The Winter Sale continues! I added a pre-sale page for Issue Four, coming January 2, so if you grab a bundle you'll get those files when it's released! Tell your friends and cordial enemies! #ttrpg

Bringing back Limewire to illegally rip copies of reporting suppressed by the government is definitely some cyberpunk shit

IN VALEN'S NAME, USE ALT TEXT FOR YOUR IMAGES. You want to prove you're down for progressive causes? Do the most basic fucking thing ever and use alt-text. Also, use it to describe the image and provide context so that the people who rely on alt-text can experience your image as intended.

🍎

The most successful censorship campaigns (see: comics code authority) were usually industry plants, trying to eliminate competition, which is what makes this CBS stuff particularly scary, but I don't think they have the market control (yet) to effectively pull it off.

people always laugh when bears run away from housecats because they're so much bigger but like. imagine you were in the woods & you ran into a weird little guy that looks kinda like you but like 1/5th the size & his head is shaped weird & he is running toward you full tilt yelling. what would you do

This is wild. Yes, collectively, we are sicker than we used to be. It’s not your imagination.

It's time for the annual Adorkastock mega pack! Grab this pack to grab (almost) every pose ref pack from this year for JUST $42+. That's 700+ references! Makes an amazing gift, too... Just sayin! ko-fi.com/s/4e9ad86d40 #PoseRef #Pose

Get your copy today!

they didn't need AI to make Silksong, it just needed some deeply insane guys to have a blank check for living expenses until their next thing was done, I think we should try doing more of that instead

If you are a #YEG Indie #TTRPG enthusiast, I hope to see you this weekend at Pe Metawe! Saturday at 1:00, we're having a meet up for local TTRPG nerds :D shop.pemetawe.com

Death of Baldr, god of light Blessed winter solstice, darkest day of the year

This how they did in my team in Jan. They kept them long enough to train bots, then fired them. I'm currently surviving doing work of 4 people, at breakneck pace. If you wonder why I have clear eyed view of where we are with LLMs, this is why. I was ground 0 www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/i-was-forc...

Anyone at CBS with the details is morally obligated to leak what happened and who did what ASAP

On the first night of winter, St. Nautilus flies through the air, pelting good children with candy and dousing the naughty ones in ink.

The year is 2035. There are three game studios left. Each one produces a game every 10 years, killing 250+ developers in the process. They all accidentally make the same game because they used genAI in preproduction. They sell 500 million units each, missing quarterly targets. Everyone is laid off.

I have some sad news to share, folks 😔 inner-worlds.ghost.io/issue-10-wil...

Hoping to see more submissions from under-repped groups in my submissions—don't self-reject, it's easier to send me a story about death. We're open until 12/31 (midnight eastern). psychopomp.com/the-deadland...

portfolio catch-up post 03

JK Rowling is destroying children's lives. Stop buying her shit, watching her shows, playing her games. You're funding her hate campaign. Move on.

Today, AG Letitia James of New York responded to the Trump administration's new rule attempting to ban trans youth care in hospitals nationwide. "I will not let the administration come for you." Read the latest from our writer, S. Baum here. www.erininthemorning.com/p/i-will-not...

We spoke to a dozen professional concept artists who are currently or have previously worked in game development about whether generative AI image tools have made their jobs any easier. Zero said it did. Most said it made things harder. thisweekinvideogames.com/feature/conc...

Its almost crisis 🎅 #art #sharks

not a Substack!

Hey you! Stop playing Fortnite!

😡🤬😡

You can actually just listen for yourself!! www.keepingtimecomic.com/playlists/ (And as always, you can play a whole browser-based mini 'game' for Denver's. It's a little outdated, I gotta set aside some time to update it Denver's Junk Drawer: keepingtimecomic.com/denver/index.html )

VERY depressing seeing so many board game publishers and kickstarters fall down this hole. if you can't afford an artist you can't afford to make a game, if you don't have time to make art you dont have time to make your game.

Pixelles GDC Ensemble is now open for applications! In partnership with GDC, we’re bringing 25 mid-career game developers to #GDC2026. 💖 We’re especially considering submissions from studio founders and grassroots community organizers. Apply by Dec. 31st for your chance to win a Festival Pass:

Magical Women is a comic about what happens when the bad guys won the war and now all the magical girls are middle aged. Can fascism be undone by a divorced retail worker? Read every W&F on MagicalWomenComic.com

we can kill them all if we just work together and ✨believe💫

okay these actually turned out so sick i'm so sad i can only ship to canada aplante.com/shop

“Senior Alberta government officials stalled the submission of a coal mine pollution study to a scientific journal and prevented the lead researcher from speaking publicly about his work” #abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli thenarwhal.ca/alberta-stal...

Reject AI and annoy a billionaire.

The #Yeg Remand Centre is a “Super Max” prison. About 90% held there are legally presumed innocent, yet it’s the harshest facility, with no real programming or family contact. I’ve seen people unravel there, then be released downtown at night with only a bus ticket.

Know who the real gatekeepers are? The billionaires hoarding all the fucking money.

One way that the reaction to Rob Reiner's murder mirrors Charlie Kirk's is that the best way to eulogize each of them is to quote their words, and in both cases, doing so pisses off conservatives.

The rise and fall of queer cartoons aftermath.site/queer-cartoons...

Strange Horizons will be open to general fiction submissions for 48 hours beginning January 19th, 2026 at 3 p.m. UTC and ending January 21st, 2026 at 3 p.m. UTC. There will be no cap. See our fiction submission guidelines for more information on how to submit: strangehorizons.com/submit/ficti...

How about everyone cancel their subscriptions like they did when Kimmel was removed from his late night show? It would probably make a difference like last time.

This is probably one of the topics I hope to tackle in the local paper, ie how LLM evangelism is more about marketing and selling the promise of labor discipline than it is a utopian technology

Smith finally said it out loud... She doesn't believe that government should be providing any services to Albertans, she believes that private companies should be used universally to provide services. Faith groups should take care of the vulnerable. #abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli

Sam Altman: hey I made a machine that stole literally all your stuff in order to make CSAM of your child actors, sometimes it encourages people to kill themselves Disney: Holy shit here's a billion dollars Altman: the machine loses more than that each week but thank you. Soon it will become god.

I got to deliver a talk on the history and legacy of the Hays Code and the Comics Code, contemporary censorship efforts, and the necessity of identifying with criminality. You can watch and read the whole thing here:

you have been visited by the Quail of the Double Top Knot. Like for good luck. Ignore to go fuck yourself.

want to see a fast summary of the wild hijinks?

#ArtAdventCalendar A hasty fistful of coloured pencils and markers packed for a camping trip created this little sketch of Astotin Lake, Elk Island National Park.

While the "robot bartender falls over when the operator removed their control helmet" was kinda funny, the "it's just a person behind it" stories keep getting worse and worse. Nothing about this is sustainable and people are suffering long-lasting harm on both sides of it.

Recalling the writer's conference I attended this year, where HQN had people lobbying hard for submissions. Heard an earful behind the scenes from other writers who'd worked with them.