Colin Urbina

Today was a tiring but fulfilling day of taking a class of teenagers to a private library and seeing some absolutely wonderful (and bizarre) books.

Over on our stream, they've They've put me on trial for "stealing the Big Egg," but I didn't do it!

twitch.tv/friendsatthetable to watch!

tiltify.com/@friendsatth... to donate!

Some extraordinary games here, I'm really looking forward to this!

Drawing of an ICE agent made of ice being shattered. Features the following text: Icebreaker (in all caps). A fundraising marathon for the WFM's Immigrant Rapid Response Fund twitch.tv/friendsatthetable 2/15 AND 2/16

Day One (2/15) (all times ET) 11.00 Hello! 11.30 ‘Guilty as Sock’ 1.10 ‘Carry The Glass’ 2.45 ‘Wildermyth’ Returns 4.55 Fishteen Minutes 5.30 Dre Goes to Flegg Hell* 6.30 ‘Outward 2’ 8.30 ‘REPO’ *unlocked by a donation incentive

Day Two (2/16) (all times ET) 11.00 Hello! 11.30 ‘YAPYAP’ 1.10 ‘Galaxy Princess Zorana’ 2.45 Scintillation Fashion Contest 2026 4.30 ‘Imagination Express’ 5.45 ‘Crusader Kings 3’ Trip to China* 7.30 ‘King of the Castle’ *unlocked by a donation incentive

Here's the schedule for our ICEBREAKER fundraiser on 2/15 and 2/16, a marathon to raise money for the Women's Foundation of Minnesota's Immigrant Rapid Response Fund. Join us then at twitch.tv/friendsatthetable!

hope this doesn't need to be said, but nationalpost.com/news/canada/...

YouTube video by ThePriceMaster The PriceMaster (full version)

it is apparently the 25th anniversary of the greatest piece of art Denton, Texas, has ever produced

Oh yes, gimme that Pentiment 2.

Time to start canceling nitro and shouting from the rooftops how we won't stand for this. @discord.com is collecting our information and censoring our communications and claiming its for our safety.

Don't let them get away with this.

This is such a cool idea!

“But we lost all those girls.”

I think about this a lot—but unsurprisingly, Seanan puts the perfect words around it.

::cries in comics… and games… and movies… and books… and apparently everywhere else, also::

Whenever I need to format a text for printing I remember why I don’t normally format texts for printing.

Reminder for artists: don't get blinded by the "big number" for an art project. Remember to do the math.

$3,000 for a tarot card desk *sounds* great. But in reality you're only being paid $38.46 per artwork. And if each artwork takes 20 hours to make, you're getting paid $1.92/hr

This is why I swapped away from Uline after 2016 when they made their views clear in one of their catalogs.

“art” is an anagram of “rat”. think about that before you look at a beautiful painting

Altered Calvin and Hobbes cartoon. First panel. Calvin's dad says, "what story would you like to read tonight? Anything except..." Calvin: "The Voynich Manuscript?" Second panel. Calvin's dad, exasperated: "No! No Voynich Manuscript tonight!" Calvin: "I want the Voynich Manuscript !" Third panel. Calvin's sad: "Look, you know how the story goes! You've memorized the whole thing! It's completely unreadable!" Calvin: "I want mysterious glyphs and symbols!" Fourth panel. Calvin: "Wow! The story was different thatvtime!" Hobbes: indecipherable squiggles

Here's your daily dose of weirdness for today!

Look at the geometry on this sunflower!

Various floral motifs on a metallic gold ground

I can’t wait to do more with these books (all the above images from Anton Seder on plants); this might be the best thing I’ve ever bought for work

A very VERY thick book with 1916 written on the fore-edge with a teeny tiny red book in front of it

Detail of teeny tiny red book

Don’t talk to me or my son ever again

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Do me a favour and follow this project. Ella needs 400 followers to get this into ZineQuest, so you'll really help her out.

(That means...follow it even if you don't think you'll back it, but also, back it.)

Yes this is what I want! I want to make the board and everything!

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If you're still feeling uninformed about trans folks & sports, but understand that past lack of understanding about trans healthcare let hate gain steam—ACLU lawyer @chasestrangio.bsky.social has a good Insta summary of how anti-trans arguments both mislead & more broadly threaten everyone's rights:

I do want to know who sold your child the steel balls.

Just catching up on some @friends-table.bsky.social streams and I’m charmed by the red duke.

ttrpg design evolution has been weird, it's like 40 years of calculating armour values with logarithmic equations, and then in 2010 vincent baker gave everyone permission to fuck

I won’t be happy until Pentiment 2 is announced.

This is something I've honestly thought about doing for a while. RPG book as physical object is kind of squarely in my wheelhouse.

Conclave, the larp about the 1268 papal conclave.

A scattering of plaquettes, rectangular board covered in leather with a variety of decorative techniques.

I didn’t realize I had so many plaquettes.

I love going to museums because I get to see how long humanity has been interested in making l'il guys.