Pragmata is so good.

The Old The Cold The Bold: 2nd Edition Backerkit is two weeks away. As of last week, all of the pregen teasers have been posted. www.backerkit.com/call_to_acti... If you want to know more about any of the pregens in #OCB2nd here's a thread to do the asking.

"NINE INCH NOIZE" THE NEW ALBUM FROM NINE INCH NAILS OUT NOW nineinchnails.lnk.to/NineInchNoize

The thing about NOLA being a food town is that you think “I’m tired. I’ll just settle for the restaurant next to the hotel,” and you end up with biryani so flavorful that you’d think they grew the spices themselves and malai kofta dumplings that are light and crispy clouds of deliciousness.

Perfection:

I'll be mentioning this again once the hype train really gets going in May. If you've played #OCB2nd, you already know its mechanics are inspired by Lady Blackbird by @johnharper.bsky.social, but #SharkDetective came to be because of a campaign of Tears of a Machine by @robotclaw.info.

We have large-print copies and accessible ebooks as part of our Kickstarter to make sure that our play is as accessible to everyone as possible. There's no difference in price cause we don't think #accessibility should be any more expensive. Help support our work at the link below! #lgbtreads

All boys have been given a 6-month deadline to earn their "Hate Crime" merit badge.

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As periodically happens, I am rereading Blades in the Dark and several related books again. “Raids in the Arc”? Is that something?

A lot of Dems are going to take Bovino and Noem being fired as the finish line, and it's very important to make it clear to them that it is a starting line

Everything sucks, so here’s 30 seconds of my cat being cute that you can use to accompany some slow, deep breaths.

What if “Man vs. Baby” was closer in spirit to the previous “Man vs. Bee,” and it was about Rowan Atkinson trying and failing to kill an infant?

“Evacuate? In our moment of triumph? This never gets old at IKEA…

I’m reminded of my favorite Oscar Wilde quote: “The only thing worse than Twitter being down is Twitter not being down.”

(Inside baseball) The thing I find most galling about rollback of the CFPB, is that it was created in 2010 because of the Great Recession of ‘07-‘09. We lived through this! US Gov’t didn’t decide one day “Hey, banks should be more fair.” It was to recover from a collapse and intercept the next one.

People saying “This is not who we are,” and “This is not the way we do things in America,” and I’m like, my dog, have you ever read any book, article, podcast, pamphlet, or tweet about America? We DO this. We ARE this. The hope is we do better. But there’re still a lot of people opposing that.

When recipes tell us to add salt and pepper we use Tony Chachere’s because we are not cowards.

For no reason at all, here’s the trailer from my favorite political simulation video game.

I’m truly so proud of this and the work the entire Draw Steel team did. It’s rare to be given both the opportunity and the freedom to take big swings like this, and @jamesintrocaso.bsky.social, @hellomcdm.bsky.social, and @mattcolville.bsky.social made it possible. So, so proud of what we made.

I greatly appreciate the trailer for Tron: Ares that has no identifiable characters and no actor or production credits aside from “Music by Nine Inch Nails.” Because honestly, why the fuck do I need to know anything more? youtu.be/-Sj-FmI5JfA?...

Trying to score points in performative masculinity when you could instead take up a hobby that actually makes you happy. Like model trains.

Okay, I get it now. For the people who actually keep their work hours separate from life, work from home is just like the office. But to the manager answering emails on the back deck of the clubhouse between dances at their child’s wedding, WFH is indistinguishable from vacation.

Oops. Someone mentioned Astro Bot. I have to listen to the song now. youtu.be/PBSYazA9ZZQ?...

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“Hey, we’re working on a fun trivia project. Can you do something for this question about Apollo missions?” Sure! I can get some media off the NASA public domain library. *goes to NASA.gov* Right… for a few seconds I forgot that we live in a land where the greatest evil is knowledge.

Pretty sure this document was written by AI. Not because of the em-dashes, or rule of three— I use them all the time, but because it’s just so, so… so bad.

.... So, uh. Tanith Lee's "Tales from the Flat Earth" series is 30% off on Audible, right now. Y'know. Just saying. www.youtube.com/watch?v=KYUf...

RIP Mark Snow. His music for the X-Files is what we mean when we say “iconic.” www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv...

Games Playing Themselves is Good Accessibility - Access-Ability Text: access-ability.uk/2025/07/04/g... Video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=63Tb...

Been a while since I posted a cat pic. Here’s Guillermo, demonstrating why it was appropriate for us to name the boys after characters from What We Do in the Shadows.

It seems I’m able to keep a more level pace on my morning run while listening to WH40K books about Necrons; the ancient constructs who translated their minds into machinery, burning away the weakness of the flesh. Coincidence? Only Dynast Oltyx (and perhaps Nate Crowley) know for sure.

You owe it to yourself to listen to @corpserevivers.bsky.social and me tell some spooky Batman stories today Including a supernatural take on CLOCK KING that I'm tbh still extraordinarily proud of

Informative, interesting and important. youtube.com/shorts/k1115...

I've been waiting so long to talk about this, and I finally got the go-ahead! GALAXY: THE PRETTIEST STAR is getting a sequel, GALAXY: AS THE WORLD FALLS DOWN! The adventures of teen Galaxy continue, by me and the spectacular @ryehickman.bsky.social!

I've launched the Kickstarter for Cosmic Dark, my game of weird space horror! There are special rewards for backing in the first 48 hours. Please go and back it! And please share this post. www.kickstarter.com/projects/gra...

New Pope? Mazel tov!

Takashi Miike’s “The Conclave”

Cats

GenAI's target audience is lazy, unimaginative people who THINK smart people sit around talking about Moby Dick, and want to cosplay being smart without putting in any actual thought or work. The people who needed the voiceover for Bladerunner and Dark City.

Perfection

I’m Afraid of Americans (V1) Trent Reznor Mix I’m Deranged is a close second. (I can’t not be me.)

Eating Doritos for breakfast in hopes that I’ll find one of those ones that has curled over into a little pope’s mitre. Then I will have evidence of my divine right to demand consideration among the candidates at the conclave.