I just read Bog Queen by Anna North and I really enjoyed it! www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews...

Contact by Carl Sagan It's not necessarily my all time favorite book, but it's easily the most sacred to me.

If you go to bed before midnight on December 31st, you don't have to remember the lyrics to Auld Lang Syne 😎

Accomplishments are great, but 2025 was the year I got a laminator.

"You’d ask a bot for a summary and forget what it told you, then proceed with your day, unchanged by words you did not read and ideas you did not consider."

AI cannot make art that changes the way I see the world, so I'm just not interested in whatever it can do (other than guzzle water and electricity and give rich people another way to hoard money)

My current proofreading project has tipped me over 1.5 million words of game text I've been paid to read!

I went back to the National Mississippi River Museum and Aquarium for my birthday to meet their new Giant Pacific octopus and she was initially a bit shy, but came over after she got her shrimps and it was *amazing*!

I forgot to get cake for my birthday yesterday, so I made @smittenkitchen.bsky.social's Gingerbread Snacking Cake today! I don't know that I mixed the flour enough (you can see little lighter flecks on the top), but it's still very tasty!

It's plurbin time!

If "good ideas" = low risk/high return investment projects, maybe we are. But "investors are running out of ideas they are willing to tolerate risk for" is a headline no one would talk about- I yawned just writing it.

I cannot nuke copilot from orbit off my work computer because of permissions and it's creating a hostile work environment.

Got some Real Good News in my email this morning and I actually cried happy tears

I got a little ahead on proofreading today and I'm going to bed before 11pm, much better than yesterday!

I need to go to bed, but my brain has been fighting it for an hour. Revenge bedtime procrastination got me again.

This is the best idea I've ever had and if you do this you have to tell me about it.

Just printed out the 25/26 Year Compass booklet! I do this every year and it's a lovely way to remember what I did this year and give myself support for next year. yearcompass.com

Very excited to see a yarn mill in Chicago again! www.kickstarter.com/projects/inc...

Finally, someone acknowledges BPG's *unhinged* back catalog! In all seriousness, it's a very good review of Desperation, and I hope it means more people will check out the game. I helped make the Roll20 version and I'm very proud of it!

Also I mildly shamed a semi-famous ttrpg white guy who I will not name. What a thrill

Highlights from PaxU: Teaming up with @segedy.bsky.social & @nathanblack.com Friends who stopped by the booth to say hi (including @shervyn.bsky.social, who I sadly missed) The Mushulu, Dim Sum Garden, Terakawa Ramen & Elixr coffee/tea/pastries Selling 18 copies of my weird goose game!

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I wanted to highlight some of the weirder offerings we have at #paxunplugged! I’ll start with Public Guest 5. It’s our solo TTRPG about living beneath an artificial menacing planet. You roll 2 dice once every real-world day until your world explodes. Until it does, you live your life well.

Today: Packed as much as I could and tested negative! I also finished knitting a pair of fingerless gloves (with stash yarn, even! Please clap for me). Tomorrow: Get to work early so I can check into my flight while not in the car.

Today: hit page 299 out of 784 on proofreading Tomorrow: covid test & pack for Pax

Regency larp happening in the next state over is *so tempting* grimmoire.productions/lies-and-lia...

I started reading House of Leaves, but it's been slow going reading before bed. I still don't know why 'house' is blue, and I haven't encountered any red text yet.

TODAY!!! 🐀❄️🪾🍄🧶🥧🫖

I am planning on being at my first PaxU this year, so long as my flights still happen! I'll be at the @bullypulpithq.bsky.social booth during the day, if you want to hear me talk about how much I love Desperation!

If you donate food/money/time to a food bank or to help folks who didn't get SNAP benefits, I want to mail you a print copy of my goose game! DM me your address and what you donated (I don't need receipts) and the goose will be on its way! International is ok! I have a dozen to send out! HONK

I love my AuDHD teenager so much, and also I don't know what to do with the frustration of offering a solution I know will solve his problem, only for him to answer "I don't wanna do that." He will continue to flail about it, and I guess I will, too.

I'm doubtful replaying Myst will cure my depression*, but I won't know unless I try, right? (*not actual depression, but chronic illness/disability within late stage capitalism doesn't roll off the tongue quote as well)

You had me at interface mystery adventure

Hand bound copy of Spine by @backwardsttrpg.bsky.social This game deserves the hardcover in cloth or leather treatment, but I don't have the materials and I wanted to start playing tomorrow, so coil binding it is! Printed in signatures to feel a little fancy.

Rereading this blog post by @sidneyicarus.bsky.social and thinking about what we miss out on by putting TTRPG Designers up on a pedestal and how design might make meaning in between the designer and players. sidneyicarus.wordpress.com/2019/09/12/t...

Got both COVID and flu vaccines today and I'm fully expecting to rot on the couch tomorrow, but I'm hoping it'll mean max antibodies for PaxU next month.

Instead of scrolling social media today, I'm just going to watch this on loop youtu.be/kPv1gQ5Rs8A?...

I did not apply for a larp within driving distance because of the likelihood of it turning into a Bad Time for me, but I have not larped for 6 years and I miss it.

I needed something suitably editorial for my freelance work and I liked the rhyme. And you can still find me if you forget the second n. I'd hoped it would stop me from buying more fountain pens, but I'm (not) sorry to say that has not been the case. Tennpennjenn is funnier to me, but convoluted.

I briefly tried to fit my Regency Desperation hack in 55 cards because it's cheaper to produce a 55-card deck than a 72-card one, but I added a new location I'm in love with: Wedding Tent- an opulent tent, Miss M. has basically moved in to escape her brother's new wife. Secluded, but temporary.

Got two bowls in an old school ebay auction this morning! I would be extremely excited to get 2 cups, just putting that out into the universe!

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I feel like I know several people who would be excited about this mymodernmet.com/book-of-kell...

SciShow did an ep on knitting that you can no longer watch because they took it down. Instead, you can watch this, which is much more accurate! youtu.be/5btQokB32dQ?...

I got to see a building I've wanted to see for decades last weekend and it was very good! (Frank Lloyd Wright's Fallingwater in Mill Run, PA)

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The picture is very cool, but I'm trying to understand how this sentence made it past an editor: "These missions are now forgotten by most Americans, as most of the people alive during that time are now deceased." The time was 1965. I don't think it's accurate to say most people over 60 are dead.

All set up to run Zhenya's Wonder Tales at Demo Expo in Chicago!

Being a proofreader is lonely work! Sometimes I wish projects needed a big ole team of editorial folks so we could learn from each other and brainstorm better ways to do things and teach new folks the ropes.

(tw: suicide) I am furious about this If we are not absolutely certain that software cannot assist or enable anyone to harm themselves, it should not be available to the public. We, as adults, have a responsibility to kids to look out for risks they can't see. www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-ne...