Read King Basalt's Bane on Royal Road

A white dog wearing a cone is standing on a sidewalk, looking toward a parked silver car in the background. A lamp with a shade is placed on the grass nearby.

it was love at first sight

We've finally started on the new season of Only Murders in the Building. Just three episodes in and I'm amused and tense.

Either the Ninja Turtles or Mr. Incredible, depending on whether or not you think the turtles count.

I just heard it twice for the first time today.

ben shapiro slides on his well worn hotdog suit yet again

I see James Watson has died.

What did Watson discover?

Rosalind Franklin's lab notes.

Only we spell it 'S-T-E-A-L' these days.

a scared looking furry monster with horns

logging on

hand doing "got your nose" gesture

This is what they took from you

Post your best elf art!

#art

Yeah that sounds like something people invested in AI and who stand to gain financially from AI's success would say. You might as well publish that McDonalds CEO claims McDonalds makes tastiest hamburgers.

Elric raises Stormbringer over his head, with one hand gripping the hilt and the other the end of the blade. His white hair spills out beneath a black winged helm. He wears dark brown leather with a sinuous dragon on the front of his tunic. His ornate bracers are encrusted with jewels. The buckle of his belt is the face of a demon. Behind him rendered in purples and blues are deformed creatures of chaos.

ELRIC OF MELNIBONÉ (1976)
Oil on Canvas Board - 24” x 18”

Originally published in 1972 as THE DREAMING CITY, this novella was later reprinted by DAW and would be the first of my Elric covers. 1/2

Screenshot of the top of a Bsky feed, with a red circle around the hamburger menu in the top left.

Wondering why no one likes your posts anymore, even among your friends? It's because @jay.bsky.team and team have decided to hide a huge amount of content from all of our feeds by default.

Here's how to turn it off.

First go to the hamburger menu in the upper left corner

Well... that's a third Kesha song that I kind of like.

Praying and This is Me are the other two, in case anyone was about to ask.

The New Best Christmas Pageant Ever film had me laughing throughout.

The casting of the Herdmans in particular was excellent.

2020-2025

Fuck 🖕 AI

That pulpy stuff

my ideal response to AI and crypto is a lot closer to an air strike than a bailout

Brilliant.

Nothing makes me side eye someone more than hearing them suggest that MeToo “went too far.”

Louie CK won a Grammy for a set about his cancellation and just got a glowing profile in the Wall Street Journal to promote his new book

a super deformed drawing of Gamera

One last DefoReal drawing from the archives

Megyn Kelly? Spread hate? Noooooo...

Last night's results give me high hopes for the future. The fascists and the billionaire technocrats can twist the law, manipulate the media, and abuse the public as much as they like but they can't kill the will of the people to fight for a better world.

It’s Trump. You’re putting a lot more thought into than he did.