Not a movie, but a show. I’d get The Witcher people together with the Game of Thrones people for a Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser series. I might be the only one who wants a Lankhmar show, but hey I’m a despotic autocrat, shut up and make my show or its off to the camps

New blog post at chrismelito.com Doug Ford is an asshat, and it's bad for all Ontarians www.chrismelito.com/blog/go-find...

Fried my morning eggs in duck fat, little culinary experiment Dear reader, they were just as tasty as you might have suspected why is everything bad so delicious

The cat’s Xmas prezzie arrived He may get it early, as he has been a Very Good Cat all year long (excepting the times he puked on the duvet)

The diner across the street has been in business since Jesus rode a mastodon. I had coffee and a pancake the size of the plate.

Trapped! In a world he never made.

I was sitting there but now I guess I’m not

If I were a Science Edumicator, I would be thinking seriously about how to teach people to distinguish between machine learning, which is a Cool and Important field of scientific inquiry, and large language models, which are Theft-Fueled Bullshit Vortices

I say we're growing every day Getting stronger every way I'll take you to a place where we shall find our ROOTS BLOODY ROOTS ROOTS BLOODY ROOTS

No Dragonbane game today. Scheduling issues. :( Thinking of writing a TTRPG in which players play the role of GMs trying to get five adults to sit down at a table at the same time on a regular basis it’s a horror game and everyone dies

Repo Man Do The Right Thing Raising Arizona Gremlins

This would matter if words still held meaning

Ah fuck it’s the goddamn holidays again

“Borborygmus” would be a great name for a metal band

Can’t wait for the forthcoming end-of-year streaming summary to show that my thoughtful and discerning listening habits basically boil down to blasting the same six songs over and over again like an unhinged obsessive

well drat also yay science, I guess

We can start rewarding people for being healthy after we start punishing politicians for being stupid

Another day in the electron mines

This latest Cloudflare outage kinda feels like the internet is starting to flicker like the cabin lights in an old Volkswagen it all still WORKS, sometimes, mostly, except when it doesn’t

NB: things have always been moderately stupid, but it used to be that people weren’t proud of being stupid, and some of them actively tried not to be quite so stupid, which kinda kept things in check. But now stupid sells and people wallow in it, so here we are

The existence of Bobby Orr implies the existence of Bobby Andd

Mood www.youtube.com/watch?v=q5Du...

Ran that little Call of Cthulhu scenario again. They didn’t finish the story because I suck at pacing but both tables were thoroughly creeped out and disturbed by how much of it actually happened, so mission accomplished I suppose you gotta love a good old-fashioned snake cult

On the bright side, maybe this is the weak the global economy collapses

8 hours of rocking 8 hours of rolling 8 hours of healthful, restorative sleep

Turns out that when you just laze about eating delicious foods, you put on weight why did no one inform me of this now I have to do stuff and y’all know how I hate doing stuff Sigh. Ok. I’ll go for a walk. That’s almost like doing stuff. And if I walk in the right direction, there’s a donut place

If I were to Frankenstein together my dream TTRPG, it would have Traveller’s chargen, Dragonbane’s combat and skill advancement, and Blades in the Dark’s clocks, crews, and factions. With the main resolution mechanic being CoC/BRP percentile roll-under. Tell me why this is a terrible idea.

Ok, so I can’t shoot a man on Bluesky, just to watch him die Fine Then I’ll just sit here and WISH people were dead

I have stronger opinions about mustard than I do about ketchup I have thoughts on mayo, too, but they are trivial and not worth repeating

Happy Partially Muscled Skeleton Standing By The Perimeter Fence And Screaming For Thirty Seconds Before Vanishing Day!

I was thinking about stuff and I stayed up too late! The lesson here is to not think about stuff

“news influencers” Hey Siri, show me a phrase that will come out of nowhere and crush my spirit entirely

I’m running a Call of Cthulhu one-shot featuring snake-handling preachers, murderous mule-traders, Appalachian desperation, and car trunks full of explosives. But the best bit: every fact is historical truth. It all really happened. No Cthulhu required. I’m going to fucking TERRIFY that table.

it’s true

all these fit elderly people with their healthy activities surely the chipper sprightliness is a facade but no, there they go, hiking up a mountain in their handknits and sensible shoes to watch birds reasonably attainable happiness in one’s twilight years looks a lot like exercise, dammit

We are meeting a friend for coffee in Victoria like normal people who have friends are wont to do I am unreasonably excited by the prospect of casual social interaction

fifty years ago today, it was, when Gordon Lightfoot sank that boat

I have no Kickstarter, but I have stretch goals

Polishing my new essay for publication in The Atlantic. Expect “Accommodating Fascists: The Only Way Forward (Boogity Boogity Boo)” any day now they paid me $17 and a Starbucks coupon. I heard Jonathan Chait got a BMW, but I’m not jelly

Sometimes I think I spend too much time thinking about breakfast. Then I realize that that worry is time better spent on breakfast

Saving this screenshot for whenever anyone shows up in the comments with facts and figures

Longing for those radioactive orange crinkle-cut fries at Milo’s Hamburgers back in Bham. And the sauce. And the sweet tea. So bad. So good.

Training an LLM in phrenology to more swiftly evaluate loan applications, that is certainly a choice

Mount Prevost wreathed in clouds

If you like a little Kafka with your LeCarré and a pinch of Philip K. Dick in your Agatha Christie, you should read the Fractured Europe books

This is what real patriotism looks like this man should never again have to pay for a drink in Wheeling, Illinois

Mamdani starting his acceptance speech with a Eugene Debs quote

The full weight of western capitalism is about to laser focus on NYC. The robber barons failed to win and will panic. They will sabotage NYC because the system cannot allow Mamdani's term to be successful. They cannot allow people to believe things can be better. Your job now is to hold the line. 1/

Tummy upset. Done sleeping. Gonna shuffle morosely around the apartment blasting Obituary through headphones, that should help