Vigmar Gravbryter's fellow frost giants reacted to the idea of battlefield magic first with mockery, then with horror, and finally by condemning her as a witch and murdering her. She un­murdered herself and murdered them back. Preorder Making Enemies today: spyandowl.com/making...

The SSA was the family business. Father a deputy director of ops, mother a claims rep. And Trump is running it into the ground, just like he's run every other business of his into the ground. This is just one of many, many misdeeds I'll be very, very unforgiving about for the rest of my days.

I rarely pay much attention to the acknowledgment section in books, but this one was quite amusing. From Stephen T. Asma (2009) On Monsters: an Unnatural History of Our Worst Fears, Oxford University Press

What’s happening: Napoleon is master of Europe. Go deeper: Only the British Fleet stands before him.

The Poblanos.

I’ve been noodling around with this sculpture for many months

People are dunking on this, but having worked in the field of police oversight for the last four years, listening to residents from every part of a major U.S. city, it doesn't surprise me at all. A few points 🧵

Got @themonstersknow.com 's new book! If you enjoyed The Monster Know What they are Doing and wish you could go through Keith's thought process while choosing or designing a monster, then this is definitely the book for you! I helped playtesting by running all the PF2 monsters and it was a blast

“we know we made you mad so you left but — hear us out — we’d like to invite you to come back and pay more”

A great interview where @lyla.bsky.social and I talk about the Gamehole Con POC dinner and the panels we are organizing. Thank you to Ben and Quarex for having us! If you are a POC attending GHC and want to connect with other creators, please contact us!

I wanna watch you bleed: abhorrent overlord tactics. #DnD

Prince Nimblestep, ruler of the fey domain of Masquerade. His flair as a dancer is matched only by his artistry with the blade. His ballroom is exquisitely opulent, his soirées are second to none, and his palace is a snake pit of intrigue. Preorder Making Enemies today: spyandowl.com/making...

I am prepared for the raptor I have my camera and binoculars at the ready

France wrecked Prussia in the Napoleonic wars in large part because revolutionary liberty's enabling of talented young leaders created a kind of strategic and tactical flexibility that reactionary aristocracy entirely lacked. I wonder who would benefit from studying that lesson right now.

I'm not a militarist. I'm not an anarchist. I don't call for the overthrow of the U.S. government or law enforcement authorities. I want our system of law to remain intact—a good deal more than the U.S. government seems to at the moment, to be frank. I AM antifascist. Which is all "antifa" means.

DISNEY: "OK, we are putting Jimmy Kimmel back on the air. You can resubscribe now." ME: "I unsubscribed because you immorally bowed to fascism. I'm not going to resubscribe because you immorally bowed to finances."

A creature of gargantuan size and extraordinary cunning, Demerstrix has acquired magical talents through primal connection and sheer force of character. She uses her magic to wreck fine ships and add them and their cargoes to her benthic hoard. Preorder Making Enemies today: spyandowl.com/making...

This WORKS. Last year I put some simple decals on my pane glass bow window and it reduced birdstrikes from 4-5/week to zero. I was honestly surprised by how instantly effective it is. Two smartly-placed decals per pane was all it took, and they don't even obstruct my view of the birds at all. #birds

City ripped up a whole tree for utility work and dropped it in the street so I did some investigating and gathered a bunch of gall-covered leaves. I’m assuming they overwinter, and I think the big ones are psyllid galls, but I welcome info from bug experts

Disney now has a 5 step process to cancel their account. I walk you through it because it shouldn't be this annoying. Also, after you cancel, invest in people *actually* committed to free speech. Welcome your support to my daily human rights newsletter ❤️✊🏽 www.qasimrashid.com/subscribe

I do miss dancing at Berlin, but I love discovering local events from signs taped to their windows. Best community message board in Lakeview! Today, I'm flyering for Dungeons & Derby, a fundraiser for the @windycityrollers.bsky.social!

I wonder whether this is the time to mention that there's a revised edition on the way …

Another 🔥 photo from the Broadview ICE protests outside Chicago. Not sure whether Boyle or someone else is the photographer.

TBH if there were money in it that would just be a bonus

a few thoughts (gift link) www.nytimes.com/2025/09/20/o...

I just called Disney+ to cancel my account and had the most joyful interaction with an operator who was laughing the entire time about how many people had canceled today. I can only imagine how it feels to spend an entire day witnessing how many people want to stop fascism.

The coolest thing I did as DM was have the BBEG call the party "distractible" to their faces, then immediately distract them with an intense combat so she could finish a devastating ritual to seal off the cleric's god. They were gutted, like, "holy frick we ARE distractible! She literally told us!"

I do believe these men thought that they could whitewash (no pun intended) the image of the Nazi among white and even some brown youth. To make fascism appear cool. It seems to have backfired spectacularly. Hilariously. And now they are scrambling to get away from the comparisons.

that's why you bring the US flag to protests, folks

Stealing your dignity along with your loot: eater of hope tactics. #DnD

Geordi, I understand that it is funny that my name rhymes with dwarf, but I would prefer to change my D&D character to a half-orc. Worf

I've been vocal in my frustrations with Spelljammer and Planescape, but I have to say I'm consistently impressed with how good the writing is in Mythic Odysseys of Theros and how interesting the monsters are, both in concept and in design. WotC caught lightning in a bottle with this one. #DnD

THIS IS RELEVANT TO MY INTERESTS

Look what arrived today, @themonstersknow.com !!

Yesterday I had a lovely surprise as this was dropped off on my doorstep from @themonstersknow.com I said it before and I'll say it again, the storytelling work Keith does through manipulating mechanics and tactics is extraordinary. I'm really excited to see a book more explicitly about design.

Devastating and dead-on:

@safety.bsky.app, why did you suspend the AI Imagery Labeler moderation list? #NoAI

told my 9yo he's lucky to have friends who are better than him at soccer and he nodded and said, gravely, "iron sharpens iron." didn't realize i was raising an anime protagonist but okay

I love where this list starts, and I love where it goes after that.

I am so happy to have learned about these lists.

Hey, you. Yeah, you, the one reading this. I just hummed a song for you. You've got Bardic Inspiration. You can use that extra d12 for anything you need to conquer today. Do the thing. Start that project. Punch the sun. #OperaGeek #DnD #BardLife

Elinor Wonders Why may be the single best educational* children's show on television. I will buy the Oobit ALL of these books. * have to specify "educational" because, let's face it, no one can touch Bluey … no one

My copy came in the other day (thanks, Keith!) and I’m looking forward to diving in!

I got my Covid booster and flu shot and the tech said they're very busy with vaccines right now which all makes me feel a little spritz of happiness

Keith has such fantastic ideas about story through tactics. I truly cannot wait to see what he has to say about monster design!

Part of Darker Hue's mission statement is uncovering truth and making it accessible. It has been a long and difficult road. But one thing that made it better was the historians & scholars who wanted to share thier knowledge. Continuing to watch it literally being erased every day is... devastating.

Has the wizard been hogging the spotlight again? Has the ranger been getting short shrift? Maybe it's time to design a hard-hitting, mobile monster that's resistant to magic … but vulnerable to a silvered arrow. Making Enemies goes on sale Oct. 7—preorder your copy now at spyandowl.com/making....

Deeply weird and frustrating to be shopping for new luggage, only to find that almost no "carry-on" bag meets today's airline carry-on requirements. Roughly half are too tall, roughly two-thirds are too wide, and the ones that aren't too tall or too wide are either too deep or too expensive.

Here's another good'un. (Performed here: youtu.be/MGSdYFR50Y8)