I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA 10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)

When I google "is a husky considered a medium or large breed" I am seeking a very simple answer, but the A.I. sloppification of the Internet has me scrolling through bullet-point essays about relativism and shifting standards, plus some sort of long aside about the American Kennel Club

new typo just dropped: a slip of the finger, and “TMI” came out “TMJ.” Not even an autocorrect mishap this time

Nihilism is the inevitable result of the future being wiped out of the social imagination at mass scale. bsky.app/profile/jenk...

Navratri day 3! Today is in honor of Ma Chandraghanta, she who wears the moon as a bell. She also, in contrast with the other forms of Durga, rides a wolf as opposed to a lion or tiger.

Friends, I finally am in the market for freelance work! It's a big year for things like Magic and D&D, so if you've got a hankering for some expert content get in my DMs. I'm also eager to discuss contract marketing and communications opportunities.

for weeks, maybe months, I thought someone was tossing out my uneaten/unopened english muffins as they reached the best-by date. it turns out my anonymous benefactor has in fact been putting them in the *freezer*, and that the freezer is crammed with english muffins

Too late, Batman. Once this Tylenol floods the city's water supply, my wiki won't run out of editors ever again

Frank, as a historian I would have expected you to be familiar with the Magnavox Paradox that caused video game consoles to be their own grandfather.

I did a story for the beginning of Navratri yesterday. Today is day 2, in honor of Ma Brahmacharini, she who has become an ascetic. As we noted yesterday, the Goddess as Sati was insulted because of her marriage to Shiva and ended her life, to be reborn as Shailaputri.

Ok! Let's start with explaining some background to set up the Navratri festival, which traces the stages of a woman's life through the life story of the Goddess Parvati, consort of Shiva and mother of the universe. Today is the 1st day in honor of Ma Shailaputri, which means daughter of the mountain

I published this piece today, on how the binary gender model and enforced gender roles are a model of hierarchical child abuse that punishes everyone but the capitalists who run the system. It would mean a lot if you read it. This link is unpaywalled. Thank you. 💜 medium.com/prismnpen/wh...

The vision deck for the new GDC is confounding. I don't know who any of this is for, but it's certainly not game developers eager to learn. ubm.ent.box.com/v/GDC26-FoG-...

"Technologically advance a band" Tramp 64 (is this anything)

thinking about this a lot rn. we just watched GOOD NIGHT, AND GOOD LUCK and like. idk man. i think everyone should do themselves a favor and learn in some way more about how we have actually been here before, and how we claw it back. it not only *can* be done. it’s *been* done, in living memory.

ERM. GRAND FORKS’ GREAT MARILYN HAGERTY WAS 99

“I figured a late lunch would be fashionable” “At length, I asked my server what she would recommend” MY FREAKING HEART

me: "At what point do I tell your mom about the sticky hand caught on the light fixture" 5-year old: "Never...?" me: "Hmm" 5-year old: "Besides, it's fine! I have another one!" me: "I'm not too sure your mom will see it that way"

THEY DEFORMED ME, COOP. REDUCED ME DOWN TO ONLY MY MOST RECOGNIZABLE CHARACTERISTICS. I’M A CUTESY SHELL OF MY FORMER SELF. THE BOYS AT QUANTICO ARE CALLING ME A “CHEE-BEE.” I’M SEVEN CENTIMETERS TALL, COOP. 150 GRAMS OF VINYL PLASTIC.

it occurs to me that some of you may not be aware of the completely insane UI for the Legend Entertainment quasi-text adventures

lmaooooooooo youtu.be/emZZexEJO8c?... www.pajiba.com/film_reviews...

wait, I’ve never seen or read Twilight… if vampires glitter in the sunshine, how do they also go to school

Ugh I just want things to be nice and not horrible so I can be shallow.

