Gareth-Michael Skarka @gmskarka.bsky.social · 18hSooner or later some brave women are going to come to the decision that frats can’t be frats without frat houses… and things happen to houses all the time. 160
Gareth-Michael Skarka @gmskarka.bsky.social · 21hIt’s kinda stunning how much of my brain is filled with nearly century-old comedy routines & musical numbers from the Our Gang shorts being broadcast on TV as The Little Rascals when I was a kid. 130
Gareth-Michael Skarka @gmskarka.bsky.social · 29/09/2026What's a poster you had in your room growing up? 010
Reposted by Gareth-Michael SkarkaJoe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 29/09/2026This. It has always been this. A sitting American president did this. And because he did this, he should have been convicted and put behind bars. And the fact that we never held him accountable for these crimes will forever stain this country. And we may never recover from it.👇 883261278943
Reposted by Gareth-Michael SkarkaDennis Detwiller @drgonzo123.bsky.social · 29/09/2026“What if we stole every piece of human information and art to make a program that can’t even count to 60?” “That sounds-“ “Oh and it just makes shit up.” “Well, I think-“ “And it’s wildly expensive?” “Uh I-“ “And it makes absolutely negative money?” “Well, I’d-“ “And no one wants it.”static.klipy.comMohanlal Says OK DONEALT: Mohanlal Says OK DONE 2198
Gareth-Michael Skarka @gmskarka.bsky.social · 29/09/2026I love a good card deck of TTRPG ideas. Space gamers—check this out! 130
Gareth-Michael Skarka @gmskarka.bsky.social · 28/09/2026The biggest hurdle facing creators is discoverability. Meta is rolling out their pay-to-post-links plan, Twitter is a Nazi bar that buries anything but hate, BlueSky hasn’t got enough reach. What the fuck can we do? This post brought to you by my frustration & depression. 261
Gareth-Michael Skarka @gmskarka.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Gosh, it sure would be nice if our news media would talk AT ALL about the fact that the President of the United States is delusional. Seems important. 020
Gareth-Michael Skarka @gmskarka.bsky.social · 27/09/2026I just watched the final episode of the SNW season, and it was easily the best of the entire season—& maybe one of the best of the whole run of the show. #StarTrek #StrangeNewWorlds 030
Gareth-Michael Skarka @gmskarka.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Re: the Senate race here in Kansas. Yes, Marshall is MAGA scum, who lives in Florida, not Kansas, and is a doctor who has sued & had patients arrested over as little as $50 in debt. However, Hamilton is a megachurch pastor who hemmed & hawed over whether to run as a Dem, GOP, or Indie. (1/2) 100
Gareth-Michael Skarka @gmskarka.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Excellent news. I’d really love to see @drivethrurpg.com move in the same direction. 020
Gareth-Michael Skarka @gmskarka.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Digable Planets are doing a club date in KC this Saturday. Alas, I cannot make it. So I’ll post this, which is my favorite track of theirs (“Cool Like That” comes a close second). This reminds me of my time living in NYC. youtu.be/sanKBH1Hde8?...youtu.bePacifics (From The Original Motion Picture Soundtrack “N.Y. Is Red Hot")YouTube video by Digable Planets - Topic 000
Reposted by Gareth-Michael SkarkaDetritus Books @detritusbooks.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Nobody talks, everybody walks. 116049
Reposted by Gareth-Michael SkarkaThorne Identity @thorneidentity.bsky.social · 23/09/2026I been telling you. the enemy of your enemy is not your friend. just another kind of enemy. never vote for this creature. 1208
Gareth-Michael Skarka @gmskarka.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Folks, this is what they’re doing: 1) Kick 750k who haven’t used their insurance (i.e. healthy people) off Obamacare. 2) without the premiums being paid by the healthy (paying in without taking out), the system can’t sustain. 3) say Obamacare is “insolvent”, and kill it entirely. 042
Reposted by Gareth-Michael SkarkaVincent Alexander @nonsenseisland.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Born today in 1912: the great Chuck Jones, master of big explosive cartoon gags and subtle little eyebrow wiggles. The best. 313844
