Happy #MakeATerribleComicDay2026 to all who celebrate! Here's mine and my kid's contribution. (My kid is funnier than me, it's fine.) (Yes, the kid who drew this is the same kid in my comic.) (This kid is VERY funny.) #makeaterriblecomicday

someone on tumblr said it better than i could

This one workshopped with @astridsdream.bsky.social

skill issue. just do the worldbuilding/research and then not put it into the story this is not a joke. thinking out the implications but not explicitly enumerating them allows meaningful consistency without bogging your story down

We challenged our not-very-culturally-literate 13yo to name a football player. She thought about it and said “Taylor Swift’s boyfriend,” which I allowed on the grounds that it would be sufficient to name him with Pithing Needle

⏰ 48 HOURS REMAINING! ⏰ Runaway to the Stars has just TWO DAYS left on Kickstarter! www.kickstarter.com/projects/iro...

Begging absolutely everyone to stop posting quotes and screenshots in order to dunk on them. Rancid vibes. Fractured discourse. Instant dogpiles. I don’t need to know what some asshole said. Just please post cool shit so I can read that instead.

If you hate the things a stupid pundit says, please block them instead of keeping the endless news cycle they depend on for engagement alive. Just seal them underground.

I'm going to talk a bit.about why you should back @jayeatonart.bsky.social's comic Runaway to the Stars on Kickstarter! Short version: This is sci-fi through the lens of disability, accessibility, and difference, and it is unlike anything I've read. 🧵 www.kickstarter.com/projects/iro...

I'm going to talk a bit.about why you should back @jayeatonart.bsky.social's comic Runaway to the Stars on Kickstarter! Short version: This is sci-fi through the lens of disability, accessibility, and difference, and it is unlike anything I've read. 🧵 www.kickstarter.com/projects/iro...

9 DAYS REMAIN on @jayeatonart.bsky.social 's "Runaway to the Stars" on Kickstarter! We're down to SINGLE DIGITS, gang! Gran the graphic novel! Grab the AMA zine compilation! Help us hit our FINAL stretch goal! www.kickstarter.com/projects/iro...

I am once again tapping the "it is a genuine qualitative break from 99.9% of human history that society can now produce massive food surpluses with the labor only a tiny percent of the population and nobody has any idea how to grasp this" sign.

people _need_ to learn that it is absolutely possible for everyone to lose a war. it is not even that rare. it has happened a lot

-In mice

Another win for my Rules for Not Getting Too Excited About Scientific Studies (specifically, "we still can't get rid of dark matter") bigthink.com/starts-with-...

announcing ILÚVATAR, my multi-billion dollar company which will specialize in the dismantling of all other idiotically tolkien-named entities, that they shalt see that no theme may be played that hath not its uttermost source in me, nor can any alter the music in my despite

A beautiful rumination on one of my favorite illustrations from Dominaria

Yes, the Grink was there. I'm getting to that. He was on that island with me. And I wouldn't be alive to tell my story without him.

Watching the livestream of the Artemis II lunar flyby, and one of the astronauts was just being an absolute Moon Nerd talking about which craters they can currently see and all the fascinating albedo variations, and I just love it www.youtube.com/live/z-j1uxB...

“Well done. Here come the test results: You are a horrible person. I'm serious, that's what it says: A horrible person. We weren't even testing for that.”

Today I want to tell you a story about a little game I played early on in my time on Riftbound—a game called “Monch or Gromp?” (Thread)

Notice how there’s not even a fig leaf here—not even an attempt to appear as though this helps anyone or keeps anyone safe. This is pure persecution, and it’s what all this anti-trans shit has always been about. Protect trans vs people any way you can, folks.

We literally know now that anti-trans legislation was pushed by a pedophile ring to allow a pedophile ring to serve a pedophile ring’s interests, and legislators have decided the best course of action is to keep doing what the pedophile ring wants.

I really hate anti-trans politicians, and I especially hate it because it was a culture war issue where we were clearly winning and then a bunch of nominally liberal people at the Times and the Atlantic decided to reverse that and they did.

