Just listened to Lily Allen's West End Girl, and...my god. 10/10 perfect album. Every track is a banger and still cohesive with the whole. I don't listen to enough new music to have a tier list or whatever, but this is the best new album I've heard in years. Beautiful, scathing work of art.

I simultaneously love and hate how each new thing I do on bass is accompanied by "and it fucking hurt." Today's exhibit: I played a two-octave chromatic scale up and down my A string for the first time today. And it fucking hurt.

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I am suddenly filled with the urge to play a D&D character who is an inveterate multi-level marketing scamme--I mean merchant. NOT a pyramid schemer. A direct sales girlboss goddess who has an exponentially increasing income stream from every town she travels through.

Playing Final Fantasy V in 2025 hits different, with Cid's grandson's name being Mid...no wonder his parents aren't in the picture.

I just finished Black Sun by Rebecca Roanhorse. What an astounding book 1. Beautifully realized world, fleshed out characters, that looming sense of dread that you know will pay off but don't know in what way until the moment. I have the distinct feeling this series will be a favorite of mine.

Why are so many AI people trying to get into hobbies they absolutely despise? "Fuck reading just give me the summary", Fuck art just make it for me", "I got ideas but fuck actually writing" like??? Maybe just find something you enjoy doing and do that?????

It's really fucked up the news media at large is searching so hard for humanity in machines, while systematically denying humanity to Palestinians, trans people, immigrants, and other persecuted people

Look, we know Amazon/Audible will always want more for themselves and less for everybody else, but Audible's new model is actively screwing authors. So I'm just throwing this out there into the void in the hopes that it might help in some small way. chng.it/MMNKstMswW

I have started Hollow Knight tonight, and I am admittedly a bad 2D platformer, but I am determined to get through this because it's been a beautiful experience so far, even if I can't yet get past the first boss. I know why the devs spent seven years on the follow-up; it was for the joy of it.

I haven't played Hollow Knight, but with all the stuff I'm seeing about the team behind it, I might just have to.

Tonight I am contemplating the Tyrannosaurus Rex.

Publication day! 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐊𝐍𝐀𝐕𝐄 𝐎𝐅 𝐆𝐑𝐀𝐕𝐄𝐒 is now available in ebook and paperback. I appreciate any help spreading the word.🙏 #booklaunch #pubday #newrelease #fantasybooks #darkfantasy #theknaveofgraves

Alan Cumming on bathroom bills: "Why on earth would a rapist go through the bother of pretending to be trans in a country that treats rapists better than trans people."

Okay. I think I'm writing a book now. (Said as though to convince myself.) But yeah, I think I have something that I'm actively working on. This is weird.

[in a husky Southern drawl] If Mew could drive a Ford F-150... [atmospheric guitar strum] ...the world would be its Cloyster.

Trying to learn crochet while battling my intrusive thoughts telling me to stick the hook through my eye challenge, day 1. So far, both eyes remain intact by some miracle. Nothing else has been accomplished.

Suzan speaks the truth, but forgot the geese. We shall not forget the geese.

Explain your @. My real name is Geoffrey, and being American it's an unusual spelling. I also had a good flautist friend in music school with a sense of humor, who would randomly shout "GROOF" or some such mutilation of my name, and I just chose to take it as my internet name.

I'm thinking I'll reread David Mitchell soon.

I think I freaked my mom out, exhibit 529-B: When she mentioned her concert band was doing a medley of Fantasia, I started singing that chugging string bit early on in The Rite of Spring from memory, complete with brass and wind stabs. I woke up like 15 minutes ago and my day is already set.

Just finished Warhost of Vastmark by the inimitable @jannywurts.bsky.social. It proceeds with such stark inevitability, but still shocks at every turn. I'm looking forward to the third arc in this epic. Pouring one out for...well, just read the goddamn series and find out.

Rewatching Princess Mononoke. Still my favorite movie I've ever seen.

Check out this awesome trailer for @jannywurts.bsky.social's Wars of Light and Shadow: www.youtube.com/watch?v=GjYS...

This book is just awesome. Go get it, y'all.