Justin Townsend

FORK ICE February Starts Tonight! What's "Fork ICE February?" Each day in Feb, we'll feature a different sale on a title in our webstore, discounted at least 50%. A blog post will go up at midnight with the link, and the sale will las...

A sale starts at midnight by the good people of Atlas Games with all proceeds going to help the good people of Minneapolis:
atlas-games.com/news/post?s=...
It also updates every night at midnight!

The cover of the Blades '68 free preview, with a montage of 60s action scenes in blue tones.

We've added a big 40 page preview of the finished Blades '68 book, for free -- just scroll right to the bottom here: www.backerkit.com/call_to_acti...

USCSB The CSB is an independent federal agency charged with investigating incidents and hazards that result, or may result, in the catastrophic release of extremely hazardous substances. The agency’s core m...

What? You like true crime *and* industrial accidents?
www.youtube.com/@USCSB

Adventures in machine translation (courtesy of Google translate)

The Algorithm That Detected a $610 Billion Fraud: How Machine Intelligence Exposed the AI Industry’s Circular Financing Scheme On November 20, 2025, trading algorithms identified what may become the largest accounting fraud in technology history—not in months or years, but in 18 hours.

And so it begins: substack.com/inbox/post/1...

Sometimes I think I should just start doing unethical stuff and referring to it as my "Business Model"

Maybe Don’t Talk to the New York Times About Zohran Mamdani It’s remarkable, the people you’ll hear from. Teach for even a little while at an expensive institution—the term they tend to prefer is “elite”—and odds are that eventually someone who was a studen…

lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...

Finding A Good Box is the adult equivalent of finding A Good Stick as a child.

High fantasy without crashed spaceships in it is nonsense for babies.

Arts and crafts Saturday! I like the colors way more than all black, and now I don't have to worry about the plastic cracking :)
#taiko
#fue
#shinobue

Ok, I've made a taiko feed, which should pick up any posts with the #taiko hashtag. Still testing on if the hashtag is embedded, to be sure pur the hashtag on it's own line. Also I can include all posts for any account that is for a group or pure taiko content-message me @xiitone.bsky.social

A red tycoon 20 inch nagado

Birthday surprise! Now I just gotta figure out how to make a stand that fits with the 5 supports built into the rim. Also, using this post as a test case for a taiko feed
#taiko

Got a pic with Katsura Sunshine at Otakon!

An instagram promo post for the Glass Cannon playing Blades '68, 8/2/25, 12pn ET. Youtube Premiere. Ross Bryant, Mary Lou, Joe O'Brien, Jared Logan. Youtube.com/theglasscannon

👀 👀 👀

www.instagram.com/p/DMs3-u7sEhT/

Whoa, that's a nice big space!

A found poem composed by Tracey and faulty networks

s/to/too/

A Japanese drum or taiko called a katsugi okedo, sitting vertically

A Japanese drum or taiko called a katsugi okedo, sitting horizontally

Been working on this faaar to long, but it's playable! I bought the shell (making that is the goal for okedo mk iv,) but rolled and welded the rings and put together the heads

#taiko #okedo #diy

The “Alt National Park” Resistance Account is So Obviously Fake Transcript: When I was a little kid, I was a spy. I was super into it, mostly thanks to a book called The KnowHow Book of SpyCraft, which gave detailed instructions on how to be a sneaky little guy…

Are you getting top secret insider info from an anonymous agent hidden inside the Trump administration who is posting on BlueSky? No. No you are not. skepchick.org/2025/06/the-...

So do you do music or videos for background noise while performing boring tasks. Personally, I go with mediocre TV so I'm not sad if I have to concentrate on task and miss something.

A message to whoever wired my house:
*Jesus* buddy! "Hot" and "Neutral" aren't just fucking *suggestions*. Thank god the power supply I plugged into it at first was well-built enough to have a wiring fault light.
Now I have to test *every* fucking socket in this house.

Since I was moving my bookcases from one side to another, I thought I would take this opportunity to alphabetisze them for the first time in...ever. Hours later with just A-Ho done to show for it.

Folks, remember

An ominous warning *and* handy for keeping your place

Keep the AI out of your google mail:

On your Android phone or tablet, open Gmail .
At the top left, tap Menu and then Settings.
Select the account you want to change.
Scroll to the "General" section.
Next to “Smart features,” uncheck the box.

Thanks to TTRPGs, I'm up at 11:30pm on a Sunday discovering that non-binary folks in Iceland use -bur instead of -son or -dottir to make their surnames.

For shime rings, are you using tube stock or just round stock. I've got a ring roller, and done okedo rings in 3/8 round stock, but was curious about shime

CONNECT 2025: A Taiko Gathering - Mark H Rooney Taiko Kristy "Aki" Oshiro

Hey, since you're going to be east coast, are you going to Connect in July?
www.markhrooney.com/connect2025/

Meh. I don't see it doing any actual improvements to poor people's lives, but the opposite. Proof-of-work is shitty for the environment, and poor people are disproportionately impacted by ecological events.