2 hours from home. I didn't skeet during Gen Con Indy because for some reason da bloosk thought I was in Texas and was asking for age verification. And then I got busy and forgot.

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I'm watching ICK now. This movie is incredibly tight.

It was the role he was born to play. It has his NAME in it. SkeLETOr!

I'm watching MASTERS OF THE UNIVERSE on Prime. It's... a thing that people got to have fun making, I hope. I'm not sure what this movie wants to be. I expected it to try to sell me some toys, but I guess we haven't gotten to that part yet.

💯💯💯 If it was really "inevitable," they wouldn't have to try so hard.

Karen K. Ho@karenho.bsky.social · 2w ago

I know it seems like the fight against AI is really uphill but I want to remind you at one point, people went really hard for NFTs, including $69.3 million for one by Beeple at a Christie's auction in 2021, but now almost no one buys them.

my unholy creation. its actually working, it hasnt been an hour yet and the air quality in my place is noticeably better. i can breathe in comparable comfort, and my eyes dont hurt! link to build ur own here: engineering.ucdavis.edu/news/science... beware walmart, they overprice their filters

Mira@thefreeradical.org · 3w ago

hey minneapolis peeps, anyone know where i can get the materials to make a corsi-rosenthal box for cheap? im broke and id rather get them all in one fell swoop so my time outside's limited

I hate going to a website and immediately some bot is like "Hi! Can I help you?" yeah you can go away.

Yo! or Oy if you prefer! You! @howardtayler.bsky.social and @sandratayler.bsky.social had an electrical not-fire and need our help. 🎶 Throw a coin to your sketcher... 🎶 www.backerkit.com/c/projects/h...

Seventy Maxims of Maximally Effective Mercenaries (Reprint) Project Update:  Schlock Mercenary ON SALE!  10-50% off select items

Greetings! We had an adventure here at Chez Tayler. While Howard and Sandra were out of town the young adults holding down the fort reported that half the power was out at the ...

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"neighbor volunteered their forklift" is one of those casual conversation things I did not expect to ever hear in casual conversation. In related news, four pallets of books arrived at the Hypernode Media warehouse. I'm about to be very busy...

MSFT laid off the Elder Scrolls artist who designed the Khajit and the Argonians. She has been with the franchise for 27 years. When she started work there the guy who would eventually helm X-Box and lay her off was 9 years old.

Because of extreme fire risks this year the state of Utah has made fireworks illegal. Municipalities can make whatever exceptions they want, but my city said nope, no fireworks. I fully expect to hear neighbors "patriotically" breaking the law all evening.

It's our last day of recording sessions. If we get all eight of our planned episodes done then we'll have recorded 47 episodes this week.

I'm recording episodes of @writingexcuses.bsky.social this week. It's exhilarating, and it's exhausting.

Honey, what's wrong? You haven't even tried sitting in the butthole.

It’s nine o’clock on a Saturday The unholy thing shambles in He’s too big for the chair sitting next to me His white teeth make a musical din Sing us a song, you’re the piano man Your skin is a wooden facade You’ve brass pedals for hands And your hair’s copper strands Give unbearable insult to god

It no longer goes without saying, so I'm saying it. I have never used AI to make words or pictures. I don't have ChatGPT, Claude, or anything like them installed, and I turn off every AI-branded feature i find in the tools I use.

And Claude, and all of the other water-burning plagiarism machines I not only think less of you but I have evidence that I am ontologically better than you in every possible way

Nashies! Aug. 16th 🎂@nashiez.bsky.social · 2mo ago

"So, if I use ChatGPT you think less of me?" Yep. Hope this helps.

Put in some work on Year of Creativity today. Howard (as usual) had excellent graphic design insights. www.backerkit.com/call_to_acti...

Get Ready for A Year of Creativity

From Sandra Tayler - Get Ready for A Year of Creativity

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"It is SO much easier to get fluids OUT of a human than to put them IN." -- overheard in the ER. (Probably, by someone listening to me.)

Today is Schlock Mercenary's 26th birthday. Schlock Mercenary is older than I was when I got married.

A friend bragged about their Steam playtime stats, with thousands of hours on strategy games and RPGs. (My highest is Baldur's Gate 3, with just over 200 hours.) He was surprised I didn't have more game time. He asked if I was watching lots of TV or reading books...

Today I discovered that there's a Google Gemini button cluttering the bottom of my page when I write in Docs. I also discovered that it can be made to go away.

If you have ever emailed a writer to let them know you enjoyed something they wrote, you are among the noblest and best and most saintly in this entire world, and I hope you sleep really well tonight.

Big words are easy to remember if they're made out of words you already use. They're harder to remember if they're made out of mostly new or unfamiliar stuff. This is why I can never remember that "brain freeze" is sphenopalatine ganglioneuralgia without looking it up to check my spelling.

Today I discovered that there's a Google Gemini button cluttering the bottom of my page when I write in Docs. I also discovered that it can be made to go away.

30 minutes to go, and $1300 short of the "16 more pages" threshold. I'm happy either way. www.kickstarter.com/projects/how...

Doodling as a Hobby

The Retrospective Sketchbook of an Accidental Career illustrated (and apologized for) by Howard Tayler

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I think the majority of the books for this year's Gen Con booth have arrived. Come to booth 1349 to meet @howardtayler.bsky.social , @sandratayler.bsky.social , @jimzub.com , and @stacyking.com . #gencon #gencon2026 #schlockmercenary #conan