My late uncle Chuck used to say he wanted to win the lottery, not to be stinking rich, but to be well off enough to turn in his resignation, tied around a brick, thrown through the front window.

My absolute favorite actual-play TTRPG podcast is starting a new season, and this time they're delving into their own brand of epic fantasy!

This feels like a winning strategy.

This seems very @blaseball.bsky.social -like. I'm curious what will come of it. "The Almighty Ice has appeared. I've enrolled for Hockay—one sport no one asked for but everyone needed. Don't get left off the roster. hockay.com "

Names that even @unexploredcast.bsky.social haven't used. Yet. My next character might have to be named Saratonin.

There is no McTry.

Struggling with the work/WW3 balance.

Maybe it's my GenX cold war upbringing talking, but I'm absolutely terrified that the Felon is about to drop a nuke on Iran just because he can. The only winning move is not to play at all.

At least one good thing happened. #tothemoon

I'm angry this morning. There are still trans influencers out there pushing transmedicalism. They're still saying nonbinary people aren't valid. They're still saying trans lesbians are just pretenders. I thought we'd gotten past that, but people I respect are still sharing their gatekeeping "tea".

I don't think I've ever been sunburned in March before.

thoughts on today: 1) the protests are good, actually 2) you should go to one of you can 3) it will do you good to see how many other people also hate this guy 4) you might meet people who you can organize with 5) there are more of us than there are of them 6) we are going to win

Random fact about me: I created a searchable web directory that got over a million hits a day before Google existed.

Minding my own business when my playlist comes up with "Solar Eclipse" by The Garages and I'm bawling. "i'm tired of wondering how i can manage if my life's just acceptable collateral damage don't want to be forgotten, don't want to forgive is it so bad that i just want to live?" How's your day?

1. Horrifying ruling out of the 4th Circuit. An all-Republican 4th Circuit panel has just ruled that states can compel trans adults to "appreciate their sex" by enacting care bans. It even directly says that trans adult care bans are legal in the ruling. Subscribe to support our journalism.

Andy "Brak" Merrill is in the Mar10 spirit today!

As is the tradition...

If you're at the airport and Kristi Noem is doing the ominous little message from the TSA screens, you no longer have to do anything she says. Leave your laptop in the case, whatever.

"Falsified documents" my ass! We had to jump through all the legal and bureaucratic hoops, we paid to have our day in court and were granted our IDs by Indiana judges, not to mention the Dept of Vital Records, the SSA, and the State Department. If he succeeds, no one's ID is safe.

“I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.”- Albert Einstein

I guess The Onion has given up on satire, since they can't top the bonkers headlines already out there. When Hegeth is out there telling troops that this is meant to kick start Armageddon and the Second Coming, The Onion just can't keep up.

"I can't tell you if the use of force in Iraq today would last five days, or five weeks, or five months, but it certainly isn't going to last any longer than that." - Donald Rumsfeld, Nov. 14, 2002.

1. Numerous transgender people in Kansas are reporting that the state has sent them a letter demanding the immediate surrender of drivers licenses. Those driving could be arrested, charged, and see privileges revoked. Subscribe to support our journalism. www.erininthemorning.com/p/kansas-sen...

I thought the Felon was upset about Democrats not attending? Good for Al Green for his silent but powerful protest.

You're not the boss of me now You're not the boss of me now You're not the boss of me now And you're not so big

Right there with you, Jedi Master!

Gotta make sure to catch Gwar covering Chappel Roan’s “Pink Pony Club,” too… youtu.be/I5XR48KLE8I?...

oh oh oh oh 🥹 cis friends this is the energy we need you to bring

This is exactly right. The Onion quietly left Twitter a month ago and... our weekly subscribers went up. It's because we're doing well here, on Instagram and on YouTube. As a business, being on Twitter is somewhere between useless or detrimental, unless you're selling boner pills.

These colors don't run.

The EU has just voted, by a VERY wide margin, for the full recognition of trans women as women…!

Aaaaaand fuck Hasbro.

AOC on DHS Warehouses: I think every American should be alarmed. They are building—and have built—a black box system that disappears people, both immigrants and U.S. citizens alike.

I'm hardly the first person to note this, but it's enormously instructive that our President and his followers saw the message "THE ONLY THING MORE POWERFUL THAN HATE IS LOVE" and understood it, correctly, as an attack on them

I'll take what I can get at this point.

Just took sanity damage by stumbling upon an ex-friend's increasingly TERFy and fascist account here on Bluesky. Blocked.

Government records reviewed by ProPublica identify the two federal immigration agents who fired on Minneapolis protester Alex Pretti as Border Patrol agent Jesus Ochoa and Customs and Border Protection officer Raymundo Gutierrez.

Trans-Continental: Cannon Belle Run – Chapter Ten – Moon Maiden Here's the next chapter in my new novel, Trans-Continental: Cannon Belle Run! This is the third book in the Trans-Continental series, which can be read independently of Girl in the Gears and Mississippi Queen if you’re curious. This…

I haven't seen any auroras yet tonight, but I did accidentally get this time lapse video of contrails zipping across the sky

Aurora photos in Indy! I didn't see it with my naked eye however. Still a first for me! Exciting!

BREAKING: The Supreme Court granted the Trump administration's request to enforce its discriminatory passport policy while our lawsuit makes its way through the courts. This decision undermines the freedom of transgender, non-binary, and intersex people to have our IDs reflect who we are.

Shared for my friend Katt, who is the heart of "From the Feywild", in support of her geeky, crafty business. www.indiegogo.com/en/projects/...

Glad to see those with big platforms and audiences continue to speak out.

The official slogan of the ‘No Kings’ protests is “I have friends everywhere” from Andor and I may just be a simple God but that is fucking badass.

Dancin' Danni! 😻

It's time once again for me to reread Roger Zelazny's _A Night in the Lonesome October!_ 🎃🗡️🐕🐈🧹🦇🐀🦉🐍🧛🕵️🧌🐺🐦‍⬛

The Toad Astrologer #drawtober #drawtober2025

Trans-Continental: Cannon Belle Run – Chapter Nine – Tin Man Here's the next chapter in my new novel, Trans-Continental: Cannon Belle Run! This is the third book in the Trans-Continental series, which can be read independently of Girl in the Gears and Mississippi Queen if you’re curious. This book…

The world is heavy and I am tired.

I got my first personalized AI-powered email scam today, asking to feature one of my books in a Meetup book club. It was from "Shannon Organizer", but included photos from the group in the signature and there actually was a Shannon with the same avatar listed as one of the group's admins. (more)