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jason grinblat @jfg.land · 11/09/2026

here's a pic from that week

Brian and Jason of Freehold take a selfie

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jason grinblat @jfg.land · 09/09/2026

GPT-6 Astra: I found a general solution for discrete time BOFA in three dimensions. me: what's BOFA? GPT-6 Astra:

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jason grinblat @jfg.land · 04/09/2026

me guarding the corpus of human text

demi lovato STAY AWAY FROM HER meme:

ddlovato: GET A JOB
ddlovato: STAY AWAY FROM HER

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jason grinblat @jfg.land · 16/08/2026

The disarming self-awareness of this parking lot

A bent parking lot bollard with a lampshad e on it

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jason grinblat @jfg.land · 02/07/2026

Our tile artist Sam Wilson did the six center labels patterned on Qud's day/night cycle I Harvest Dawn II Waxing Salt Sun III Waning Salt Sun IV Jeweled Dusk V Beetle Moon Zenith VI The Shallows

Center label III from the Caves of Qud Vinyl: Waning Salt Sut

Tracklist:
Binaural Concept
Golgotha
Deeper Eaters
of Chrome, and How (Sultan's Song)
Lazarus
Barathrum's Study

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jason grinblat @jfg.land · 02/07/2026

When unfolded, the margins of the triptych include a poem by Daughter Erinna, the in-game persona who also wrote Modulo Moon Stair and the Tree of Life

Digital clay sculpture for the Caves of Qud vinyl release. Left side of the triptych that depicts the flora and fauna of Qud across its landscapes. There is an excerpt from a poem on the margin:

Hark! The World wakes,
a quasar wind splits the Desert
and lights the silent spilling Marsh.
The Singing Bell rings from under nowhere,
and sound is invented.
It breaks through in soft clay, unsure at first—
the bleating of a goat,
the nervous flute of the apple farmer,
Caught in fastening whistles to his starry orchard,
Blown free of the lonely canyon
and up the forever gate.

The ear is a gate! The swift chorus thins
to a hollow and recreates the world anew,
in holographic image,
where the alchemy of self,
and the catalysts of dim faces
in candle-lit rooms, transmutes it,
alters its albedo. Then-

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jason grinblat @jfg.land · 02/07/2026

Here's some of the outer gatefold art & credits. I can smell it. I can taste it.

Digital clay sculpture for the Caves of Qud vinyl release. Intricately depicted ruined arch of Grit Gate. Credits underneath.

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jason grinblat @jfg.land · 02/07/2026

icymi last week, we opened preorders for the Caves of Qud original soundtrack as a 3LP vinyl. we showed off some art, but it's hard to capture just how exquisite @stvulture.bsky.social's signature digital clay sculpture art is

Saint Vulture's centerpiece gatefold art for the Caves of Qud vinyl release. Digital clay sculpture of Qud's flora and fauna across its landscapes, anchored by the Spindle in the middle.

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jason grinblat @jfg.land · 20/06/2026

you know I keep that thang on me

Photo of the complete Babylonian Talmud for sale at a bookstore: $650

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jason grinblat @jfg.land · 18/06/2026

Demi Moore movie posters from the 1990s In film theory we call this period the arrival of the 'demiurge'

Ghost (1990) movie poster. Patrick Swayze and Demi Moore in a heated moment of passion

Indecent Proposal (1993) movie poster. Woody Harrelson and Demi Moore in a heated moment of passion

Disclosure (1994) movie poster. Demi Moore with a seductive mouth-open posture next to Michael Douglas

The Scarlet Letter (1995) movie poster. Gary Oldman and Demi Moore in a heated moment of passion

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jason grinblat @jfg.land · 10/06/2026

my face when "dino update"

Dwarf Fortress long-snouted finned dino-like creature

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jason grinblat @jfg.land · 26/05/2026

concept sketch for Kyakukya

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jason grinblat @jfg.land · 22/05/2026

I mean, I'll take one??

Online form: "Do you need a firefighter endorsement?"

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jason grinblat @jfg.land · 13/05/2026

V. Vaughn — the travelin' Vaudeville Villain $3 million seed round we'll figure out the billin'

Email from Victor Vaughn at victor@park-capitalbizfunding.site

"We can fund today you know.."

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jason grinblat @jfg.land · 06/05/2026

"You will not dispirit us today, Hershel. You reek of self-loathing. Transfigure it to love or leave the subreddit."

r/ManyBaggers subreddit post titled "Is there such thing as to many?" Some bags are included in the attached image.

