I got to go see my friends make opera tonight and talk to my singer friends and it was so nice. I spend more time with instrumentalist friends I've met through Jeff and they are great but truly there is nothing like hanging out with singers it is important to have friends who get you

Hello yes I am once again starting to learn in earnest two contemporary chamber pieces for my upcoming concert and once again questioning all my life choices and taste in music. They're really fun and good and everything is easier to me after Die Serenaden but oh god the learning curve is so steep

I finally watched the new Frankenstein movie and I knew I would not like it based on what I heard about it but I was not expecting how much I hated oh my god how do you fuck up Frankenstein this much

With so many of us watching the tremendous mobilizations in Minneapolis, culminating in the call to action against ICE today, I wanted to share some of what I have gathered from talking to comrades in Minneapolis over the past few weeks. A few things stood out:

London Ontario folks, St. Paul's Cathedral on Dundas is opening up as an emergency warming station tonight from 8pm-8am and are accepting donations of warm blankets and sleeping bags until 3pm. Other items can be donated after 8pm. Please share around and help if you can!

Fahrenheit confuses me so much like what do you mean -20 is -4 and -30 is -22 but -40 is -40

Yesterday night I brought my crochet to bed because I figured it would be better to do that before I fell asleep instead of inundate myself with the horrors, but the whole time I was crocheting all I could do was contemplate the horrors so I guess that means I can look at my phone as much as I want

I know that the Only Posts feed exists for blue sky, but is there one that turns off retweets *and* qrts?

Since I'm currently in England, I can't access messages on Bluesky unless I verify my age. I'm not comfortable handing out my ID online, so you can contact me by responding to my posts or through the form on my website.

trying to decide if I want to join the NDP to vote for the new leader because that's who I'm gonna vote for in the next election but also that means I have to join the NDP and I don't know how I feel about that

my beloved cat Noodle is at the vet & needs $1300 in diagnostic testing for a potentially life-threatening health issue i've put all 5 of my TTRPGs on sale for $20, including the award-winning going rogue 2e & bestseller I Have the High Ground—any support is appreciated 🔗: itch.io/s/179078/hel...

I'm not really a big contemporary romance guy, and so have no real interest in reading Heated Rivalries BUT I do think that it should be the 2026 Canada Reads book because the picks are usually so high brow and I just think it would be funny if the CBC told the country to read gay hockey smut

Y'all it was a joke

I felt like making some art last night/today and could have made something beautiful and/or meaningful but I made this instead. It's a Barbie Yaga Malibu Dream Hut. No regrets. Can't defeat fascism without joy.

cyclical ttrpg discourse is important not only because it brings new voices and ideas into old conversations but also because it allows everyone who has participated before to feel like a grizzled old veteran of being a ttrpg person on the internet

Jeff and I finally watched Wake Up Deadman and it is possibly the most lapsed catholic movie I have ever seen. Rian Johnson really just put all his spiritual trauma into a movie for us to watch

It occurs to me that at some point this year if will be 10 years since I started doing TTRPG stuff and that it feels both like forever ago and yesterday

$2030 until we reach $15,000 for the Black Zine Fair: gogetfunding.com/black-zine-f...

Last week I realized that you can chant Centrist Nonsense and clap five times like you're at a sports game I just think that every NDP MP has the chance to do the funniest thing possible

I made it into the office today but at what cost

Did I yell enough about how A Land Once Magic is literally based on All My Fantasy Children? The initial draft was made for an AMFC game jam (that I missed the deadline of oopsie) Go listen to it!

The Ontario Liberals have to elect someone who can actually beat Doug Ford in the next election. Someone who scares him. Someone the public already knows and roots for. Might I suggest a bee share.google/CPvr9JxBB3Nk...

This year I've decided to make more trans mugs. Last year I raised money for our local gender affirming closet. This year, I'm looking to raise money for an organization that helps trans people in Alberta. If you know of any orgs helping, please let me know below. #alberta #Trans #lgbtq #Canada

Thread. [the shorthand about her that is often uplifted on social media always does her a disservice and also does Rosa Parks one too. Glad for this thread]

CALLING ALL BLACK GMS Hello 2026 I'm back with the GM & Producer sign up sheet for a Valentines event celebrating Black Love in TTRPGs. Showcasing Black characters getting to be In Love, being the Love Interest, doing romantic things. Call closes Saturday January 17th forms.gle/ZBMWEvL6pWa6...

pssssst look what's finally available again

if you've been digging my writing so far, it would be a tremendous help to me right now while I'm waiting for some other payments to come through if you tossed a coin to your [poet/game designer]

you love to see it

I came into work to a frustrating email from my boss and then some full chested white supremacist nonsense from one of the fucking weirdo organizations that like to put churches on their mailing list so I think this means I can legally start my weekend early

I'm trying to get over my fear of the ttrpg discourse machine by adapting Sophie Yanow's gentle comics habit to blogging so I can practice saying things imperfectly. The first post is now available to everyone. I think it's been working well so far www.patreon.com/posts/trying...

why do we call work that is obviously administrative work "housekeeping?" they're different thingsss

I was reading Symposium in the student lounge when I met my husband so I guess there is some evidence that interaction with Plato can lure straight men into relationships with queer women.

Philosophers—the most relentlessly disputatious people alive—in complete agreement for once.

Plato being too woke for a conservative university is by no means the worst thing happening right now, but it is what made me want to go back to bed this morning

do non-vloggers make yearly vision boards? do they do anything for you? they're so ubiquitous online and the collage lover in me is always like 👀 but also it this just toxic productivity culture with a cute homemade aesthetic?

The tech oligarchs figured out that keeping us isolated and outraged makes the most money on social media and that has fucked up our brains so much that even a place that is not algorithmically tuned to outrage us has us falling into the same patterns. real human connection (online or off) helps

I'm rewatching the first run of Kakuriyo and I wonder if romantasy is part of the reason it suddenly got another season? like now non anime girlies are into monster bride stories so there's broader appeal? but also Aoi immediately rejects the whole monster bride premise so who knows

I think of this a lot. Mostly because my favorite thing to say is that knowing who to be mad at is praxis. But it's also difficult for people to know currently because there's no identifiable leadership on the Lefts to clearly articulate this. The fascists constantly tell people who to be mad at.

God what a treasure of a game.

Dorothy Parker to Robert Benchley, December 31, 1929. Happy New Year!

The first four Nancy Drew books are coming into the public domain tomorrow and I full of dread about it. Although this also means I get to read the lost chapters and the versions of the books where I'm pretty sure they gave her a gun sometimes

Cis comedians making great trans jokes is always such a treat

This year I lost two immediate family members, was diagnosed with two chronic illnesses, and dealt with the particularly isolating dysphoria and heartache of treating infertility while being nonbinary. next year will be better, I think, but I will be recovering from 2025 for a long time to come

Today is my last daily verification ❤️ I have tons of resources for how to verify on your own and I’ll also probably make a thread soon on other trusted verification sources- but as always the best thing you can do to verify a family is in Gaza is speak with them

remember when you could go online and search for "good pillow" and you'd get like blog posts reviewing and comparing pillows but now you just get an Amazon page for Good Pillow Great Sleeping Perfect for Single or Couple Great Soft sleepy Dream Pillow for soft Bedtime Relaxation pillow ($97.83)

#Ontario residents! Here's a petition to stop private health clinics from charging extra for important procedures like cataract surgery. #e-6811 #Canada