EP Walker

Cat Anus Everdeen

"The purpose of civilization is to make violence the final resort." -Terry Pratchett Vote, people. Vote for sensible leaders, not greedy bullshitters.

I got the new, final, epic expansion to Race For The Galaxy, Xeno Counterstrike. Can't wait to try it out. It looks bonkers in the best way.

Inflation eating up worker pay. Household debt and student loan defaults at a record high. Credit card debt at a near record high. 8 million people have lost healthcare the past year. 5 million people have lost food stamps — including 2 million children. And this is what he's thinking about?

Rad.

Fox News is the problem.

Nice piece from @wericmartin.bsky.social on Why You Should Skip Amazon Prime Days www.wericmartin.com/why-you-shou...

My favorite Shakespeare is the Hamlet blood opera my friends and I envisioned where most of the Shakespeare happens offscreen but it's just ham packed with scenes like the big gunfight when rosencrantz and guildenstern blast their way out of the telegraph office

These books are all rad! A couple bucks is a great deal for fun high sci-fi.

"A wise ruler thinks twice before directing violence against someone because he does not approve of what they say." -Havelock Vetinari

We beat Valheim tonight. From the top rope!

Voting only on "lower taxes" is incredibly selfish and stupid. First compare quality of life with higher-tax countries. The USA is backsliding. Taken to the extreme, if you cut taxes 100% the govt cannot provide any value. You are voting for anarchy. Dump the safety net, destroy security. Why???

Donald Trump is a symptom of a deeper sickness of inequality, disillusionment, and division. The cure? Economic and social justice. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zTQoc5Jrciw

In the meantime, you can find out more about Farideh in the Brimstone Angels Saga, the series everyone who played BG3 and asks "where are books like this?" has been recommended. Available in ebook and audiobook or as wildly expensive used physical books. www.amazon.com/Brimstone-An...

FIENDS & FOES is available for pre-order now. It comes out 11/24/26. www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/796944...

We're big fans of local Saint Paul band Alligator Orchestra. After hearing songs they wrote about Root, we commissioned them to record a Kart theme song. They came back with "Don't Look Down!", two minutes of raucous pop-punk that's perfect for Kart's reckless downhill races.

For the record, at this time in my life, I'm for Green Mars. We should contaminate the crap out of it to give Earth life a foothold there. It would be cool to find signs of non-terrestrial life. Maybe we still will. But also would be cool to spread biota to other planets.

dumbasses in charge

The answer of course is "all of these guys really are stupid as fuck"

Hurting the president’s feelings isn’t a national security threat Thank you for your attention to this matter.

NEW: @apnews.com confirms that ICE has begun electronically "disappearing" people in the agency's custody who have final orders of removal. As of last week, anyone jailed by ICE with a final order of removal will NOT appear in the ICE Online Detainee Locator System, making them effectively vanish.

It was a delight to spend some time with the Gaming with Science podcast! These are my people 🔎🎲

Rad. This telescope is going to teach/unteach us so much cool stuff!

Realization: Why do we call them the Aughts when we could call them the Double-Os? "I was in New Orleans back in '007"

GOLDEN AXE is now available for streaming! The whole season is on P+! Wow wow wow

Played a lot of Valheim today. I need to take a break so I don't outpace my buddies.

I'm so thirsty. I feel like I ate 66 inches of heavily-salted meat cylinder

Wow! I think I gotta get on this.

KART IS LIVE. It has been an absolute pleasure to see this game come together, and I am even more excited to share it with all of you. bit.ly/KartOnKS

BUT WAIT! there's more. If you're in the Minneapolis area, you can join us for a book launch party at Moon Palace at 6 on Thursday! Please do come if you can! BUT IF YOU CAN'T....

Event submissions for BGG Con are opening soon. Are you going to run a panel? Oh good.

The people he’s calling idiots granted him power. It’s his job to represent them. And he relies on them for more power. See why the GOP is suppressing votes? If a majority votes, folks like this lose.

Been playing The Incentive Program demo this week recommended by @patrickleder.bsky.social . It's really fun. Balatro Match-3, light on opportunity cost, very snappy. Still don't know what to do with the rock.

Wingspan seed art at the Minnesota State Fair!

Dunno why I have to say this but in the imperialist days you could just take over a country by force but we collectively realized that was bad. Now you have to offer an empire with a high quality of life and those countries will just want to join you. No mass murder needed. Just smartbrains.

So damned embarrassing. A tribute to the brittle ego of a madman. Standing here and seeing it in person is infuriating that this is where we are.

The official U.S. Department of Education Twitter account posted, then deleted, a video positively comparing Trump to Hitler. Captioned “No one does it like us” with a tiger emoji, the video opens with a scene from Darkest Hour wherein Winston Churchill refers to Hitler as a tiger.

Yo Bluesky, gimme a book recommendation! This year I've read 18 Discworld books, 9 Agatha Christie mysteries, Dungeon Crawler Carl, and 40-odd other books of all stripes. What next? Oddball sci-fi? Reread my favorite Stephenson or Banks? Libby, take the wheel...

A recent survey found that 92% of U.S. adults have delayed or avoided medical care due to high costs. Meanwhile, a new study from Yale estimates that Medicare for All would save over 114,000 lives and $1 trillion a year. If this country was truly “pro-life,” we would have universal healthcare.

Here's a non-political post re SPACE, while we prep for the World SciFi Convention in Anaheim, next weekend... and the premier of my play! Hope to see some of you there. But click here for news on SPACE N' SCIENCE! davidbrin.blogspot.com/2026/08/more...

I just think the CMB may be overlapped leftovers from multiple "big bangs" of known types: supernovae, cosmic jets, etc. The "dots on a balloon" metaphor is equivalent to "dots on any number of balloons". Fundamentally energy & matter propagate. Seems self-explanatory.

Culture shock coming home from Spain/Portugal trip and seeing just how expensive and shitty things are in the U.S. 'Merica Ain't Great Anymore thanks to Republicans and the monopolies they protect, at the cost of our quality of life.

Be clear. Demolition of US Military morale is a feature, not a bug, to Hegseth and the other KGB agents in this administration. You should have seen it when he screeched at 300 generals, admirals and top sergeants "You're too fat and woke to fight!" Readiness is gone, now, as in all GOP admins.

.. like my victims

I've been doing this many years, and the shape of a thing is much more visible to me at the start these days. But even so, once you sit down and go through the motions for the first time, the gaping holes immediately show themselves. It's nothing to be afraid of or panic about.

This is why we travel

Again it is insane that we have accepted masked secret police.

Where my anti-tyrant gun nuts at?

Black Flag, Mind Sweeper, The Bird, and Barkane — the RPG for dogs