A while back I played around with color 3D printing and had fun making my fav Sierra characters.

The real generational divide is people who refuse to watch a video if it could be an article versus people who refuse to read an article if it could be a video

happy birthday Gritty

Creepy Redneck Dinosaur Mansion 1: Re-Raptored is OUT NOW! 🦖 store.steampowered.com/app/3830150/...

dudes rock

Welp here we are again, fresh out of Archaeologists for Skype a Scientist matches. This fall, we have matched 248 groups with Archaeologists for online Q&As. I have 38 more groups who need a match, but I'm out of Archaeologists! Archaeologists! Please volunteer www.skypeascientist.com/sign-up.html

Luckily the rapture is unlikely to interfere with my Thursday-night Pathfinder game.

developing self-confidence later in life is such a trip because now I'm like, "I know who I am, I know what I can do, and if anyone has negative or contrary ideas about either, I have enough of a mental foundation to care so much less than when I was younger"

Critical Role is partnered to release a new video game? It's a new episodic Superhero IP?? AND IT COMES OUT NEXT MONTH??? I interviewed @adhocstudio.com about upcoming RPG Dispatch and their creative influences - exclusively available at Bearly Factual Productions! www.patreon.com/posts/139069...

happy fat bear season

Absalom is rumbling and Castrovel is grumbling in the new Pathfinder and Starfinder Society Scenarios in today's blog! buff.ly/CGzm6pb

Pathfinder Quest is live on BackerKit! Check out today's blog to learn about the game, campaign exclusives, and see how you can shape the destiny of Darkmoon Vale! buff.ly/GJ5VHDD

this is, hands down, the best video I've seen on men's influencer content and it's not close either

i like that literally every story is like "what if normal day BUT THEN SOMETHING HAPPENS" and writers have been coming up with different combinations of normal days and SOMETHING HAPPENS since the dawn of time

i think the new stephen starr restaurant that opened in the old rittenhouse barnes & noble building should let people use the restroom there

Theseus the Tank Engine

I think we all need to constantly split hairs as much as possible to deflate the magical thinking our decision-maker class has adopted around AI. I basically have to do this all day at work. If you’re using “AI” as a shorthand for “a magic wizard” around me I will quibble until you understand that

Concerned that we are losing the necessary ratio. 15% of teachers/faculty should be irretrievably strange eccentrics. Every learning experience should have some element where in later life you can reflect with former classmates about how bizarre at least one (1) class per year was.

My friend Andrew (@plaguecontrol.bsky.social‬) is having a rough go and could use some help. (TL;DR is he had a house fire and his insurance company is jerking him around.) Toss a few bucks his way. This could be any of us. gofund.me/e711cce7

What people think they 80s were like versus what the 80s was actually like.

Important Reminder

It's back to school season, but actually getting back to class in the morning is a bit a tougher due to SEPTA cuts. We chatted with students about their first day commutes. billypenn.com/2025/08/25/s...

People stigmatize the unhoused most unhoused people are survivors—of eviction, domestic violence, medical debt, systemic racism, or broken safety nets. Many work, many are disabled, many are veterans. The problem isn’t moral failure—it’s policy failure, economic cruelty, and social abandonment.

It's Minnesota State Fair time! It's time for Minnesotan folk art! Here, for example, is Saturn Devouring His Corn, in the seed art category!

Let's be clear: all the AI in edtech stuff (Canvas, Blackboard, Grammarly, Duolingo, OpenAI, the rest) is all about the "lock-in" - locking in students as subscribers or institutions via long-term license agreements for value generation. Is there good pedagogic evidence for it? No.

we used to build household shrines to Going On The Computer and it's no coincidence that as we abandoned these we started straying further from god's light

A friend is moving and gave me some of her Keyboard Shit, so I put the unlabeled keycaps on the 30% keyboard to produce the most 1960s Star Trek keyboard I could.

there’s currently a lady standing in front of the clothespin at penn center wearing yoga pants and a sports bra while jamming on a full orchestra sized xylophone

Consumer-facing "A.i." in education is evil and if you push it on kids to make "art" you're hurting them.

every “ancient tradition” was invented between 1848-1870 and every “modern perversion” is so ancient as to predate writing

my statement on Ai from the mini-comic I'm making as syllabus for a new class I'm teaching this fall. It's simple, but I pretty much said all I have to say on it - it robs you of decisions and struggle - and the joy of being surprised. It robs you of learning...

It’s eely important that we sell enough advent calendars to support Skype a scientist. The moray we sell the more good work we can do in 2026! Scratch off the boxes to reveal facts about eels! Get a calendar at EelFacts.Net

Art is as much about what the artist chooses to leave out of a piece as it is about what they put in. Art resonates with us because those choices can reveal a singular, human point of view. That's why AI, though it can generate images, can never actually create art.

I’m doing victory laps in my kitchen right now!!!! 💃🏼 CGE just announced they are going to be giving away 100% of the profit from their Harry Potter game to pro-trans charities!! www.instagram.com/p/DNG48n-IVP...

Just a reminder that if you're working on the HBO Harry Potter show, or the audiobook, or making/buying licensed Harry Potter products, or covering *any* of the previously noted without mentioning JK Rowling's virulent and non-stop transphobia, this is what you're supporting:

Back and rested from Gen Con. Time to reflect on the experience. Didn't buy too much (limited luggage space), but checked out lots of cool stuff.

I turned away from so many booths that had HP stuff at Gen Con. Shocking to see so many companies and makers going to that poisoned well in 2025.

Mary Shelley doesn't get enough credit for not only anticipating the silver-spooned narcissist techbro who recklessly creates technology without thinking through the consequences, but also for knowing that said techbro would be an absolutely terrible father.

For a Student Who Used AI to Write a Paper

If you're using AI to write essays, eulogies, a text to your wife, I do think less of you as a person. Ceding your mental and creative abilities to a machine is an embarrassing thing and people should be ashamed to admit doing it in public.

23. Internalize the fact that emotions are not durable; happiness will not last forever...but neither will anger, sadness, grief, or depression. Let them have their time and learn the lessons they teach.

I'm so tired of hearing that we need to "teach our students how to use AI" when the thing they most need to use it is a critical-thinking skill set that can only be acquired by NOT using it. I'm tired of hearing that it's inevitable. I'm tired.

Truth coming out of her well to ask how you’re doing.

The thing about PBS is that LeVar Burton was to me what MrBeast is to kids today.

The Methods You've drawn the line at pictures of sunken cheeks, distended bellies, xylophone spines. Please, you say, destroy the children with bullets and bombs and bulldozers. July 29, 2025

The Methods You've drawn the line at pictures of sunken cheeks, distended bellies, xylophone spines. Please, you say, destroy the children with bullets and bombs and bulldozers. July 29, 2025

There is absolutely no excuse for any Democrat asked about trans athletes to ever respond with anything but “why are you wasting my time asking about FEWER THAN FIFTEEN CHILDREN AND YOUNG ADULTS IN THE ENTIRE COUNTRY WHO WANT TO PLAY GAMES WITH THEIR FRIENDS. What is wrong with you?”

Jules Verne legit wildly underrated as a namer of characters, Phineas Fogg is just an all time Victorian protagonist name