@chase_hofer #fypシ #guys ♬ original sound - Chase Hofer
Tuesday, November 25, 2025
Monday, November 24, 2025
If you're in LA, The Getty Villa is doing a special Percy Jackson contest
Dec 6 and 7, 2025
Dec 13 and 14, 2025
Drop-in
10:30am–3pm
Tickets are free, but required for event entrance. Your event ticket will also serve as your Villa entrance reservation. Please note, there is a fee for parking.
Calling all fans of Percy Jackson! To celebrate Season 2 of Percy Jackson and the Olympians, all demigods (and ancient world enthusiasts) are invited to join a quest through the galleries and gardens of the Getty Villa Museum. Test your knowledge of Greek mythology and the world of Percy Jackson—complete the quest to receive a prize!
Prizes are limited and are available while supplies last.
Today's news and jokes
Gets a huge pop from the crowd at the endThe cuteness that's been lighting up your timeline is back in arena tonight 🍿 pic.twitter.com/sYKZIz1i0K
— Phoenix Suns (@Suns) November 22, 2025
Here's what the Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory "shared reality" experience looks like at Cosm
@geekandfab A feast for the senses at the premier of @Cosm @CosmLosAngeles Willy Wonka & The Chocolate Factory last night. #willywonka #imagination #cosm #sharedreality #experience ♬ Pure Imagination - Kathleen
@cosmlosangelesca Step into the Premiere of Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory in #SharedReality ♬ original sound - Cosm Los Angeles
@cosmlosangelesca Enter a World of Pure Imagination… don’t miss Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory in #SharedReality at Cosm! 🎩 #movie #fyp #immersive #wildlife ♬ original sound - Cosm Los Angeles
@cosmlosangelesca Turns out Veruca Salt is a good egg after all! 😂 #WillyWonka #Cosm #SharedReality #verucasalt ♬ original sound - Cosm Los Angeles
(Big miss, huge, if The Unknown isn't wandering around)
Sunday, November 23, 2025
Holiday gift guide by the Room Escape Artist website
Big variety of puzzle-related gift ideas. I bought "How to Fool Your Parents: 25 Brain-Breaking Magic Tricks" as a gift, it's currently 56% off at Amazon, and also ordered the "iDventure A-Maze-ing Safe" from their prior gift guide--29% off right now at Amazon.
Today's news and jokes
— Jerad Walker (@jeradwalker.bsky.social) November 21, 2025 at 8:33 AM("An attack dog from the local Minsk police force got a little too snappy with players from CSKA Moscow and Dinamo Minsk, biting two of them")
Excellent tutorial for painting liquid-filled glass vials on miniatures
The new video tutorial is available on my patreon as it’s about painting a backpack of my Flawless Blades Chaos Space Marine. There is my commentary in the video, view of my palette and the list of colors that I used. I hope you will have fun with this short video 🙂 pic.twitter.com/2nFOtqirZR
— Flameon Miniatures (@FlameMiniatures) November 7, 2025
Saturday, November 22, 2025
Today's news and jokes
College Football’s newest trend?
— Unnecessary Roughness (@UnnecRoughness) November 21, 2025
Celebrating touchdowns by doing the complete opposite of what Texas A&M’s state trooper did
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The audiobook for Iain Bank's novel "Matter" is fabulous
My favorite Culture novel (slightly abridged), wonderfully performed by Toby Longworth. Available at Amazon, although I listened to it in the Libby app.
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).
Today's news and jokes
(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 💀🦴 (@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 💀🦴 (@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 👻 🎃
— ScaredyKat Bonemann 💀🦴 (@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.
Today's news and jokes
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.
Today's news and jokes
(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
新カラー版が予約開始されたモンスターアーツのFWゴジラ
— 猫怪獣ノラ (@G_U0401Earth) November 16, 2025
その可動域の広さをご覧ください。 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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