After some time to think on the matter, I can't be the only one to feel like we missed a season of Stranger Things somewhere. The Epstein Files must be released.

The final Calvin and Hobbes, which appeared in papers 30 years ago today.

Oh, you mean he wants the architect of the misery of his people dead? How very strange. By the way, me and President Zelensky have that wish in common. Fuck Putin. Fuck Trump. And fuck you if you support either of them. Merry Christmas.

Roses are red, Violets are blue, White nationalism is incompatible with the gospel and whatnot

Fuck Henry Ford.

This brings me joy.

If you wear clothes with buttons around your house, you can’t be trusted.

A million dollars is almost a billion less than a billion dollars. —@jcombs.bsky.social

One thing that continues to make me happy... the number of people in the signing lines, often teens, who say they got into reading or got back into reading because of my novel Annihilation.

Preferably with the President in it.

lol she got his ass and he knows it

Billionaires shouldn’t exist.

One war criminal down.

The criminals running the U.S. want: -To keep the government shut down -To have Social Security and the ACA fail -To starve, strangle or kill anyone not them -To use their country of slaves to enrich themselves endlessly These are WIN conditions, stop acting like they're misunderstandings.

I'd just like to point out: "I dislike #TTRPGs with death spirals," and "I need my #TTRPGs to have realistic combat," Are 100% in direct opposition.

Smashmouth is someone’s favorite band.

Just spending a nice quiet morning day-dreaming about the death of American Capitalism.

I’m pro-Miss Hannigan.

im sorry blue check liberals but im not going to feel sorry for someone who went out like this

You’re brain has never seen light before, yet it tells you what light looks like. I think of this almost everyday. Or my brain does.

Nope. You’re a moron.

Totally fine with this

I’m sorry, sir, but this is one of the best parts of the hockey season.

Today I chose the shoes I didn’t have to untie.

Right call

Before you celebrate Easter this weekend, be sure you Google Eostre so you can see where your religion comes from.

In!

Turkey is the worst cold-cut.

O! M! G!

Someone was asking about specific #TTRPG trends by decade, and since 1989, they've remained essentially unchanged: -"Our game should be D&D instead of D&D!" -"Role playing NOT Roll playing!" -"A COMPLETELY NEW FORMAT!" -"We're ALL the GM/There is no GM!" -"It's like X, but even X-er!"

I’m genuinely excited for this book!

Nope.

Just to clarify, as a customer, you don’t get to police a creator’s political views, whether they’re in the work or out of it. You don’t get a vote. If it bugs you, feel free to fuck all the way off. This is not a collaborative process. You buy the work or not. That’s your vote. That’s it.

problem solved

Give this bit an Oscar

Getting set up for today’s recording! So stoked to play some games with great people. (I’ve been meaning to do another time lapse of the podcast and recording setup for a while. Should we do more?)

There’s something special about the first few minutes of a a #ttrpg group sitting down to play. I’m still running on the excitement from our gaming and recording session over the weekend.

I’m only allowed to respond to these amazingly kind words one way:

Fuck being rational…

i kind of bridle at the whole "welcome to the resistance" thing re bluesky. first, this isn't star wars. second, yeah yeah, it's better, but there's still only so much you can do on social media and also bluesky could change.

Solid ethos

So, anyways, I'm a novelist not a nature photographer and my latest, Absolution, is about a man and his pet gator and all the misadventures they get up to out in the swamp. Along with the piano playin' wise-crackin' Old Jim. Pick it up if you like lighthearted, jocular tall tales.

Just like the "3.5 Star Chinese Food Rating Theory," I feel like the movies I like the most, overall, are all rated 6.6 on IMDB.

One month has 28 days, and some months have 30 or 31 days, but January distinguishes itself for having one thousand million days.

This is still the best summary of online TTRPG discourse ever written

Say a locksmith comes to a character's house to open a locked door in your novel. Guess what? Unless that person figures into the novel later, or the interaction has some other meaning, just cut to the effin' door being open. No one gives a flying f*ck about the locksmith in this context.

I can barely sleep!