Wanted to bump this again. Pretty fun stuff, but not many views yet. I know things like this can take a long time to build. I may have to have the cats do video book reviews...

Simple Apple Bourbon" cocktail with Maple and a splash of lemon. It's tasty. ALSO New - my collection Hickory Nuts and Bones. Don't sleep on this... it's some of my best work, and the new publisher could use some publicity. Let me tell you a story... www.amazon.com/Hickory-Nuts...

Mike's knowledge covering show metrics on Twitch has me remembering an old Star Trek line: Dr. McCoy to Spock, "... (we) trust your guesses more than other people's facts."

These are in my shop and ready for adoption! www.kellymckernan.com/shop?categor...

At the store to get some basics for the new apartment. Halloween candy is 50% off. There was a bag of chocolate Payday. I don't eat much candy at all, but do like regular Payday. Got a bag of the chocolate - there's more nuts than a Baby Ruth, but very similar flavor.

Wow! 😮🤩 There's a new interactive map of Every Known Road in the Roman Empire!! 🤓 itiner-e.org We might have to have a lie-down.

Nathan Dowdell takes us through another TV scenario translated into game terms to help you make STA shine at your table. This time we take a Deep Space Nine Episode “The Jem’Hadar” and show you how it would have looked like from behind a GM screen. 🔗 Read more here: buff.ly/6ojLNeK

I hope you're fucking happy @emuhp.bsky.social I present to you my venn piagram

Hmmmmm

This is what it sounds like! TURN UP THE VOLUME!

Illinois passed the Illinois Bivens Act, which allows folks to sue ICE officers who violate their rights. “damages can increase based on various factors … including the use of facial coverings, crowd control measures like tear gas, vehicles with a non-Illinois license plate or no license plate…”

Reminder.

New job starts Dec 1. Keys to new apartment yesterday. Just slept on my backpacking sleeping pad for the first time in 7 years. It will have to do until movers are scheduled. (Storage is 2000 miles away)

Alright folks! VbN needs your help! We’re just about to cross the barrier for 2 million views! (Which is extremely rare for a channel that deals with VtM content) So what we need is for folks to view our stuff! youtube.com/@vancouverby... Drop us a like or a sub if you want to as well! #rpg

this is very cool: Kodak quietly relisted Kodak Gold and Ultramax on its website and confirmed to me it is selling the films directly to photography stores again. this is a big deal because for the last decade, Kodak has not controlled distribution of its own film www.404media.co/kodak-quietl...

I’ve been regularly volunteering at a food bank for about a year and please, if you want to help, consider donating cash. For $3, they can provide 15 meals and what they can do with the money you might spend on a few cans can be converted to vastly more in fresh fruit, vegetables, dairy, or meat.

I didn't realise I needed The HU to cover Iron Maiden's The Trooper. youtu.be/2WrvFUZgHro?...

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I'd be very grateful if someone on Bluesky noticed my art! I'm an experienced illustrator and also a theater artist. It's difficult for me to master a new social network. I'd be very happy to meet you all! Let's be friends!🙏🏻 #grimmsbery #art #friends #artist #illustration #help #happy #friendship

Tuesday morning I started an 1800+ mile road trip and completed it by dinner time Wednesday (32 hours). Thursday I found an apartment and have a chance to take possession on Saturday. Next will be to schedule movers for the 2000 mile hike to storage.

Sorry it's been a minute, I have an announcement! ✨ Shop opening on November 8th, 10am PT ✨ I will have a few commission spots for the holidays and a restock of finished work. Make sure you're up to date on the Commission FAQ! Amyraehill.com/commissions Full restock preview coming soon ☺️

Tomorrow night, 9pm US Central time, there will be an actual play of the Secret World TTRPG if anyone wants to check it out. www.twitch.tv/knightssmith...

