Sascha Stronach🏳️‍⚧️, The Sunforge out now

yo you should read my books, if The Locked Tomb is a goth girl they're her punk friend who reeks of tobacco www.simonandschuster.com/series/The-E...

for the international crowd: advance voting has begun on the New Zealand election. Election day proper is on November 7th. Every poll since around July has showed Free Ice Cream/Diarrhea Forever being basically a coinflip.

I think the release of this movie right as anger about oligarchs is reaching fever pitch is not a coincidence. here's 100 million dollars please tell everybody the guy who stole from the rich to give to the poor sucked actually.

a bottle of spray cleaner sounded a little bit like it was oinking and my brain immediately went "ah, Frank the Pig. He's a dear friend who's helping me clean. I must make sure to thank him."

as sad as I am this game won't come to fruition, this isn't going to bring it back. It's too late, it's done. If you do want a space opera in the vein of ME being made by a lot of the same devs, I would suggest you check out Exodus: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exodus_...

Most of the folks you know that are responsible for those games have either left the industry, work somewhere else, or did a failed kickstarter. It's more helpful to follow people and not studios or ip.

I've come around. The twist is like 2/3 of the way through rather than the end, so it gives them time to have fun with it, and it's a gnarly spin on a classic movie monster – a favourite of mine – that hasn't had a good movie in like 20 years

two quick poems for @ired0mi.bsky.social's event at Randell Cottage

walking in heels is like "I am a feminine goddess, I glide with each step, I cannot wait to take these fucking prisons off"

it's so funny that Republicans gave up sports in the national divorce

I'm thrilled to share my first foray into nature writing. I describe my travels through Aotearoa New Zealand to see the country's rarest birds—and use this as a vehicle to tell the stories of the islands' evolutionary history and the bold conservation efforts that saved these creatures. Gift link

well hey there fella! how's about a spectacular spookacular spider? that's right it's me, Sam, stuffed with jam! I'm here all week.

for the record: fuck colossal biosciences. i have humoured them previously (www.webworm.co/direwolf/) but also: fuck them to hell: www.forbes.com/sites/amyfel...

Claire Mabey is on sabbatical from The Spinoff at the moment, but still got this up there 💙 thespinoff.co.nz/culture/23-0...

explaining mass effect lore to my girlfriend via a tierlist of CAN YOU FUCK THE ALIEN

The popular monsters of the era reflect the cultural zeitgeist. In the 2000s, it was zombies. In the 2010s, it was vampires. And now, it's women!

In November, Dems will likely win big. Liberals will feel relieved. In 2028, a milquetoast corporate Democrat will win the presidency, spend 4 years maintaining what Trump did as liberals go back to brunch. Then, in 2032, as life keeps getting worse, we’ll get something like President T Carlson.

The first genuinely honest ad for generative AI I've ever seen, from Microsoft / CoPilot A mediocre white guy sees his non-white colleague getting praised for good work, he asks AI to *literally copy it*, and then he gets all the praise instead: www.ispot.tv/ad/SoDi/micr...

Congratulations to Pip Adam, recipient of the 2026 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction for Audition!