ICE detained a 5-year-old kid and used him as bait to capture his parents. This is beyond appalling. Today the House is voting to increase funding for DHS and ICE. I'm a firm NO.

Oh wow they're making a live action movie of that She-Ra spinoff?

If it's tonight there's a deep irony to it being day 1 of year 2

Trump whining about a Nobel Peace Prize while floating a Greenland takeover would be laughable if it weren’t so dangerous. His reckless tariffs are driving up costs, and his brutality is ripping through our communities nationwide.

anyway, a fun aspect of this is that it provides an ironclad argument that all Trump's pardons are void, along with the legislation and executive orders he signed. you gotta follow the rules, you see

Hey plz dont distribute paywalled rascal articles via google docs?? Please?????? Dont??????

By the way folks who are looking for Draw Steel tokens for online VTT play: This artist has a patreon where they are creating original Draw Steel tokens for the monsters in the Monster book! www.patreon.com/cw/MaxHamm

My Draw Steel books arrived!

Increasingly convinced that one of the main reasons the "Trump is going to cancel the midterms" meme won't die is because a lot of posting addicts don't want to accept that electoralism is still a necessary condition for beating Trump. It's a perverse sort of wishcasting.

At least right now, top reform Dems should make in 2029 is the federal judiciary. Covers a lot of issues - Expand the Supreme Court - Reallocate the circuits - Move immigration from Article I to Article III - At least 5x the number of District Court judges

Starting Gladlands, been a bit since I've watched a Dimension 20 season. Immediately loving the subversion.

The full court of Draw Steel devils is now ready for Foundry thanks to @maxhamm.bsky.social! Package page: foundryvtt.com/packages/ds-...

I was just denied access to the ICE processing center at the Whipple Building. Members of Congress have a legal right and constitutional responsibility to conduct oversight where people are being detained. The public deserves to know what is taking place in ICE facilities.

Discord wants to know how you feel about AI. Go tell them: discord.sjc1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

Added an AI Policy to the README of the Draw Steel Foundry system.

this guy is a fucking hero

Crazy buzzer beater goal by the Kraken there

Final night home with my parents & enjoying a hockey game

he should be impeached for this alone

I'm a sucker for the Jim Henson Company

if pretending we're better than blowing up innocent foreigners gets us to stop blowing up innocent foreigners, I am more than happy to fake it

some thoughts on all of this madness from earlier in the morning youtu.be/-yUi-0vNlDA

New update of the foundry module for hand drawn Draw Steel tokens by @maxhamm.bsky.social — December Demons! foundryvtt.com/packages/ds-...

Simple as Everyone in DoD who participated in planning and executing this needs to face charges Yes I know the scope/scale of what I'm saying; either laws mean things or they don't

The Hague is the moderate position.

Alright, I have finished the last episode of Stranger Things and have to say season 5 was great. Credits being D&D themed also did a lot imo to alleviate the "ok but there's not actually that much D&D" criticism.

the water thing about genAI is bullshit but the thing where it makes on-demand nudes and CSAM isn't and the thing where it talks you into killing yourself isn't and those seem pretty bad

Happy new year!

Watching One Battle After Another and what a fucking movie it's earning the title

Continuing work on my Eberron for Draw Steel adaptation. Some of the core DS ancestries slide right in, others are a bit... Trickier

Mass abuse as politics idk how else to explain it

"Demogorgons are from the abyss" finally one D&D explanation that's not a total contortion of the Stranger Thing

This is true and I was the only one on set excited about it (and playing the song on my phone to blank stares)

Okay I gotta admit the anachronistic use of Sorcerer in Stranger Things is very funny

Going birding with my father as a winter activity. Pulls up to a field of white birds to "take photos of snow geese"... These are not geese, they are trumpeter swans. Need to go re-evaluate all of his photos and how he's tagged the birds in them

Really enjoyed The Fall Guy tonight, love all of Gosling's movies

Incredible what you find when you start looking for data on the "white men can't get jobs anymore" phenomenon www.peoplespolicyproject.org/2025/12/17/w...

Alright caught up Stranger Things in time for new episodes tomorrow

Friction is good and one of the most consequential tasks facing the designers and managers of social-technical systems in the 21st century is putting it back in in the right ways and right places.

The Order of the Stick: Dim Sun is an all-new 24-page story set in a parody of a certain classic campaign setting. Available now as a PDF download from Gumroad: richburlew.gumroad.com/l/ootsdimsun

I really liked the new Avatar movie, Big Jim delivered again

The rate of return here is crazy: for a few hundred thousand dollars, this lab produces literally billions of oysters and supports a seafood industry worth hundreds of millions. And the Trump administration is just like "fuck all that, it's wasteful spending, you're fired"

Re-watched Home Alone and I honestly forgot how good it is. I had definitely thought that it was just a nostalgia thing, but no it really holds up.

Not just a warning-- a handy visual guide for what to do. This is A+ public health communication!

I think it's basically a done deal that Trump doesn't finish his term, but between 1. His health 2. Spring confrontation over the board of the fed & the economy 3. The Epstein files 4. (Botched) Invasion of Venezuela It's incredibly unclear *how* it comes to an early end.

Interesting categorization work, it's certainly an improvement upon ye old GNS. I think the existence of an empty quadrant is probably a *good* thing in terms of showing that this is creating meaningful distinctions within the space, and I think that it also captures real table differences.

Draw Steel for Foundry 0.9.2 is live! Errata, bug fixes, and other QA galore. (Went up earlier this week but forgot to post about it here) github.com/MetaMorphic-...

Dispatch e8 delivered. Great writing all around, really had a lot of fun with it and excited for season 2!

Silksong getting expansion news less than 24 hours after I finish 😅

What the fuck do you mean Apocalypse World 3e hasn't broken 2k yet???? Chat can we do something about this www.kickstarter.com/projects/lum...