Barry likes tummy rubs. He is very orange, my favorite himbo cat

www.reuters.com/world/cash-s... Let's do some cocktail napkin math! "The service has reported net losses of $118 billion since 2007" 2026-2007= 19 years 118 billion/19 = ~6.2 billion 6.2 billion/342 million (roughly the population of the US) = ~$18.13 a person per year to run this public service

Guys. Guys. I just heard that for two nights in a row, a bear has been spotted only a few streets away from me. You and I both know what I must do. Tell my family I loved them, just not as much as I loved squishing the ears of a wild bear.

Ah tis the wonderful point in the year when there are white tufts floating in the air, and it's 50/50 if they are snow or pollen. Misery roulette, shivers or sneezes edition!

youtu.be/08Mhmd53xJI?... Most excited I've ever been fot a Hunt game change

Also I saw a cat today

I apologize that I haven't posted in a long time. I was very busy playing in a checkers tournament against lava monsters. I would tell you how I placed, except that would violate the contract I signed with ESPN-Zoo.

mulugetaagonafer.substack.com/p/a-warning-... Current US, Iran, Israel conflict contextualized by WWI and WWII. Powerful, dire warning, but not a hopeless/doomer piece. Now I really should get back to silly jokes and video game nonsense...

How my final round of this go-round of Dead by Daylight's 2v8 ended. Wraith had the cutest wiggle, and ghostface's satisfied nod at the end is just adorable. I wish 2v8 lasted longer/was a permanent mode

youtube.com/shorts/NfNbZ... lol the match starting sound is like a crowd cheering for Eddie's guitar solo

I had a survival horror dream last night that ended with everyone surviving to find an enormous litter of adorable kittens

open.substack.com/pub/mulugeta... Really cool article about the disturbing direction of modern democracies. Anyone who wants to discuss it should hit me up!

No one in the world will care, but tonight I had my first 4 gen chase in Dead by Daylight. Escaped it, even, because two teammates came to take protection hits and decoy. I'm sure tomorrow I'll be back to my standard 7 second chases lol but for one round I was a chad

A box where each side is divided into 9 squares, each with a different goal/expectation on it: a rubrics cube

www.nytimes.com/2026/01/13/b... This article has me excited for this book

Nvidia driver update messed up my steelseries gg's ability to record funny clips of my gaming :-( (but if I roll back my Nvidia driver, one of my monitors will occasionally randomly blink out)

newatlas.com/cancer/frog-... no time to explain--stick this frog up your butt!

Reskeeting with alt text Yeah this has become the utter pain of what we once had. Used to be you'd run to Google for a trusted and quick search and now I try to avoid it when I can Legit ruined their own product to the point of being unrecognizable

Pantone's 2026 color of the year is a gross, boring, grey-tinged *white*??? Would someone PLEASE introduce the corporate boomers to Dark Mode on their phones, apps, etc?

Can we talk wrapping paper? The local stores wrapping papers this year are very bland and depressing. And Amazon (yes, it's evil, I know) is FLOODED with these 17in "mini" rolls this year. What is going on??? Where can I get decent--either pretty or fun--wrapping paper in the full size rolls?

Lol when your hellpod lands on too tall of a rock and it's faster to just get reinforced again youtube.com/shorts/lgwY-...

I need a cup of tea, but the dog is sitting on me and is comfortable.

Important announcement: I am making gumbo

I unironically love Christmas music, and so am happy to make it to Whamhalla early this year. Unlike Last Christmas, wherein I...

Ok but seriously I've lived in MA since college--why is winter still too cold? What is your secret to not shivering and suffering a quarter+ of the year?

A friend sent me this meme, now I need to see people's dream Warhammer 40k muppet fancasts

As a reminder, the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade has been brought to you by...immigrants. Literally, the immigrants who worked at Macy's wanted to celebrate the American holiday with their old country parade traditions

Best thing about this time of year: chonky chubby squirrels

Rick Grimes has the weirdest hook scream I've ever heard in Dead by Daylight

Muffins happened.

Thrilling news: I am planning on baking muffins tomorrow. That is all.

Olé! Discovered you can bullfight in Dead by Daylight while playing as Scoops Ahoy Steve!

One of my favorite npc voicelines from Darktide

It's still Halloween in my heart

Lol super lazy helldivers costumes with reflective details for trick or treating. Next up, splattering them with bug guts

The Countdown begins! In 9 days, for the 7th year in a row I'm raising money over on my twitch channel by showcaseing 9 amazing #ttrpg #actualplays in benefit for @extralife4kids.bsky.social 9 STs and Dozens of players for my community! twitch.tv/valdrianth

Every now and then I get the urge to learn how to make French onion soup, but then I see Emmental cheese in ingredients and read it as "elemental cheese" and think the new avatar's been found in Wisconsin lol dairybending

It's almost Halloween and I lack spooky vibes! Give unto me your scary stories and experiences!!! (Because fair's fair, here's an index of stories--text and narrated video form--from my teen ghost hunter days at the abandoned military base in the middle of the woods autumnguest.com/blog/2022/11... )

Darktide character dialogue/interactions always crack me up

Feeling nostalgic for the days when you could do a Google search without adding "reddit" onto your query (and dreading the near future when the ever increasing bot swarms make it so that the real people on reddit are drowned out entirely)

Do you think Commissar Ciaphas Cain had his first sip of tanna tea and was like, "Yes. This slaps. This is it," or do you think it was an acquired taste because the Valhallans had more of it than recaff around, or its strong flavor was a protective measure against Jurgen's body odor? #Warhammer40K

Since heist books are trending, I figure it's a good time to ask #booksky for a book I've spent years been longing for: a haunted heist. Crew goes in to heist but heist location is super haunted so the thieves have to figure out how to survive/escape. Anyone know any books like that?

Important announcement!! Today is International Sloth Day!

Games I'm currently down to team up for: Darktide, Dead by Daylight, Helldivers 2, Hunt Showdown (with explicit understanding that I am bad at it and my comedically inflated mmr gets mean lobbies), Payday 2 (been a while since I played it though, so I likely need to relearn everything), Phasmophobia

I wrote a blog post about the kinds of scary stories I want to read. As in, read right now lol so if you have any creepy experiences/stories that fit the bill, gimme. autumnguest.com/blog/2025/10...