Today is the day! @mattdinniman.bsky.social drops Dungeon Crawler Carl 8. I drop Crypt Currency on KU. Bad planning on my part, but we can salvage it! Let's make it like Barbenheimer. Crypt Crawler? Carl Currency? Bottom lineL Read DCC 8 first, then Crypt Currency. www.amazon.com/Crypt-Curren...

Tomorrow morning, Crypt Currency goes live on Kindle Unlimited. Gorm Ingerson is back. He's up against a financial revolution, a rising tide of undead, and a cultural reckoning that's entirely his own fault. Naturally, it's a love story. www.amazon.com/Crypt-Curren...

1 hour left on the Crypt Currency Kickstarter.Sprayed edges are unlocked. Backers are voting on the design. The campaign closes at 6pm ET.If you've been meaning to back, this is the meaning-to-back-it part. www.kickstarter.com/projects/jza...

Sprayed page edges UNLOCKED. Crypt Currency just crossed $60k, which means the premium hardcovers are getting sprayed edges. (The pattern goes to a backer poll.) One stretch goal left. Closes today at 6pm ET. www.kickstarter.com/projects/jza...

The Crypt Currency Kickstarter closes today at 6pm ET. We're closing in on sprayed page edges, with one more stretch goal beyond that. Final hours to back a satirical fantasy novel about speculative assets, necromancy, and love. www.kickstarter.com/projects/jza...

I didn't know that Dungeon Crawler Carl is a musical now. youtu.be/JH3mYQaSA7I

Me: [idly looking up info on popes] Wikipedia: This list is incomplete; you can help expand it. Me: wut? Wikipedia: [lifts eyebrows suggestively]

Cover Reveal Crypt Currency: A Lesson in Orconomics by J. Zachary Pike @kickstarter.com launches April 14th, 2026 COVER ARTIST: Agustin Marceillac COVER DESIGN: James T. Egan of Bookfly Design @jzacharypike.bsky.social

It was called the Iran nuclear deal. You threw it out because it was negotiated by a black president.

My latest novel skewers speculative assets that are prone to manipulation, and traded by people who don't understand them. But it's got wizards, Dwarves, and the undead, so it's way more fun than #cryptocurrency. Crypt Currency comes to Kickstarter soon www.kickstarter.com/projects/jza...

#bookreview 📚💙 📚🪐 📚⚔️ Fan of: - D&D - Adventuring start ups - Redemption! - Economic satire - Funny & clever writing. Try: @jzacharypike.bsky.social's Orconomics jzacharypike.com/pages/orcono... A disgraced dwarf leads a team of misfits on a quest with low odds of success that is more than it seems.

Breaking: Bigoted Pedophile Honors America's First Recorded Bigoted Pedophile.

Even if it takes years, we have to bring EVERYONE who made this happen to justice. No moving on, no letting this go. Revenge is good enough motivation for me personally, but the nobler and important reason is to ensure that anyone who thinks of doing this again knows they’ll rot in prison for it.

I guess war criminals just gotta war crime.

If you have the means, please donate to the Trans Continental Pipeline right now. They are a Colorado based org that helps trans people relocate and they are overwhelmed with requests. Colorado borders Kansas, and TCP has the infrastructure to help get people out. tcpipeline.org

NEW: Guards have taken away crayons, colored pencils & paper during recent room searches at Dilley, according to detainees and others. After one inspection, the children just “cried and cried and cried,” a mother said. The facility denies the claims. By @mckenziefunk.com @micarosenberg.bsky.social

Counterpoint: Today isn't any different, because Trump has a chance to stop being a corrupt sack of pig droppings and start turning things around every goddamn day.

8/ For more on what kids are experiencing inside the Dilley detention center, read the full story by reporter @micarosenberg.bsky.social:

You and your wife drop your 6-year-old off at school. You just moved here. You see ICE terrorizing your new neighbors. You film them, as is your legal right. Your wife complies with orders. She is then shot in the head. You still have to pick up your child later today. This could be you.

If urging people to follow the law is sedition against a government, it follows that said government must be lawless.

Oh look. More war crimes.

Congrats to M L Wang for her victory in SPFBO tournament of champion! I had the pleasure of reading Sword of Kaiden this year, and it deserves all of the accolades. Well deserved!

Every year I watch the classic Rankin-Bass Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer and every year I am shocked at what a colossal dick Santa is in it.

