If we lived in a just media landscape, this would now be a trilogy.

happy birthday to @eliotcardinaux.bsky.social, who wrote this perfect poem

I’ve decided my “dream D&D group” is now The Muppets. I want to DM the muppets playing D&D/TTRPG of choice. I want Miss Piggy to get mad at me for rolling a Crit against her. I want Kermit to bust out a lil’ bardic ditty when he uses Bardic Inspo. I want Gonzo to cast Fireball.

I’m assuming this is a three player game that only two show up for.

NIGEL FARAGE STOLE MY SATSUMAS

www.mycrossword.co.uk/cryptic/2916 - in which I have been listening to the advice to have fewer unusual words. There's still one.

I’m on my way to Dragonmeet after a couple of years away and, as tradition demands, there’s an obstruction on the track or emergency repairs (depending on which announcement you believe)

Of course I would say this, but we need to talk about the moral & ideological case for play & leisure more than ever. So much political discourse - especially from the super-rich - assumes we ought to construct society around forcing citizens to spend most of their one, unrepeatable life working.

Please enjoy this list of ways that the NY Times crossword puzzle has clued the word SEXT, it's my sexy gift to you.

ISSUE 2 PRE-SALES NOW OPEN! £5 plus postage Coming out in JANUARY 2026 unchcrosswords.com

Anyway please enjoy this pumpkin I saw yesterday

So I’m experimenting with crossword setting again. Aiming for weekly, and managing to be so for three in a row now here: www.mycrossword.co.uk/cryptic/2839

Why do they call it RPG when you are do the pee and gee up on the table dice?

"I PITY THE FOOL who measures out his life in coffee spoons. I ain't gonna wear the bottoms of my trousers rolled, fool." Oh look. It's Mr T's Eliot.

Party of One has shown me so many systems and ways to play with past and future Jeff, too many to pick a favourite, but this would be on the list if I had to. pca.st/episode/c15e...

the duality of man

In important math news: new shape just dropped (the noperthedron) www.quantamagazine.org/first-shape-...

i'm so tired i could sleep a horse

www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/help... thinking about this for some reason this week

Heist Funicular is my new Blades in the Dark character

It's about time Strange Days finally begins getting the retrospective love and respect it deserves. To me, it's the best pre-Matrix cyberpunk film other than Blade Runner and Robocop, and still better than most cyberpunk films made since. www.polygon.com/strange-days...

The list of books from this era that will be considered classics in 100 years would probably horrify you.

Sunday

In food history, we notice how super-refined foods--gelatin, vienna sausage, white bread--lose class and become horrifying once they become industrialized. Suddenly, fingermarks in bread dough demonstrate skill, not clumsiness. Post-chatGPT, I'm feeling this about writing. Smoothness feels gross.

I am professional and literary and yet this

We're up to ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY NINE participants in our upcoming kitbash game jam. You should join them! It costs you nothing and will probably lose me money in the long run. I'm not even 100% sure why I'm doing it. itch.io/jam/one-hund...

@jntod.bsky.social I was enjoying Jen Calleja’s Goblinhood, and was suddenly delighted by your getting a call out in there.

BEHOLD! My first ever choose-your-own-adventure game! "i will strangle a horse" - over seven and a half thousand words of absolute nonsense, as you help Martin Jenkins on his first day at The Farm. brainmage.itch.io/i-will-stran... Totally free to play! I mean, you can pay, but you can also not!

www.tumblr.com/apoemaday/79... I don’t think I can describe the little technical thrill I got from this one without spoiling it.

#REMtop30 18. Nightswimming The Jools Holland version is one of the best TV performances I've ever seen, goosebumps it's so good. And the way Michael looks at Mike, seems like a beautiful friendship youtu.be/KVT0S0j7F9Y?...

The Amphora of Great Intelligence (AGI) #webcomic #krita #miniFantasyTheater

When you're having a snore Over books of old lore Nevermoré When there's taps at your door Darkness there, nothing more Nevermoré Perched and sat Up above my door A bird from Saintly days of yore Nevermoré Dreaming of lost Lenor It's a grief metaphor Nevermooooré

d6 Magic Items for you to flesh out: 1. Alexander Graham’s Belt 2. Desk of Many Things 3. +1 Longshort 4. Bag of Olding 5. Portion of Speed 6. Cap of Waterbeating

I was in high school during the Satanic Panic, so too young for my last share, and I got the Red Box for my birthday. I was excited about the game, and I had friends who were also excited, and I persuaded my head of year that we should be allowed to use a maths room over lunch to play D&D

Were you 20 or older during the height of the Satanic Panic? I'm researching that period for a game *and* novel, and I'd like to interview you about your firsthand experiences if you'd like to share them! (1/2)

The treadmill screening of ‘THE LONG WALK’ took place, where every person had to walk on a treadmill faster than 3MPH for the whole movie. If they stopped, they were escorted out of the theater.

Perfect. No notes.

Just a friendly reminder that your desire to have a bookshelf with a rolling ladder is valid. Don’t allow anyone to disrespect you by telling you otherwise.

Writing a GM section is hard. So instead I wrote down every role I could imagine that a GM might play and instructed the reader to kind of figure it out themselves as they go

A joy, this game

Also related (or maybe the same): Suspense is not generated by the reader not knowing what happens next. It's generated by the reader CARING what happens next.

Advanced crocodile problems are when there are various levels of them. Also known as alligator tiers.

My brother found this on IG and it is pure, shining genius, the pinnacle of the genre 🤌🤌🤌

@hwatweekly.bsky.social hello both, I’m listening to you mentioning the AI tools that try to help with pronunciation, and remembering a video clip I saw where an AI voice repeatedly referred to the people who do crochet - you know, crocheters - as crotch eaters.

Book titles are too long! Enshorten them! - The Greatsby - Warn Peace - The Brosamazov - The Catcherye - Crunishment - M'dick

For a bettir future we need poetrye, creativitye, historical studye, love of language, dreames, dialogues, new storyes, & intellectual curiositye. We must fund & expand higher educacioun yn HEART: H umanityes E thiques A rtes R hetorique & the crafte of T eaching