Reposted by Gareth-Michael SkarkaChuck Wendig @chuckwendig.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Tbh, good advice regardless of mergers and media consolidations. Support the weird, small art made by real people. 4375102
Reposted by Gareth-Michael SkarkaThe Movie Rabbit Hole @themovierabbithole.bsky.social · 21/09/2026The Danish metro is fully automated, so by the front window, a sticker of control buttons is placed, so the children can pretend they run the train. Adults like to make children think they are in control, because to the children this is a HUGE DEAL. This post is about Greenland. 2348
Gareth-Michael Skarka @gmskarka.bsky.social · 20/09/2026I suppose if any team could blow a 3-0 lead, it’s Sporting KC. Sigh. That’s what I get for hoping. 001
Gareth-Michael Skarka @gmskarka.bsky.social · 20/09/2026A bit chippy towards the end of the half there… turns out that a team on a 10-game unbeaten streak get a bit butthurt when utterly WRECKED by a team languishing at the bottom of the table… 000
Gareth-Michael Skarka @gmskarka.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Did you know that I released an anthology featuring stories from @chuckwendig.bsky.social, @scottlynch78.bsky.social , @tessagratton.bsky.social and more? TALES OF THE FAR WEST—a wuxia/western mash-up! link.amazon/B037kk4mXlink.amazonAmazon.com 051
Gareth-Michael Skarka @gmskarka.bsky.social · 19/09/2026We should crowdfund some enterprising young coders to develop a program that utterly destroys AI models, and simply let it loose. “Oh, your multi-billion dollar labor-theft program has been turned into several terabytes of random windings?”static.klipy.comNick Frost Says Shame in Hot FuzzAlt: Nick Frost Says Shame in Hot Fuzz 050
Gareth-Michael Skarka @gmskarka.bsky.social · 19/09/2026And nobody is going to do a goddamn thing about it. They’re going to get away with it. 021
Reposted by Gareth-Michael SkarkaDan Nexon @dhnexon.net · 18/09/2026Step 1: Slip Trump a copy of the 1951 Defense Agreement, but with the name changed. Step 2: Describe it in the most favorable light possible, since he won't read it anyway. Step 3: Trump goes on "Truth Social" and proclaims himself a genius negotiator. 29832241
Reposted by Gareth-Michael SkarkaIbrahim Moustafa @ibrahimmoustafa.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Here’s hoping this is true. Extremely fucked up if Noohu fabricated his story using very real and pervasive examples of abuse and racism. That kind of thing severely damages the credibility of people actually facing them and only silences peoole. 47628
Gareth-Michael Skarka @gmskarka.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Astro City is my all-time dream superhero TTRPG license. I’ve heard that Busiek isn’t interested in licensing, though. Alas! 160
Gareth-Michael Skarka @gmskarka.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Josie & The Pussycats have withdrawn from supporting Ed Sheeran on his tour. 040
Gareth-Michael Skarka @gmskarka.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Ellen Aim & The Attackers have withdrawn from supporting Ed Sheeran on his tour. 020
Reposted by Gareth-Michael SkarkaCethan Leahy @cethanleahy.com · 15/09/2026Pretty funny that Ed Sheeran seemingly only hired Irish people and yet didn't see this coming. 544952664
Reposted by Gareth-Michael SkarkaWabi Sabi For Robots @wabisabi4robots.bsky.social · 15/09/2026The reality television landscape as we know it was born out of a desire to circumvent union labor so it was a corrupt medium from the outset 0269
Gareth-Michael Skarka @gmskarka.bsky.social · 15/09/20261930s Pulp adventure for the classic West End Games D6 system! THRILLING TALES 3rd Edition from Adamant Entertainment: www.drivethrurpg.com/en/publisher...drivethrurpg.comDriveThruRPG - The Largest RPG Download Store!Your one-stop online shop for new and vintage RPG products from the top publishers, delivered fresh to your desktop in electronic format. 000
Gareth-Michael Skarka @gmskarka.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Smells like the early whiff of centrist consolidation… 010
