The name "Popular Science" doesn't mean we shift our coverage depending on public opinion. It means we cover relevant subjects that are rigorously researched, reliable, and grounded in reality. And trans lives are grounded in reality. We see y'all. No matter what. www.popsci.com/science/tran...

Jeff Van Dreason writer, director, sound designer says, "Equal parts funny and furious, Two Thousand and Late taps into the growing anger we all feel and channels it into a narrative we all need to hear." Listen to @vandreasonable.bsky.social! pod.link/1835711536

I don't know what to expect from Starfleet Academy, but in all of my secret speculative Star Trek show bibles for shows I'll never be invited to make, the the Chief Medical Officer is always Klingon. So they've got my interest just on that point.

It rocks to tell people their shit rocks. Every single person who has ever been nice about my work has been appreciated for doing so. I take time to say I love stuff and it’s always the right time to remind somebody you value their work! You don’t need to get into detail either. Just say it rocks

Oh heeey! Me, @laurenshippen.com and @jonnysims.bsky.social are talking about audio drama in just under half an hour over on Twitch and Youtube. It'll be the first hour of Lauren's marathon livestream to mark the end of the Phantom Pulse crowdfunding campaign (21hrs left, go go go!) Come join us!

FACT: openly expressing love and joy and compassion and affection are meaningful virtues in the fight against fascism.

Reposting to spread the word! My good friend Rebecca has a new book releasing soon, and is giving away three ARCs (advance reader copies)! I've loved her previous books, and wholeheartedly recommend checking her work out! I'm not entering the contest because I've already pre-ordered my copy!

Happy #BlueSkyMonday! Our version of #CyberMonday but, with, like cool book recommendations rather than gross algorithm driven sales. So we'll be giving out recommendations ALL DAY & all recommendations will be 10% off. Make your requests now or just watch for posts throughout the day!

Happy Audio Drama Sunday!! Have you backed Phantom Pulse on Kickstarter yet? We think that you'll fall in love with this rock album/audio drama, but we need your help to make it! www.kickstarter.com/projects/aty...

There are many benefits to the general digitization of media, especially for those of us living in apartments. But come the time of year when people are asking me for wish lists, I miss being able to fill it out with CDs and DVDs. It was so much easier to ask for things. (Or buy things for others.)

Yes, I am! And it's wonderful! (Even if I must accept that canonically, I am most likely dead in this universe. Oops!)

Exercises in Sound will be on break until after the holidays. Those last two episodes took more time to produce than the typical episode, and I've eaten up my buffer. I have some other deadlines demanding my attention, and honestly, I could use a little break anyway. But I'll be back in January!

Y'all, my band @ghosttour.bsky.social dropped our first full-EP that we recorded together in March of this year. I cannot understate how much it's meant to me to have a chance to do this kind of thing again. Would mean a lot if you listen! ghosttourrocks.bandcamp.com/album/feel-s...

Chili!

A nice little late dinner meze!

Version two of the meta-autobiographical version of the Exercises in Sound script. In the director's clip, you'll hear James express some self-consciousness about asking Felix to perform an irreverent version-but this one actually sounds most like how I heard it in my head while writing it.

Here's an interesting new study exploring whether LLMs are able to understand the narrative sequencing of comics and... even the best AI models are *terrible* at it for pretty much all tasks that were analyzed aclanthology.org/2025.finding...

I'm not joking when I say I would, in a heartbeat, follow an account that just posted Disco Elysium edits of news footage, current memes, and random media scenes.

In honor of his passing, I think it's vital that we take a moment to recall the glorious comedy of that time Dick Cheney accidentally shot his friend in the face, soon to be followed by said friend publicly apologizing for having been shot in the face by Dick Cheney.

In ep 7 of Two Thousand and Late, there's a moment where Harper (@laurenshippen.com) goes on a rant, where her feelings get muddled with those of her personal demon, Havoc (also Lauren Shippen), with not just the demon's syntax and vocabulary slipping through, but also just a touch of her accent...

So, did I just slip probably the most personal and confessional writing I've ever done into the middle of my weird sound design experiment? Yes, I did. This one is a long time coming. Special thanks to @felixtrench.com for bringing this to life! (Several times. More versions to come.)

friend shared this, immediately updated my settings

I'm reading about the difference between "impulsive" and "compulsive" behavior. I'm looking at clinical usage here, specifically because while I think there's a common understanding of compulsive behavior as a clinical concept, impulsive behavior is more often viewed as a personality flaw. #adhd

For anyone who is (or should be!) a Ghosts in the Burbs fan, @ghostsintheburbs.bsky.social is currently donating all proceeds from T-Shirt sales to @prisonbookprogram.bsky.social! She's raised $1400 so far, and I'm floored! PBP is the same org I volunteer with. They're good people doing good work.

