My nine year old asked for a Rosetta Stone cake for his birthday

The writers on this season are awfully heavy handed.

Strongly considering getting two of these cards and then begging Erica Henderson and Derek Charm to let me commission them to alter it into their respective styles scryfall.com/card/msh/371...

Participated in a tiny game jam over the long weekend. The theme was Connection. I wish I could have worked on it more, but I'm pretty happy with what I learned and put together in such a short time! bladebarringer.itch.io/doodle-dot

Since the announcement of our union, Wizards of the Coast and Hasbro have hired Fisher Phillips (a union avoidance firm), and chosen to engage in a daily union-avoidance campaign by sending emails to the Arena team that is spreading misinformation and sowing fear among our colleagues. #uwotc-cwa

Parenting coaches: take my Lowering Demands to Peacefully Parent Your Deeply Feeling Spicy One Me: welcome to Clown Parenting

Hell yeah, if you need me, I’ll be standing outside the hasbro offices with a boombox blasting the @themountaingoats.bsky.social rendition of Solidarity Forever

@alyssakaye.bsky.social !!

I worked at Bandcamp (at the time, owned by Epic Games) and it had the best health insurance I will ever have in my life. Every Dr’s office did a double take whenever they saw it - several asked if I was a CEO.

My kid and I are on our 3rd read through of the @ryannorth.ca / @ericafails.bsky.social run of the Unbeatable Squirrel Girl. And I suspect when we conclude it, we’ll immediately pick up the @shannonhale.bsky.social novels for a re-read.

I can’t remember which newsletter it was in but my whole family are now simultaneously playing this stupid thing and it’s simple and joyous! 100jumps.org/play/

absolutely losing it at my local mexican market using the Rent font for their Lent mailer

These clocks can't stop me because they can't read!

Evergreen post

Picked this up on this recommendation and finally finished it. My first visual novel - there were several scenes throughout the game that really got me in the feels in ways that were completely unexpected. Bravo @kinmoku.bsky.social

When everyone talked about quitting tech and becoming farmers that was not what we meant

The guy who took this video is 17. The kids are all right. Be like them. Down with ice thugs. Hands off our kids.

My CSS Colors picture by @potch.me finally arrived!

Fort Christmas XV, constructed by @bladebarringer.com and the kids. It’s the first time I’ve been hands off with the annual blanket fort. My stupid little back injury wouldn’t really let me bend in the way I’d have needed to bend to execute the kids’ design.

@alyssakaye.bsky.social any recs?

@whereistanya.bsky.social just finished the Staff Engineer’s Path and thought it was very insightful, thanks for writing it!

@sarahgraley.com my daughter was playing library and drew one of the computers to search the catalog and chose Glitch as the book she was searching for

7yr old: “guess what’s in this?” (Pointing at heart shaped locket) Me: “I don’t know!” 7yr old: pulls out a Lego eye tile Me: “yeah, that tracks”

The sleep headphones I have had for a while stopped working. Anyone got a brand that they love?

Attention @deathbear.bsky.social !!

I offered to write “Happy 7th Birthday” in the speech balloon, but my daughter said that didn’t make sense. She had a very specific vision, which was for me to render this Squirrel Girl panel in buttercream so she could eat Hippo the Hippo’s face. @ryannorth.ca @ericafails.bsky.social

i can deal with trials, and i can deal with tribulations, but don't you dare give me both at the same time

@breebird33.bsky.social my family has read Garlic and the Vampire several times this week. One kid spent several weeks worth of allowance to buy a Lego vampire minifigure inspired by the book. Thank you for writing it!

Alert @alyssakaye.bsky.social @josiahduke.bsky.social @mclengthyname.bsky.social

Come to find out what leads autistics into and out of fundamentalism, stay to hear Jon’s truly unhinged method of gathering data from ancient language teachers.

If you are a Wheaton alum, here is a letter urging the college administration not to endorse Vought or Project 2025. You can sign via the link at the top of the doc. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

I'm about to start sending emails to podcasts and youtube channels that I think would be interested in talking with me about my autism and Christianity research, if you have any channels that you think I should email, let me know.

@runwithskizzers.bsky.social my neurodivergent kids and I appreciated this panel a lot - also, they squealed with delight whenever Nancy showed up, thank you for taking care of our girl Doreen, we’ve been enjoying the books

Throughout the year, I keep track of my favorite songs I first heard that year, and then compile my top ones into a playlist. It doesn't matter if the songs came out that year, just that I first heard them in that year. This year, I made a website to go with it. Check it out!

This is cool! www.svgbackgrounds.com/set/free-svg...

@ryannorth.ca my kid was so impressed with your courtroom comic in Squirrel Girl that they built a Courtney Alaska minifig and saved up their money to buy the She-Hulk minifig to go with the SG minifig they got for Christmas.

My family did a Lego challenge where they built a family member, and they all built me!

We have (accidentally) convinced our kids that Fort Christmas is a widely known Christmas Eve tradition, instead of just a thing we started doing when we first got married. What is to stop you (yes you!) from building a fort out of whatever’s around?

I’m not over how fun and weird it is that Greg and Wirt’s guide through The Unknown is named Beatrice. I mean, of course she is, but she’s a CONFLICTED Beatrice with an AGENDA. Like if Dante’s Beatrice intended to guide him into Inferno instead of into Paradiso.

At the time I write this, it would still be a couple of months before our kid and I were referred for autism/adhd assessments, and it somehow did not occur to me at the time to mention hugs-by-appointment to the assessors.

The only ways to succeed as a human in a muppet movie is the Michael Caine way, where you behave as if everyone else is also a Shakespearean trained actor, or the Tim Curry way, where you behave as if you’re also a muppet 100% of the time.

Late 80’s for me, but I feel compelled to mention the two Muppets movies we watch every year. A Muppets Christmas Carol and Muppets Family Christmas (we can only watch the latter bootlegged on YouTube, it has so many songs in it, that they never secured the rights to distribute it anywhere but TV)

My sleepy eyes self read “quitters” as “quilters” and was trying to figure out what beef John has with the fabric arts.

I love that this setting is off by default. Wish more apps would do this!

Had to read this twice. At first thought this show was about someone turning the viewers into anthropomorphic birds, and honestly, into that. I’m sure the actual show is cool too.