Vale, I hope you know what you must do 💋 #art #BadInfluenceComic #OCSky

Locus Holiday Merch Sale! Our adorable mugs and tees are on sale now and make great gifts! Check it out! locusmag.com/store (link in bio)

Necronauts, Rogue Scientists fixing the Gates of Death (a Blades in the Dark Crewsheet) Maybe you don't want to play scoundrels engaging in activities that are criminal in the real world but maybe in a world this broken, only scoundrels could hope to fix things.

oh cripes, THREAD. (hides eyes) 🤨

TIL about a memorial ceremony in Iceland in 2019 to mark the end of a glacier, changing the place name from Okjökull to Ok (jökull = glacier). Uncompromising wording on the bronze plaque: "This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".

Important Transmog Update: the right horns can put angry eyebrows on the murloc onesie

This I believe: the simple past of "snow" is "snew".

Being extremely careful about image/video attribution isn’t JUST important for giving credit to artists and creators. It’s also a way to slightly decrease your chances of spreading deceptive AI slop!

One last poke before it's midnight and my birthday is over XD

We're resuming #DnD with terrible jokes, as is only appropriate. "Why is he targeting us again?" "He hates people from Cyre." "I'm from Cyre. I'm a Cyran. I sing and everything." "Is siren-style singing like a fire truck?" *makes an unholy screech* "Yes, exactly like that!"

A man said to the universe: “Sir, I exist!” “However,” replied the universe, “The fact has not created in me A sense of obligation.” –Stephen Crane

I remember seeing this DIC Entertainment bumper jingle at the end of most kids TV shows back in the day. It always made my sisters and I crack up laughing 😂 #nostalgia #synthwave

Kind of guy who insists that LLMs can't be truly sapient because true sapience has never developed in the universe, yes even among humans, no he won't explain because you're not capable of truly comprehending anything

reposting yesterday's #drawings

I see "FIFA bribed the President of the US with a made-up medal so he wouldn't interfere with the World Cup" has pretty much fallen off the news cycle. Strange to see what journalists consider normal these days. #politics

Developer attempts to replicate "Liquid Glass" in CSS, and once finished realizes what she'd actually created is an exploit for a fundamental, previously unknown, and rather serious browser vulnerability lyra.horse/blog/2025/12... "CSS hack accidentally becomes regular hack"

When you're supposed to go cryptid hunting with your paranormal investigator crew but they all conveniently bail last minute, leaving you alone with the guy you've been internet beefing with. Oops, the heat only works in one room 😲 #art #BadInfluenceComic #OCSky

It's my birthday! If you wanna do something for me it'd be really cool to recommended my comic to a friend. Otherwise, reading it and/or leaving a nice comment would be cool. OR you can just share my art. ❤️ badinfluencecomic.com

‘Put down those damn donuts boys! We have work to do!’ 🍩☕️🚨 #80s #synthwave #nostalgia

This is so accurate it causes me mild physical pain.

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Anyway is this the story I had published this year that made the most people claim to have leaked their precious vital essences out of their eyes? MAYBE. Am I thinking about the end of the world a lot? (A lot a lot a lot?) YES. psychopomp.com/everyone-kee...

my buddy @urbancomposition.bsky.social and I did an AMA where we answered a bunch of style-related questions for our menswear pod. you may enjoy it. these are totally free episodes and we'll be doing them every three months. pod.link/blamo/episod...

Seeing family during the holidays, and dreading that they'll ask you to play D&D? Tell them you'll play Dragon Slayers instead! gilarpgs.myshopify.com/products/dra...

A quick thread of amazing things on the shop. We're currently free US shipping over $25. Fuck. Hand-sawed in Nu Gold by Meg. $50. www.peculiarityshop.com/product-page...

this is the ideal male body. you may not like it, but this is what peak performance looks like

Hey all, The Onion is accepting applicants for our writing, video and graphics fellowships. Fellowships last six months, pay well, and provide full benefits. You can apply at theonion.com/fellowship.

Vale's ponytail is growing on me Page 122 is live! Latest: badinfluencecomic.com Start Fresh: badinfluencecomic.com/comic/cover1/ #BadInfluenceComic #comics #WebComic

Sprint campaign! Birds doing crime!

Your remixes are always so much fun and I love how much fun you're obviously having making them. :)

Please indulge yourself at the mountain goats merch table this week to offset how poorly I’ve controlled my book buying habit at Magus and Elliott Bay in Seattle, thank you, I tried to control myself but didn’t

Thread! (And Thoth alone knows how many hornets' nests Dan's going to kick during this process...) 🙂 (runs off to dig out some microwave popcorn)

The enemy is always aristocracy. It changes shape to fit whatever society we’re in, but the desire for it is endemic for certain types of people. You must learn to hate it as much as it hates you.

An angel appeared squinting, moppy bedhead over one eye, gripping a double affogato (which is not doing enough) while yawning through too-little sleep, and wearing untied trainers and an oversized hoodie emblazoned with pink bubble writing that said “BE NOT AFRAID!!! :D”

I return often to Bertrand Russell's "In Praise of Idleness". harpers.org/archive/1932...

The result of this is going to be cars getting worse but not cheaper and every driver of a post-2025 gas vehicle paying more at the pump. As with almost every conservative deregulation, corporate profits (and dividends) go up, consumers suffer. #politics

people, you have the chance to put my book ahead of Olivia Nuzzi’s on the bestseller list. put aside all other considerations and think how objectively funny this would be. #1, that Mountain Goats guy. #2, Antivax Man Has My Heart. funniest list of the century. We can do this if we try

How much does the soldering hurt?

The new editions of the FULL TRILOGY by @aliettedebodard.com are available for preorder now in ebook and paperback. Enter a Paris wrecked by magical cataclysm in this beloved series of fallen angels, devious alchemists, & Vietnamese dragons. Check out book 1 here: awfulagent.com/ebooks/the-h...

I need to clear some shelf space, so I'm reducing the cost of two of my books! REAP is a solo soul like TTRPG about a wandering necromancer gilarpgs.myshopify.com/products/reap LOOT is a mashup of looter shooter and fantasy TTRPG. Do quests, get loot! gilarpgs.myshopify.com/products/loot

Check out this utterly cool special issue, and apparently open access!!!!

Soda is such a big part of 80s culture, what was your drink of choice? 🥤🫦

Daily thread of COOL GIFTS BY QUEER HANDS, AND FREE US SHIPPING OVER $25. Beetle. Wing. Earrings. $34.20 www.peculiarityshop.com/product-page...

Re-upping this again:

My birthday is coming up, you should read my comic ;)

Life in Louisiana changed for the worse by anti-immigrant pogroms

Me talking about writing and my career and how book censoring and white supremacy both suck a lot and also how I got my side gig as the DJ to the nerds

One of my favorite character tropes is “awkward virgin nerd who is incredibly endowed but doesn’t realize it” 👀❤️Hubs had me play #Dispatch this past weekend and in this house we stan Waterboy #gayart #fanart

Reading old court transcripts and, I mean, whomst