no innocents in jenin, no innocents in gaza, no innocents anywhere in iran, no innocents in southern lebanon. none too in yemen. none in syria. vanishingly few innocents in qatar. a worrying shortage of innocents in greek, maltese, and tunisian territorial waters

Annnd another session report, this one with much less lag than the last: www.gordsellar.com/2026/03/23/o... It's a very short one, as we had to end the session early.

Labour MPs on bluesky defending the health secretary are in for a shock on Friday when I blow the lid off the conversion therapy being done on the NHS on his watch

Laughed pretty hard at our group's antics this morning playing Dolmenwood. We worked out this time that tithing is a form of Reaganomics, that Redcaps suck, and that buying barding for a mule is totally possible. Also got our stuff back, which is nice.

#OnThisDay, 21 Mar 1945, Hannie Schaft, an active member of the Dutch resistance known as "the girl with the red hair", was arrested. She was executed by the Nazis, allegedly saying "I shoot better" after their first shots missed. #WomensHistoryMonth #WorldWar2 #History #WomensHistory🗃️

Session 14! This one includes a Rip Van Winkle knight, a cursed sword, a dramatic shapeshift, and even talking skulls! www.gordsellar.com/2026/03/20/o...

south pole of jupiter is an underrated perspective (all true jupiter fans know this) 🔭

An Ohio company that made a mom return to office during a high-risk pregnancy has been found liable for the newborn's death and ordered to pay $22 million in damages. Chelsea Walsh made a work-from-home request 4 days after an operation on her cervix to prevent her from going into early labor. /1

oh shit, the Reuters headline undersells the whole thing. They're not just ordered to pay $15k each; they're ordered to pay $15k each PLUS APPELLEE'S FEES AND DOUBLE COSTS.

I miss when billionaires used to implode 3000 m underwater

From Prince Albert, Saskatchewan, we made the day trip to Duck Lake, Batoche, and Fort Carlton. It was basically a one-day tour of historical sites important to the Northwest Rebellion. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North-W...

10,000 light years from home

I loved this book! Highly recommend it!

1967 - Dystopian Sci-fi novel, Don’t Create The Torment Nexus published 1974 - Cult classic BBC mini series 1997 - BBC remake 2002 - Hollywood movie, upbeat ending added 2019 - Nexcon - A Torment Company IPO’s, $324 Billion market cap 2026 - Polymarket bets on who will be tormented next

Newp.

Another session log up! www.gordsellar.com/2026/03/04/o...

Sorry I'm not more open-minded about LLMs, it's just some fucking maniacs shoveled out a bunch of useless bloatware featuring that technology, did not give me any chance to opt out, reorganized the entire economy around it, zeroed out gains made by green energy, and made it impossible to buy RAM

This came across my IG feed from 3 weeks ago, and it's just… people asking folks to leave Substack and refraining from sharing links to it aren't doing it for no reason. This segment is from a 2023 interview, link: pod.link/decoder/epis... It makes the rounds every now and again, for good reason.

The European Court of Human Rights ruled in favour of simple dignity: treat people as the gender they present.

Since the Dow is under 50,000, can we talk about the Epstein files again?

yeah you coukd also just ban this shit

2026 is like…

EXCLUSIVE: At more than 30 installations, U.S. commanders told troops the war on Iran is a Christian war. The Military Religious Freedom Foundation has been “inundated” with more than 110 complaints. One NCO said they were told the U.S. war is to bring about Armageddon and the return of Jesus…

Who else is on the Small Prophets bandwagon? If you aren’t yet, this is the gentle, kindly comedy that you need to watch. We’re talking first season Ted Lasso kind of great. Avoid knowing the plot going in. (It is SFF, and I’d love to see it get a Hugo in 2027.)

What. The. Fuck.

I think about this Tony Benn speech much more than I used to

Dog belly dancing, part 2.

Wanna playtest an awesome browser game? (Small bonus: you can hear the music I've been making lately for it!) veiledcity.com

Ugh, another AI slop trough filled with our work. I've pulled my papers. I guess I'll host copies on my website or something. When I get around to it, anyway.

The upcoming legal challenge of Quebec’s secularism law, before the Supreme Court of Canada has evolved from a fight over whether teachers can wear hijabs in the classroom into a debate over who should get the final say when deciding basic questions of rights and freedoms www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Not sure what happened with my phone, but suddenly I'm getting a constant stream of Korean AMBER alerts. (They're all for elderly people who wandered off, not abducted kids like the term suggests.) Not sure if a setting on my phone got changed or what. First time in years...

It's been ages since I mentioned that I have an album over on Bandcamp. I created it to go with an RPG book but you know, that's not necessary to enjoy it: gordsellar.bandcamp.com/album/sounds... Working on another music project recently, though I don't know when it will be released...

Another week, another Mythic Bastionland session (twelfth, not eleventh): www.gordsellar.com/2026/02/18/o...

NEW: Read this terrific piece @virginiaheffernan.bsky.social for @thenerve.news in which she unpicks Edge.org, the hugely influential 'salon' funded by Epstein & threaded through with race science & eugenics. 1/ www.thenerve.news/p/epstein-bi...

Drop an album that was important to you when you were nineteen

i often think about this review

I think a lot about how relationship maps can drive design and play. Here's a map for a six-character game that includes lines of affinity and also primary motivations proximal to characters. Everyone but the king has at least one one-sided relationship. Everyone knows exactly what to do.

It's difficult to overstate the extent to which transphobia in its modern form is a deliberately manufactured phenomenon I am mildly heartened by the fact that even this was unable to move the actual cultural consensus past "I don't really get it but I don't like cruelty against them"

Actual footage of Vince Guaraldi performing "Linus and Lucy". I'm gobsmacked that this exists, but utterly thrilled too. www.youtube.com/watch?v=9EMf...

In terms of what cures are being lost: - Epstein-Barr virus is perhaps the major trigger for multiple sclerosis - herpes simplex virus causes cold sores, genital herpes, infections in babies, deadly meningitis - shingles virus causes an intensely painful disease

again, I don't have a lot of patience for Discord, but y'all "ohohoh, I'll just hop to another platform, can't believe they're dying on this hill, I am very intelligent" is NOT A SOLUTION TO THE ACTUAL PROBLEM because this is A GLOBAL LEGAL BLITZ TO MAKE IT MANDATORY FOR ALL PLATFORMS EVERYWHERE

Korean #SFinTranslation out this May from @honfordstar.bsky.social honfordstar.com/products/shift

Democratizing the arts looks like universal income, low-barrier grants for both emerging and working artists, well-funded municipal arts & recreation programs, vibrant third spaces, and a well-funded public school system with progressive curriculum. Not a free pass for corporate-owned slop engines.

Oh there’s an idea, putting responsibility where it actually belongs: perpetrators, not kids

I can’t help but wonder how many of these “devastating” accidents also involve, you know, cars?

The "In Translation" Ebook Bundle is live! Basic tier features three novels translated from Shona, Korean, and Arabic! For $25 or more: the bonus tier! Includes 9 MORE ebooks, including two Blaft titles -- Sin Is a Puppy That Follows You Home & The Aayakudi Murders! storybundle.com/translation

every xenoblade 1 cutscene

"This promise of an AI future, is really just a collective anxiety that wealthy people have about how well they're gonna be able to control us in the future." - @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit. Incredible words. Listen to all of it!