1. London Underground station flooding has reportedly been reduced by around 90% thanks to a group of engineers: beavers. After conservationists reintroduced a family of beavers into a nearby city park, the animals built dams and restored wetlands that now absorb and slow floodwater naturally.

there is no horror horrific enough My god how do we even go on after this

Sun Ra and his Arkestra Sun Ra was BOTD in 1914

Strap in for Tinker Tailor Soldier Hobbit:

An important part of Korean culture is your mom cooking fried chicken for Robocop

Or? They could just make their classes harder and ban AI. My son went to MIT which has open enrollment with Harvard - and he and his friends took Harvard classes because they were easy and boosted their GPAs. A cap is nonsense and shows the grades are meaningless.

Were nearing $8,000 raised from this bundle, keep it going, spread the word! #TTRPG itch.io/b/3670/typho...

"The MILF persists past her assigned plot point. Structurally, this is what makes her scary. It is also, not coincidentally, what makes her hot."

Native genocide? Nope. The enslavement, rape, and attempted cultural genocide of African people? Nope. Jim Crow? Nope. Japanese Interment camps? Nope. Trans genocide? Nope. Systemic eugenics? Nope. A white woman being quite upset is easily the saddest time in American history.

"We should create robots to serve us! They're in all my favorite sci-fi stories!" The robots in those sci-fi stories: technically I'm not allowed to kill humans but I hate you so much I will FIND A WAY.

As if there wasn't reason enough to hate this guy.

A Viking in the Sun, the wargames book I co-wrote about a Norwegian prince in the Byzantine army in the 11th century, is back in stock at @northstarfigs.bsky.social ! Featuring scenarios and even some painting and photography by me.

We have not one, but two, projects in crowdfunding right now. Wytch Mountain is a folk horror infused part of Pocketopia. With media touchstones including Black Sabbath, The Green Knight, Häxan, Suspiria, The Vvitch, it's the coolest little witch game in town.

heeyyy today is my birthday!! 🎂 here's some dark fairy tale art, it would mean so much to me if people passed it around 🔄 Contact: [email protected] Portfolio: ddbtorres.carrd.co

Here's the actually last post for this series, with my notes from the game, a behind-the-scenes look at how it all unfolded, and thoughts I had along the way. www.gordsellar.com/2026/05/15/o...

Help me celebrate Sailing The Golden Chersonese's first month anniversary by 1) getting a copy and 2) signal boosting. :D queenofswordspress.com/product/sail...

wow — the preprint host, arxiv, is banning authors for a year if they submit papers with hallucinated citations 🤖

Roots is a bicentennial jawn so in 50 years we went from groundbreaking miniseries watched by the whole country to banning copies of the book

Because it fucks up the essential tasks and senior management has long since wandered into a fantasy land in which AI will allow them to dispense with the people who actually do work. As it turns out AI isn’t the only entity in the scenario that’s hallucinating.

We wrapped up with Mythic Bastionland on Sunday, so this will be the final post for the campaign, including a short epilogue based on what players said their characters would do in the aftermath: www.gordsellar.com/2026/05/11/o... One more post coming, with my session notes from behind the screen.

We should fully fund science.

Since we're rushing toward the climax and only have one session left before we have to stop, I posted about an offscreen event in our game: www.gordsellar.com/2026/05/07/o... I don't usually give players "homework," especially not like this, but it's kind of a special case this time.

This article's about a monastery where a robot was accepted as a Buddhist, and will be an honorary monk for the Buddha's Birthday holiday this year. Looks like Park Seonghwan's classic story "Readymade Bodhisattva" (kind of) happened sooner than expected. n.news.naver.com/article/055/...

Our penultimate session, as we're ending this this coming Sunday night (though we may come back to it someday): www.gordsellar.com/2026/05/05/o...

Chinese researchers have created a bamboo-based plastic as strong as petroleum-based plastics, which can fully biodegrade in soil in just 2 months phys.org/news/2025-10...

swear to god nothing has radicalized like me like watching rich men burn our planet, dry up our freshwater and poison our kids to invent the world’s most powerful technology — a robot chick who laughs at all their jokes

Ew, now they're cramming AI into effects pedals? Ugh, I'm with Emily Hopkins on this one. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZvNE...

On the Disappearing of Joan Vollmer Burroughs (Katie Bennett - Literary Hub) Brilliantly researched and informative article that restores a life so many were so complicit to erase. Katie Bennett measures the emotional toll of writing a feminist recovery story. lithub.com/on-the-disap...

Interesting article on the revival of fortified landscapes due to security concerns in West Africa: anl.geog.ufl.edu/fortified-la...

AI psychosis is just “I really think the stripper likes me” for guys who don’t leave their house

It's Bandcamp Friday, apparently! If you're into instrumental music, check out my Sounds from the Isle of Joy: gordsellar.bandcamp.com/album/sounds...

Mountain Resonance is live! The game is completely free, including three one-shots with pregenerated characters set in a world struggling with colonialism. It's a 1930 alpine survival horror RPG based on the Panic Engine from #Mothership. www.kickstarter.com/projects/lic... #osr #nsr #rpg

I demonstrated two things today: that driving faster increases the risk that someone will die and that, after the pandemic, people started driving like bigger assholes. Gift link: www.ctinsider.com/columnist/ar...

The latest Mythic Bastionland session in our ongoing game: www.gordsellar.com/2026/05/01/o...

*AI chatbot encourages users to commit suicide. AI bros: "Well, it's unfortunate, but there's just nothing we can do about it." *AI chatbot encourages users to kill the AI bros and CEO's. AI bros: "We're implementing severe restrictions and rewriting the code at once!"

Hey maybe we can stop listening to big corporations when they claim that anything which might benefit workers will destroy the economy

Mixing, mixing, mixing. This one's an ambient track about a supposed bigfoot sighting. (You guessed it, more game music for @veiledcity.bsky.social, though now I need to go grade a stack of midterm assignments.)

Ugh. No serious writer is going to be using Word if this is how it's gonna work.

it is important to emphasize that this was *the point*. this was *intentional*. elon musk is a vicious white supremacist who thinks poor african children ought to die, so that the world can be whiter

Yes, I think the enormity of Elon Musk racking up Pol-Pot levels of mass killing is so hideous to contemplate that many people just….aren’t.

"Though here matters are complicated not only by grammatical structure and what a language allows or requires, but also the exigencies of performance—making lines that an actor can follow, in which an actor can breathe, and so on."

I don't think I posted this yet: www.gordsellar.com/2026/04/21/o... A funny and very social session. No animals or giants harmed in the making of...

do you know how many death threats I've gotten because an editor gave something I wrote a misleading incendiary clickbaity headline? Now imagine they can change *anything*

I've already added smart glasses to the list of things students must put away in their bag (and leave on a side table, across the room) during exams. Haven't seen a pair, yet, but I know it's only a matter of time, as I'm already hearing reports of a few students being caught using them to cheat.

a lot of great advice along the lines of "write anything don't worry if bad." and that's right. but because i'm contrarian, an alternative. don't write. let it build pressure. let it bother you and drive you insane. when it spills out it'll be a relief or compulsion more than something to fear.*

Blogs were lovely. Even when no one read, even when no one commented, you were HAPPY. It felt like a diary but was more than that. I miss old internet. I miss not having social media. I miss forums and asynchronous interactions. I miss old chat rooms. I miss everything. (And yes, I’m a millennial 🤣)

i think if websites said if posts came from keyboards or touchscreens with a little icon we'd notice a pattern