A lot of wise people today sharing advice that basically boils down to: You Can't Post Your Way Through It I'm sorry. Everything sucks. You need to feel seen and validated. Your pain is real. That's all legitimate. but You Can't Post Your Way Through It.

Another reminder of this before the first What's Good of the year drops. Donate to Trans Youth Emergency Project or Al Otro Lado, maybe get my extra copy of Armand Hammer & The Alchemist's Mercy.

my gender reveal party

I like it here on Bluesky, but it still has this toxic habit that is everywhere else on social media: This obsessive need people have to hold others to account for having contrary opinions or analysis. You're not responsible for other people's opinions, and you can't shame them into changing them.

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@asterionhex.monster did you watch Nuremberg? Just saw it last night and one particular segment was totally out of place for me.

I finally finished a project that I've wanted to make happen since 2010: Turned a 2003 iMac G4 (my favorite computer design ever) into a modern machine running modern MacOS. This was just an empty shell (no screen, no innards) when I bought it in 2018. And bonus: I found the perfect stand for it!

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@rdonoghue.bsky.social 73 chapters full of tables, $7.95

Putting some good news on the TL

@twolemonades.com here's that mike doughty energy you need in your new place youtu.be/wjj1N7GkYeI

It’s almost like green energy is the only way forward and a handful of oil barons are doing everything in their power to keep that from happening so they can get even richer at the cost of literally everything else in the world.

Just summarized 17 encounters spanning 32 pages into 3 pages of Logline: Notes: Treasure: and honestly I think all D&D adventures would be dramatically improved with a summary key like this.

You should leave Substack in 2026, because they platform fascists regularly, but even before that I am *begging* you to stop referring to your writing as "my Substack" because why give them that agency. It's your writing, your posts, your words, on their platform.

Friendly reminder that Starbucks baristas are still on strike and still asking you to support them by not patronizing *any* Starbucks in the US. Try a new place! Get a home coffeemaker and a thermos that will pay for themselves with all the Starbucks you won't be buying! Don't cross picket lines!

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Not a traditional What's Good this week, but I made a year-spanning playlist for you, summed up some of my writing for the year, and an update on that copy of Mercy I want to give to y'all. Tap in. blog.djregular.tech/whats-good-2...

I keep seeing content labelled as "for the fifth edition of the world's greatest roleplaying game" and then it's clearly written by somebody with a *very* poor grasp of the Ars Magica rules.

The Grok "apology" was just a response to someone requesting an apology bsky.app/profile/numb...

It is time to try to defeat the ghosts once again

This is not a hard message. Localize it. Embrace it. Win.

Bonne année à tous et le meilleur pour 2026! I wish you all a happy New year and all the best for #2026 🎊🍾

Okay, I will preface this with the GIGANTIC disclaimer that I promise I know how this looks, and I *swear* this is not personally motivated: If you have an old #LiveJournal account, and it has things you still care about in it, download it or import it to Dreamwidth SOON. Details:

@jeffstormer.gobirds.online well there's your next episode sorted

Not only did Avery Alder, one of the best RPG designers of all time, release a new game this year, it's also maybe the best pick-up-and-play game ever! New-player-friendly, 90-minutes-or-less, actually funny comedy game with such a small footprint and box size it will blow your mind!

Your Calendar Wrapped 2025 is here! You used 12 months this year! You used 52 weeks this year! You used 365 days this year! Your longest months were: January, March, May, July, August, October, and December! Your shortest month was: February! You aged: one year!

Ten Candles (shitpost ed.) 1-Gather 3600 people in a darkened space, give each of them a candle 2-Each person represents one family member 3-Everyone talks at once 4-When someone gets bored or tired they blow out their candle and die 5-You win when the remaining players agree on a balanced budget

Puppy walk

Want to get into older movies? Tired of Hollywood, Hollywood, Hollywood? My Free Stuff Thread gathers links to film institutes and archives that put their silents online for free

@asterionhex.monster didn't get a photo but the local comics shop has a Ghost Papa action figure

"I've never thought about this one single time," she says to me emphatically, leaning back from her wood grain puzzle. "I've *never* wondered if Rob Thomas was a good hang." One Week by Barenaked Ladies begins playing.

This is why Molly is not allowed to do tours.

I can relate to that. During the time I had to commute to the studio, I sketched different train passengers every morning/evening. With a ballpoint pen. You can choose any line thickness, from wafer-thin and delicate to opaque and bold. For a long time, the ballpoint pen was my first choice.

Swords Without Master is nigh! Sign up to be notified when we launch @epidiah.bsky.social's iconic sword & sorcery ttrpg, along with original Eidolon art cards from @portablecity.bsky.social, @gorangligovic.bsky.social, @queerwizard.co.uk and more! www.kickstarter.com/projects/unw...

"So much for nipping down for a scone..." - @magpie.tips upon learning our cute little hotel stay includes full breakfast

My one addition to the D&D/Stranger Things discourse is this: I honestly doubt the producers didn't know the Sorcerer wasn't in AD&D. They have 30 people on speed dial for that. It's far more likely someone said "How about a wizard with psionics" and the writers said "Nah. Sorcerer sounds cooler."

Knives Out but the murder happens on a BC Ferry that Benoit Blanc is already on and the boat can’t dock until he solves the crime In this scenario some people are headed to a retreat on a Gulf Island, there’s a high school sports team on board, and the car alarms never stop

@ktwelves.bsky.social I still regret dropping you off so far from the ferry but I know I'd feel worse if I'd taken you two to the "game store" that is basically a Warhammer Organized Play experience

I've been thinking about this sign for 6 months. a phrase I'll treasure forever. a metaphor with boundless potential

“[Studios are] basically forcing something on to consumers that they’re not asking for. You’re not creating a better experience, you’re not charging less, right? ...The only value currently in this is to the game company and the value is not to the people who are playing the games.”

When the polite, cultured Dr. Pepper consumes a special draught, he turns into the brutish, monstrous Mr. Pibb.

Pro tip: Hold up a squeaky toy or high value treat if you want the husband to look toward the camera.

Just spent the last couple hours watching A Muppet Christmas Carol and opened the app to immediately see a billionaire complaining about how there's no possible way to help the sick and poor, and buddy,,,

I have two transgender kids… and in my family… we do Christmas… a little differently.

At this point I think we can all agree: making a computer you can put in your pocket was a huge mistake.

Jodie Foster: They should have sent a poet Poet: Aliens ahoy! A galactic sight. When you’re in space all day is night

Jesus, can you hear me? Good, the comms are working. Now, you're gonna need to run if you want to evade those Roman soldiers. Hold down A to sprint. Go ahead and try it. ... Good work! You just might be the savior yet. Now pick up that AR-15 and let's do some target practice.

All I’m saying is, I’m really not sure where you get off calling yourself a drummer if you require both the ox and the lamb to keep time while you play, in this essay I will

"This story doesn't need a sandworm" This is almost always wrong. Arguably, EVERY story benefits from adding a huge subterranean worm with quasi-mystical or semi-supernatural powers, or equivalent (similar to Moby Dick). Obviously the bigger the worm, the more literary quality it adds.