I'm getting back into Pokemon after a decade despite my best efforts 🃏 If a girl was going to be in Tokyo soon, is there anything to specifically pick up there (beyond a plushie from the Pokemon Center!), particularly in the card-collecting realm?

Austin's first ever meal in Asia!!!

ankles shot. legs fading fast. turns out doing your first ever LARPs two nights in a row and then walking the expo hall for hours is a terrible idea

House-une Miku has arrived at PAX Unplugged 🩻💊⚕️ (Teto Wilson, too, is in this episode)

nothing like a classic search to remind me I walk a path countless developers have trod before me

Oh hey, I have a Substack. (It's entirely free—I don't have anything worth $5/month to say!!) If you like silly creative writing exercises, or Aquinas, or you hate the media coverage of Portland, OR—you might like this piece. substack.com/@kimberlynac...

Everyone please diligently check your candy this year. I cracked open a snickers bar and not only did I find a copper ingot, but it was of poor quality. Worse still, when my man Nanni confronted my neighbor about it, he was treated with disdain.

This is a friendly nudge to check where your local food pantries are, if you don't know already. In the next 9 days, a lot of people are going to need them more than ever. Check on what your local pantry is asking for - but don't be afraid to bring "fun" or holiday foods, too.

new pfp, same nerd :)

I've finally hit a threshold for what I'd consider a real "geek"—obviously I've been coding for years (it's my job), but today... I bought and assembled a Raspberry Pi, for the purpose of setting up a home server. I'm already blocking ads on my wifi network, and I'm setting up image hosting next.

back on my bullshit (gave Shane 2 beers to speedrun 4 hearts so I'd have someone to dance with at the Flower Festival...)

greta ily what an outfit

finally gotten cold enough in the mornings that my reynaud's kicks in, and the hand on my mouse, furthest from my body heat, gets comfortably numb after about 15 minutes 😀

the good: we have central heating!!!! the bad: we were told it was broken when we moved in last year, we only half-verified it, and the technician just let us know it was never broken, it was just that nobody knew how to operate the remote properly 😭😭

“I use it for brainstorming.” is quickly becoming my most hated pro-AI statement. YOU TOOK YOUR BRAIN OUT OF THE EQUATION. THAT IS NOT BRAINSTORMING.

my ninth-grade crush who said NASTY things about me behind my back when he found out I liked him is getting into chiropractic "medicine"

chimney decrees it is autumn, now

You can't fool me, rnicrosoft... I did my time hunting for creative URLs on tumblr dot com

Anyone have any good recommendations for where to get a good desk mat? (Ideally somewhere that's not selling mats with either stolen art or AI slop?)

laurs bailey my beloved

Finally watched Hereditary last night in my favorite way - going in totally blind - and man, I can't believe Aster really came right out the gate with this. The chilling cold I felt at the Act I major tragedy was unlike anything I've felt in a film before.

I just wrote my first ever WordPress plugin from scratch, and man, the coder's high really never gets old.

It’s ok to put the phone down.

settings > content & media > autoplay video & gifs = off

Can anyone guess who I'm planning to cosplay for the Symphony of Seasons concert in Portland this weekend 👀🪵

ok so ConcernedApe was at PAX?? 😭😭 (will he be at any of the SDV concerts? can I have a silly hope for this weekend??)

so where are people buying their fabric these days? 😔 (rip joann's forever in our hearts)

Finally cancelled my Spotify subscription and got to write a satisfying sentence about how unconscionable their partnership with Palantir is in my exit message. Now begins the slow process of moving my library over to Tidal...

Final day at #PAXWest!! The @emergentrpg.bsky.social crew will be heading out this afternoon, but it was SUCH a blast meeting new friends & seeing old ones. If you're still here, be sure to come ASAP to @quinnbeckham27.bsky.social's panel on Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Dragons!! 🐉💊

I had SO much fun walking the floor as Harper from @dateeverythinggame.bsky.social today!! I learned a LOT about sewing (and hot glue techniques) throughout this project, and I'm pretty proud of it for being my very first attempt 🥰 Here's to many more!! #PAXWest

Doing my first EVER cosplay on the floor of a convention tomorrow and already feeling the jitters 😬😬 Fans of @dateeverythinggame.bsky.social, I'll see you on the Expo Hall floor tomorrow at #PAXWest!!

guys I'm playing RPGs at a convention, you have to wait to start rumors he's dead until I'm not in a game !!

Hey #PAXWest2025 folks—if supporting artists matters to you, please make sure & ask who the artist is before you look too hard at a game. Austin and I were literally pulling our wallet out at a booth when we asked about it & they made a joke about hoping "we weren't artists, since this was ChatGPT."

Played Eat the Reich for the first time last night with @quinnbeckham27.bsky.social & a group of our friends - SO much fun. Looking forward to part two next week >:) 🧛‍♀️🩸

guys who am I, I'm getting obsessed with Starfinder lore

it's over Anakin

Revolution is not for the sane.

100 days. Don't know whether to be relieved (only slightly) we've made it this far, or devastated we have so much left to go.

Hey @cascadiajs.com! Really quick question - are you guys offering a virtual track this year, or are we all in-person? :) Totally understand if virtual is too big of a task - I'm just at a non-profit with a very tight budget, so I'm not sure we'd be able to swing it this year if there's travel. :(

it was bad when the worst poster on my favorite website bought that website and made it terrible but it has been worse having that person also buy my country that i live in

Taking a community college class as an adult is a major lesson in humility. I'm on an extended family trip this weekend and just realized I left my homework back home. It's due tomorrow night, and for whatever reason "I'm an adult" and "I have a life and a job" are not valid excuses?? HUH??

this kitten is so cute it should be illegal

I went to post about the National Japanese American Memorial in D.C., which is beautiful but usually missed by tourists. It is a deeply staggering admission of guilt and a warning to future Americans. I went to link to the inscriptions and- Well, they took the site down. www.nps.gov/places/japan...

It's alarming, and we must choose each other now. Take mental and emotional health breaks as you need to. Pick just a few things you care deeply about and give those your attention. They want you to feel this way, like whatever you do, it won’t matter. Do not give them this power.

Does anyone have any recommendations for what to put protein powder in that are NOT a shake or a "protein ball"? I've never tasted a powder I liked in liquid form, and I don't really like the texture of protein balls, but I'd really like to up my intake.

Thank you to everyone who's been sharing this!!! As a reminder, casting closes *tonight!* at 10pm EST. So if you haven't applied and still want to, you still have a little bit of time left!

I played my first TTRPG in 8th grade—would have been around 2014—in D20 Modern! That said, if we want to be pedantic (read: more fun!!) and not include systems that are just 5e reskins, I believe my first truly alternative game was Lancer in 2022!

So much of becoming an adult for me has felt like discovering enough "life hacks" that I realize, in hindsight, that I must *look* like I'm functioning well to people on the outside.

you'll never guess whose car this was an hour from home last night (or who got food poisoning later that evening!!)