Almost time for bed. The Earth Died Screaming should be a lovely song to end the night on. www.youtube.com/watch?v=C7I4...

I'm almost done with the first pass of animating this project and I'm incredibly relieved that I'm going to come in way under the final running time, which means I can make everything take longer and thus be even more legible in the final. It's pretty legible as is! (this is easy to do here)

There are enough commonalities in the emotions of humans all the way back to prehistory that dogs evolved eyebrows about it.

Enough dicking around. Putting on this album and getting back to animating. Hat tip to @jayaprakash777.bsky.social without whom I'd have never heard of these guys. neptunianmaximalism.bandcamp.com/album/ons

For anyone who cares, my New Year's resolution continues to be 7,680x2160. I do not anticipate upgrading either of my 4k monitors any time soon.

One of the most underrated design skills in games is graphic design for things like decals and fake branding for posters/stickers/flyers/books/props/signs/displays. We take this stuff for granted and yet they are very much a world building detail that adds so much more life to environments.

Can someone please tell this dude that all the experts don't want him to know about the restorative powers of orally administered dimethylmercury?

A human blight. A swarm of locusts would do less harm. He is the human equivalent of a demonic curse for perpetual despair and death. Behold, pestilence walks the earth as a leathery old man who sexts. He should be doused in holy water and vinegar and chased to the boundaries of the sea. 🩺

Well, St Anselm’s ontological argument would imply that since I can imagine a blowjob greater than which none can be imagined, i must at some point in my life receive said blowjob, else any blowjob I did receive would be greater, and only the being perfect in all virtues could give said blowjob so

There cannot be any discussion about 'the future of AI' without acknowledging that the *present* of AI is fraud at an unprecedented scale. I'm not even talking about the theft and lies that built the training data. I'm talking about 5 companies passing around the same $20 bill as 'revenue'.

Is there anything funnier than spam that claims to be from Harbor Freight claiming they're offering me a FREE Husky tool chest?

It took me an embarassingly long time to realize I could cut & paste the motion graph in Blender. Took me about 2 hours to animate 50 photos falling, then took me about 4 minutes to do ten more.

American Canto paperback cover

Seems there is yet another app using the ICEBlock logo and charging people for access. It’s called ICEBlocker and it is not us. DO NOT DOWNLOAD or pay. Best we can tell is it’s Russian. We would never ask for money.

There is an axis. On one side is the original recording of Battle Without Honor or Humanity in Kill Bill. On the other side is the Doof Warrior in Fury Road playing Teardrop.

What's that you say, you want a freewrite but damn that price tag is ouch? And you like SNES and GBA RPG games? WHY NOT MASH THEM TOGETHER AND WRITE A NOVEL INSIDE AN SNES GAME you can thank me later riddlefoxgames.itch.io/manawriter

We know why these tech billionaires are constantly making empty threats to leave California. Carly Fiorina ran this playbook in her failed 2016 presidential campaign. We also know why they keep coming slinking back to California. Why do major publications keep running the same articles every year?

A very large redwood tree fell on my friend Mark’s bakery (a community hub in Cazadero) and there’s a fundraiser to help with repairs He’s genuinely one of the best people I know, help if you can: gofund.me/dd5eb6518

Animatin'

In 2026, I plan on reading Cyclonopedia, Library at Mt. Char, and the Etched City. I've put all of them off far too long.

Nothing has captured our current era quote as well as this video.

Reposting for reach 👇

Shout out to my road dogg Pot Bear

Well this is something I thought I’d left behind.

Standing ovation from me at this bit right here

merry Christmas one and all abcnews.go.com/Internationa...

Seriously though. This Christmas, may you love someone the way J.C. Leyendecker loved Charles Beach.

It is the day when America celebrates Christmas. Let's remember that God is not dead. The burden of the tyrant's defeat falls to us. His throne must fall.

Happy holidays from our family to yourses!

Remember the reason for the season with this, my favorite song about the majesty of god and the bonds of family. cowboy-junkies.bandcamp.com/track/i-did-...

god gives his deepest pie dishes to his hungriest angels

Christ did ride upon his mount, which possessed a coat of such lustre that all were half-blinded, and none could count the legs of the beast. With blazing sword aloft, his eyes like polished marble, a message passed between us in a language, unutterable, like bells of every size ringing in disorder.

On this Christmas, let's celebrate the child that young Jesus cursed to whither into a corpse because he bumped the Savior's elbow.

This does for Christmas what Celentano's Prisencolinensinainciusol does for English. Utterly brilliant.

I finished the animation work I was doing today and now it's time to watch Prince of Darkness and take copious notes. Haven't ever tried writing an essay like this, so it's going to be interesting to see how it turns out.

The light that shone from the blood of the Lamb, spilled upon spiked holly, revealed the gate that transforms the world. Ten tall toy soldiers marched in and did vanish, and from the opening rose cold red flame which caused visions of Sinterklaas splitting tree trunks with frightful strength.

On this Christmas, let's celebrate the child that young Jesus cursed to whither into a corpse because he bumped the Savior's elbow.

Need to shake up that Christmas movies lineup? I gotchu!

Pazuzu the Tank Engine finally got a takedown

It's the reason for the season! I've started writing that essay on the historical theological underpinnings of John Carpenter's Prince of Darkness. Currently gathering research materials in between bouts of editing hundreds of objects in Blender.

Journalism is dead, every news service embraces framing by the oligarchy and never questions it ever. CNN will go out of business because people can read ICE press releases by themselves.

I really loved this game, for fans of Nigel Kneale, Lovecraft, Algernon Blackwood and others of that sort. Tons of atmosphere. Can't beat this deal, either.

Eine kleine nachtmusik. No, not that guy. Just some music for night time. sunn.bandcamp.com/track/the-si...

The Choice of Games Steam Holiday Sale is on and my Werewolf: The Apocalypse story, The Book of Hungry Names, is 25% off until January 5th! It's a perfect time to explore the freezing wastes of New England as a Rage-fueled champion of Gaia!

My nominee for "Least Sentimental Christmas Poem" goes to Hilaire Belloc's "Lines For A Christmas Card": "May all my enemies go to hell, Noel, Noel, Noel, Noel."

years ago, i saw a therapist who falsely advertised herself as trans friendly so she could diagnose trans people with disorders that would preclude access to transition care by casting our judgment into doubt. that was a decade ago. they're even more organized now.

Do you ever think about the fact that before photography it was routine to describe people for the purpose of identifying them in a crowd?

Being a computer nerd from the 80's makes living through this AI bullshit era extra surreal. There was this guy in the 80's who did a few interviews in things like Compute and Computer Shopper who claimed to have a lossless compression algorithm that would always halve the size of the file.