The Late Show w Stephen Colbert just responded to the firing of Jimmy Kimmel by ABC & Disney bc of threats made by the FCC & agent Krasnov. Make sure 2 spread this video both far AND wide. 👇🏼👇🏿👇👇🏾👇🏽 MOST IMPORTANTLY WE MUST POST ABOUT THE EPSTEIN FILES. ALL DAY, EVERYDAY. #epsteinfiles

Hey! I have no idea how to do this, I’ve never made a List or Starter Pack before, but: ⭐️ If you’re a Games Writer/Narrative Designer looking for work, and you’d like to be added to my Starter Pack, lmk! ⭐️ If you’re looking to hire a Games Writer/Narrative Designer, check out this Starter Pack!

Wow the need for a movement-spanning refresher on protest/civil disobedience feels rather critical right now. Like at least in the "protest and civil disobedience involves risk of harassment by authorities, arrest, imprisonment or violence and you need to decide how to manage your risk" 101 level?

gender agony jennfrank.bearblog.dev/gender-agony/

I had some thoughts about people saying that "debate me bro" trolling is somehow the height of democratic discourse.

Happy 5th birthday to the official theme for Spirit Halloween

thinking about this screenshot from Columbo that makes it look like a 90s point-and-click adventure game

BRING BACK HORROR INSPECTION TEXT!!!!

the joke is, this wasn't a joke! I'd planned to write one all along!! jennfrank.bearblog.dev/full-circle/

"[Clay] creates the premise of moldability and change... that these objects are able to be transformed and inviting to be touched." @stvulture.bsky.social tells us of the elements and alchemy within ALL LIVING THINGS. Read more: funland.itch.io/funland-zine-no-2 Subscribe: patreon.com/funlandmag

We could be editing YOUR game into the showcase! Just submit. You never know!

Absolutely diabolical, to let people spray themselves with this much duty-free fragrance right before boarding a flight!! Anyway, the rumors are true, the new Sol de Janeiro body spray (“purple”) is just ok

I’m not really watching the Emmys but why has no one thought to pair Kathy Bates with Alan Cumming before now

“Is that—?” I said, squinting. I rubbed my eyes. “I’m sorry, is that… a brand-new car with the OLDEST EVER stuffed Garfield clinging to the back window?” My friend confirmed. I was on the brink of TEARS imagining a dude getting a shiny car and immediately putting up his lucky 33-year-old Garfield

Where you'll dream tonight

Jughead Jones is the “divine fool” archetype (he even has, canonically, a white dog, “Hot Dog”). In Spire Christian Comics he is basically perpetually on another planet, but his words are a divine pipeline from the Lord

So the Tarot card “The Lovers” was originally about a man torn between two choices: vice vs virtue, obligation vs desire, etc. (I’m breaking up this post into two parts because I have a lot of images)

I'm more than a little mystified by this e-mail I just got. As best I can tell, there's no book on romance comics called LONELY HEARTS (though if there was, I'd buy it). And I certainly haven't written one! Wth? Am I now obligated to write this book into existence?

all I can really say about Rocky Horror Picture Show is, when I elatedly described the plot to my grandmother, she was devastated to learn what my father had been applying himself toward all those years

That’s right, I went to the big outdoor movie thing alone! Without a blanket! And with lots of snacks! I waited until it was dark so I wouldn’t see anyone around me! I’m sitting directly on the grass! If I ever get up to pee I’ll lose my spot instantly!!!

"…and Magda Goebbels made a great strudel.”

None of this would be possible if it was truly new. And I’m so tired of both all the work I did and sacrifices I made to expose this while undergoing a historically groundbreaking level of abuse being ignored, while people ALSO get the actual facts of the thing loudly wrong in public.

It even happened to me earlier that very same year when I got small scale targeted and doxed by a different chan because of depression quest. I researched the causes then, gave a talk on it, and my ex who kicked off GG sat in the front row and used my own research to reverse engineer it.

maaaaaan it’s gonna be yet another news cycle of watching people talk about the most traumatic thing that ever happened to me in a way that ignores the work I did to expose it, misunderstands it, and falsely attributes it as the inventor of online hate, isn’t it