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jason grinblat @jfg.land · 04/05/2026

oh damn they hit us with the

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jason grinblat @jfg.land · 01/05/2026

saving these for future slide decks

Post by George Learmonth (@leiwaan.bsky.social): Caves of Qud is like getting read the Illiad by a dog

Post by Bezier (@complexbezier.bsky.social): caves of qud is like if linear algebra had lore

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jason grinblat @jfg.land · 15/04/2026

Marc's exquisite layout inspired me to capture Qud's essence in a single overly baroque card design. Here's what I got

$Caves of Qud Legendary Land - Cave At the beginning of your upkeep, put a Stratum counter on Caves of Qud. T: Add {1}. T: Put 3 Stratum counters on Caves of Qud. You lose 3 life. T, Sacrifice Caves of Qud: Choose one — Create X Treasure tokens, where X is the number of Stratum counters on Caves of Qud. Then, target opponent reveals cards from the top of their library until they reveal an artifact or creature card with casting cost equal to X. Put that card onto the battlefield under their control and put the rest of the revealed cards on the bottom of their library in a random order. _or_ Reveal cards from the top of your library until you reveal an artifact or creature card with casting cost equal to X, where X is the number of Stratum counters on Caves of Qud. Put that card onto the battlefield under your control and put the rest of the revealed cards on the bottom of your library in a random order. Then, target opponent creates X Treasure tokens.$

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jason grinblat @jfg.land · 28/02/2026

they should invent a language where the words cannot be freely combined

Sam Altman's tweet about complying with the DoW. Highlighted portion: "Two of our most important safety principles are prohibitions on domestic mass surveillance and human responsibility for the use of force, including for autonomous weapon systems. The DoW agrees with these principles,"

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jason grinblat @jfg.land · 23/02/2026

Yeah hi I'll have a burrito con carne but please don't make it

Ordering a burrito on an online takeout form with the bewildering option "do not make" selected

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jason grinblat @jfg.land · 19/02/2026

Real talk though for every gonzo beat of randomized dungeon crawl there is also a quiet moment of place-making. Have a limestone wall

Description of a limestone wall from Caves of Qud

"Invertebrate life was sucked of its tissue and bled still over millions of years. The dusky rock is a necropolis."

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jason grinblat @jfg.land · 15/02/2026

This is after picking ~50 lemons. I promise I did not bury the body of a rival lemon picker under here.

A lemon tree with a huge yield of ripe lemons

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jason grinblat @jfg.land · 04/02/2026

Oh you wanna watch a movie? Sorry bub this flight is

Seatback on a Southwest flight. The text "Literature only" is printed on the tray table.

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jason grinblat @jfg.land · 31/12/2025

Per the trend of lifeboating Mary Oliver riffs off the everything app, I'm quite fond of this one

A tweet by Gabrielle Drolet
"unfortunately the soft animal of my body loves carcinogens"

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jason grinblat @jfg.land · 27/12/2025

The LAN party where every toddler brings one of these from home

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jason grinblat @jfg.land · 22/12/2025

Quote this with what you would have said your game of the millennium was on the eve of 999 anno Domini, and what you would say your favorite game is now

A backloggd style 5x5 grid of "best games from the first millenium"

From right to left and then down:
Backgammon, Go, Senet, Chinese playing card game, Nine Men’s Morris
Tabula, Royal Game of Ur, Harpastum, Fidchell, Alquerque
Pankration, Mehen, Pachisi, Marbles, Liubo
Seega, Roman dice game, Polo, Hounds and Jackals, Knucklebones
Episkyros , x, Snakes and Ladders, Hnefatafl, Ashtapada

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jason grinblat @jfg.land · 05/12/2025

If you like particularly the dark fantasy inflections in Caves of Qud, I recommend Zothique (by Clark Ashton Smith), where you get banger openers like this

Opening of The Empire of the Necromancers by Clark Ashton Smith

"Mmatmuor and Sodosma were necromancers who came from the dark isle of Naat, to practise their baleful arts in Tinarath, beyond the shrunken seas. But they did not prosper in Tinarath: for death was deemed a holy thing by the people of that gray country; and the nothingness of the tomb was not lightly to be desecrated; and the raising up of the dead by necromancy was held in abomination.

So, after a short interval, Mmatmuor and Sodosma were driven forth by the anger of the inhabitants, and were compelled to flee toward Cincor, a desert of the south, which was peopled only by the bones and mummies of a race that the pestilence had slain in former time."

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jason grinblat @jfg.land · 05/12/2025

What a get today at the local bookstore! Beautiful condition first paperback edition Zothique [pictured with bonus orb of amethyst]

First edition Ballantine Books Zothique by Clark Ashton Smith. Next to an amethyst orb.

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