For anyone looking for ways to reduce meal costs, I cannot recommend the Budget Bytes app and website highly enough. Most of the meals work out to under $2/serving, there are vegan options, things that freeze well, etc. The Moroccan Lentil Stew is my favorite.

"D&D Stats Explained With Tomatoes Strength is being able to crush it Dexterity is being able to dodge it Constitution is being able to eat a rotten one Intelligence is knowing it is fruit Wisdom is knowing not to put in a fruit salad Charisma is being able to sell a tomato based fruit salad."

I had already survived a dark and stormy night; even so I was surprised at what I saw ahead of me: A white work truck with blue lettering, "Hole In the Wall." As I got closer I could see "cement mixing" was one of their services. @outstar.bsky.social what do you think, do coincidences exist?

1800+ mile road trip. Stopped for a late lunch at Waffle House. Say what you will, but the food is reliable & at a decent price.

Not a fan of watching baseball on TV. For no reason whatsoever I'm sharing a long-running comment of mine, "The only reason Baseball is America's past time is because it takes so long to play."

Again... he did it again, and it's free. @floregonian.com This, also, gave me joy this week. Just now.

I love this so much...

Apparently some folks are playing real dumb about skull symbols so let’s play a little game I like to call “Nazi skull or not a Nazi skull” First up, the Jolly Roger. This is a pirate skull, not a Nazi skull. It means you might get robbed, but prolly not genocided. With me so far? 1/x

It is live on Amazon and will be available everywhere soon in trade paperback! My new collect, HICKORY NUTS AND BONES... a lot of brand new stories... some of my best from other markets... beautiful cover - from Lefthand Path Press.

ATTENTION! Chris here: Down to the wire. About to lose our storage and home. If we can last a couple more months here I can move us to an apt that is far more affordable/avoid sleeping in the car. Im going to open a new digital bundle tier for $105 which gets you everything in the shop plus bonuses.

It's been a back and forth, now, then, early next year... and now.. I can formally announce that the "publish" button has been pushed on my new collection from Lefthand Press (whose beautiful website will be live soon) and it may be available to buy by tomorrow... Vincent Chong cover!

Oct 24th, 10am, Frodo wakes up in Rivendell after getting stabbed at weathertop. Its about that time in New Zealand. Happy Many Meetings day (I dont know if this is a thing)

I am coining the term 'Pseudozeitgeist' to refer to the artifically constructed spirit of a time through algorithm and media control, but also to win big at Scrabble.

Too soon

Seems like now and then I should remind everyone my newest book is out there and people seem to love it.

The most important thing in writing is to finish. A finished thing can be fixed. A finished thing can be published. A finished thing can be made into a movie. An unfinished thing is just a dream. And dreams fade if you don't hold on tight enough. So finish the thing.

By popular demand: I've opened a Kickstarter for a HOP T-shirt! If I get 50 preorders I'll do a print run! www.kickstarter.com/projects/201...

Listen to me. Listen. If you're making images that will only be displayed on screens, YOU HAVE TO LET GO. You can calibrate your screens perfectly, but then 25k people will see it on their shitty $50 monitors or cracked phone and its out of your hands. Don't think of it. Achieve enlightenment.

Edinburgh castle failing to render, likely thanks to the AWS outage

I need to mention something that happened yesterday. I had a negative review of my game & an irate player in my Discord, talking about bugs they claimed were longstanding, mentioned all over Steam and Reddit, and never fixed. After some probing they admitted they had been asking ChatGPT for hints.

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1999: Gabriel Byrne stars as a priest in Stigmata (September) and as Satan in End of Days (November). Coincidence? I think NOT!

Reminded me of a @gehennagaming.bsky.social horror themed weekend

Across East Java is a region known as the Ijen volcano complex, a series of composite volcanoes famous for spewing sapphire-hued lava. While mineral deposits cause the coloration, in #dnd & #writing, the source can be fantastical. #nature #volcano #ttrpg 🎥: Olivier Grunewald and Régis Etienne