1964's "Santa Claus Conquers the Martians" is an incredibly stupid, delightful movie. Join the Sci Fi Film Club as we discuss murderous Martian hijinks, misfit toys, and Santa's enthusiasm for child labor! 🎅

This is an interesting development. Hm.

Check it out, krautrock nerds: the 50th anniversary edition of Tangerine Dream's Phaedra. Four discs, with the original recording, outtakes, a live performance, and a book. It's going to be an analog synth Christmas. 🎄

Show Your Age 1 Point for Each One You Did 1. Edison Kinetoscope 2. Combat in Ypres 3. Telegraph 4. Telegraph the Governor 5. Railway Handcar 6. Telegraph the Governor to Save Your Innocent Lover from Execution 7. Souped up your Flivver 8. Joined Pancho Villa

Finally got my Covid vax yesterday! I had a concrete plans to get it in September but in one of those man-plans-God-laughs moments I tested positive for covid itself the morning of. And today, predictably, I feel as though I’ve been run over.

My friends! The Apocalypse World 3rd Ed kickstarter ends on Friday night. We launched with a Q&A on Reddit and I think we'd like to wrap up with a Q&A here. Ask me anything! Ask @megueyb.bsky.social anything too! www.kickstarter.com/projects/lum...

@misterabk.bsky.social has this bit about what if Jaws were set in the northeast of England Shark: Hey! Get in the sea! Guy on shore: Ah... No. Look, son, a shark trying to chat us up.

Well, fuck. I’m starting to suspect that our ability to catch spree killers who leave the scene is extremely dependent on a functioning FBI…which we 100% do not have right now.

I have grown to believe that excessive wealth does something to your brain that is analogous to a serious head injury

As you may know, I have stopped using Twitter, and have decided to reproduce some of my more memorable threads here for posterity. Here’s one I hold wrote after a particularly engaging swordfighting lesson. Buckle up, swordfighting fans, because I *have* studied my Agrippa! [BIG ASS THREAD]

This entire weekend

This fucking year

Hey if you need something good in your timeline @erinbiba.bsky.social is reposting posts of people’s menorahs. It’s lovely and hopeful.

Might need to do a rewatch of Princess Bride this week.

I am about done with people murdering each other this weekend.

@erinbiba.bsky.social Thank you for reposting all the menorah photos. I’m not Jewish but the menorahs are beautiful and the images are hopeful.

I love seeing all the photos of people's menorahs in my TL.

Ten degrees F. Just a bit chilly.

Christmas night: "But Santa, you've hardly touched your Zardoz cookies."

I'm not sure we've adequately grappled with the fact that poorly trained lowlife chuds hired by ICE can now demand your papers and, if they decide they don't like you for any reason, send you to a torture prison in a faraway land with no hope of ever coming back

The kind .. you find … in a second hand store

Me: Seriously, that’s it? God: Well, yeah Me: … God: … Me: Cool God: Right?

As a former publisher responsible for a large forum site: gutting 230 would destroy the internet as we know it. Most community discussion sites would be forced to close down, leaving only the mega corps, who would censor any meaningful discussion. This is the opposite of controlling big tech.

Look we’re all just trying to get through all this as best we can, so no judgement, but maybe his squirrel and rat and pigeon buddies should stage an intervention here

I’ve been suggesting to fellow folks in the US to look at the Ontario Ministry of Health for guidance, but I bet NYC health is a good resource too. It’s good that state and local level orgs recognize the situation for what it is

May the Democrat senators and ALL of DNC leadership who orchestrated to end the shutdown never know a moment of peace.

1983, Return of the Jedi, opening day. I was a pre-teen. When Luke caught the lightsaber and ignited it… To this day I’ve never heard cheers and applause from the audience like that in a movie theater.

Have fun out there, ICE guys from Texas and Alabama

You will be visited by three spirits…

We are unleashing @jdragsky.bsky.social & @blackgirlmage.bsky.social… Can we top it off and unlock that @superdillin.bsky.social special?!?

My job is writing accounting software and database integration software, and managing operation of production systems of that software. I am grateful for my engineering education because, somehow, I've wandered into a situation where differential equations are now relevant. #LifeInTheCodeMines

Back in early high school, 9th grade or so, we were assigned to write term papers, and the teacher taught a few lessons about how to do that. We talked about how to use quotations from sources that supported our arguments, and how to cite them properly. 1/4

Hiring a bunch of babes in bikinis to stand on the side of the path that Sisyphus uses to push his rock up the hill. Asking Sisyphus later if that improved things any. He pauses thoughtfully before answering, "Yeah"

Anti-A.I. stamps! For illustrations, comics, photos and all your creative works, printed and digital! You can download the transparent file for free here: ko-fi.com/i/IT6T718NAKF (but consider donating please 😘)

Hey, did we mention we have Desperation back in stock?

Bet you a shiny nickel that Trump doesn’t make good on his threat to withhold federal money from Indiana.

ICYMI, the Oops! All Himbos! Crew and Anjali Bhimani totally DESTROYED the stage in their actual play of Thunder Road Vendetta RPG, Blunder Road. #throwbackthursday #paxunplugged

At least the Dems have plenty of leverage to OH WAIT. Christ, now I'm mad about the shutdown all over again.

Pair programming #JinkxTheKittwn #LifeInTheCodeMines

I'm developing a hypothesis about what % of your health care is non-emergency related to how much you think "Shop around!" is a good idea

Show me your heat balance calculations. Oh, you haven’t done them yet? Yeah, that was kind of obvious.

At this point we have to assume that tech companies watch episodes of Black Mirror together, take notes, and spend hours ideating on how they can make the horrors they witnessed real.

Because when I'm having chest pains I'm definitely going to shop around, like I'm buying new struts for my car. I dunno, Doctor, an emergency stent sounds kinda expensive. Let me go over to Highview's ED and see what they can do for me.

It happened.

So... straight up piracy?

Definite timeline cleanse.

At least one civil war has been fought over whether the executive can raise and spend revenue without legislative approval and appropriation.

I swear it’s like living in Rohan when Theoden was under Wormtongue’s influence, except prying Miller away from Trump won’t let Trump become a flawed but noble and heroic king, he’d just be a corrupt, pathetic old racist

Presidentialism should be neutered by law as much as possible in '29 - SCOTUS enlargement, removing its statutory prerogatives, proportional representation for multipartyism in an enlarged House Then nuke the Imperial Presidency for good in the constitution, recently in @liberalcurrents.com