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"We are being pulled into a global realignment in which our existence is inconvenient. "

The financial instability of The NewsHour is a civic crisis. PBS’s flagship nightly news broadcast can’t fund a weekend broadcast or keep its last bureau — Phoenix — open.

Thread: attempting to take a series of choreographed fight movements and translating them to a comics page, figuring it out as we go.

I just picked my first game I want to play from Solo But Not Alone. It's The Sunflower Sutra, by @comradesunny.bsky.social. And I just printed myself a copy. (I can use my Solo RPG Playing Cards from @ravensridgeco.bsky.social with it for the first time too‼️) Have you picked a first one to play?

great convo about comedy but also all art and all society in the age of enshittification

Just going to leave a link to this: www.theverge.com/podcast/8228... We see enshittification everywhere & anywhere, and we as consumers pay for it

Hey @merriam-webster.com, have you recognized the term Enshittification? And if so, is the Adobe logo made available in the definition? Just curious.

A wonderful tribute to the late 2000AD writer Alan Grant by David Roach, with a nod to his relationship and friendship with Massimo Belardinelli, too. Beautiful work!

Cool looking maps!

A Linxley office painting. For a hot second, he had a tower in downtown Zootopia. Bonus points if you know which movie I referenced for the ground crack. Hint: the floor is glass with a map of Zootopia underneath. #zootopia2 #disney #animation

Game designer Steve Dee @tinstargames.bsky.social unexpectedly passed last week. His last public post is a touching meditation on solidarity. "The smallest things can still be incredibly powerful...You matter, and if you show up, you can change your fate, or someone else’s. And that is everything.”

A question: I am working on a powerpoint for work and looking for examples of a comic artist with dynamic, rhythmic figure drawing skills? Suggestions? Looking for examples new adult age artist might recognize. Example: Glen Kean=master of flow,rhythm and recognizable pop culture.

Nearly every artist you know is struggling right now. Support them with dollars, engagement, and referrals wherever you can/however you can.

if you could use a laugh, RFK Jr’s new plan is to turn the food pyramid upside down

goblinshenchman.wordpress.com/2026/01/07/h... This Hex Flower is a homage to the classic arcade game Pac-Man. In this case ‘Hac-man’ runs the maze eating pellets and being chased by Ghosts. Can you get past Level 3? It’s just a bit of fun – try it out #Pac-Man #PacMan #HexFlower #Hex-Flower #OSR

My main dude, Tiberion Scarus #DestinyQuest #ttrpg #solorpg #playercharacterart

A satire website of a fake AI company to bring attention to it's dangerous. "Unfortunately for you, financial compensation is out of the question. Just because we're making money from your copyrighted material doesn't mean you're legally entitled to any of it." https://replacement.ai/ 1/2

Realize there might be other things on sale today...but I'd really appreciate it if you considered buying a physical print of your favorite piece of painfully detailed pixel art instead 😅🙏 That will show Jeff Bezos and the rest!

#fantasyart #darkfantasy #inkdrawing #ttrpg #osr #shadowdark #characterdesign #conceptart

Hello, new Blueskyers! My name's Chris, I live in a small mining town in western Kentucky, and I post a lot of drawings of historical, literary, and (especially holiday-related) folklore figures, often with mini-essays to introduce folks to them. Looking forward to meeting y'all!

Three necromancers you can eat dinner with and take jobs from in the Unholy City of Zeb. Nothings worse than when these three come over because they really like your vibe. Art by Tim Molloy from Empire of Bones #ttrpg #osr #dndart follow us on Kickstarter link in the bio

I'm still hoping to find a full transcript of NYC Public Advocate Jumaane Williams's speech today at @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social's inauguration ceremony. The New York Times has a brief excerpt, but the whole thing was brilliant & deeply moving. Here's the speech on YouTube: bsky.app/profile/advo...

Marco Rubio is reportedly saying Maduro will stand trial in US courts. Which means it’s now the US administration’s position that US courts can hold foreign presidents, but not the US president, accountable for crimes.

From Nantes to the New World, there’s a dark star on the rise, Ravage shining even brighter with a black heart #bzw #apc #wrestlesky #rixe

for real

Playing some solo ttprg before bed time: "My character is being chased by magic creatures and they run into cultist. Do the cultist and magic creatures hate each other? Duh, obviously. No roll needed."

