school.