James Dawsey

WE DEFEATED FASCISM IN BRAZIL, YOU CAN DO IT TOO

Voted.

Outta my sight, scrub

I've mentioned before I've updated my contracts to make sure everything in the production of my books is done by humans and not "AI"; if you're wondering what such a thing looks like, here's a clause covering that from a recent contract.

@steampowered.com is flooded with AI Slop during their current Next Fest. Between games that are Claude clones of indie titles that haven't even released, yet, and generic sloppy concepts and artwork for generic games, it's hard to find anything worth my time and money. youtu.be/ksUxKOIV1Ms

"Trans Lives are Real. Harry Potter is Not" Sticker spotted in NYC

SCOOP: 'Tommy' from the now-viral exchange with Abdul El-Sayed is Thomas Teepell, a former staffer for Republican Senator Josh Hawley with close ties to Christian Nationalist Sean Feucht. He's the son of a former Bobby Jindal staffer whose consultant work was instrumental in getting Hawley elected.

M. Night Shyamalan's YouTube channel (which is something he has now) came out of nowhere with this great line.

Hilariously, @tabletophoard.bsky.social was just talking about people being outlasted by lettuce in a meeting last night… :)

To the social media staffer who runs @schumer.senate.gov— tell the boss to get in front of some cameras and defend @ilhanmn.bsky.social, or resign as leader. And to you, staffer, specifically—quit. Working for that useless turnip isn’t going to help your career, & isn’t worth your soul.

Saw the trailer for the new Baywatch show. All I can say is I hope they’re using as much sunblock as they are Nair on that set, I’d hate for those lovely actors to get skin cancer.

A solar-powered ambulance brought X-ray, ultrasound and vaccine refrigeration to off-grid Kenyan communities, traveling 800km while generating more power than its medical equipment used.

holy shit!! artists!!! you guys!! pinlite.app someone made a pinterest facade site that just strips away all the dumb bullshit and gives you only the images this is AMAAZINNNGGGG. Not to mention the web 1.0 grey and blue link vibe lol

All timer nightmare blunt rotation being assembled here. John Lasseter is in a prominent position there, too. Truly just a collection of heinous monsters.

A textless high-res version of panel four, for the dictator-punching enthusiasts in the audience:

It’s go time! The Spectaculars/Dusk City Outlaws second printing crowdfunding campaign is now live! www.backerkit.com/c/projects/s...

“They sell us the President the same way They sell us our clothes and our cars They sell us everything from youth to religion The same time they sell us our wars” Jackson Browne, 1986

Goodbye, Marjoe Gortner. Thank you for making an earnest effort to raise awareness about religious con artistry. And also thanks for all the weird movies.

With Warner Brothers about to be significantly owned by a country notorious for human rights crimes... I guess I'm done with their movies for the foreseeable future. I was kinda interested in Clayface, but I guess that and everything Paramount just fell into the pile of 'Nope.' Stupid megacorps.

It's my birthdaaaaay!🎊 As an artist, it's often difficult to acknowledge how much I work and how much I improve, so today I want to be nicer to myself and share some of my favourite pieces I made since my last bday.💙 If you'd like to share, it would be a lovely gift!🙏✨

Kicking off my Let's Study review series of Free League Publishing's Invincible Superhero Roleplaying Game philgamer.wordpress.com/2026/09/28/l...

If your pulp adventure TTRPG doesn’t have a mechanic where a player can randomly introduce an unexpected chase scene into a meeting with an underworld connection, is it really a pulp adventure? Savage worlds is so much better with the adventure deck.

As someone who isn't planning to buy anything from any Microsoft company until they stop selling Palestine's data to Israel, I'm not really bothered by the restructuring of which sub-company is in charge of which intellectual property. It does suck seeing lots of people lose their jobs, though.

Co-founder of Graveyard Keeper dev Lazy Bear Games regularly posts AI art & asks for help with AI gen code Going as far as feeding his own games art into the slop machine The game itself is from 2018 so it predates the stuff, but they announced a sequel & I expect it to be full of AI-gen slop

Rodney Thompson's @scratchpadpub.bsky.social is ramping up for a crowd-funder to put two terrific games back in-print. Check it out!

I loved eating Chik-Fil-A. Can't remember the last time I ate there. I used to go to Hobby Lobby weekly. Haven't walked into one in over a decade. I enjoyed Harry Potter, past tense. My life is not wanting of joy without these things the way it would be without all my LGBTQIA+ friends. Choose love.

Today's threads (a thread) Inside: LLMs are real, AI is fake; and more! Archived at: pluralistic.net/2026/09/12/g... #Pluralistic

Enid Bennett in pirates gear for CAPTAIN APPLEJACK, retitled STRANGERS OF THE NIGHT

Tonight, I saw "Roaring Fire" (1981) for the first time, and... WOW. That movie was 100% cocaine-addled action movie stunt INSANITY mashed up with *every* soap opera plot ever. Five out of Five stars. How the HELL did Hiroyuki Sanada survive this?! youtu.be/XvcB0JNuW_c?...

Watching an influential YouTuber pronounce Jenell Jaquays's name wrong about fifty bajillion times in a video largely ABOUT HER... He didn't have the presence of mind to look up how *she* said her name in interviews... this is part of why I hate modern media.

Video game companies keep trying to bait and switch us with AI, and it sucks aftermath.site/1666-amsterdam...

Must be a great time to be working at Bit Reactor… Oh www.gamefile.news/p/star-wars-...

Current mood: "I've never been too good with names, but I remember faces. It's a shame about Ray." -The Lemonheads

Conceptualization is the *most* important part of creation. Everything after that is merely executing (and refining) on that first part! It's like if my house only used mud for the foundation, so it's fine because no mud's included *inside* the final house. IT'S STILL BUILD ON MUD.

Gamescom out there utterly failing basic security details for the biggest gaming convention on the planet. www.thegamer.com/gamescom-off...

I can excuse economic collapse, but I draw the line at Phil Tippett studio shutting down