Honestly this is painfully accurate.

Good morning, it's time to wake up and enjoy the-- Goddammit. Can anyone make this guy stop posting? Trump says ‘there can be no going back’ on Greenland as private messages from Macron leaked – Europe live www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...

This says not. bsky.app/profile/stra...

what lesson was donald trump ever supposed to learn other than "keep being a shitty person" it made him president

The horse has spoken

Thirteen example One Unique Thing for #13thAge. Some of them are fun, some are cliché, some are unhinged; it's up to you to decide which are which, this Sunday evening. So chip in on each, share in the fun. Maybe come up with some of your own, serious or shitpost. 💜 #ttrpg #out

I still fail at this sometimes but the amount that I've learned to just ignore has increased exponentially since 2020. I hate to tell ya but so much of this (what we say online) is just noise, not signal.

“Oughtposting vs isposting” is immediately load bearing for me

Pop leftism as crypto-Evangelicalism. Once you see it it’s everywhere.

Some late night art thoughts... I've got a lot of respect for the craftsman approach to art, where a person will pick one instrument, or at least one medium, and drill down on that for 50 years.

I've made the same point. Which I suppose will surprise no one. "It is a wicked problem so I understand what they are trying to do. I’m sure the human moderators won’t be banning artists exploring AI, rather I hope will just be looking to filter out soundspam." stereogum.com/2485670/holl...

I have a friend in the States who’s a percussionist. Played with the late Ritchie Havens. A great artist and a genuine person. One of her dearest friends has shared this testimony from Minneapolis. It is real and genuine, and it is our duty to share it with the world.

"This is a verified page fundraising support for the Minneapolis Regional Labor Federation, AFL-CIO and Working Partnerships' 2026 rapid response effort to meet the needs of impacted union members, worker center members, and their families..." workingpartnerships.betterworld.org/campaigns/su...

bot poetry

This week I got season 5 of the Fallen Cycle (fiction) podcast wrapped (~300 minutes of music, synthesized VO) and about 3/4 through editing the next episode of the Modern Mythology (rpg) podcast edited.

It's early and this is a truly atrocious cup of coffee, so it seems like a good time to pick a fight with the world. "System doesn't matter" is a valid, reasonable, and *critically important* argument which has been rendered ragebait and a punchline by pedantry.

Witnesses in Iran comparing (in private coms to diaspora analysts) the violence now against past protest suppression. Said in past used batons, even armed units fired cautiously. This time sustained and constant fire at full volume against crowds, including with machine guns.

At one point today, there were 283 Minnesota attorneys doing a training on how to file emergency habeas petitions to keep our neighbors from being shipped out of state and held indefinitely. That would be the second largest law firm in the state. And that training was just put together this week.

He really is doing all of it.

These neighborhood signal chats are absolutely crazy right now. You’ve got young activists in there with the most normie folks alive who all just absolutely fucking hate ICE so much. And they are all willing to put their bodies on the line for their communities.

Slowly but surely. Almost ready to schedule. It turns out 10 ~30 min episodes with a full length kind of maximalist soundtrack is a lot of material to produce. ;)

"Fifty-six percent of Americans said fatal shooting of Renee Good was an inappropriate use of force, survey by CNN finds." And 44% of Americans are apparently dumb as shit.

While we're all watching Venezuela and Greenland: In late December there was a massive attack on Poland's energy infrastructure - an attempt to cause a blackout in the middle of the winter. And it turns out - Russia was behind it. Greyzone aggression in action, again. tvpworld.com/91021372/pol...

Feb 1 @ bandcamp and FallenCycle.com Season 5 of the podcast should hit the feeds within a few days of that.

Somewhere between 2,000-20,000 protestors killed in Iran www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...

www.modernmythology.net/articles/mod... Defining the Undefinable

The good side, I've got a number of pretty cool projects close to finished. The bad, the world is just perpetually awful now and shows no signs of substantially improving in our lifetimes. But thems the breaks, right? Picture unrelated.

hi, political philosopher here! this is not funny, central banks only do this when they're in extreme distress

lawyers posting about trump news every day

More pieces of the jigsaw are done. Last part is to finish fitting them all together, master, and sit through the hours it'll take to render about 320 min of audio (season 5, 1/2 of PATWE). www.fallencycle.com/blog/fiction...

Ladies you “Zumba-ed” too hard!

(he spent a weekend prepping player handouts on his own printer at home)

430k of us vs. 2k of them, we're gonna win this Cedar & 31st I think

Body bags at one location in Iran. Families come to find and identify their loved ones. I just saw a slide show of photos of corpses, for the same purpose. This is what the Islamic Republic of Iran does to its people while the world isn't watching.

Apropos of nothing except yesterday's mixing session, Baby audio's Smooth Operator Pro is really tight. Definitely using this plugin in the future.

If you go to chess club, you’ll play chess, but even if it’s not at a table you expect, it’s still CHESS. If you go to D&D club and sit down with your character at the wrong table, it doesn’t *work* (without rebuilding the game). That uniqueness is weird.

“You have to understand, these armed men are insecure, unloved, and in terrible physical shape. People are in great danger just by being near them.”

This is accurate, but also feels backwards, which is a little bit odd to say. There are a LOT of complicated factors Involved in this, but one of the weirdest and most disruptive is a sense that RPGs are an unwelcome activity, *even while doing them*.

www.iranintl.com/en/202601103... "The most conservative estimates indicate that at least 2,000 people have been killed over the past 48 hours."

But I'm sure if we just recycle enough bottles... www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Pretty much all of us

i saw a tiktok about how writing fanfiction in childhood is a sign of calcium deficiency and i can't stop thinking about it

It frustrates me a bit that the discussion around so-called AI and the arts seems stuck in the same cul-de-sac that it was 3 years ago when I first wrote about it. medium.com/modern-mytho...

The “revolutionary leftist in your country, conservative in mine” constituency is enormous