six months ago Reader’s Digest asked if they could purchase the publishing rights for this elaborate shitpost I wrote a year ago now wherein I pretended to be the elf equivalent of David Brooks at the North Pole. Thought it was maybe a phishing scam but it’s real LMAOO

It is driving me insane that we have the tools to retool our society to minimize carbon dioxide emissions, and haven't responded to this game changing news by forcing change as rapidly as possible. We can turn our entire society to making an atomic bomb, but not making energy too cheap to meter.

Driving sucks, cars suck, the more painful driving is the happier I will be, and fuck everyone in the way of mass transit. I want to get where I'm going in a reasonable amount of time while drinking a transit beer, damn it.

Underdiscussed point: how much responsibility Substack bears for Bari Weiss being in the position she is now in. Fuck substack

If you're a queer artist still on Twitter, try this: Tweet 10x a day for a week, restricted to only followers, that you are going to sell something for $1 to the first person who responds. Actually *see* how little reach twitter is giving you, how fake its metrics are.

cyberpunk dystopia is here, there's colored LEDs all over and I eat too much cup noodle they keep putting bigger pictures of the dictator's face on things but at least on the Nets we still talk freely sometimes your robot girlfriend is secretly a real person nothing's been right since the plague

Dragon custom, for Muldi

Gotta love how it really doesn't matter how successful you are, one bad work day and you're back to anxiety about if they're going to fire you for it.

Say the line, Ukrainian soldier

Nobody shall question your furniture choices until you declare that you are entirely moved in, this is the social contract.

Yeah reaction rolls, morale, and “combat as a fail state” axiom of OSR play encourages you to play wily heroes who outsmart or bargain with enemies. Ran an OSR game at a con, and they explored the dungeon by befriending every monster faction in it (except the ooze, which they could easily outrun).

The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5

Nick Scutari could not have miscalculated the fight with Andy Kim any worse than he did, my local resistlib FB groups (in and around his own district!) are now correctly blaming that man for a whole slate of baseline liberal legislation being held in committee

Imagine the track of a conversation. Imagine how it flows. How weird is it to distill that specifically into pass/fail, or tiers of DC success? It's weird and non-ideal, and I have written and successfully run a hospital drama in DnD.

This year's Yuke felt especially like a vibe reset. Times have been dark, times are dark, but the sun has returned once more. If we just wait long enough and endure together, face our challenges head on together, eventually we'll once again dance in the summer sun.

How I work our ticketing system.

inbox is where things come to hurt you. outbox is where you put things to hurt others.

Son, that's not "piracy" ... that's not even the entire Red Flag Fleet besieging the city of Macau... That's the hordes of Hulagu Khan sacking Baghdad.

I like that mistletoe increases the odds of being kissed. More plants should offer temporary environmental status. Brawling under lingonberries. The soft yearning of a love that dare not speak its name beneath the nightshade.

Bills win. Sabres win.

winter scene - 4-color pixel sketch #pixelart #ドット絵

they didn't need AI to make Silksong, it just needed some deeply insane guys to have a blank check for living expenses until their next thing was done, I think we should try doing more of that instead

ink and gouache on 18 x 24 cold-pressed cotton paper

23 Degrees is the Reason for the Season. Happy Solstice 2025!

My Oscar-qualifying sapphic short film, "AND THEN" is now available to watch! Set in Tokyo — a story of insomnia, longing, and two women who quietly fall into each other. AND THEN is a poetic exploration of connection when sleep won’t come and love arrives instead. www.youtube.com/watch?v=poVN...

It was a revelation when I realized that calling my insurance and going, "What form did my doctor forget to send?" was like the password to get the insurance rep to explain EXACTLY how to fix the denial.

Good Yule, friends! Take heart! The days are getting longer! Warmer days are coming! music.youtube.com/watch?v=xUNq...

Grand Island, which NY acquired from the Senecas in a transaction in 1815 that violated the federal Trade and Intercourse Act, was the 1st land claim case I worked on back in 1999. This is good news but NY is still built on stolen land. Much still to do. www.wivb.com/news/local-n...

Maintaining friendships is hard when all I want to do is stay home. But I'm trying. I hope it's working.

Hey #HEMA, if your shoe comes out during a spar, does that count as a disarm? Asking for a friend (that friend is me, that happened today).

Now I really want to know what a gold medal Olympic MARITAL heavyweight is. How strong is THAT relationship? Is it Gomez and Morticia?

I fought a heavyweight ONCE. I probably cracked two ribs (I was too dumb to have them checked), and never did it again. There's no shame in that! But it would hurt the Zuck/Musk strain of nerd CEO to admit they can't, so therefore they should be forced to make that admission.

I feel like "academic hiring" discourse is always kind of downstream of the fact that in the 50s we started building a giant public system to make a college education almost universally available and in the 80s and 90s we started taking it apart to go back to the only-the-rich model

GOOD NEWS! Researchers have developed a heteromultivalent nanogel capable of killing some of the MOST dangerous bacteria known to medicine- with OVER 99.9% effectiveness against P. aeruginosa. It also showed STRONG antibacterial effects against other major threats, including E. coli and MRSA.

Pure poetry

wow, seeing Jake Paul get beaten half to death, true terror in his eyes, really improved my whole outlook on life

Normally, I really don't like watching heavyweight fights. It seems to run down to who manages to get a concussion first, and I don't find a lot of entertainment value in watching people destroy each other for money. This? This is an exercise in humiliating an asshole, and I love it.

there's gotta be some lottery winner or crypto guy out there who's burned more than this and gotten less out of it. what are you waiting for? spend some money on something someone will remember in two years.

i need to team up with a pixel artist and a video game publisher that really wants to make money

"When people try to sell you on a future that is already settled, it's because it's deeply unsettled." This is a good clip.

I love my two blackout drunk Minnesota sons

every great poet needs a flavor flav in the background going "yeaaaahh"

we used to paint things with uranium

technically as the EU loan to Ukraine has happened on Hanukkah Ukraine is now the recipient of the single largest gift of Hanukkah gelt ever given

this is the government literally telling you that you don't have the right to choose your own fucking underwear

Hello Thriends! I hate asking for things On Here, but here goes. With the ICE raids and spike in immigration based evictions in Illinois, the simple truth is that I can't keep up with the demand for my services. There are way more people who need a name-your-own-price lawyer than there are Sheryls.

It's astonishing that somehow we have whole swathes of the political class that have not managed to connect "everything seems like a scam now" to a useful political platform.

Recommended reading for any anarchist. The biggest blind spot folks run into in a flat power structure, and why Valve has problems making games anymore.