I am so excited to share our first mutual aid panel of 2026, A Jumu’ah Conversation With Muslims In TTRPGs. This is genuinely my favorite ttrpg-related panel I have ever watched, and I hope you will consider carving a little time out of your day to engage with it.

SCRIDDLE #24 (207⨯ - 51:03) I think it actually took me somewhere in the range of 350 since my first attempt reset. I did brute-force the solution.

SCRIDDLE #25 (90⨯ - 55:36) I got there in the end.

Was talking music with a coworker and realized I’ve never actually listened to a Beatles album full-through. I grew up on their best hits album.

“The rate of deaths per year in the correctional facilities has been on the rise even though the number of people being held in the prisons has declined, the records show. Last year the death count hit 144 — the highest number in the past seven years.”

I did, in fact, get to 45k!

I'm watching some horrible phone game ad with surprisingly good animation, whose style I can only describe as OK K.O. meets Hilda.

I swear the kaki fry bento from nijiya fucking haunts me. I’ve never seen it since. I want it so bad.

I’m really good at this and I‘m Never even intentionally playing

for every $5 you send me i will endorse your ruling. bigger numbers win ties.

Haha this is a fun game. Ivehad 3 hours of sleep.

in The company of others do a quick blep, like a lizard. See who does it back. These are your true friends.

On it 🫡

MAGICAL GATHERING Step 1: steal your friend's MtG deck

Compete to waste the most amount of time at work. You lose when your supervisor puts you on a PIP.

In all ways but PTO I am on holiday.

blackout is an (almost entirely) asynchronous journalling game for two players about redacting, interpreting, & straining against the confines of language. it's played by creating & communicating through blackout poetry. playtest version with community copies out now satah.itch.io/blackout

For you: a bag of chocolate coins bequeathed upon you by the smallest princess with great dignity and symbolic meaning.

i need to play more sudoku

The FDA has added 2 more cookware brands to the lead contamination list it started in August. The list of cookware that may leach lead now totals 21 kinds of pots and pans. Most are made of aluminum (17) and the rest (4) are brass. All come from India or Pakistan. Let's look a little further. 1/5

Guava: The Fruit for Powders

guava dipped in salt and smoked paprika yum yum yum

"What do we risk when we play?" Contributor @seraphimseraphina.bsky.social interrogates the path of her life through a joyfully violent larp that radically reframes safety and risk.

If you're buying gifts for spirited 12 year olds who have read most of the middle grade graphic novel canon, can I recommend my book The Legend of Auntie Po? It's multi-awarded, and well reviewed, but hasn't entirely found its commercial footing. www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/601780...

I think I can get to 45k songs listened this year but I'm definitely not getting to 50k 😔

the second chapter of TIME WILL DEVOUR HIS CHILDREN is out! we've got road trips, guilt trips, trips down memory lane, chapter two's got everything you need as long as what you need has to do with trips, check out my enticing and unnecessarily long comic now: claystorks.itch.io/time-will-de...

I should seriously get Jess Kallen's album on vinyl if I listened to it that much...

learning advanced sudoku techniques

learning new sudoku techniques

new blog post :) in this one: doorways, diaspora, and poetry needlestacks.neocities.org/variety/dias...

kaki fry bento cures many ills

god help the new flyer xn60s of los angeles

If you can do anything you should listen to 村下孝蔵 www.youtube.com/watch?v=2WbA...

this fish poster went up in an alleyway by my work and then got torn down after a week or so. who is she.....

Announcing the release of playtest rules for 'Why. Won't. You. Stay. DEAD?!' A two-player game that uses dice and tarot cards to tell the story of an infinitely respawning Hero, and the Villain - who while vastly powerful - whose doom is inevitable. armaanautomatic.itch.io/why-wont-you...

If you've ever wondered what dress Sohla El-Waylly is wearing at the end of the Introduction chapter in her book "Start Here"... It's a GANNI kelly green candy stripe shirred cotton midi dress from their spring 2021 collection. www.vogue.com/fashion-show...

"Music became somewhere Sethi could be accepted, especially as a queer person growing up in Lahore. 'I think music has this shamanic function in south Asian culture where things you cannot say in lay language you say in the love language of music.'" Pakistani star Ali Sethi on his defiant album:

ALI SETHI LOVE LANGUAGE AOTY 🫀🗣️

After watching japanese news on youtube for three days at work, I have learned the word 死亡.

watching the fuji tv docu yt channel to improve vocab. they've got a segment on 'the secret to senior health'. a 103 year old shows us his dinner. it's three whole heads of garlic, microwaved, and mixed with miso.

Nick Valencia, who has been doing amazing reporting, just wrote about this: “These Are Abductions.” Newlywed Husband Says Wife Taken During Green Card Interview open.substack.com/pub/nickvale...

Walking down Allen in San Marino. Locked eyes with a stranger going the other way. In their arms, a boisterous child. In my arms…a hainan chicken plate.

I think I must admit that just slightly shorter than shoulder length hair suits me best. I keep trying to make longer hair work and it doesn't.

Thank you kind stranger

I love cardamom in long-grain rice. so simple, so yum.

Whoever is reading Skip Beat vol. 45 on LAPL’s Libby app, I kindly ask you to finish reading and return it.

my intestines are cooing like a pigeon

I do get made fun of for always playing miserable lesbians in my ttrpg sessions but listen. Miserable lesbians are so fun to play…I love messy relationships…