What about a Paranoia-style ttrpg where the “Alpha Complex” is a cul-de-sac and the “Computer” is an HOA?

My recent substack post linked to one of my favorite scenes from the 1999 film of Tom Stoppard's Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead. RIP. youtu.be/TLKbS4xCmRc

Oh hey Friday is Black and Monday is Cyber but Infinity is Spaceships! (in other words, we're having a sale) 10% off sitewide, free US shipping for orders over $40, and this awesome bundle of An Infinity of Ships and Instant Star Ships. Through Monday, or whenever. 72stations.com/products/ins...

If you have a few minutes, do give them to reading this beautiful essay by @frances-dinger.bsky.social: www.autostraddle.com/the-other-fr...

My absolutely favorite artwork for today, capturing the holiday more poignantly than any other: Alice Neel, Thanksgiving, 1965

Really happy to see Quinns call out Possible Worlds Games and Tacklebox. My favorite booth interaction during PAX U was with them.

All I want for Christmas is Sting’s Tintin sweater.

Björn Borg, my seemingly jokey Mörk Borg supplement, is out in the world. I ran it for some friends in Philly the night before attending PAX Unplugged and it went pretty darn well. matthewjsimmons.substack.com/p/bjorn-borg...

Playing Spot the Geek at the airport.

Some really remarkable solo rpg zines here. One of my favorite discoveries at PAX U this year.

A modest haul from Pax U. Probably-too-expensive frog minis for the boy to paint, and work from @worldchamp.bsky.social @rowanrookanddecard.bsky.social @scryptidgames.bsky.social

Just had a pretzel. #paxu

At PAXU. If you see me, ask me about Björn Borg.

I have a new post on my substack about the benefits of occasionally following through on a silly idea. It’s Björn Borg, a grimdark tennis supplement for the game Mörk Borg. open.substack.com/pub/matthewj...

I have a new post on my substack about the benefits of occasionally following through on a silly idea. It’s Björn Borg, a grimdark tennis supplement for the game Mörk Borg. open.substack.com/pub/matthewj...

Friends! I am teaching a workshop in December that I am so excited about! I’ve been writing and writing about domestic fabulism forever, but I’ve never actually fashioned a workshop around it before. I think this is going to be so much fun - I hope you’ll join!

Ive been saying this for years! I’m so glad I’m not the only one who has postulated the QGene theory. www.reddit.com/r/startrek/s...

Just a quick note: early next week I am releasing the first draft of my Mörk Borg supplement, Björn Borg. Just completing the classes.

free bodies, free borders, free choices, and free from fuckin fear.

Why are they mad at ibuprofen, now? I thought it was just Tylenol. Does Peter Thiel have a bunch of money tied up in aspirin?

My 2026 New Year’s Resolution will be to always know what the date is, to never be filling out a form and have to ask the person at the desk in front of me if it’s the 14th or the 15th.

I put a piece of my own writing through an AI detector and it flagged the fact that I properly used a semicolon as evidence that my writing was created by a machine.

In shrinkflation news, those little sleeves of Whoppers you get on Halloween have two Whoppers instead of three now.

Maybe I'll have AI write me a novel with a dog narrator.

Ellen Bryant Voigt 💙

GUYS! GUYS! FINDING EMO! FINDING EMO!

I think I found some sort of online tutorial that taught me to make this cosmic metal goat.

You know, all some reporter has to do is ask Trump directly if Stephen Miller is the one actually in charge, and Trump will fire him within the week.

On This Day in History: October 11, 1924 Paris opened the Bureau of Surrealist Research at 15 Rue de Grenelle, with Antonin Artaud as director. A walk-in lab for the irrational, it invited the public to bring dreams and strange encounters, days before Breton’s first Surrealist Manifesto.

“Just plywood fronts. ‘Decorated sheds,’ that’s what they call it. Unlike a ‘duck.’ Like from that great American book by Robert Venturi. Imagine, a building shaped like a great duck. An American duck. Back before they were laughing at us. And our burning ducks. All over our Democrat cities.”

Maybe here between job contracts, I should get into making some Etsy-ass owlbear minis?

Describe your Bluesky account in a single image

“Personally, I believe that anxiety and dread are perfectly natural responses to the times.” My latest for LitHub: lithub.com/tending-to-t...

HEY! *clap* HO! *stomp*

Are we surprised that it was just an opportunity to create short form video clips of the drunk pretending to be a tough, inspiring leader?

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you gotta click through for the footnotes and thus for the full power of Kristin Gustafson's piece today, but here's enough of a teaser to make you do said clicking through... https://www.havehashad.com/2jj6l

There are three recent video games that I am completely obsessed with, and I have just noticed that they are all from the same publisher.

Does the rapture on Tuesday mean no civil war, then? I thought they were all really excited about the civil war.

Happy birthday, Bilbo and Frodo.

This book is still in print (for now at least) www.amazon.com/New-Make-Bel...

Phonetically speaking, my Wordle guesses today formed a sentence.

I’ve been thinking about going back to school, and the 9yo was apparently holding on to some anxiety because he believed I would be going away to live in a college dorm for two years.

We live in a world where not enough people remember how bad polio was.

The Make-a-Wish Foundation again denied my request to go to The Apple Pan with Rob Delaney.