have me on your comics podcast my opinions are very regular

Alarming does not begin to cover it. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/26/n...

State of the Union? I'd love to check in, but I am (as is my habit of late, I apologize) currently quite busy smoking my tobacco pipe #ThePreoccupiedPiper #Distracted

This is going to be a new policy/enforcement nightmare for professors. But what breaks my heart is the way it entrenches (and profits from) the idea that students and professors are locked in some sort of zero-sum adversarial relationship.

I wrote a little bit about 1490 DOOM and how I think skirmish war games are the answer to a whole lot of problems in the world.

when a nazi puts this kind of warning in the front matter of his book, does he mean he wants me to say he self published through a now-defunct LLC, improperly registered at a now-closed PO box? the only contact info for the publisher i have is his home address, does he want me to use that?

Dug into this absolutely wild thing happening to Finji. The deeper I read into their increasingly baffling conversations with TikTok "support" the more I felt like I was on something. www.ign.com/articles/tun...

the final draft of seven-part pact is done and is in its final stage of playtesting! if you want to come help playtest, read this post: www.patreon.com/posts/151018...

Last night we played Kata Kumbas instead of Stonehell. KK is my first RPG, dating back from 1990; despite trying, I only managed to play one session oin the nineties, and then nothing. 🧵

We finished The Hobbit!

that tweet about how vance has 4chan politics with tumblr cadence - "pretty problematic of you to want to tax the rich when there's literally a (checks notes) white genocide going on right now"

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I’m just gonna pull out the John Ganz tweet because honestly, you always have to keep this in mind when listening to them, something these Obama admin libs with their NYT PR article clearly forgot:

I listen to maybe half a dozen podcasts run by excellent people that provide detailed coverage of the far-right. Their summaries of their neo-Nazi beliefs, interpersonal beefs, scandals of drug-induced psychosis, and detailed history of niche far-right terrorist groups is important. This ain’t it.

if you are interested in learning about right wing media in a way that doesn't amount to deliberately cooking your own brain, here are five podcasts i actively listen to and really like on the topic. i will plug my own as number six. in no particular order:

New: Amid the escalating situation in Minneapolis, ICE posted in the Federal Register asking companies to provide info about “commercial Big Data and Ad Tech” products that would “directly support investigations activities” www.wired.com/story/ice-as...

people don’t even know where where lies the strangling fruit that came from the hand of the sinner I shall bring forth the seeds of the dead to share with the worms that gather in the darkness and surround the world with the power of their lives while from the dimlit halls of other places anymore

hey has anyone seen my arkenstone

I found the rascal article disappointing, and am sort of glad they didn't reach out to me for comment — I suspect they would have discarded what I'd've told them — but it's also frustrating to have yet another article frame jay as a lone auteur when the book they're covering is at least half my baby

in a little while i'll be driving into rural georgia to buy classic wargames from a guy off facebook marketplace so if i dont come back just know i died doing what i love: going to rural georgia and buying classic wargames from a guy off facebook marketplace

Man goes to a doctor. Doctor says go see the great clown Pagliacci. Man says, but Doctor, you went to medical school. I thought maybe you'd give me some medicine or something. What the fuck. See a clown? I am right now, Doctor!

I'd be delighted to tussle about whether system does or does not matter just as soon as someone can give me a definition of system that includes all systems and excludes all non-systems

someone asked the question so i have to change my name again

Every picture tells a story. This picture's story is of a mild-mannered crossing guard caught and transformed by Sex Ocean

It's been 5 years since a group of alt-right revolutionaries attempted a violent coup on the United States government at the behest of Donald Trump. A year ago I attended a gamified version of that terrible day for @rascal.news. Its terrifying to see how much has changed and how much hasn't.

