Friday, November 21, 2025
New video game Humble Bundle features "devious deckbuilders" including "Demonic Mahjong"
Starts at two games for $4. There's also a new bundle from Assemble Entertainment, Steam scores displayed (including 85% for a Leisure Suit Larry game).
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(The guy sitting down is the older brother (and injured).)???? pic.twitter.com/rwmUYGeuje
— king (@moeglibear) November 19, 2025
Drawing animals badly (Art roundup)
Day 311: Ope, I'm gonna be drawing animals badly for the foreseeable future (sorry in advance) Keep the suggestions coming in the comments!
— ScaredyKat Bonemann ๐๐ฆด (@katbaumann.bsky.social) November 7, 2025 at 6:54 AM
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Day 312: Drawing another animal without seeing it first, featuring the Hellbender
— ScaredyKat Bonemann ๐๐ฆด (@katbaumann.bsky.social) November 8, 2025 at 6:49 AM
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(More homages in the thread)As a special treat for Halloween tomorrow, I'm uploading all 10 parts of my "Dressed Up Comics" mini-series from earlier this month -- all in sequence and higher res scans, instead of just snapping a picture like usual ๐ป ๐
— ScaredyKat Bonemann ๐๐ฆด (@katbaumann.bsky.social) October 30, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Up first: Jim Davis, Gary Larson, Bill Watterson, E.C. Segar
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Thursday, November 20, 2025
Tim Hutchings posted a free condensed version of his 1200-page RPG Apollo 47
I posted about it back in 2022. He created a condensed version for sale, and posted free versions of the condeensed version as well as another game he created called Lovecraft Rules.
London's bizarre AI mural is expected to be torn down, and you'll never guess why
This write-up names the artist believed to have created it, and says the mural is going to be removed. And yeah, I never would have guessed why.
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Toyota has collab’d with Panini to make 250 @jordan3love worn sweater cards.
— Darren Rovell (@darrenrovell) November 17, 2025
Told dealers have some to give out next month. pic.twitter.com/uKwdCFMHI9
Wednesday, November 19, 2025
New GI Joe figure by Super7 up for preorder, including a character I've never heard of
I love their commitment to making, not just versions of characters that never received a figure, but characters that never received a figure. The new batch includes a glow-in-the-dark irradiated Snake-Eyes, cold weather Scarlett with a Geiger counter, and Mara, a genetically modified Cobra Eel test subject.
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(I didn't see the mural mentioned on the restaurant's social media pages. High-res of this, and an additional mural.)This mural has gone up in Kingston, ostensibly for Christmas but AI has ensured it's actually to celebrate the return of our dark lord Cthulhu
— Matt Thrower (@mattthr.bsky.social) November 18, 2025 at 1:44 AM
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Some impressive articulation for the Monsterarts Godzilla
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— ็ซๆช็ฃใใฉ (@G_U0401Earth) November 16, 2025
ใใฎๅฏๅๅใฎๅบใใใ่ฆงใใ ใใ。 pic.twitter.com/h5J0e3ng9d
Various versions up for preorder
Tuesday, November 18, 2025
"The 25 Best Hallmark Christmas Movies, Ranked"
The #2 on the list includes Jonathan Frakes and Robert Picardo in the cast. Here's a totally different list posted in response--it includes a Hannukah-themed movie about two attractive people who "realize that they are actually competing delicatessen owners." Also:
New addition to Hallmark’s holiday calendar: A special built around its in-person Hallmark Experience event featuring several Hallmark vets, musical performances—and Lacey Chabert announcing her 2026 CTC movie.
— Joe Adalian (@tvmojoe.bsky.social) November 18, 2025 at 9:34 AM
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Free Warhammer 40K TTRPG focusing on servants
I keep trying to write fan TTRPGs for 40K.
The first was Paper Route, also set on a giant flying cathedral of a spaceship. I never finished it. It was called “Paper Route” because the ship was cargo hauler, transporting a planet’s worth of office paper. There were orks with origami guns, and paper-wasp tyranids, and eldar scooped up alongside a whole forest.
