Every weekend we do some roundups on my blogs. TPK this week has a great game kickstarter, a guide to getting started painting minis, and a kickass t-shirt among other things. Concept Crucible celebrates a crowdsourced birthday, laser fusion and a few other things. Also, butt hole song from hell. Just saying. Go and look, come and see, that sort of thing. Click for science! Click for games!
Woot Suit Riot A song for Alicia, who supported my Polar Plunge campaign and is a marvelous lady. You can find out more about her work in mental health advocacy at aliciaraimundo.com!
Woot Suit Riot My efforts to create beauty in Minecraft are curtailed by my efforts to survive. Also, I really want to tech hard to jetpacks.
Today's video came out of a post a friend of mine put up on Facebook that got a billion likes from everyone, but also got me thinking about how saying we need to forget about race and sexuality and focus on humanity is a super problematic thing to do, and steeped in privilege. He's a good guy, and I know his heart's in the right place, but that doesn't always count for as much as we'd hope. Mistakes get made, and I'm no stranger to that. Colourblind ideology is problematic for a lot of reasons that I get into today.…
Weekly Update
I hate the cold. I mean it. If cold weather had a face, I would never stop punching it. It’s been varying shades of -20 to -30 Celsius here, with the wind chill, though it finally broke this week. There have to be blogs where people just complain about the weather. This isn’t really about the weather. The freezing isn’t such a big deal, I don’t spend that much time outside. Just to the bus stop, into the office, and back to my home, really. And that’s sort of the problem with the cold. It makes me into a hermit.