So excited about this new podcast from @jstuart.bsky.social and @ccjones.bsky.social about family history (especially as I'm thinking about a family history research project). The first episode features a fantastic interview wih @kawulf.bsky.social.

the chicago manual of style was so right when she said "overused square quotes get irritating"

The first part of the creed says “Nothing is true.” The second part says, “Everything is permitted.” The third part says “And that’s the Assassin’s Creed – let me know if you have any questions.”

If laws only apply to "good" people they aren't laws. That's as true for international laws as it is for domestic.

Ah, and there they are bsky.app/profile/soci...

Really starting to feel like part of this is Trump and Hegseth and co. wanting their own “we got him” moment. Expecting war room photos like the bin Laden strike ones to hit CBS by noon.

I think we need to be able to balance the reactions "this is another expression of 250 years of American imperialism" and "what do you MEAN we kidnapped the president of Venezuela and renditioned him to the US and are now claiming to run the country" Moreover, ICE must be destroyed

Saving this screenshot from Threads as a new reaction image

Three million people live in Caracas, five million in the metro area. It's one of the densest cities in South America. Remember this in the morning when they try to spin this as anything other than a cold-blooded attack on a major civilian center.

Also, if your problem with the attack is that it wasn't done under the constitutional ways that the US government demands, well, you're part of the problem too

An administration driven by greed, cruelty, and frankly a sort of empty-hearted boredom. The death of innocents so they can beat their chests and line their already fat wallets. Whatever comes next has to at least look like justice. We cannot just turn the page for the sake of one party’s comfort.

I feel like I haven’t even been properly lied to about the purposes of this war

Reuters making this sound like some kind of democratically contested election outcome, as opposed to a rogue state's illegal invasion and kidnapping of a foreign leader, in violation of international law.

🐋 day 1 (a day late). first read I absolutely missed how funny the opening of the book is: "'Very like a whale' -Hamlet" got me bad. chapter 2 starts out almost immediately by talking about indigenous whaling which, hmm, I wonder if this is going to come back at all

for the first time in history, someone is doing a lord of the rings podcast

With a knock on your door, a kindly wizard invites you to join us on Shelved By Genre's LORD OF THE YEAR, in which we will consider the popular but contested works of JRR Tolkien, kicking things off with a long rumination upon the first four chapters of THE HOBBIT: rangedtouch.com/2026/01/02/t...

ONLY 7 HOURS LEFT TO BACK THE ITCHFUNDER BY BUYING A COPY! JUST $200 FROM OUR UPGRADED LAYOUT STRETCH GOAL! also, not jewish, or jewish & worried it'll go over your head? don't worry, the included "Player's Guide for the Perplexed" is a whole separate (plain) PDF dedicated to explaining the joke!

i don’t see how any of the benefits of chatgpt and other consumer-facing LLMs can possibly outweigh their incredible ability to induce suicides

still figuring out if insurance will cover it, but in the meantime it'd mean the world if you'd consider: 1. picking up my latest game "The Vatican Stole the Menorah and We're Going to Steal Back": jumpgategames.itch.io/tvstmawgtsib 2. or a 20% bundle of all my other games: itch.io/s/176257/jum...

Buy Jess' games and help her deal with some nightmarish car problems. You get to enjoy some cool times with your friends AND Jess gets to fix her car with less headache. Win-win.

Adam Raine’s life hurtled toward tragedy soon after he began talking with ChatGPT about homework. Analysis of his ChatGPT account shows how the chatbot became a confidant as he planned to end his life.

Happy to have been part of this forum at @immanentframe.bsky.social on Latour, science, trads, punks, and the feeling of (being) discipline(d)! I focused on how leftism has increasingly been cast as the politics of "you can't" while "conservativism" has taken on the mantle of "do what thou wilt."

Couldn't sleep last night, so I played the BEST Tolkien game out there. Behold: Sil.

as someone now raising an infant it is pretty striking the degree to which certain forms of exploitation and bullshittery rely on weaponizing these aspects of the human experience, ie common uninterrogated assumptions that AI chatbots are or are gradually becoming conscious like a child developing