One of the most effective PSAs, featuring an especially sobering Donald Pleasence.

Today's treat is watching a "content producer" go mad in real time as his preferred image regurgitator implements a vibe-coded mode of moderation that keeps timing out, even though he's only trying to get one usable image out of the same prompt again and again. Two rotten images in two hours.

I adore the way she took real mouthfuls of cake during cake week.

I'm trying to teach myself to be a smidge more optimistic, at least at the level of my own daily concerns, which means I spent this morning's 30 minutes on the stair climber trying to get my hooks into the good things of the past few days to avoid getting dragged down into the mire.

I’d heartily recommend both @emily-jack.bsky.social and @warbeard.bsky.social . I worked with them both extensively on my RPG Chancers for a wide variety of human and humanoid characters. They’re both very talented and real humans!

One of the special perils of the writing life is having imagination enough to give myself the heebie-jeebies and also enough self-knowledge to understand that I will sleep very badly if I don’t investigate while there’s still daylight.

I'd recommend @emily-jack.bsky.social and @warbeard.bsky.social , who created lots of the art for the rpg I crowdfunded this summer. Both are dab hands at depicting a wide variety of folks. I didn't come across many art packs in my own hunt, so commissions and photos are central to my project.

Still a little bleary this AM, but this is my aspirational vibe for the day.