Eric Zawadzki

I do, too, & it's b/c of fans like you who brought it to my attention when issue 1 came out - even if not quite the way they intended!

(@ericxyz.bsky.social & I share an uncommon name, so folks get us confused on SM all the time - no big deal, but I want to direct your love to the right guy. 🙂)

That’s one helluva metaphor.

Genuinely not a problem. We're both creatives working in geeky spaces who share an unusual name. People get us mixed up on social media all the time. 🙂

@ericxyz.bsky.social 🙂

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If it doesn't involve three separate trips to the hardware store to complete one routine maintenance task is it really home ownership?

Would the fact that we seem to have mostly moved past every Spider-Man movie needing to include his origin story be the equivalent of the ACA - not socialism but at least less bad than what existed before it?

A few shots from No Kings in Minneapolis. Perfect weather for a nice walk with my neighbors.

@ericxyz.bsky.social 🙂

This is a series that certainly invites discussion. There's a lot going on in each issue, and I'm looking forward to the next one.

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It's all like trying to cut back on heroin by taking cocaine (or vice versa), isn't it? I don't know how people who don't use Advanced Punctuation Marks get through their day.

Chicago priest Fr. Larry Dowling describes procession to ICE facility: “No one had the courage to speak directly to us. No one from Homeland Security could stand in the presence of the Monstrance holding the Blessed Sacrament. No wonder. Evil is repelled, recoils in the presence of Christ.”

I traded in most of my semicolons and parentheses for em-dashes. It’s a serious problem.

Bootleggirl on twitter writes: "I still dislike the Star Wars sequels but I can't no longer fault them for running with the premise of "20 years after fascism, same fascism again, but stupider" bc I just lived through that.

you know what fair

Good choice.

ICE in Portland is coming off like Gargamel getting repeatedly rolled by the Smurfs

JK Rowling pledges to keep up fight against SNP trans policies Author vows to bankroll campaigners after Scottish government fails to pay group's legal fees in Supreme Court equality case

It cannot be made clearer.

If you continue to support the Harry Potter franchise in any way, you are directly funding the removal of trans people's human rights in the UK.

Whenever it comes to my attention, I'm always delighted that the Ig Nobel Prizes are a thing that exists. It's good that we have people making Important discoveries and innovations, but anything that increases our understanding of how the universe works is worth celebrating.

The ICE experiment has failed catastrophically. Not only should the agency be disbanded, anyone who has held a position there since the start of 2025 should be barred from ever holding a job in fed government. ICE is a magnet for the worst & most lawless people in law enforcement. It needs to go.

Haven't lived in Indiana in 25 years, but I still full-body cringe when someone (especially a politician from another state) refers to its inhabitants as Indianans (or whatever they come up with) instead of as Hoosiers. Does anyone know why they're called that? No. But that's what they're called.

I feel like we dealt with this discourse before. "You wouldn't have wheelchair ramps in a dungeon!" Do you think the goblins bringing booty back to their lair want to carry it up & down *stairs* all the time? No, they've got a ramp & hand carts, at the very least, if not a block & tackle elevator.

I walk into the shelter

They say the cat is fixed

I ask if it's a scheming eunuch or submissive tgirl nullo

They don't understand

I explain the difference between a scheming eunuch and submissive tgirl nullo

They laugh and say it's a good cat

I look inside

I'm stabbed and my empire is seized

This Amazon Music playlist is utterly ridiculous. It's called Metal Heaven, but a more accurate description would be Every Song Goes as Hard as Humanly Possible. Half the tracks oscillate between sweet melodies & anguished shouting (but not, importantly, metal growling). I'm so here for it.

The box describes this contraption as a "detailer", which makes it sound like something you use on a car to restore it to like-new condition. Somehow I don't think this device is going to achieve a promise of that caliber.

Getting old is certainly interesting.

My beard/mustache trimmer finally gave up the ghost. The battery hasn't held a charge in years; I just left it plugged in when in use. It served me long and well, though - so long, in fact, that it never crossed my mind when I bought it that it lacked a nose/ear hair trimmer. New one has one, tho.

a bumper sticker which reads "Proud Parent of the Omelas Child"

Curseborne Player's Guide An expansion for the Curseborne tabletop roleplaying game, full of roleplaying advice and new mechanical content for players.

The Curseborne Player's Guide is live on Kickstarter. I worked on the cool powers chapter that will be previewed on 10/17, but previews are available throughout the month to anyone backing at the $5 level or higher.

www.kickstarter.com/projects/200...

At least that's a theory that is consistent with my experience trying to feed both myself and my kids without any food going to waste. It's basically impossible to achieve both. They'll refuse even their favorite food if there's plenty of it for everyone.

The goddess of family demands one of two sacrifices: If a parent makes enough food for the whole family, the kids refuse to eat it, offering the excess as a sacrifice to the deity. If a parent makes just enough for themselves, kids demand it, & parental hunger sates the goddess.

Alejandra does an incredible job here breaking down how the NYT presents itself yet again as neutrally documenting a “controversy” in a way that legitimizes bad faith actors, all while following a very familiar playbook. This is how epistemological violence gets laundered as “just asking questions”