Brian Williams (He/Him)

Just a bunch of dead and decaying eels in human suits. Every single person reading this will be affected by this decision.

Not to echo a repost that I just reposted, but this is horrifying and heinous and there has to be accountability for these cruel, cruel inhumanities.

Hugo nominations are now open! I'll talk more about my overall eligibility when I'm not actively working (I am stealing these words from today's task), but I wanted to highlight my Best Series eligibility.

Goddamnit, this chucklefuck’s blocking us from using one of the biggest breakthroughs in medical technology in years because he developed an irrational hatred of it when it saved a bunch of us from getting COVID, and because RFK jr is pro-virus infection. I hate this timeline.

Also, if you are appalled by the potential of HP Magic or D&D, your best bet isn't to demand answers from random designers on social media—who can be fired for commenting—it's to send PHYSICAL LETTERS and make actual PHONE CALLS to Hasbro's corporate headquarters, denouncing the entire partnership.

elderly politicians with lots of money who absolutely do not understand tech have already taken so much from us: we should not let them take this

It’s why Bud Light doing a promo with a trans influencer made them freak out. On some level they intuit that if it becomes normal to advertise to us, they’ve lost the battle to push us back out of mainstream society.

The only thing that this administration will manage to burn is every bit of goodwill and strategic advantage the United States of America possesses.

everyone with an IQ above paste could have predicted this would happen: anyway; these Meta glasses are ontologically evil and anyone who wears them is a creeping blood-worm who should be chased from society with stones and sharp sticks

April 7th! Our release date is SO CLOSE! And since our community is once again concerned about certain Other Wizard Schools being forced into Universes Beyond, I wanted to state very clearly, as a queer author, that Strixhaven is for everyone. We do not board the Bigotry Bus here.

Well put.

The horrors persist, but so must I. And my persistence means making sure people know about my job so I can feed the cats, pay the mortgage, and help support the causes I believe in.

With this in mind, the reprint editions of IMAGINARY NUMBERS and CALCULATED RISKS are out today!

While this absolutely sucks, we are going to see a lot more places implementing universal global age verification over this next year, because the number of states and countries legally requiring it has gotten to the point no one can keep up anymore.

Age verification? The first video game system I played was a Vectrex.

every single person writing credulously about "elon will put people on the moon" should have to pin this post to their monitor

Ooh, I’m excited, I’ve been hoping for a sequel ever since reading HENCH.

To be very clear, that lady in the NYT article is not making any money with her hundreds of AI slop books.

She makes money by *convincing people* she makes money that way and getting them to pay her to teach them how to do it.

It's an evolved MLM, and the NYT is helping market it.

Thread. Read and maybe rethink some stuff.

every time I do a thread like this about a good election result I get a whole lot of “don’t get ahead of yourself, we still gotta make sure people are motivated for November” replies/quotes and while I understand the sentiment you know what gets people motivated?

winning! let yourself get excited!

the one tiny silver lining, such that it is, of Bezos’ obliteration of the Post is that these editorials have no ability to influence anything beyond online disgust and outrage

there is no agenda-setting power left in anonymous editorials issued from a smoking crater

When this moral panic is over and compassion returns to the way we treat trans kids, I hope we don’t forget how fucking evil this all was.

And who was responsible.

It is really interesting me how many people have, while reading the Epstein emails, intuited that there is something very weird about how he and the people around him use the word "cute" because it's clearly not the usual meaning of the word, because they are correct

the core issue is that good faith is vanishingly rare on the right, because explicitly acting in bad faith has been elevated as a virtue and rewarded with money and prestige there for decades

it’s not “polite” to say you should treat all right wing pundits as bad faith actors, but it’s true

I continue to appreciate @seananmcguire.bsky.social and @sevenishmagpies.com teaching us the format when we were out visiting Seanan a couple of years ago, it solidly got me to come back to the game from a 20+ year hiatus.

A layout of Magic: the Gathering cards, with dice indicating 3,840 on a token representing a creature, and an artifact equipped to it that gives +6/+6 and trample.

Family MTG Commander games over dinner are a fun routine to settle into, even when my daughter pulls nonsense like swinging a 3,846/3,846 creature with trample all over us. (Stacked doubling effects get silly real fast.)

I also want to say that while we have had to pause onboarding new printers to the group until we have upgraded our systems to manage the higher volume, several of our members have been building out a wiki meant to be used, copied, and expanded upon. It's full of tips we have learned!

the words THANK YOU spelled out with gorgeous multicolor whistles.

We have now shipped 432,367 whistles all across the country. 135,000 in February alone.

And we could not have done it without y'all.

The Pancake Priestess made you a thank you note. 💓

Get whistles > linktr.ee/3Dwhistles

We're tossing in a SIGNED copy of @seananmcguire.bsky.social's Magic: Soul and Stone comic collection for this fundraiser! Magic is political because if trans people are dead then we, a trans-own and ran comic/game store, can no longer exist. Also most of our players wouldn't exist. So! Go donate!

I forget who first coined it but “the revolt of the bosses” sums it up perfectly

the power that labor held in the remote work era was existentially terrifying to them and every move they have made since has been designed to crush it and instill fear across the workforce

Hey folks, if you like stories about your heroes turning out to be bad people, and uh, like wizards and shit, I have a book out now.