Very in favor of this journalistic hostility, more headlines like this please

Even rationally knowing it's just a pH reaction, it's still somewhat alarming to add some ingredients to breakfast congee with purple cauliflower only to watch it turn bright blue. What witch's potion have I accidentally brewed? Idk but I'm gonna eat it

Giving an incidental character the worst haircut in human history as a form of metanarrative retribution

Your periodic reminder that there is a website that lets you listen to local radio stations anywhere in the world This is honestly one of the coolest inventions ever, imo. Global access to hyper-local imagined communities

I cannot stress enough how these are PTA moms and soccer coach dads and I can best describe the vibe as “festively bloodthirsty”

Walking thru the “Ultra Normie” No Kings rally in my extremely rural, white town and there are Patagonia wearing moms carrying signs that say “DEAD PEDOPHILES DONT REOFFEND” and “ICE GETS THE WALL” and I hi fived an old guy with a sign that said MY DADDY FOUGHT NAZIS AND SO WILL I” this is wild

Discworld QOTD, from Feet of Clay

If you haven’t read The West Passage yet I can’t recommend it enough, it’s shaping up to be one of my favorite books I’ve read this year!

How I feel reading 99% of art and media critique these days

Someone was trying to take a portrait of their two fave Chickens, and this happened.

progress report on this illustration

Super excited to share today's HOTBLOOD dev post: the Stats, Core Moves, and a collective table mechanic called the Veil that I wrote over the last month. Seed members and up get access to the post and the Google Drive link with all the development docs to date! www.patreon.com/posts/hotblo...

progress report on this illustration

The annual Trails Day ride aims to promote the Bay Skyway project for improved bike and pedestrian access to San Francisco.

We’re creating something even more dangerous to the country: A masked monster of a law enforcement agency, one uniquely unsuited for its new power, authority, reach, and funding levels.

Super excited to share today's HOTBLOOD dev post: the Stats, Core Moves, and a collective table mechanic called the Veil that I wrote over the last month. Seed members and up get access to the post and the Google Drive link with all the development docs to date! www.patreon.com/posts/hotblo...

Hard to say anything meaningful when you’re constantly thinking of ways to Matrix-dodge the engagement of the least curious and most annoying people alive.

Actually definitely have to sit with this because I read a great point in an essay and went, “Yes, but phrasing it like this opens you up to bad-faith interpretations from internet randos—“ and THERE’S the slimy beating heart of my issues with Online.

The flowers are starting to come in and I've never gotten nasturtiums these colors before, I can't get over how eye-poppingly vibrant they are. There's no filter or color grading on these photos, this is just what they look like!

chugging along on this one

chugging along on this one

From the cutting room floor: deleted Chapter One from an earlier draft of HOTBLOOD! It's no longer part of the current manuscript, but I'm fond of it and wanted to share this early glimpse of the central character with patrons as a behind-the-scenes extra. www.patreon.com/posts/153533...

Wait do other people not daydream about going to law school for fun?

I talk a lot about the dangers of still ignoring Covid and why it pisses me off, but something else that got swept under the rug is how abjectly unprepared the government was, and because there were no consequences to the ruling class for that, we’re even less prepared for the next pandemic.

Wow you don't say

From the cutting room floor: deleted Chapter One from an earlier draft of HOTBLOOD! It's no longer part of the current manuscript, but I'm fond of it and wanted to share this early glimpse of the central character with patrons as a behind-the-scenes extra. www.patreon.com/posts/153533...

those who glared like devils in the forking flames, the morn will show in far other, at least gentler, relief

I know we live in a technofeudal purgatory today but idk if I'll ever be fully cynical about the internet. I just got a text from a gardener in the UK to confirm a seed trade, I'm gonna grow woad and madder and she's never had kkaennip so I'm sending her three different kinds, like that rules

Looking up references for late medieval depictions of regional fauna and found my new best friend in the corner of an illuminated manuscript

No one has a bigger grindset mindset than an adventurer with a downtime turn.

This is the stuff internet is for: One man's quest to assemble every in-store Gap playlist gapplaylists.blogspot.com/2021/04/seek...

late night layout on an illustration for a future HOTBLOOD post coming up this month

That’s what I tell my students. My brain will be fine. I studied, got my PhD, got tenure. They are the ones whose brains will be at a disadvantage because they chose not to develop them.

late night layout on an illustration for a future HOTBLOOD post coming up this month

Going straight from one great show about New Jersey to another one has got me thinking things like "maybe I should visit New Jersey," the power of storytelling

Okay lol well I am going to be useless this week, if I get anything done act like I just punched god in the face bc that’s about on par

woke up from a dream where i invented a new ice cream flavor craving ice cream, then remembered i have ice cream in my freezer and there's no one here to stop me from having ice cream for breakfast on a heat record breaking day

Looking to commission a few voiced lines for a short Blue Hollow trailer! I seek VAs PRIMARILY who can do an Appalachian accent, but other needed flavors are listed here too! I'll talk respectful rates with my shortlist. Drop your info below to be considered! :)

Seven-Part Pact, my fantastical and ornate TTRPG about the seven most powerful wizards in a fantasy world, is coming this summer to kickstarter!! www.kickstarter.com/projects/sjg...

SCOOP: One of the nation's top "justice facility" architecture firms will no longer work on ICE detention centers or deportation facilities after its employees staged a revolt. “I think what ICE is doing is the worst thing America has probably done since the internment camps during World War II.”

oakland is probably going crazy right now

Brutus: *stabbing Caesar* Caesar: Haha this is so us

Taken further, it’s obvious these people have never really seen others as fully human to begin with, so AI seems a perfectly reasonable replacement. Human interaction was only ever an inconvenience to be tolerated in order to extract labor; AI liberates them from this facade.

The most disturbing aspect of the AI era is realizing how many people have only ever valued others for their labor and not their humanity.

I'm glad Ryan Coogler won Best Screenplay. Sinners is a writerly movie in the most complimentary way.

It is really cool to have PTA and Coogler’s first Oscars back to back.