Sean Bohan

Great thread (read the whole thing here or on his blog), but this is one of my favorite insights from Cory over the years. " You mustn't be afraid to dream a little bigger, darling." - Eames Inception

“Hype is eating the future, and leaving us the bones.” Sun-ha Hong of UNC-Chapel Hill says the Silicon Valley hype machine systematically “borrows credibility from the future to purchase legitimacy in the present.” The cost, he argues, is a planetary-scale drain on our alternatives.

My new kitbashed tech priest

Remi Dekker, son of resistance fighter Freddie Oversteegen has this to say about our minis! 😍 I am blown away! Also pic of when we met up recently, he got a special painted one by John Morris. (KS on now www.kickstarter.com/projects/bad...)

This is absolutely amazing.

Something for the weekend, sir? Myself and @burnafterrunning.bsky.social talk about D&D games that aren't D&D. Do you like both types of music? Country and Western? Are you a fan of both Dungeons and Dragons? We've got you covered with some better* rulesets. open.spotify.com/episode/1wzn...

LOVE this. The ecosystem keeps growing … I think 2027 will be a very exciting year for AT Proto and everyone who cares about an open internet.

My first 5 RPGs 1. Star Frontiers (mom was a big fan of the satanic panic, thought this would keep us from summoning demons) 2 AD&D (oops, didn’t work) 3. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and Other Strangeness 4. Rifts 5. Shadowrun

Me: Sha Na Na will be thrilled Her: How old are you? Bowser would be so impressed you still think of them.

Check out an interview with Ben Baugh, Shane Ivey and myself, about #DeltaGreen #MonstersAndOtherChildishThings and other...stuff.

Brookhaven Town has one reliable vendor for high-speed Internet. And now it’s bankrupt. www.wsj.com/pro/bankrupt...

In 2016, we published potentially the largest single feature to ever appear in Game Informer magazine with a full oral history of the legendary studio, BioWare. We've made that feature available online following reports of the studio's impending closure. gameinformer.com/feature/2026...

DIF officially recommends two more blockchain-based DID methods: did:ethr and did:cid! Both have completed the DIF DID Methods WG review process for technical viability and maturity. Learn more about the methods and what the DIF recommendation means 🔗 blog.identity.foundation/did-ethr-and...

My Untitled History Podcast guest for Friday's recording has had to drop out due to circumstances. Historians! Who wants to come on and talk about your weird or niche bit of history more people should know about? Or a fresh way to look at a well known thing My DM's are open and email in bio!

DIF's DID Methods WG has did:hedera in its 60-day comment period, while DIDComm advances CBOR binary encoding, with implementation work supporting further testing. More in DIF Newsletter #66. 🔗 blog.identity.foundation/dif-newslett...

Of course I would wear this.

If you're not playing Banana Chan's games then you're not really playing TTRPGs at all

Still looking for a podcast guest for my episode on the history and cultural impact of Mr Blobby.

Can’t fall for a phishing scam if you never open emails. Check. Mate.

“The internet is a store but it used to be a library” hits me like a slug to the chest

While doing a search this morning on "Jodorowsky's Dune" I mistyped it as "Jodorowsky's Dude" and now I'm trying to imagine a Jodorowsky version of The Big Lebowski.

Insulating homes and investing in heat pumps would be more effective in reducing living costs, creating jobs, and boosting the economy than drilling for new oil.

New post: rules for a really simple wargame write.as/trollish-del...

I’m loving Control Resonant so far. I’m just so happy to be back in this world. The characters and lore are some of my favorite in gaming. The weirder it gets the happier I am.

New blog entry: Bizarre Blanets and Weird Worlds: www.antipope.org/charlie/blog...

They need to give Nathan Fielder a billion dollars and just let the little fucker rip.

We have that in common.

FRIDAY SHOP PLUG! Folklore themed linocut prints including this festive pumpkin gathering. Featuring all your favourite musical garden pals; Franklin the frog on banjo, Sylvia the squirrel on dulcimer and Jenny Wren on the bells… matpringleillustration.bigcartel.com

#inktober

The last time the Milwaukee Brewers were in the World Series you could get 12 8-track tapes for only a dollar through The Gorman Thomas Tape Club®.

Herkimer Battle Jitney FTW!!!

Isn't it about time you got a new job? Come and join the amazing team I'm building up in Scotland in Energy Saving Trust. This is your chance to use your service design skills against the big bad: the climate emergency. Give me a shout w/ qs! careers.energysavingtrust.org.uk/jobs/8541312...

Well shit, looks like we're gettin back on MapQuest, y'all

Digital sovereignty is as real as real can be. It just has nothing to do with AI. AI isn't load-bearing. Boring-ass tech monopolist cloud software *is*...and we can *not* trust it: pluralistic.net/2026/01/01/3... eof/

The CEO of Microsoft France admitted that if Trump ordered the company to spy on French citizens' data (or the data of the French government), his company would comply, in secret: www.forbes.com/sites/emmawo...

wow what a fun reason to delete all of mark zuckerberg's websites and never think about any of them ever again if you needed another one www.niemanlab.org/2026/10/meta...

Things To Do In Denver When You’re Dead For Tax Purposes

In 1995, the French writer Roland C. Wagner (1960–2012) wrote an alternate-history biography of H.P. Lovecraft, titled “H.P.L. (1890–1991),” in which he recounts the life and career of a Lovecraft who lived to be 101 years old. The latest French edition includes an English-language version.

I played Black Death City, and you should, too!

Very excited to have worked with Sash to make a horrible British boarding school filled with horrible British classism for 13 Omens.

No “The Evil Midnight Bomber What Bombs at Midnight”??

Keep writing. You didn’t create all these fictional people and ruin their lives just to abandon them halfway through.

40. Well Dweller - 12 hrs 42 min @kylethompsondev.bsky.social really outdid himself this time. Perfectly tuned gameplay. Incredible flow & discovery. Gorgeously designed world & characters. Beautiful score by Eric Thompson. A living folktale that I couldn't put down & was eager to 100% complete.

The two worlds I bridge - tech and news - both have invite-only unconferences. I've never been invited to either Foocamp or Newsgeist, and I'm choosing to weave this into an outsider artist persona. But also: Foocamp led to Barcamp, which is deliberately open. What's the open Newsgeist?