I can't really celebrate my birthday on the day this year because I have a huge deadline at the end of the week, but coming back to this to read as been very nice, thank you <3

Is there a good descriptor for the type of story—which I mostly encounter in chamber horror and time loop thrillers—where the protagonists interfacing with and attempting to circumvent The Rules is the focus of the story? I'm thinking especially of Talk to Me, It's What's Inside, Russian Doll, etc.

Today is my birthday! I'm going to port in my old Twitter birthday tradition of asking people to reply with a good memory of time we've spent together, something they liked about something I've made, or something they hope we get to do together one day <3

hit me

I hope the Baileys corporealize like a pair of tulpas and devour him

Countless people lose healthcare vs my 300th flight this year doesn't leave on time

Delayed air travel is probably the only element of the government shutdown that actually inconvenienced dems in Congress, unsurprising that they folded basically immediately

Party realignment in our times

people need to start viewing politicians the way they currently view retail and food service workers

It really does seem like there's a decent chance that these senators screwed us because they don't want their personal Thanksgiving plans to be disrupted.

Coworking on Discord with friends outside of the US is always a fun little cultural exchange, where I get to learn what a kookaburra or different species of magpies sound like, and they get to learn how to differentiate a car backfiring from a gunshot

Permanent extension or bust

Don't forget you can fax them as well for free faxzero.com/fax_senate.php

Okay, Ezra is confirming that he's hearing D senators are actually plotting to cave to Trump and end the shutdown WITHOUT any extension of the ACA, just a promise of a vote later down the line. Call your senators, friends, NOW, and tell them NO DEAL without ACA funding! Find them here: reps.fyi

I know quite a few comrades on the ACA exchange. I used to be on the exchange for years. A doubling or tripling of premium costs will be a death sentence for people who NEED HEALTH INSURANCE to survive. PERIOD. We've heard Democrats say as much for WEEKS. So what the hell??????

So, listen, call Schumer’s office no matter where you live, no matter if you’re registered to vote. Leave a voicemail that says if Senate Dems cave without an ACA premiums fix, you will never vote for or donate to another Senate Democrat as long as he is Leader

Drinking beverages with a straw

Loving today's news that the mysterious "fedora man" outside the Louvre heist was actually a 15-year-old museum visitor who dresses like a 1940s French detective all the time, just because. apnews.com/article/louv...

New ep Ryan sits down with Clayton Notestine of @explorersdesign.bsky.social to follow up his recent article on How to Promote Your Work with our take on Self-Promotion, including the Do's and Don'ts of reaching out to bloggers and podcasters.

Begging small press indie RPG people to understand you're not in the games industry you're in the publishing industry. You *need* to understand how licensing works if you're going to be hiring artists.

I genuinely wish this would be an option for more kickstarters. I just keep lending my game copies out to my students and sometimes they never come back. It makes it much easier for me to use your game in my classes if I can purchase a lot of them.

First mushroom foraging day of the season! Couldn’t believe it when my friend B. handed over the perfect king bolete and chanterelle cluster they found to me with a cheerful “Happy birthday!,” she is a gem

Make them illegal within 25 feet of any door

you know that thing when you want to open up the seam of a pillow so you can casually shove your entire head in there and scream (i’m doing layout)

if you believe fully autonomous robot butlers are just over the horizon you are actually one of the dumbest motherfuckers alive and we should take your money from you so we can put it towards something worthwhile

It's out! The game I've been working on! If you'd like a grounded but optimistic city-builder with gorgeous art, amazing music, and curiosity-provoking story alongside sustainable core loops, check it out!

what are we DOING here lmfaoooo like physiognomy?? this paper is telling job recruiters to resort to physiognomy??? the racist, eugenicist quack science that was debunked in the 19TH CENTURY????

If the sub didn't split, you must acquit: defector.com/if-the-sub-d...

So many artists, writers, and designers I know have learned this lesson the tedious way, so let me co-sign this and say not only is it a huge waste of time and labor to listen to the "I'd buy that" crowd online, you will also lose money. Make what *you* want to make, everything else is noise

GOOD, gtfo and take your insider trading with you

I was so sleepy and gonna go to bed but then I started reading Memorial (by Alice Oswald) again

"Hope is not blind optimism or uncritical belief in a political savior. Hope, to me, means the ability to imagine a better world is possible and then work to build it brick by brick. It is, as @prisonculture.bsky.social says, not an emotion but a discipline—one we must practice every single day."

supermoon in scorpio, if any sign of the zodiac can get this done it's us

imagine if it happened this week after everything else we've been blessed with

We’re stoked to bring this project back and cant wait to share it with y’all 🍃 #ttrpg #ttrpgs #thequietyear #CapCut

If someone could convince him the election results were JD Vance’s fault I don’t think it would help anything materially but it would be funny

As a child of the south, where the GOP has been engaging in egregious gerrymandering for fucking ever, now transplanted to California - I frankly think it's past time blue states gerrymandered the fuck out of themselves to maximize blue house seats

My PCP: – so for treatment, I think we should try those things, and I'd also recommend – Me (internally): A neurologist? Are you finally going to give me another referral to a neurologist? A brain doctor for the chronic illness I have that primarily affects my brain?? Neuro pls???? PCP: –Tylenol,

I'm joining Ryan over on The Weekly Scroll to talk about the dos and don'ts of self-promotion and marketing. Leave us some questions in the comments! And join us this Friday at 1 pm EST or 10 am PST.

me thinning out my seedlings: i'm sorry little guys, you're doing so good but you're just too close to your neighbor, i'm sorry i'm killing you mannn what a bummer sorry (1 hour later) aww yeah time to eat you

wake up call

The thing Mamdani is doing that eludes the Dem leadership: - Acknowledge the plurarity of people - Their needs matter - You'll try to help As opposed to demanding obedience, silence and to never ask for anything.

It would be incredible if Mamdani’s biggest contribution to affordability in New York is prompting one million rich assholes to leave the city.

I hope everyone on Mamdani’s campaign team gets this printed on commemorative t-shirts

What a speech, god damn

this sounds made up but i checked my phone in a parking lot in chattanooga and shouted "HE WON!!!" and several women screamed like their bff just got engaged. just a little anecdote for when they start telling us candidates like mamdani could never win anywhere else

Mamdani: "New York will remain a city of immigrants, a city built by immigrants, powered by immigrants, and as of tonight, led by an immigrant."

🔥 ZOHRAN: “My friends, we have toppled a political dynasty. I wish Andrew Cuomo all the best in private life, but let tonight be the final time I utter his name — as we turn the page on a politics that abandons the many and answers only to the few.”

If you’re wondering what the future of the Democratic Party looks like, watch the young, brown democratic socialist on the TV right now.

BREAKING: every Republican has died