Sheer Spec Press (J Boone Dryden)

Eagerly looking for some gig work. Would be happy doing editing work (of most any kind—20+ yrs experience), contract review & editing (10+ yrs experience), or writing consultation. Reach out for rates and schedule. Email is in bio.

I am in Milwaukee getting tipsy at Foundation. The world is as it should be.

Increasingly having to play a fight song just to amp myself up to go outside and deal with the fucking world.

IT'S NOT TO LATE TO HELP MINNESOTA FAMILIES AND BE ENTERED IN A DRAWING FOR ONE OF ***FOUR*** BOOKS! I probably should have said a time zone for "5 pm today" but obviously I mean Minnesota's

Game Designer, Sensitivity Consultant, and Translator Basil here! I'm actively looking for work! Portfolio: towerofbasil.wordpress.com/portfolio/ Consulting: towerofbasil.wordpress.com/sensitivity-... Afrodyssey: towerofbasil.wordpress.com/afrodyssey-h...

Do what you can for Minneapolis. 💜 www.standwithminnesota.com

This will help my neighbors. Please support this. We need all the help we can get.

Whatever your capacity, offer resistance. You don’t have to be out in the streets (and don’t let anyone tell you otherwise), but you can resist. Progressives cities need a lot of help right now — not just MN — and every bit helps.

It’s been a long weird few months in the Twin Cities, so I’ve been quiet. I’m doing ok, staying safe, protecting my communities. Thanks for all the new follows.

"A Tale of Two Topas" may be one of the best-written episodes of a serial ever written. It's so good.

Dr. Seuss would be disgusted by the new Wal*Mart commercial. I hate capitalism.

Between Vincent & me, we've backed 429 projects on Kickstarter, & funded 18 projects of our own. www.kickstarter.com/projects/lum... will be our 19th. This is the longest wait we've ever had for a greenlight. Kickstarter United is now in the longest tech strike ever. Solidarity Forever.

Two nerd loves married this week: writing a vassalage contract for PCs in my “Dune” campaign. It is a very good contract.

Very sad news. I knew Rob back in my days in Milwaukee. Super nerd. Very kind guy.

Y'all want help fight fascists? Support public journalism (y'know, the kind the government keeps defunding).

Amazon Prime Day? More like Amazing Primo Indie Games, Yay! gilarpgs.myshopify.com

Centrists when they hear a Socialist advocating for a thing that does not directly benefit them but does materially benefit the majority of people:

In small town Wisconsin, we had a teacher who it was said (later proved in court) was being directly profiled and stalked by he police. He was black (Tortugan) married to a white teacher. As high schoolers most thought it was “over-reacting.” He was a loud, mouthy leftist.

Medical advice is not “free speech” if it actively harms people.

Sometimes I listen to “In the Air Tonight” just to get to the drum transition.

Everything the mainstream media considers a "radical left-wing belief" is a compromise position. The actual radical beliefs are things we can't discuss because they're too far outside the Overton Window for most people to understand.

"Among those arrested was David, a 31-year-old healthcare worker...David, who is gay, was wearing a rainbow Pride wristband as he says he was simply trying to pee when he was arrested."

I've come up with a new online insult, and I'm waiting for the day someone figures out how devastating it is. Just respond to someone who's being obtuse or intentionally obstinate with "Ok, Fitzgerald."

Alternativeky, if there is a hilarious editor out there who loves what we do and thinks we’re worth championing, even in this anti-autism world, get in touch!

I like Jimmy Kimmel. I really do. I have no issues with him. I'm talking about something very different. Kimmel was only suspended. But he's back now. Karen Attiah and all the other Black journalists are still fired. Y'all do know how to fight, when you want to. But you don't really want to. 🤷🏿‍♂️

Who here is still chilling here on planet Earth watching the Rapture happen? Y'all sending up your friends with fun gifts?

I cannot stress this enough. We are protesting Broadview because of the human rights violations happening within the ICE facility. If they are willing to assault me on camera, imagine what they are doing to detainees behind boarded-up windows.

Grindr being overloaded in Phoenix while Kirk's "memorial" was going on is a true moment in history.

These people are so unserious AND are clearly being punished into this line of reaction. NO ONE (and please feel free to find me a case that says otherwise) was punished in this same way for absolutely going bananas excited when Kissinger died. No one. This is what literal censorship looks like.

I'd probably just hire an Appeals Judge. More of them and easier to get, I'd think.

If I win the powerball I'm gonna buy a supreme court judge

Amazing!

“The Onion stands at the ready to act as a mouthpiece of the world’s elite, using its distinguished reportage to parrot whatever the party line happens to be. Genocide, eugenics, incest—no topic is too taboo to find support in our paper so long as it has been approved by a trustworthy establishment”

Trump Spends Entire U.K. Trip Trying To Figure Out Where He Knows Prince Andrew From

I feel a little like Charlie from “Always Sunny…” whenever I get as excited about cheese as I do. Work events are always more tolerable with cheese.

New "Democratic" think tank is a conservative think tank. Haha. They're really just sliding right as fast as they can.

The Dept of Education is now accepting comments on a proposed rule that would overhaul Public Service Loan Forgiveness, and make it too expensive for students to go into work that threatens the Trump administration Folks have til *Sept. 17* to oppose the changes ballsandstrikes.org/legal-cultur...

The Kickstarter campaign for The FH Guide to Mysterious Locations is in its final 48 hours! Compiling over a dozen strange places/paths, the Guide to Mysterious Locations is perfect for #TTRPG players in search of places to explore and mysteries to uncover. www.kickstarter.com/projects/fal...

Here’s a lot of the stuff about Charlie Kirk that the right is now currently engaged in a nationwide witch hunt to suppress. Share it, repeat it, don’t let evil win. www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...

A friend of mine was on Charlie Kirk's "watch list" of Black professors. She received so many death and rape threats that her university offered her a security detail for the walk to class. This is Kirk's legacy. You would never know it from reading all of these legacy newspaper op-eds about him.

I started back in the 00s doing homebrew for “D&D” 4e and then 5e. They just really didn’t do what I wanted (too much focus on combat; not enough on story).

Haha. It’s me!

Y'know that Guardian article which cited an anonymous friend of Tyler Robinson claiming he was the only "leftist" in his family? It just got updated after the "verified source" decided he couldn't remember his "relationship" with the accused shooter well enough to be quoted

Worth reading.

This Mattie Lubchansky comic seems topical again.

I just found part of an onion peel in the bathroom at my university. I have so many questions.

You should try Harvest by my friend @wildwoodsgames.bsky.social It's folk gothic, no dice no masters The game has excellent pace and momentum driving towards a bloody sacrifice! www.rascal.news/harvest-is-a...

Do people under 40 really not know that we literally had a president who was wheelchair-bound because of childhood polio?

As much as MSP is a bike-friendly city, I really wish people would learn how to ride on the road. I’ve seen so many bad decisions made.