Paul ✍🏻 Dean (Holiday mode)

This is absolutely amazing.

Frolic 🎀

It’s boiling in October because you’re using ChatGPT to write your emails, Janice.

MONDAY.
SPITE AS FUEL.

500 copies of Scarlet Hollow and Slay the Princess set up for giveaway, and 500 copies of each already claimed!

Join our discord if you want to know as soon as future copies are given away!

I don't seriouspost that much anymore, mostly because I'm tired and more cynical about the efficacy of the effort, but I'll give it a try for old time's sake.

It has been de rigueur for many professional posters to insist on participating in American democratic processes as a remedy for discontent.

A portrait from the Montréal museum of fine Arts depicting a man with a massive fringe and apparently very little forehead.

Weird that the art gallery has my dating profile pics.

its a good thing they did this because things have undoubtedly gotten worse but let’s be real. travelling internationally while trans (regardless of gender marker) has always sucked lmao

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By EXTREMELY popular demand I shall today be streaming OUTER WILDS from 1pm Pacific. Come and join me as I at last investigate what may be the ultimate space mystery...

twitch.tv/paullicino

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I'm back in Vancouver and back to streaming in just one hour's time! Join me at 1pm Pacific for my final attempt to SLAY THE PRINCESS. I'm sure there will be absolutely no horror, terror, existential dread or regret!

twitch.tv/paullicino

Meme with an old photo of the British/American rock band and the words: "Bloody Foreigner Coming over here demanding to know what love is"

How much are the possums tho?

A bespoke sign consisting of a piece of A4 paper upon which the header "Elevator" has been printed. Below it are two blue boxes from which arrows point to the right. Both boxes ALSO contain the world "Elevator", but the arrows coming out of them have two bullet points each. The four resulting lines read: - To Your Right - Thanks - For Your - Patience

Years on, this remains one of my absolute favourite signs ever.

Somewhere in something I forget now, Vonnegut said you can never know the consequences of your work, but writing really does change people's minds, offer them good ideas and help dispel bad ones. It can turn people away from making poor choices that we never have to suffer the consequences of.

This is a very cool summary but oh my GOSH that preview image!

Give folks their flowers

No, I mean right now. Go tell someone you loved their work right now. They're on social media just say it, it has never been easier

"They know how much people love--" no they don't go say it right now to a composer or artist or game dev or writer or anyone AAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH

National Geographic Picture Atlas of Our Universe by Roy A. Gallant, 1980. Front cover art by John Berkey

A view from above of a large cyclonic storm that is mainly a grey colour, set against a swirling backdrop of more bluish smaller storms. At the 12 o'clock position in the large storm is a small point of green light, which is a lightning bolt. This scene is on Jupiter.

This is a lightning bolt in a storm.

On Jupiter.

A slide from QGCon about community moderation during a crisis, which reads: "Survival Guide Thrive out of spite - Don't feel forced to hide - Reiterate boundaries - Communicate proactively"

A real highlight of @qgcon.bsky.social has been @murderveggie.bsky.social talking about proactive community management during (and before!) a crisis, which was a fantastic lesson in social media literacy.

Perrito the dog figurine, 10th or 11th century. A tiny clay dachshund like puppy, in a museum exhibit in Museo Arqueológico de Córdoba

What's your sign?

A slide from QGCon about community moderation during a crisis, which reads: "Survival Guide Thrive out of spite - Don't feel forced to hide - Reiterate boundaries - Communicate proactively"

A real highlight of @qgcon.bsky.social has been @murderveggie.bsky.social talking about proactive community management during (and before!) a crisis, which was a fantastic lesson in social media literacy.

A computer screen with a slideshow highlighting voice actors from UBCP/ACTRA on a table at the Vancouver Game Garden event

We're at the Vancouver Game Garden this weekend! Come say hi at our booth (#29) and chat to us about our ultra low budget BC game dev agreements! Learn how to put union voice actors in your project and still work within your budget! #indiegames #union #vancouvergamegarden #voiceactor #ubcpactra

"AI is the asbestos we are shovelling into the walls of our society. Our descendants will be digging it out for generations."

"AI cannot do your job, but an AI salesman can 100% convince your boss to fire you and replace you with an AI that can't do your job."

Oof.

pluralistic.net/2025/09/27/e...

I try to do this every day and it costs me nothing.

I just would like to pour huge swathes of myself into creative work people enjoy is that so ridiculous

bigchump1994 on tumblr: "Imagine if you will a big and large dog. Your not making it big enough in your mind. Okay now it's good. Picture its favorite food is berries and salmon. You want to pet it, don't you? Well don't. What you've just invented is a bear. And you're under arrest for inventing the bear." Headshot of Rod Serling.

mug-of-beans on tumblr states: ""The old magic persists thanks to it's unfathomable power." No, the old magic persists because the new magic can't run the legacy spells I need to do my job, and keeps trying to install spirits I don't want or need onto my orb." aqueerkettleofish adds: "Look, if the new magic didn't have a personality construct that kept trying to tell me which spell to use, maybe I wouldn't still be using the old magic."

Some landscape paintings. I bet you can tell I love painting landscapes.

A photograph of a registration desk that says "QGCON 2025 REGISTRATION & TICKETS".

I'm at the Québec National Archives. I'm at the Queerness in Games Con. I'm at the combination Québec National Archives and Queerness in Games Con.