I hired 3 artists to redesign my logo! Sharing some tips and tricks on how to hire an artist yourself! @abstracto.bsky.social youtu.be/WosjLr5VWh4?... #noAI #Art #ttrpg

All my helpful #SoloRPG articles in one place over on my website. Learn how to start solo roleplaying or just up your game. yumdm.short.gy/SoloRPGPo…#SoloRPG #DnD #DungeonsAndDragons #TTRPG

During Peak Gamergate, I had a Kiwifarms thread about me (it didn't go anywhere, I'm fine) and while they were picking faults with photos of me, someone commented on my shoulders, saying that no-one could get shoulders like mine without working out. Friends, I haven't been to a gym in decades.

Colin Greenland reviewed Metropolis for Imagine magazine... "Metropolis is a dark dream of the city of 2026, where the idle rich live in penthouses and play in rooftop pleasure gardens while the faceless workers toil in the machine caverns far, far below."

For their anti-immigrant, white nationalist post about 100 million deportations, DHS stole the artwork of a non-white foreigner: Japanese illustrator Hiroshi Nagai. Apparently no white Americans were available to design an image. View Nagai's work here: hiroshinagai.com/contents.html

interesting

I present to you Big Unit Superman on the occasion of Ye Olde Newe Yeare, 2026.

I've been in TTRPGs for ten years, and I haven't made any money but I have made several lifelong enemies

There is a whole blog post about this i am trying to put words to but a frustrating convo I am often dragged into is " 😌 You're playing wrong, you should play my game / free yourself with these adventures instead" "Cool, I mainly play free-form Batman games, can I do that here" "Well, no, but,"

While I understand the impulse, pitching me games where playing Sonic would be a Safe, Contained Choice kind of misses the point of the post This is mostly me griping about the Weird Reply Guy horseshoe of "angry OSR poster" and "angry indie game dev" Who both somehow end up weird in my mentions

Justice League COMFORT AND JOY time. Superman as a guy who sees J'onn, an alien orphan just like him, feeling lonely at the holidays and treating it with the same importance as saving a planet from gravitational collapse. I am very normal about it.

Every year, John Denver and Kermit talking about the loneliness of putting on a show at Christmastime, coupled with the feeling of being a part of everyone's family, brings me to absolute tears. #JeffLovesTheHolidays youtu.be/u2hOZOHCCes?...

Merry Christmas to this one shot in the John Denver and the Muppets TV special where Henson has taken his hand out of Kermit for just long enough to accidentally create a reaction image for the ages

I think a lot about The Bells of Fraggle Rock, and Jim Henson making a show aimed at 4-6 year olds with a message of "You're about to learn something about the holidays isn't true, but it's still possible to enjoy those same holidays once you learn it" King shit tbh #JeffLovesTheHolidays

will also add - yes, this is my personal crusade - that turning podcasts into videos implicitly asks women to once again make more effort than men, as the bar for "camera-ready" for one gender is obviously higher than for the other

I'm proud of the Golden Age video, but I much prefer video essay style pieces. If you are interested in my other work, here's my 5 best videos from this year: Arguably my best writing of the year is my video on Titanomachy's "NIGHTHAWKS," where I talk about how its relationship to Edward Hopper

i think there is so much to be said about how that video made the most common parasocial mistake in TTRPGs - assuming the people who make art, even influential art, are somehow ascended to some higher plane where you can only address them like celebrities or politicians

Happy New Year from GMT! - Caelyn. And presumably Chase, who knows.

Christmas t-shirt from my wife

"It’s the MOST, wonderful tiiiime of the year: when Judge John Hodgman, Bailiff Jesse Thorn, and Producer Jennifer Marmor try your…favorite? Classic? UNREPEATABLE family holiday recipes!"

One post's worth of my favorite worldbuilding games: Exquisite Biome by @seaexcursion.itch.io A City of Shining Stars by @ehronlime.bsky.social CANON/EYES by @jeffstormer.gobirds.online A Land Without Magic by @vidityavoleti.bsky.social Grasping Nettles by @adambell.games