Timeless humour! A 2,000 year-old Roman souvenir pen with a joke inscription roughly equivalent to: “I went to Rome and all I got you was this cheap pen!" 😂 Dated circa 70 AD, this iron stylus pen was recovered in London during excavations by MOLA. 📷 Juan Jose Fuldain/MOLA #Archaeology

perennial reminder that this typographic thing: * * * is called a "dinkus" en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dinkus

Unironically yes, LOWER DECKS is about how the response to the disappointments of the post-Cold War era and the complexity of the modern world should not be despair or cynicism but instead a recommitment to the original ideals of liberalism, thank you for coming to my TED talk.

Incredibly special bit of Magic history here, up for auction to benefit a great cause

"The secret fear of the morally depraved is that virtue is actually common, and that they’re the ones who are alone."

hey I like that we're all posting thru it but I also wanted to say, in case anybody else is feeling it, that I'm pretty scared and genuinely think that we've passed a real rubicon in the past week or so and that being at the mercy of a handful of dumbfuck lunatics really does a number on your soul.

I think this is right. Both that the Trump-MAGA effort at power consolidation is failing and also that its failure isn't the end of the matter. Beyond it there is a need to come up with a new political formulation which provides folks with an attractive vision of how we can move forward.

Just gonna say this again for games sphere cus we get the same question: Networking doesn't mean schmoozing up to famous people, it means making friends with your peers. Then in 10 years, 20, one of you might be famous? And sure you're still helping each other cus well yeah friends. Make. Friends.

Apparently the guy who got assigned as Editor to Patrick O Brien's first Master and Commander novel had that book as his first real assignment and was horrified to find that in 384 pages there was no critique to be made and exactly one typo which Patrick rebutted as a valid spelling for the period.

How the nyt used the Cass report to restart its anti-trans propaganda campaign in the US: Coverage of the report was initially assigned to a nyt UK correspondent, usual practice for a UK report. The story being prepared cited critics who called Cass a shoddy, political document that defied science

The name "Popular Science" doesn't mean we shift our coverage depending on public opinion. It means we cover relevant subjects that are rigorously researched, reliable, and grounded in reality. And trans lives are grounded in reality. We see y'all. No matter what. www.popsci.com/science/tran...

It's a bad sign that current conservative infighting is centered on whether to be Nazis or just regular bigots, but I do like it when they fight

This article slaps. And it prominently features Ashes of the Sun, the Magic novel that had by far the most influence on me. Politics! Heresy! Minotaur fingers!

The main thing I have had hammered home by the past ten years in politics is that we really need pretty much every government office to be run by boring and anonymous nerds who you will never once hear about in the news

Three D's defected to vote for this disgusting bill. If they hadn't, it wouldn't have moved forward. *Don't come into my mentions to "explain" to me that "this will fail in the Senate." Spend that time calling your reps, donating to causes, and doing literally anything for trans folks.

Just a reminder that this was 10 years before “Hamilton” hit Broadway, and the line “You can call us Aaron Burr from the way we’re dropping Hamiltons” was not in any sense a pop-culture reference. It was obscure! I felt a little clever for getting it!

Recently my wife and I were talking about modern Sherlock Holmes adaptations and how to keep him from being superhuman. We floated “make him as knowledgeable about any given topic as someone who’s autistically hyperfixated on it” This tweet changed my mind, there’s no way Holmes would know this one

Dukat actor Marc Alaimo--and even at times the writers!--genuinely believed he was redeemable. Actually redeeming him would have been (imo) a narrative disaster, but holding open the possibility made him such a rich character. Easier to do by accident than on purpose, in a weird way.

Really enjoyed Rhystic Studies' look at Fallen Empires, a set very dear to me. Sam speculates that Homarid Explorer in Dominaria may have been inspired by a puzzle sent to R&D by @loreleywrites.bsky.social, though notes that Loreley dismisses this theory. I can shed some light! (🧵)

This made me realize I never saw the end of season 3 of Enterprise. The Xindi Arc's "Global War on Terror in space" was unpleasant while living through the actual GWoT, and I gave up. (Also it was on at a particular time and sometimes I just missed it!) Might have to give it another chance...

Oh, do we think Rogue One is bad now? I can’t keep up

I’m (almost) at PAX U! I’ll be at the @riftbound.riotgames.com booth today 10-2 and hanging around after that. Come say hi, or let me know if you’re here exhibiting!

#3157 A helpful tutorial

If there was interesting Jace discourse I would welcome it, but so often it's just the same warmed-over attitudes and ideas about him from 15 years ago. They never had much to do with the character who appeared in actual narrative, and inasmuch as they ever did, they're hopelessly out of date.