Where my mind was at with Paper Route was: “40K should be funny.”
The second 40K TTRPG thing I made was for Kieron Gillen / Rowan Rook & Decard’s DIE RPG. It was an adventure called “POWERSWORD PURGATORY”—a bunch of 30-year-olds, former regulars at ye-olde-FLGS, get Jumanji-ed into POWERSWORD (ie: not-Warhammer 40K) for one last hurrah.
With “POWERSWORD” I was trying to work through how I felt about the fandom, and 40K’s place in culture now. Its drift from Thatcher-era DIY nihilism to corporate-IP neatness; its earnest embrace of “xenophobia is justified actually” power fantasies.
CHAPTER SERF is my third attempt. And my strongest, maybe?
Today's news and jokes
last night at a bar I learned that they improved pinball by making machines that are entirely computers and they’re much better than what we had before
— Jason Koebler (@jasonkoebler.bsky.social) November 16, 2025 at 10:43 AM
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Using a stamp instead of applying decals to miniatures
Monday, November 17, 2025
I wasn't going to read it, because haven't we heard more than enough about these people, but then I saw it described as having an M. Night Shyamalan-style twist at the end, and...
It certainly does. When you're done reading.
Some related thoughts:
Some related thoughts:
the item here on "f.o.b. voice" sort of gets at the same dynamic. the big LLMs are very good at producing glib, knowing, smooth prose in the same way that "the magazine industry" was very good at producing glib, knowing, smooth prose. but if there was demand for such prose we'd still have magazines
— Max Read (@maxread.info) November 17, 2025 at 9:28 AM
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(She's a former CNN White House correspondent)Not only is this the juiciest lede I’ve maybe ever read, the story is a beautiful lesson in accountability and truth, two things that for women - more so than men - require the kind of courage @Olivianuzzi has always had. https://t.co/qU9RLL7vlx
— Kate Bennett (@KateBennett_DC) November 14, 2025
Rep from MarylandJewish space lasers are a deal-killer for me. Hard pass.
— Noah Shachtman (@noahshachtman.bsky.social) November 17, 2025 at 7:32 AM
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The author's other articlesVanity Fair going for the daily double, I see.
— Joe Adalian (@tvmojoe.bsky.social) November 17, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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SCOOP: CDC officials on Monday linked for the first time the measles outbreak that began in Texas with another in Utah and Arizona, a finding that could end America’s status as a nation that has eliminated measles. (Gift link) www.nytimes.com/2025/11/17/h...
— Apoorva Mandavilli (@apoorvanyt.bsky.social) November 17, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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I just realized the thing that set back social democracy in America a hundred years was Hunter Biden not inviting media elites on his cocaine benders and sharing his hookers and I will spend the next 48 hours staring at the wall.
— Starfish Who Can’t Think Something Witty (@irhottakes.bsky.social) November 17, 2025 at 6:04 PM
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I’m just glad someone is raising awareness about how invasive bamboo (often planted by someone looking for a fast-growing privacy screen) can be extremely difficult to get rid of. Left overgrown, can cause serious damage. Good to spread the word to plant native alternatives.
— Katie Notopoulos (@katienotopoulos) November 18, 2025
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Belichick calls a timeout with seconds left and Wake inside the 5 — the Deacs respond with a score. Small scuffle ensues.
— Travon Miles (@TrayABC11) November 16, 2025
Wake 28, UNC 12 | 22 seconds left in game. pic.twitter.com/NhRl8ENqFB
This is an awful look for Bill Belichick.
— Josh Graham (@JoshGrahamShow) November 16, 2025
When you occupy the space Bill does, you should recognize what these games mean to opposing coaches.
Jake Dickert even removed his hat as he approached to shake hands. pic.twitter.com/Ce3iitpM1G
Wake Forest led 21-12 w/ the ball inside the UNC 5 w/ 27 secs left in game
— Travon Miles (@TrayABC11) November 16, 2025
With the clock seemingly set to run out - Bill Belichick called a timeout.
