Scott Adams is the Dave Sim of Jim Davises.

This man's media team is a bunch of goddamned geniuses, someone scouted for locations and figured out they could set up this very shot. Look at it, it's incredible. Look up pics of Adams being sworn in at the ball drop, which look chaotic, cheap, and undignified in comparison.

Oh my goodness, this Wall Street Journal piece about Trump's ailing health that includes an interview with him (gift link). There are a number of ridiculous details in it and I'll put a few of them in this thread. (1/6)

In late Jan @tkingfisher.com's Nine Goblins arrives as a cute little hardback: "From the bestselling author of Hemlock and Silver comes a thoroughly charming cosy fantasy novella about a troop of goblins lost behind enemy lines and their sergeant's determination to get them home safely." 🪐📚💙 🧵

We never talk about the fact that the Devil went down to Georgia and, in fact, kicked Johnny's ass.

Celebrated the arrival of 2026 by watching Death on the Nile. Halfway through, the pets lost their minds and began trying to tear apart the console table. Kevin got down flat with a flashlight and scared the hell out of a mouse, who evaded four cats and one dog and took off running.

It’s weird being in Mountain Time now and seeing half my friends celebrate the new year and then fuck off to bed because most of my friends are also old.

My first introduction to the Hero’s Journey was in the Zork Chronicles tie-in novel by George Alec Effinger. It was not until many years later that a book about members of the Supernatural and Fantastic Wayfarers Association vying for the Campbell award clicked.

Just a reminder, my next novel, Radiant Star, is available for pre-order wherever fine books are, uh, pre-ordered!

ME: I’m awake early! Gonna get so much writing done! WEBSITE: *explodes* DOG: *tries to manually remove mole on her foot with her teeth* ME: …or, y’know, maybe we’ll call 2025 a wash.

Have you picked up a copy of WHAT STALKS THE DEEP by @tkingfisher.com yet? 🕸️🍃 The next novella in the New York Times bestselling Sworn Soldier series, featuring Alex Easton investigating the dark depths of a coal mine in America. https://tinyurl.com/uk78deyt

Got home and slept off the endorphin crash (four hours in the chair is a Lot, actually). Then read one of my Christmas books in one gulp (The Snake Eater, by @tkingfisher.com, excellent as always) thinking about how being at home in a body with this much ink is different, but somehow still home.

If you're in the UK (or nearby), Forbidden Planet is also doing some nice discounts for preordering Side Quested Book1!!

Open up this picture fully. Then look at the surface of Mars. Then look up to the top right. Spot Mars' moon Phobos high in the sky. Then notice the bright spot beside Phobos. That's Earth.

I described something as “waist-high” and they yelled at me that the metric system exists and I was just scared of France. Okay, my dude, it’s waist-high but in metric.

Since I have been reminded of it, allow me to share one of my very favorite threads of the past year:

Metal detectorists/mudlarkers in North America: "Look, three pennies and a belt buckle! Best day on the beach ever!" Metal detectorists/mudlarkers in Great Britain: "Remember to report all the dead bodies and live WWII-era ordnance you find. They have a form at the office."

"Norman Rockwell was antifa," his granddaughter says. (Fact check: literally true.) www.thebulwark.com/p/norman-roc...

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

If you buy a hot snake on a whim, you deserve what’s going to happen to you, but the snake really doesn’t.

I seem to be a Medjay detective.

You know what's good? Books.

The tour manager for Slayer stopped to ask what bird I was looking at.

But tell me again why we need to support him?

And this is why social media, for all its horrors, is still amazing.

So they never buy new suits. And, dear reader, when I say never - They show up to court in the suits they bought for their wedding. In 1978. Wearing them, I must admit, amazingly well, with flair and panache, and without self-consciousness. I want to be like that when I grow up.

If you see someone in downtown Honolulu in a suit, it's very probably a lawyer. And even we only wear suits for court. Also, there are a couple of solo-practice lawyers in town who are mostly transactional, and only do court once or twice a year, if that. So their suits almost never wear out.

Just watched the new Knives Out and I think it's really important you know that the scene in the Seminary's Gym is filmed in the same place Rick Astley filmed the music video for Never Gonna Give You Up. I saw the window tracery and immediately made my friends pause the film so I could tell them.

If the venue bathroom looks like this you’re going to die in the pit

This is how I have felt every year since 2016. @tkingfisher.com put it best.

I still want to raise funds for Palestine Children's Relief Fund, so I've reduced the prices on these pieces because something is better than nothing! 100% of proceeds from these pieces goes straight to PCRF. ✨💖 I've got 3 birds left! shop.lioninthetrees.com/collections/... #art #pottery

@tkingfisher.com Otter Run Kennel is doing a fundraiser because their snow mobile blew up - and their shirts are straight out of _The Raven and the Reindeer_. Any chance you could give them a boost? 😆 More people should have otters in sled harness shirts, after all.

extending lab leak to the spanish flu is fucking wild, tbh

I got word that an original painting that @spottacus.org commissioned me to create is now on auction via Goodwill. Auction ends in just a little over 1 day and is currently at just $30 so if you want an original painting of mine for an absolute steal, here's the link shopgoodwill.com/item/251172556

*full body cringe* Ok, I take it back, there IS a worse scenario than having AI write your novel.

Starting the day in the least enjoyable way possible—finding an emergency vet! Sergei is either constipated as hell, has an intestinal blockage, or reliving a VERY SPECIFIC part of his past life as a soldier at Stalingrad. Intestinal blockage seems likeliest because that’s the most expensive.

In these dark days, three things give me hope: 1) Dogs exist. 2) So does general anesthestic. 3) If you can’t stop hiccuping, there’s a nerve in your chest they can cut.

Going to the local game store and playing Magic?

BREAKING NEWS: Gestapo Sad

“Then they shouldn’t have voted for this!” Bitch, Asheville is a blue college town and the county has gone blue for decades. I am so sick of this “if I pretend disasters only happen to red areas, it means I’m safe because I’m properly on the left!” No. You’re not safe. That’s why we save everybody.

We joke about this being a weird week but it’s a weird fucking week. You’re going to want to rest and be frightened of resting. You’re going to think you want to work. Focus will Be a ghost. Eat some cheese, drink some water, keep a Notebook nearby, let yourself drift.

There are some great suggestions here, but I feel like Elrond deserved at least one F-bomb somewhere. “Men. Men are fucking weak.”

"Did you see what Mark Cuban posted? Oh did you see the clapb—" You shake yourself awake in the cold North Atlantic water. You are not online. It is July of 1858. You are a baleen whale, and you have changed your mind. The future most not come to pass. The telegraph cable must break.

The audiobook of "Swordheart" by @tkingfisher.com is on sale at Chirp for $3.99 today. It works as a standalone even tho the series (Hugo finalist World of the White Rat) technically starts with Clockwork Boys. Daggerbound (Swordheart #2) comes out next August! www.chirpbooks.com/audiobooks/s...

This book is simply elegant.

Been hyperfixating on the Paladin series and honestly anything romantasy by @tkingfisher.com right now. Had to doodle them all out to feel something. Then had to work myself up enough to post #tkingfisher #fantasyromance #fanart

I’ve met a fair number of dudes at dog parks who are like “yes, my dog is one-eighth mighty Alaskan gray wolf” and I’ve nodded politely at what is very clearly a Labradoodle.

☕️📖 Nothing like spending a cozy morning curled up under a blanket with a cup of tea and a book on my lap to keep me company while I endlessly scroll my phone

I went to the Utilikilt store and the clerk looked at my legs and said “Can I make a suggestion? Get some sun.” …the store was in Seattle.