If you use Spotify for your podcast listening, may I recommend Pocket Casts instead? It has an excellent desktop player that will sync to your phone, just like Spotify!

PSB is holding literal civics workshops now! Wouldn't it be nice if our primary education system did that?

A new cast member joins Exercises in Sound today! The wonderful @felixtrench.com, best known as Rudyard in Wooden Overcoats, steps into the role of Character A! We're starting light, just playing with a simple cast change, but we have bigger plans down the line. www.exercisesinsound.com/felix/

Right? It’s like the old Kevin Drum piece’s weird, afterlife coda.

It's Indigenous People's Day! Here's some places to donate 🧵 Partnerships with Native Americans provides aid intra-tribally, they cover a lot of groups and a lot of needs- secure.nativepartnership.org/site/Donatio...

Proud to see my local bookstore, where I spent several happy years working, supporting The Prison Books Program, where I currently volunteer a few nights each month! Buying the program books directly from their wish list is *very* helpful.

My sleep is so fucked right now. I haven't been able to get to sleep before 5/6 AM most nights, and get up at 7:15 to see J off to school before going back to bed. The one time I got to sleep by 2:00AM (which I'd be perfectly happy with on average), I also slept until 2:00PM, so that helped nothing.

Two recent episodes played with narration again, this time flipping the planes of reality--rather than Characters A and B being in the physical plane while the narrators provide voiceover, it's the other way around. The narrators are having real interactions, while the characters are abstracted.

In two recent versions of Exercises in Sound, I focused on ways of using music to create different types of tension. The music in both of these is drawn from the original composition by Katherine Seaton that you already hear every episode! So, let me tell you a little more about the music itself:

Ryan, I tell my students that story almost every semester. I told it literally just last week. 😂

We are ECSTATIC to have reached our initial kickstarter goal! TAFCON WILL BE HAPPENING NEXT YEAR! Right now our kickstarter is the only place to get tickets. Virtual tickets unlock when we hit our $15k stretch goal! www.kickstarter.com/projects/taf...

I am laughing at a comment I wrote in one of my scripts, in which I was calling myself out for having written a sound cue that just says "Rhode Island." But I apparently didn't consider just rewriting the sound cue?

It's always been... not exactly a goal of mine, but a "it would be cool if" sort of thing... to get Project We Love on Kickstarter. That happened today!

Quite a few names here whom I'm ordinarily quite excited to see in a cast, and it's so disappointing.

Guys I worked so hard on this. Have a listen

It's Bandcamp Friday! Great day to support any artists on @bandcamp.com

With Colombo consistently told from his quarry's perspective, and Colombo's just relentlessly present, *always there* every time they turn around, he's got some weirdly benevolent Jason Vorhees vibes.

I picked up the anthology of Coin-Op 1-6 at MICE a couple of years ago, and it is *gorgeous* work! www.kickstarter.com/projects/coi...

So I actually had no idea that Columbo was entirely TV movies! Put it on expecting long seasons of short episodes, and got the exact opposite! Still great fun, though!

I, on the other hand, will listen to the whole damn thing, including the parts where you just ramble about whatever, and will incorporate as much of your nonsense as possible into my project. But I'm using the 3rd take for your actual lines. I also blame @goditsmeentropy.bsky.social for this.

The real graphic design fail of the Cracker Barrel logo is that the logomark* needed detailing to indicate that it was still a barrel. Two lines at each end for hoops. A couple of longitudinal lines across the top and bottom suggesting the bilge/stave joints**. Then the wordmark* becomes a label.

How City Budgets Work Read more cartoons! #PoliCartoon Help us make more! patreon.com/barry

After 29 years together and 25 years of marriage, @librarybrandy.bsky.social and I decided to finally try a brandy Alexander cocktail. It was alright!

News! We can now offer ebooks through our website thanks to our friends at @bookshop.org Just search for a book. Any book will do, but let's just go with that one down there. In the "Available Formats" drop down, select "digital ebook (Bookshop . org)" & then hit the big old GET THE EBOOK button

My Ambie-nominated audio sci-fi thriller GIVE ME AWAY returns for its third season