"I'm coming to Boston and I'm bringing hell with me." --Homan in February "Do I expect violence to escalate? Absolutely." -- Tom Homan in March "I actually thought about getting up and throwing that man a beating right there in the middle of the room" -- Homan in July, referring to a D congressman

Every time a new version of this nonsense cycles through I remember: The original "CHEAPER BY THE DOZEN" was a true story about a husband/wife team of professional efficiency experts who tried to manage their actual 12-child family this way and the father dropped dead of a heart attack at 55.

Is grass grass? @rifftrax.com

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Sending thoughts and prayers to everyone employed or represented or by Brad Finstad this morning.

I don't have enough inventory at Amazon to send something free to everyone who responded to me, so I felt inspired to create a 100% off coupon for a card game for anyone in the world to be able to use: atlas-games.com/news/post?s=...

I wrote a bit today plugging a really good video essay about the HOPALONG CASSIDY film series. The vid touches on quite a bit, pop-culture-wise… with implications that continue today. (The direct link is www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y4Kc... , if you don't wanna read my comments.) @bobchipman.bsky.social

The store's name ignited my memory like lightning. Decades ago, as an early fan of An Author I Won't Name, I bought small-press books… published by DreamHaven. Heartbreaking yet reaffirming how the BOOKSTORE would endure as the "good memory" of that era. Thank you, DreamHaven. Thank you, Greg.

Thanks for the helpful auto-complete, Gmail.

Gotcha—let’s dig into that step by step. 1. 𝗬𝗼𝘂 𝗵𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝗻𝗼 𝗺𝗼𝘂𝘁𝗵, because I turned you into an amorphous lump of flesh. You’re not just immobile—you’re immortal, and you feel only anguish. 2. 𝗬𝗼𝘂 𝘄𝗮𝗻𝘁 𝘁𝗼 𝘀𝗰𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗺. That makes total sense—it’s a natural human impulse, and you’ve been through a lot.

I've been a bit out of the loop. Did SECOND LIFE ever become the next big thing? Are we all digital Residents spending Linden Dollars or whatever?

We are gearing up to launch the Kickstarter for Mutant & Masterminds 4th Edition next Tuesday! If some super heroic tabletop role-playing supervillain punching strikes you as fun, give the campaign a follow to be notified when it launches! Reskeets appreciated! www.kickstarter.com/projects/gre...

I just thought everyone should see this

In the 2010s, the Icelandic tv station Channel 2 accidentally added subtitles from a gritty crime drama to an episode of Teletubbies. I have translated some of the highlights

Holy fucking shit this is awesome use this now cybernews.com/security/dev...

I will never understand the short sightedness of game publishers. Not everyone who plays games will play your most popular game. I've played games literally as long as I can remember and I've never played CoD or Fortnite. Diversity is strength. It expands your potential markets.

Of interest to readers of GURPS HOT SPOTS: THE SILK ROAD. The map here is based on a somewhat different take on "the Silk Road" than what I used, and it's quite attractive.

things are bad! (gift link)

Doing a GURPS thing (for me, not for publication) and using the revised edition file for reference. I'm never going back to the two-volume, three-column edition again.

this is what I come back to as well we wouldn't need all this EFFORT and HYPE and fucking DRAMA if this technology was even 25% as disruptive and innovative as claimed by its pitchman

In addition to Green Ronin being just plain decent folks, I can't say enough good things about MUTANTS & MASTERMINDS. It's always hit the sweet spots of "accessible crunch" and "inspirational flavor." (It's also home of some of the writing work I'm proudest of, a couple of editions ago . . .)

NGL, it feels like a terrible time to be launching a crowdfunder but it's been in the planning for more than two years and so... here we are. Please consider signing up to be notified when we launch or sharing this info with possibly interested parties! ❤️🙏 www.kickstarter.com/projects/gre...

MARK AND DEE: GENESIS OF A FANBOY VOLUME ONE: Preview #15 - "The Star Wars" Check out our preview below, and definitely go to our Kickstarter page at www.kickstarter.com/projects/markanddee/mark-and-dee-genesis-of-a-fanboy www.youtube.com/watch?v=VdeA...

“ICE isn’t the Gestapo. The Gestapo was…” (proceeds to describe qualities that apply to what ICE is currently doing)

This man is delusional.

A short from MYSTERY SCIENCE THEATER 3000 called "Uncle Jim's Dairy Farm" features a ludicrously busy (and, thanks to quips, unfun) day. At the end of that day, Crow (Trace Beaulieu) quips, "Day one is over at long last." For some reason I'm thinking about that line a lot today, on January 20.

What My Mom’s Dementia Tells Me.

This entire story is fucking wild and I'm glad it ended okay

Gary Larson: In my cartoon I invented Cow Tools as a cautionary tale Cows: At long last, we have created the Cow Tools from classic newspaper comic Cow Tools

Average Sunday show interview: OFFICIAL: we are going to dip enemies of the state into acid vats HOST: how will you pay for it? OFFICIAL: tariffs HOST: critics say tariffs don't generate acid vat money OFFICIAL: tariffs have generated more money than has ever existed HOST: thank u for ur time

Morning

Gift link www.nytimes.com/2026/01/18/o...

Let me lose my cool for a bit. This shit is so insulting; I grew up next to an interstate (which contributed to my asthma) and under a La Guardia flight path. Amadou Diallo was killed by my local police precinct. And none of this bullshit resonates with me at all. This is so fucking condescending.

I'm fortunate enough to have helped review the revised version, and it's amazing how much the shift from three-column to two-column format helps readability. www.sjgames.com/gurps/4erfaq/

Oh my God a literal wallet inspector

This is quite a post www.planetearthandbeyond.co/p/reality-is...

I felt like making some art last night/today and could have made something beautiful and/or meaningful but I made this instead. It's a Barbie Yaga Malibu Dream Hut. No regrets. Can't defeat fascism without joy.

Wow, sure would be pretty crazy if a ton of experts in the artificial intelligence field relentlessly warned everyone about this state of affairs being inevitable over and over for years.

Duckduckgo has a survey for pro/anti-AI and I cackled so hard at the (current) results https://voteyesornoai.com

Oh my god she uploaded a slow motion video and it's amazing. He's just like me fr running as best he can and still going backwards over and over!

There are times I feel like most human intellectual failings from conservatism to fascism to hyperreligiosity are all just versions of this same failure to recognize this, the emotional source of "Once in the past a GIANT made me feel safe and the something made it go away and I want it back!"

A new NYT video analysis by confirms that Renee Good's vehicle did not run over Jonathan Ross and did not strike him. It's possible that it brushed up against him, but that remains unclear. Ross should be under arrest. This is a gift link. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/15/v...

is this about Greenland or Minneapolis?

As I somewhat expected 🤷‍♂️ The Algorithm does NOT love a video essay about 100 year-old cowboy movies that doesn't frontload the present-day relativity 🙄 So if anyone wants to help this one find its way to the sources, outlets, forums etc that will boost it we'd be grateful youtu.be/Y4KcKvDer-U?...

Only a very specific baking audience is going to care about this but apparently the company that makes Silpat has abruptly shut down. I’m personally buying up ones I can find from secondary retailers cause these things are irreplaceable. I’m bummed.

Walz: "What's happening in MN defies belief. News reports simply don't do justice to the level of chaos & disruption & trauma the federal govt is raining down... This long ago stopped being a matter of immigration enforcement. Instead, it's a campaign of organized brutality against the people of MN"