We need more publicly owned 3rd places.

It's so fucked up to have been a kid during the D&D is the devil freakout and the Tipper Gore dirty lyrics freakout and live to see the teen suicide machine get such a pass.

friendly reminder that you didn't waste your year. any moments of happiness or comfort. any small accomplishments, they all matter. this has been a really hard year, and simply surviving is something to be proud of.

Critical Role C4 E9 thread, seems like this is going to be a climax for this arc of our Soldiers, but we're openning with the Schemers for tonight's cold open! #CriticalRole #CriticalRoleSpoilers

Putting Elon Musk on the cover of a magazine for anything other than “his illegal government funding cuts have already killed hundreds of thousands of people, mostly children” is propaganda

“Krypton didn’t die in a day. The gods aren’t that kind.” I like this angle for Kara. She’s the one who actually experienced losing her world, to Clark it’s all abstract. Culturally, emotionally, she really is The Last Kryptonian.

Once again I find myself powerless to resist the devilish “Sale” enchantments of the fiend @paizo.com

Am I getting my brother’s cold? Is it just a crick in my back? Am I dying? The “Stiffness in my chest Saga”

What an awesome name for the composer of a space exploration theme.

I recently saw someone refer to “kill your darlings” as meaning to literally kill your characters in the narrative. It means you have to be willing to let go of your favorite most precious Idea, because sometimes our First Ideas aren’t what’s best for our overall story.

All I want for Christmas is for the worst people in the world to experience some consequences

I’m almost eager to find out just how fucked up this is going to make these kids. It’s like all those thought experiments about raising a kid in total isolation that would be really valuable to science but an ethical nightmare to actually do.

Getting ready for 2026 like

Hey, do me a favor. If you like dark fantasy, give this a read. Maybe tell your friends about it. Take out a billboard if the feeling strikes you.

The most realistic scene in DS9 is when Gul Dukat whined about how the Bajorans never erected a statue in his honor. A prophetic text.

The year is running low on Sundays! Funnies away!

when a poor person uses food stamps for a steak or homeless person spends $5 on a beer, it’s seen as proof that all poor people are so bad with money that they shouldn’t be given any, ever, for any reason. $77 billion out the window, and zuck’s legacy as a safe government contract bet is secure.

Elon Musk is worse at hiding it but this is the problem with all billionaires: they are a threat to democratic governance. They have an insatiable need to own and control everything. If you want to be free you have to curb their power, and demand political leaders who understand that

Remember folks: if you have any small amount of artistic talent, any sex appeal, or can make your friends laugh, the richest man on earth is crying screaming throwing up because he can’t be you.

it is impossible to overstate the extent to which this country is now being run by people you would leave a party rather than talk to for five minutes

oops it's her again

It is, in point of fact, Thursday yet! #CriticalRole #CriticalRoleSpoilers

This is the one year anniversary of leaving my old job. Might’ve been hard to feel like it didn’t all just wash away, but just in the last month I’ve gotten my first short story published, I’ve started querying my novel, I really feel like I’m actually on my way.

I don’t know how many times we’re gonna have to say this, but, “People with disabilities need AI to create!” is the dumbest, most ableist thing you can say and please fucking stop.

Surreal that we could go through covid, still be going through covid, and yet it's not outlandish to think in a couple of years we might have to get our measles or small pox or flu shot from a guy in a back alley.

Seeing #WakeUpDeadMan, and supporting a small local theater because it was the only one playing the movie.

It’s me. I am the new breed of asexual, asocial male. Join me in being, just, kinda wigged out by performative masculinity and not really caring what people think.

Was reminded of my very favorite tweet of all time today:

I'm reminded of a funny tweet I saw on Twitter a few years ago, about Star Trek episode titles.

One of the drums I am going to keep beating is that the US needs to submit to the jurisdiction of the ICJ. Right now, we live in a time in which the president is immune and can grant immunity to basically anyone he wants. They are acting accordingly.

You should call your representatives TODAY about the House Committee meeting mention the meeting, mention that you do not think the "child safety" bills in this package are actually addressing child safety. These bills are a trojan horse even in the best of times LET ALONE under this administration

Game developers were here first. Not executives. Game developers make games. Not executives. Game developers have skills & knowledge important to the business. Not executives. Game developers deserve to keep their jobs. Not executives. Executives are replaceable. Not game developers.

This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥

“By dusk light, some two hundred sailors of now sunken ships are slumped over the gunwales of my fleet. Manacles and ropes and torn cloth--whatever my crew could spare--bind their hands to the outside hull, such that they look down over the waters of this rocky cove, which has cost me so much.”

miners do not interact. you delve too greedily and too deep

What have been your LCS over the years? Starting around college when I got into comics because it was on my commute, Two Cats Comics, which closed a little before the pandemic. Nowadays @comixexperience.bsky.social

when someone tells me not to use em dashes because AI uses em dashes

“By dusk light, some two hundred sailors of now sunken ships are slumped over the gunwales of my fleet. Manacles and ropes and torn cloth--whatever my crew could spare--bind their hands to the outside hull, such that they look down over the waters of this rocky cove, which has cost me so much.”

I smell comic backgrounds chatter on the wind, just gonna drop this in here and let it speak for itself From How to Webcomic!

I named my fists Moore and Gibbons because you men better watch em!

Sure, they've made an environmentally catastrophic mass hallucination disinformation plagiarism Clippy that will destabilize the world, but also their other goal is to replace human workers entirely and let us humans starve. A boycott of AI is the most important boycott of your entire life.

Ah, there at the “Yuri bots” I saw people complaining about. Good to feel included.

My dad: I read the first part of your story, I don’t get why all these words are capitalized. Me: Oh, the terms that take on special meaning because he associates them with his conception of magic? Me: Oh god, this is the life I’ve signed myself up for, explaining nonsense to people all the time.

Hi, my name's Townsend and as of today, I'm a published writer! "The Ballad of Black Calchas" is my debut short story, an epic and tragic tale of magic and piracy. I'd appreciate if you gave it a read here at Electric Spec magazine! electricspec.com/Volume20/Iss...

Hey, do me a favor. If you like dark fantasy, give this a read. Maybe tell your friends about it. Take out a billboard if the feeling strikes you.

Hi, my name's Townsend and as of today, I'm a published writer! "The Ballad of Black Calchas" is my debut short story, an epic and tragic tale of magic and piracy. I'd appreciate if you gave it a read here at Electric Spec magazine! electricspec.com/Volume20/Iss...

"I'm going to tax the everloving shit out of the rich people who made your life miserable and put every masked thug who broke the law or traitor who wrecked the government for their own profit in prison" I admit is too long for a sign, but at the very least this should be the spirit of the thing.

I’m legit in awe of the concept of poems that are too dangerous to fall into the wrong hands

I want you to understand that while news media and politicians were fearmongering every day about shoplifting in SF (while property crime was *down*), THIS was happening: "the inhalation of one-millionth of an ounce will cause cancer with a virtual 100% statistical certainty."