Talking with two people about the game I am working on with my daughter.
Me: fiber arts is going to be an advancement path
Friend 1: squeee!
Friend 2: you mean crafting?
Friend 1 glared at friend 2.
Never underestimate the determination of fiber artists especially the needle wielding ones.
Come hang out with me here! While "fantasy" is in the name, the 4th Street community is warm and welcoming to all walks of speculative and adjacent writing.
Clues by Sam is now a regular part of game design sessions with my daughter.
Spouse: How did your farming sim end up with dragons?
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If white progressives cannot consider Black and Brown Americans are often choosing between prison pipeline or service by design, that cheering for dead soldiers means you're cheering for the over 40% of recruits who are people of color to die because of ugly white men's wars, I give up.
I don’t think you lose your insurance but it could cause problems that are effectively the same. :(
Depending on the length of this halt likely scenarios are small providers will go out of business, more insurers will drop Medicaid plans in 2027, and more providers will not accept Medicaid plans in 2027. /3
But providers and insurers often have contracts, so you might be able to still get services. /2
This is a complicated subject because of how providers get reimbursed by insurance providers who offer Medicaid plans.
It’s possible the provider won’t get paid because the insurer isn’t getting reimbursed either. /1
Congratulations to Silk & Sinew from Bad Hand Books, the anthology of Asian Diaspora Folk Horror just accepted as a finalist on the ballot of the 2026 Bram Stoker Awards!
This is not only one of the best horror novels I’ve ever read but also imho one of the most important queer texts of the decade.
Preorder this IMMEDIATELY 🖤🙏🦷
After nearly four years in hardcover, SPEAR is finally available in paperback. Same book, same delicious interior illustrations, just a few more nifty quotes on the back :)
Both can be true
What’s a little cocktail between friends?
I understand everyone's drowning in misery, but every push back against his regime is progress even if it doesn't feel like it. Countering every bit of good news with a bunch of WHY IT DOESN'T MATTER REALLY demoralizes people. Demoralized people? Stop fighting. Consider this a moment.
meep
Can't, I Wanna Be Sedated
Had a great morning and early afternoon with one of my daughters.
We spent four hours discussing the design of our farming sim.
After our discussion petered out, we completed today's Clues by Sam puzzle together. Collaborative Clues by Sam is slower but fun in a different way than solo play.
I am not a person
I'm three raccoons in a suit
And some people call me vermin
But I do not give a hoot
I'll raid your trash and steal your socks
And then let you boop my snoop
Because I am not a person
I'm three raccoons in a suit
Maybe "Ich Bin Ein Ausländer" by Pop Will Eat Itself until then
Also, food insecurity feels like a sanitized term to make hunger, starvation, and malnutrition more palatable.
A bottle of Laws four grain bourbon
Taking advantage of being in Colorado for family reasons
Hey folks!
Due to a series of unforeseen expenses, I need to raise some cash before royalty season rolls around at the beginning of April. Because of that, I am going to do something I don't usually do and offer paid mentoring sessions for aspiring writers.
Coming later this year.
#Booksky Nice piece on Greg Ketter (aka: the guy in the cloud of tear gas yelling, “Fuck ICE!”) of DreamHaven Books in Minneapolis! Greg has supported us from Day 1 and often hosts our events. And our publisher just started working there part time.
m.youtube.com/watch?v=P0nd...
Now craving pfeffernusse
Fascism is Talking About the Weather It flourishes in the mundane spaces of Small talk and close-lipped smiles of Walking by and commenting Barometric pressure falling On the record cold temperatures. Because, back in our day it was never like this And people knew their place. All you do is comply and you will be. Be good. You cannot be good if you dissent if you ask questions if you stand up America first and only and we were never Colonizers, but that comfortable word Settlers. And we do Settle but we do so on bloody haunches, Standing at the feet of yet another body To make room make room make room Dew point 18 degrees and two miles visibility Hell, we can’t see what’s in front of our faces because someone else has told us It’s sunny today in Minneapolis A sunny day in America Nothing to see 90% humidity Someone bought the milk and eggs, almost Got into a fight with that other guy who couldn’t Possibly belong here In their heads Their skin, their children, Their passport their address and What the fuck are we even making? Chance of precipitation 100%. But it’s a sunny day in America because They told us so. And it’s so much easier to Let them think for us so we can tay comfortable We can settle We can bask in the sun As we freeze to death
A poem. An ice storm.
Or wield a phone to record events instead of brandishing a weapon
Congratulations on another revolution around the sun.
May your next molt be as beautiful as your last.
