CA's AG, also openly supporting the protest movements: “Crowds are super important. That is the rawest, most powerful expression of our democracy. When people show up, whether it’s Hands Off or No Kings, we are speaking about what we will never accept and what we demand.”

I wasn't sure what to expect from a group of Democratic state AGs, but I definitely was not expecting a long monologue about Ruby Ridge and the Boston Massacre www.theverge.com/policy/86588...

vibe check

heartening thread here. there is real, meaningful work we can do to protect our communities, we can learn how to do it from each other, and we don't have to do it alone.

a heavily armed paramilitary force with legal immunity is occupying a city and going door to door kidnapping non-white adults and children in furtherance of an explicitly white nationalist political project

I got very choked up in class today showing my students what James Baldwin had to say about Shakespeare: “the greatest poet in the English language found his poetry where poetry is found: in the lives of the people. he could have done this only through love…”

mark darrah's three-and-a-half-hour anthem exegesis is like a graduate seminar in game leadership www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cxwr...

changed my display name to the only thing keeping me going in this trying time

this is the sickest shit ive ever seen

surprise asparagus

you know this guy is a FOR REAL photographer because he's telling the story of his brutal, unconditional arrest by federal goons and can't help but slip in a gear review

I find it necessary these days to affirm the obvious because the descent into fascism is mostly a continuous, not discrete, process so here it goes: these are internal checkpoints by secret police for what is routine freedom of movement.

Yarrow, on her wheel

just remembered yarrow on her wheel

One of the main things I appreciate about LA is that going anywhere, at any time, in any way, is a horrifying ordeal

i dont want to watch twin peaks as much as i want to dwell in surreal moments of profound unease overlaid with droning synth noises

Again, it's protected activity under the First Amendment. Courts as far back as at least 2000 have concluded that.

they didn’t leak it to make the shooter look innocent, but to make the victim look guilty. not guilty of a crime. guilty of having a visibly queer wife. guilty of liberalism. guilty of opposing the regime. they don’t seek to exonerate themselves, only to demonstrate who deserves to die.

Renee Macklin Good's wife, Becca Good, released a statement and it moved me to sobbing tears: archive.is/ur35j

Trying to relax with some reading only to have Helen Humphreys come out the gate swinging 🫣

Word on the street is that in 2026 the next big thing in publishing is garish, avant garde science fantasy about anguished souls living in weird cities built on the bones of fallen civilizations they could never hope to understand

i wish all pentiment likers a happy new year

i was thrilled to work on these for the game, and as always i was really grateful for both the creative liberty and direction given to me by both hannah and josh during this process. please click thru for alt text of the source material; they're stunning!

thank you for the warm reception to the pentiment animal concepts. here are a few more - these are spreads used in the scene of brother sebhat's meal with andreas at the shrine of st moritz.

For 2026 let’s remind ourselves what really matters: weird fiction

my wish for 2026 is for this to be the year editors want to buy fantasy horror again

just received word that onions have been ranked the "number one vegetable" of 2025. that makes 7,448 years in a row of the humble allium placing in the top 3, a stretch of unrivaled dominance that is unlikely to ever be beaten by other greats like cabbage or chili pepper

a new @megapolisomancy.bsky.social essay is always appointment reading for me

happy to be outside

soojin saving our lives today

The secret to networking in video games is to meet lots of peers at a similar stage in their careers. Identify one who's really talented; you must then kill them and bury their heart under a crossroad. A thing wearing their face will contact you in 7 days and offer to elevate you, at a price.

all sprawling literary works of great ambition deserve to be read over a long period of time and become part of the fabric of one's life rather than to be efficiently consumed

Met a cool cactus yesterday.

A252 God of evening star.

taking my life in my hands (eating old rice from the fridge)

I like making video games.

making my family watch spirited away

gotta write a new book in 2026 u_u

One of the more important stock-taking moments to watch a bootlegged news program censored in your country.

a little #filmphotography for the people

I am tempted to go on a longer discussion of this but I am on vacation. But as someone who leads the design department and hires and mentors designers, using chatGPT to write your design specs is antithetical to the role and job responsibilities of a designer.

getting to editing some of my shots from korea this week. i tried to focus on doing more environmental portraits this trip, and several people were very generous with their time and let me take their picture, like this tug operator in busan.

20,000 words, 150 footnotes, 100+ timeline events = our attempt at documenting and synthesizing all the ways that the federal government has attempted to destroy access to gender-affirming care since January unbreaking.org/issues/trans...

Pentiment sweep

i can feel the camera madness returning....

Keep thinking about this term "pre-digested" that Kojima used to describe art that's instantly gratifying. And how it's better when people grow to love something instead. I've gravitated, as player and designer, toward the latter, but that term "pre-digested" is new and feels very strong.

walked into josh's office this morning and he was holding a copy of AD&D. i thought "what could he possibly be doing with this?" but didn't ask. i see now he was posting.