A while back, I whipped up a board game to entertain our kiddo, who LOVES garbage trucks. Drive the trucks! Get the trash! Can you tidy up the town before the end of the day?? I cleaned up the art and now YOUR four year old can play… GARBAGE DAY! 🎲 🚛 www.patreon.com/tonycliff/po...

That's a wrap on GenCon 2026, one of the most madcap, surreal convention experiences of my career so far!

Guess whose ticket for her flight home from GenCon was accidentally ~*cancelled*~ ?

A tornado warning feels like the perfect cherry atop today's GenCon experience 🙃

Today is our #GenCon panel on crafting in D&D, at the Conrail Room in the Crown Plaza Hotel, 1-2pm. I just found out about a special guest who'll be joining our conversation, it's going to be a blast!

Stacy King@stacyking.com · 7d ago

Wondering when & where to find me at #GenCon? You can now mark that quest as complete!

Copies are on their way to #GenCon! PRH should have D&D Crochet back in stock by 11 a.m. today at booth 621. I'll be there from 3-4 pm today to sign, or you can stop by our booth at 1349 with your copy any other time during the show!

Stacy King@stacyking.com · 6d ago

Both Penguin Random House and our booth sold out of Dungeons & Dragons Crochet before the end of the first day of GenCon. I am blown away by the support and we are trying to find out if we can rush ship more copies to the show (fingers crossed 🤞).

If you are at #gencon and would like to chat with writers in a fun and friendly atmosphere in which we are specifically there to chat, do join us at the Marriott ballroom for Networking: The Gathering. It says it's a paid event, but the hush-hush secret is that it's totally not and all are welcome!

Both Penguin Random House and our booth sold out of Dungeons & Dragons Crochet before the end of the first day of GenCon. I am blown away by the support and we are trying to find out if we can rush ship more copies to the show (fingers crossed 🤞).

GenCon's exhibit hall has been open for 3.5 hours and we've already sold half of the D&D Crochet books we ordered thinking they would last us for all four days. Whoops!

Wondering when & where to find me at #GenCon? You can now mark that quest as complete!

Wishes are tricky things and rarely work out the way you expect.

Dare Obasanjo@carnage4life.bsky.social · last wk.

“What we need to explain to the world: Number one, we are close to creating a genie that can grant any wish. Number two, we are going to make sure that our first wishes broadly benefit humanity” - Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI — This is definitely the opposite of Anthropic’s AI kills all jobs pitch.

Wondering when & where to find me at #GenCon? You can now mark that quest as complete!

Many thanks to the @ringoawards.bsky.social for recognizing GAMEMASTERS: THE COMIC BOOK HISTORY OF RPGs by @tomfowler.bsky.social & me in the Best Original Graphic Novel category! That is a stacked category! Voting info below:

Ringo Awards@ringoawards.bsky.social · last wk.

Announcing the 2026 Ringo Awards Final Ballot Full details: conta.cc/4fKy28u #ringoawards #ringoawards2025 #baltimorecomiccon

Currently at the airport for my #GenCon flight, looking forward to seeing folks there! (most especially @jimzub.com, whose flight luckily lands at almost the same time as mine does!!)

Jim Zub@jimzub.com · last wk.

This week: It's GEN CON, the Best Four Days In Gaming! Here's where you can find me - booth info and events: www.jimzub.com/jim-zub-at-g... #GenCon @dndbeyond.com

I'm here to recommend Kira Design, who makes amazing crochet and knitting tools kirakdesigns.com/collections/... The needle minder is chef's kiss (I ad smaller ones and kept losing the needles, this is way more stable), and the crochet summary is also super useful

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Your occasional reminder that this chap is looking for part time work to supplement my home business that has been impacted by the economy. Experience in all #media production and front end webdev. Local to #Toronto, remote fine too. Landing site, please share: kevinblades.com #hiring #jobhunting

Lighting is one of the greatest challenges for any dungeon interior designer. You need to keep it dim for the ambiance, but not so dark that people can't appreciate your work. Once a designer came up with a clever solution via skeleton lanterns, it was inevitable that the trend would catch on.

Amal El-Mohtar@amalelmohtar.com · last wk.

there are many things I could say about playing bg3 but the main one that’s front of mind after [redacted] hours of play is why do so many skeletons have candles inside them

Please enjoy my friend's dog looking like a model for a luxury watch brand.

SKULL OF THOMAS AQUINAS: TAKE A LEFT NOW PRIEST: No, the GPS says we have to keep going— SKULL: I KNOW A SHORTCUT PRIEST: Do you remember the last ti— SKULL: FOR THOSE WITH FAITH, NO EVIDENCE IS NECESSARY; FOR THOSE WITHOUT IT, NO EVIDENCE WILL SUFFICE

Sardonicus@sardonicus.eu · 8mo ago

'Skull of St. Thomas Aquinas being transported to Fossanova Abbey.' Photograph by Daniel Ibanez

It me.

Derf Backderf@derfbackderf.bsky.social · 2w ago

FYI.

So much for SDCC’s anti-AI policies — I’ve been complaining to show management about this booth for three days.

I mean, don’t throw your no jets signs away (and I don’t fully trust the Liberals on this in the long run given their behaviour the last months & what they put people thru) but enjoy the victory & watch Ford try to save face (a July Friday 8pm news release is also face saving 🫡)

Jenny Lee Shee@jennyleeshee.bsky.social · 2w ago

Doug Ford’s Minister of Transportation - Prabmeet Sarkaria - isn’t taking no for an answer. prabmeet.sarkaria@pc.ola.org Constituency Office Tel.: 905-796-8669 Ministry Office Tel.: 416-327-9200 #NoJetsTO #BillyBishop

So glad to see this. Huge thanks to everyone who commented, emailed, organized and otherwise helped ensure that the federal government heard our NO loud & clear!

Alex Bozikovic@alexbozikovic.bsky.social · 2w ago

We won. The criminally stupid proposal to attack Toronto’s harbour is dead. www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...

The framing of this as "crashing" frustrates me, because this was absolutely a stunt arranged through & with the support of Comic Con, probably to avoid the protests & pushback if people had known about it in advance. It's not a fun perk for fans, it's stealth marketing of a domestic abuser.

USA TODAY@usatoday.com · 2w ago

Johnny Depp surprised fans at Comic-Con by showing up unannounced at an unrelated panel in character as Ebenezer Scrooge.

Ahhhhhh it came out exactly as I hoped it would! I am really proud of this. It feels like my first pottery piece to successfully move from concept to outcome as intended, and that depended on understanding how the components (clay, texture, and glaze) would all interact. That's growth baybee!!

The universe must have gotten the message that I could use a little extra luck getting through this month.

Heading out pretty soon to do a Board Game People event for a big national law firm. If you think your company would like a fun, friendly event to build teams or boost morale, check out www.thebgp.ca

I motivated myself to take a walk around the block and the universe rewarded my efforts with a rare double-bunny sighting!

The flakey sketchy anon survey monkey (!) the federal government put out on the Island Airport, their "consultation," ends Friday. If you haven't yet be sure to still fill it out. There are places you can add your own thoughts like "this survey is faulty and skews towards done deal" and etc.

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