Today marks five years since I first posted my Friend of Garak design anywhere online. To celebrate, all my Garak merch is on sale, along with select other items, now through May Day. willburrows.art/shop

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it is important to emphasize that this was *the point*. this was *intentional*. elon musk is a vicious white supremacist who thinks poor african children ought to die, so that the world can be whiter

I want my ankle-length ankle-length ankle-length ankle-length ankle-length ankle-length I want my ankle-length ankle-length ankle-length ankle-length ankle-length ankle-length CHILI’S ankle-length pants Chili’s ankl-length pants

I'm brave enough to admit that I would, in fact, buy this the day it goes on sale or see it opening night. Yes, I would.

Direct all my calls to the Night Wall

Keep watch, dear Lord, with those who work, or watch, or weep this night, and give your angels charge over those who sleep. Tend the sick, Lord Christ; give rest to the weary, bless the dying, soothe the suffering, pity the afflicted, shield the joyous; and all for your love's sake.

I'd be more concerned with the sins of your future, 2016's Jake Paul

Late night bloggin' about animals and logistics geekuallyyoked.com/ark-nova/

The number of Republicans crashing out about getting nakedly gerrymandered is, unironically, a sign that we need to do more of it. You guys are correct! This shit sucks! Welcome to the party, pals! We can all stop doing it any time you like!

Keep watch, dear Lord, with those who work, or watch, or weep this night, and give your angels charge over those who sleep. Tend the sick, Lord Christ; give rest to the weary, bless the dying, soothe the suffering, pity the afflicted, shield the joyous; and all for your love's sake.

Thirteen U.S. troops died trying to get these people to safety — Afghan interpreters, soldiers, and the families of our service members. Veterans spent sleepless nights during the chaotic withdrawal fighting to keep them alive. Now our own government is going to abandon them.

Of the many things I worry about, a big one is that Gen Z and Alpha are growing up in a world in which the overwhelming public message is that cheating and lying and being indifferent to consequences is wildly successful and in fact the only way to succeed, while all virtue is performative nonsense

Good morning. My 8 year old demanded I inform them about the deadliest mushrooms before going to school www.britannica.com/story/7-of-t...

Today’s poem is called ‘Index of Poems I Shall Never Write’.

Keep watch, dear Lord, with those who work, or watch, or weep this night, and give your angels charge over those who sleep. Tend the sick, Lord Christ; give rest to the weary, bless the dying, soothe the suffering, pity the afflicted, shield the joyous; and all for your love's sake.

The Princess Bride is a fascinating landscape of all the different ethnicities that Jews can get cast as (Spanish, Italian, old shtetl Jews, assimilated American Jews who aren’t explicitly Jewish)

Who wants to learn about Martian moons? crookedtimber.org/2026/04/20/o...

Me and my crew after we've been left behind by AI

Boat Mode is pretty great. xkcd.com/3227/

the penne opticon

Your perennial reminder that there's never a bad day to try to kill Hitler geekuallyyoked.com/black-orches...

"is not capable of it" it doesn't surprise me that someone with a libertarian background lands on an elitist essentialist explanation, but there's a simpler and I think more powerful one: "critical thinking" becomes confounded with an individual's social identity to become neither.

i forget who said “why should i bother to read what you didn’t bother to write?” and i think about it constantly

Keep watch, dear Lord, with those who work, or watch, or weep this night, and give your angels charge over those who sleep. Tend the sick, Lord Christ; give rest to the weary, bless the dying, soothe the suffering, pity the afflicted, shield the joyous; and all for your love's sake.

My next village council meeting falls on May the 4th and it's taking all my Jesus not to express order this.

this doesn't read like arrogant self-confidence to me. it reads like a bunch of propellor beanie-wearing dorks at the bad light bulb factory demanding that the government make everyone buy really big light bulbs and also assign them girlfriends.

Keep watch, dear Lord, with those who work, or watch, or weep this night, and give your angels charge over those who sleep. Tend the sick, Lord Christ; give rest to the weary, bless the dying, soothe the suffering, pity the afflicted, shield the joyous; and all for your love's sake.

Usually when there’s this much disagreement about whether a strait is open or closed, they’re about six months from getting divorced.

Keep watch, dear Lord, with those who work, or watch, or weep this night, and give your angels charge over those who sleep. Tend the sick, Lord Christ; give rest to the weary, bless the dying, soothe the suffering, pity the afflicted, shield the joyous; and all for your love's sake.

The U.S. House Thursday passed an extension of Temporary Protected Status for Haiti for three years, in a rare rebuke by the GOP-led Congress to President Trump’s mass deportation campaign. Ohio GOP Reps. Mike Turner and Mike Carey voted for the extension ohiocapitaljournal.com/2026/04/16/r...

If you see this quote with a pic of you in glasses.

The Social Media Wretch made you a quiz 🫵 uquiz.com/QuizMaker/qb...

It's happening!

I'm so pleased to have this excerpt up on @reactorsff.bsky.social! Check it out if you've been curious about my (*inhales*) 98-page space opera/art heist about the nature of art and love and whether androids make good boyfriends! (no) (who cares, I've dated worse)

That feeling when you go to your local bookstore and your book is actually there for people to buy! (Official release date is May 5, but I guess some copies are coming early. Link for orders/preorders below)

I appreciate @samreich.bsky.social wants to expand the @dropout.tv franchise, but this seems ill-advised.

people forget that the US existed for an adult human lifetime with manorial serfdom in New York State and a freakish Venetian oligarchy in Rhode Island. like, into the time of telegraphs and steamboats and daguerreotypes.

Judging a dog parade today. Ask me anything

oh wow you’re telling me that jd vance follows yet another nazi on twitter

Now that the MAGA regime has added anti-Catholicism to their nativism, xenophobia, islamophobia, anti-leftism and pro-Russian tendencies, the only thing that distinguishes Trumpian American nationalism from the traditional Serb nationalism is that it's Evangelical Protestant instead of Orthodox.

Keep watch, dear Lord, with those who work, or watch, or weep this night, and give your angels charge over those who sleep. Tend the sick, Lord Christ; give rest to the weary, bless the dying, soothe the suffering, pity the afflicted, shield the joyous; and all for your love's sake.

ever since my state government job got restructured out of existence I've been thinking about how I'd make a great addition to @cpsc.gov hire me to answer the phone calls you want to avoid and I'll stock the office with really good snacks

Happy Emancipation Day from our nation’s capital.

this week's episode features perhaps the two things i'm perhaps proudest of creating in the audio medium: 1. playing "rawhide" on the synthesizer and 2. the demented drive-time radio bumper i cut together with a bunch of creative commons sound effects and an actual mayor (!) calling in

My what an attractive sounding mayor at the start of this episode

People over on Facebook/YouTube/elsewhere on bluesky/reality have been mocking this, but these are all totally genuine and highly advanced GMing techniques pioneered in obscure corners of indie rpg design in the early 2000s. Let's go through them one by one and learn together.

Millions of lapsed Catholics realizing that they have become realigned with the Pope against their will

Keep watch, dear Lord, with those who work, or watch, or weep this night, and give your angels charge over those who sleep. Tend the sick, Lord Christ; give rest to the weary, bless the dying, soothe the suffering, pity the afflicted, shield the joyous; and all for your love's sake.