Why the hell does my phone autocorrect "Wesnoth" to "Mesothelioma"?

I just handed in my story for this set, and friends I think it is genuinely one of the best stories i've ever written in my entire life.

the thing about outer wilds is that a lot of games are managing to replicate it's puzzle systems, like the way you discover them through learning the world, the way things are hidden in plain sight, or the way it uses timing puzzles but very few also replicate it being decidedly About Something

#JustFinishedABook Space Carrier Avalon by Glynn Stewart. Two main thoughts on this: 1. Experimentally verified that launching Horatio Hornblower into space makes me 10x more interested, but tbh, I already considered it confirmed by the similar effect of giving Jack Aubrey a dragon.

I was thinking about that 1980s James Bond movie where everybody's trying to get their hands on a Fabergé egg for some reason And then I realized: It's an Egg McGuffin.

Vat-children, decentralized app based gig-economy fractional parenting. The future is visible for those with eyes to see.

Wha can I say. It was my audience. I embraced them and was very protective of them and outspoken. In my head I was like “that could just as easily have been me and they deserve better”. Turns out it WAS me…

Psst. This is a lightning bolt. On fucking Jupiter.

Let me take over Dilbert, it's not like Scott Adams will need it in Hell. I've got a ton of great ideas to turn that comic around! Step 1: rename it DILFbert. Step 2: after a year, rename it MILFbert. There is no Step 3.

No new pics, Where are you, mentally.

New dating strategy just dropped

10 days until Frieren season 2!

I’m still not sure which Knives Out film I like the most, but I think I feel pretty confident in saying the Louise phone call from Wake Up Dead Man is my favorite scene in the whole trilogy

Deleted 6500 lines of unused code today. 😊

“I can’t come in today, it’s the festival of Inanna’s descent into the Underworld.”

Having played the game a bunch over the weekend, very much seconding this recommendation. Some well-designed puzzles in it, and a programming game that both I (professional developer) and my wife (scientist with a good amount of coding experience, but no python) can enjoy is impressive.

Had a dream where I checked in on a webcomic and found that the author transitioned. Woke, up, laughed a bit about how many times that has had actually happened, checked the webcomic on question... and yeah, she's trans now.

Celebrating this for the second time today.

Mia knows what's up. #⚳gang

Singin' in the Rain being a jukebox musical is wild. All its songs people think of being "from" Singin' in the Rain, when technically (almost) none of them are. "I like the Singin' in the Rain cover of Singin' in the Rain" <- That is ridiculous. You will get weird looks if you say that.

What was the last movie or TV show you watched in 2025?

a nice thing about 2025 being absolutely terrible is that I’m not filled with the slightest sense of wistfulness about it ending

This year sucked. I want a refund.

Sometimes "I have 20 years' experience solving countless problems like this" loses out to "I have six years' experience solely spent addressing *this* specific problem."

#JustFinishedABook Children of Memory by Adrian Tchaikovsky. I don't know. I think I've been liking each book a bit less. It seems like the books are trying to avoid being just "Children of Time 2". Yet I kinda really wanted a Children of Time 2 on the ravens, and it was so abbreviated in here.

Successfully pavloved myself to look forward to electrolysis pain because it tastes like ice cream and m&ms.

LCRW No. 51 has officially been published! For just $7, you can purchase my story “A Grumble of Goddesses” plus 11 other pieces of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. “A Grumble of Goddesses” is a fantasy tale about fraudulent Minoan snake goddesses and how Edwardian scholars mangled history.

Ironically, transition lenses made me dysphoric.

Michelle Obama had dinner with her kids a few tables over from me at California Pizza Kitchen.

ain't this that game where you fuck a bear

Every now and then I have to remind myself not to take it for granted that we can see high quality photos from the surface of another planet.

Having a slow evening

Merry Christmas to all who are celebrating! Best wishes from me and this tiny bundle of joy and feathers who reminds us to appreciate the little things

This is How You Lose the Time War. No idea how to translate the feel of the prose into live-action, but that's what I'd pay smarter people to handle.

I would commit crimes for Temeraire

Voice training practice at my parents' parish, where all the strangers will think my weird bad voice is just my voice, and are way too polite to say anything.

That is not dead which can eternal lie, Like Tiny Tim, who did NOT die

okay finally. time for the NICHE PERVERT GAME AWARD, for an awesome game with a tiny audience no contest that's THE FARMER WAS REPLACED() a game where the gameplay is: writing python code. this game does not teach you that; but if you are ready to optimize python code for score? here ya go.

Ma'am'd! at the Panda Express

The idea that a garment that smooshes your fatty tissue into a different shape for aesthetic or ergonomic purposes constitutes a medical device (when it's not labeled or marketed in a way that represents it has having a medical function) is just so wildly absurd.

Oops. I is drunk. Carefully corrected previous sentence, vur will leac3 gist one unedited t For regerence.

#JustFinishedABook Ranked Competetive Breast Growth Book 1 by tpwrtrmnky and Talia Bhatt. Started for the memes. Stayed to see what new drama these dumb-ass girls are getting into next. And Katherine is perfect and wonderful and nothing bad should ever happen to her again.

I beg your pardon

I salute this young genius and burgeoning poster

#JustFinishedABook Translation State by Ann Leckie. I think I got most of what I wanted to say about the setting and plot out in my earlier thread with @wrdnrd.bsky.social and @klara5.myatproto.social, but what the ending really solidified was how emotionally gratifying the book is.

Today's shout-out goes to the most metal bird in existence, the diminutive shrike. What makes them so metal? They subsist on a diet of small rodents, insects, and snakes and keep spare food from being stolen by carrying it high enough to *impale it on thorns and barbed wire fences*. So metal.

Sun-loving vampires and luridly shot murders in lavish Mediterranean environments: Vampyros Lesbos is just about what you'd expect from the title, good and bad, but I make a case for indulging in softcore excess for a while, if the softcore excess looks this good. #horror #sexploitation #giallo