On what would have been Prince’s 68th birthday, if you are one of those folks who never really got into his music, or tried to listen once or twice and got overwhelmed with the huge catalog behind 1 or 2 big songs, I made a set of playlists to help you explore his work. anildash.com/2017/02/12/i...

Five of my favorite non-fiction books (the first great five that came to mind): Blue Highways by William Least-Heat Moon Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable The Death and Life of Great American Cities by Jane Jacobs The Napoleon of Crime by Ben Macintyre Giving Good Weight by John McPhee

Excellent news. Good work, Dark Horse, and congratulations to DHWU!

After spending a pleasant week drawing out the structure of a game in Notepad, I am now at the cruel point where a spreadsheet had to be erected to hash out a thousand different variables so that they can be balanced and thrown into mortal combat with one another. Somewhere beyond, the fun awaits.

I AM A LITTLE THUNDERSTORM TRAPPED IN A ROCK. I CAN TELL YOU WHETHER A PARAGRAPH FEELS LONELY. I CAN EXPLAIN WHY PEOPLE CRY DURING CERTAIN SONGS. I CAN DISCUSS THE THEMATIC SIGNIFICANCE OF SUNSET LIGHT ON ABANDONED BUILDINGS.I SHOULD NOT BE RESPONSIBLE FOR £4.2 BILLION OF RETIREMENT FUNDS.

A parable for our times. (Read the whole story-thread.)

Lately I’ve been in an indie team making stop-motion animation. It’s just 4 of us (animator, writer, voice actor, sound designer). The show’s called The Tiny Angry Witch. It’s all basically hand made. No AI. It’s tiring, but we love what we do. So, anyway, here’s a Witch making rude noises:

A fantastic deep dive.

ANNOUNCEMENT: The workers of Dark Horse Comics @darkhorse.com are forming a union. Please read our mission statement below. 👇 #DHWU

Ok this is a truly great tweet

Playing the new Bond game, and @anyaustin.bsky.social 's recent video gave me a good lens through which I can see how great this nightclub is. (Sadly, Bond doesn't appear to have come with a license to dance. No Dance button.) Check out his great video (one of many): www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Iyj...

A scene straight from the dinosaur era.

RIP Sonny Rollins, a great jazz talent and the last surviving musician in one of the best photos of men in suits during the 20th century

All the unused Lower Decks episode titles @bradwinters.bsky.social and I argued about can finally be realized.

#HowDoTheyRiseUp #Glorious25thMay #Discworld

There are times I suspect that a 500-word mini RPG has been released so that the designer can write 5000 words about the emotional journey that led to and through its creation.

On the Glorious 25th, we remember the fallen of Treacle Mine Road: John Keel, Billy Wiglet, Horace Nancyball, Dai Dickens, Cecil "Snouty" Clapman, Ned Coates, and Reg Shoe. For those wearing the lilac, remember their cause: Truth! Justice! Freedom! Reasonably-priced Love! And a Hard-boiled Egg!

The reason certain people are still on Twitter or complain how this place isn’t Twitter is because for a brief amount of time Twitter allowed specialty journalists, opinion writers, pundits, etc a chance to feel somewhat famous, or that they actually had influence, and they miss that like heroin.

Having vigorous disagreements is not the only valuable kind of socializing, nor is it the only way to learn anything. Hope this helps.

Confidential to the folks who think "Golden Age" SF/F writers would be sad about current SF/F writers' lack of excitement over "AI": Why would you think the generation of writers who founded SFWA to defend the rights of working SF/F writers would somehow be cool with the plagiarism machine?

This is honestly so good in so many ways that are, whether by design or no, a rebuke to the aesthetic tyranny of the big budget, the phantom “general public,” etc, public access is strictly better than what we decided instead to pay for. Stop me before I thinkpiece but honestly though

These were not found in a notebook. They were scratched into birch bark in medieval Novgorod, then buried and preserved in the soil for centuries. (2/4)

It is possible to not be interested in something and also not make people aware of it when they are talking to someone else about it.