Current read <3 An amazing follow up to Orconomics. It's Pratchett adjacent with a big theme on classism, racism, and economics. A rare instance where I feel compelled to complete the series since usually I am fine with book 1 only. #sff #comedy #satire #spfbo #indiebooks #selfpub 💙📚📘📗🐉🧝‍♀️💰

I'm a big fan of the work @blog.readindiefantasy.com do so I took the opportunity to contribute a post on some of the worldbuilding I've enjoyed in indie fantasy. Talking about @patricksamphire.bsky.social , @jzacharypike.bsky.social , @cmcaplanwrites.bsky.social and Hiyodori (not of this parish.)

Today @bjornlarssen.com reviews SON OF A LICHE and DRAGONFIRED, books 2 and 3 of @jzacharypike.bsky.social's satirical fantasy series, The Dark Profit Saga. "I was given an opportunity to spend lots of time with near-perfection, and that is a rare wonder." queensbookasylum.com/2025/11/19/s...

Somewhere in America today, people are fighting for the rights of immigrants, the civil liberties of those illegally detained, and the vindication of those improperly prosecuted by this farce of an administration. Someday, one of those people will win the Nobel Peace Prize. Trump never will.

The news that Donald Trump did not win a Nobel Peace Prize is akin to the news that I did not win an Emmy.

You know, this aged really well.

I wish we could do a boycott to get Colbert to keep his show too, but nobody has Paramount+ to begin with. #jimmykimmel

I was reliably told celebrating political violence was cause for government reprisal and private sector termination.

Boycott networks that capitulate.

I just finished "Orconomics" by @jzacharypike.bsky.social and it was a great time - a crew of washed up adventurers get a second chance in a classic RPG-setting world where the economy is based on adventuring. Following the concept to it's logical(?) conclusion leads to a twisty rollercoaster ride.

this is, hands down, the best video I've seen on men's influencer content and it's not close either

I don’t think anyone should die from gun violence. It’s horrible that it happens so frequently; that it’s cost us so much; that we’re all so numb to it. It doesn’t have to be this way. I really wish Charlie Kirk didn’t get what he campaigned for. We’d all be better off if he didn’t. Even him.

"I think it's worth to have a cost of, unfortunately, some gun deaths every single year so that we can have the Second Amendment to protect our other God-given rights" - Charlie Kirk, 2023 www.mediamatters.org/charlie-kirk...

Just finished the audiobook of Dragonfired by @jzacharypike.bsky.social . It was fantastic and I can't wait for what the 8th age has to offer. Highly recommend Orconomics/The Dark Profit saga if anyone needs a book recommendation

This trilogy was my absolute favorite read last year.

Lukasz & Mihir review #SPFBO Champion WHERE LOYALTIES LIE by @robjhayes.bsky.social #SPFBOCL Find out where it stands in our overall ranking

Before I start screaming from the rooftops about my paperback release, something really cool showed up in the mail. The deluxe editions of @jzacharypike.bsky.social's Dark Profit trilogy. I had the honor of designing the interiors for these, so seeing them in person is awesome! Thanks so much Zack!

Nintendo Marketing: You should buy this Switch 2 game! Me: Can I buy a Switch 2 to play it on? Nintendo: ... #nintendo #marketing #fail

Coming August 5th to Audible, an omnibus edition of my Iconoclasts trilogy, including the short stories "Barrowlands" and "Final Word." An omnibus ebook will be released on Amazon simultaneously. Mark your calendars!

I never knew it stood for Cucks for Billionaire Shitbags.

Today I learned that the hit single “Light Up The World” by the cast of Glee did not contain the lyrics “You gotta give up the pumpkin pie.” Makes much more sense now.

In my head canon, Batroc has a crush on Silk. He follows her around like Pepe LePew. #marvelsnap

Got to see @pattonoswalt.bsky.social at the Portsmouth Music Hall tobight. Amazing show, and I got to see the reunion of Shy Teacher and Drunk Principal out in the lobby.

Black licorice is candy for people who don’t understand candy.

I’m watching #elemental again and it’s honest to god one of my top 10 movies. Top 3 Pixar movies. Just fantastic. Not enough people watched it. You should if you haven’t.

I feel like 90% of headlines for the next six months can be effectively replaced with “Total Sack of Shit is Still A Total Sack of Shit.”

There is not always a light at the end of the tunnel. That is why you must carry a torch.