With a knock on your door, a kindly wizard invites you to join us on Shelved By Genre's LORD OF THE YEAR, in which we will consider the popular but contested works of JRR Tolkien, kicking things off with a long rumination upon the first four chapters of THE HOBBIT: rangedtouch.com/2026/01/02/t...

I grew up in the kind of impoverished rural county where the US military recruits their cannon fodder, and I gotta say there's no reason to have any sympathy for anyone who enlists, nor has there ever been. Poor people still have agency and moral culpability. We aren't just lumpen NPCs.

need to get really into neocities

International law only applies to African countries bruh 😂😂

Chavez in 2009, while being labelled as paranoid, outlines exactly what is happening today.

Also let's be clear, we are attacking Venezuela for the same reason we attack most countries and the same reason we overthrow most governments: they had the audacity to take over their own resources (notably, their oil fields) instead of letting US corporations own them. Anything else is propaganda.

Heard NPR’s correspondent, who is not in Venezuela, explain that people in Venezuela woke up to this news. Yet everyone I’ve heard from was up all night. Intense observation on what the U.S. state is and isn’t doing requires critical attention to what the U.S. press is and isn’t doing, too.

A lot of people are going to preface tu-tutting tweets with variants on the theme of "Maduro was no angel" and it's very important to have the moral clarity to understand that these people are the lowest form of coward imaginable

Three million people live in Caracas, five million in the metro area. It's one of the densest cities in South America. Remember this in the morning when they try to spin this as anything other than a cold-blooded attack on a major civilian center.

anyway. no war. oppose this at every level, in every way, and do not get sucked into these false debates about process. after all, both american parties are currently pro-genocide. america's hegemon *has* to be dismantled if there is to be anything resembling peace in our or future times

yet again remembering senator chris murphy admitting right in public on twitter that we tried to coup venezuela in trump's first term and he was talking about this not to condemn it but to bemoan how trump bungled the job and embarrassed the US

BREAKING: The United States appears to have begun bombing Venezuela. Massive airstrikes are underway. War is here.

PLEASE SPREAD THIS, THE US HAS STARTED BOMBING INSIDE VENEZUELA, I LIVE NEAR A MILITARY AIR BASE AND FIVE EARTH SHAKING EXPLOSIONS WERE JUST HEARD

I never told you to review these movies!!!! Now you're stuck with this forever

Hi!! I have opened commissions :) 💗 Request here! (account not needed): vgen.co/goodbirb #commissions #vgen

The way the press is treating chatbots, like they have agency and they “know” things all of a sudden, crossed the line recently from dumb and obsequious to something else entirely. Treating them as alive and making conscious decisions is an almost religious belief. It won’t age well.

I’ve been complaining so much about this for the past year 🙏

uh holy SHIT?

It's finally The Lord of the Year, courtesy of @rangedtouch.bsky.social sbg unit that's covering the hobbit/LOTR/the silmarillion over the next 12 months. I read the first few chapters of the hobbit to prep for ep 1 and got such a rush of nostalgia remembering reading it aloud with my mum aged 7

This is the year I finally read Tolkien thanks to these guys, you should join me

It is 2016 and I am listening to FATT learn about Andrew Dice Clay It is 2026 and I am listenting to FATT learn about Andrew Dice Clay

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It's too late, I have already depicted myself as the laughing Bernie Sanders and you as the sullen Eric Adams.

thin carrrr 😭

Something that many (at least online) seem to forget it how high this man was flying in January and where he is now. Yes he is richer and still terrible but the Tesla protests pierced the sense that he was beyond reach. And that matters a lot. Thanks to everyone who joined those ongoing protests.

only keith would name an award this

I’ve been severely slacking on perpetua fanart but know that this is what Veile looks like to me

Dozens of humanitarian organisations, including Doctors Without Borders, are banned by Israel.

theme of love #ffiv #ff4

Of all the dirty tricks: juking USPS rules so that the postmark of mail-in ballots won't reflect the date they were put in the hands of the Postal Service, creating a pretext to throw out the votes.

The humanitarian crisis in Gaza is far from over. Today, the Israeli government announced that it would suspend the aid work of several humanitarian organizations that provide lifesaving aid to Palestinians in Gaza living through what Amnesty International and other groups labeled as a genocide.

#7.2spoilers ARRRGGHH AAGHHH

Jan 1st CA will launch a page where people can request information to be purged by data brokers. There are limits to opt out, but at least it is free. I'll be sharing+debating it with my students in week 1 of Comm 106i this winter after we watch Terms & Conditions www.mercurynews.com/2025/12/30/p...

Art vs Artist 2025! I mostly worked on comics this year and just did a couple little fun arts.

picked a 28 year old game for my goty it's real self indulgent hours

recession indicator: weirdly dry universal batch of grocery store sugar cookies this year fallen utopia indicator: egg bagel cookies

Classic me to give a GOTY-adjacent award to: 1. Something that isn't a video game 2. Something we never talked about on the show 3. Something that spends a lot of time evoking the breadth and interconnectedness that only the best open world games are able to approach. More tomorrow! Enjoy!

In order to allow for a New Year's Day celebration that's also kind to the people recording it, this game has been pre-recorded and let me tell you: it is an appropriately convoluted locked room murder mystery.

Join us at 3pm ET on the 1st of January for a New Year's LIVE AT THE TABLE - @notquitereal.bsky.social, @carberry.deals, and @sylvibullet.bsky.social will be playing the ashcan edition of @adambell.games's Locked Room Murder Mystery lockedroomgame.com twitch.tv/friendsatthetable

My End of Year video is on the "Golden Age of Indie RPGs," from roughly 2010 to 2025. I start with Apocalypse World's release, work through the Google+ Era, and follow design lineages and historical events that have impacted the hobby up through 2025.

some promo drawings i did for @hieronzine.bsky.social's crowdfunding campaign. fantasmo & samot book club 🫶 #friendsatthetable

페오~ #ff14

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I Photoshop Paddington into a movie, TV show, or pop culture until I forget: Day 1750

Growing up in Gaza, I didn't realize that the siege I was living under was unique or that others didn't face a constant threat of death. It was only after I left that I understood I had grown up in a concentration camp, and that it shaped my life mondoweiss.net/2025/12/i-di...

now that we exchanged gifts i can show the flegg i made for my gf hehe.... still a wip because i need to sand & paint it though

this is flegg 2.0. flegg 1.0 was very structurally unsound.

AND WEAR A FUCKING MASK

new hobby drawing team abc as xfiles promo pics #friendsatthetable