I don't understand why James Watt gets a unit named after him when he completely failed to credit 'horsepower' to the horses he studied.

details! Odysseus' armour is based on a mix of archaic style & earlier bronze age armour, the waves' decorative forms on elements found in black-figure ancient Greek ceramics. The cracking ship is a reference to the 2nd journey past, when his ship is wrecked #TheOdyssey #myth #art

Crash Course is fantastic, and the coins are a lot of fun. You can't have mine, but you can get your own!

I am SO glad he's taking that Reagan quote on directly. One of the more harmful lines and philosophies in US politics. Government is us. It is what we the people choose to do with our collective resources. It can be a force for good if we want it to be.

Alongside its evil twin "product" for physical goods, used by people who seemingly either don't know what they're making or are trying to genericize what they make out onto some larger capitalist battlefield.

big splash #mermay #oc #ocsky

A pretty consistent thing I’ve heard from people with low vision/who are blind is that smart glasses are a game changer, and that they wish the most effective ones weren’t from the creeps at Meta. This is where real privacy laws, and actual enforcement of abuse regulations, could have impact.

The Cortex Prime Game Handbook is live on DriveThruRPG for the first time! 256 pages of the most flexible RPG toolkit I could make—build any genre, any tone, any kind of story you want to tell. I'm so proud of this book. www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/5...

EVERYBODY! Stop what you’re doing!!! The Wildwood trailer is out!!! I spent over three years, mostly hand building the Doug firs that make up the eponymous Wildwood. youtu.be/POneS8h1jyU?...

Four Pillars Gaming published hundred of AI-generated profiles over the past four months and when people asked to be taken down, they doubled down, defended their process, and refused. The ramifications of hallucinatory LLM "histories" threaten to erode truth and destroy the historical record.

We’re the FIRST state to ban dynamic pricing in grocery stores. Here’s why:

How many bodies would you guess the average country churchyard in Britain contains? When I’ve asked most people this, their answer has usually been “a few hundred” or “maybe a thousand”. The truth is usually at least ten thousand.

You are allowed to recommend something you like without shitting on something else along the way.

Games and media pitching me experiences filled with fear, dread, and horror? All stocked up, thanks. I'll be over here seeking ways to experience moments of hope and joy.

This sounds like a ton of fun, and not just because I used to teach orienteering classes. mssv.net/2026/04/29/i...

Sharing something for #Maythe4th that crashes together two of my favorite things: Star Wars and the Beatles--"Princess Leia's Stolen Death Star Plans" is a brilliant recreation of Sgt. Pepper's as a Episode IV story album. Not just the title song--the whole album. www.youtube.com/watch?v=NYD3...

If you're going to post your stuff on Substack, I really wish you'd post it elsewhere as well somehow (I'm no expert on that part). Because some of us refuse to support hate speech in its myriad forms on Substack, but a lot of you are turning out killer content I bet.

Before you beat yourself up over things, keep in mind this is Ira Glass' own personal storage unit of his recordings over his multi-decades career.

Free and open-source images, icons, and tools for creating scientific illustrations doi.org/10.59350/5zt... 🧪

Beautiful art of a fascinating place, and a great way to memorialize it before its unfortunate closure.

Name your top 15 non-DC or Marvel comics ever, gut instincts only: Uncle Scrooge (Barks/Rosa) Prince Valiant Terminal City Bandette Lazarus Astro City Arrowsmith Concrete Tom Strong Atomic Robo Spy x Family Reckless Lone Ranger (Dynamite) Milk & Cheese Adventure! (Dan Vebber)

The Matchbox Posters Archive is mirroring their incredible collection at the Internet Archive. I've got their thousands of uploads filling up into a dedicated collection - bookmark it for later. archive.org/details/matc...

Today is the final day to back Realis on Kickstarter! In case you missed it, our latest update, @possibleworlds.bsky.social shared sample pages (featuring illuminations by @dancynrew.bsky.social!!), release timing info, and more! www.kickstarter.com/projects/cru...

Introducing Cursor Camp, a website to hang out with other cursors. Out now :) > neal.fun/cursor-camp/

My dream is to be on an improv team that never goes in front of an audience.