Which fueled Wake to run a play & score a TD.
Belichick was asked about the decision:
"I didn't know what they were gonna do." pic.twitter.com/fimf4jYP5Z
Giannis secured the game ball for Lakers rookie Adou Thiero after scoring his first NBA points. pic.twitter.com/9BwecS0pdy
— Milwaukee Bucks (@Bucks) November 16, 2025
Luka: “the ref wouldn’t give us the ball, so giannis took it and gave us, so respect to him” https://t.co/ZqWCA9V7xr pic.twitter.com/UrsSZVruNL
— sarah (@slothanova) November 16, 2025
Giannis on stepping in to give the Lakers the game ball for the rookie Adou Thiero after his first career points which for some reason the ref wouldn’t allow him to have it. pic.twitter.com/lJWWpsQIwe
— VideoMixtape.com (@VideoMixtape_) November 16, 2025
How to pose for candid photos
@gallucks say ty to my Gen Z cousin #photographytips #howtopose #influencers ♬ Berghain - ROSALรA & Bjรถrk & Yves Tumor
Sunday, November 16, 2025
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This young Wolves fan is very upset that Jonas Valanciunas made the 2nd free throw to deny fans a free chicken sandwich
— CJ Fogler (@cjzero.bsky.social) November 15, 2025 at 7:13 PM
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Now Jamal Murray hits the second FT after missing the first and our fan is still hot ๐
— CJ Fogler (@cjzero.bsky.social) November 15, 2025 at 7:20 PM
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How to paint stubble on a miniature
@gallowaypaints4 A quick video discussing what a filter is and how to use it effectively. Also a video on how to paint stubble. #warhammer #warhammercommunity #warhammer40k #tutorials #artist ♬ Ambient-style emotional piano - MoppySound
(For white skin, lots of extremely watered down gray coats.)
Saturday, November 15, 2025
"34 hospitalized, 2 in critical condition after" an ammonia leak in the parking lot of a Holiday Inn Express
@abcnews Hundreds of people were evacuated and dozens hospitalized after a chemical spill outside Oklahoma City. Authorities say a tanker truck carrying 25,000 pounds of ammonia was leaking while parked outside a Holiday Inn, potentially due to a mechanical failure or faulty seal.
♬ original sound - ABC News
"Around 500 people were evacuated to the Pioneer Event Center at Southwestern Oklahoma State University."
AP:
[One person who lived near the hotel], spent the night in a parking lot with her boyfriend crammed into their 2013 Ford Mustang with their three dogs — a Husky, a Pit bull and a Shar-Pei-mix, and their cat in a carrier on her lap.She said she was pulling chicken out of the oven Wednesday night when a firefighter in full gear knocked on the door and told her she needed to evacuate. The smell was overwhelming by the time she and her boyfriend got leashes on their three dogs and loaded their pets into their car.
(This is the first week that Tiktok has become better at surfacing interesting stories than my X/Bluesky feeds)
New book Humble Bundle featuring Inspector Maigret novels
One novel for $1, Eighteen for $18:
a bundle of all 18 of Simenon’s Maigret novels that have been republished thus far, to read along with PBS’s currently running Maigret series!
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@andreaelizondoo Empaniz Hada ๐ง๐คฃ๐คฃ #genderreveal #genderrevealfail ♬ Jet2 Advert - ✈️A7-BBH | MAN ๐ฌ๐ง
Friday, November 14, 2025
"Paramount has tapped John Francis Daley and Jonathan Goldstein to write and direct a new Trek movie that is said to be unconnected from anything previously done"
HR:
The duo is known for balancing comedic chops with high concepts and action, such as their beloved hit Game Night and Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves, which Paramount released. They recently wrapped the Apple feature Mayday, which stars Ryan Reynolds and Kenneth Branagh
๐๐ https://t.co/TfePrmIfRB
— John Francis Daley (@JohnFDaley) November 14, 2025
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