Reposted by Gareth-Michael SkarkaAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15/09/2026I said it at the time (and before!), but I truly believe that American voters electing Donald Trump for a second term in 2024 was the dumbest and most self-harming choice made by an electorate in the history of humanity 901134892276
Gareth-Michael Skarka @gmskarka.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Just found out that apparently JMS ego-searches for his name, and blocked me for this post. That’s… kinda pathetic. 120
Gareth-Michael Skarka @gmskarka.bsky.social · 12/09/2026It is. A day when we’re told to “never forget” a tragedy they watched on TV. 031
Reposted by Gareth-Michael SkarkaMatthew Sweet @drmatthewsweet.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Prime the neutron blasters! Blakes 7 Series 3 is coming to Blu-Ray! www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-5C...youtube.comBlake's 7 Is Back For Series 3! | BBC StudiosYouTube video by BBC Studios 511228
Gareth-Michael Skarka @gmskarka.bsky.social · 11/09/2026We need Dems to get back to calling these freaks “weird” again—& if the consultomatic 5000 objects, STOP PAYING THEM. 140
Reposted by Gareth-Michael SkarkaDave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Just further enshrining the canonical conservative belief that being called racist is worse than being racist. 502657467
Gareth-Michael Skarka @gmskarka.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Author's PDF copies of the new 24th Century Campaign Guide were sent out today, so I'm expecting that those of you who have pre-ordered it will be seeing it soon! I'm proud of this one -- I wrote the chapter on 2360-2369 (basically the first 6 seasons of TNG and the 1st season of DS9). 070
Reposted by Gareth-Michael SkarkaMcSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 09/09/20267 a.m. I wake up and get stabbed. 8 a.m. I go to my corner bodega for a Bacon, Egg, and Cheese. On the way, I get mugged. 9 a.m. I get on the subway and immediately get murdered. buff.ly/puREmHamcsweeneys.netA Day in the Life of a New Yorker, According to My Fox News-Watching Florida Family Members7 a.m. I wake up and get stabbed. 30815137
Gareth-Michael Skarka @gmskarka.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Our newest pulp TTRPG adventure: HOUSE OF MIRRORS! Will the heroes uncover the secret of Penlogan House? Is there any truth to the legend of the McLogan Curse? What horrors does the House contain? The PDF adventure is exclusively available via DriveThruRPG: www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/5...drivethrurpg.comDriveThruRPG - The Largest RPG Download Store!Your one-stop online shop for new and vintage RPG products from the top publishers, delivered fresh to your desktop in electronic format. 060
Gareth-Michael Skarka @gmskarka.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Star Trek has been with me my whole life, beginning with TOS reruns & MEGO dolls in my childhood, the movies in my teen years, TNG & the FASA RPG in college, & so on. I’ve been lucky to write for Trek via two different RPGs (Last Unicorn & Modiphius). Happy #StarTrek60 to a lifelong companion! 020
Gareth-Michael Skarka @gmskarka.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Paid actor in a children’s theater troupe that travelled and performed for schools in the Atlanta metro in the late 1980s. 010
Reposted by Gareth-Michael SkarkaJason Karsh @jkarsh.bsky.social · 07/09/2026We probably don’t talk enough about how the modern Republican party is openly pro-confederacy. Which seems weird seeing as how they already tried to violently overthrow the government once, but here we are. 12010
Gareth-Michael Skarka @gmskarka.bsky.social · 07/09/2026One of the greatest series-premise-summary openings of all time. 021
Reposted by Gareth-Michael SkarkaJohn Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Hey, guys, the President of the United States seems to be rapidly decompensating over the last 72 hours and is there, I don’t know, someone we could call? 1822034
Gareth-Michael Skarka @gmskarka.bsky.social · 07/09/2026“Family Annihilator Presidency” is a perfect summation of this regime. And it’s fucking terrifying. 150