"ALA’s Office for Intellectual Freedom (OIF) tracked 4,235 unique titles challenged in 2025, the second highest ever documented by ALA." www.ala.org/news/2026/04...

Yesterday: "Damn, this book I'm writing is pretty good!" Today: "Dude, is this the shittiest thing I've ever written? I think it is!" Life of the writer, baby. Half the work is just pushing through constant uncertainty.

I'm seeing all the news of the world that you're seeing. Trying to distract myself from the horrors of senseless death, destruction and war... with this cool robot.

welp i´m happy to announce that i can show you my work as concept artist for the last year for (Precipice: Mech Miniatures Combat) there is the link for the project if you want to know more <3 www.wildplumgames.com/precipice

From X-Wing Developer Max Brooke, comes a new Ground-Based Combat Game where you design your own mech and send it into battle! Best part is that you can play it TODAY! Alpha Rules are available! Check it out! #xwing #tabletop #gaming youtu.be/UUYW4Tcsmhg

Precipice: Mech Miniatures Combat launching soon! I'm really proud of the setting I worked up for this -- Another obsession of mine given a chance to cut loose! www.benlathrop.com/2026/03/31/a...

Glad I can finally show off some of the stuff I've been working on these last few months😎 Welcome to the Precipice. Alpha is live now: www.wildplumgames.com/precipice #precipice #ttrpg #mech

I’ve been lucky enough to be part of the team developing settings for this game - More details soon, but for now check out the alpha test rules!

I bought a treasure chest for $5 — Only excavated about a quarter inch so far.

Been waiting for this one for a long time - Dreams in the Witch House is one of my all time favorite games

Hi! I don't think Toho has a bsky so I'll post it - my first commissioned work for all the official Godzilla channels and I handmade everything that isn't a toy. Enjoy xo

I have zero bandwidth to develop the idea, but the last decade has given rise to a gulliblity style, where a source’s statement is treated as the story regardless of whether it’s true or plausible. It creates stories that are technically true but functionally misinformation. You see it everywhere.

Just got back from taking my kids to see "Iron lung" - I knew nothing about it other than they wanted to see it and it was maybe based on a video game. Very cool, scrappy indie movie that I would not have expected to be playing major theaters. Would love to see more risk taking like this.

This and the discussion about how academics can now just read AI summaries of things really drives home how much these guys always confuse the product for the goal. You don't do a coloring sheet because you want to have a colored sheet at the end!!! The coloring is the point!!!

Power Masters - the lost '80's toyline I just became obsessed with.

It’s actually pathetic to apply to college, get accepted, pay to be there, and then try to stop your professor from teaching you because you’re such a huge fan of authoritarianism. Even more pathetic to record your professor to get them fired.

🚨🚨 GREAT NEWS🚨🚨 IN IOWA DEMOCRAT CATELIN DREY HAS WON SPECIAL ELECTION FOR STATE SENATE Democrats now have stopped the Republican Super Majority in the State Senate Congratulations CATELIN DREY !!

AI policy I'm putting in my Fall syllabi. Feel free to adopt & adapt it.

holy shit this is a helluva ad from the Democrat running against Joni Ernst in Iowa. worth every second

The heroes working at the Marriott Starbucks are cranking early Ministry and I am very much here for it #gencon

"No More Tears" was one of the first cassettes I ever bought. I literally wore it out from constant play that summer. RIP Ozzy🤘

Okay, last time boosting this one: filmfreakcentral.net/2025/07/supe...

Took my kids to M3GAN 2.0 and we had a blast - It’s like Terminator 2 by way of Bride of Chucky.

If you were watching #DrWho in England during the original pre-1989 era, was it publicized when a new actor was about to take over the role, like it would be today, or was it a big surprise when The Doctor regenerated?

America.

I watched a Ninja movie on Amazon, and now it keeps recommending more and more Ninja movies and I can't stop myself.

this is a letter to the editor from a high school track runner who came in second to a trans girl in a race. her state house rep in maine started talking about it. so she wrote this: www.pressherald.com/2025/05/14/r...

Book challenges remained high in 2024, with nearly 72% initiated not by parents but by pressure groups and decision makers who have been swayed by them. bit.ly/soal-25 #NationalLibraryWeek

Even small-time guys like me got their intellectual property taken by Meta's plagiarism-robot. And they're going to get away with it. It's so discouraging... www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

"I was what you call 'ragged' - I wasn't gonna be no man's friend today." I discovered "Loveless" over the weekend - If I had seen this at 20, it would have become my whole personality.

ShadowDark takes all the charm and imagination of classic tabletop RPGs and adds decades of collective experience and innovation. Easy to learn, fun to play. The kickstarter for the first true expansion from The Arcane Library went live this morning - highly recommended kck.st/3DAAOwT

A nice thing about our current era - You can accidentally watch "Live and Die in L.A." for the first time. Holy moly.

I started watching "Sapphire and Steel" and just finished the second story last night, but its sticking with me this morning. The first story was aggressively weird, but I was not ready for how dark the ending of the second one would be.

Listening to Grady Hendrix on @scarredforlife.bsky.social Podcast talking about watching British Sci-Fi on American PBS reminded me of many late nights with the great Mike Frisbie who hosted a block of these shows on Iowa Public Television through the 90's youtu.be/5DWWWzblm6A?...

I watched "The Vourdalak" last night - The decision to use a puppet for the creature makes the whole story feel like you've stumbled into some 18th Cent. traveling show. The whole thing is really effective -

When my kids are confronted by some terrible realization about the unfairness of the world, there's often not much I can do other than give them a hug and say something that hopefully hits midway between corny and encouraging. If anybody out there is wanting for that kind of thing, HMU.

I'm enjoying a cup of hot, black coffee and thinking about how much the work of David Lynch has meant to me.

There's a cool bit in "Only the Dead Known Burbank" where the undead protagonist describes having the learn how to force air through their lifeless body in order to talk. And I've been thinking about it ever since hearing Bill Skarsgard's Orlok voice in "Nosferatu."

Just read @nickdesemlyen.bsky.social Last Action Heroes - very cool behind the scenes look at the major players in 80's Action Movies. Made me love Jackie Chan more and Steven Segal even less. Also left me pining for a "Feud" type drama about Stallone and Schwarzenegger.

Thinking today of my good friend who became obsessed with Molson Golden because of Friday the 13th Part Two.

I finished "Nightmare Frames" last night - Its a cool throwback point & click adventure game where you take the role of a horror screenwriter searching for a lost (and maybe cursed) film. Great music and lots of fun allusions to 80's horror fandom. Plays like the first "Gabriel Knight" - recommended

Major accomplishment of the weekend was beating Altered Beast with my 11 yo. And then getting ruthlessly housed in Mortal Kombat II by the same kid.

Turkey breast prepped and in the slow cooker. Turned on the 1986 Macy’s Parade to set the mood. Ed Begley Jr just said he played timpani in marching band…(Inspired by @sludgecentral.bsky.social @dinosaurdracula.bsky.social)

This needs to be said, loud, and often.

Always fun to listen to smart people talk about something they love.

I just started Batman: Resurrection and love John Jackson Miller's @farawaypress.com take on the '89 Batman world Two of his ideas I thought were especially cool: "Smilex" contaminated products have broad implications & continuity errors from the film's climax, if taken as purposeful, could be clues

There are a few songs I wish I could write a story as good as. The big ones that come to mind are: “John Finn’s Wife” by Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds “Best Ever Death Metal Band in Denton” by The Mountain Goats And “Meth Head” by Ian Noe What about you guys?