The reading is in the writing. The writing is in the revising.

"The changes are part of a broader push to reshape pay structures at state-owned enterprises and correct so-called “inverted” salary systems in which some mid-level managers earn more than top executives." this was good! those mid-level managers had actual talent.

As someone who has covered robots and robotics a lot, this is absolutely the framing presented by the creators that the press is just regurgitating. A lot of these robotics folks don’t actually have any idea what they’ll be used for they just constantly parrot “replace humans”

The thing I am getting from this is that human beings can run a half-marathon in an hour which is fucking amazing, hurrah human beings

"But what if they become more important than the regular universes?" Guess who doesn't care? Me. The universe putting out watercooler content that fosters an active diverse community is going to draw eyes. The universe that isn't scaring off new readers is going to sell books.

And I don't know how you maneuver in an industry where your most vocal and dependable audience is shrinking like the Wasp but also flies into an instantaneous rage if you even consider making a book for anyone else. Even as you continue making books for them.

Thankfully, the library exists and is very open to comics. But a library cannot provide the public with "watercooler content." A console can. A movie theater can. A television can. Not only do you get to experience the art, but then you get to experience the community surrounding the art.

I...don't know how to feel. I wanted so badly for comics to be as popular as TV or prose, but perhaps it is going to occupy a similar space to theater. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ka9g...

On this Superman Day, I will reiterate what I believe is a core truth of the DC universe: bsky.app/profile/cher...

I wonder if Schumer knows he is wildly unpopular or if his aides try to keep him in the dark and off social media as much as possible.

A lot of people are still in the denial about how much the median Democratic voter, the median Democratic volunteer, and the median Democratic activist has shifted on a variety of issues. Well here's the handpicked candidate of Chuck Schumer being booed, about Gaza, at the Dem convention.

Excited to attend the ribbon-cutting for the next segment of California’s solar canal initiative later this month in Hickman. Imagine generating solar power over 4,000 miles or so canals across the state. A lot of Sierra and Colorado River water to save via avoided evaporation.

two things infuriate me about Talisanta 1) They invented pass/partial success/fail forward and character advancement based on roleplaying rewards and free-form XP expenditures in the late 1970s and, like, no one fucking noticed apparently until 2010 when PBTA came out 2) the fucking elf thing

me giving orders to my idiot son who got stuck in a suit of armor after i convinced him to walk into a magic fire that his dad walked into (we are both also elves):

I still applaud the video game Rogue Trader for having 90% of the dialogue boil down to 1) "what if we did the normal thing?" (your party is now immune to being electrocuted, gets +50% critical hit chances, and has been given free ice cream) 2) Execute them (you get jack shit)

Story of my life

The point where 40k's satire fundamentally fails really comes down to the conflict between how Satirical Space Catholic Empire needs to be cringe, but Marketable Soldier Miniatures need to be cool

I love Prince of Darkness so much because, thanks to John Carpenter being cut off from a big budget, he cast Victor Wong and Dennis Dun in...like...roles that would normally go to white guys in the 1980s as "quantum physics dude" and "horny student" and I appreciate that a lot

Apropos of nothing, if the creator of something you cherished turns out to be a horrible person, the answer isn't to close your hearts for fear of disappointment, it's to love more. Love with abandon, because there's always new art to find, love so much as to always outweigh the disappointments. ❤️

Hi, folks. Things remain really rough so I'm reposting this, as I could use some help. Anything helps, even a boost. Thank you so, so much! I can't tell you how much I hope I can stop sharing this.

Mannon - Vampire hunter

Joanne closed her helpline for single parents right around when she announced she'd be donating heavily to anti-trans causes. They closed because of lack of funding. She's a billionaire. She doesn't care about "single mums". www.gingerbread.org.uk/our-work/new...

{comm} Asuryani family

Write down “dies of spontaneously filled with 500 metric tons of refined lithium”

I‘m so happy to share this with everyone!!! Our Trailer for Act1 of the NEBULOUS: Fleet Command campaign is here!! Give it a look! youtu.be/D4BOaaB9I1Q?...

NGL, I've been looking at a walkman too. It's not really that I wanna be inconvenienced, but having physical ownership of something nowadays is just kinda sexy. And the fact that no one will bust open your door to tell you that the tapes you own now gonna be costing 2 smackeroons more per month

There have been multiple questions about how to fix a gas tank that has been *drilled into from outside to steal gas* in the past couple weeks on my local listserv equivalent

This is all from the last six months but HEAVY on the last month, in re: how it's going

I just backed Strawberry Vampire: Help Us Make the Next Episode! on Kickstarter

"Facism is the act of self-deception in service of making your own life more painful, solely for the payoff of making life more painful for people you dislike."

Pope defenders: uwu he's just a wittle birthday boy look at his big birthday hate Trans people who can't get healthcare from like half of the hospitals in their state: what Moreover, ICE must be destroyed

MST3K The Movie debuted in theaters April 19, 1996 in a whopping 26 theaters nationwide, so I'll be celebrating the 30th anniversary in October when it was first available to rent on VHS. Nowadays you can go watch it free with ads on Pluto or Tubi or Bolus or Krumpo or whatever, and you should!

Gaping Dragon (Dark Souls) private commission from earlier this year.

15 years ago when achievements were newish we had good industry pushback, my favorite voice on the topic was www.chrishecker.com/Achievements... Partly inspired one of the 4 extra credits I wrote a ~decade ago, a design lens in the opposite direction by removing measuring, to focus on toy qualities

what the iran situation requires is serious people capable of complex and delicate negotiations to extricate ourselves from an omnishambles entirely of our own making unfortunately we have exactly zero (0) of them currently serving in this administration

MBTR and the Voices mechanic is one of the things I'm most excited to share about Nibiru: Revisited and I look very much forward to what kind of stories people tell with this system. The design space for these has been super fun to explore!

they make "secret menus" for combat dolls too, you know. if you go up to a doll and ask for fries served in a mcflurry cup, its eyes go blank and its forearms unfold into dual assault rifles

Been working on some things lately. Thought you might like a bit of a sneaky peak~ #ttrpg #horror

One of the defining features of techbros is that they are absolutely incapable of ever not sounding like caricatures of 1980's movie villains. Half of whom were literally caricatures of Trump.

This isn't at all strange, but I just saw a Safelite commercial on YouTube that spent more time talking about their payment plans than their services.

Pictish queen of fiery locks [CM Work]

Check out SPINE if you haven't, it's both a really interesting game and a really interesting piece of writing.

TIL that Tim Curry is Nigel Thornberry.

Steven Spielberg on the first day of making Minority Report: when this movie is released everyone will finally realize the dangers of magic bald women who live together in a bathtub

Today I learned Avicii has been dead since 2018. And he died younger than I am now.